How did the Romans have such nice houses?

How did the Romans have such nice houses?

Their mortgages must have been huge.

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You don't actually believe the average plebeian lived in a villa, do you?

I grew up in a house not unlike this.

Today it's worth a fucking fortune, even by modern standards.

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b-b-but it's.. you know rome! its like civiization n stuff. right? not like backwards america with no free healthcare, surely rome was utopia right? i mean its like rome n stuff

Plebeians could work their way up to living in villas just like we can

Came here to post Pompeii was the Monaco of its day, I'm not sure poor people were even allowed there unless they were literal slaves

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plebs weren't roman
only patricians

Insulae is nice when you're young, but then you get a few clients together and whack up a villa.
Get one of those shop things facing onto the via and staff em with slaves if it still costs too much denarii.

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People paid for property outright. Jews didn't run the government. They were properly enslaved by the romans. No such thing as mortgages.

Fuck me, no wonder they collapsed.

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That is absolutely not true.

OP must have been joking. No one can be that stupid.

Lol

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courtyard vs wrap around porch?

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massive if factual

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The Talmud was written after Christ so this must have been in AD.

most lived in one room firetrap apartments. no toilet, no cooking, just a place to sleep.

>ezgif.com-gif-maker

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These Romans had it good. Get up, chill at the baths, hang in the horto while slave makes dinner, eat in the triclinium.
Life was a fuckin doddle. What went wrong?

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Pleb detected

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>ezgif
webps huh

Maybe in the good days of the republic but for most of rome no lol

Nice house, just in budget, not a fan of location. I couldn't for the LIFE of me know just what i'd do if i sent the kids off to school, then poof, lava volcano death!

apology for poor english

when were you when gaius iulius dies?

i was sat at home eating when quintus send slave

‘iulius is kill’

‘no’

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>Mint more money
Always.

>"bedroom " is literally a hallway

Where’s the bathroom?

Me on the second floor on the right trying to sleep while wagecucks are making a ruckus cooking bread.

>tfw you are forced to be emperor

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