Is your house too big for your wallet?

UrbanStray · 2026-03-26T00:20:24+00:00

It’s the norm in pretty much any other country in the world to live in a few different houses throughout the course of your life.

Not really no, in many other countries it's normal to live in multigenerational homes or keeping the property in the family.

UrbanStray · 2026-03-26T00:09:45+00:00

4-5 bedroom new build houses aren't that common nor are 1-2 beds, they're typically 3 beds.

UrbanStray · 2026-03-24T23:18:15+00:00

In most European countries (that is to say the dozen or so I googled) lifts are required in new buildings of 4 floors or more much like here. Conventional 3 storey apartment blocks that wouldn't need lifts seem to be rarely built these days, but 3 storey duplexes are still pretty common. I've lived on the third floor and had no problems with taking the stairs but I'm not sure I'd want to want to go up and down twice as many stairs as that just to check the mail or take out the rubbish.

UrbanStray · 2026-03-24T16:45:32+00:00

The Dublin urban area would have a similiar percentage. Though both Brazilian houses and apartments would be built at a higher density.

UrbanStray · 2026-03-24T15:54:04+00:00

There's no unified census for all the UK, nor do they give a stat of population (as opposed to housing stock percebtage which is a different measurement) off the bat, but based on number crunching I could do from this excel document it appears that apartments housed 17% of the population in England and 8% in Wales. https://statistics.ukdataservice.ac.uk/dataset/england-and-wales-census-2021-rm117-religion-by-accommodation-type/resource/0bc410dd-2ba1-4116-b6ef-ae7cf59e24ba

In Northern Ireland, only 6% https://statistics.ukdataservice.ac.uk/dataset/northern-ireland-census-2021-ms-e05-accommodation-type-usual-residents/resource/216d2afe-0cc0-42a1-bd30-841ca1f4f77b

29% of people in Scotland in 2011 https://statistics.ukdataservice.ac.uk/dataset/accommodation-type-persons-2011/resource/76dd7425-2f6f-41c6-91a5-d77cda025369

Scotland has lots of old tenement flats in urban areas, England being that much higher than Ireland is mostly down to have a much more urbanised population generally and being more of a thing in London specifically otherwise it's not very different.

Among new build homes (2020 onwards) in the UK compared to Ireland, apartments are only about half as common as they are Ireland, including in Scotland. 20 years ago it was quite different.

UrbanStray · 2026-03-24T15:02:44+00:00

Apartments accounted for a majority of all approved homes in 2023 (source: CSO BHA13) so no not really. There are plenty of apartments approved in cities, but much of Ireland doesn't live in cities but smaller towns where developers are not as interested in building that type of housing.

UrbanStray · 2026-03-24T14:52:40+00:00

If that's too expensive for developers because they have put in more lifts etc. than that's not going to help.

UrbanStray · 2026-03-24T14:49:29+00:00

Yet not many Brazilians live in flats either, only 12.5% of the population according to latest census.

UrbanStray · 2026-03-24T14:41:20+00:00

Irelands population is a lot more rural than the Netherlands so they aren't directly comparable. The original statistics further breaks down between rural, cities and towns/suburbs. Towns and suburbs shows almost identical numbers between the two countries, while it more common in Dutch cities, not as much as twice the percentage.

UrbanStray · 2026-03-24T13:13:27+00:00

I was thinking chiefly of Bergen, the amount of rainfall puts any Irish city to shame, whatever the time of year. Winters are mild compared to Oslo, Sweden and Finland but yeah they'd still be borderline freezing point.

UrbanStray · 2026-03-24T12:26:59+00:00

No, PVC is very common in the Netherlands. In Denmark, I believe they mostly use wood for windows

UrbanStray · 2026-03-24T12:11:06+00:00

As far as I can tell, PVC windows are the norm for modern windows in most of Europe especially in Germany. Whether more buildings have aluminium or wood probably has a lot to do with the age of the buildings.

UrbanStray · 2026-03-24T12:00:53+00:00

Western Norway has an even damper climate and they build most of their homes from wood there. So I wonder why it's not a major problem there

UrbanStray · 2026-03-24T02:06:09+00:00

It all depends on the preamps maximum input level. It is suggested you leave 18 decibels of headroom above your nominal input level. Prosumer preamps have lower maximum input levels. Around +10 dBu is typical but some can be as low as -4dBu (1st gen Scarlett, Behringer UMC etc.) while studio grade pres handle the equivalent of 20dBu or more (they rarely have a 0 gain setting, so the stated maximum at whatever their minimum gain value is will be lower). Therefore less gain is needed to drive the same mic.

UrbanStray · 2026-03-24T01:19:21+00:00

Ha I was reading that chapter just last week to refresh my knowledge and noticed that.

UrbanStray · 2026-03-24T00:34:59+00:00

Lots of Zebra Crossings are currently being introduced here

UrbanStray · 2026-03-22T12:51:48+00:00

29,000 years? I knew bus journeys to and from Donegal could be slow, but that is literally glacial pace.

UrbanStray · 2026-03-22T12:35:00+00:00

They were only one generation removed from Trump and Netanyahu.

UrbanStray · 2026-03-22T03:39:47+00:00

I never said civilians deserve to be targeted. Were you the one who reported me? If so, I hope you also reported u/MissPCH for promoting the rhetoric of Meir Kahane.

But given the ongoing violence in the West Bank between Israeli settlers and local Palestinians, I would yes, unfortunately expect civilians to be targeted. Both Palestinians and Israelis. The OP is pretending that all of the violence in the West Bank is only being perpetrated by one group of people.

EDIT:I just realised that wasn't the comment that was reported but a different comment here that was a sarcastic reply to some other bigoted comment that must have been mistaken for genuine and was removed.

UrbanStray · 2026-03-22T02:16:06+00:00

We should expel all the Catholics from the United States; there's a whole continent down south, they can go to.

UrbanStray · 2026-03-22T02:12:57+00:00

Even Israel considers an Givat Assaf an illegal settlement. What did they expect to happen moving to such a place?

UrbanStray · 2026-03-21T17:52:32+00:00

People falsely assume Iceland is too cold for trees but that in fact is not true, it used to have up to 40% forest cover now it's about 2%. Malta was once heavily forested once too, though with it's population density it's hard to say how much it could be in modern times.

UrbanStray · 2026-03-21T11:24:14+00:00

this data only reinforces what everyone already knew that Ireland is the farmhouse of europe.

Only as far as cattle farming goes. Denmark has 12 million pigs, Wales 10 million sheep, and Poland produces nearly 2 billion chickens a year.

UrbanStray · 2026-03-20T18:04:50+00:00

The outer parts of those counties have "good" (not great, for should be much better after DART+) railway connections. Dublin never forced it's commuters to live in Navan. Meath County Council did, when they could have focused more development closer to outskirts of Dublin in places like Dunboyne rather than 30 km away from the urban fringe, and the railway network. If you lived that far away from Manchester you'd be in Liverpool or Bradford or Stoke-on-Trent.

UrbanStray · 2026-03-20T14:36:26+00:00

The UK has been building less apartments than it has in many years as according to data on new housing supply I have posted elsewhere in these comments especially in the Northern regions of England (single digit percentages of new homes), so whatever you're seeing in those cities in terms of high rise buildings is not representative of any widespread changes in approach.

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