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I wonder how are the houses in some places in Germany, for example? They also love their cars and have real winters...

by swah 10y ago

pluma 10y ago
The average German lives in an apartment or multi-family house. On the country side there are still a lot of fully detached houses but they're either mostly "old" (i.e. built or fully renovated after the war) or built to a different standard (Germans generally consider drywall a cheap substitute). But of course that is also changing. Also, building your own house is not as affordable as it seems to be in the US. Germans have a stronger aversion to taking out loans and banks often want a significant down payment. From what I've seen few home owners actually park their cars in garages though. Recently carports (basically sunroofs) have become pretty popular but most people seem to park their cars in the driveway as far as I can tell. We just clean them more often, I guess.
- MK999 10y ago
  what kind of multi-family house? Side by Side duplex? Up down duplex? Quadplex? Something else?
  - taejo 10y ago
    I don't know what the averages are, but I'd say in towns the most typical are terraced houses with four or five floors - sometimes that's one apartment on each floor, sometimes two.
  - pluma 10y ago
    In my experience it varies. In the bigger cities they're typically four to five storey apartment buildings with between one and four apartments on each floor. But across Germany you probably see the entire gamut from fully detached single-family to residential skyscrapers depending on where you go.
U2407_U0003 10y ago
If you do an image search for "Neubau" you'll get a good overview. The word means newly-built house and I guess the result skews a bit towards detached houses and prefabs just because those are more likely to be photographed and put on the web but from what I have seen it's not too far off the reality. https://www.google.com/search?q=neubau&source=lnms&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=neubau&source=lnms&tbm=isch If you google for "Rohbau" instead ("house in the process of being built") you'll get a good overview over construction materials, which are mostly brick and concrete. https://www.google.com/search?q=neubau&source=lnms&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=neubau&source=lnms&tbm=isch

I wonder how are the houses in some places in Germany, for example? They also love their cars and have real winters...

by swah 10y ago

I wonder how are the houses in some places in Germany, for example? They also love their cars and have real winters...

pluma 10y ago

The average German lives in an apartment or multi-family house. On the country side there are still a lot of fully detached houses but they're either mostly "old" (i.e. built or fully renovated after the war) or built to a different standard (Germans generally consider drywall a cheap substitute). But of course that is also changing. Also, building your own house is not as affordable as it seems to be in the US. Germans have a stronger aversion to taking out loans and banks often want a significant down payment. From what I've seen few home owners actually park their cars in garages though. Recently carports (basically sunroofs) have become pretty popular but most people seem to park their cars in the driveway as far as I can tell. We just clean them more often, I guess.

MK999 10y ago
what kind of multi-family house? Side by Side duplex? Up down duplex? Quadplex? Something else?
- taejo 10y ago
  I don't know what the averages are, but I'd say in towns the most typical are terraced houses with four or five floors - sometimes that's one apartment on each floor, sometimes two.
- pluma 10y ago
  In my experience it varies. In the bigger cities they're typically four to five storey apartment buildings with between one and four apartments on each floor. But across Germany you probably see the entire gamut from fully detached single-family to residential skyscrapers depending on where you go.

U2407_U0003 10y ago

If you do an image search for "Neubau" you'll get a good overview. The word means newly-built house and I guess the result skews a bit towards detached houses and prefabs just because those are more likely to be photographed and put on the web but from what I have seen it's not too far off the reality. https://www.google.com/search?q=neubau&source=lnms&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=neubau&source=lnms&tbm=isch If you google for "Rohbau" instead ("house in the process of being built") you'll get a good overview over construction materials, which are mostly brick and concrete. https://www.google.com/search?q=neubau&source=lnms&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=neubau&source=lnms&tbm=isch