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There are different types of houses. People can live in a detached house, which is a house that is not
joined to any other. It can be a mansion which is a very large expensive house, a bungalow (a house which
has only one floor), a cottage (a house in the country usually with a garden). Some people live in a semi-
detached house, which is two houses joined together; others live in a flat in a block of flats. Each type of
housing has its own advantages and disadvantages. Living in a detached house gives you privacy but all
repairs in the house should be made by the owner, you need more time to clean the house. To my mind
Обожать; those people, who prefer to live in a cottage adore nature: they want to wake up to songs of birds, to
размеренный ритм; enjoy beautiful landscapes, to breathe fresh air or in other words they want to have a calm and measured
домашняя птица; rhythm of life. Usually such people keep the poultry and the cattle. One of the advantages of living in such
a house is that you have your own land where you can grow fruit and vegetables, make flowerbeds and
фруктовый сад; plant beautiful flowers, lay out an orchard, etс. You can also build some outhouses like a green-house, a
беседка; garage, a tool shed or an arbor. But the greatest disadvantage of living in a farmhouse or in a cottage, in
my opinion, is that it takes much time to get to the nearest town, but if you have a car it isn’t a problem
for you. That's why I think living in a cottage is the best option for farmers and retired people. The largest
part of population in this country lives in blocks of flats. Living in a block of flats is the cheapest type of
жилище; dwelling in a town. A flat can be a studio unit, a one-bedroom, and two-bedroom or three-bedroom unit.
It easy to clean and maintain but your neighbors can make a lot of noise when they, for example, hammer
or drill the wall, or when they organize a party.
ACCOMODATION

2. I live in a two-storied house. It’s neither big nor little. The first what you can see when you enter the house is
the corridor, after that you can see my sister's room, where you can see: wardrobe, table and hers bad. After that,
you can see a kitchen. The kitchen is big, and the whole family can get together for dinner there. After that you
can see my parent's room. It is not big, but соsy.
And then you can see a living-room. There are a sofa and a little table with TV in the corner of room.
My room is upstairs. It’s not big. There is not much furniture there, only my bed, my wardrobe and a couple of
shelves. 
There is a yard around the house. My mum likes to grow flowers. and we have kitchen-garden. It isn't big.
Also we have a garage for our cars and my dad’s tools.

3. 5. I wonder if there are any shops, schools or

1. How many rooms are there? kindergartens near the house.
2. How much is it going to cost? 6. There’re many trees around the house aren’t
3. Is there a telephone connection? there?
4. Are the neighbours quiet or noisy? 7. Is there a spare door in the house?
8. This house is newly built, isn't it

4. The problem you have right now though is that decluttering takes time.
It's much faster to shove it all in boxes than to go through things one at a time.

1. Don't worry about furniture for now. I don't know if you are moving that or just personal belongings but there's not all that
much you can do with furniture other than load it up in the truck anyway.

2. Find the biggest room in the house and empty it as far as you can to start with.

3. Start sorting things from the rest of the house into that room... categories that I'm thinking of are:

a. Clothing/linen/blankets (think - packing material for fragiles!)

b. Fragiles - dishes, pictures - especially with glass in them, mirrors, etc.

c. Kind of a sub-category of the above - Extreme fragiles like delicate ceramic/glass figurines and stuff like that...

d. Electronics - most of this stuff isn't terribly fragile aside from obvious things like dropping them or dropping things on them

e. Urgent - this is the stuff that you know you will need in the first couple days - bills, checkbooks, a couple changes of clothes,
toothbrush, etc. Medication other than the amount you need for the traveling. You want to make sure you know where to find this
stuff right away once you get to the new house.

f. Everything else

Starting right now (like - tonight! - well, as soon as possible!) start going to the local grocery stores late at night when they are
stocking shelves... ask them for any boxes they can spare... if you ask nice they may even be willing to set them aside for you if you
are willing to be there at whatever time works for them (you don't want to make their lives more difficult). The very best ones are
things like diaper boxes, bulk paper product boxes, etc because they tend to be big and strong. The boxes that liquids (like laundry
soap, bleach, etc.)come in are great for the same reason but make sure they aren't contaminated (especially the bleach ones!). If
you find a helpful stock clerk, they might even be willing to open the boxes in a way that makes them more useful to you (open
flaps instead of cutting them in half for example)

This takes some effort on your part but if you have to buy all your boxes from Uhaul and such, you can spend a lot of money on
empty boxes... I mean... a whole lot of money!

Then start by packing the fragile stuff first, using clothing and blankets to pad it. The dishes, you can separate with newspaper (oh
yeah, start collecting old newspapers too!) because they usually are pretty tough as long as they aren't in direct contact with each
other.

Things like stemware, wine glasses and the like, probably belong with the really fragile stuff... those items you are going to want to
wrap individually and with some space around them to avoid breakage.

Once you get past the fragile stuff, most of the rest can pretty much just be stuffed in wherever they fit... the rest of the clothing
can go around the electronics, etc.

Just make sure you mark that Urgent stuff in real obvious ways so you can keep it separate.

I've probably forgotten things but I hope this will help you get started. Once you get going and have the boxes and paper ready,
you'll be surprised by two things :)

1. How fast it can actually go

2. What an amazing amount of stuff you own!!!!!

Certainly, anything you come across that you don't really need, try to talk yourself into getting rid of it. Don't get rid of the
memories though... you will regret it later.

Once you get through the fragile pile, start piling the boxes in that corner of the room and just keep going :)

Good luck... I'm sure you'll do just fine!

5. I think nowadays most people prefer living in a city area and few enjoy living in the country. Cities offer
more educational and working opportunities. There are a lot of places of entertainment in the city, too. But when
people become older, the countryside appeals to them more. Well, I would like to have a big house in the suburbs
of the city with lot of fresh air, with a big play ground for my kids and with some place to practice my gardening
skills. If I had a chance to choose I would choose quieter green suburbs rather than crowded multi blocks of flats.
Though each way of living has advantages, to my mind, a private house has more pluses for getting a pleasure.