Housing, Housing in Slovakia

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Housing

IN GENERAL

Choosing a place to live in is a problem which everybody has to deal with at the beginning of his/her adult life. The choice is wide- you may live in a town, in a suburban area of a large city (AmE on the outskirts) or somewhere in the countryside far from other people. There are several types of dwellings you may choose from:

-aflat (AmE an apartment)- is a set of rooms that are usually all on the same level and are a part of a larger building.

-a council house/flat- is owned by the council which people pay rent to live in.

-a detached house- is a two-storey house standing by itself, not joined to another house and usually having a garden. They usually have three bedrooms, one or two bathrooms upstairs, a separate dining room and kitchen downstairs.

-a semi-detached house (semis or in AmE duplexes)- are built in pairs and are joined on one side. They usually have two or three bedrooms and a separate garden at the front and back for each house.

-terraced houses (AmE brownstones, rowhouses)- are two or more houses joined together in a row. There is little or no garden and the front door of each house opens onto the pavement.

-cottages- are small, old village houses which have been modernized inside, but have kept the wooden beams and some even thatched roofs outside.

-bungalows- are one-storey houses; they are popular with older and disable people, because everything is on one level. Mostly found in villages or on housing estates.

HOUSING IN SLOVAKIA

In Slovakia many people live in blocks of flats on housing estate. Houses are mostly in the village and in the suburbs.

The flats they live in can be: rented flats, council flats, condominium (an apartment building in which the apartments are owned by people who live there).

High-rise blocks of flats (blocks of flats with more than five storeys) are mostly found in towns, in city centres or housing estates. These flats are usually owned/rented by rich people, since they are quite expensive.

In Slovakia you may find houses mostly in suburbs and villages. The most common type of house is detached, but there are also semis, terraced houses, bungalows and council houses.

Young people live in cities. They immigrate for better job opportunities or studies. Since accomodation are too expensive for students, it is common for them to rent a flat together and share the costs or arrange a mortgage with a bank. There are older people who live in cities too, since they have spent their whole life there and they don`t want to leave, because he peace and silence of the countryside is unknown for them.

Young families usually aren´t happy in flats, because there are small rooms and no garden for their children, so they move to villages to live in bigger houses. As well older people want to move to the peaceful country to enjoy their retirement.

TYPICAL SLOVAK HOUSES  

A typical Slovak house is a two-storey detached house with two or three bedrooms, one or two bathrooms, a living room, dining room and kitchen. Some of them have cellars and garages, too. People in Slovakia enjoy spacious houses with big gardens, however buying or building a house is not an inexpensive matter.

As far as flats are concerned, the most common are two-,three- or four-room flats with an entrance hall, bedrooms (1or 2), kitchen, toilet, bathroom and living room.

HOUSING IN GREAT BRITAIN

British people prefer living in houses on their own.

Types of houses: detached houses and semis-especially in suburbs at the edge of the town.

Rich families live in Victorian houses with three or more storeys (houses with red or yellow brick). Terraced houses were extended and rebuilt. Bungalows are mostly found in villages and housing estates. In villages except for bungalows you may see cottages, which are old village houses.Council houses are quite common in Great Britain, because they provide cheeper prices for people who cannot afford to buy or rent their own flat/house.

TYPICAL BRITISH HOUSES

They are usually two-storey houses with a small garden in the front of it and a bigger garden at the back. The lot is usually surrounded by a hedge. They don`t grow vegetables, they only have lawn and flowers. British people like to have a patio, where they like to sit or have a barbeque.Garages are usually attached to the houses,too.

Every family house in Britain have the same rooms. Downstairs there is a hall and a front room, a living room with a fireplace connected with dining room, a kitchen with pantry (it´s a small room where people have big foodstock) and a toilet..

Upstairs there are the bedroom (two or three-it depends) +bathrooms with toilets.

Every house has also a storage space under the stairs. Some people put there old or useless things.

HOUSING IN THE US

Americans are said to be 'the nation on the move', because they move several times during their lifetime looking for better job opportunities or educational facilities for their children.

Finding a new place to live in is not difficult and prices are reasonable.

People in the US mostly live in large cities in rented apartments or in high-rise flats (in skyscrapers).They can also buy an apartment in a condominium.

As far as American houses are concerned, there are large mansion houses owned by the rich, detached houses (mostly wooden), duplexes (semi-detached houses) and ranch-style houses, which are built on one floor only.

It is common for young people (students and young professional people) to live in apartments near city centres, but later when they get married and have children, they tend to move to houses on the outskirts.

Poor people who do not have much money live in tenements-old buildings found in the downtown areas of the city, in very small houses or in mobile homes parked in a trailer park.

A TYPICAL US HOUSE

A typical US house has two storeys. Upstairs there are several bedroomsm-one for parents (the master bedroom) usually with a bathroom attached and bedrooms for each child. There is also a guest room, a study or a playroom. Downstairs there is a kitchen, a dining room, a living room and a bathroom or a half-bath (a toilet and a washbasin). Many older houses have a porch (a covered area outside the house).

PROS AND CONS OF LIVING IN A FLAT AND HOUSE


Living in a house
Advantages:
- there is more privacy
- there is more space - more rooms – houses usually have a ground floor and the first floor
- houses usually have a garden and a garage
- you can listen to loud music
- you can keep bigger pets - dogs, cats, horses...


Disadvantages:
- it is more expensive
- you have to work in the garden – you must cut the grass, lookafter the plants
- you have to tidy up more rooms and clean more windows, so you have to maintance the house.

Living in a flat:
Advantages:
- it is cheaper
- it is comfortable
- you don’t have to clean a lot because you don’t have many rooms and windows

Disadvantages:

· there is less privacy
· there is less space, so you have to share rooms
· flats usually don`t have gardens
· you can’t listen to loud music
· if the lift doesn’t work, you have to go up by foot
· if anything brakes in your flat, you can cause damage to other people – for example, if the watertap breaks in your flat, the water will damage your neighbour’s flat below

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