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PollyinBrum | Report | 11 Jun 2016 21:42 |
When did a flat become an apartment? |
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Allan | Report | 11 Jun 2016 21:56 |
Basically, none |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 11 Jun 2016 22:03 |
it's always been called an apartment over here. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 11 Jun 2016 22:03 |
If it is in Belgravia it is an apartment and costs £ 3M but in nearby Paddington it is a flat and costs £ 400 K. Simples. |
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PollyinBrum | Report | 11 Jun 2016 22:16 |
No Rollo Its Sutton Coldfield (West Midlands) My Aunt lived in the same flats they have always been called flats. Suddenly they seem to have taken on delusions of grandeur. |
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Rambling | Report | 11 Jun 2016 22:24 |
.....and then there's the Duplex ;-) |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 11 Jun 2016 22:30 |
American visitors had no idea what a bed-sit was. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 11 Jun 2016 22:34 |
ah but ............ a duplex is different!! |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 11 Jun 2016 22:34 |
DET |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 11 Jun 2016 22:37 |
I have some rellies who live in Sutton Coldfield. It is a dormitory suburb of Brum mostly semi detached. Flats sure, apartments no way. Nearby Henley in Arden may have apartments. I once had a flat in the Hagley Rd quite big but never thought of it as anything but a flat. It was half of a big old house. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 11 Jun 2016 22:38 |
I think the tour guide described it to them as a studio apartment which they seemed to understand. |
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Allan | Report | 11 Jun 2016 22:47 |
Duplexes in Oz are semi-detached houses. |
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Sharron | Report | 11 Jun 2016 22:52 |
I think it might have been about the same time as the train station opened near that place where airplanes land. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 11 Jun 2016 23:23 |
Sharron :-D |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 11 Jun 2016 23:40 |
Rollo ........... |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 11 Jun 2016 23:44 |
Allan .......... |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 11 Jun 2016 23:55 |
Bedsits had up-scaled to studios by the time I bought one in 1980s. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 12 Jun 2016 00:00 |
I thought bedsits were rented? |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 12 Jun 2016 00:01 |
Bedsits, when I lived in one consisted of a room with a bed, and a cooker. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 12 Jun 2016 00:02 |
maggie ......... |
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