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A house that gave up its yard for a better zip code.
means A multi-story home that shares at least one wall with its neighbors, usually attached in a row, and built upward instead of outward.
from Comes straight from 'town' + 'house' — originally meaning literally a family's house in the city, as opposed to their main estate out in the country. Wealthy landowners once kept a 'country house' for sprawling land and a 'town house' for when business or society pulled them into urban life. As cities grew denser and land pricier, the term drifted from 'a second home in town' to describe the narrow, attached, vertically-stacked building style itself.
- shared walls
- you own the house, not the silence
- stairs included
- your cardio is now mandatory, not optional
- origin
- 18th century London nobles needed a city crash pad
- real estate math
- less land, same price, better bragging rights