Bungalow or regular house

chirp

Are there more burglaries in a bungalow (all rooms on ground floor) than a regular house which has bedrooms on the 1st floor? Do most people prefer to live in a bungalow or a regular house?

MX5huggy

Bungalows are 67% more likely to be burgled.

42% of people prefer houses, 15% flats, 39% bungalows and 4% caravans.

agrinnall

Those sound suspiciously like part of the 73.8 % of statistics that are made up (this is also a made up figure). If they aren't then feel free to provide a link to verify them.

Running_Horse

I would imagine the average burglar needs just one window, not all of them.

A bungalow in Toxteth is more likely to be burgled than one in Cheltenham (probably).

motherofstudents

I live in a bungalow. I have a machete by the bed. Just in case.
Yes, I like living in a bungalow, it's so much quicker to get to things and you don't go upstairs for something, forget what it was you wanted, remember when you come downstairs and have to go up again. My statistic for liking my bungalow is 100%

SuzieSue

As long as I don't have mobility problems, I would much rather live in a house with stairs rather than a bunglow because using the stairs is a great form of exercise. I also like the idea of going up to bed and I feel safer not sleeping on the ground floor.

I think a bedroom on the ground floor will be colder and so would perhaps need to be heated more at night.

I would only live in a bunglow if I had to because I couldn't use the stairs and couldn't fit a stair lift.

phoebe1989seb

Running_Horse wrote: »

A bungalow in Toxteth is more likely to be burgled than one in Cheltenham (probably).

You'd like to think so.........but someone I know recently told me their son's two storey house in Cheltenham was burgled twice over the Christmas period