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.
Wow. And that's even before Fox made that sort of thing fashionable. You can totally use that as bragging rights to say you were ahead of the times. ;)
You have lived through some pretty interesting times, in the Chinese curse sense of the term.
My mom was born and grew up in Alberta and she didn't have electricity or running water until she was twelve. As a result, she never wanted to go camping when we were kids. She said she roughed it for 12 years, and that was enough.
I suspect, though, that your mother is considerably older than alcinoe, hence my surprise that the latter would have grown up under such circumstances. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find too many families living that way in Alberta these days, unless my information about Alberta is way off.
Well certainly the last time I visited the family farm, it had full electricity and running water, although the house my Mom grew up in still didn't. Its now (or was then -- 20 years ago) used as a storage shed.
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Maybe I'm just too accustomed to Canada...
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You have lived through some pretty interesting times, in the Chinese curse sense of the term.
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