What phone people told you you couldn’t get a land line?
I hang on to my landline like grim death. Our internet provider tried to convince us to go with their “land line” part of a bundle. It isn’t landline; it’s FIOS or something. Still requires electricity. Outages are common in our neck of the woods and we use our landline a LOT. It’s hard to find phones, though, and I scour thrift shops for then.