[paganel]

My parents’ house has two NATO air bases in a 100-kms radius (one of them very often mentioned on US news because it’s very close to Ukraine and it has US soldiers stationed there), and yet said house doesn’t have indoor plumbing and I do my stuff while visiting them in a hole dug up at the back of the garden. What’s nice is that while I’m doing it I have a splendid view over a Danube branch and over the Dobruja hills, beats navigating social media on my phone.

[thriftwy]

I was very surprised when I learned people in faraway Russian north villages in the middle of nowhere install plumbing to have a warm WC.

Whereas previously I saw people in much more accessible places (albeit, warmer on average) content with having outhouse over a hole.

I hope your parents do at least have a wooden outhouse over that hole.

[paganel]

Yeah, they have the wooden outhouse, otherwise it would have been quite difficult.

What I can say about the hole is that it is more conducive to getting out faster whatever needs to go out, it seems like a more natural position.

[thriftwy]

Ours had a stool over that hole, leading to less natural position but more comfort - you could re-read that newspaper before using it.