Re: I'm really starting to like this stuff

On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:57:51 -0000 (UTC), Cindy Hamilton
<chamilton5280@invalid.com> wrote:

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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I live in a ranch house.  It's the second one I've owned.
>
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".

>
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.

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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.

You don't see row houses much in Australia either. I think it's
because the US and Australia have more room than the Netherlands.

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Bruce
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