Interesting. I remember spending time in the summer with my mother's grand cousin who had a big wood frame house on a hill facing the Southern RR line near Bealton Va. There was no running water and electricity in only three rooms. It was one of the most pleasurable times of my childhood. Somehow i never suffered any lasting harm from being exposed to such atrocious conditions
I went to summer camp as a kid and we crapped in wood outhouses. And my parents paid for me to be there. And it was a church run summer camp.
We used to spend weeks at the lake in a 3 room cabin. The water came from a spring in the downstairs garage/carport, oil lamps and candles, wood and coal stove, and of course the privy was 80 feet from the back door. That made it *interesting* when out there in the wintertime.
“One of the most important antecedents for revolution is vanity in those who govern. Of the most important consequents, two would be humility and ingenuity in the governed.” —familyop