I’m not talking about our house hunting today, although that continues apace with another one to look at later today, but I wanted to give you some interesting facts about home.
For example, did you know that there are enough empty homes in China of everyone in the UK to have one each? Or that in Beijing, two million people live underground? As if that weren’t startling enough, the soil in your back garden is actually two million years old. Now how do people know these things? (I am ‘reading’ from a book of facts here and not making this up.)
That’s assuming you have a garden I guess, what if you live in a mobile home with no garden? And on that note, did you know there are more folk in the USA living in mobile homes than there are living in the whole of the Netherlands? Well, that’s something I didn’t know. (And why should I?) Oh, and apparently three quarters of Britons have a drawer in their house full off odds and ends. We would too, if we only had drawers in our house. Maybe the next house will have… No, I said I wouldn’t mention the house-hunting, not until tomorrow at least.
Finally on the home facts front, the average Briton passes 32 takeaway food joints between home and work. I am clearly not average. I pass through the bedroom to get to my front room where I work, and there’s no fast food joint there.
So, there are some facts about homes in general from my new book of astoundingly unnecessary facts. A few facts about Symi houses: they tend to be small, drafty, cold, expensive to heat and can be expensive to rent. They are often up for sale for many years (especially at the moment). They are mainly dowry houses, and the ownership of others is often ‘shared’ between several members of the same family. There was, I believe, a law in place several years ago where houses had to be officially claimed and registered (talking ruins here I guess) or else would fall to the local authority to decide who owned them – something like that. And, a lot of them still have outside bathroom, no mains drainage and no mains water, though this is now an option in most places.
There, those are a few random facts from the top of my head – they may not be 100% accurate, and this post may contain nuts, remember that your interest in a Symi Dream post can go down as well as up, and the management holds itself totally un-responsible for anything that may happen on its premises. Have a nice day. Thank you.
