House is a building, but home is more than a building - more than just four walls with a roof. It is the cooking, eating, talking, playing and the 'living' that happens inside.
People tend to say 'Home is where the heart is' which means your home will always be the place for which you feel the deepest affection, no matter where you are.
Miért változik az emberek lakóhelye?
People sometimes change their abode, so they move. The main reasons are new or better job opportunities, they seek adventure, or they regard their actual dwelling boring.
People who want to spend just few years in a certain place do not buy houses, rather they rent flats.
Hazánk és a városiasodás lakhatási szokásai
In Hungary people usually live in a house or in a block of flats. People usually own houses in villages and most block of flats are situated in towns and cities. Houses are relatively big and they have a garden. Most of the young people in here live with their parents because it is too expensive for them to buy your own house or flat. If they can afford, they leave home and buy a house or flat when they get married.
Britannia: típusok és jellemzők
In Great Britain people usually live in terraced houses - they are joined together with other houses, semidetached houses - two houses are joined together with one wall or detached houses - they are not joined with another house. Houses in Britain have a small garden or a paved yard. In London you can often see old Victorian houses, however block of flats are not very common there.
USA: lakhatási viszonyok és társadalmi különbségek
The living conditions in the USA much more depend on how much money you have. Rich people have big houses with many rooms, tennis courts and swimming pools but many poor people are homeless. California has the highest percentage of homelessness (around 20%). Despite this, the standard of living is generally very high in the USA. Most of American people don’t stay in one house or apartment for their entire life, but they move very often.
Éghajlatbarát és fenntartható otthonok
An environmentally friendly house means that the house itself consumes less energy than a normal house. On the roofs are usually solar cells or solar collectors. The first provides energy, the second provides warm water.
A hajléktalanság és a segítségnyújtás
Homeless people are people who have nowhere to live. People and organisations are trying to solve their problems. The government usually provide them heated buildings - so-called shelters - during the winter. Non-profit organisations provide them food and other necessary things, such as cosmetics and clothing.
Reális családi otthon
My family lives in a large family house with a big garden. The house itself has two floors, a cellar, an attic and agarage. In the cellar there is a furnace room for heating the house and rooms for storing stewed fruit and vegetables for winter. In the attic there is a big mess. In the garden we grow flowers and fresh vegetables and there are many fruit trees. On the ground floor there is a hall and a large kitchen, stairs to the first floor and a living room. Opposite the kitchen there is a large living room with a sofa, two armchairs, a little table on left hand side. Next to them opposite the windows there is a large bookcase with hundreds of books. Under the window there is a piano and next to it there is a shelf with a TV set, a stereo and our cassette and record collections. Upstairs on the right there is a parents' bedroom with one large bed and many wardrobes, two little tables with lamps, an armchair and a small bookcase. Opposite there are two children bedrooms. Next to the stairs there is a toilet and a bathroom with a large bathtub and a washbasin. On the walls there you can see lovely light-blue tiles with little flowers. I have my own room.
