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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 "o
by 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 agowhat kind of multi-family house? Side by Side duplex? Up down duplex? Quadplex? Something else?
- taejo 10y agoI 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 agoIn 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.