From the Department of Random Files

[mousme]

Tell me something I don't know.

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[swestrup]

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.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

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.

[swestrup]

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.