Differences Between Living in the US vs the UK!
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- čas přidán 26. 04. 2024
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What great duo these two have been , even though i love Christina and Lauren together , Callie is pretty smart and likable
Definitely . I love this duo .
She is, another nice American 😊
It feels like Christina and Lauren have more natural relationship whereas with most others it feels a little forced
I like Emily From UK...miss her
Andrea and Andrea, another great pairing.
We do have "conservatories" in the US. They are called sunrooms or Florida rooms
I live in Ireland and we also call in sunrooms, I was so confused lmaoo
Also called a solarium. And they are big in California too. I think they are more of a sunny state thing so a northern girl probably has no idea
@@soda9001 north irland🇬🇧 or irland 🇮🇪?
and in Sweden so we call sunrooms
@@danskrista yes! We call those "solario" in my country :)
There are houses in the States with sort of conservatory setups. We usually call them sun rooms. And there are many houses in the States with no garage. Just depends on your area. No one on my street had a garage.
Garages might be more typical in more northern areas prone to getting a lot of snow.
the big garages to me are a suburban thing. i live in a. city and our garage was basically a glorified shed that could mayyybe fit a car. i live in rowhouses that each have a back driveway and tiny garage storage space.
@@paranoidrodent As someone from the same northern state as Callie (Michigan), it's not really northern states that have garages, but wealthier areas. I grew up in Michigan without a garage, until my dad built one on his own, and my house now only has a car port. I'd say only about 50% of the houses on my street have garages. Despite being from the same state as Callie, we clearly grew up with very different lifestyles.
In California it's rare to not have a garage on a house and if it doesn't it has a car port
Garages are more of a smaller city thing for the average person to have them. My mom pays $950 a month for a house in a city of around 400k population and she has a 2-car electric garage, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and a big back yard.
Definitely varies to area you’re in. Once you start moving to cities with a 1m+ population you’d pay triple what my mom pays for the same house and probably still not get a garage.
The Air conditioner may be pretty common in some part of US 🇺🇸 , probably the hottest places , but in the weather cold isn't necessary at all , i didn't know that UK doesn't has air conditioner
It's definitely needed in the UAE
In Australia , i think A/C is necessary 🇭🇲 , South Africa as well 🇿🇦
New Zealand 🇳🇿 , i think the weather also makes people want a Air Conditioner
The Uk does but it’s usually in schools
@@pinkkittens.. yeah but even then its mostly in the ICT rooms so the computers can't overheat
My childhood house in the UK was like technically a flat I think and my parents had renovated the loft into a second storey. It had a kitchen, a living room, a dining room, 2 bathrooms, and 4 bedrooms. It was quite spacious actually. My bedroom was like double the size of my current room in the house we built in New Zealand. The problem with it though was that we had downstairs neighbours so we couldn’t be loud and it was a bit hard to access the garden. You had to go down all the stairs, out the front door, through the gate and into the garden. It meant I could never go outside and play unsupervised because it was hard for my parents to keep an eye on me. Before the house was renovated it was just 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, kitchen and living room. Despite the great renovations, when my parents sold the house it basically sold for the same price they originally bought it for.
I've seen some have a combo washer/dryer unit, all in one.
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For the outlets, some people use 'power strips' to plug in their electrics, and use these to turn things on and off, with one flick of the switch.
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As far as ACs, it varies on the neighborhood, if people have central air/heating, or just window units.
One thing to understand regarding AC is that there are parts of the US where it gets hot enough that older or sick people can die from the heat, or at the least there will be some folks taken to the hospital
I live in middle west Georgia, and without AC I think we'd all die 😂. It's so dang humid here too. The air is so thick in the summer .
I live in a cold climate in the US, with 3 children. I can’t imagine hanging up the wash indoors during the snowy months. It would take over the entire house with the amount of laundry I do daily!
We have dryers lol everyone does I don’t know what this woman is talking about
Can’t afford to run them or find space to store them so a lot of people I know, me included, have had to get rid. There was a new one in my house when I bought it, and I used it a couple of times in very prolonged wet weather and to try and shrink some clothes, but it’s now gone to someone with more money. I managed all winter with no drier or heating, just wore lots of clothes, kept the windows a bit open ( froze-averaged 10 degrees Celsius inside!) and everything dried indoors. I’m lucky it wasn’t snowing or super wet this year. If it snowed lots I’d be in trouble. Dreading the coming winter, can’t be that lucky again with the weather and still can’t afford heating. Grump grump.
Dryers are bad for designer's clothes, in my humble view
No one has it in Continental Europe
We put it in a few different places in our house, the garage (not great for winter because it’s cold so takes ages to dry), the spare bedroom, my parents’ bedroom, the living room (dries fast in there because that’s where we have our fire), and the front room which is a second living room (that room is often cold too though). Wouldn’t be great if you had a small house like an apartment but an average size house actually has plenty of room to put your clothes horse and dry some clothes.
in the USA, major appliances often have a single/different electric socket. i.e. dryer, cooking stove.
In Spain AC is much more common than in other European countries. Most public spaces, stores and malls have it, also all transit systems. Houses don't teng to have it though but again it depends on where you live. In the north no one would have it but in the south it's much more common, depending basically on what each family can afford and how old the building is. I live in Barcelona and many apartments including mine have it and it's progressively becoming a need (fucking climate change)
Obvio que es mucho más común, a ver quién aguanta los más de 40 grados que que solemos alcanzar en agosto. ¡No hay huevos! Bueno, sí, los hay friéndose en el asfalto... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Spain and Italy. Pretty much any house has it. Summer is hell here from June to September :(
@@JayGiuriati And Greece
We do have the conservatory type of rooms in the U.S., but we call them a "sun room." In the U.S. the average size of houses began to blow up in about the 1990s, and accelerating since then. City houses (especially row houses) and older suburban houses built in the 1960s or earlier are actually pretty small. The grandiose, too-big-for-their-britches houses here are often called "McMansions."
We have to have air conditioning here because in many parts of the country, the temps are into the 30s celsius (38c is common) for three months without a break. Add to that the 80 percent humidity, and it would be dangerous to elderly and sick people not to have a/c. Finally, some newer U.S. electric outlets do have on/off buttons -- we just keep them on all the time.
My old house had a screen room. Instead of windows, it was like the bug screens you would put on windows but giant
I've always heard those referred to as solariums, at least here in Minnesota.
I was going to say this! There are a lot of people who have sun rooms, it's just usually more well off people. It probably depends on the area.
I think when you say "row houses", you mean what we (UK) call terraces or terrace(d) houses - i. e. ones having a common wall with a house either side. These are common here in older towns and cities, especially (ex-)mining areas - "colliery rows", and other ex-industrial places. A house on its own (a luxury here) we'd refer to as detached; common also here are buildings consisting of two houses side-by-side, which we call semi-detached - one of them would be referred to as "a semi" (rhymes with jemmy; I know semi, pronounced sem-eye, in US means a large goods vehicle). (Is that what you call a "duplex"?)
@@G6JPG Yes, a duplex is a structure with two symmetrical housing units attached to each other -- exactly as you have described as a "semi-detached" or "semi." They are not popular anymore, as they are often features of less-affluent, older parts of the cities here. For whatever reason, there are significant gentrified areas of row houses/terraced houses in the U.S. (Georgetown in DC, the Back Bay in Boston, the old city part of Philadelphia). Glory has not, however, come for the duplexes.
I know in arizona it is illegal for a landlord to not provide an AC, because it can get past 120 in the summer and people have died from heatstrokes
California as well. That's why the west really didn't develop until AC was invented because more often then not the heat would kill you
Even where I live in Northern California we have weeks of heat waves in the summer that are over 113F or 45C it's crazy hot
@@danskrista good lord really, I live near SF now and the weather is pretty perfect I didn't know that north California could get so hot
We do have a “conservatory” in the states. We just call it a “Sunroom” and it’s common in the southern states like Maryland on down. I know a lot of people in Virginia have them.
yeah, our house in NC had it
Florida room in the south
The word "conservatory" is typically used in the context of the university study of music. (in NA)
Our tubes have AC in London, as do offices, Universities, shops, restaurants, and new builds with built-in AC, which we primarily use for warming our rooms in winter, as Heatwaves max lasts for two weeks. Also, we have a washing machine with built-in tumble driers, so washer/dryer machines and everyone I know in London have one. I am talking about London, but not sure about other cities in the UK.
A/C is still considered as special in Germany as well. You only find it in hotels or in more modern, very efficient houses.
What Lauren called "conservatory" is called "Wintergarten" (winter garden) in German.
If you want to go into super German language, there is a typical word: Doppelhaushälfte. A Doppelhaus (double house) are basically two similar looking houses built together, so you save some space. Because you want to express where you live, you then say "Doppelhaushälfte (half of a double house). So we combine two houses and split them again, all of this in one word 🤣
Yeah, I've met a girl from Germany who came over to the US for a week to attend a wedding. I think she's like 25 or so. It was her first time here, and she was not used to air conditioning, and she got a little sick for a few days then she didn't want to go inside anywhere because everywhere is cold inside to her. I felt kind of bad for her, but overall she had a fun time here. Before this, I didn't know people in EU didn't have A/C, but it makes sense.
We tend to call these sunrooms or solariums.
the sockets are also mounted horizontally, but this is mostly in older houses.
Also, US has a single faucet for hot and cold water that is controlled by one lever. UK houses most of the time have a separate hot and cold faucet.
I live in the UK and all my taps go hot and cold
Big houses in Texas *used to be* cheap. However, that changed when all the Californians started moving here. 😔
So im guessing all the Californians forced all the Texans to Colorado and now Colorado complains about all the Texans moving here lol
(there's a LOT of people from texas here, and one of the things Coloradans love to complain about is people moving here)
I don't need my A/C for heat. I can handle heat. I need it for the humidity. It can be 25°C and I'll turn it on if the air starts getting too damp and uncomfortable. It's also good for allergy season, which can get particularly nasty if you're in a rural area.
Right now is raining in Malaysia, it's 26c but it's too cold for me.
lol 25 degrees for us in the UAE is winter. we get excited when the temperatures at night go below 30. humidity is lower during the day and like 80% or more at night in the coastal region (the highest dew point ever measured was here in the Arabian gulf). so there is no life without AC for us.
here in arizona it reaches 43 everyday during the hottest parts of summer but it’s very dry here so it’s not too uncomfortable
It’s also very common to have a dryer in the UK, haven’t heard many people that don’t have a dryer unless they can’t afford it or the person/head of household has a particular issue with getting dryers
I find it so funny that Lauren has brought up Texas a few different times throughout different videos! I don’t blame her though, their houses are quite large for not too much money. (I have Texas saved on my Zillow 😂)
The whole of America except the big cities has big houses for really cheap. Houses are like double the price in my country!
@@rachelcookie321 makes up for how much our healthcare costs 😂
@@stephen8797 Health insurance was actually a lot less than the difference in income tax when we moved from Canada to the US.
Conservatory- in the US, we'd call that a sun room! My grandparents have one.
Dining rooms were really common in middle class houses till the 1950-60s, perhaps with a drawing-room as well. More modern houses have tended, I think, to be more open plan without separate sitting-room and dining-room.
I love the extra room that faces the garden. You could build a moving wall of windows that could fold and hide away and have a nice deck on the same level so when the weather is good you could open the wall and enjoy the outside.
The second thing is I do like the electric outlets and how they do have a switch. I know with the ability of smart home technology instead of that being a physical switch it could be electronic instead and designed so you could speak and give a command to turn it on or off as well as the ability to touch the switch physically.
The third thing is it would be nice to find out what the differences are between Accessibility devices in the US and the UK such as how a wheelchair-accessible toilet stall would be set up in each country and lay out etc?
I'm guessing you're American based on the moving wall lol. nice idea, but modern homes are a very modern idea. most suburban homes in the uk were built in the 1930s and have the same style everywhere, and generally brits won't motorise their homes
Nordic countries have been having dryers at least 50 years . When me and wife got married (1981) and got our first place to live we got washing machine and dryer as presents. With a little kid wet season in western Norway it is needed 😎🇧🇻
I live in the UK. Where I live we don’t generally use garages for cars rather extra storage space.
The conservatory thing - yeah, a sunroom, a "florida" room. even a "4 season" porch - though many of the "3 season" porches I've seen wood be fine year-round in most of the UK.
In my country, we use the UK-style 3 pin plug socket and always have a switch. I was shock (hehe) when I first learn that America and Europe don't have switches with their socket.
Europe? Doesn’t Europe have switches?
Utility rooms are common, but not even a majority of homes in the USA have them. Washers/dryers are often in the basement, or they are in a laundry/utility closet. A utility ROOM is a good thing to have so that dirty and clean clothes just washed don't mess up the rest of the house.
in florida all homes built after the 80s have them. can't speak for the rest of the country.
@@dietrevich My house built in 2000 has a laundry closet.
@@willp.8120 ok? Thank you for letting me know..I guess??!
It's always good to see Lauren from the UK.
This girl hardly knows the uk, sounds more American
@@definitelynotatroll246 you want Emily?
7:33 I wanna hear/see a british mother screaming for the clothes because it's raining 😂 how would it be?
I'm from Mexico so I have the experience in spanish 😂😂🤣
My mum has never screamed because of it. She will either say about it in a grumbly voice or a panicked voice, but she’s never screamed. Why would you scream?
In my house we hang laundry all over the house.
Texan here. Every summer we count the number of days over 100°F in a row. I don't know anyone here who DOESN'T have A/C! I've heard they don't really have it in the Northeast though. In desert places they have swamp coolers....
Almost everyone in the Northeast has air conditioning as summers are usually in the 80’s and 90’s F. It’s much less common in the Pacific Northwest where it stays in the 60’s and 70’s throughout summer.
If it goes over 25c (77f) here in the uk it’s classed as a heatwave, we might get like 2 weeks max of hot wether a year. Most of the time it’s cold here so there’s really no need for a/c.
There is of course the confusion of what is meant by "bathroom". In UK, it used always to mean the room with a bath(tub) in it; from about the midle of the 20th century, it _also_ tended to include a toilet (WC). A room containing _only_ a WC would _never_ be called a bathroom, even now. Towards the later 20th century, a "downstairs toilet" became common, so a (two-storey) house would have two WCs (the original bathroom was nearly always upstairs, on the same floor as the bedrooms); a second bathroom - meaning room with a bath - is still rare: usually the bath room is shared. Sometimes - becoming commoner this century - the master bedroom might have an "en suite" added, which means a room with a bath (and often WC), for users of the master bedroom only, the existing bathroom remaining to be shared by the users of the other bedrooms. Showers started to replace bath(tub)s towards the end of the 20th century; given the smaller size of British homes, this allows more rooms to have "en suite" facilities. Many (especially older!) people still prefer a bath to a shower.
In the Mid Atlantic, there are a mixture of structure types in the cities/towns/suburbs). Some houses come with a 'Sun Room' (='Conservatory'), some have them added on (either as a whole new space, or by transforming the porch in front or the deck in the back), and even in the inner city they have them, so its not necesarily fancy as in "wealth", but it can be a nice way to add 'green spaces', in "the concrete jungle".
At 1:31 you have what we in Norway call vinter hage (winter garden), and on that note: Where in Norway did Callie go (4:51)?
We do have conservatory...it's called an "Enclosed Patio"
The common household voltage is 110. 220 ia used for stoves, cloths dryers and hot water heaters.
When I went to Belgium as a student, the student residence (dorm building) had what they called a, "solarium" up on the roof of the building.
Lauren here 🇬🇧 obviously I’m sure there are SOME place and families that have AC (probably way down in the south so I would have no idea) and I heard the tube has some AC so sorry about the misinfo, not been to London in a few years😬 I also mentioned that my sister, who lives in Spain has an AC but she doesn’t really use it too often! Hope you enjoyed~
love u lauren! are you currently in the USA?
@@lucymilligann thanks Lucille! We all currently live in South Korea (you can check my channel for vlogs n stuff)
The electricity in Spain is very expensive so it’s not worth it
@@angelicsailor1st exactly!!
I think it is just the newer trains on the Tube that have AC like Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City line. Pretty sure all the deep level tube lines still haven't figured a way to get it down there and/or the trains are too old for it (Central and Piccadilly line etc).
It is entertaining to see some of the US perspectives - because truly, some of them fairly specifically identify the region, or the socio-economic class that these folks are from.
Or how little some of them have traveled outside their own state.
We definitely have something similar to a conservatory. We call it a sunroom down in Florida, IDK if anyone else has something similar in other states or if its the same.
We called it the Florida room but I've heard it called a sunroom too.
Another difference in electrical power in that the power in the UK (and Western Europe) has a frequency of 50 Hz while the power in the US (Canada and Mexico) has a frequency of 60 Hz. Also North American voltages are commonly 110-127 volts while European voltages are 220-230 volts. An adapter/power converter is required to operate appliances when visiting from one side of the "Pond" to the other.
My country Malaysia use 240v and 60hz frequency
Would 10hz make a difference.. it’s not much 10 extra or less
I grew up hanging clothes outside; dryer is definitely easier. We would also have to treasure clothes that got hit with bird droppings or caught in a storm
We’ve always hung clothes outside but I’ve never had anything pooped on by birds or get blown away or anything. It’s best to hang things up when it’s windy because then it dries quicker but as a kid (and even now) I would always get scared that my clothes would get blown away when it was really windy but luckily that never happened.
For the outlets, it depends on when the house was built. My parents house was built in the 60's and it has a couple of 2 prong outlets still remaining.
We had 2 prong outlets and 2 double outlets with 4 plugs until we renovated the house now all of our outlets are 3 prong
I feel like some things really depend on where you live I live in an area where pretty much any kind of house is possible (trailers down the street from mansions and retirement neighborhoods) in my area a lot of people hang clothes outside bc it's windy
We have dryers, I need my clothes dry in the wintertime, who is this woman
@@definitelynotatroll246 most people I know don’t have dryers
So my house doesn't have a garage so we added a carport. Most older houses and mobile homes do not have them. Also, we have sunrooms, just depends on the house, Oh plugs do have switches in the kitchen and in bathrooms to prevent a fire hazard, the other sockets don't need them because most appliances have their own switch and or the plug is grounded. Even if a plug is overloaded in newer homes, the breakers will flip to shut off the power because it detects too much wattage. But I like both girls, they're very smart and I get this is just a "general" conclusion on what you usually see in a house in both countries growing up. Well done video. :D
In miami fl we don't have many houses with garages
Down here in Malta A/C is extremely common as summer takes a long time to blow over and it gets rather hot. We have the british style elctrical plugs, a holdover from the time we used to be British colony.
Actually, in Northern and Central Europe, A/Cs are rare, but in Southern Europe are quite common in the cities and areas by the sea, but not in the villages, where it is more cold, or you are more used to heat.
i remember in the UK my old semi-detached house had a shared garden (if you can even call it that, it was more like just open space) and we rarely put our clothes on the spider looking hanging one what we usually done was put our clothes on the indoor foldable clothing racks and hand some clothes up in the conservatory. Also im not sure about in the US but in Australia we have sliding windows that have nets, but in the uk we had the sort of windows were it's like a mini glass door so it was much easier to use.
You must have been poor then or had no space cause everyone had tumble dryers, this girl hasn’t got a clue
@@definitelynotatroll246 we didn't have space and so ya and my parents didn't buy one saying it was useless cuz we we'r going to leave after a few years anyway
@@definitelynotatroll246 I don’t know where you live but literally no one I know in the UK uses a tumble drier. A few people have them but they don’t use them often. And I lived in a more expensive area. My family isn’t rich but I know a lot of people who are above average wealth wise and they still just hang up their clothes. Every middle class British person hangs up their clothes to dry.
@@rachelcookie321 I never said we don’t hang clothes out on the line I just said we have tumble dryers. How do you dry your clothes in winter or when it’s raining? I live in a relatively poor area and I’d say 80-90% the people I know have tumble dryers, not saying we use them every day
@@definitelynotatroll246 you’ve never heard a clothes horse? You hang them up inside on a clothes horse like a regular person. The only people I know with separate tumble driers are wealthy, most people who do have them, have combined washing and drying machine. But they only use them if they need something dried very quickly.
Thank you!! 💜🦋
In England/UK - im from England though
I think A/C is usually in… like schools - though they never use them, istg it’s annoying as the teachers might put it on for 5 minutes if we continuously ask-, shops have a square vent like thing on the ceiling (I think) not all do though, i dont know what other places might have A/C…
For houses, standard house might be a kitchen, living room, upstairs bathroom, 1 large bedroom and a smaller bedroom… I don’t know whether a standard house has hallways
I grew up in New England and I wouldn't dream of drying my clothing outdoors. I don't even understand how that would work. Everything outside is always covered in a thin film of green pollen, tiny bugs, and pine needles. What's even the point of washing your clothes and then letting it get covered in all that?
Living in Florida, AC is a must. Not a luxury, an absolute must. Besides the potentially deadly heat, there's the humidity as well (which can also be deadly, people don't really think about that), but there's also filters you can use that really helps with allergies.
We also had a 'conservatory', but it's called a Florida room. You spend the most time in there because it's easier to heat/cool one main room everyone will be in. And the windows are for another favorite Florida past time - people watching.
We have dryers in the uk, this girl is more American than British don’t listen to her.
ACs are not a must it is a luxury. Only if you were not raised in a hot climate or are accustomed to cooler weather you'd think that. People in the Caribbean, Mexico, etc don't have AC either and no one is dying there for it. We modern humans are just more spoiled.
@@dietrevich Yes, I suppose not dying is a luxury. Since there are heat related deaths all the time in the south when the power goes out and there's no AC.
When it comes to the new electric vehicle charging technology, the UK is at an advantage. It iis much easier to integrate level 2 charging because their natural voltage is 220-240 volts instead of 117 volts. While American homes have 220-volt options, it takes running a special 220 line out to wherever that charger will be to be able to supply the necessary voltage to run the charger. Running a 117-volt charging unit is s-l-o-o-w! and might not refill your car completely overnight. I also think the UK runs more "green" energy infrastructure than the US too! We're still to dependent on natural gas and coal.
One real difference I find is in the plumbing. In America we combine the cold and hot water into a single mixable tap, the UK keeps the hot & cold water COMPLETELY SEPARATE...hunh? I don't get that one! How are you to control temperature using the separate tap system? While the UK is starting to combine the two tempartures of water in one tap, the tap is still divided hot & cold...go figure that! Design of the Loo versus the American toilet is interesting too! In the UK the tank sits high up on the wall as a separate unit from the toilet, whereas the American toilet is one single unit with tank and toilet cmbined together. The UK setup has more pipes that can jam up than the American toilet has. Whie this was very interesting, no one has mentioned that difference which II find quite dramatically different between households in the USA versus the UK.
In the UK a lot of places have the seperate taps because the cold water is clean, drinking water but the hot water used to not be drinkable or something along those lines so they didn’t want the water to mix
The UK ring circuits are limited to a maximum of 32 amps and each receptacle is limited to 13 amps. The lowest power level 2 chargers (7 kW) are going to draw enough current to completely max out a ring circuit. So even in the UK a level 2 charger needs a dedicated circuit. Electricity is also extremely expensive in the UK when compared to the US and Canada.
Actually with the plug outlets in Canada we have the same ones as in the US and they are usually installed vertically but sometimes I’ve seen them installed horizontally as well and even though when you install them vertically it’s supposed to be the little ground hole should be on the bottom and the 2 long holes on top but I have seen them installed upside down with the little ground hole on top and the 2 long holes on the bottom and I don’t know why but it drives me bonkers when I see a plug outlet installed upside down with the ground hole on top and the 2 long holes on the bottom I ABSOLUTELY hate seeing them installed that way but horizontally doesn’t bother me only if they are installed upside down vertically with the little ground hole on the top and the 2 long holes on the bottom does it drive me mad also in Canada sometimes there would be a switch on the wall with the light switches that would turn on or off one of the plug outlets
We have an air con for my house for the summer, living in ground floor 3 floor house turned flats in the uk!
I wonder how households in different countries have their dish-washing routine (no machine)? When I went to New Zealand (airbnb) i was surprised to see that the way they do it is by making a clogged basin and pouring in soap and using a big brush. Where I'm from, we just use a sponge with soap.
That new Zealander did is the old way how to conserved water. Every place on earth did that until 70's when tap water is available
I don't think it's common in the US to have a conservatory. Any that do may not call it that either. My grandmother's house had a room like a conservatory like the photo supplied shows, but the ceiling wasn't glass and we called it the 'flordia room' because we only used it during the spring & summer months. Fall and winter were a bit too cold to use it where we were. I imagine it might be more common in the southern areas of the US where the weather is generally warmer and lasts a bit longer or has a less harsh winter so they'd get more use out of such a room. Fireplaces tend to be more common where I live in the northern area of the US than a conservatory.
My house doesn't have an attic or basement, our garage is separate from the house which I hate, it's too impractical in winter to be separate. I'm in my 30s and I remember my mom hanging clothes up on a clothesline to dry in summer. I get not using a tumble dryer in summer and spring but if you don't have one in a place where rain is frequent and winters are harsh, why no tumble dryers? Do you still hang laundry outside in winter? 🤔
7:51
The socket we have in the UK is Type G. However, the USA uses Type A/B.
Lots of homes in the USA do not have a garage, especially older homes built before the 70s. Many built from the 50s-70s just have a car port, whereas homes older than that often don't have any garage.
I'm from the same state as Callie, and I only have a car port. I'd say only about 50% of the houses on my street have a garage, maybe less. Though, I absolutely agree age is a factor, but so is wealth (which goes kind of hand in hand, as the wealthier you are the more likely you are to be able to afford newer things). Two cities over, and I'd say 90% of the houses there have garages.
This is a big factor as to why lots of uk houses don’t have one either. Lots of our houses were built before cars were even a thing. Houses here are made of stone so they’ve been around since before cars
We definitely have Conservatory’s… they are what we consider sun rooms in the US
The conservatory thing kind of looks like a sun room to me!
I think that switches on electrical outlets only became popular in the 1970s. I grew up in a house built in the 60s, and only the outlets in the kitchen had switches.
Bathrooms too.
Outlets near floor level rarely to never have them in the US. Counter-level outlets in the US occasionally DO in modern builds.
In Canada we have houses with garages and some without I think garages are more common in the suburbs I grew up in a suburb of Toronto and there pretty much all the houses had garages but in the city there are some houses with garages but I don’t think as many houses in the city of Toronto have garages as in the suburbs
conservatory is a Florida Room in the south or a screen room
I Like Emily from the UK...where is she? Missed to see her? Her style like royalty or noble which is kinda cool🤩
Nearly every uk house had a dryer
And they are not expensive
Ranging from 150 to 250 and last around 8 years or more
As a southern American who’s been living in the UK since 2020 it still makes me mad every single day during UK summer that I don’t have AC 😂. I’m on the top floor so it casually reaches 80 degrees inside my home. One thing they also didn’t touch on is that most UK homes have NO ventilation! So if I take a hot shower I have to leave the bathroom door open and open the nearest window to let the steam out or the house will get mold everywhere and your paint will start to crack on the walls. Mold is a HUGE problem in the UK. My UK 2020 built apartment is very modern but still lacks things I commonly had at home in the US. I have no ceiling fan either. My washer/dryer is a 2in1 machine that’s in the kitchen. 99% of UK homes the washer machines are next to the sink in the kitchen. Luckily, like I said my apartment is modern so it’s hidden behind a cabinet door so it’s not such an eye sore.
Positives however is that for £1500 a month or around $1700 USD my home has touch screen sinks and showers that I can control the exact temperature in Celsius on. The whole apartment has ambient lighting, minimalistic drawers, the fridge looks like a regular gloss cabinet door, rain showers, bathroom mirrors with screens that tell me the weather and a fun fact of the day… it’s a pretty cool apartment for the money.
I think it was at some point in the 2000s that it became a planning requirement for all rooms to have trickle vents on the windows, and wet rooms to get fan powered ventilation. A touch screen sink though... I'm not sure if that'd be fancy or annoying 😄
@@PhillipParr my bathrooms have no ventilation and was definitely built in 2020 as a whole new building. And yes… the touchscreen sink activation is VERY annoying. You wash your hands and can’t turn the sink off because your hands are wet and it messes the sensors up just like trying to touch a phone screen with wet hands. So I have to wash them, keep the water running, dry my hands, then turn the water off.
@@Idk910 Approved Document F (Ventilation) of the Building Regulations 2010 requires that bathrooms have Extract Ventilation to the outside at an intermittent rate of 15 litres per second. Intermittent usually means an extractor fan that turns on and off automatically, typically when you turn the light on. If you don't have this... point it out to the developer who should rectify it, and if they dismiss you report it to the NHBC.
I had a feeling the sink would seem cool but be annoying in use - I had an interview at Apple once and they had an iPad controlling the sink (it could dispense all manner of different drinks), but if you just wanted water it was several taps and didn't respond well when covered in splashes!
@@PhillipParr interesting. I’m going to contact my tenancy tomorrow morning. Is this for the whole of the UK? I’m in Suffolk, England specifically. I’m so tired of having to have a bedroom window open the last 2.5 years in order to let steam out.
@@Idk910 yep, building regs for the whole of the UK. Make them sort it 😃
i feel like they never have someone from america who uses like the same words or recognizes the sane things as me, like there are closed in porches that are like the conservatory and sunrooms, and like no one EVER says gym shoes or tennis shoes they always say sneakers like ew no
In Australia pretty much all of us us have an A/C for the main reason it gets really hot
I live in Northern Ireland.
We have a washer and a dryer, the weather is too unpredictable to dry clothes on the clothes line!
I don’t know anyone without a dryer in the uk, except maybe students or really poor people, you got to have one lol this woman hasn’t got a clue, we don’t have them cause of climate change🤣
What about Airconditioning for heating in the UK, given it’s so cold there always & raining 🥶?
Conservatory’s are super popular i feel like! I think we call them sun rooms tho
In the US, at least in the midwest, people do build conservatories (called sunrooms here) as an add on to their houses. Its usually not common though.
The English washers spin faster than American ones do so the laundry that comes out is damp. It can be hung up and dry rather quickly. I am American and visited family in the UK and that was one of the things I noticed. My tee shirts came out almost dry.
That's not true. I live in the US & have a washer that has a "drain and spin" button you can hit if it's still too damp as much as you want and my clothes come out the same way.. So that depends on the washer lol
@@DaleyWhaley91 how does what you said make his comment not true? every uk washing machine has that option at least that I’ve come across
It depends on the type in the US. The US front loaders spin at over 1,000 rpm which is similar to the UK units. Top loaders spin a lot slower.
We have those conservatories in the u.s too we call them a Florida room, a sun den, or just a den haha
UK homes do have conversatories, but in rural or semi-urban areas. In London or Manchester for example, there wouldn't be many.
one thing that makes me chuckle about these comparison vids is that a lot of the presenters on them no longer live in the country they are representing.
This was a fun watch as a British person
American air conditioning in buildings is too intense. I always have to go for warm up walks to escape air conditioned buildings.
I was shocked that most houses in the UK don't have screens on the windows! Don't creepy-crawly's get in? Also, what's up with the two spigots in the sink? You wake up in the morning & splash your face with scalding hot or freezing cold water? And pull chains to turn on the light in the bathroom. Only the cheapest roadside motels have that..which brings me to what the English refer to as the bathroom. Toilet? It's a bit graphic. Don't even get me started on laundry! That said, I would love to live somewhere in the UK. I read that the Cotswold are absolutely charming! If I were rich I'd buy a cottage there. With a few modifications, that is...😊
I mean yeah we do get insects coming in but it's usually only spiders or flies - the latter especially and they won't leave whether you like it or not. There really isn't anything beyond that though - we can live with it. Having two taps (what you call spigots I think) is becoming more uncommon these days - we usually have mixer taps - 2-in-1 - and you can please yourself with how hot or cold you want the water. The light cord in the bathroom is a safety thing - like having no power outlets in the bathroom - reduces the risk of electrocution. I think it's a rather good idea, plus if you're fumbling around looking for the switch, especially in the dark, it's much easier to find a cord to pull instead. We do say bathroom but that's to refer to the room itself - saying that to someone might suggest you're planning on having a shower or something, whereas toilet gets straight to the point. It's like how the Americans say "restroom", without context that sounds a bit strange in itself. A lot of Brits say "Loo" as a euphemism that's less derogatory I guess but I've always said toilet and it's never felt graphic. After all, you can be even more graphic by specifying what you will be using it for, so I think toilet is sufficient.
Some people have like 3 season rooms in the states. That would be the closest thing to a UK conservatory
yeah its common in spain. funny thing is central heating in some apartments wasnt a thing when i was looking. mainly bc it doesnt get cold enough in winter
US has greenhouses, but they are usually called "sun rooms" or "solariums".
Air conditioner is very common in the south of Europe tho (Portugal, Spain, south of France, Italy, Greece, etc.)
Of course it is, we reach more than 40 °C in summer!! It's impossible to stand such temperatures!!! 🥵🥵🥵
In the USA, the conservatory is known as a Sun room, Solarium, Florida room.
You need to research Laurence Brown and his "Lost In The Pond" episodes for interesting differences between the British and American ways of life.
If you lived in the Deep South like I do, you’d be loving that A/C and likely use it 9 months of the year! Come visit us in our big ole detached houses with garages and ceiling fans and dryers! 😉
I want consevatory!
I had plugged in mobile for charging but forgot to switch in ON what do I do 😮
some houses in the uk have a tumble dryer, I have one
I'm from the south (of USA) and I actually don't know much people with A/C... (accept my family, but we try to use plug in fans)
That's so different from what I've always known... where do you live?
It’s really not needed in the uk as it rarely gets hotter than 80 degrees here and that’s a hot day. We have radiators and some old houses even have coal fireplaces to warm us up not ac to cool us down
Im from the UK and most people I know have a tumble dryer so I’d assume it’s as common as a washing machine
I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and we never had AC. It didn't get hot very often in the summer, and when it did, we just lived with it. It may be different there now. I live in Oklahoma, and we have AC in our house. Most places in the south and Midwest have humid climates, and it would take hours to dry clothes by hanging them outside. However they dry very quickly in a low humidity climate. I have lived in both. The truth of the matter is that drying clothes outside is too much of a bother in any climate. Very few people in America do it any more. Environmental issues lose out to good old American convenience.
In the US our electrical outlets are only 110 volts. The voltage is higher in the UK, and so they have a switch. I visited Australia, and it was that way there too.
There are places where drying your clothes on a clothesline is against local ordinances because it is considered an eyesore that lowers property values. The triumph of the HMO mindset over environmental common sense.
Clotheslines were common on every home when I was a child in the late 20th century but they are rare now.
Heatpumps are getting much more popular in the NorthWest now ;-) Fact that they both heat and cool homes while being 5x more efficient than burning fuel is causing folks to start switching over.
in the US we use 120V not 110V
I have been to London and I have never seen it perhaps outside London
Good to know that
The dryer is not necessarily bad for the environment.
At least where I’m from people have garages, or carports on the house because of storms. Every year we get hail, and pretty much everybody has a vehicle.
In France we have the same way of life , similar to UK
We literally have sunrooms In the US. Like they are super popular but it is a bit expensive to get one put in.