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Are you by any chance European? A lot of US apartments do have a shared laundry...I can't think of any of my American friends who have a washing machine. This
by objclxt 14y ago
Are you by any chance European? A lot of US apartments do have a shared laundry...I can't think of any of my American friends who have a washing machine.
This is in contrast to the UK, where it's culturally the norm for every flat to have its own washing machine (normally a condensor combi dryer, another thing not so popular in the US). Sames goes for heat: heat if often shared in the US, but here in the UK almost all apartments have individual boilers.
I am sure somebody here must have an explanation for exactly why this cultural difference has developed, because I have no clue!
- arethuza 14y agoPerhaps because a lot of buildings in the UK were converted into flats in a rather piecemeal fashion? e.g. Where we live started out as a 5 floor (enormous) town house with garden and stable block ~200 years ago and was split into 4 properties and then one of these was split into another 2.
- alexhawdon 14y agoYep - UK, and neither of those things are common over here (I don't know of any at all). How would the shared heating work, financially? Over here our energy costs are very high so a lot (most?) of our energy bills go on heating and hot water; if you want to save money, you put a jumper on and have a shower rather than a bath. With shared heating you don't have this option, but do the overall savings from greater efficiency (an assumption) make this a moot point?
- gfhsdfy 14y agohttp://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heizkostenverteiler http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heizkostenverteiler
- alexhawdon 14y agoThanks to you... and to Google Translate :) Love living in the future.