Blocks of flats are awful places. No garden to put up a workshed, or greenhouse or anything at all, or play with your dog or kids (and no dog - it would be cruel to keep a dog in a flat and not have it able to roam a garden all day), they’re noisy, loud neighbours can be above, below, to the left, to the right, and in front …
You can’t modify your home how you’d like, can’t choose what utility companies run into your home, can’t let your kid cycle up and down the street and still be able to see and hear them from the windows etc.
I see your point about density absolutely, but I HATE flats. Awful places.
I also hate how people have started trying to make them sound fancy and posh by calling them “apartments” to try to sound fancy and European/French, as if that will make them more appealing.
can’t choose what utility companies run into your home,
This is the most farcical complaint. I guess sometimes you can pay a lot to get a new utility option to your owned home, but that’s usually not an option.
In a lot of apartments you have no choice of ISP regardless of whether the building has a choice, which might be what they’re on about. But I’ve never owned a home where I could choose which utilities were available. (Except for electric choice which works in apartments, too.)
even then it’s a problem we choose to have, in my apartment area we have a platform that allows us to choose between like, i think around 30? different ISPs, and switch between them freely at any time.
I agree with you fully, except the last part. Which is just a regional gripe, as to say “apartments” in the States is just as degrading/non-special. So it’s interesting that you find specialty in that term when my region is anything but.
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Blocks of flats are awful places. No garden to put up a workshed, or greenhouse or anything at all, or play with your dog or kids (and no dog - it would be cruel to keep a dog in a flat and not have it able to roam a garden all day), they’re noisy, loud neighbours can be above, below, to the left, to the right, and in front …
You can’t modify your home how you’d like, can’t choose what utility companies run into your home, can’t let your kid cycle up and down the street and still be able to see and hear them from the windows etc.
I see your point about density absolutely, but I HATE flats. Awful places.
I also hate how people have started trying to make them sound fancy and posh by calling them “apartments” to try to sound fancy and European/French, as if that will make them more appealing.
“Apartment” is just what they’re called in the US.
Brits are hilarious when they learn other countries do things differently
This is the most farcical complaint. I guess sometimes you can pay a lot to get a new utility option to your owned home, but that’s usually not an option.
In a lot of apartments you have no choice of ISP regardless of whether the building has a choice, which might be what they’re on about. But I’ve never owned a home where I could choose which utilities were available. (Except for electric choice which works in apartments, too.)
even then it’s a problem we choose to have, in my apartment area we have a platform that allows us to choose between like, i think around 30? different ISPs, and switch between them freely at any time.
30 ISPs? You’re outside of the United States, I guess?
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I agree with you fully, except the last part. Which is just a regional gripe, as to say “apartments” in the States is just as degrading/non-special. So it’s interesting that you find specialty in that term when my region is anything but.