Another Aussie difference

I just realized today (although maybe I've thought of it before, and simply forgotten), that Australian homes don't usually have doorbells.

At least, not in Brisbane (maybe they do elsewhere). Our house (built just a few years ago) doesn't have one. Neither does my wife's sister's (built about a year ago), her brother's (built maybe ten years ago), nor her parents (about 35 years go). Nor her grandmother's (70 years ago?).

No door knockers, neither (with maybe the except of the parents).


Maybe people just had the windows open all the time, so you just walk up to the screen door and holler.


--GG