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I live in a building of 140 flats and nobody has shutters. Next door building, even taller, is the same. The flat I lived in before this one also had no shutters. My parents' single-family house doesn't either. I was always fascinated by shutters on windows when I stayed at a friend's house as a kid. Come to think of it, I've never had shutters on any windows on any building I've ever lived in. My in-laws' house does have shutters so there's that.
Wow, that's weird. I genuinely believe nearly every (German) home/apartment/room I've ever visited had shutters.
In my apartment complex with ~30 (?) flats I don't know whether everyone has shutters - but I do know all flats on the other side of the street have them (because I actually look at them in the evening) and my nearest neighbors considering I can clearly hear multiple one's going down in the evening/up in the morning.
Maybe it's a regional thing? I live in the South and shutters are everywhere.
Just so you know, feddit.org is a German instance, so your interlocutor is probably German as well.
And the shutters are certainly not common outside of Germany. I've not had them at any place I've lived in Australia, Korea, or Vietnam. Same with that famous German double-opening window. It's fantastic, and the rest of the world should adopt them, but should does not mean has.
Technically feddit.org is a German speaking instance - it's operated/owned/managed in Austria.
I wouldn't have been too surprised if having rolling shutters was only uncommon in other countries. But the fact they aren't ubiquitous in Germany was a genuine surprise. It's as if there were regions without those windows you mentioned - which do exist apparently in the North according to Wikipedia.