Your electric and gas meters were inside the house? Yeah,
riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.....

Pretty common in the northeast in old houses in the cities.

My water meter is still in my basement and I've been reading it every
6 months for 25 years. Supposed to go to electronic, remote read
meters this summer.

I have *never* seen either a gas or electric meter inside a house. Water
meters, sure. Gas and electric? Won't believe it without a photo.


*Many indoor meters are still around in NJ. I grew up in a 1960's house
with an indoor gas meter. I see plenty of indoor electric meters still.
Many single family row houses in urban areas have their meters inside I'm
guessing because there was no place else to put them and the service comes
underground into the basement.