Re: Not always joking, it seems

Tim Merrigan wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:53:26 +0000, Colette Reap <colette@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
> 
>> David Friedman <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Any idea what fraction of the households in the UK own their own
houses?
>> Yes. Looked it up a couple of years ago when someone (from outside the
>> UK) claimed that very few people in the UK owned their own home.
>>
>> The actual percentage of home owner****p in the UK is about 70%.
> 
> Need a definition of terms.  What constitutes a "home"?
> 
> IME here in the US that term generally means a free standing house
> owned by the tenants.  Your flat, which you, contradictorily for US
> terminology, referred to upthread as an apartment and indicated you
> owned.  Here that would make it a condominium unit rather than an
> apartment, which are rented.  Also, IIUC condos aren't included in
> "homeowner" statistics.


In the UK we don't have "condos", we have flats.  Some might be 
rented, but many are owned. In Scotland that will be owned _outright_, 
no leasehold.  Sometimes they're owned but privately rented out.

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Jette Goldie
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