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On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 09:36:47 +1000, Bruce >
wrote:

>On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 19:33:33 -0400, jmcquown >
>wrote:
>
>>On 7/15/2017 7:16 PM, wrote:
>>> On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 17:56:26 -0400, jmcquown >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 7/15/2017 5:34 PM, wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 07:05:19 +1000, Bruce >
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> You're a total city type. I bet there are more wells in the
>>>>>> countryside.
>>>>>
>>>> Bruce, please tell me exactly what you know about the areas where I've
>>>> lived all my life. I'd love to hear it.
>>>>
>>>>> Of course there are - on a continent with vast distances you're never
>>>>> going to find water in pipes across the whole of it!!
>>>>
>>>> Don't be silly. I never said there were water pipes all across the
>>>> country. Just that I've never lived in a house that had a well. Sheesh.
>>>>
>>>> Jill
>>>>
>>>>> Our house in Shad Bay, only 20 minutes from Halifax was on a well. Ours was great,
>>>>> a drilled well, 375 ft deep but full of iron so we had a water
>>>>> conditioner through which the water passed first, used to have to
>>>>> remember to add a bag of salt to it every so often.
>>>>>
>>> "Most houses in the US don't have wells."
>>>
>>> I suspect that is far from correct in the USA, as it would be in
>>> Canada. Ten minutes from the city and it's a well and septic tank
>>> more often than not.
>>>
>>Believe what you want. I'm going by personal experience. I've never
>>had a well for water or a septic tank.
>
>I've never had a coconut fall on my head, but I believe that it
>happens.

Every house I've ever owned has been on a private well and a septic
system. I've never found anything negative about it... costs a whole
lot less than city water/sewer.