I'm just curious. Do you rent or own where you live? Do you live in a detached dwelling or shared in someway?
People in the UK: Are most dwelling units connected in some way? Are detached homes rare or just real expensive... ?
I was looking at homes in the UK and almost everything is "semi-detached" or "community owned". What does that mean? You share walls with people?
i own my house. (well, the mortgage company owns some of it). it's a 2 (officially, more like 3-4) bedroom mid-terrace house with a biggish garden, over a century old.
there's a wide variety of different house styles, so i'd disagree that most houses are semi's. i'd say that terraces are more common than semi's, to be hojnest, but it depends on where you live - semi's
tend to be in more affluent areas (except where they were built after the damage caused by the bombing in the first and second world wars, cos a lot of local council-owned property is seemi-detached, in that case).
i suspect that "community-owned" means council-owned, and therefore rented accomodation. there are also housing associations, private landlords and various other permutations. i'd imagine that it's similar in the states.
seems that brits are more into having a garden, though - i know some countries in europe favour flats (apartments, to you) and renting over owning a property and having a garden. "watching the english" by kate fox has some interesting stuff on that sort of thing.
