To be fair, electricity has improved enormously over the last 10 years in my campo.
24 hours and hardly ever any blackouts + much more " stable".
But it is 2021, and perhaps I am a spoiled brat in thinking water and electricity should be must-haves in any halfway developed country.
Its also much more common to see campo roads that are paved instead of the dirt roads that they were since the campos were founded, electric lighting and wires along the campo roads that didn't had them which was basically all the campos... Even cement homes are now the norm in many campos when wooden houses was the norm not just in campos but also in the towns as long ago as the 1980's... Rural homes with dirt floors were much more common, sleeping in what was known as a
catre instead of an actual bed was the norm,children with blotted stomachs due to malnutrition was the norm in campos and even in many towns, many people have no idea how it was not to long ago...
Even things such as unkept medians on major avenues in places like Santo Domingo was the norm as recent as the 1990's. It wasn't as it is now with many medians having gardens andmany trees/palms, etc. Dusty dirt was more like it. Imagine Santo Domingo today with most medians being like that and yet, not too long ago that was the case.