The Daily Populous Monday October 21st, 2024 night edition
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AbdelAtife on October 20th, 2024 at 06:25 UTC »

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A garden is common, and the water tank is a necessity given the hot climate and constant water shortages. (A mango tree fruits in my home every 1-2 years in early spring, it's always so sweet). Common grown fruit trees include date palms, limes and naranges, guava, mangoes, doum palms and sidrs.

The empty yard is called "Housh حوش", and families sleep outside at night often because nights are way cooler than inside the house.

The bottom left corner is most likely the kitchen, and the roof is made of dried palm leaves called "Saaf سعف", it keeps the room cool but it has its downsides when it rains.

You may notice two bathroom, one is for showering and the other has a "toilet" which connects to a septic tank or most likely a giant dug hole underground, sewers and human waste plumbing and management is often missing/underdeveloped and every house needs to take care of these locally.

This might be a small family's house, but an extended family with grandparents, uncles, and aunts could be living here as well.

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guille9 on October 20th, 2024 at 07:33 UTC »

When people sleep in the housh, do they take beds outside? It's really big just for sleeping. Bathrooms are outside? So you have to go out to pee at night?

96Phoenix on October 20th, 2024 at 09:32 UTC »

I’m impressed at their ability to grow plants in what appears to be a desert.

For context I’ve failed to keep another house mint plant alive.