Stupid but true

[james_davis_nicoll]

I like to look at online real estate listings to see how people use interior spaces. I've come to the conclusions that:

A: Few people use more than 2000 square feet effectively. Above that, they seem to run out of ideas about how to use each room*.
B: Lots of houses have gratuitous features whose purpose seems to be to make them unusable to mobility impaired people.
C: (this is the stupid one) Townhouses are fine but I hate the idea of a duplex. For some reason, having to cooperate with 50 people bothers me more than having to get along with one specific person or family.

* More libraries is always the right answer.

There was a place for sale just up the road from me whose entire basement was given over to sturdy-looking bookcases.

Comments

Re: Translation?

[melita66]

I assume this is for Canada?

Where I grew up in Ohio, a duplex is a building that contains 2 side-by-side apartments or maybe condos. In the last few years, I learned that a duplex in NYC means a two-floor apartment (or condo).

Re: Translation?

[magedragonfire]

Maybe? I've seen it two ways in Canada - mostly the above-mentioned detached house that is split into two side-by-side dwellings. They can be a single story or two/three/whatever. I've also seen units described as duplexes that are essentially a three-story house, with a two-story dwelling on top and a one-story ground level one below.

(This was probably to avoid calling the lower level a basement suite, as there was no basement involved.)

Re: Translation?

[james_davis_nicoll]

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Re: Translation?

[rwpikul]

You're right, duplex does get used for other "two homes, one building" setups, (although your Ohio version could describe what I was thinking of¹). I was mostly answering in the context of it being something between semi-detached and townhouses.


1: Here's a streetview of what I mean: Random downtown Toronto duplex