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You can own a home without owning the land. It's pretty common in denser parts of the world. I recall a wealthy family in Padova, Italy where I lived that had a
by davidw 5y ago
You can own a home without owning the land. It's pretty common in denser parts of the world. I recall a wealthy family in Padova, Italy where I lived that had a flat on the 3rd floor of some building right in the historic downtown. It was both large and very nice.
- TylerE 5y agoI guess it comes down to definitions. To me a home would mean no shared walls/floors/ceilings with other tenants.
- davidw 5y agoA home is where you live. If you stop to think about it, it's a very US sort of bias to define a 'home' as the single family detached house, whereas other things like apartments are not considered a 'home'. Not picking on you; people do this all the time. You even see it in the press, where they'll talk about some kind of development that includes both single family homes as well as apartment units (which sounds kind of cold and unappealing).