"basic conveniences" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to basic services and amenities, such as electricity, running water, heating, and internet access. For example: "Many of the citizens in the developing country do not have access to basic conveniences, such as running water or electricity."
It doesn't matter that basic conveniences like supermarkets or pharmacies can be few and far between.
Elroy has largely been bypassed by the growth that has developed other parts of the Austin metropolitan area, and its residents complain of inadequate services and the lack of basic conveniences like a supermarket or bus service.
But she and the reporters accompanying her saw a highly regimented society organized around a slavish personality cult even as it struggles with severe shortages of food, electricity and most of the basic conveniences of modern life.
The lack of basic conveniences in his immediate neighborhood is not a hardship, he says, because he is just a few minutes' walk from Brooklyn Heights, where he can find things like dry cleaners and pizza parlors.
Being unable to independently enter a movie theater, store, hotel or restaurant is not only humiliating, it limits the freedom to pursue certain jobs, to access necessary services and to enjoy basic conveniences that most Americans don't think twice about.
Expensive, but the idea wasn't to get every single citizen back online, just restore some basic conveniences.
For Alick Varma, founder of Osper, one interesting lesson has been the importance of basic convenience.
No apartment would be built today without this basic convenience, and most built in recent decades have dishwashers.
For consumers, the basic convenience of recording television would start to erode, especially as they navigate the transition to digital and high-definition television (HDTV).
There are so many modern items that one needs or prefers to have for basic convenience, peace of mind and safety that, in recent years, packing for camping often includes a sufficient supply of batteries as well as the basics of food and water.
It's not necessarily a story of victims and oppressors, but one of a young girl who wonders why she has to give up an afternoon to attain basic convenience.
