[svandamme]

most folks from my grandfathers generation had a full bathroom, it's more the generation before that , Flanders was a very rural region prior to WW1... after WW1 it was a very bombed up region...
Things evolved quite fast during and after WW2... But some of the older ones, that stayed farming... didn't evolve as fast as the city folks...

Farmers around here, are nothing like farmers you guys think off...
there's no big land ownership here, it's just little patches left and right... very small scale compared to US farming...

And even today, there are some of those older generation farmers, never married, couldn't find a woman who would bother with farming... they live by themselves on the farm... in what most of us would consider very poor living standards...
But they don't care , they get up before dawn, drive around the tractor, feed the pig, the cow, and smoke tobacco... and once in a while they go to a little old , pub.. hardly worth the name "pub", basically somebody who got some kind of house with a half assed tap , couple of tables.. and that's it...

Some folks are kind of embarrased about these pubs... i'm not, if any of you Ahmerikhuns come over here, we'll go drink in one of those pubs.
Because that's how it used to be in my grandfathers time.. life was very uncomplicated then...