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Post by nic on Sept 9, 2009 19:44:17 GMT
My living quarters are probably too large for me. In a few years, I will downgrade rather than upgrading. Can I take over your lease? There are twenty apartments in my building, with...oh, thirty-odd people in residence; there's a nice cross section, too. There's a couple of retirees, a musician or two, a single mom and her son, a dozen or so in their middle ages, and others who are just starting out.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2009 22:32:30 GMT
I live in a public housing building, at the 11th floor. My neighbors are French, Turks plus 2 or 3 African families. I had also an Iranian neighbor for some time. Strangely enough over the last 20 years I've been living there I have never had Algerians (the largest immigrant community) as neighbors. The people of the public housing seem to have decided to quarter all the North African families together in another part of the neighborhood.
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Post by hwinpp on Sept 10, 2009 2:28:39 GMT
I rent a little two storey house in Phnom Penh, the biggest city in Cambodia.
I have two rooms, two bathrooms and a kitchen downstairs and two rooms and a small balcony upstairs. The upstairs storey is made of wood.
I've posted a couple of pics of it on another thread.
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Post by BigIain on Sept 10, 2009 7:53:27 GMT
I am now living in a suburban house on the South side of Edinburgh.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2009 12:41:57 GMT
I live in an apartment building where most residents (including myself) own their apartments. Mine is on the top floor, with a partial view of the nearby mountains and the sea. 78sqm, 2 bedrooms.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2010 11:35:59 GMT
I've been in the same place for about 18 years now.
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Post by joanne28 on Sept 1, 2010 14:06:25 GMT
I live in a 3 bedroom and a den townhouse. We have a garage and a very small fenced-in back garden (25 ft x 45 ft). It's big enough for me as I find gardening challenging, particularly this year. Too hot to do much.
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Post by mich64 on Oct 29, 2010 19:11:18 GMT
I chose "other"
We have a single family residence, in a small city, in a rural setting, with an acre of land with lake frontage and with neighbors, some summer residents (cottages) and many others 4 season homes like ours.
It is a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, chalet type house.
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Post by tod2 on Oct 30, 2010 18:23:22 GMT
We built our house. It was architect designed to my specifications. It was too large originally so we reduced it to 750sqm. It is single storey mostly with a double storey guest area. Originally used by our son & his school mates. The guest area consists of a bedroom, dressingroom, bathroom with bath and seperate shower room downstairs. Upstairs a large kitchenette with a bar, and a snooker table in the lounge area.. Outside a terrace with barbeque. The main house has all the usual - lounge, diningroom and open plan kitchen, guest toilet, study with our computers, 2 bedrooms en-suite, 1 bedroom not, Maid & laundry room en-suite. Pool deck and barbeque. The house is in three quarters of an acre of garden.
Although we live opposite a farm, we could ride a bicycle to our shop in town without peddling -it's all downhill and would take about 15min. Done this many times when younger ;D
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2010 18:31:38 GMT
Are you taking applications for guests?
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Post by onlymark on Oct 30, 2010 19:17:47 GMT
I live in a 3 bed detached house, approx 260 sq. metres internal and about another couple of hundred outside after downgrading from one at least twice the size a couple of years ago. We have the normal living room, kitchen, guest toilet set up downstairs but also an en-suite maids room. Upstairs is one master bedroom with en-suite and two more bedrooms with a shared bathroom. On the roof we also have a 3x4 metre room which we use as a further guest room. I live in a 'city' (of at the moment about 80,000 inhabitants but growing) about 20km from the centre of Cairo (15 million + inhabitants and growing) and it is set up with everything here such that I have no real need to go into the middle of the city other than early morning to take my wife to work. There is a short Wikipedia entry - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehab_City
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Post by myrt on Oct 30, 2010 20:05:42 GMT
I live in a set of barns in rural UK. My family converted them all into separate houses 20 years ago so my sister and her husband live in one and my mother (and my father until he died) in another with a stepniece occupying a smaller section. It works pretty well really and it's really good to have my Ma next door now she is getting older. It was the best time of my life thus far when we were doing all the hard building work - tremendous fun for my girls too. They were expert mini truck drivers before they reached double figures!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2010 21:03:09 GMT
Were the barns already in the family?
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Post by tod2 on Oct 31, 2010 8:04:12 GMT
Kerouac - anytime
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Post by myrt on Oct 31, 2010 8:33:05 GMT
Were the barns already in the family? No, we all moved en masse from the area we had lived all our lives after my pretty unpleasant divorce. It seemed a positive thing to do at the time as I'd lost my home and my family were ready to do something different. My parents had long wanted the chance to build another house (they built the family home when we were all children) and the barns were in the right location and perfect for our family set up. So it was really fun, interesting and has meant that I could follow my dreams - keep goats and garden to my heart's content. And my sister could have her horse too. I'm very lucky
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Post by lagatta on Oct 31, 2010 13:33:01 GMT
myrt, are you going to send us some GOAT'S CHEESE?
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 31, 2010 13:47:57 GMT
I'm so glad to see this thread revived, especially since I just moved from one house to another. Since I'm from the US, I can easily envision the dwellings described by Canadian and US people. But funnily enough, the style of housing and general surroundings that probably are closest to where I live are HW's, in Cambodia.
Askar, you obviously get to know your neighbors. Are there common areas in your building or complex that encourage mingling?
Iain, when someone in the UK says "suburban house", I get a mental image of a house from the '20s or '30s. Is that even the teeniest bit accurate?
Tod, you really incorporated so many interests and also comfort into your home!
Mark, thanks for that Wiki link. You've described your area before, but I never grasped the hugeness of it, nor the breadth of the concept. Do you have a fabulous view from the roof?
I love how Joanne's and Mich's explanations are right next to each other. They're in the same province and the houses seem to be of similar size, but so different.
Myrt, I am filled with admiration -- and some envy -- over the brilliant and loving path your family took.
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Post by bjd on Oct 31, 2010 14:20:16 GMT
Enjoy your new house, Bixa. I hope you get a new garden set up soon.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 31, 2010 15:23:11 GMT
Thanks, so much, Bjd. It's a cute place with more patio than dirt area, but I can work with that.
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Post by myrt on Oct 31, 2010 16:00:21 GMT
myrt, are you going to send us some GOAT'S CHEESE? I doubt if you'd enjoy it...........whenever I've made 'cheese' it looks more like goat's sick than anything edible! Besides the goats I have now are all old and a motley selection of half pygmy and something.... Life is too short to milk pymy goats. Or is it the other way around?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2010 17:18:13 GMT
That would be... pygmy goats are too short to live? Fire up the barbecue!
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Post by myrt on Oct 31, 2010 17:51:34 GMT
;D Don't you dare!
Mind you...there's an awful lot of meat on them - quite chubby my girls are.....bit chewy though - old, they are...
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Post by lagatta on Oct 31, 2010 19:46:15 GMT
It is odd figuring out what constitutes a "big" or "medium" city. For example, I work in Amsterdam at least once a year, and it isn't really very big, but it seems most urbane, and that part of the Netherlands is so densely populated that it is one big metropolitain area, the Randstad. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randstad Many people commute to work or study between the cities and towns in the area; Dutch planners promote train commutes. Bixa, do you live close enough to Oaxaca proper to say you live in a city? Nice that you have a patio - you can always do container gardening. Joanne, your back garden would be quite large here in Montréal. The only reason there are any back gardens at all is because there used to be "hangars" (tall sheds) for coal or fuel oil heating. In decades past, with the growth of hydroelectric heating, these have been pulled down as fire hazards - the city administration subsidised the demolition. So there are tiny back gardens behind many of our triplexes, though not all.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Nov 3, 2010 19:16:54 GMT
um...
Small semi-detatched 3 bedroomed dwelling. Small front & back gardens, garage, greenhouse and shed. 3 miles from the city centre, but 10 minutes by car in just about any direction and we're in rural Leicestershire. Been here for 27 years.... ;D
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 3, 2010 20:29:16 GMT
That sounds perfect, Cheery. LaGatta, sorry to answer so late. I'm very close to Oaxaca, but where I live is really a town if you judge by services, etc. available. Xoxo is hard to figure, because the incorporated area is a huge sprawl, although the town center constitutes a nice little town. I live in a little suburb, within walking distance (longish) to the town center of Xoxo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Xoxocotl%C3%A1n
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2010 21:00:11 GMT
So you are close to the airport now, Bixa, from what I read?
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 3, 2010 22:17:59 GMT
Fairly close, yes. I've been this close to it ever since I've lived in Xoxo. You can see the airport clearly here. I'm in colonia Mi Ranchito, shown just to the left of the blue pushpin. Look at the yellow road marked "Periferico", descending from roughly the top middle of the map. That's the ring road dividing Xoxo and the city of Oaxaca.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2010 23:55:05 GMT
I live in a large country house in the err... countryside. We have 4 bedrooms, 2 living rooms, 2 bathrooms.
I'm surrounded by forest land and lots of wildlife. I love living here, it's so me.
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Post by spindrift on Nov 15, 2010 9:41:31 GMT
I live in a large house in a well-known cathedral city. I can walk into the high street in less than two minutes.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2010 13:51:20 GMT
Less then 2 mins? That's really convenient. I do have a shop down the road to buy odds and ends, milk, bread etc. But the City is only about 40 mins drive from here and so is the States. Sounds like a long drive, but for us Canadians, anything less than a day's drive away is considered local!
Some time in the future, I have my eye on purchasing an apartment in the Capital City as well.
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