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It is interesting if for a month to send all the inhabitants of Rublevka to live on the other side of the equator in ... a bit of non-luxury housing. No, decent, of course. By local standards. Would you survive?

Half would have had hysteria in the very first days, and the second half would surely have fallen into a deep depression in anticipation of a return transfer to their cozy mansions.

Well, people do not live. And even happy. After all, the house! Mine! And by the way, without a mortgage!

But in general, dropping the banter, it was very interesting to see what the Madagascans live in.

Their homes are very diverse in different parts of the country: there are thatched houses, billiards-advertising houses, and the wonders of design ideas, and apartment buildings, and a real house-warmer. Only one thing unites them - general poverty and beautiful textured ruffle, thanks to which these poor houses look very beautiful ...

I'll start the show with classic local models.

These are decent houses. Very decent, expensive and successful people live in them.

Bottom own store, shop or leased to other merchants area. Above live the hosts.

But there are not many such houses in Madagascar.

Much more common is something like this.

And this is far from a slum. This is a normal house in the village, and there may not even be other houses in the whole village, only such.

In more or less large settlements, many live here in such apartment buildings. Rather, three-unit.

In general, a similar form factor is most common in Madagascar.

Sections with non-residential ground floor, residential second, balcony and load-bearing columns. The length of the house depends only on the number of apartment entrances.

A rather big private home ownership. The owner even has a car, which in the province is an indicator of a very high income. So you understand, in the villages there are no cars at all !!! YES that there are cars, they have nothing at all, poverty is complete.

There are no glasses in the houses of the Madagascar, instead of them are shutters. So quite often you can see houses with closed shutters. One gets the feeling that no one lives in the house. In fact, the owners just left somewhere, closing the house.

Here, the shop is not on the ground floor of the house, but simply taken out onto the street for a day.

Sometimes there are sooooo design houses!

And even the mansions !!! True, as a rule, these are mini-hotels with several rooms, rather expensive.

Three-apartment residential building.

The farther into the province, the smaller and more modest homes become.

Sometimes you can see houses that look like billboards. Honestly, I don’t know whether their owners are paid for advertising coloring, or whether the owners of this or that business simply live in the colors of which they paint their houses.

Multifunctional home.

In villages located a few hundred kilometers from Antananarivo, houses are much simpler.

In many settlements there is no electricity at all, and the only way to charge phones and various devices, as well as get light in the evening, is with solar panels. How people lived before their mass distribution, one can only guess.

And this is quite a remote place. Poor villages, where the income of people for a year can be as much as in Moscow a person spends for a hearty dinner for two in an expensive restaurant.