Here floors mostly have tiles. When I vacuum the house it sadly takes closer to an hour, what with it being a too large house, heh. But yeah, sweeping sure is a nostalgic option, and what I had to do in the army.
It's often mentioned how ironic it is that for how sunny Israel is, solar panels used for more than just heating your water boiler is a rare thing here. Probably because the local electricity company is a government funded monopoly and opposed it up to now :-/
And makes sense the house is expensive if it came with the solar panels, thought you might have added them yourselves.
And thanks, I'll try to have a nice day in spite of a migraine, or at least a productive one :) And yeah, as mentioned prior, I have a lot of experience with blogs, including helping friends make theirs more inviting and well designed, so such things stand out to me.