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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2009 17:29:48 GMT
What are you living conditions? A fabulous penthouse overlooking the city, or a shack in the swamp?
I live in a building with 8 other apartments, and we share the building with a relatively small bank agency. The building is 3 floors high, which is smaller than usual in Paris.
Hmmm... let me count my neighbors in the building.... there are 14 of us, including 3 children.
It's nice to live in a small building and to know who everbody is, even if you do not frequent them.
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Post by hal2000 on Jun 11, 2009 19:06:36 GMT
Don't want people walking over my head. I couldn't live in an apartment. Well maybe if I had to.
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Post by imec on Jun 11, 2009 19:08:27 GMT
What's small, medium and large?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2009 19:21:40 GMT
I wasn't sure which one to tick. I've put 'farm'. But it's really an acreage with a 'rural single family dwelling'.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2009 19:21:55 GMT
Don't want people walking over my head. I couldn't live in an apartment. Well maybe if I had to. Been there, done that, it would be difficult,unless ,I could hand pick who lived up there.
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Post by Jazz on Jun 11, 2009 20:22:14 GMT
I live in a four story 1920's house in a medium (?) city. My tenants live in the second and third floors, one apartment, and I have the ground floor and basement, which I renovated for my bathroom and bedroom. It would be hard for me not to have the walk out to my garden. I have never, ever lived in a high-rise apartment building.
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Post by spindrift on Jun 11, 2009 21:41:58 GMT
I, also, live in a four storey Victorian house in the centre of a medium/small town. It has a 20ft x 30ft garden at the back.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 11, 2009 21:53:25 GMT
You might call my neighborhood "exurbs" rather than suburbs.
Our subdivision consists of 50 lots about 1-2 acres in size, covered in pine trees. It's about 4 miles off an interstate highway and about 15 minutes from "downtown" and university of a town of about 65,000 people.
Best of both worlds. Except the trees block the sunsets...
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Post by traveler63 on Jun 11, 2009 23:31:46 GMT
We live in a townhouse, about 1500 sq. ft. If you know anything about townhouses, you have an association with rules. There are 40 of us, all single family one story so even though we are close we still have privacy.
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Post by rikita on Jun 12, 2009 0:00:31 GMT
um, does a building with four floors and two or three apartments per floor count as a big or a small building?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2009 4:30:44 GMT
I would call that a small building, rikita.
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Post by tillystar on Jun 12, 2009 8:45:03 GMT
I live in an apartment in an old converted Victorian hospital. There are 200 apartments, so I'd say its a big block.
Our entrance is shared with 5 other flats and I know all those neighbours well enough.
As its a big solid old building we never get noise from the upstairs neighbours. Its surrounded by acres of gardens so an oasis of peace and calm in this big old city.
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Post by happytraveller on Jun 12, 2009 9:30:48 GMT
I live in a town house type building. There are 6 rows of around 10-12 houses. I live pretty much in the middle of it. It is a nice living area and a nice neighbourhood. Even though we live pretty close to each other we have our privacy.
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Post by rikita on Jun 12, 2009 15:38:36 GMT
k thanks, clicked on that in the poll now...
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Post by bjd on Jun 12, 2009 16:12:08 GMT
Jazz, I think Toronto would be considered a big city. It doesn't have to be Mexico City to qualify I live in a house with a garden in a town attached to a medium-sized city. There is no border, and I walk into the bigger city to take the subway or do my shopping, so I just figure I live in that city.
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Post by BigIain on Jun 12, 2009 16:50:59 GMT
I live in a small appt in a wonderful market town North of London. I may not be able to afford it for much longer though as my work skills do not appear to be in demand at this time.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2009 17:30:10 GMT
I live in a two story cottage with approximately 3,000 square feet of living area on a lot with an additional 5,000 square ft. We bought the house in the mid 1980's. It is in a medium sized city , in a primarily residentially zoned area with a commercial corridor and public transit a few blocks away.
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Post by patricklondon on Jun 12, 2009 19:35:00 GMT
A one-bedroom flat (about 60 sq mtr) in a converted warehouse in the London docklands, next door to a fairly significant piece of industrial history.
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Post by BigIain on Jun 12, 2009 20:12:27 GMT
Now I am curious Patrick!!
I lived for almost 2 years in Docklands right next to the Thames Barrier. Is that where you are? If so, I was in the "tower block" right at the far end of Barrier House!
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Post by tillystar on Jun 13, 2009 10:21:51 GMT
Oh I am curious too now!
I used to live on the south side of the Thames Barrier though not the docklands!
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Post by lagatta on Jun 13, 2009 11:02:17 GMT
I live in a typical Montréal triplex-type building, y'know, with the outdoor staircases (a pain to clear in the wintertime). I live on the top storey, but my downstairs neighbour needn't worry because I'm very quiet; just have to try not to do any noisy housework very early in the morning - these days I'm getting up at 5 as I love the early-morning sun. What is special about where I live is that it is a housing co-operative, so I know all my neighbours, sometimes rather too much as we have meetings, committees and corvées - basically we have to do the work that householders would do themselves.
I have a friend who has a nice little flat but horrid upstairs neighbours: a couple with a child whom they let run about in SHOES all the time. I was brought up in cities and my parents would NEVER have let me done that (stern look remembered decades later).
Oh, among the households here, there are two children - we gave priority to people with a child for the two-bedrooms, which are the largest here. Many more cats, and one unfortunate dog living on a top story and often shut out on the balcony, barking. He belongs to the son of the madwoman who lives there - she was among the original tenants of the buildings before they became a co-op; nobody was kicked out, of course, it being a co-op. She is the only real doozy among them. Until son moved out at 18 they were always fighting.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2009 11:03:34 GMT
Watch out, Patrick. Iain and Tilly are well known stalkers.
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Post by BigIain on Jun 13, 2009 12:44:27 GMT
I used to watch Tilly through my telescope.
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Post by spindrift on Jun 13, 2009 15:04:55 GMT
And I would like to live in a 2 bedroom flat in a converted warehouse on the Thames near Borough Market.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2009 16:13:26 GMT
When I win the lotto, I will buy one there as well, even if I occupy it only one week a year.
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Post by spindrift on Jun 13, 2009 16:17:21 GMT
I'm fed up with living in the provinces.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2009 9:59:21 GMT
My living quarters are probably too large for me. In a few years, I will downgrade rather than upgrading.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2009 11:19:36 GMT
But won't you feel more hemmed in, Kerouac? Or perhaps you won't be there much in the future, so it doesn't really matter?
I don't ever see myself downgrading to a smaller place, even if I'm not there part of the year, I like wide open spaces too much....
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Post by Kimby on Sept 9, 2009 14:02:37 GMT
Those of us who live in cold climates may need a larger living space than those in milder climates, since for so many months of the year we are confined to quarters, and cabin fever can be terminal, if not to the sufferer, to their housemates!
Our Florida house is a bit more than half as roomy as our Montana house, and we thrive there. But we spend almost all of our time outside on the big screen porch, or at the beach or pool, so no chance of getting cabin fever there.
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Post by rikita on Sept 9, 2009 18:59:52 GMT
well i sometimes find that the space i have is almost a bit of a waste, my place isn't huge, but i rarely use one of the rooms - just for storing stuff (my bed is there, but i tend to sleep on the sofa for some reason). then again, it is nice knowing the room is there. and good for guests. if i ever get any.
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