What does housing look like in your country? In the UK, this is everywhere and it's all you're going to get unless you're rich.
welcome to the Francoblock
>>221903212here you either live in a commieblock or in a big detached housesemi-detached/terraced housing is rare though it's becoming more and more common in the suburbs of big cities but generally people here have no architectural taste, most buildings look either bland or overly tacky and they poorly correspond with the surroundings, most people just use the cheapest copy-paste design used all over the country, with no attention to regional architectural traditions, landscape or anything like that
>>221903269I'm so sorry bro
>>221903269>Francoblockdo you really call them like that or it's just a 4chan meme?also, is there any special "culture" around them same like eastern Europeans have with their commieblocks? Like rap music about living in them
>>221903212Mad how half the country looks like this.
>>221903309it really is. down soof or up norf. its the same shit. even small rural towns have this terraced factory/miner slave accomodation
>>221903293The francoblock simply IS, and the Spaniard lives in quiet symbiosis with it, so deeply intertwined that one almost defines the other. Spain and the francoblock are one and the same. They’re inseparable from everyday life. These buildings are so widespread and normalized that they don’t need to be romanticized or reclaimed. They’re simply part of the landscape, something so ingrained it becomes invisible...
>>221903464Why do so many Swedes live in apartments, while so few Norwegians do?
>>221903464new whiteness map just dropped
>>221903464fine thenthough it's hard to understand for me why Spain chose this way of life in block of flats. You have vast empty areas around your cities (Spain has no villages in the European sense) and hot climate (central heating isn't a thing), it's perfect conditions for detached houses rather than putting people into cramped blocks. That only makes sense in cold countries with densely populated villages (no space for suburban expansion) like eastern Europe or partially central Europe/Scandinavia
>>221903495That's where all the foreigners live. Not joking. Denmark also shows a high number of apartments for the same reason. They just have block after block to contain all the foreigners within several cities.
>>221903212Bottom triggers a bit of ptsd from living within walking distance of them and having to deal with the scum there
>>221903212>In the UK, this is everywhere and it's all you're going to get unless you're rich.no it isn't you povvomost people live in detached or semi detached houses, two up two downs and multistory flats are almost exclusively inhabited by the underclass, students and foreignerswhy do brits on this site have such a fetish for representing this country as grimly as possible?i'm sorry you grew up with your mum feeding you exclusively beans on toast, chicken dippers and oven chips, but you don't need to project that onto all of us
>>221903464>spain and russia chose apartments>uk and netherlands chose housesso stupidalthough saying that, because of land shortage, the UK is becoming an apartment country slowly, but only for yuppies and the rich. property firms are converting disused mills and factories into apartment buildings everywhere, to rent at extortionate prices for tiny goyboxes.
>>221903694Look at this posh twat trying to lecture us
>>221903694Good luck getting a house like this for under 500k today. And this is still a grim semi.
>>221903791has your mum poured you out your daily pot noodle yet mate?
you already know bitch its the dry walls with that classic hideous vinyl siding outside and only the finest balsa wood beams and petrowaste asphalt tiles stapled right onto the foam insulation nailed into the roof frame. Tornado? I hardly know her.
>>221903694Shut it tarquin
>>221903845>his mum has time to feed him while working 3 jobsLearned to pour my own by the time I was 5, you fucking dickhead
>>221903932underclass or foreigner?you you prefer lamb biryani or turkey twizzlers?
my builder cousin from the UK says British houses have terrible quality and are just technically badly planned and constructed. Doing any serious work inside requires a lot of effort because nothing is done 'how it should be'. And every house is half-rotten if you look what's happening under the plaster but well, he's happy with that because it's just money for him
>>221903962>3 jobsshe shouldn't have left your dad and should have learned how to put a child benefit claim in, the daft cow
>>221903694Mate, I don't know how to tell you this, but this country is full of povvos. The underclass is basically half the country.
>>221903212like this>>221903495Sweden actually has cities, Norway is made of small fishing villages all separated by fjords and mountains.
>>221903212>it's all you're going to get unless you're *WHITEI have never seen houses that look like that.
>>221903212Commie blocks are the most common sight I would say. Almost 20% of the housing stock is these commie block projects so they are a common sight in almost every city and everyone who has been living in a "big" city is familiar with it
>>221903212I mean, atleast Reihenhaus AG etc. here are somewhat affordable in metropolitan regions
>>221903309>>221903340There was one frenchoid descedant overlord who tried to save you brits from this fate but you didnt listen..wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Morris
>>221903212In the SK, this is everywhere and it's all you're going to get even if you're rich.
>>221904460But at this point it is not even worth to look down on it or make fun of it since these projects have been going for 5k USD/sqm which means a 50-55 square meter apartment can go for 250k USD. Ever since Covid real estate prices are brutally absurd here, even the areas that were previously looked down upon are selling apartments for like 200k USD. Whole thing feels like a bad drug trip
>>221903212Why don't you guys have longer roofs ? This is just asking for the rain to make bricks damp and trash the inside with mold.
>>221903212>richI'm middle income and I live in a detached, skill issue on your part.
>>221904781That's exactly what happens. Probably some combination of cost cutting and property developers not wanting houses to last too long, so they can build more of them
>>221904465France has basically the same for middle classes.Lower middle classes live in picrel.
>>221907457Brown people live in these
>>221907457Western European lower middle class having nicer housing than middle class in Eastern Europe is why I don't take any of those Eastern Europe is developing narrative seriously
>>221907489now this is peak Eastern Europe
>>221907513To be fair, it depends on the location. It could be middle class but it's a bit cheap. Boomers live in these.
>>221907578Only people with no job, on welfare and brown live in these. Small cities (2k - 10k inhabitants) have picrel that are usually mid.
This is middle class to slightly upper middle class depending on location.
>>221907457cute
>>221903464Holy fvck.>>221903540>You have vast empty areas around your cities (Spain has no villages in the European sense) and hot climateIf we Mexicans lived like our Spanish cousins, we would have very few traffic problems and every single city would be highly walkable, with good public transportation to match. Spain is how ALL countries should strive to be.
>>221904135>tf>tpFinnish sissies made for Swedish bulls is NOT a meme.
What's the benefit of a detached house? Why are people so obsessed with it?My immigrant parents were the same. They moved in the middle of nowhere just to be able to afford their own house.As far as I care, only thing that matters is location.
>>221903212
Made this so it's clearer (applies to France)
>>221908069So rich people live in apartment in France? Here it is generally the other way around, even "middle class" people would rather move to suburbs and I would say among the rich or "upper class" or whatever very few live in apartments
>>221908203It depends. Many rich people that are young live in big appartements in city centres, they get stuff delivered and can do anything walking / taking the tram or subway / taxi. Rich people over 50 will most likely live in big houses in the countryside but close to the city but (and it's the most expensive) some will live in big houses in city centers, hidden by gigantic walls. See picrel.
>>221903212>>221908069poor looks comfy
>>221907914keep your sexuality to yourself, it was factual statement, Finland is also more urbanized than Norway. this is not a good thing btw, Norwegian countryside is much more alive because they more people live there and lots of small cities/towns
>>221903212looks like the north here
>>221903269sovl
>>221908458That's what I expected.>>221908458>poor looks comfyWell, usually these place used to be one big house for a family but now they're separated in a couple flats, insulation is bad (from the street and from the neighbors). If you could own the whole place it'd be better, but it's usually rented divided in 20m2/30m2 flats. t. have lived in one in the past.
>>221907872No it doesn't. I want to live in the middle of nowhere.
>>221908017No people around you
>>221908652>I want to live in the middle of nowhereJust move to Australia or Argentina, bro.
>>221908327Dreamlike>>221903464Trvke
>>221908677That only works if you have Northern Europeans as neighbors. If you live in a country like Mexico, then you'll be able to hear your neighbors listening to cumbia or reggaeton at 3AM with the volume turned all the way up. Also, I remember there used to be a mentally ill (suffering from dementia, most likely) old woman who lived several blocks away from my grandparents' house who'd frequently make long and loud rants (with a megaphone, even) about how she got cheated on by her husband.Finally, I remember that back when I used to live in a gated community on the other side of the hill from a slum, it was very common to hear shootings happening in the middle of the night, with a few stray bullets occasionally falling on streets in our community.
>>221908564According to official statistics, 83.5% of Norway's population lives in urban areas while 89% of Sweden's population lives in urban areas, which means that Sweden is only 6.6% more urban than Norway.
>>221903212>>221903309>>221903277>>221903694yall look at this like it's a shame. but it's extremely efficient and cheap. not expensive like a skyscraper, not wasteful like a house. saves on heating costs. this is peak civilisation
>>221909224I accept your concession. And those "urban areas" are mostly small towns, instead of the population clustering in cities.
>>221908677>>221909124I live in city center in a nice neighbourhood and I never hear my neighbours, unless they are doing repairs or something.Maybe I am coping, but I just don't see the major quality of life that would justify the higher cost of a detached home
>>221909124Ugh... soul...
>>221909330I'm inclined to agree considering it basically doesn't here in Australia.
It's either countryside or this. Ikea blocks.
>>221908458OP here. My dream is to live in the lower class house like in top right. I'm being 100% serious. And I'd put in the work to renovate and make it all look nice. But Denmark is literally impossible to move to outside the EU so I just suffer in the UK. I've been trying to get a job there almost 2 years now (I'm a software developer)
