I understand. Coverage was what kept me on VZ for 10 years. What finally got to me was the fact that when I'm overseas I can just swap a sim and T-mobile's coverage has been improving exponentially.
I bought 3 moto g's and on the day they arrived switched the entire family to tmobile. I had enough of Verizon and now my bill is $100 a month. Can't beat that.
For me no other framework or language can be compared the speed of deployment on php. If an idea I've got is simple and don't want to take weeks deving, LAMP is there to the rescue. For example I built (http://vinetuber.com) in 3 hrs. But for bigger projects, I django.