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Sorry for the confusion… we were trying to think of the British word for houses that were attached on either side! :D terraced houses is what we call it :D
Townhouses or condominiums
@@wanderer85295 I've always called them that and everyone has seemed to understand what I was talking about. But I do think they are known by other terms also. I'm just not sure what those are.
Row houses! that's it.
Off subject, but I am rooting for Millie to deliver on Sep. 27. That will be my birthday and I am always happy to welcome a new birthday buddy. 🥰
@@magnificentfailure2390 My mothers birthday is also September 27, she will be 83 this year.
You actually said "terraced" when you were looking at the picture of the typical British street, but neither of you realized that was the word you were looking for.
Here in the States, two attached homes would be called a "duplex." Three or more attached homes would typically be referred to as "townhomes" or "townhouses." "Rowhouses" is a term usually reserved for multiple attached homes that fill an entire block, like the "brownstones" of the Northeast.
In Florida we have tri-plex. And 4 or more are multi-plex.
We have townhouses but those are 2 or more stories and they're styled differently than a simple 2 story apartment. There are usually 4 to a unit and all are corner apartments with a large patio and garden area near the entrance.
Then you have condominiums which are like apartments or townhouses; treehouses, mobile home parks, house boats,. In Many larger cities you have cardboard boxes and tent cities. (JK) The doll house, igloos, yurts, cabins, huts, geodesic domes... all I can think up...
A duplex is also sometimes called a double bungalow, but a house divided into four apartments has sometimes been called a fourplex.
Here in NYC, duplex refers to an apartment with 2 levels. 2 houses attached together are called semi-detached.
no one mentioned "Barbie Dream House"...@@helennyc4388
Your banter and discussion of the information presented in the videos to which you react is why I watch your channel! Pause and discuss/comment as much as you like! Heck, pause and look things up on camera if you like, that is fun as well!
Don't worry about the talking "too much". This is how learning and understanding occur. Working through it verbally. Really good job on this one.
People in there comment section keep saying stop talking over the video or other stuff like that. Pfft
Absolutely true, I hope they continue to do what they have been, it makes it interesting to me!
I live in California & as far as I know, we don’t have a name for the grass on the other side of the sidewalk. We don’t call the grass in front & back of the house gardens. We call them yards. Gardens here are where we grow vegetables, fruits, etc.
I’m 66, grew up in Brooklyn and have lived in Florida for 30 years…
And no one I ever knew, including myself, ever even contemplated giving a name to that stupid little strip of grass off the sidewalk.
I'm from Southeast PA, and I was never aware there was a name for it either, but it's where you put your trash cans on trash day, whenever they pick up the trash where you live.
Well I grew up in Brooklyn also and we had tree lawns (Ohio ) yep some of ur brooklynites escaped, said we going make it Betta then where we came from .....yep sorry to say they did .. only have to visit Florida, not escape to , they know what's good , just funny ??? 😅
@@dennykfun2411 Do you expect anyone to understand what you wrote here? It’s not coherent.
I've always just called it grass if I called it anything at all 😊
Alabama. I've never heard it called anything special.
One of the reasons folks in European cities tend to not have front yards is due to the postal system. Once postal laws came into effect they'd limit how far the worker had to walk by keeping your front door close to his route.
We use mail boxes out on the street so our home can be wherever we want on our property.
Single family home = detached
Duplex = two houses attached
Triplex = three houses attached
Row house/townhome = more than three attached
Hi guys! Duplex is a term for a single building that is really two identical houses divded by a common wall. They are essentially mirror images of each other.
One of the neighborhoods that I grew up in was built in the 1959's. There were no sidewalks/pavements, as it was thought that nobody would be walking anymore. It was the same projection that people would be flying their own private airplane or helicopter to work in the future. To be fair, by this time most people had cars, and each suburb had centrally located shopping centers, but in contrast to our previous neighborhood, people didn't get out and walk in the evenings and you didn't see as many of your neighbors.
Connected homes are usually described as townhouses. What you call semi-detached, we call duplexes.
Depends on where you live.
In my part of Florida, a duplex is a freestanding building with two units. The owner can live in one unit and rent out the other unit, or the owner is involved in the real estate business and rents out both units.
Where we are in Canada, we also call them semi-detached. A duplex is a 2 unit apartment building either side by side or one level about the other.
@@pvdogs2 You didn’t explain it! So what’s a semi-detached in Canada?
@@Ira88881 2 homes side by side sharing a common wall.
In the UK they call them Terrance houses.
The strip we have always called it part of front lawn, because you need to care for it and even some towns don't have sidewalks so it is your front lawn. Amazing!!
YES!! It’s just a part of your front lawn.
When I lived in Cleveland, Ohio area the word we associated for the strip between the sidewalk and street was called the "tree lawn". Often each house had a tree planted here to shade the street. Here is instruction my old suburban city provides regarding its leaf pickup program in the fall:
- Leaves should be placed on the tree lawn area, not in the street or sidewalks.
I always called the grass between the sidewalk and the curb as "esplanade". Learned it from my grandparents.
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The grass is always grenliest on the other side of the pond 😁 💚
You guys had a really great time with this video. Nice to see you in good spirits. Great reaction!
I got tickled when at 8:15 she says "terraced house" .. but doesn't realize she's saying the exact term y'all are looking for through-out ... Too Cute.
Thank you for another great reaction video. Most of us love hearing about what things are like on your side.
I've literally never thought to name that small strip of grass. I didn't think about it until today.
Priceless…I loved it when Millie said “Someone is getting sacked in the morning”… lol too funny
I’m in the Deep South ( I think he said Gulf South) and we use the term “Neutral Ground” for the median. I’ve never heard the grass between the sidewalk and road called that. Maybe some people do, but I’ve never heard it.
Single family houses are very common. Multifamily homes are also common but go by different names. Apartments, Condos. Townhouses.
Duplex
The strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street is called an 'easement'.
Yes. It is technically controlled by the city so you can’t do anything to it like add a tree or delete a tree or fence it in, without permits and permissions, but the landowner is responsible for maintaining it. The city reserves the right to reclaim it if they want to widen the street, or need to place a telephone pole or light post, etc.
I’ve always lived in the suburbs in Florida my entire 29 years, and we don’t have many “attached” houses here, but houses that are attached like in NYC, Chicago, D.C., etc. I’ve always called row houses, town houses/town homes, and sometimes condos/condominiums. I was always under the impression that in the U.K. the standard comparable term would be “terraced house/home”.
We also use the term "gutter" as opposed to drainpipe.
“Detached houses” are referred to as single family home.
I call the piece of grass between the sidewalk and street the "grass between the sidewalk and the street". I didn't know anybody has a name for it.
Grass by the curb?
Grass by the road?
The other bit of lawn?
The other bit if lawn in front of the house?
Grass on the other side of the sidewalk?
It just doesn't come up in conversation that often.
In the Chicago area, they are almost always called "drainpipes", and "verges" are almost always called "parkways". A suburb is any town or small city that is near but outside of a major city, up to about 50 miles out.
You weren’t a shambles! 😂😂😂 It was fun to watch you guys be real and banter back and forth.
That grassy thing between the sidewalk and the road? I've always just called a part of the yard. So when referring to the yard, that's included. If I mow the yard, I mow that strip, too.
I've always known the grass strip to be called an easement...add another one to the list!
I like the banter. It’s like we are all sitting in your living room watching some videos with you.
I grew up in Chicago and currently live in Tennessee. I've never heard any of those terms for the grass on the other side of the sidewalk in my 54 years. We just called it grass.
House combinations come in duplexes (double unit) triplexes, fourplexes, etc. When together in a long line they can be called row houses or condos.
@11:20 It's hilarious watching you guys still find out little eccentricities about each other.
The name of a house by itself is single family home or single family dwelling. We use the word attached for garages
A duplex is a two sided house (2 houses one common wall). A triplex has 3 units. Condominiums are apartments that are privately owned.
Green color comes with lighting mostly. Just observe a British yard during a sunny day, or my American one during overcast.
down spout is term I use.. drain pipe sounds like the plumbing in the house to drain the waste water away from house under the ground. Verges?? LOL.. I just know we have to mow them.. OR.. Here in phoenix its just an area between the street and sidewalk with ROCK!
Chain link fences are ugly and are less popular now, but they let the breeze through easier and tend to last so many, especially in older areas still use them to a very large degree. They serve their purpose.
I like when you guys get a funny banter going. Please don’t change that. God bless you both and your baby. Duane.
Alfie was a goodovie in the 70/80s. Starred English actor, Micheal Caine
When my brother-in-law was a child, he lived on a farm. They had several dogs over the years, and they were all named Don. I totally get your reference to Allie.
You mean Alfie? 🤔
The home type is called a "single family home" two attached are a duplex or sometimes called condos. Threeplex, fourplex etc.
The single level attached houses are duplex, tri-plex, 4-plex depending on how many are attached. The double level attached houses( with a upstairs and a downstairs) are called townhouses.
We refer to pavement as any outdoor paved surface
There are many ways to describe attached homes. They are called row houses, town houses, duplexes, tri-plexes and some condominiums (these are generally apartment like homes that people purchase in the larger cities.)
On Long Island a downspout may also be called a leader. I've always called the grass strip "the grass strip by the sidewalk' but i have heard the term "island strip" used.
Those houses that are connected are town homes or condos. Also, I really don't mind your pausing and talking. It makes everything real and authentic. ❤❤❤
Depends doesn't it? Don't they call them row houses in NYC?
Ummm…no. Plenty of row houses and brownstones are neither condos nor townhomes but are single family and fully owned / no HOA.
Where I grew up town home and condo were interchangeable and both meant houses that were "connected" but all single family homes. Some had HOA or paid a fee and some did not.
Homes attached together are called either Townhouse, Townhomes and is the cities they will sometimes say Row houses. If it's just 2 attached is a duplex.
We have in the old part of cities, (row houses). We also have (townhomes), and we also have (condos)... These are all attached to the neighbor.
Individual detatched houses are usually single family homes, but it could be a duplex. Where two units share a common wall.
People in the Northwest where I live do not call the strip of grass between the curb and the sidewalk a ‘verge’ or a ‘berm’. It’s more typically called a ‘parking strip’, not a ‘median’ like Laurence said. We use ‘median’ to describe the strip between opposing lanes of traffic, not along the side of the street.
The only time we’ve referred to that oart of grass between the street and sidewalk is usually when mowing and it’s just called “the strip”. I’ve never heard of verge or any of those other terms.
Different names for attached houses depending on where you live. On some of the East Coast, they’re called row houses (I grew up in a semi detached row house), but in New York the tall brink ones are called brownstones, some places they’re townhouse’s, or attached single family homes.
Attached, detached, and semi attached can also apply to a garage… where in semi attached you would have what is called a Breezeway between house and garage
In the UK they're called Terrance houses.
I have been calling that grassy strip an easement. In my hometown, Tyler TX, we just consider part of the yard.
I had one of those grassy strips in front of my house forever but never actually ever though about what to calling it anything. My friends also didn't have a word for it.
Duplex - one building set up as two houses
Townhouse = Row house
Semi-Attached - two separate buildings attached at some point.
Parkway, downspout, yard. The garden is the place in the yard where you grow vegetables or flowers. I would just call it a house unless it’s a duplex, townhouse or apartment. A picket fence isn’t going to protect you from anything!
Detect's homes are standalone homes. Roe houses duplex text town homes are attached to each other. Like apartments and condos.
We have Detached Garages or Built on Garages. On is not attached to the house, the other is a part of the house.
2 houses side by side are a duplex, 3 it a triplex and 4 or more is an apartment complex or Condo, which has 4 owners
In Michigan, we call the strip of grass between the curb and the sidewalk an easement... it belongs to the city but the home owner is responsible for its maintenance...
Here we call a residential area “the suburbs” where it’s a residential part of the outskirts of a city.
Down here we have houses, duplexes, 4 plexes, townhouses, apartments, and condos (generally, apartments that are owned by the occupier).
The grassy strip between the sidewalk and the road is often just called "The grassy strip between the sidewalk and the road!" LOL However if you are a university tree expert or a landscaper, or someone in college studying urban/suburban horticulture . that space is officially called a "Tree Lawn".
Duplexes, condos, or townhouses... all attached
Architectural Digest has a channel, there are videos with architects describing iconic types of houses or buildings and their history, walking tours of iconic neighborhoods in a given city etc.
That grassy area beside the street is usually called the utility easement, since you don’t own it. The county or city does. But you have to care for it.
Never heard the piece of land between the road and the sidewalk called a verge, or most of the other things he said. In the midwest it was usually called a parkway. You owned it and maintained it, but the city has a lien on it so you can't really do anything with it, except mowing, without city approval.
Also have duplex (2 houses combined into 1 building), triplex (three houses combines into 1 building) that are usually laid out vertically, and a 4plex or 6plex which are usually laid out horizontally in 2 or 3 floors with 2 houses or apartments per floor.
I’ve never heard of “verges”. We call them”park strip”
You guys are looking for the words "bungalow" (single detached), and duplex or townhomes (single building with many units).
In northwest indiana we call the strip of grass between sidewalk and street the parkway
A house that does not have another living quarters attached to it is called a single-family home.
I love duplexes, your own yard & garage, private. I rented one for 10 years, it was 1,200sq ft which was perfect for me and my pets. Like a small house.
I grew up in Southern California and always heard the grass strip called the “parkway” so that’s what I call it now in Texas too.
Yes, row houses are attached...or torn hiuse ifms 2 together. Spacing between houses depends on the town/city. I have a house on 3 acres with only 15 other houses on my 2-mile-long rural road. :) neighbors are not close.
I've never referred to that grassy part as anything lol never had to till just now
Where i've lived, we often refer to the verge as the "easement."
We call them single family homes.
I used to live in a semi-detached, which is one 'building' split down the middle to create 2 homes.
I love James' mental image of cats sitting on walls.
So the difference between down spout and drain pipe when the water that is passing through them is rain that has fallen up the roof of a building….. this is to distinguish it from drain pipes that are drain that start indoors….
Down spouts typical connect the gutter at the bottom of a roof slope to the outdoors at ground level …..
dRAIN pipes usually start at a drain in the flat roof of a larger building….. often with that pipe draining directly into the sewers via an internal pipe that is called the drain pipe…. In that way a dRain pipe is little different from the drain pipe connected to toilets, sinks, showers, bathtubs and “wet floors”
I’ve lived in Ohio for decades, and I’ve never used the terms curb strip or Devil’s strip. I’ve always referred to it as a berm. But then again I was raised by parents who grew up in Illinois and Indiana.
I'm originally from New England, specifically MA, and it's called a curb when referring to the thing that separates the sidewalk from the street. The grass strip would be called berm.
We used curb in Illinois
Also an Ohioian and I've only ever heard berm
Northeast ohio, specifically Cleveland and eastward, uses tree lawn. Akron uses Devil's strip.
Grass verge always made the most sense to me.
That's interesting about verges, I've lived in Chicago my whole life and have never heard it called anything other than a parkway....the more you know.
Houses joined together are Townhouses if several, Duplex is just two (what you called semi detached) but it's a duplex only if it looks like one house but is actually split in two otherwise it's still just a townhouse and there are Brownstones which are basically Townhouses in cities such as New York, Chicago etc made from stone. Many brownstones are 3 story instead of just two.
row of attached houses=Row house (where I live, but that might be different in other areas), Semi-detached=two houses sharing a wall, detached=stand alone, Town House=tall, narrow, row house, typically with three stories, Duplex=a house containing two separate apartments.
The strip of lawn or pavement dividing lanes is called the median.Long Island New York
In America, if you were to say, my drain pipe is plugged up, they would probably say take me to your bathroom or kitchen😊
In the US, or at least in Sonoma county, houses have 8 ft in between them at the minimum. Most cats here are outdoor cats. At least during the day.
In Montana the verges as u called it is a split lawn because its split between the sidewalk
Where I live there is no sidewalk along the streets except for town. I think I would just call it grass - we never really had them so, we had no word for them.
We call verges, Tree lawn but a lot of the other ones he mentioned I never heard.
Your row houses we call brownstones here in some parts of America. We have many on the East coast, midwest and other states.
I'm almost certain that the official name of that strip of grass between the curb and the sidewalk is called an easement. It's part of the land owner's property, but the municipality, county and state have access to it for utility maintenance and upkeep but mowing it or whatever remains the responsibility of the land owner.
We DO have "attached houses" - usually a DUPLEX or a FOURPLEX (2 or 4 homes, attached)...and, then, apartments (in the words of George Carlin: why do they call them apartments when they're SO CLOSE TOGETHER??!!) 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Alfie was also a 1966 film starring British actor, Michael Cane. He played Alfie Elkins, a self-centered, narcissistic, Cockney London chauffeur. He enjoyed the company of both married and single women but would avoid any commitment. One of the songs in the film was, "What's it All About Alfie" sung by Cher.
I have always called them easements. We don't actually own that part but are still responsible for its upkeep.
Sometimes I feel like James needs a friend to say, "Put the shovel down" when he's wrong but he just keeps digging a hole. 😆😆😆 Thanks for the video, guys. 👍