Ashley: presumably you are asking about housing in Australia and what offends Australians. Well firstly with regard to housing and mainly outside the City Centres, Australia has a higher standard of living overall compared to the US and most of Europe in terms of owned housing, some 80something % of owned housing.. In most cities and towns in Australia the average home is a single bungalow dwelling and in places like Perth, Queensland and much of NSW there is a very high rate of swimming pool ownership as well. You will see more yachts in harbours than you could imagine. We are not a third world country. <BR>Secondly that type of question is pretty much what offends Australians. You can look up statistical information like that anywhere on the Web and probably doing so will go a long way in not pissing us off. Similarly, you could check the type of housing in the same manner too