That’s actually the closest description to my place as well. It does have a condo/apt. style main entrance, but it also sports an entrance that is direct to my home, which is very handy for movers and remodelers. Detached garage though is more like apartments.
Well there is realtor speak and then there is common usage. One is regulated and the other is not. I don’t know if it’s technically correct but to me an apartment is something you rent. A condo you own. It could be the same exact residence but I would never call something thats owned an apartment.
I have a smart thing in the house, as off as I can turn it.
I feel like we have a lot of smart things in our house, but the only ones that come to mind our two Nest thermostats and our garage door openers.
I guess we have some Smart TVs. But I don’t think they’re that smart, just connected to the internet.
My husband gave me an Alexa, but it kind of creeped me out, so i unplugged it after a couple of months.
In new York, there are apartments you can rent, and ones that are co-op, and ones that are condos. And physically, they are all pretty similar. But the rules and stuff around what you can do are very different.
In Boston there are a lot of multi-level houses that are legally condos, with different owners on each floor. But if you buy in, it’s not like living in an apartment, it’s like owning a house with two other households you may or may not get along with.
The first condos i ever experienced were vacation houses on ski slopes. They were physically town houses, and we rented them for a week, but legally they were condos and each one had an owner but we rented via the condo association.
So i guess i just think of it differently than you do.
I also excluded Dairy Queen, although I know you can also get hot dogs and such at some locations.
This was news to me. In my part of the country, Dairy Queens are burger joints. The ice cream stuff is a sideline.
(Though it wouldn’t have changed my vote. The nearest DQ is on the other side of town from my house.)
On second thought, Dairy Queen probably should have been included. We don’t really have DQ in my neck of the woods, so I mistakenly assumed the frozen treats were the main focus. But upon further research their “standard” stores do serve typical fast food items. Just pick “other” if you live near one of these DQ locations.
The answer, I think, is “it depends.” I think that all DQs have the frozen treats, but some (though not all) also have fast food. Originally, they called the stores which offered fast food “Dairy Queen Brazier*,” but they’ve mostly phased that name out, and tend to call that kind of restaurant a “DQ Grill & Chill” now.
*- when we were kids, we called it “Dairy Queen Brassiere.” Highly hilarious to a 12-year-old. 
“what three words” really threw me off, but then I remembered a thread her about that and I figured out what was being asked. If not for that, I I would have assumed it was some weird typo.
I recognized the “what three words” thing immediately, from context with the ZIP code, and from a thread or two here about the concept; I’ve never seen mention of it anywhere else but on the SDMB.
I think “what three words” is pretty cool and I hope it becomes more popular. I live in an apartment and when I have something delivered, I include a link to the three words that includes my front door in the delivery instructions. No one’s ever commented on it so I’m not sure it helps, but hopefully it will help someone.
My part of the country offers both full meal ones and ones that are mainly cold items with maybe hot dogs. Some of those shops go way back in time.
I answered truthfully that I have a Burger King within walking distance however, I have never eaten there. There’s a better, locally owned joint just across the street and they serve beer.
It’s a totally new concept to me, but I think a neighbor is using it.
I couldn’t find the thread about it and still have no idea what it means. Would anybody care to enlighten me?
I’m not exactly sure, but I get the general idea
I know there are several fast-food restaurants approximately 12 miles away from me in two different directions. I have no idea which one is closest. So I voted “I don’t know” as there wasn’t a choice for "all about the same distance; though also because there might easily be something on the list that I don’t know is there, in addition to the ones that I’m pretty sure are (though they do seem to close and reopen as something else once in a while, and I don’t keep track.)
I also don’t know whether I’m supposed to look up the three-word examples on What3words and find out which is closest to me, or to go by the meaning of the words. That one I didn’t vote in. (I also didn’t look them up on what3words.)
I’ve never heard of what3words, but I looked up my location…what exactly am I supposed to do with ///cycle.banana.natively ?
Because surely one of them is closer than the rest, even if it’s only by a small amount. If you don’t know which one that is and don’t feel like figuring it out, “I don’t know” is fine.
We’re clearly thinking on different scales. If you were to walk to a fast food restaurant from my house, it makes a difference that Carl’s Jr. is about 0.5 miles away, and Jack In the Box is just a little farther down the street (and you’d have to walk past Carl’s Jr. to get there), and Taco Bell is slightly farther if you turn the other way on the main street. If you were driving from 12 miles away I guess you would consider that “about the same distance” – but you would still arrive at one of them before the others, depending on what direction you were coming from.
Very good
*doffs cap*