I used to play around with police scanners a lot and had two outdoor antennas both had amps on them One was Omni directional no gain except through my 10 db amp. The other was an old UHF/VHF TV antenna {redneck Yagi} that I built a bracket for to put the elements straight up and down. With that one I could pick up police in Indiana on lower VHF range but nothing even 15 miles behind me in Knoxville. That's where the major tower farms are.
I'm up high enough though that if anything is north west of me I should be able to get it and I know where most of the towers are.
I gotta keep one land line for medical reasons. I have two one is for the computer. My wife has serious health issues and the phone has to be simple, reliable, and work during loss of utility power. She picks up the phone hits one button and calls my cell when I'm out.
Yeah, for some situations only the century-old tech that almost never breaks is the only thing that will do. I live in the middle of a city where I can fail my VOIP over to my mobile and can also connect to my VOIP line from about a hundred coffee shops within walking distance. If I lived where you do, I would keep at least one landline regardless of whatever else I use.