What kind of a home you live in?

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I live in a one bed terrace house. I'm on the end. it's not an old one but it's OK. I have a very small front garden and small back garden. I rent, it's £430 a calendar month. I love living on my own. I hate that it's rented, but I am lucky that I have somewhere safe and warm. It's basically a one up, one down, I don't need anything bigger but I want to do my own thing to it and not have people come round and inspect it every six months.

This is interesting, we have nothing like it. Is it yours or do you rent? how big? water? does it have planning permission or is this allowed without it? building regulations here are very strict due to density of population.

low density population in my neck of the woods. largest city in my county only has about 9300 people in it. more animals than people here. it [land and single-wide 2 bedroom mobile home, 1977 model] is all mine, thank god- bought at the height of the housing bubble of 2008, just before the market collapsed. rotten timing. hadda take it as it was the only thing i could afford on short notice. if by water you mean i live near a body of water, i am a few hundred feet from a lake. or if you mean plumbing, yes it has plumbing, well water. it is part of a planned "covenant" community.

After my divorce I bought a Mobilehome in a quiet small town away from the plastic suburban world.

I went looking for tin houses USA and found this



It's described as a shotgun house. Interesting. If it had an upstairs and was made of bricks it would be similar to my house. How big are these? I take it they are one room.

A duplex apartment in a “garden apartment” complex. Two bedrooms. An upstairs and downstairs.

I live alone in a single bedroom apartment.

^^I meant similar in size and pictorially, the one I rent has double glazing and that sort of thing.

THIS is a typical "tin can" which is slang for mobile home built on wheeled towable chassis, of steel and aluminum.

Suggested additions to the options. Semi, terrace, caravan, mobile home, basement flat.

can you tell me what is a semi, a terrace, and a caravan?

Oh, that's nice, much bigger than I was imagining.

Is the other picture typical of a shotgun house?

from what i can tell, yes. and mine is about half the size of this deluxe model in the pic.

I live in a two bedroom apartment located about a mile from central London. I grew up half a mile away in a three bedroom apartment and I feel fortunate to have always lived in this part of London. I don’t think I’ll be able to stay in the area once I have enough money to buy my own place but I’m hoping that I won’t have to move too far away.

Semi detached house, they are attached to one other house only. We have lots of these.



Terrace houses, attached in a row. We have lots of these too.




And caravan. It's mostly used to describe tourer caravans (ones that you move often) but can also mean static caravans.



And this is the static.

Ironically it's the bigger ones on bricks that we call mobile homes.