On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 09:16:52PM -0700, Tim Bray wrote: > This is not just an Indian thing. It is traditional in Canada to have > a "cottage" or "cabin" at the lake, and there are so many lakes that
Same thing in Finnland, presumably. > even people of very modest means can often manage to have one. These > are passed down in families. When I was working at the University of > Waterloo in Ontario, there was this guy on my team who'd married into > a family where a bunch of sisters had cabins near Parry Sound > (http://g.co/maps/9hu46) - most of these women were traditional > full-time Moms, and in Summer, would decamp with the kids en masse for > the cabin. Their husbands would drive 5 hours up to the cabin to > spend the weekends, when they could.
