How could people who inhabit such a cosmopolitan, multinational and multicultural city like London, live in such a small, similar and identical houses?

How could those houses cover more than 7 million of people? What do you think about the houses in London?

According to a web site for learning English, British customs and traditions, “British have the smallest houses in Europe”1. The first question which comes into mind is how so many millions of people could fit into those small houses, which most of the time have only two or three floors. According to the Google research2 that I have done there are approximately 7, 556, 900 people living in London. Most of the people come from different parts of the world- China, Philippine, Pakistan, India, Nigeria, Ghana, Australia, Poland, Italy, Portugal, Venezuela, Brazil and many other countries. Those many people coming from different places have many different reasons for staying in London, some are coming to experience diverse lifestyles, others ‒ to make a career or just to work and live a better life.

London is a very multicultural, cosmopolitan, international city. It is one of the biggest and most expensive capitals in the world and there are different varieties of people inhabiting the territory of London. People from all over the world happen to live in some of those identical and parallel houses. The diverse

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population in the capital of the United Kingdom is in absolute contrast with the identical appearance of the city. Most of the places to live in London are small and similar houses which are spread everywhere in the town and help formulating the original, classical and historical view of the streets and neighbourhoods.

Miss Georgieva says that ‘Personally I was really impressed in the beginning when I saw that most of the houses are looking in the exact same way and it was really difficult for me to find my own house in the first week or two’.

If you are arriving in London for the first time in the first days or even weeks you will not be able to orientate yourself into that space of identical houses and roads and you will probably feel like you are lost in a labyrinth trying to find the way to your new home. There are many questions coming into mind when realising how much space those small houses are taking and would it be more practical to change the architecture and to build high blocks of flats which will incorporate many more people in a smaller parcel of land. Rather than 10 or 15 people living in a two or three storey houses, sharing a kitchen and bathroom, would it not be better and much comfortable for the inhabitants to live separately and more freely in a divide apartments. We as inhabitants will never be the one who will decide that. We have taken the decision to come to London and Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52  |  Page 53  |  Page 54  |  Page 55  |  Page 56  |  Page 57  |  Page 58  |  Page 59  |  Page 60  |  Page 61  |  Page 62  |  Page 63  |  Page 64  |  Page 65  |  Page 66  |  Page 67  |  Page 68  |  Page 69  |  Page 70  |  Page 71  |  Page 72