I find it interesting how much people who don't live that way romanticize it. No way in hell I'd want to be without indoor plumbing, and the hygiene improvement in public health is why we don't have people dying if typhoid these days.
But the no power example, that people socialize and play cards (presumably because they would otherwise watch TV or go online or play Xbox), is interesting. When I was a kid there were rather fancy b&bs that *boasted* they didn't have TV in the rooms, and I traveled with my parents. I can't imagine somewhere now boasting they didn't have wifi!
My great grandmother lived in a little old house in Snyder, Texas with plumbing but no sewage, just an outhouse, up until about 1994
I find it interesting how much people who don't live that way romanticize it. No way in hell I'd want to be without indoor plumbing, and the hygiene improvement in public health is why we don't have people dying if typhoid these days.
But the no power example, that people socialize and play cards (presumably because they would otherwise watch TV or go online or play Xbox), is interesting. When I was a kid there were rather fancy b&bs that *boasted* they didn't have TV in the rooms, and I traveled with my parents. I can't imagine somewhere now boasting they didn't have wifi!