Re: I'm really starting to like this stuff

On 2025-04-15, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:28:39 -0000 (UTC), Cindy Hamilton
<chamilton5280@invalid.com> wrote:
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On 2025-04-15, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:16:17 +1000, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid>
wrote:
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I've never specifically looked, but I'd never heard of ranch before
RFC.

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Actually, I never knew "ranch" was a common category of houses in the
US and not just for people like the Ewings. I learnt this from a flip
flop housing show with that white guy and his Asian looking partner.

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I live in a ranch house.  It's the second one I've owned.
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Not every single-story house is a ranch.  I grew up in a
house in a style that's now called "American Small House"
or "Minimal Traditional House".

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Is that detached? In the Netherlands most houses are "row houses"
-shoulder to shoulder- if that's the term. You have to either be
affluent or very rural to have a detached house.

Yes.  We rarely use the unmodified word "house" to refer to
anything that is attached.  Attached dwellings are likely to
be called row house, townhouse, or (somewhat imprecisely) condo.

We have about 85.3 million detached and 8.2 million attached
single-family homes in the U.S.

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Cindy Hamilton