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I'm glad that everything is okay , or at least it will be soon.

But, does this make you think it might be better to have a house where you're in control of the environment ?

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Nov 3rd, 2008 at 05:15:10 PM EST
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Hmmm (none / 1)

What do you mean by "environment"? And what do you mean by "control"?

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Nov 3rd, 2008 at 05:48:17 PM EST
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Re: Hmmm (none / 0)

If you have a stand alone house, then a fire in the house next door won't affect you. So your susceptibility to such events is entirely under your control.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Nov 4th, 2008 at 06:06:58 AM EST
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Re: Hmmm (none / 0)

Except if there's a forest nearby...

And breaking and entering is much more common in a house than on the 5th floor of an apartment building.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Tue Nov 4th, 2008 at 08:07:18 AM EST
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Re: Hmmm (none / 0)

Is it? I would have thought that the numbers more likely trended in the other direction, with B&E in appartments being higher than in Houses.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Nov 4th, 2008 at 08:15:06 AM EST
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Re: Hmmm (none / 1)

Maybe for apartments in general, but for 5th floor apartments with interphone+digicode protection in a wealthy neighborhood (in Paris, this also means quite a few elder people that will check when unknown people get into the apartment of someone who is on vacation)...

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Tue Nov 4th, 2008 at 10:00:51 AM EST
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