I used to live in an apartment where the sink and the stove were next to each other. I thought that was the most annoying arrangement ever, very impractical; simultaneous cooking is very difficult, especially if there is one person cooking while another one is washing.
This might sound weird, but the photos of your kitchen are sort of reassuring. I live in the UK, and my kitchen is pretty much like yours, maybe a bit bigger but everything is from the 1970s and just staggering along. No dishwasher, etc. My US friends look aghast at me - 'no dishwasher? how do you survive?' And I think, 'What planet are you visiting from?' The advertising pics of America show huge kitchens, even the sitcoms of supposedly 'poor' people show incredible kitchens and meanwhile there's a hugely populated layer of people in the US (and the UK) that live on microwave meals or fast food because there's no place for them to cook anything. And then they get fat (and malnourished) from eating crap, and rich folks like my hedge-fund brother say 'look at that fat bastard, I'm not paying my taxes to support that.' It's a horrible cycle of deprivation and then satisfaction with cheap fat/sugar/carbohydrates. My bro and his wife are gym bunnies who eat nothing unless it comes from Whole Foods and is reheatable, but have a designer kitchen; the oven alone cost $20,000, cause it's important that your kitchen is HUGE and full of important appliances. When I visit them once a year, it's like a parallel universe that my friends here in the UK think is just unbelievable. PS I know Obamacare is not ideal, but it's a start, a baby step, that I hope so many folks' partipation will just modify and make better, speaking as a Yank now suffering under the socialist burden of the UK National Health Service - not always fully functioning, but pretty f-ing awesome if you're poor.
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I used to live in an apartment where the sink and the stove were next to each other. I thought that was the most annoying arrangement ever, very impractical; simultaneous cooking is very difficult, especially if there is one person cooking while another one is washing.
Hi Anonymous,
I'm just glad my toilet is not placed inside the shower stall.
Linh
This might sound weird, but the photos of your kitchen are sort of reassuring. I live in the UK, and my kitchen is pretty much like yours, maybe a bit bigger but everything is from the 1970s and just staggering along. No dishwasher, etc. My US friends look aghast at me - 'no dishwasher? how do you survive?' And I think, 'What planet are you visiting from?' The advertising pics of America show huge kitchens, even the sitcoms of supposedly 'poor' people show incredible kitchens and meanwhile there's a hugely populated layer of people in the US (and the UK) that live on microwave meals or fast food because there's no place for them to cook anything. And then they get fat (and malnourished) from eating crap, and rich folks like my hedge-fund brother say 'look at that fat bastard, I'm not paying my taxes to support that.' It's a horrible cycle of deprivation and then satisfaction with cheap fat/sugar/carbohydrates. My bro and his wife are gym bunnies who eat nothing unless it comes from Whole Foods and is reheatable, but have a designer kitchen; the oven alone cost $20,000, cause it's important that your kitchen is HUGE and full of important appliances. When I visit them once a year, it's like a parallel universe that my friends here in the UK think is just unbelievable.
PS I know Obamacare is not ideal, but it's a start, a baby step, that I hope so many folks' partipation will just modify and make better, speaking as a Yank now suffering under the socialist burden of the UK National Health Service - not always fully functioning, but pretty f-ing awesome if you're poor.
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