[qingcharles]

Most houses in the UK are "attached" to another property, either row houses or two houses in one. Detached is just what you would call a regular house in the USA -- it's not touching another building and sits on its own land.

[101008]

Ohhh much simpler than I thought. Are they usually better than attached? (You don't hear your neighbors, for example?)

[fckgw]

Basically, yeah. It's your own little fiefdom so you can remodel the whole house how you want, you can tear up and rebuild the outside if you want, you can just not interact with anyone and become a hermit if you want. Your own singular space.