For financial reasons, my father packed us up to move to Ossipee NH. The land he purchased was not serviced by electricity. In order to get it, we would have had to pay for the poles to be run from the nearest electric pole which was several miles away. We heated water on our wood stove, and for a good part lugged water up from our spring in the back. We also grew most of our own food and kept pigs, chickens and turkeys.