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Here's a relatively easy question for anyone who is awa Why did I
not have a refrigerator in Ecuador for all the time I lived there?

Because the electricity was not reliable enough? No point in a
fridge
when the power is on only about 8 hours a day.

Nope. Not even close.

Not enough food to make one necessary?


Closer.

Actually, and since dxAce is clueless, it was because storing food was
unnecessary since the cook would go to the market each morning at 5 and
bring fresh things for the day.

Wow! The cook!

Thanks for another great tale!

See how little you know?

In the middle class, a family would have a cook, a maid and a nanny and
probably a gardener even if they did not have a car. And they would send
their children to private schools with no exception.

Small groups of neighbors would also collectively hire a "sereno" or night
watchman who would patrol up and down the block and blow a whistle as he
passed each house, each time, to signify all was well.

In the upper class at that time (Latin America is generally demographically
divided in A, B, C, D, and E socioeconomic levels, A being upper and B being
middle with E being barter/unproductive) it was fairly usual to also have a
driver / messenger, too. Most middle and upper income homes were built with
rooms for 3 to 4 servants, and even condos had room for two (the others
might be day workers).

The fresh food every day makes sense. My time in both coasts of Mexico
showed that to be the case but the condo's I stayed in were usually two
bedroom. The maids and other service workers lived in town just like
here. When I was looking at new home developments in Playa del carmen
they did not appear to have rooms for servants but I was always looking
in the tourist areas or nearby.

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Telamon
Ventura, California