Oops 
apparently:
Swift stake car = stick shift car (changed it)
Hollow cow = hallowed cow
These were no cultural/ country problems differences, but language problems (from my side)ā¦
I definitely made (and will make) more grammar/ language mistakes.
You can laugh, I can learnā¦love it.
Not laughing at all. You know multiple languages and thatās nothing to laugh at.
Oh, you know I do mean it (āyou can laughā) positive? As in āI donāt mind, it is okayā. Becauseā¦I think it is humor.
It sometimes is really funny and humorous those mistakesā¦what I think I am saying, and what I really am sayingā¦it can be a big difference.
Also some words you use in one language can have another meaning in another language ā¦
I can tell you about a lot of language mistakes I made, which are really, really funny when I realised what I all the time said wrongā¦and what the real meaning wasā¦
And the most funny/ humorous mistakes I will always remember and do not do wrong anymore.
Andā¦it also can be an āicebreakerā for starting a new friendshipā¦
I bet you will find sitters. One of my early sits was a tiny house in the us. I had always been very curious about them
yeah, iām sure Iāll find someone, but itāll be a unique sit because Iām planning for likely 3 buildings
1 - my bedroom which will be off grid and have a composting toilet. itās unlikely Iād have someone stay in that space for various reasons.
2 - the ālivingā area, which would also include a guest bed and be fully wired, fully functioning bathroom, kitchen, etc.
3 - the hobby/work area which will be a combo of library/workroom/exercise area and would be fully available to sitters
and then outdoor spaces including an outdoor kitchen, garden, shower, and relaxation areas.
hopefully itāll grow to fit the ideas in my brain and be a gorgeous multi-purpose indoor/outdoor living space.
@CreatureCuddler What an interesting concept- Iām sure its going to be amazing! Iām all for finding ways around the red tape! Good luck with it all & Iām sure it will be a hit with future sitters! 
to put a bit more to the confusion: in Germany a bungalow is for ārich peopleā because it takes more ground space than any other home. In the UK a bungalow is for āold peopleā because it has no stair and in Canada a lot of older homes are ābungalowsā because there was a lot of space (even if the houses are not that big) In the prairies they are called āranch housesā 
and it is called a bungalow in the UK because they ābung a low roof on itā!
Goodness @Canadagoose and @Twitcher, now that really could be confusing! Just goes to show how different, cultures and interpretations can be.
In the U.S., bungalows and ranch houses are both one stories, but ranch houses typically have big, open spaces inside and typically no porch, because theyāre more modern than bungalows. And both can be small or midsize. Plus, thereās the California ranch, which is L or U shaped.
Once the above reach a certain size, maybe above 2k to 3k square feet, then typically theyāre not called bungalows or ranch houses. They tend to be described just as one-story houses.
In densely populated areas, one stories are unusual or old, because land is expensive. Like I own a one-story on a double lot and itās way more costly than nearby two-stories or three-stories. The materials and finishings and square footage might be similar, but the land is pricey.
We got it to age in place. All other homes weāve owned have run from two to four stories, which wouldāve been a pain for aging knees.
Iām no real estate professional, but I often aspirationally look at real estate sites. In the US Iāve seen ābungalowā refer to small one story homes and to homes (often converted) that might have been summer places without heating systems. Iām old enough to remember my family renting a ābungalowā by the beach in an area that is technically part of New York City. These days, those bungalows have been refurbished and are tidy, expensive, single family homes.
BTW, this is a fun one from New Orleans and its environs in the Southern U.S. state of Louisiana:
Thereās a style known as a āshotgun shackā ā a small house with a front door and back door lined up. They were built for poor people and aimed at good ventilation. But they ended up being called āshotgun shacks,ā because you could shoot from the front door through the back door and not hit any walls.
@Maggie8K - And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack.
A line from Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads. I never did know what it meant. Thank you!
Thatās what it means?! I always just mumble that bit as I couldnāt understand it, sounded like Shogun shack, which I thought must be wrongā¦
Yes, most homes are like that. And you can see from the outside photo if it is a house, and if so then it will have stairs. Older looking properties will have the narrowest and likely windy stairs. I have sat at some homes where I have needed to climb two flights of staris to the bedroom. It has not worried me in the least. Very few sits in the Uk are in bungalows.
In the UK there is also the dormer bungalow, which is a single storey property with additional rooms in the loft space (under the roof trusses). Itās sometimes wrongly spelled as ādormaā (which is, in fact, a very well known bedding brand 
).
I donāt know very little about the US real estate expressions but I guess it might be similar to Canada - every area has their ownā¦
Thereās some variation based on geography, but a lot of national usage, like this:
In the U.S., for example, Sears Roebuck used to sell build-it-yourself house kits ā theyād ship you all the parts of a house wherever they could nationwide, so there was widespread definition in such cases. And over generations, builders have emerged nationally in the U.S., so you can buy essentially cookie-cutter homes in many states.
Iāve bought houses in various parts of the U.S. and took urban development graduate classes out of interest (not for a career) about two decades ago and we studied developments and communities across various parts of the country. Thereās a vernacular thatās used widely in textbooks over generations, as well as home decor / dwelling magazines and video or TV shows in more recent decades. More people learn terminology that way. No need to be a real estate professional.
Folks who are less likely to know tend to live in one area their whole lives.
In 1965 I moved with my parents into a bungalow in California, in what is now Silicon Valley. It didnāt strike me as unusual as we had moved from a bungalow in England, and anyway I was only a child. Our next door neighbours had the only 2 storey house in the neighbourhood. I understood that bungalows were safer in the quake zone (we regularly and frequently experienced tremors). Fast forward 15 years and my parents moved back there, to a series of bungalows. The neighbours in the 2 storey now live in a bungalow, and the other neighbours who we kept in touch with are in a 2 storey.
