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Originally Posted by baddog
the ruski is so clueless; comparing an apartment building to a house. #becausephysics
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Dude, these American houses you are talking about are called
dachas in Russia (click the link and read the article). They are usually used as summer residences. So an average family (since the Soviet Union times) has apartments in the city and a dacha outside, usually near forest and river. For example, my parents had a dacha about 40 kilometers away from the city. It was a rather big two-stage brick house (not some paper-made shit). It was something like this but with a small veranda and it was a bit higher, because ours had an additional ground stage, which was used as a tool warehouse.
^ You in America call it a house, we call it a dacha or a summer home for BBQ, parties and enjoying a natural life.
So to sum it up for a clueless American: a typical family here has
two homes: apartments in a building and a personal stand-alone house (aka dacha). This is not some sort of a rich life. This is a standard way of life even for a plant worker or a taxi driver.
Now click this and you'll see the pictures of random Russian dachas:
https://www.google.com/search?q=
...&tbm=isch&sa=X - we don't live there and use them to take a break from the city with its noisy mad rhythm.