It's just that he couldn't seem to get one. He knew it was illegal, but so is jaywalking at a deserted intersection at 4 a.m. He wasn't interfering with anybody, and he was providing a needed service, since most stations serving the greater Miami area cut out north of Homestead. You try to do things to get people the services that they need. In some ways, Homestead is a world away from Liberty City.
Liberty City is multicultural, youth oriented, and urbane.
Homestead is an agricultural community on the edge of the Everglades. It's rural, culturally segregated, and, at least for many of Willie's listeners, aging. Yet in other ways they could be sister cities. Fourth Street, once the heart of a thriving community of farm workers, is showing fatigue. Small houses line the side streets, many with boards replacing windows blown out in the 1992 hurricane.