alt Hacker NewsIn 1985, a microwave was affordable and portable, if you had to do a rapid flit. If a house was set up for gas, then the stove (which typically was left in a house) was gas.
If you were illegally occupying a house scheduled to be demolished, with only electricity and a judges order to quit over your head, what would you do? Go and buy a full oven or cook in a microwave?
I wouldn't be squatting in the first place, and I personally always invested in improving whatever place I was living in even if just renting.
So it's difficult for me to relate to those issues.