Does everyone in Italy have a balcony?

[Curdsandwhey]

Or is it just the ones who do who are being filmed performing music? It's just that it's being shown as a norm, like "everyone" is singing to each other.

I'm pretty sure most flats in the UK don't have balconies. I certainly don't have one. I feel like there's this unrealistic message that people spreading, that we just need to wave at each other from our balconies and all will be well and we'll have instant camaraderie.

BTW it is very built up where we are - we counted once and we can see the windows or balconies of about a hundred flats from our windows!

I suppose more people in countries like Italy or Spain have balconies because it's seen as an extra room as usable for a lot of the year. Plus also a place to hang washing, grow produce if the space allows etc.

Our usual holiday accomodation is a Spanish apartment and we spend just about all the time we are awake and in the accomodation on the balcony or terrace. After a couple of incidences where the balcony was very small, I'm now always careful to check the photos of the balcony when booking.

We get up, make drinks and sit on the balcony for a bit, make breakfast and eat it on the balcony, after we've been out for the day, we come back and sit on the balcony until it's time to get ready to go out for dinner, and after we've been out for dinner, we come back and have a last drink on the balcony, or if we don't go out for dinner, we just spend the whole evening sitting on the balcony reading, snacking, drinking, chatting etc.

I'm in Sweden where every apartment has a balcony. New builds now have glass panels around them to open and close so you can enjoy a view in the winter. It's a real shame they're not so common in the UK, maybe it's the older buildings?

I lived in Italy (outside Milan). I lived, over a period of time, in 3 different blocks and never had a balcony. But in the actual cities, where architecture tends to be older and nicer, yes, balconies are the norm.

A few years ago it seemed to be fairly standard that new build flats always had balconies, but the mega high rise blocks being thrown up now in Manchester don’t. It already annoyed me that those monstrosities were being built with seemingly no thought for the quality of life of the occupants (probably because in reality their primary purpose is as giant piggy banks for the owners, not as homes). Now it seems completely inhumane. I would have been miserable without my balcony last week. As it was I was able to sit out and work on it every afternoon and I got more fresh air than I would have done under normal circumstances.

no most new builds don't have them either.

There are a fuck ton of new flats being built around here (industrial redevelopment) all the high rise have balconies but it’s not so common on the low rise.

I live in Japan and balconies are the norm because it's usual not to have a drier so everything goes on the balcony.

Love my balcony!