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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.

Re: Translation?

Date: 2025-06-03 04:25 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Braxis

Making more sense now...

In the UK the it would be very unusual to see two houses with garages, where the garages share a wall. Our semi-detached houses always share a house wall. Garages, if they have them, would be on the opposite side of the house.

Townhouses sound more like the posh Georgian terraces that you'd find in places like Bath and Leamington Spa and less like the workers houses you'd see on Coronation Street.

Condo is like a block of flats where everyone is responsible for upkeep of the common infrastructure? I don't think we use that model for separate housing.

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