Saturday, December 22, 2007

#36 Home in Suzhou


My mother requested that we send some pictures of our house in China, particularly now that we have our furniture and decorations from home. I walked around the house on this Saturday morning and took the pictures above and posted the full set at Snapfish.

This is not a typical Chinese family house. We live in a compound of expatriates with neighbors from Germany, Denmark, Japan, England, Austrailia, and America. The neighborhood is well known as a place with lots of young children. This was our primary motivation in selecting Golden Lough, or "Jin Shui Wan" in Chinese.

The house is about 3000 square feet with three floors of living space and rents for over $5,000 per month. People in the neighborhood say these houses sell for over a million dollars. The area is nice, but the house construction quality is so poor that I cannot imagine it being a good investment at $1M.

The ground floor has the living room, kitchen, and a single car garage which we use for storage. The second floor has two bedrooms and a TV room. The boys share a room as do the girls. On the third floor is the master bedroom and office / guest room.


Kathleen will probably be unhappy that we did not clean up a bit before I posted these pictures. That is okay - this is a typical Saturday morning in our house.



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