He spent his early childhood in Rangoon in the 1960s, where his family was part of an international ex-pat community consisting mainly of British, before moving to Kabul, where he went to school until the age of ten. Though Ingo was not sent to boarding school, in the 1940s his mother had been, and from the age of 10 his brother was. With boarding normalized in his family system, Ingo witnessed it from the perspective of a younger sibling and retains an outside, as it were ’naive’ position.