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From: Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: I'm really starting to like this stuff
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 15:46:14 +1000
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On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 05:10:34 +0000, ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net
(ItsJoanNotJoAnn) wrote:

>On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 3:29:05 +0000, Bruce wrote:
>>
>> Actually, I never knew "ranch" was a common category of houses in the
>> US and not just for people like the Ewings. I learnt this from a flip
>> flop housing show with that white guy and his Asian looking partner.
>>
>>
>It's a popular style.  Everything is one level, no upstairs
>and depending on your lot, no basement either.
>
>A zillion years ago when I smoked we had a specific area at
>work to puff.  It was always the same group of people and
>one of men was older than most of us.  He said he lived in
>a large house with an upstairs where of course the bedrooms
>and baths were.  His and his wife's health had deteriorated
>enough that they no longer accessed the upstairs and had
>moved their bedroom downstairs.  They had half a house they
>couldn't use and I'm pretty sure the smoking didn't help
>their health issues.

A house with no floors is called a bungalow in Dutch, but I think
ranch houses are bigger, more spread out.

-- 
Bruce
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