What kind of a home you live in?

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Thanks. I've tried but I keep getting "lot size" or "property dimensions". For square footage there is always a " -- " (blank dash). I guess I'll have to measure but my house is an irregular shape from outside, so I'll have to go room by room.

Anyway ... to answer the OP I live in a house!

You may also be able to look up nearby homes and see what square footage they are.

we call those portables or modulars

102 year old two story four bedroom house. I occupy an upstairs bedroom and especially in the winter I have a view of the sea and lots of fur trees. There is a very tall poplar tree outside my window and I see birds, squirrels and sometimes a raccoon in it.

I find it unusual to see descriptions of an exact date for when houses were built. I only have rough ideas. My parents last house was 11th centuary or before. (We found evidence and a friend of my parents was an acheologist by trade).
This house, despite its modern looks as it has had many rebuilds over the years, was definately here in the very early 1600's but at a guass, was built at least a couple of hundred years before. Up here is where the village started out before it moved to the coast below, and this house once was the farm which owned just about all the land on this mountain. The nearby forest has evidence of many embankments of fields where (Unusual for Wales) no one knows of their origions. Unusual as in Wales, local history is handed down by word of mouth as a priority... Nothing was ever written down until recent times. Is how I know this house was definately here in the very early 1600's. Also, near here is an early 4th to 6th centuary Christian settlement started b a Celtic saint. This house is about the length of a football pitch away so houses like this would be the next step as more people settled in these parts. Remains of a few cottages are in fields around here where no one knows much about them and they are not on maps (Even early maps) even though they predate the early maps. Here the early detailed maps which will be sure to record every property and house will date from the 1700's as thw maps prior to that in this area only recorded something like 80% of the properties... Those which were a little more secluded seemed to be missed from the maps, like the remains of these cottages. A whole village washed away in the 1607 tsunami is not recorded other then two or three buildings which may have been rebuilt and later abandoned during later storms. If one sees the area it is obvious that the remains are not just fishermens cottages/huts as what they are said to have been. No one in this area uses ornate dressed stone brought in from other localities to build their houses unless the house or building had susbstancial importance and the owners had wealthy influences. These buildings had many of these stones. Dressed stones were not even used in many of our castles except the very few which were built for kings. Most used local quarries and were just roughly cut so they would be of use. They would not be completely dressed unless it was a window feature etc... Yet the stones from this abandoned village surprized me!
Interestingly, other things are recorded which no longer exist. Wells, springs, water troughs... A major woodland which dissapeared in the 1500's to 1700's due to the industrial revolution whic was earlier in this area then in most parts of Britain, where the iron and metalmproduction was in demand. Coal was also mined here from the 15th centuary onwards for such use via "Cell mining" methods. By the late 1700's onwards water adits were used to enable drift mining, and when steam pumps were invented in the 1800's things really took off!

That is fantastic. If I have to be indoors, I want to be able to view the outdoors.

Boring 4 story apartament building from early 2000s.
What is good, I have everything (school and several playgrounds for kids, shops, restaurants, doc, dentist, psych and even a natural forest reserve) within walking distance.

In the US a house or building that passes the century mark is considered pretty old. Realtors usually say when the house was built. The one I live in was built in 1917. Where I used to live 95% of everything was built upward from the 1950s. So living in a "realy old" house is intriguing to me.

When I worked on the railways it was good pay. I decided to get a mortgage and buy a house. I found a house that was cheap enough as a first house. An end of terrace house built (Like most terraced houses were in these parts) around the 1880's to 1890's. It was in a village near here about 10 to 15 miles inland from the sea (The further away from the coast the cheaper properties are in Wales). The large village is one which one passes through along a long main road on a hill. I thought the village was boring compared to where my Mum lives, but it's a house. I can aford the morgage... It's a start. When I had the house I found I was too lonely. However, I did find as a house it was absolutely ideal. A streetlamp was outside... Your very own streetlamp that you don't have to use your own electric for! Mains sewerage! A coupke of nearby shops! Wow. This is luxury! And not only that, behind the fields behind the house, thee is a woodland park on the site of an old colliery. A few minutes walk I was there. Who needs land with that nearby! I had a two bedroom end of terrace two bedroom house (Large kitchen) with a garage on the side (Large enough to store a big Cadallac Fleetwood if I needed... My old Volvo Amazon looked small in the garage. Then a small coal shed, a long thin garden. A shed at the bottom of the garden. Parking outside for a coupke of cars. And the house prices here were cheaper then a 1 bedroom tiny flat in London, as someone moved down here from London and he said he ad a 3 bedroom house like mine with shed and generous garden etc and it was way cheaper then his 1 bedroom 2 room flat was in London. He was amazed when he came to live down here. And I not only had a bus route through the village but a bus stop outside my house,and just down the end of the street was the main cycle path towards the coast, and just up the hill is a park and a walk through the park one gets views of the sea and all the village below.
When the stresses got too much foe me in the job I quit the job and later had to sell the house. I hardly was able to live there as it reached a stage that every time I came to the house after work to check on it my brother or my dad had an emergency or my grandmother. It reached a stage where several times I would get thw back door housekey out and just as I was putting it in the back door ring, ring! My phone.. My dad had gone off due to drs not monitering his medication, or my brother who was going through some sort of breakdown needed to be found as he was suicidal, or my grandmother was rushed to hospital.. Or my dad was... It seemed to happen every time I went to get my keys out. I laughingly thought "What will it be this time" as my keys went towards the door. That was when my brother went off on a suicidal kind of event.

Anyway. Sorry. A tangent again! But in a way it was a relief to sell my house and avoid going into debt. House prices more then doubled while I had the house but I sold it half price so I broke even.

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It puzzled me at first why many houses in the USA are made from wood when there are termite issues etc. But then it came to me. Stone or brick houses down work well in earthquakes. Wooden houses are easier to rebuild in a natural disaster... Especially in a land which has a good supply of trees. It makes sense.