The blocks of empty, new-build apartments in city centres stand as evidence that the British tend to prefer a house. George Orwell wrote more than 70 years ago: ?Almost everyone will tell you that he ?wants a house of his own' and, apparently, a house in the middle of an unbroken block of houses a hundred yards long seems to them more ?their own' than a flat situated in mid-air.?
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