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[-] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I've lived in a flat, a student dorm, 2 terrace houses, and a detached house.

The flat is better than the student dorm and one of the terrace houses. It's larger than only the student dorm.

The list is a comparison to the decent terrace and the detached.

I've not had theft issues, just polite refusal to leave the package due to too much foot traffic (solved by a kind elderly neighbour). A dryer is great, if your energy bills are reasonable - the rest of us use trying lines/racks.

Not all flats have built in facilities - indeed not all flats began life as flats. The best of flats is still worse than a detached in terms of noise, space, and privacy, however it can outstrip the worst terrace. However, that's a matter of design, which could be solved by a government that wasn't drunk at the wheel...

[-] Rambi@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, these issues are all really weird. I live in a flat with one other person, it's two stories so there's one person in the top flat and one in the bottom, they're in a terrace and we each have our own entrance. It's nice we have plenty of space and a decently large living room and bedrooms (though annoyingly one room is much larger than the other, I suppose because it is for families.) We also have a small bit of fenced of space outside and most have a full garden space.

This is in a council estate in the UK, so equivalent of a "project" but the whole area is very nice, there's lots of grassy spots to take our dog on and there a decent amount of trees around. We have both just been really happy here, much more than I was living in a house before which had no outside space, no trees or grass for a good 50 metres or so and there was more crime despite not being a council estate where as where I am now is. I mean a house is nice I can get why people would prefer living in one, but apartments/flats are nice too.

Oh yeah and we don't really ever hear our neighbours either.

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