Does Australians live in log cabins or just regular houses?

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askaway

there are log cabins in the forest I'm sure...but us city folk just live in normal houses.....sorry to disappoint you....we are civilised you know....

Mandi99

Mostly houses/apartments. Depends on where you live.

sunline

In the City, we live in regular houses. In the country areas a lot of people live in log cabins. In my area, we have a lot of cottage type houses, the ones with a fire place in every room, a balcony etc. Most new houses built these days are metal framed, because we have a big termite problem here.

shoe s

alot of them live underground and in caves

agent_starfire

normal house

college_monday

I'm sure it's possible to live in a log cabin in Australia, just like in the US, but the majority of people live in regular houses. Why would you want to move to Australia to live in a log cabin? There are plenty in the US--my mother used to live in one.

644renver

They also live in bushes in the outback, some may be homeless and not live in anything but boxes, on t.v I seen a family or village of them that stayed in tin houses. I would love to visit one day after I'd seen New Zealand

REnate

No Australians live in houses like we do

I lived in Australia in a house once

kcdude

Just like the United States, there are some who live in Log Cabins, but the majority of people live in regular houses and have city's too. The world is very sophisticated these days.

tim d

regular houses.

Ken E

The only log cabin I have ever seen in Australia was a roadside restaurant. More than 150 years ago people built slab huts which were a bit like log cabins. By the 1860s people in the cities were living in brick houses with town gas and kerosene lamps. In 1881 the first telephone exchange was set up in Melbourne and in 1888 the country town of Tamworth had electric street lights, not only the first in Australia but one of the first in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamworth,_New_South_Wales

Here is a picture of a slab house which was built more than 130 years ago. It is more of a house than a hut. In the background is a fortified stone barn built in 1862.

http://www.centralhighlandstourism.org.au/whattoseeeanddo/Springsure/old_rainworth_fort.htm

More pictures from the same place. A second cousin of mine is in the first picture and the man with the two old rifles is my father.

http://www.nudgee.com/fedmuster/bauhinia.htm

Here are some pictures of big old houses in Maryborough, a small city in north-east Australia. Pictures 1 to 6 show styles popular until about 1900, picture 7 is the type of house built in the 1920s and 1930s.

http://dkd.net/maryboro/qhouses.html

Modern Australian Housing
Most Australian housing vaguely resembles the California bungalow or the ā€ranch houseā€¯. There is usually only one floor and no basement. Typically houses built before about 1970 have 3 bedrooms, one bathroom. After that many houses were built with an "ensuite" which is a shower booth and water closet attached to the master bedroom with a full bathroom elsewhere. Kitchens generally are smallish but well appointed. Most houses do not have pantries or "dens". Recently though land prices have risen while the cost of building has fallen so newer houses are larger and better appointed.

This house here was built about 1968 with three bedrooms and one bathroom, separate garage, brick construction, tile roof, central heating on a gas furnace.

If you look at this site you will see a lot of typical Australian houses. You will have to nominate an area and a value. Most of the houses in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra cost more than $400,000.

http://www.ljhooker.com.au/

A distant relative visited Russia in 1968. She said that people were living in log cabins in some rural areas, so you might have to try there!

Lucy

ha ha normal houses

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