What are the advantages of living in a castle and the disadvantages?

Question

I need this by thursday. It will be on my test

Answer 1

If you are talking of when castles were used during the dark ages by lords and kings then there are some different advantages than living in one today.

Advantages:
Thick fortifications that kept warring people out of your home (main advantage of castles)
A semi-self sufficient courtyard where a market place could be (not all castles had such places of business)
If you owned a castle that meant you owned a lot of land and the inhabitants thereof.
A place to welcome the royal family.
Food storage for the long winter, and war times

Disadvantages:
Hired help. Such as servants. There were many different type of servants that were hired for specific jobs within castles.
If a fire broke out there weren't very many exit options.
Sewage was always a problem, even if there was a moat to help drain off the sewage.
Owning a castle was expensive and needed constant up keep, so the serfs in the surrounding area were taxed heavily to keep their lords place up and running.
Castles by nature are very drafty places, many did not have glass windows until much later on. The cold was always an issue.
heating such a large structure was always a problem.

Castles were once a sign of wealth and class. They were erected with the sole purpose to protect the lord within, and intimidate any warring peoples from attacking. Castles were so well fortified that sieges could last months before any wall could be breached.

Most castles were self-sufficient to a point. All are equipped with a storage area for food, and water. Since many of the staff at a castle also lives there accommodation was easy to find.

If you look at castles today, all of them can be updated with modern equipment to make them nearly as efficient as they were when they were first built.

Royal land taxes were common for upper class people to pay, but that in turn made them tax their own people more harshly.

Castles fell out of fashion around the reign of King Henry XVIII in England, other European countries took longer to stop usage of castles. England started the production of vast manors with large gardens and called it a "castle"

Answer 2

Living In A Castle

Answer 3

Well, you'd have to be pretty RICH to live in a castle. It's not like poor people can afford it. But you need a staff of servants to keep it clean and, having been in a couple of castles, they tend to be cold and drafty. You need lots of wood or coal to keep them heated in winter.

Advantage: you're safer behind the walls of a castle than in some peasant hut if the Vikings come attack your village.

Disadvantage: the king or queen is going to squeeze taxes out of you.

Answer 4

Disadvantages:
The heat bill is a #@$%
Your out in the middle of no where
The driveway is filled with pits
Dracula lives in the basement
The lawn takes three weeks to mow
There are no stone masons to be found anywhere
Its hard to rewire when you have stone walls
The foundation is cracking
Its a ten minute walk to the WC


Advantages:
Your out in the middle of no where
You can chain your teenagers up in the dungeon
Your mother in law has her own wing
Candle light is always nice ambiance.

Answer 5

Castles are dark, cold and dank. At least the traditional stone ones are. It would be like living in a big man-made cave.

The advantage is, they are strong and fortified, so your enemies can't attack you and burn it down, like a wooden house.