What house do you live in?

[KMB1933]

I live in a block of flats because 98% of the HK population do, since the city is quite small and does not have enough land to build large houses, except for some rural areas in Sai Kung. Just wondering what kind of house you live in.

[shapu]

I live in a one-story brick rowhouse in South St. Louis, built in 1908. It's a keeper, sez I.

Bonus: I have no yard, although I do have a large patio out back, entirely brick. There's a little swatch of grass in front of my house between the sidewalk and the street. Mowing the lawn, for me, requires a weedwhacker and 5 minutes.

[Pickles]

I currently live in a small one story house in a reasonable neighborhood. My husband and I love it, and never want to live in an apartment again if we can manage to avoid it. People are just too noisy and rude in apartments, at least, in the experience we've had. Seriously, though, live band practice after 10pm at night when there's a 5-year old living below you? The area we currently live in is mostly sprawling neighborhoods, with apartment complexes scattered around.

[Asthaloth]

Semi detached right over the infamous coal pits of Derbyshire.

The house next door is subsiding already, and were it not for us being attached I would be laughing so very hard.

Used to live in a Semi detached in the city that had Benny Hill and the inventor of the Spitfire as residents.
Oh, and it was the south's primary rail crossroads (Way back in the day)
That was our claim to fame, and we were proud of it.

[Jasujo]

I love our house. It's a nice two-floor in the country. The center part was built around 1886. The girls have the entire top floor to themselves with their bedrooms (two big bedrooms with two girls each). On the bottom, first is the living room and our bedroom, then the bathroom and large kitchen, with the den/guest room in the back. It's a simple house, but it's open with sizable windows all over. Our lawn is 100x300 feet with a sizable willow tree in the middle. When we were looking for houses, I told Tim I didn't much care as long as we had lawn to play in. haha The girls can easily play on the swingset out back and we don't have to worry about strangers coming up or whatnot because it's set about half the lawn in.

Our neighborhood is really peaceful, too. I love being in the country. Everyone pretty much minds their business, but they're friendly. When we get the big snows in the winter, there's a nice neighbor who goes around and plows people out. There is a lot of farmland around here, too. I'm glad my girls gets to grow up in a nice environment like this like I did. ^.^

[Helena]

First floor flat (apartment, whatever ) in an estate, in an ok-ish area.

[munduses]

Me and my boyfriend currently live in a 43m² student apartment. The house was built 2 years ago, so everything is still quite new and polished We are in spite of this looking for a new (and bigger) apartment, as the current one disallows pets.

I want a dog! And a guinea pig.

[Twinkle]

Four bedroom detached house in an "suburban estate". Big back garden, little front garden with a cherry tree. It's very nice.

EDIT: Accidently wrote I lived in a semi. I don't. Oops.

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[Mongrel]

A one-and-a-half-story house built in the 1950s. Good old suburbia.

[Alex]

I live on campus at my university. I share a room with someone (and apparently the room is quite big) - there's about 200-250 students here, in 3 buildings.

[Regan]

I live in a bilevel apartment, laundry machines included. Woot! I think that the only thing that differentiates my apartment from a townhouse is the fact that I don't have a basement, and I don't have to pay for utilities (well, I guess my mom doesn't).

[Pickles]

I live in a bilevel apartment, laundry machines included. Woot! I think that the only thing that differentiates my apartment from a townhouse is the fact that I don't have a basement, and I don't have to pay for utilities (well, I guess my mom doesn't).

Heh. Basements. I'd never been in a basement until I visited my husband's family up north. We don't have 'em down here - the ground's not stable enough or something along those lines.

[Pink]

I live in a crappy apartment because my husband and I are newly weds and can't afford the area we live in. We live in housing provided by the university and they just don't seem to care about the living conditions for their married students.

[Lee]

I live in a two story house smack dab in the middle of the Washington D.C. suburbs. It's a great neighborhood to grow up in with lots of kids around.

[Xandra]

3-story rowhouse in Baltimore. Though I don't live in one of the typical (well, aside from being 3 stories tall; that's pretty standard here) rowhouses that's one in a chain that stretches from one intersection to the next. I live in one that's the middle in a series of three, which basically then looks like one giant house or something. Makes me sad when people visit, don't realize it's 3 houses, and are all "YOU'RE AMAZING CAN I LIVE WITH YOU OH RICH ONE". Well. Not exactly that grammatically-horrendous phrase, but I think (hope?) you get the point.

I mean, I guess our house is kind of big on its own when you look at square footage or something (I don't know how many), but it really doesn't seem like it, because it's divided up in ways that make it appear kind of smallish.