Unfortunately I live in a town with no natural gas infrastructure (there's practically nothing in the way of buried utilities here -- even water is problematic in many cases because there's bedrock a few inches below the surface.)  I could have a propane tank installed but filling it would be difficult -- the street I live on is actually a historic wooden boardwalk on the hillside and you must climb about fifty stairs to get here from the nearest paved street.  There's no way for a truck to pull up to my property except via the neighbors' yards.

All of which is a shame, because I'd love to cook with gas.  Unless I want to get a couple of 40 lb. propane tanks and lug them in and out myself, however, electric is what I'm stuck with.  It's not so bad for the oven but I'd really prefer gas on the range-top.

You lucky folks who get to use natural gas for heating, cooking, laundry-drying, hot water, etc. should count your blessings.

Coleman?! I don't know what you consider "out and about," but a MSR Pocket Rocket is more my idea of a portable stove.

Growing up I never really knew the joys of natural gas, as my parents lived in a rural area (no natural gas infrastructure, in fact not really any infrastructure whatsoever).  We could have had propane, I suppose, but we didn't, so I grew up with electric stoves.  We did have a wood stove in an outbuilding, though, that we used if there were extended power outages (which there occasionally were - no infrastructure, remember?).  I have to say that the wood stove was excellent for things like breakfast foods (having the wood smoke smell permeate everything didn't hurt, I'm sure).  We also had a pretty cool waffle iron that was made for wood stoves - probably made some of the best waffles I've ever had.  The wood stove was not very good for baking though - it's a bitch to maintain an even heat in such an oven.  Side note - has anyone ever used a brick bake oven?  I've always kind of wanted to build/try a simple one but I've never quite managed to get enough motivation.  Back on track - I was in Boy Scouts and did a fair amount of camping out, etc., so I also learned the joys of cooking over an open wood fire.

Once I moved out my first place was an apartment, which had a pretty awful electric stove.  Most of the heating elements needed to be replaced, but as long as they put out at least some heat the management was rather reluctant to do so.  Being an apartment, we didn't have many other options - weren't allowed to have a grill of any sort.  When my wife and I moved out of there and bought a house, for whatever reason pretty much every house in our budget had electric ranges.  The one we ended up with actually has a gas line to the house, and has gas heat, but does not have a gas stove.  I suppose we should shell out to have a gas stove installed, but the house came with an almost new (probably about 4 or 5 years old) electric range, so it was difficult to justify the extra expense.  Almost as soon as we moved in we bought a gas grill and a charcoal grill, though, and I often use those options as long as it's reasonably temperate out.