Sunny and I are house hunting at the moment and by now must have looked at about 20 properties.
Its exciting and a little tiring to be honest but overall wonderful thinking about OUR future home together.
She told me a strange thing today, we were talking about some of the properties we had looked at and I mentioned one I like.
Its a detached (single family home I think Americans call it instead) bungalow in a nice area close to my folks, a couple of shopping centres and where I grew up as well as work, so it ticks a lot of boxes for me.
Anyhow, she said she would tell her mother we bought an apartment if we bought it?? I said what??!! why would you tell her that!?
She said that Chinese people want at least two story houses, only poor people buy bungalows!! She said she thinks this dates back to something Mao said about the Chinese dream of owning a house with running water, electricity, phone connection and on separate storys!
She said she can see how here people don't think like that at all but her parents wouldn't understand why we would "only" get a single story home and would worry that we have a poor lifestyle here so she would prefer to tell them we got a nice big apartment instead!
Anyone else heard something like that, and any other house related strange things I should be ready for??!!