quick question for US people: garbage disposals

[dichroic]

After my last entry, Maria asked if garbage disposals are universal in the US. I said that to my knowledge they are nearly so – I’ve lived in Philadelphia, Houston, Phoenix and now Portland and have cooked in a few other places, everywhere from tiny towns to big cities, small apartments to big houses, and only one shared house I lived in as a student didn’t have one. Marveen disagreed, saying that she’s rarely had one and doesn’t know anyone who does. (I think she’s somewhere in the PNW.)

What say the rest of you? What places you’ve lived have or have not had them?

Mirrored from Dichroic Reflections.

Comments

[bombasticat]

I have lived in California and Washington, and in my experience, garbage disposals were near-universal in the suburbs, but now that I live in Seattle, it has been several years since I've seen one (barring the one at my workplace that we are not, under any circumstances, to use). My family lives in Portland, OR and their kitchen doesn't have a garbage disposal. However, the places I have lived in in Seattle have ranged between 80-110 years old; perhaps if I knew people who lived in modern structures my sample would be different. The places I lived in the suburbs were all less than 20 years old.

Edit: Aedifica, sorry, wasn't meaning to respond to you, but the thread as a whole. Wrong reply button!

[aedifica]

That's fine, it also works as a reply to mine. :)