"Please don't change the focus of the question"

I'm other words you want the answer you want to have and ancillary issues be damned.

Ok. Yes we have electricity. But we're not on the grid. We have one solar panel which charges a car battery. We have two batteries so we can alternate. There is a tank which holds water pumped from a well. So there is running cold water in the kitchen and bathroom. A simple gravity system. We own the land and house and the "utilities" were added in the first month 15 years ago. For other lighting we depend on battery powered lights. We cook with bottled gas.

In short because we are not status oriented we have money in the bank and own land that has increased tenfold in value. All of that from my highly modest SS income and my wife's hard work.

But those are ancillary issues and not of importance to you.

taabarang wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2017 10:12 pm We cook with bottled gas.

Posh middle class toffs!!!!

Actually we do have wood fire but only for foods that require grilling since we have no oven.

taabarang wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2017 10:33 pm Actually we do have wood fire but only for foods that require grilling since we have no oven.

well laa-dee-daa
hahaha

True enough. In order to set ourselves apart from local Hoi Polloi we use only the choicest pieced of illegally logged lumber for kindling.

taabarang wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:12 pm True enough. In order to set ourselves apart from local. Hoi Poloi we use only the choicest pieced of illegally logged lumber for kindling.

does it come pre chopped or do you do your own chopping Toffbarang?

Prechopped for my personal inspection.

Be careful with the wood-fired cooking!

Breathing that smoke in over a period of years is a seriously BAD idea - please explore affordable
and realistic alternatives (buffalo shit turns into gas etc.,)

taabarang wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2017 11:20 pm Prechopped for my personal inspection.

I'm not sure if you answered my question before, so I'll ask it again. How many houses in your village have built walls in the lower half of their wooden houses ? and own a $2000 bike? Any idea of how many people in the village have lost their homes to the banks?

Also, any idea if the MFI loans are mainly only handed out by the CPP chiefs? and only if you vote for them?