BRITISH vs AMERICAN HOMES - 8 DIFFERENCES
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2017
- British and American homes might look similar at first, but there are some differences that can be really inconvenient if you aren't prepared for them. Watch this video before you travel!
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I've notices 8 differences between British and American homes and I tried to show them in this video. Let me know if you notice something else!
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That is not a typical British home. It would have been nice for you to find a really nice home. You are in a very old fashioned home.
OK but are new homes "typical"? I doubt it! British economy is not doing great either as I hear it, and though in the US I think it's difficult to find a typical home in general, it definitely would not be a sky-rise condo nor a mansion.
british economy aint shit to do with that house ,the landlord is just lazy and cheap ,its interior is from like 20 - 30 years ago and hasnt been updated since
girlsdrinkfeck Exactly
I don't know what you mean. It's certainly not a modern flat, but it's hardly atypical. Be realistic.
That’s not old fashioned lol. In Northern Ireland most houses are in the same format as what she showed.
Are you kidding me? Of course we take our shoes off in most parts of America. Just imagine entering your house during the winter with your boots full of dirty snow and salt.
Tony Kellogg thank you for this. She needs to travel to the closed parts of the us.
Some houses in the states have a mud room to take your shoes off. Mainly in regions where there's a lot of snow.
Tony Kellogg Yeah, especially in Florida, Texas and all the southern states that never see a flake of snow.
I once asked my American chatroom friends about taking off their shoes. Some said always, some said never, some said only if they are wet or dirty. In my parents' home we didn't take off our shoes. "No feet on the furniture" was one of the rules to keep the chairs clean. Of course if your shoes were muddy or snowy you'd tke them off.
In the UK it's more of a respect thing, like you wouldn't walk into your own home and tread mud everywhere - and you'd get a swift kick from someone if you did so in their house
This chick goes into a student hostel and declares it an average British house. [facepalm]
A student hostel has a living room, Kitchen with washer, bedroom and bath?? Pretty elaborate hostel! Wow! Seemed like a full on apartment/flat to me.
@@sherristewart1743 Surprisingly, yes.
@@YujiUedaFan I thought a hostel was where travelers go to sleep ONLY, not LIVE! I thought you had to share a room with a few others, toot, and there MIGHT be a sofa and chairs and a TV in a common area. And the trade off is that it's pretty cheap.
@@sherristewart1743 It's Student Accommodation. The places here always gut everything out in July-September for the new students, because it attracts super wealthy students that take up all parking spots. :/
It's Dartford girls grammar school for boys
She seems very nice but I don't understand why someone from St Petersburg is presenting an American view vs a British one. If you have only lived in the US for 9 months and only in one city and one state how can you make such sweeping generalizations?
She disclaimed her video...
She's a idiot
@Natalie Rivera no she’s not, she’s just a normal person trying to make an entertaining CZcams video.
Love your smile
But those "tada da daaaa" were quite annoying.
You know why they were annoying for you? Because of your pride, your ego.
You may be right about my pride and ego. But that's not why I said that. I just stated my opinion/advice from what I felt. Take it or leave it.
I know what you mean, I felt something similar, but then I questioned the feeling and asked myself, why would that sound annoy me in whatever way? The answer is simple, I'm more proud than you brother.
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Sorry bro. High Level Shit. Can't understand. Not a psychiatrist.
Min Hashamayim stupid!
I am British and I live in Britain; I and my family and friends have always rinsed our dishes clean with fresh water after hand washing them! I have not experienced anyone merely wiping soapy crockery and cutlery/utensils down before putting them away or reusing them. I don't recognise this as a British characteristic at all.
I know a professional chef from UK and he does that. He says all chefs do it. I find it disgusting.
I went to boarding school in England and our housemistresses taught us to wash our dishes without rinsing them! I'm not saying it's a British thing but I've only ever seen this in Britain!
I just mentioned I saw my friends do that, I am sure many people actually rinse their dishes :) Agree with comments here, Britain is the only country where I saw something like that
I'm English to and I thought that was so weird what the Americans do like really weird...
I never witnessed anyone rinsing dishes after washing up. Old war memories.
This woman is clueless.
This is a student home how is this typical
Student homes aren't even decorated nice. They have no personality to them.
Exactly
Yeah ✌
Not a typical British home...That's a VERY old house with old style fittings that nobody uses anymore and that interior...And that's student housing not a "typical home" hence the Landlord hasn't bothered to update anything.
I'm British and ALWAYS rinse my dishes after washing!
Uh derrrrrr she didn't say Brits didn't. Were you watching? Said used the water longer. Jeez all these people getting BUTTHURT. WE'RE NOT PIGS. We know we know calm down.
her anecdote is either not true or her buddies have a dusty cupboard so they rinse the plates under the tap before using each time, so their system makes sense. Anyone doing what she implies would be eating food tainted with an off flavour clearly. Noone british or not is going to do that, she just got the wrong end of the stick
lol I'm in the US and do as well but I have met some of us americans whom don't rinse while camping in the desert to conserve the water. I think that's gross though. One of my family members rarely uses dish soap!!!! Because he is against using too many harsh chemicals. BUt uses it if something is especially dirty and for guest dishes. lol I think much of these "differences" vary greatly in many nations there are many different people.
Aha, sounds like Brits don’t have dishwashers at all. Stupid video.
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Those "tada-da-da-daa-daaaaa" made me crazy :')
+Dr.Harrison Price hahhaha
Yeah, that kind of got on my nerves
Dr.Harrison Price agreed. Couldn’t even finish watching the video.
Dr.Harrison Price same
Where's my shovel?
Video: Da da da da da DAH
Me: **SCREAMS**
Awful noise
That's annoying as shit
In America we call the garden a “yard”, and call a garden an area in the yard with food plants such as tomato, strawberries, and green beans growing.
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in the uk where you grow food in the garden, we call that a vegetable patch. You also get things called allotments, which is where you rent a small parcel of land to grow things if you dont have a garden (if you lived in a city for example in a flat).
Saying all British people don't rinse their plates because your friends don't is an extreme over generalisation! check your facts!
kevin cordier Correct, her friends are mingers.
But... it's true! All English (or the vast majority at least) don't rinse dishes. I think this is a disgusting habit... let them get out of the European Union! We don't want soap eaters around!
Apparently Frank Brown is either very foolish, or has been able to visit every British household at the exact time they are washing their dishes? i know which one my moneys on! pmsl.
No.
Every single UK household I've stayed in don't rinse handwashed dishes.
There is no average British or American houses.
BS. . . I have family all over the US, all the homes were built in the last 20 years. All are suburban typical 4 bed, 2.5 to 3.5 baths, granite or marble counters. Finished basements. Cookie cutter suburbia.
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Flappy Bird you ate all my beans
Monica Kelly nah in Newyork that would cost about 2 million dollars
@@monicakelly6273 this is because houses in the us cost a third of what they do in the uk. There mostly wooden framed houses in the us and concrete in the uk. If you built an “average“ American house in the uk it would fall apart in a decade from the weather.
In the US (my part at least) windows that open tend to have screens to keep bugs out.
Martha Loven we don’t really need screens Cos it’s pretty cold all the time so bugs don’t really fly about, although in summer time when the bug problem does tend to get worse you can buy attachable screen from local stores and attach them to your windows :)
PoppyMSP many parts of the United States have very similar climates to the UK but we still have screens.
To have a bug screen in the UK, on our bedroom windows would be very rare. I have never seen them before !
In the UK we just deal with the bugs or buy fans.
Mine has screens as well
We call it a duvet in Canada too; they call it a bed-spread in the US
Actually in a lot of American homes people remove their shoes. And in the UK, maybe you were observing lazy students, but, a lot of people don't just wipe the cleansing foam with a towel but actually rinse the dishes, in fact I have never seen that in all my life in the UK. How do I know? I'm half British and half American and grew up in both countries. Otherwise you are pretty accurate.
What is cleansing foam? lol I didn't know they had that for dishes! XD BUt even in the US I have seen people that hardly rinse with water or at all if they are conserving. It's gross i.m.o. but nonetheless. I also know some people who refuse to use any dish soap unless 100% necessary or for guests. Also gross but I'm just saying I'm sure plenty of people in England have similar habits, there's a variety of people everywhere.
Keep in mind the US is about the same size as Europe. Typical is hard to pin down, there area lot of different climates (tropical to artic) and lots of subcultures. We mostly speak the same language but there is a lot of variety.
I am British and I speak for all British people when I say...
THAT IS ONE REALLY CRAPPY HOUSE!!!
Seriously tho, most houses in Britain are much nicer than that.
init and being sick. if you knew your house would be recorded at least clean it. the sink had hair on it ewwww
Talk about the mansions
Are they that house looked nice from the out side and I am from the Uk
Shoes are a personal choice or family tradition. Traditional American homes have kitchens. Open floor plan concepts are a trend in America. Washer and dryer go in the garage or laundry room. Houses and apartments are not the same and serve different purposes. They are not interchangeable other than each serves as a place to live.
They don't serve different purposes though, because both are places to live. lmao BUT definitely depends on the home for the type of windows, string lights, etc. I am a white american and we take our shoes off when entering the home, only wear indoor slippers inside. In the western US it's difficult to rent at all with a washer/dryer in the home at all. Let alone having to pay 1/2 weeks pay to rent a garage. The open floor concept is something I've been saying, not something "traditional" about homes in America, just starting to become a logical idea for people whom have kids to keep an eye on/ guests to entertain while cooking.
Houses are normally purchased with land and owners obtain a bundle of rights and build equity and receive tax breaks. Apartments are rented and the renter recieves no equity or rights. Apartments are considered temporary housing until one can purchase a house or condo. Both have similarities as places to live, but they are different. 😺
This is ridiculous. I am American, several generations of us never wear outside shoes in house. Higher toilets in America too. My English in laws - always wear shoes in house and all we have been everywhere from Yorkshire to Norfolk ALWAYS wear shoes in house. Brits was dishes well and sanitary just as much as we do.
yeah, i have NEVER been to a house where people are wearing shoes inside
I never wear shoes in the house it's just uncomfortable. At least in TN servicemen take their shoes off or have little booties to cover their shoes when entering the house especially when it has been raining or snowing without being asked. I guess it's company policy.
Jessica Ely Absolutely, Jessica. The postings prove that big generalizations about the purely personal habit of shoes on or off in one’s house are so ridiculous!! My 92 yo Mom told me how HER grandmother and all THEIR neighbors all had hallways w/cubby holed shelves for outdoor shoes. Nobody wore shoes in house. Another note - she reminded me how gross people thought it was at first to even have a bathroom IN the main house. The finicky housekeepers were glad not to deal with overnight chamber pots BUT the very idea of outhouses IN the house was off putting. Times do change, eh?
Generally the British take their shoes off and wear slippers.
I had an engineer in my house recently and he put on covers over his shoes
In America, depending on the era in which your home was built, the kitchen could possibly be separated from the rest of the house by a door. It can be seen in some mid-century floor plans.
Yeah, "open concept" didn't really become the preference until the 1990s. If you have a home built before the 1970s it will most likely have a separate kitchen... although it most likely can't be completely shut off with a door like British kitchens.
True my grandma's house she grew up in is like that but also the bathrooms outside she said it was so if the kitchen caught fire you wouldn't loose your house
It's not old houses that have two taps in the bathroom. All houses have got two taps. You don't use the plug and fill the sink up. You wash your hands under the hot tap.
Not all houses have got a pull cord for the bathroom light. About 50/50 or less.
People do not just wipe soap suds of things with a tea towel! You must know some weird people.
You rinse it off and put it on the draining board before drying up.
4:32 that was so cool, didn’t know that, thank you for sharing 💕
OMG!!!!! Yesss finally a video that agrees with me. Everything you said is true. I live here and when I moved, I was SHOOKED with the houses. I come from Italy and there, the houses are big and nice.
Those da-da-da-da's are really annoying.
Yea, but they were cute and enduring. I found myself giggling every time she did it.
Too loud..
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Annoing
The annoying thing is not the da-da-da-da itself; it's done while she's speaking. That part is annoying.
I am British and most of the things you said are completely different to mine
Somtochi Ohakah I know right me too. Just because one British person does it, doesn't mean everybody else in Britian does it
Me too
It was pretty much identical to my house🤔
Same
We could do I see the more MK and KFC in you could say stuff about the guns
You would need to compare this to a house built in the US at approximately the same time -- otherwise it is just comparing how house designs have changed over time.
When I think of a house, I usually think of a stand alone family dwelling. That place looks like a rundown college student apartment, which I guess is basically what it is.
it is, i hate how she used a dingy old student home as a "typical british home"
Sliding windows are mainly a Western USA thing. East Coast home windows are often double hung with panels moving up and down. There really isn't such a thing as a typical American window.
John Labus Then again, a lot of the East Coast is just Europe 2.0
Exactly. I’ve had jalousie windows, windows that slide up and down, side to side, and on and on. Actually, there are several things about this video that aren’t true across the board. I live in a house built in 1910, and the kitchen is a separate room. I also have a money tree a Cuban friend gave me. I think it’s safe to say in the US, anything goes. It’s a mixture of different cultures. That’s American.
Not true about the sliding windows only being on the west coast. Majority of Florida's windows are sliding. In FL there is even patio doors that slide (they are being replaced by French Doors now 😓). TN even has sliding windows. I think the homes built in the mid 90's and later have the windows you were talking about.
I think we can agree that houses in the U.S. Vary greatly by region.
Over here they're called a sash window. Don't ask me why!
Americans - do NOT plug your electrics into that bathroom socket. It's 240 Volts, not 115, You could blow your item up big time.
220 and 110
230-240 and 110
It's hard to make out, but that bathroom socket actually says 240V on it.
I use it to charge my phone all the time! But I agree that some things might not work
linguamarina... Depends whether that "thing" has a universal transformer or not ( phone chargers generally do). If you plugged a US hairdryer into that, you'd blow it up.
We definitely have water heaters (called 'boilers' in the UK, I believe) in the US, though I've never (personally) seen one in the kitchen. In my experience they are usually in a utility closet (which is where they usually were when I lived in an apartment) or in the basement (such as with my current house). It can vary from house to house and, likely, region to region, though. One thing is that they are usually MUCH bigger than the British ones. :)
I grew up in a US farmhouse in the fifties. I see a lot a familiarity with the situation I experienced in your video. The house was over 100 years old and had only grudgingly made accommodation to more modern amenities.
From America here. 😊 All my friends and family take our shoes off before entering. It shows signs of respect.
Thank you :)
It depends on who's home you're going to. Some require footwear off, and others don't mind footwear to stay on. In my house, I would only require any footwear to be taken off, if it's wet outside, or you were in an area where you got dirt caked on your shoes, or boots.
In my house we leave our shoes on and take our pants off!
When my husband takes his shoes off, nobody feels respected. Just nauseated.
I'm Canadian and I didn't really notice anything that you didn't point out, although I think the houses tend to be a little smaller in British cities than in North America. I like that the Brits also take off their shoes at the front door. We do the same here and it will feel so odd to wear my wet, dirty and/or snowy footwear inside. It just feels so good to take them off too.
A website has the avg new home size in m^2 listed as UK 76, US 201. Your country was 181. Taking off shoes isn't common around here unless it's wet, muddy or winter boots. I have in Asian homes though
Americans take their shoes off too lol
Many Americans take our shoes off too but many don't. I take them off in my own home but don't ask others to take off their shoes in my home (at least not since we replaced the downstairs carpet with laminate). If I visit the home of another person I note whether they took off their own shoes and follow their lead.
I never take mine off. I'm American.
I live in metropolitan CA so we don't really get snowy/muddy shoes a lot where I live, but I still have a rule that people take their shoes off if they are comfortable with doing so. I try to warn people ahead of time because they might wear their better socks lol. My husband doesn't always like to follow the rule because he has no where to sit to take them off but I wish we had a "mud room", many homes in places with more snow and such will have "mud rooms" for taking off/putting on shoes and coats.
You are such a wonderful person Marina! Thank you for everything!
The house you are in is a real shit hole, that bathroom was crap, loads of misconceptions and misunderstandings, the reason why we have pull cords in bathrooms is for electrical safety, something we care about.
simgorm We care about electrical safety in the US too. First wiring is very different between the two countries beyond 120v and 220v, in fact, the U.K. Is different from the rest of Europe because the way the circuits are. In the US we us "breakers" in a panel so all the breakers are centrally located. A breaker protects one circuit and the breakers are rated by amperage; so one circuit would be for the receptacles and lights in on room and that is a 15 amp circuit; whereas a water heater would have its own 50 amp circuit. In the case of a bathroom, kitchen, outdoor receptacles or anywhere else that may be "wet" those circuits get what we call GFI (Ground Fault Interruption). GFI protects from any shock from moist or wet areas and the breaker protect the circuit from being overloaded. Generally the GFI comes in the form of a receptacle that controls the whole circuit, say in a bathroom. In other words if there're four outlets in a bathroom (one circuit) one of the outlets will be GFI. That receptacle or outlet will have a "reset" and a "test" button. In the U.K., my understanding is that the breakers or fuses are located in the plug itself or the outlet and this was due to circumstances from the war and shortages. My understanding comes from working in France and we would get 2k movie lights from the U.K. with the large plug and we'd change it to the two rod plugs. I don't think one is better than the other just the two systems were made under different circumstances. I think that this Russian girl's (sorry I don't know the name) experience in the US is only in San Francisco, California or San José. Keep in that mind that there are 50 different states here with different laws and ways of doing stuff.
we use breakers aswell and you can switch off different things exact same if something pops one of the switches goes down so you can tell whats blew
Breakers and different amp circuits are used and mandatory in the UK as well. Its just that we take electrical safety to a different level than the rest of the world - belt and braces (suspenders) approach lol! We invented the "Nanny State"
Our UK building regulations require any electrical rewiring/new build to have a Consumer Distribution Box/Panel that contains the RCDs for independent house circuits. You can have many independent circuits as you can afford. Such as, separate upstairs lighting and downstairs lighting, separate upstairs mains sockets, and downstairs sockets, separate kitchen circuit, separate oven/hob, underfloor heating etc.
The fuse in plugs, came from the copper wire shortages during the world wars. They're now used as an extra line of defence, to protect the item.
UK has breakers as well. we call them trip switches though. they trip and cut the power on that circuit if a fault is detected.
Being British, I would like to point out a couple of things. We turn the light on with a cord in bathroom, because if you have wet hands you are wont get electrocuted from the light switch.
2: We put the plug in sink so as not to waste water going down the sink. Duvet covers are the same all year round.
duvets its self i think she meant you get different thickness tog i think its called i use a thin one in summer and thick in winter
I've never heard of anyone being electrocuted by turning a light switch with wet hands. I wonder if it actually happens sometimes.
well my sister nearly blew her hand off plugging in a hairdryer when her hands were wet
mac Who plugs in a hair dryer with wet hands?!
UK plugs use 3 wires live nautral and ground or earth there is also a fuse in the plug running between live and nautral which blows if the wires come lose or get damaged to prevent electic shocks or damaging the appliance. it will also trip the breaker in the main fuse box cutting off all the other sockets in the house.
I JUST found your video! I quite enjoyed it. I have to tell you, I liked how you pointed out the differences, but I really liked how you made the sound to emphasize the difference! I am in Western Canada, and here we mostly have basements with utility rooms in them. I did notice that in France when I visited there in '16 that most water heaters were the small wall mounted ones like you found in this video, in my home, I have a 50 Canadian gallon gas heated hot water tank. Also, a gas-fired forced hot air furnace located in the basement, close to my to water tank. Keep up your good work, I have subscribed to your channel. :D
That kitchen water heater is a Combi-Boiler, and they're brilliant, because they produce hot water within seconds of being switched on, and produce as much hot water as you need, without having to wait for a tankful to heat up.
I’m British and my house and my friends houses are so different like everything she said is complete bull
Yes. I am American. And she said was in the states 9 months. The only thing I see is that the outlets are different. She needs to travel both countries more. See more homes.
Julia Hind where’s shit?
In the states we call that greasy area behind the house a back yard not a garden. . A garden is either usually flowers or vegetables planted in a pattern or rows
well a yard here is unit of measurement about 3 foot and where you grow vegetables is a vegetable patch
My garden is about 3 foot
mac
But you have barn yards, right?
no we call them hay sheds or hay huts
it depends what part of the uk you live we all dont live in london there is four countries in the uk incase you did not know
I’m living in the UK for more than 4 years now, I still couldn’t understand why they wash the dishes that way, and they actually said Soap is eatable.
I live in Spain and we also have the kitchen separate from the living room. In fact, lots of families eat in the kitchen. It's a surprise to see a hot and cold water tap. Here we have only one and we can choose the cold or the hot one. Regars from Spain!
The plant they call a Money Tree is a Jade Plant in the USA.
Jade Tree
@@gaylehice1476 no plant, not a tree
Where I live in the US it’s called a Jade Tree.
@@gaylehice1476 I looked up jade tree and it asked if I meant jade plant, google dont lie
Oliver Mohler Like I said.. where I live in the US it’s called a Jade Tree! Why are you so picky? Are you a botanist ?
We don't fill our sinks when cleaning to save water and we wash off the cleaning product 😂
The biggest difference is size, we have tiny houses no room for a laundry area. In USA big, every thing is relatively big because they have plenty of room. England is one of the most densely populated countries in the world and yet hundreds of thousand are moving here every year.
Sorry but that myth is long gone. Our houses are so small that often the garage is bigger then the living room! And houses are only getting smaller and box like. Almost like trying to revive the railroad house.
I come from switzerland and I lived 9 months in southern england I immediatly noticed almost all the things you mentioned but the one that surprised me the most I think was their Windows, it was nothing like the Windows we could see in your video.
It's a radiator not a heater
Callum Shillito Does it not heat?
S Terry it does heat, but it’s called radiator, not a heater
Amy Leslie Is a radiator not a type of heater? Does nobody call it a heater?
S Terry radiators and heaters are different things, a radiator is the one you see on the wall, a heater is one you plug in and maybe take camping or if your boiler is broken
Amy Leslie OH, wow. My heater's in a closet. It doesn't radiate heat - it's a forced air system.
i request u please just don't use that tada da tadaaaa. it sounds super annoying and childish.
Tarachand prajapati i like it, sounds cute!!!😍
It’s tada dada tada you uncultured swine
It is annoying though, maybe use it the first time then don’t...
A lot of the characteristics is particular to that specific house. I live in the US and I still have pulley lights in my house, and our toilets are really low. I've been to places where they still have pulley toilets even... the shoe thing is also particular to who's house you are entering. There are duvets in america too........... Also, I have seen places in the US that have separate taps for hot and cold.I live in the Eastern US, so that's also something. It all depends on where you go. The only major difference I see is the outlets.
The switch for lights in bathrooms in the UK are sometimes on a string to avoid wet hands coming into contact with an electric circuit!
Very bad electrical comparison , this particularly happens when you give too much focus to presentation rather than its content .
In Britain its 230 Volts , 5o Hertz frequency of Electricity
and in US its 115 to 120 Volts of electrcity with 60 Hertz frequency , so if an American plugs his equipment into it he or she would get a nice display of fireworks on his first day .
hm I charged my phone there, it was fine
This is because you have purchased Phone in Russia and the electrical specifications of Russia and Britain are similar in terms of Frequency and Voltage .
actually, there is no problem with chargers, either for phones or laptops, or any other kind of charger. They can be plugged in any voltage, because they are able to convert it automatically. But yes, other kinds of equipment, like a hair dryer, would be damaged.
I love all the comments from people in here claiming they know all about British houses and how small etc. they are.
Just going to point out a few facts. Yes, houses across the pond are bigger because you have more land. The United kingdom's land mass is 57% the size of California, to put that in more perspective Texas is just over 3 times the size of the UK. Then you look at density per Sq KM
US: 33.77
Uk: 231:25
So obviously we're going to have smaller houses, we can't magic more space. Because of this issue UKs houses are more expensive, so count yourselves lucky.
This house she's showing us round is a really bad example of a privately rented student house in an expensive area of London, it's never going to look great. The bathroom and kitchen have seen better days and need ripping out but no one who rents to students is going to spend that sort of money.
This video only really points out the difference in taps and nothing else
There's still plenty of free space in the UK if we chose to build on it. It also doesn't really matter as wherever you are in the world the demand for housing around commercial or industrial centres is the same (pi x radius squared). Brits were the earliest adopters of modern city living, when the limitations of transport meant more people living closer to their place of work. More homes in walking distance means exponentially smaller houses.
More recently idiots have been gaming the property market and the population has become a nation of estate agents obsessed with "house values", instead of Napoleon's nation of shopkeepers, with it being political suicide to burst the house inflation bubble and legislate to get more houses built..
Yeah not all places in the US is big. This place she's showing us around is huge compared to what I had to live in. I lived at work. We had one big room that was our sleeping area, living room, and work area. The room slept anywhere from 1-10 people. The kitchen could only fit 1 person and the bathroom was the size of most of our 1/2 baths. I was extremely lucky and got the place for free all I had to pay for was food. Some people are not so lucky. The reason it was so small was because it was in the Florida Keys. I could see the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean from my place.
I visited a friend in New Your and he couldn't even stand up straight in his apartment. He also couldn't full extend his arms width wise. The length was 10 steps to the kitchen and 5 steps to the bathroom and the rent was around $2,000 a month. Every place in the world is going to have small and expensive places.
Sonnys Mummy UK the outlets are the only difference. In the older parts of the states we had two taps. I had them in my school bathroom in New York. But many ppl modernize their homes and upgrade. This home is not a good example.
The land is part of it but i think age plays a part in this as well. Europe is much older than the U.S and a lot of their towns and roads was build long before the U.S. was discovered. I mean for example, no one owned an SUV 300-400 years ago, so the roads are narrower. The U.S. was a blank canvas if you will, we built this country as technology progressed. Homes wasn't always large in the U.S. either. As people's income grew, so did people's families and homes.
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I'm American (in New England) and we take our shoes off before entering the home always. We also still have string lights in our outdated homes or typically in our cellars. I have separate hot and cold water handles in my bathroom. I've never seen a washing machine in a kitchen though! Apartments typically have separate kitchens in America but most call it a pantry. Dining rooms are separate eating areas in an American home. Usually a bit more formal.
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An American house would normally have an attached garage and lots of closet space. I wonder if British houses have the same
Dasha Gontcova Freestanding british houses usually have seperate garages, 2-under-1-roof'ers have attached garages, but most british' live in row houses, so no garages for them...
Yep a lot of them do some don't like council estates they but 50% of British homes to have an attached garage
Roy Hoeksema Most British live in row houses? Since when? Yes there are a lot of terraced houses in cities and towns, but certainly not the majority. Larger family homes, except period properties in cities build before the car was invented generally have garages or at least off street parking. Nobody actually puts their car in the garage though, most of us fill them with junk!
Dasha Gontcova I have a attached triple garage and I have quite a lot of closet space I have a walk in closet and a dressing room with an ensuit
Some older British homes do not have closets therefore you need to buy wardrobes separately.
Everyone takes their shoes off in our American home. I ask any workers to wear paper booties over their shoes, although it's common for them to know already it's polite to remove their shoes.
230V at a frequency of 50 Hz is used in Europe, most of Africa, most of Asia, much of South America and Australia. In North America, the electric supply is 120V at a frequency of 60 Hz, which is considered safer; 240V is used for large appliances, electric range, clothes dryer, water heater, central air conditioner, etc.
I live in Canada and used to have a Scottish boyfriend. He didn't have the "pull a string" water heater or light fixtures, but he did have an "on-demand" water heater, which is available in North America too. Pricey but very environmentally helpful. The first thing I noticed about your video was the electrical socket in the bathroom. In his flat, there were no electrical sockets (we had to plug our toothbrushes in the kitchen), and the light switch was outside the bathroom. he explained to me that this was because water and electricity being a dangerous combination, no electrical outlet or fixtures were allowed in British bathrooms. Perhaps it's because his place was renovated a few years ago and this is a new law. Another difference he pointed out between British and North American homes is that in Britain, the homes are getting smaller. Only the older homes are a decent size, and the newer the construction of a home, the smaller the rooms are going to be.
Oh, and a major but obvious difference between North American and British light switches...the direction of the switch. In Britain, "Up" is off, and "Down" is on. The opposite is true in North American homes.
Because of the cost of heat in Britain, a lot of people simply can't afford to turn it on in winter, and in spring, a lot of pensioners are found dead of hypothermia. In Canada, at least, there are laws that ensure landlords keep heat levels to a certain level in winter, and electricity companies are not allowed to cut off someone's electricity for non-payment in winter.
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With the very best of intentions, this is as accurate as a blind darts player seated on a horse backwards, trying to throw a dart forwards whilst the horse is jumping over a gate in a heavily wooded area, hoping that the guy can hit the end of a toothpick on the opposite side of a tree hidden behind a bush.
It could happen but ermmm..... odds are a bit slim.
Number 3. There is always a switch on a 3 pin outlet in the wall. It's called BS1363 short for British Standard. It's the safest power outlet in the world because you cannot jam anything into the bottom two pins (live and neutral) without having opened the top gate (earth). It also has a failsafe and is manufactured in such a way that it's not possible under normal operation to insert a plug upside down and expose live and neutral.
Absolutely right; my husband is an eletronics engineer, and says ours are much safer than most in the world. We are not allowed to have hairdryers sockets in bathrooms either, as there is a risk to life with so much water around. I am always shocked by seeing sockets in bathrooms in Spain!
I recently bought a house in the USA and I was looking at smaller houses at first and a few of them had the washer and dryer in the kitchen. The one I bought has it somewhat separated but still right next to the kitchen.
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I'm British and and what did I recognize the most out of this typical house? -the broken chain of the plug in the sink
In Britain everything closes at 10 o'clock. Also tea is generally served in the morning versus coffee in the US. We have much more hot water everywhere. I have a 120 gallon hot water tank in my house. We have heat pumps and many more energy sources in use (solar, wood stoves, heat pumps, propane logs, oil heat, etc.). Some depends on the climate where you live in the US which can vary a lot.
my brother switch had a boiler (for radiator) and a hot water tank but switched to a tankless water heater which saved him about $10 in either DEc or jan but he did see his gas bill go down was paying over 100 during those months but now he pays around $95 since it doesn't keep heating the water and only heats when it's needed. as to the radiator it's a closed loop so it doesn't supply water, it can supply water but thats very rare since it does a loop around back to the machine.
stores used to close at a certain time but since 1990s maybe earlier? walmart and few places are 24/7 now
In Britain, when we wash dishes in the sink, after washing them , we give them a final rinse under the hot tap .
In Soviet Russia we rinse dishes with pee pee
I'm glad to hear you guys rinse off the soap and food particles. :o I was kind of in shock when I heard that they were just wiped dry...lol
Yea we hand wash dishes like that in America too...maybe she was just saying we use dish washers more?? Idk but it definitely isn't taboo to see an American hand wash their dishes in a sink of water.
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This home is not an ideal home to be representing ‘British’ homes. Tbh to make this video you need to show a few homes from each place. This house is what some people’s houses may look like but not mine lol no offence but this house is dated as hell must have last been decorated late 90s 😂. I’m in London and I live in a new clean house that doesn’t have a lot of the features this home has. This is just a very small student home
In an estate it looks like...
Isn’t Greenwich kinda run down?😬
To be fair I think it would be best to show a variety of homes for each country. And by price-range too. The student home honestly reminded me of many of the more "affordable" places in the US though no yard and bigger inside for some reason...in my sunny state of CA. And no washer/dryer for renters because landlords hate everyone here. lol Definitely difficult to say what is "typical" for an entire nation, but assuming the majority is not very well-off financially then typical wouldn't be something very stunning. I bet if you guessed what a "typical" southern CA home was like you would assume it's suburban or a mansion with a pool.....You'd be wrong if going by the most-used type of property it would be crappy outdated apartments and condos, hard-to-come-by parking for our cars that most of us need to commute to work, but still magnets on the fridge usually. :D
So many of these “British” things I’ve seen in American homes. I think maybe your haven’t seen much of America yet.
In Texas, our windows slide up and down, and we have wire mesh screens attached to the window frame to prevent mosquitoes and flies from coming in when the windows are open.
anybody else expecting "this one time....at band camp"?
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I do not think that you have enough knowledge and experience to make a video that is educational. I work in the USA in Real Estate. I seen all kind of floor designs. I seen kitchens separated from the livings rooms. In fact I have a house for sale at this time that way. I seen windows that you can slide, push it up or out or open toward inside. I did not live in Britian (I did visit it for a short time) but I lived in different countries and it is difficult to believe the separation of hot and cold water in the bathroom sink is that wide spread. Please correct me If I were wrong.
mjm71505 - are you American? The correct word is "I saw" or "I've seen." Not "I seen." Thanks.
The sinks do tend to have separate taps, rather than mixer taps, it's no big deal, l have mixer in the kitchen. But to be honest, l don't know what the benefit is either way.
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Oh come on. That was clearly just a typo.
Kitchens being separate from the living room used to be the norm in the US. Open floor plans have become more popular in the last couple of decades, though. Separate taps for hot and cold water are rare. I used to live in an old Victorian house that still had them in the bathrooms. Miserable things! I agree that she seems to have limited experience with US housing, but it was still fun to watch her take on both US and British housing. Oh, and my British ex and his family rinsed their dishes!
The down side of having a door separating the kitchen from the dinning room is that if it is open the door will be in your way, but if it is closed and you need to bring hot food out it will delay you.
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This apartment is a little bit old I have to say
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Some old houses in New York had two different taps for hot and cold.
I noticed how you said in America there isn’t a floor under the ground. But in the area I live in (northern Midwest) I have never even been in a house without a basement. And I do realize that in the south they don’t put pipes and power as low into the ground due to temperature.
I've heard some Brits complain that the water level is too high in American toilets, but I personally don't get that. I'd much rather have a toilet with a higher water level than a lower one.
I was surprised at the amount of water in American toilets when I first went there. Gotta watch out for that splashback! ;)
Yes, the higher toilet water level is much appreciated by my cat. Its easier for him to get a drink. Buying him a bowl with kitty foot prints painted on it was a total waste of money.
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I like my toilet with a higher water rate because it won't leave a stain. ;)
It doesn’t matter, In uk we don’t have to put the lid on to flush it tho because our water wont go everywhere
First of all, that UK residence is a typical setup but your ideas of US are very California. A lot of UK housing is old and cramped. You need to compare apples to apples, at least price-wise. Certain things are not common building standard-wise and others are just not comparable custom-wise. The bath light switch is apparently code in UK while US changed at least thirty years ago. The small hot water haters are standard for their small town houses but probably not for suburban houses. Kitchens in the US open plans are often open or have remodeled to be so but stems modern style. Older homes are similar to UK. A major difference is the floor space or lack thereof in UK homes.
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That's what we call a combination boiler and it provides hot water as soon as you turn the hot tap. It can provide water for a small flat or a large 5 bed house. If you have a combie boiler you never run out of hot water because it heats water straight from the mains rather than storing hot water in a tank
William Lucas yeah like this house is very old and basic , I live in the uk and my house is nothing like this it’s got wide space , big rooms , only one tap , a big and nice garden , a garage , wide kitchen with open connected dining room and quite a few closets and not terraced
Lucky you.
William Lucas The reason we have pull cords for the light in bathrooms is because the current is 240 volts. You operate a light-switch with wet hands, and the water shorts the switch, it will kill you. In fact, there are no electrical sockets in our bathrooms by building law, in case a radio or something falls into an occupied bath.
The VOLTAGE is 230volts nowadays, but the 110v in the US could also kill you, especially in a damp bathroom.
When I went to Sweden and Denmark in April I was amazed that everyone kept their home so warm! Like 80 degrees --day and night! AND they wore winter clothing! I thought I would perish! Especially at night with the duvet! No sheet! Just a duvet! SO HOT!!! I could barely sleep the whole time I was there! In California I keep my window open all year for fresh cool air.
I am late commenting on this video but i think it is necessary to say that when a kitchen is attached to the living room (open kitchen) in the united states there is usually a vent directly above the stove that has a fan and it blows smoke out of the house. This keeps that house from being smoky.
Not all houses are like this you know in great Britan!
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Old crank style windows in American homes actually open in one-direction. We had some in our home.
Carpeting has another purpose. It serves as an insulator which helps with energy efficiency.
Many homes in America have individual rooms, however, I don't know of many that have actual doors on every room. I don't like an open floor plan. I love the older style homes that have non-conjoined rooms.
Student accommodation isn't really comparable to "normal" accommodation, so it's not a realistic comparison in many ways. Switches on electrical sockets are for safety as the UK has a much higher voltage (230-250 volts) and the pull cord in the bathrooms are there so you don't have to physically touch a live switch with wet hands and risk electrical shock.
#2 is illegal in all new builds in USA ..for I dont know how long ..the 50s??
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I live in Vermont USA also known as New England and the house I live in was built in the 1800s and there is a dining room between the kitchen and hard wood living room.
I am a 50yr old female born and raised in the mountains of PA. While I live here now, I did travel somewhat extensively, having been in the USN. Many of these things you pointed out are also common in some homes in the US. A duvet is certainly not uncommon. Taking off shoes is also very common in many American homes. The separate hot and cold taps are also very common in older homes, and in restoration projects. The windows opening out is not only seen in many American homes, it is also an option (one of many options) when ordering windows for new construction or replacement windows. I could go on......but my question just becomes, where in the US do you live?
I think that you need to do your research much more in depth.
American Homes:
1: Smoke alarms
2: Different types of architecture
3. Inspiration for British
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4. Fireplaces (Mostly decorative)
5. Light dimmers or switches
6. Ranch homes and suburban homes
7. Driveways and garages
8. Wall lamps and floor lamps
9. Larger kitchens
10. Islands in the kitchen
11. One stove
12. Doors separating kitchen and dining room
13. Washer and dryer room
14. Wrap around counters
15.Everything slides out
16. microwaves
17. Kitchen connects to dining room or living room or den
18. Closed floor plans are best
19. Living room does is s perfect square
20. Just plain old better...
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You haven't a clue about British homes then
Sonnys Mummy UK: British homes have no differences. It's all the same exterior and interior for every home on the block.
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My house was built in 1960 & the washing machine is in the kitchen & the dryer is in the utility room where the furnace is. I live in Virginia.
1) It really depends on the people on whether or not you take your shoes off when coming inside an American home. Some people do it, a lot of people don't, but I have known people who do this throughout my life.
2) Depending on when the house was built there are faucets in America like this.
3) I have seen sockets with a button in America.
4) The older homes in California have push out windows, or they come with a crank to crank the window out and back in.
5) Older homes have seperate kitchens in America, too.
6) Some people like to fill up the sink with water when doing the dishes in America too.
I’m from the uk and my house is FAR from looking like that house
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In America really old houses and apartments the kitchen is a separate room. The idea of opening the kitchen to the rest of the house is that Mom could watch the children while they play or watch tv and vice-versa. Usually the kitchen is open to the dining area and the family room or den.
America varies so much by region. I've lived all over the US and some of these British things exist in America in some places and not in others. It mostly tends to change based on weather or who settled the area.
In America they usually have a washing machine room I guess and a little garden next to the main door right?
wonderba yes, we usually have a separate room for washer & dryer + cabinets for storage. Bigger homes might have a deep sink for treating stains or hand wash items, and an upper area to hang clothes after they come out of dryer and an ironing station.
dvx Lol, Dutch houses too. Guess the brits lack the space
The uk has got a room for the washing machine and dryer
My home in California has a separate laundry room between the door into the garage and the main hallway. It has door to close it off from the hall.
It can vary I've lived in places were the washer and dryer were upstairs on the same level as the bedrooms and was hidden by a folding door, my mom and aunts house have the washer and dryer on the first floor across from the garage, in my house the washer and dryer is in the basement in a laundry room