[hollerith]

>In the US, if you want wood and tile floors throughout the home to accommodate allergies and respiratory problems, you pretty much have buy your own house (or possibly live in New York, which I have no plans to do).

Wood floors are plentiful in San Francisco, too, because there's a lot of pre-WWII housing.

[Mz]

Thanks. San Francisco is the only large city I have ever visited that I wished I could live in. (Granted, I haven't visited many large cities outside the US.) But even in most large US cities, wood floors in rentals seems to generally not be the norm. (Anyone with hard data, please correct me if I'm wrong.)