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No, it's not just the flats.
I grew up and lived in many rural area were the towns consisted of tightly packed, often very old town houses (predating the arrival of electricity by decades or centuries).
Basically no multi-apartment buildings at all.
Still every house had an electrical bell. No exception.
That's the reason I am so flabbergasted to hear this to apparently be different in the UK.
It comes completely unexpected to me, I always considered having at least one doorbell at every house's entrance to be a given. Like having windows or a drainpipe. Standard feature.