Huh. I lived in the Bay Area, in apartments that under this system would be classed as flats, for six years, and I never heard them referred to as flats- they were always called apartments.
I could see a management company for an apartment complex calling the units flats, though. British English does have a certain cachet in the US, and I could see an apartment management company calling their units flats to make them sound more British and therefore classier.
I learned something here. I thought geothermal heating was heating using natural hot springs and things like that, so it could only be done in places like Iceland and Hawaii.
Oh no! Not at all. It uses the heat generated by the tepid temperature of the earth itself. Check out the link a couple posts up in my post…Those describe the process. It’s ingenius really, and not really cost prohibative.
Yeah, I thought only Mission hipsters lived in flats. ( :rolleyes:
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