[fat city]

Houses in Netherlands used to have a "window tax" so they built very few windows into the houses.

[FreedomCalls]

Houses in Netherlands used to have a "window tax" so they built very few windows into the houses.

Unfinished houses in Greece used to be taxed at a far lower rate than finished ones. Almost all of the houses had an unfinished row of bricks with rebar sticking up along the sides of the walls on the roof as if they were beginning a second story which never quite got finished for some reason.

[blam]

"Houses in Netherlands used to have a "window tax" so they built very few windows into the houses."

Houses in this region were once taxed by the number of rooms, built-in closets were taxed as rooms. Few old housed around here have built in closets, they have 'stand-alone closets stuck in the corners of rooms.

[Mark17]

Houses in Netherlands used to have a "window tax" so they built very few windows into the houses.

I lived in Germany. There are never any closets built into homes and apartments, for the same reason.