When I was 11 years old, my mom and two brothers and I moved to a small but budding town in south Orange County, and into what I viewed was a palace of a home. It wasn't the big backyard, the four sizable bedrooms, or the long stairway that lead up to "my" very first second-story. Nope.

Hammocks inside? It’s a concept we American haven’t fully adopted. However, in other parts of the world, it’s as customary...