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Post by twothousandonemark on Aug 9, 2018 16:03:10 GMT
Not timeshare home which I've been, I mean being invited in sans payment for BnB or house as museum, etc?
A citizen's house in a foreign nation, have you been?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2018 16:42:08 GMT
No
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Post by Sulla on Aug 9, 2018 17:42:10 GMT
I've been invited to dinner in city apartments, not houses. Once in Barcelona and once in Amsterdam.
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Post by Terrapin Station on Aug 9, 2018 17:49:55 GMT
Tons of times, in lots of different countries. Partially due to traveling as a musician. Partially due to girlfriends, fiancees, wives.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Aug 9, 2018 18:05:14 GMT
Many times.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Aug 9, 2018 19:12:29 GMT
Yes, in Ottawa
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Aug 9, 2018 19:19:46 GMT
Yes, I have. What do you want to know. I'll tell you everything.
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Post by ant-mac on Aug 10, 2018 4:13:48 GMT
Not timeshare home which I've been, I mean being invited in sans payment for BnB or house as museum, etc? A citizen's house in a foreign nation, have you been? No. |
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Post by ant-mac on Aug 10, 2018 4:15:05 GMT
Tons of times, in lots of different countries. Partially due to traveling as a musician. Partially due to girlfriends, fiancees, wives. Your girlfriends, fiancées, wives, or someone else's? |
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Post by ant-mac on Aug 10, 2018 4:16:08 GMT
Yes, I've stayed overnight many times in Mexican homes. And I'm talking average Mexicans, not wealthy. Now that's a culture shock. For one thing the toilets are never in the house. There are outhouses out back. So was my grandmother's.
And this was in the mid to late 1970s in Queensland, Australia.
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Post by poelzig on Aug 10, 2018 4:19:08 GMT
Yes. Several times in Holland, Germany, the UK etc... Is this unusual?
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Post by ant-mac on Aug 10, 2018 4:33:05 GMT
So was my grandmother's.
And this was in the mid to late 1970s in Queensland, Australia.
As was my grandparent's farm in Colorado when I was a kid. I see the logic behind it. I suppose they consider toilets in the house unsanitary. It's just odd for Americans. It's odd for Australians too.
Her place was the only house in the township that still had an outside loo or long drop.
She was in her 90s, but the house was a lot older.
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Post by Aj_June on Aug 10, 2018 4:54:34 GMT
I don't know if I qualify to answer this thread because I have lived last 5 years of my life in UK and Australia (which are foreign countries for me) but I have not been in UK or Australia as a tourist or visitor. If I qualify to answer then Yes I have been to homes of people in Leicester, London and Melbourne quite a few times because I was invited for dinner.
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Post by ant-mac on Aug 10, 2018 5:21:09 GMT
It's odd for Australians too.
Her place was the only house in the township that still had an outside loo or long drop.
She was in her 90s, but the house was a lot older.
In Mexico the average working people will have small simple homes. The furnishings inside are neat and clean. But the streets outside are unpaved dirt roads. There are no sidewalks. I'm talking average homes in Mexicali or Tijuana. It's a bit of a culture shock. There are no street signs either. No surprise there.
I've seen numerous documentaries and several works of fiction over the years, set in Mexico.
A distillation of them all provides a fairly clear picture of what life in Mexico is like for the various strata within society.
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Post by ant-mac on Aug 10, 2018 6:41:27 GMT
No surprise there.
I've seen numerous documentaries and several works of fiction over the years, set in Mexico.
A distillation of them all provides a fairly clear picture of what life in Mexico is like for the various strata within society.
I got drunk and lost once in Mexicali. I had a devil of a time finding my way back to my friend's house because there are absolutely no street signs! A friend of mine once got drunk in a nearby population centre. Even with street signs, he couldn't find his way back to his friend's house. He ended up breaking into the wrong house - just around the corner - and falling asleep on the couch.
When he went to court, he was just about laughed out of the room by everyone.
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Post by loofapotato on Aug 10, 2018 9:04:11 GMT
Yes in more than one country.
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Post by Terrapin Station on Aug 10, 2018 9:36:54 GMT
Tons of times, in lots of different countries. Partially due to traveling as a musician. Partially due to girlfriends, fiancees, wives. Your girlfriends, fiancées, wives, or someone else's? It was never the home they still lived in, as they were living in the States at that point, and usually with me (actually every one of them was living with me except for a girlfriend from Laos and a girlfriend whose mom was from Japan), but sometimes it was the house they'd been living in. For example, up until a few years ago, my present wife's mom, aunt, and a nephew she had raised more or less as her own son (that sister had a number of problems) were still living in a house my wife had lived in since she was teen, and that's where we'd usually stay when we visited South Africa. Aside from that, it could be the homes of parents, siblings, aunts/uncles, cousins, friends--all sorts of things. On the music side, it was also sometimes the homes of people with some professional association to us--promoters, venue owners, all sorts of things, or people I'd just met and become friendly with at the time. Or course I've stayed in hotels plenty while working, too, but sometimes it's nicer, and it's certainly cheaper--which was sometimes part of how a tour was feasible in the first place--to stay in someone's home. Sometimes there are "band houses," too--homes or apartments a venue, promoter, record label, etc. owns expressly for the purpose of letting the band stay there while in town, but I'm not sure if those would count for this. Those work more like time shares that you don't have to pay for. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2018 20:14:00 GMT
Tons of times, in lots of different countries. Partially due to traveling as a musician. Partially due to girlfriends, fiancees, wives. A girl in every port? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2018 20:14:37 GMT
Yes, in France
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 14, 2018 3:31:05 GMT
I suppose they consider toilets in the house unsanitary. Unlikely that it's an idea of being unsanitary inside the house. Has to do with plumbing. Need a water source .. in the country you need a well with piping going into the house. Did your grandparents have running water in the kitchen with some sort of a pump or did they carry water into the house with pails ? You also need some kind of drain field or holding tank for the used water.
Late 70s lived in an old house with ONLY an outdoor facility and carried water into the house via milk pails. Heated water on the stove for bathing and washing dishes etc. Getting the well connected to the new house and having a shower and not having to trot out to the privy …. MMMmmmmmm ! Heaven !
OP answer : yes . Pretty much the same as here except that there were heating pipes in the closets to warm your clothes overnight and the rooms themselves were kept on the chilly side. |
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