It's not fashionable to live in a bungalow - they're what old people live in because they can't climb the stairs any more. They're just...unsexy, I think.
Hmm, that would explain why people in the UK might not want to use the term (though it seems it's still used there often), but where I live, it's not particularly unfashionable to live in a one-story house. They're just so common. A lot of very nice, decent middle-class houses are one-story, yet we don't use the term "bungalow" at all as far as I've seen. There must be more to this regional language mystery! (We don't have to track down the answer, I just get curious about these things. *g*)
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Date: 2009-09-23 05:49 pm (UTC)Hmm, that would explain why people in the UK might not want to use the term (though it seems it's still used there often), but where I live, it's not particularly unfashionable to live in a one-story house. They're just so common. A lot of very nice, decent middle-class houses are one-story, yet we don't use the term "bungalow" at all as far as I've seen. There must be more to this regional language mystery! (We don't have to track down the answer, I just get curious about these things. *g*)