Where would you like to live, in a flat (apartment) , in a house, in a villa, in a cottage, in a hut or in a farm ?

- We used to live in houses or farms; very few people used live in flats in the past.

I live in a house and would not want to change!  I am far too noisy to live in a flat

None. I´d like to live in a chateau. This one is not bad for a start:

Meltem, you are high maintenance..

I live in a condo and love it....I don´t have to do yard work (although, I love to tend to my plants on the terrace) and I get to own something. 

I have a house and about an acre of land, about 30 miles out of the city.  It´s quiet here....I don´t know if I could ever live back in the hustle and bustle...I work there...that´s enough for me!!

I live in a 3-room apartment on the third floor of a small apartment building (only 21 apartments) near the city center. Pictures of my house I uploaded on my profile.

 And considering that I am currently living in a 18 m2 place, you are quite right about it.

I recall that you had times when there wasn´t any internet and electricity tehre too

Interesting question. I´ll take a villa. That way there would be room for family and friends. It should have enough land for a few animals (chickens, a few lamb, whatever, and a decent sustenance garden too.

 Ahhh yes, those were fun times!  The power outage was during a major storm and half the city was out too.....the internet....well, that´s just good ol´ dial up for you. 

I do now actually have an option of high speed wireless but I am leary since my wireless card that I already have doesn´t work well at home and I can´t find anyone who has the service so I don´t know how reliable it is.

Our House - Madness

Father wears his sunday best
Mothers tired she needs a rest
The kids are playing up downstairs
Sisters sighing in her sleep
Brothers got a date to keep
He cant hang around

Our house, in the middle of our street
Our house, in the middle of our ...

Our house it has a crowd
Theres always something happening
And its usually quite loud
Our mum shes so house-proud
Nothing ever slows her down
And a mess is not allowed

Our house, in the middle of our street
Our house, in the middle of our ...

Our house, in the middle of our street
Our house, in the middle of our ...
Something tells you that youve got to get away from it

Father gets up late for work
Mother has to iron his shirt
Then she sends the kids to school
Sees them off with a small kiss
Shes the one theyre going to miss
In lots of ways

Our house, in the middle of our street
Our house, in the middle of our ...

I remember way back then when everything was true and when
We would have such a very good time such a fine time
Such a happy time
And I remember how we´d play simply waste the day away
Then we´d say nothing would come between us two dreamers

Father wears his sunday best
Mothers tired she needs a rest
The kids are playing up downstairs
Sisters sighing in her sleep
Brothers got a date to keep
He cant hang around

Our house, in the middle of our street
Our house, in the middle of our street

Our house, in the middle of our street
Our house, in the middle of our ...

Our house, was our castle and our keep
Our house, in the middle of our street

Our house, that was where we used to sleep
Our house, in the middle of our street

Our house, in the middle of our street

Just thought I would add this lyric of this amusing song which actually typifies many households in the UK.

 You still wear "Sunday best" in your your house LL?

I like my house better - more relaxing!

I´ll light the fire
You put the flowers in the vase
That you bought today

Staring at the fire
For hours and hours
While I listen to you
Play your love songs
All night long for me
Only for me

Come to me now
And rest your head for just five minutes
Everything is good
Such a cosy room
The windows are illuminated
By the sunshine through them
Fiery gems for you
Only for you

Our house is a very, very fine house
With two cats in the yard
Life used to be so hard
Now everything is easy
´Cause of you
And our la,la,la, la,la, la, la, la, la, la, la.....

Our house is a very, very fine house
With two cats in the yard
Life used to be so hard
Now everything is easy
´Cause of you
And Our

I´ll light the fire
And you place the flowers in the jar
That you bought today

Our House - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

East or west

Home is best

I´d love to live in a beach house with huge windows and palm trees around it. For now, a four-bedroom terraced house has to do

 My ideal home would be a lovely log cabin perched on a beautiful mountainside....but alas, it´s a city life for me!!

my ideal......it would most definately need to be by the sea the rest is just detail

After living for a year in an appartment in Ýzmir with one of the most stunning views of the city (the bay, the other side of the city at the other side of the sea, most enchanting at nights with all its lights, a forest at the other side and a pretty wide panorama of most of the other central city quarters), I have always said I would even live in a tent if I get to enjoy that view everyday.. maybe a little overstatement, but really, who needs a big villa with too many rooms for too little (useful!) stuff, if you can live simple but surrounded by beauty when you wake up and go to bed. Even putting trash outside the building was generally nice business, because of the children playing around, the flowers around the building and the view and smell of the sea!

  Reminds me of a magnet we have on our refridgerator:

Dull women have immaculate houses

 It really doesn´t have to be in the country you don´t have electricity. Many times when I was living in the middle of New York City, we were without electricity. You don´t hear about all of the blackouts and brownouts...there are many.

There is no place like your house

Or the English saying: There´s no place like home to be said (3 times (I think) while clicking your sparkly red shoes together

Just as another thought on "Your House" - what is it made of?

Bricks and Blocks

Blocks that are painted

Wood

Stone

Mud

This is like a little survey...................... You may think it is obvious, but times are changing and construction methods are too with sustainable construction and heat loss being the big topics

Mine is a traditionally built house of bricks and blocks with a tiled roof

Ours is brick and block too and the external walls are two brick walls with a small gap between for preventing the heat loss. But however,  some of the windows are single sash windows with a huge heat loss..(apperantly,  making them double glazed increases the weight and they dont work anymore)

In istanbul, a clasical apartment would be a concrete structure with hallow bricks and the windows would be plastic double windows (although they look ugly but they do the job)

I remember the house when my mother was born..It was made of mud bricks (with straws in them )with 2 feet thick external walls, small windows with shutters. It reall felt really warm there.

I have no idea whatsoever what my house is made of, but as soon as my husband gets back from work, I´ll ask him as he´s a specialist in that particular field and will gladly provide you with technical details since it´s such a hot topic.

 Thank you for your dedication to my request and it is so annoying that I cannot get smilies and I dont remember all the short cuts

There is no nice web site like TLC (Turksh Language Class)

 I thought this thread was about houses?

my house is made of bricks and breeze blocks like most houses in England i think - roof made of tiles - windows made of glass and pvc

astarte says "ý thought this thread was about houses?"

she is right.

because this post was created by her.

 You must be new here!! 

 what do you mean yilgun?

If I post the news that DD is the wisest person in the world (handsom you dont have to nod, I saw you play with Trudy) does the mere fact that this post was created by me make me right?

 But YILGUN created the thread - does that mean Yilgun is Astarte?  I´m completely lost.

And there are alternative solutions like this...

But DD, you are the wisest person in the world

And I stricly deny the other thing you said..

NEVER!!

 DD is !!  (catwoman, now that you seem to have chosen for Meltem..)

Do not pretend like this is new! I´ve seen your previous posts...

It doesnt matter where you live, matter is who you live with I believe this!!!!!!

Not playýng wýth me? Ahhhh.... there isn´t here even one (1!) handsom(e) person in town, not even a very young dudu.... you should feel sorry for me....

I have been SUCCESFULLY AVOIDING you!!

Pedaliza, I have already told you that writing in Turkish is not allowed in most of the forums. Our members are mainly people who are here to learn Turkish or to debate and learn about things in Turkey. It is not of any educational use to write our replies in Turkish that the majority of our members cannot understand. I kindly ask you to have a look at our forumrules, which you can find here: http://www.turkishclass.com/TurkishClassRulesAndTerms.php, I especially advice you to have a look at forum rule number 3, where the specific forums are noted where Turkish is allowed, accordingly in the rest of the forum it is English.

Your message was unacceptable, because of it being written in Turkish and also because of the content. It has therefore been deleted. You have no right whatsoever to tell another member where or where not to write. Please refrain from such actions in the future. If you have any other questions or comments you can contact me or any of the other administrators and moderators of this website. Thank you in advance.

I wrote in turkish becaus he is turkish. I dont need to talk in english with a turkish gay. and who are you? I thought Redlady was mod, how many mods are there here? why you delete my posts???

 So will you write in Dutch to me, because I am Dutch? As I have said before: the language for this forum is ENGLÝSH. Messages in Turkish that do not serve an educational practice are not allowed and will be deleted. So you might as well just not write them.

I am Deli_Kizin No seriously, I am an administrator of this website. Together with 2 other administrators (admin and Catwoman), and  moderators (among them ladyinred, mltm, CANLI and some more which you can see on the forums page) we run this site. I have told you: your posts are deleted because they are in Turkish which is not allowed, and some of them were also offensive.

Oh and I suppose you meant ´guy´, not ´gay´.

My kind of house!!!!

mltm you must be mad!!!

You would never have time for boppering - by the time you had finished cleaning it would be time to start over again...........

nestled in an old olive orchard...facing majestuous cedars mountains...

still under construction,

photos loaded in profile...

Wow!  That´s beautiful.  Two questions:  1. Do the cars come with the house? and 2. Can I come and stay when it´s finished? 

 oh me too.... looks amazing

 Just a little addition to the questions

 lol

Ýts lovely cedars   

Looks wonderful........thanks for sharing.

It is  full option indeed, Dei Gratia,  a husband,  two lovely daughters, and a car

You´re all welcome when it´s finished.

Deli_kizin, I am impressed what you wrote  here and like to  give you five stars for your wonderful comment!

 Forgive my ignorance - but what is a condo ???

 I am sure you are well aware that a "condo" is a condominium (apartment)

I have never heard the word condominium before........

But having looked it up I have learnt a new word

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condominium

 Happy to have educated you today!

Touche!

 Shouldn´t that be Touché

 Nit picker!  I couldn´t be bothered to find the accented ´e´ just for you

 Ctrl + Alt + E

 Hmmm the problem is, it is no longer "touché" because you have taught ME something new again

 I do my best