I grew up in what you might call 1:1 unequal-quality mixed-income housing (single family homes with live-in servant quarters). Common middle-class pattern in company-town India. Probably sounds offensively inegalitarian to Americans Functional rather than cosmetic signaling
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More recent in America than people think. Most NYC Brownstones have separate entrances for servant quarters beneath the stoops. It was common in middle-class suburbia even through the 1960s. Apparently, appliances put maids out of work. Are appliances not widespread in India?
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Replying to @simpolism
Where electricity is reliable, washing machines are common. Dishwashers, vacuums, not so much.
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