17 House Details in the US That Puzzle Foreigners
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- The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave… and apparently huge freezing-cold houses with weird sockets? What’s so strange about American homes? Well, when non-American people find themselves in American houses they often point out how bizarre some things are.
Wearing shoes inside is one of the things that confuse foreigners, cause most of the world has a pretty strict policy about taking your shoes off at the front door. Also, Americans usually don't have tea kettle in the kitchen, and their toilet bowls are full of water. Interested? So let's see what an ordinary American home looks like!
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TIMESTAMPS:
Big houses 0:23
A room for everything! 0:52
Huge personal washers AND dryers 1:27
Basements 2:10
The abandoned dining room 2:36
Serious about fire safety 2:58
Wall-to-wall carpeting 3:43
How low can you go? 4:09
Toilet bowls full of water 4:50
One faucet to rule them all 5:28
Crank up the AC 6:02
Wearing shoes inside 6:28
Switchless sockets 6:56
No tea kettle in the kitchen 7:24
Garbage disposals 7:45
Flags everywhere 8:10
Pristine lawns 8:34
#America #USA #Americanhomes
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SUMMARY:
- The typical American home is pretty big and spacious compared to other countries.
- There are closets for clothes in each bedroom, usually one near the front door for coats and shoes, one in the bathroom or hallway for towels, one in the kitchen in the form of a pantry.
- Speaking of rooms, there’s also usually one just for doing laundry. Also, most Americans have both a washer AND a separate dryer, and they tend to be big too!
- A lot of American homes have gorgeous finished basements that serve as another living space. It might be in the form of a guest room or a recreational area to hang out in.
- Fire safety is taken so seriously in the States that landlords can get in big trouble if they don’t immediately fix a non-working smoke alarm for their tenants.
- Low-sitting toilets actually serve a purpose - being closer to the ground is a healthier and more natural way to, ya know, do your numbers.
- In the US, sinks always have just one faucet, and you can customize the temperature of the water however you like.
- Most families are totally ok with wearing shoes inside around the house, as long as they’re not muddy or anything. Sure, there are those American families that don’t do it.
- Apparently in Europe, you have a switch to either allow the power to flow by turning a button on or cutting it by switching it off. In America, you don’t have this option.
- Garbage disposals are a lot more common in the States. In fact, over 50% of American homes have one.
- Americans really do love to display the ol’ Star-Spangled Banner, so most homes here have at least one hanging outside the house.
- Americans like to take care of their yard. Plus, most neighborhoods have rules about it!
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Hey there, BrightSiders, would you rather live in a house, in an apartment or maybe in a trailer?
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Apartment
Mansion
I Can even Live Under the bridge , if i just can live in america ...
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Remember kids, Europe is one country. Just like Africa.
Lol
Lol
Europe is a
Continent
Africa is too
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Hello from Indonesia, I wanna say that in my country most houses are smaller and in my house I don't have a carpet to wall or the toilet bowls all full.
I was questioning so many things and I was confused what is in USA but after this video, my questions were solved. Thanks!
You forgot one. A lot of American homes have a wreath on the front door and some even change it with the holidays of that season.
In Autralia carpet in the main rooms is common, though polished wood floors with carpet squares is also popular. Christinas Callinan Tawonga South Victoria Australia
This is almost correct😁Godbless!!!
2:55 Wait wait wait. Lemme get this straight. YOU DONT HAVE A TV IN THE DINING ROOM!!?
5:30 "I haven't done a lot of traveling"
yea it shows.
THIS
grats gg
Shocked he didn’t show how in Europe some public restrooms have no toilet seats. You are right.
I've never seen that number then and I was in the UK so please tell me if I'm wrong?
A long weekend staying in London Air BnB by the sounds of it!
j mcw hahaha... u made my day. Thx
This guy needs to travel a lot more in Europe and stop generalizing UK as the whole of Europe.
that's for sure with his points on plugs and water faucets only apply to the UK
Exactly!
Absolutely right
Even some of these don’t apply to the uk. This video is a mess
Exactly
2:02 “You won’t see many Americans hand-washing their clothes” Seriously? Europe is not a third-world continent: we do have washing machines...
Charlie Bedford, IKR that really annoyed me
Yep
Third world nations also have washers and dryers. How do you like being generalized? Lol
He mostly just meant the drying part
Iakona Sisler I have a clothes dryer
I thought the picture in the thumbnail was about that gap in the toilet seat.
The gap in the seat is only seen in public bathrooms and supposedly are more hygienic
@@aubreeclark9013 Is that specifically designed for men or women though?
@@marioantonio321 it's in both men's and women's restrooms.
me too!
Same Here.... but yet as i sit here and wait looking at my beautiful hard wood floors and gas stove im wondering where he is from in the US 😆
Hmm the person doing this video hasn't been to Europe much has he 😂
Absolutely not 😂
I agree with you let’s try reaching 500 subs
Or to South America... Or to Japan
I work for the U.S. in Germany. Many big houses, washers and dryers in a separate laundry room, etc.
@@kellysteel2594 most in the UK tend to be in the same room kitchen or bathroom. And when rented flats across most of Europe they have always been in one of these rooms
We don't have closets in Europe. We store our clothes on the roof.
Wait, you a get roof! In my European country only the rich get roofs....
RadioNul what u have clothes and a roof
Whats wrong with your guys homes?
@@sebasti6078 we are poor Europeans who are not as advance as the mighty USA
That's right. Most of your guys bedrooms have a size of american walk-in closets. I never saw walk-in closets in european homes. As well as dryers. Sorry...
"american homes have *gorgeous* finished basements"
any average american horror movie: *am I a joke to you?*
Literally laughing out loud here XD
Lol
Um, yeah, about all those basements.... I'm betting there are fewer than 50 in Virginia Beach. I've not seen a single one since moving here in 1985.
I live in Sweden, and most houses I've visited have had a basement.
Lol!
And I most ad that in most mid century modern houses it’s typical to have a livable basement, or partial, at least in Northern Europe. Which makes sense since they usually only have one level above ground... Anyway I think a lot of this comes down to style & architecture.
- Except for the garbage disposals in the sink (Now that belong in a horror movie! That’s so scary!) I have only seen this in US. Is it common, or used anywhere else?
I love how most of that information about „Europe“ only apply to the uk
to be fair, alot of it was wrong for the UK also.
billy goat yeh so true
Ikr. It’s also a bit annoying when you say Europe and people automatically assume it’s about the UK. 🙄😂
None of the info is right lol
This is just like when you watch bad high school movie
Dude, have you EVER been in Europe?! Like, real Europe, not UK
Why isn't the UK 'real' Europe?
@@georgialawson420 brexit
@@JW-mr5mh that's the EU, not Europe
@@georgialawson420 Ah thanks for clarifying, I just enforced the stereotype that Americans don't know geography lol
@@JW-mr5mh literally
I have never seen a european power outlet with a switch
I am european and i dont have that
UK has them. Then again, we're actively trying to leave Europe.... Just need to find an engine big enough to set sail for noteurope
Data Wargaming 😂
I also haven't. Until this summer when I visited Denmark. And I've been in bunch of countries (only Europe though).
UK and Malta have them
As an American, i apologize were not all like this
It's weird, how I've seen nowhere else people be so incredibly wrong and rock solidly certain at the same time. It's probably a lot rarer there, that these buffoons make it seem like, but it still seems pretty much endemic to US of A.
As a Brit, I thank you.
(Eagle screams in the distance)
That's very kind of yours
Also an American here, and I just want to add that most homes do NOT have US flags hanging off them!
You might see one occasionally on a home here and there, but they are definitely few and far between. You'll see them most often on government buildings like the post office, or government-insured banks.
I AM PROUD OF HOW WE ARE! ATHEIST FOR TRUMP!
About the only correct thing in this video is where he says he hasn’t done a lot of travelling
well number 17 is in my country true (the netherlands) we dont use flags that much
Lol! True story .
@@katjataale2515 Nor do we here in Australia. We know who we are. We wear our flag on Australia Day.
Many of the US items on this list are either safety or health concerns.
@@stephanieyee9784 Wait. Isnt Australia Fake? Or at least upside down
I like how he references “cavemen” while showing Egyptian hieroglyphics
E.S. L honestly 😂
Fr💀
And here we are confirming why Europeans dislike Americans' tone.. is it just me or this video did sound a bit belittling
It's not just you :)
It honestly does. Probably because it's targeted to kids.
It does an it annoys me.
In my experience it goes both ways.... the arrogance and better than attitude that comes from many EU citizens is sometimes a bit much.... there are also friendly people in the EU, just like there are many friendly people in the United States...
@DrownMeInGoldDust squatting IS healthier for the body. So...
Does anyone else find it weird that he’s talking about the USA as if it’s so much better than Europe (for example better sanitation just because they have weird sink bins)🤷♂️ and it just feels like he’s talking to Europeans as little kids who need to learn😂
...you just gotta look at the walls, it says enough
sind bins? is that german?
Yes am its making me ashamed to be from the US
Forgan Mreeman noo I accidentally wrote it instead of sink bins😂
Forgan Mreeman sink bin would be Waschbecken Mülleimer😂
I’m starting to think these “European Friends” don’t really exist.
😂😂😂
They exist, but they live in France and Britan xD where these kind of stuff exists
That is why( America it's one country) who has one country.The rest of the other countries doesn't exist. in School they don't teach geography, and culture. We European have Geography we know all the countries around the world we study the globe call earth. American what are they study if isn't business to profit the owners LOL
@M A It did last time i went there
AT80 Beats 😆😆
"our cave man ancestors" *Shows depiction of the most advanced civilization of its time*
no, of ever. of all time.
scientists and historians are trying there best to fin out how they were so smart and intelligent. alot of peiple suggest its like aliens they drew that taught them
ReBeL I mean ancient egypt is not nearly advanced as any present day civilization, but compared to how advanced they should have been for the time period they were pretty far ahead
US ancestors are from all around world just because immigrants
LOL. A US Citizen talking about fire security :D
Germany: smoke alarms are not only recommended but obligatory, it's basically a law
USA: house consists mainly out of wood
17 things you will see in America ... and everywhere else in the world
# 18 being made bankrupt due to medical bills from a medical emergency, accident or poor health. That's something found almost exclusively in the USA , not found in other Developed countries . . .
acting like every country in europe are stuck in a time before dryers, single faucets and coffee machines
I live in a country that had communism for 40 years, we are behind almost the whole Europe, and still none of those things he said applied to me. We have a dryer, 2 coffee makers, one faucet, normal socket....
@@tomato_6681yea I am from romania you? And it doesn't aply to me to.
@@Berbecu69 I'm from Slovakia
The UK uses single faucets now. In Victorian houses they were separate. Usually the hot was connected to a water heater tank, and the cold directly to the mains supply. British style kettles cannot be used in the US or many European countries because the sockets cannot supply enough current. The UK uses a ring main electrical system with industrial sized plugs.
R u trying to compare a COUNTRY with a CONTINENT ??¿
Iman Aghrib the United States is larger than Europe. It’s a reasonable comparison.
Rebekah Moore No ,the US isn’t bigger than Europe
Rebekah Moore but the us isn’t more diverse than Europe
Glody. Kas “the United States is 9,833,000 square kilometers while Europe is 10,180,000 square kilometers-however, European countries are closer in size to eastern states in America”
Okay, SLIGHTLY smaller. My point still stands.
Rebekah Moore it’s the same as us comparing the uk to the whole of North America.
You don’t have any European friends and you never visited the U.K. 🤣😂
"When my 18th century European peasant friends come over..."
You mostly compared US to UK and even that was wrong
Cath Robilliard
Correct. 🇬🇧👍
He's a tosspot
I was thinking the exact same
Yeah true.
US toilets don't even look like the one showed on the thumbnail!
this is just a video where you’re telling everybody why the US is better than any other country... In holland almost everything you discribed is the same as in the US
Indeed, only better than USA. Not sure what European country this is compared to
Yes, here in NL we have wall to wall carpeting (or hard floors) as well, switch-less sockets (with 230V on it !), lawns mowed, the us basement is our attics, only one faucet for warm water, we also just walk in with shoes on. The only things that differ is the sockets (and voltage), toilets and house size (and less rooms per house, which is better for the environment).
Stop copying the Americans!
Snap je
Precies
It sounds like he thinks europe is a second world country
First of all europe isnt a country. Second he has a point. The whole Balkans is a mess, i live in greece life here is like to live a third wold country. Albania is a mess to, even in the near past (10 yrs ago) they had communism, even now there isnt much freedom. Romania, bulgaria, serbia, kosovo, and greece, maybe there aren’t exactly third world countries but is close to those
@@panagiotisgalinos1335 you forgot bosnia
18283353 views sounds like he thinks the US isn’t
Europe is "totaly" a country
@@panagiotisgalinos1335 You can add Spain to your list
4:38 ”Our caveman ancestors”
*Shows Egyptian Hieroglyphics done by Ancient Egyptians*
Looks like this guy only ever visited the 1960s UK, and not the rest of Europe.
hahaha
@@RemyMNdow Well, UK does not belong to Europe wery soon. (Brexit)
Arne Franklin UK is leaving EU, not Europe
@@arnefranklin8506 the UK will still be in Europe, just not in the EU.
That, and he only visited the US rich suburbs and not the-rest-of-us.
Seriously...dining rooms nobody uses and rooms just for laundry aren't the norm.
wearing shoes in a carpeted floor triggers me
Wearing feet in a carpeted floor triggers me
@@effen_aey_man wearing carpet in my feet triggers me
I live in Canada and we NEVER wear shoes in any house with or without carpet or that just my area? 😁😁
@@manningcutler4793 you are correct, it is gross and rude
Wearing shoes inside the house in Sweden is a big NO
How do you keep your wall-to-wall carpeting clean if you go around the house with your shoes on??? America explain!
vacuum cleaner and hot water carpet cleaner
I don't wear shoes in the house, just slippers, I don't want my carpet tracked up.
Moa Renberg When I purchased my home the first thing that happened was ALL Carpet with the exception of my master bedroom has carpet. Most winter states in the US follow the no shoe rule and leave them in an arctic entry as we do here in Alaska (sorry no igloos) 😊 I actually do not like bare feet running around on my wood floors and tile as it leaves icky feet marks not too mention anything else. I don’t think shoes in a house are sanitary but then again some people of the world don’t care about things like that. Also, have you ever been to a home that likes you to remove your shoes but you have the feeling your shoes are cleaner than the floors in the house?🤣 I think this video promotes snobbery and lots of folks don’t crank up the air conditioner and waste. I think Mr. Publisher in the future you do a little more research perhaps?
Conservitarian 16 lol
You don't, really, but there are affordable carpet cleaning companies that help. Americans are so used to carpeting that they don't think about all the dirt trapped in the fibers.
Wall to wall carpets was a thing of the 60-s in Norway
70s too
It burns so much he will need to apply the whole Norway to calm it.
Wall to wall carpet was a thing of the 60s and 70s for America, too. I'm not sure why this goofball said that. Carpet is an extremely outdated fad in America. Hardwood or laminate flooring is most common.
@Gucci Potter yip indeed I live in the continent but original poster thinks Europe is England . Plus 25 years ago me and my family went on holiday to England and we absolutely disgusted aboiut unhygienic wal to wal carpet . brrr DIRTY
I feel like the person who made this vid never went to Europe... this is soo wrong and not true.
Idk why but I feel attacked by this vid
Hanna M. I get a bit angry about stuf like the water temperature or the thing with the coffee machine I mean we‘re not in the 17th century anymore
Or anywhere else outside the US of A!
@@lionjendricke7667, exactly! Wasting money running the aircon all summer, and not opening the windows, and heat all winter. Geez, buy ceiling fans.
Most of the facts are not true about US either. Like I grew up in Brooklyn with separate hot and cold taps, hard wood floors, radiators, opening my windows and using fans in the summer and washing clothes by hand and hanging them on the line to dry. It really depends on the era he was born in and part of the country he is from. Since moving to the south I find wall to wall carpeting and central air/ heating to be the norm.
Hanna M. Me to and I don’t know why either hahha
Oh dear there is so much wrong with this video.
1- House sizes
First of all, the average house size in the US is not 2700ft². It's 2164ft². The 2700ft² is the average for detached houses only, while the European figure is for all house types. You are really comparing apples and oranges here. Plus, European house sizes vary greatly from country to country. UK house size is relatively small at 818 ft², compared to 1475ft² in Denmark, for example.
2- Washers /dryers
This may come as a surprise to you, but loads and loads of Europeans have both a washer and a dryer, too. Again, the numbers are VERY different from country to country. While only about 3% of Italian households own a dryer, approx. 42% of German households do. Also, at least where I live in Germany and Denmark, washer and dryers are often in a seperate room and not in the kitchen or bathroom. I know absolutely no one who handwashes their clothes.
3- smoke alarms
These are actually mandatory in many European countries.
4- wall-to-wall carpeting
Yes, we had that - back in the 80s ;-)
5- toilets
No, I'm not getting into details here, but there is NO difference in smells and stains between US and EU toilets
6- faucets
What you are describing are UK faucets. The vast majority of EU countries uses one combined faucet you like you do in the US.
7- shoes inside
Again, that's different from country to country. Both in GER and DK I have hardly ever been asked to get my shoes off when at someone else's home
8- switchless sockets
You really have only been to the UK, have you? Because, again, this is a UK thing and has nothing to do with voltage
9- tea kettles
Well, again, most homes have coffee makers over here, as well, so no big difference.
All of the other stuff also greatly differs from country to country and even from house to house. You do find loads of Danish flags in Denmark, for example, while you have a hard time finding any in Germany (unless there is a football/soccer game).
Most of us Brits have mixer taps too, not all of us are victorians :-)
@@BudKingUK I know that most newer houses in the UK have mixer taps. From my own experience of having lived in the UK for almost 15 years I think it is fair to say that the old style taps are also still quite common, whereas they are completely unknown in most other European counties.
@@Europrolanguage I believe it was something to do with bacteria build up when water tanks in the attic was still a thing, I remember as a child I was always told not to drink hot tap water, why you would want to anyway 😂 whilst a fair share of Brits still use 2 taps you see them mostly on older plumbing or in public bathrooms which is the worse cause the temperature of hot water in public bathrooms is like 900c
@@BudKingUK yep, loads of old Victorian hotels here in Torquay 😆
Dang this must have made you mad to type all that
Wauw, this is just an insult on the europeens. Seeming he hasn’t done any research about how europe really is like.
No forgeiner would know how another country really works, unless has experienced for a decent amount of time
@@frostysimo1394 Exactly, and that's why most intelligent people wouldn't do a video on a topic the know nothing about.
@@EleonorS a video that would have made sense for someone that doesnt travel much, things that america does that most countries dont, like food portions, imperial system etc.
@@frostysimo1394 I agree but that's not likely to happen. This video was made to antagonize people with the purpose of getting many comments. I'm not sure this person has even been to the US considering that the houses and trailers in the many poor neighborhoods there look nothing like the houses he's describing. This is not a quality channel to put it politely.
Here in the Netherlands, almost everyone owns a laundry dryer... Maybe on a sunny day you will spot a few clothes hanging outside,.
hanging your clothes outside is a good way to give them a pre-wash though. drying not so much.
EUROPE HAS A LOT OF COUNTRIES AND THEY ARE NOT THE SAME
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I bet he thinks Europe is a country 😂
@@emmatrend7410 These days it practically is. The nation states of Europe have almost no national borders and are all sharing a single currency. I'd call that a nation.
@@summer20105707 no, it most certainly isn't one nation... I remember when there were borders, and there still are borders only open.
@@summer20105707 Dude I can't talk to the people in the NEXT country, like an hour away in their language, same with the 5 other neighboring countries, we all have different legends and customs, what are you talking about? Yes we have a lot of common things history, literature, money MAYBE but not all EU countries use Euro - so to take Europe as one nation? What?
@@summer20105707 Every country in Europe has a different language, leader, culture, climate, infrastructure and habits. So Europa is not one country 😂
I think it's actually weird the US is one country, because of the differents between the states.
In his European experience everyone in Europe speaks English , cars drive on the left, and no one actually uses the Euro.
In his experience, people live underwater, never drown and arent human
yeah Lol , just in Uk cars drive on the left...
Where is Europe?
German: Here
British: Not here, over there
@@Ana-Maria0724 Shows how ignorant you are then! Japan, India, Australia, Cyprus, South Africa, Malaysia etc all drive on the left too.
@@Dunny2k talking about europe here you big dum dum
NO WAY, u guys have coffe machines in the us?!?!?!?!?
You didn’t know this? Yeah they are pretty great
I love how I am an American, and half these things this guy is talking about isn't in my house. Also, my family and I don't drink coffee, and we only have a tea kettle, which we use for herbal tea and whatnot.... 😒😬
Ooh, a reverse comment!
Atre we talking a kettle for boiling water, or a teapot
I suggest you do enough travelling before making such content.
Ya
True
Yeah imma spend 2 thousand for one vid
Jep
Totally agree
In the UK we have dryers. Dryers can shrink and damage clothing. If it hot or warm outside we use a clothesline. It saves energy and money
In our country, we use spinners. They spin the clothes very fast and its the air that dries them. Therefore, wont shrink and the damage is minimal. You have to do this several times (like 3 or more) to dry the clothes completely though. So to save money we spin one time and then hang the clothes to completely dry them.
we use spinners to get the majority of the water out, then they air dry quicker
Are all your clothes made with sensitive materials or what? We use dryers all the time here and it doesn't damage them because our clothes are made with durable materials already pre-shrunken before bought.
@@forliberty1805 dryers are not good for clothes. Over time it can damage them. If you read alot of labels it says. Alot of natural fibers this happens to. I know in America there alot of man made fibers
Growing up we hung our clothes out to dry...….problem is makes them stiff and uncomfortable to wear.
5:40 I’ve literally never seen anyone with 2 separate taps I live in the UK btw
It depends where you go
Oh
I guess my house is old
Say's our caveman ancestors while showing ancient Egyptians paintings.
When do Americans learn you can’t talk about europe like it’s a country. Ugh literally every country differs.
Exactly!!!!!
Well as an American I've never thought that you could too many different countries...
Just like America isn't just the U.s.a
@Angel Sinclair YES, but the amenities in the homes, are almost the same, everywhere in the US... (The vid was about the stuff, not the people :-) )
I don't think l like that.
So Europe is only Great Britain????😨
And where is the rest of the world? ??? 😨😨😨
Haha true @ Lotte Larsen 👍
That’s the only country he knows 😜
@@NSAZ0621 😂😂😂😂
And great Britain is only England 🏴 lol I'm from Scotland 🏴 and its so annoying
When people think of Europe they mostly think about Britain, France, and Germany.
The thing about a switch on the outlet is only true in the UK not the rest of Europe
Ummm I’m pretty sure In England we have carpets and even wall to wall 🤦🏻♂️
Carpet is easy to install on uneven undergrounds. If you have an old house where the beams "worked", laminat for example can't be layed if you don't prepare the floor extensive. (Been there, done that) But carpet is a dirt magnet. We removed all carpet in our house, yet we don't wear outdoor-shoes inside. It's disgusting.
My house has carpet everywhere apart from bathroom or kitchen and i live in England
My house is older than the country of America and has had wall to wall carpet in it
Don't say Europe. Your comparison is mainly based on the UK.
And it's still bulshit nothing like that in the UK at all!
Nothing like the uk
His comparison is based on that only place he has been to.... this whole video is ridiculous!
Linnie210 nope I the uk is not like that
uk kitchens are small in some houses
Uhm sir. Your "european" facts are usually from UK. Im Norwegian and i dont relate at all to any of these facts.
Pug Lover Same! I am also from Norway!
The toilet one tho
I’m from the nethetlands and the only thing I relate with is the toilet one (8),the garbage thing(15) and the flag one (16)
I m from holland and thought the same
I'm from Malta and Neanderthals are an extinct species, they do not live in Europe anymore, think you should know since you don't travel much.
This makes way more sense after 5:30 🤣 "I haven't done a lot of traveling".
Dissing my hubby’s pristine lawn?? Them’s fighting words! 😂
Should be renamed "How different is the American Midwest from the UK"
ikr also cute username face emote thing uwu
PandasHateGrizzlies ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ and Australia has a lot of the same things as the uk like the power plugs in the walls and the higher seats and the kettle and yea
TRUTH! Central NJ most people so NOT have a flag hanging in their front yard
@@korbermeister1 Because they are mostly Democrats and hate America according to the Democrat Platform. Lots of Muslims there too.
I was looking for this comment! 👏👏
There are no basements in Florida. Dig more than 6ft you hit water
i have never seen one in oregon
Thought about that too in my country Malaysia. We have lots of underground water too.
Yup Dig 6 feet you reach water in Florida
Lol.. None here in Jamaica either
Yes I see over here in San Diego is quite fresh and yes I fear has been a couple of..... Burning in fire here and therebut on the plus side there has been a couple of water bubbles on the ground very fun but I am still scared of what's to come
This does not accurately represent the average American home. So many do not live like this or espouse these values.
An American employee in a firm where my son is the manager asked , "How does the rest of the world see us?" Apparently he paused and thought and then said, "Well, it's not all good news." English understatement!
This video: *mainly references uk*
This video: “my european friends”
The Kween Of Kweens he got it right then.
@@pyeltd.5457 No...
Heidi Livingston yes. Brexshit
@@pyeltd.5457 Europe: One of the 7 continents
But, the UK is just one country in the continent.
The video says Europe even though it was mainly talking about the UK.
Europe: UK, France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland... and the list goes on.
Video: My European Friends...
Me: Kinda hard to believe he has any friends at all
Haha I don’t think I’ve ever met someone in Europe who hand washes their own clothes
exactly, this made me really angry tbh, they're assuming we're a bunch of impoverished, ignorant people over here
The Bright Side channel would have Americans believe that we Europeans, all have to walk 5 miles down to the river, and bash our clothes against huge rocks in order to wash them. Then, no doubt, have them believe we all walk back with our freshly river-washed clothes in a basket... balanced on our heads... while singing happy ethnic folk songs which tell tales of our forebears from 1,000 years ago. This channel was probably the forerunner to Trump's idea of _'fake news'._ Yet it has over 30 million (extremely gullible) subscribers!
@@nottellinganyone6843 The world never ceases to amaze me! Immediately following my comment to 'Carl' above, I just had one of our IT goblins delve into who's behind this channel. It's actually a subsidiary of _'The Soul Publishing Group'_ which operate and run over 20 of the biggest channels on both CZcams *and* Facebook.
Despite the American narrator we hear on all their channels, _'The Soul Publishing Group'_ is owned by (and here's the interesting bit!) *the Russian Government!* I kid you not. 19% is owned by co-creator and Russian oligarch Marat Mukhametov, 16% is owned by co-creator and Russian oligarch, Pavel Radaev, and the remaining 65% is owned by Центральное Правительство Российской Федерации (aka The Central Government of The Russian Federation). I suppose the intentionally misleading info between western countries all makes sense now. i.e. it all adds to western destabilization in its own little way!
I do in the uk
@@mbretaynef9978 Aww bless. Would you like a new washing machine?
As a German I don’t know many „European“ things... we have no switches at the sockets for example, except we plug in a socket bar
Wall-to-wall carpets are normal in Europe, too. Some people prefer hardwood or other smooth surface floors instead but carpet is the standard.
Switched outlets is an UK thing. It is not the voltage, it is the current. While most of Europe uses 16 amperes (or less) per circuit, the rainy and cold UK thought that it is a good idea to be able to plug at least 2 strong (more than 2000W) or up to 6 weaker (1000W) space heaters into each circuit. This gives you 32A continuous current you can access from an outlet, the reason why the plugs are so huge. To allow conveniently thin wires for common appliances, each plug must have an internal fuse.
We also have modern taps. The two taps per sink ones are antique. When they were standard, there was no hot water all the time and when there was warm water available, it was just warm, not hot. They stopped making dual tap sinks in the early 1950s when automatic electric or gas powered boilers became standard.
Sometimes retro dual-tap sinks are installed which usually are equipped with a tiny electric flash heater. The water temperature is typically barely 100°F.
Sink garbage disposals are actually illegal in the EU. The garbage attracts and breeds rats and prevents proper waste water treatment. We would love to have them if they would be legal!
Um.. as an American, we don’t claim him
Olivia ! Facts!! He never been to Europe lol
Lol hey my name is Olivia too!
Were is a European To Disprove these as well
Lol
@7:59 the flag is flying backwards. 🤷♂️
This video: An American explains me why his house is different but my house is pretty much the same.
Umm.... As the guy making this video ever travelled outside the US, as someone needs to tell him that he sounds like someone who certainly hasn't!! 🤣🤣
Yes sir! We do have electricity in Europe! Google it.
I'm from Europe (Germany)..
3) It's pretty standard to have a seperate washing room with a dryer and washing machine. I have actually never seen a house that doesn't have that. I don't think that this is an American thing. 4) We also have big basements, often with chill out areas or a bar. To the dining room 5) My mom would have never allowed me to eat dinner in front of the TV. It's a matter of manners to sit on the table and eat properly. 6) Smoke alarms are mandatory here in Germany. We even have a law that says that you HAVE to have one in every bedroom and in the living room. 7) Wall to wall carpeting is not very common here, because most of the people dislike the look of it and because it's a lot of work to clean them. I have never ever seen a sink with two faucets (10) or sockets with switches (13), so I have no idea what you're talking about. 11) We have home slippers. It's actually very unhygienic to enter your house with your dirty street shoes... I don't want to imagine what kind of bacterias must be in your wall to wall carpeting...🙈 14) Even I have a coffee maker in my small students apartment.. Nothing really special.. It's pretty standard in Germany to have a coffee maker and a water heater. 15) Garbage disposals are illegal in Germany, because of the sewer system. 17) We also have big gardens here in Germany, but we love our privacy. That's the reason why you will often only see tiny front gardens or even just huge bushes, or fences. The backyard is usually really big tho. The average square footage of a German house is "only" about 150 square meters, but the average square footage of the whole property is about 700 so quare meters which says a lot about our obsession with gardens. 😂
pretty much everything you said is true for former yugoslavia (though i'm not sure about the laws). sink with two faucets and sockets with switches are common in Australia (i'm yet to figure out what is the logic behind having 2 faucets, needless to say, they drive me nuts).
The socket with switches is a UK thing, I've only seen them there, on the other hand, they seems to everywhere. I haven't seen a place in UK without those switches.
I live in Germany too amd I have lived in Bosnian before. Everything you said applies to both country except in Bosnia washer and dryer are usually in the bathrom. I have both in the bathroom here in Germany too because I live in an apartment.
In Belgium 🇧🇪 to
the things you said applies to hungary, romania and croatia too
They literally just compared USA and UK with each other.
Yea and UK is a bit strange to us continentals too .
The ONLY place that he visited! What a narrow minded upload.
UK is a lot more simple
Nesten 14 yea but Australia is a lot like uk but less stuck up
Not even very well, single taps (faucets) are common these days as is having a washer and dryer, very often in a utility room. Wall to wall carpeting has been common for decades, wearing shoes inside is not uncommon and smoke alarms are not uncommon either. My grandparents house had a basement (Cellar) over 100 years ago). So that's 12 things that are different, not 17 and even those don't confuse people because most Europeans (and that includes the UK) travel far more than the average American so we know things are different in other countries.
In the Netherlands you're not even allowed to hang the flag unless it's a special occasion
We're not going to talk about the weird American flag defying everything we know about air and wind at 7:56 ?
Not only that, but it's freaking backward 🤦
This is 2019 us vs 1900 europe
Thx for the likes
MyTarantulas no this stuff is true I’m from the uk
Most of these things are still quite common in the UK so I guess they are still in 1900...
I mean their houses are beautiful, the architecture is really nice but there's so many weird things...no sockets and switches in bathrooms, washing machine in the kitchen, thin walls so you can hear your neighbours, separate taps for hot and cold water...
@MBretayne f
I’m from the UK and most, if not all of them exist
Its the united states vs europe not va uk
@@mytarantulas1644 that's the point. Most of the things mentioned in the video is from the UK not Europe. So this video is not US vs Europe. It's more like US vs UK
Sunshine dried clothes smell amazing. The amount of water for the loo and electricity to run dryers and aircon must be huge.
I have a 4 bed/3 bath home and run the central AC through the whole summer, dry all our clothes in an electric dryer, and use electric to power our well water (that's my only expense for water each month.) Total electric bill in the summer is about $175. It drops to about $120 in the winter when we are running our wood boiler to heat (still requires some electric to run the pump and blower.)
Yes. But not in the cities in the US. When clothes are sun dried here in the cities they smell disgusting.
It was 116 degrees (46.6 Celsius) this week where I live. You think turning off the AC and opening a window will help?
I only turn the AC on if its above 80 in the house an we shut it off when not home. Otherwise i open windows an use fans.
Not too bad. The utilities where I live are pretty cheap.
Bright Side: Houses come in all shapes and sizes
Also Bright Side: AMERICAN HOUSES ARE MUCH MUCH BIGGER
yea TRY stepping into to my home with shoes on
What a bunch of wrong facts there. Travel a littlebit before make a video like this :)
or use Google..
@@dubious6718 Google isn't always right
@@iiv_dannybo1 Oh NO !! Say it isn't so!
Wrong one very level
as if europeans didnt know what coffee machines are
Yeah, this guy sounds a little arrogant.
B r i t i s h s t a r b u c k s
Bruh so weird to say tho
Us Italians literally drink coffee at every hour, I haven't met a single Italian who doesn't have a coffee machine
Used to have one in my home but I'm a tea person so when I moved I got myself an electric kettle.
I from finland I know what a coffee machine is
This America he speaks about sounds like a weird place, says an American who has lived here his whole life.
I’m from Denmark and the most of the things on the list is the same in Denmark
this is how many brain cells I have lost
Its funny because most of this is bull. Im from sweden and carpeted floors were popular before, but is now considered dirty. Here you do cut your lawn, we have one faucet, we do have a laundryroom, and we apparently drink more coffee then people do in the US. Sooo i dont know where the facts came from.
Martina Ljungqvist Svensson think he should have done a US vs UK difference, since most of the things kinda only apply to the UK
Also from sweden..
I am guessing his info is mainly from the UK - plus somewhat outdated. But I can not discuss that with you further now, as I have to handwash my T-Shirts now. And you know how hard that is with the 2 faucets! And while we are at it, whats the "Coffee" he is talking about? We don't have that in Germany.
@L L Carpets help provide insulation as the synthetic microfibres aren't good at conducting heat. So carpets make more sense in cold countries than they do hot ones.
@@Slazlo-Brovnik Coffee is a caffeine drink that you can drink in the morning to wake you up. Adults usually drink it a lot.
You act like a single TAP is alien to othe countries smh
At least in California, a room is not considered a bedroom unless it has a closet.
wearing shoes indoor with wall to wall carpet? well that sounds like a great idea....
We have vacuums and it's not a rare chore lol
I. Know! Wall to wall carpets are disgusting
@@hundragant Well congratulations for having a vacuum cleaner, but that's not going to remove all the dirt that shoes bring.
@@henk-3098I agree. Yuck, no thanks.
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One more honest doubt here: why do US houses are still made out of wood instead of brick and mortar? I'm from a third world country and nobody would ever think to build their home out of wood, and I'm sure the average US citizen is able to pay it. I can understand that you may like it in some areas whithout strong winds or floods, but it amazes us that in tornado stricken areas you see entire wooden neighbourhoods spreaded flat on the ground... I mean, we all know that tale about three little pigs and a big bad wolf. Can anyone explain this?
Thanks for saying this, I'm from Nigeria, this has never made sense to me.
Nacionarg it is about costs. The cost to build a wooden frame home is much more affordable than building a brick home. Keep in mind that the majority of us US citizens are not wealthy and have to finance our homes with 30 year mortgages to pay for them. It just makes financial sense to us because a lot of us are in debt most of our lives. Not everyone in the US is wealthy, a large portion of us live pay check to pay check!
@@marchingforever I supposed so, but where I live (I'm from Argentina, but surely this applies to other places) we also go for mortgages and with killing interest rates (I'm indebted in one for 20 years and it's just a 60m2 apartment) and both absolute and relative lower income than the average US citizen, yet wooden frames are only seen here for maybe some weekend houses, which only few have. Our permanent home is exclusively mason-made. Again, I can understand that you may want to use wood in safe areas, but I would think it is a sound investment to build with bricks in areas where natural disasters like hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes and floods occur, as I'm confident that building one solid house will be cheaper than building two wooden ones. Don't take this as bashing but just as an ousider trying to understand a not-so-obvious custom.
Nacionarg that fact that you are able to afford two homes says a lot about your personal financial situation. Most US citizens do not make enough money to purchase one home, let alone two of them. The United States is a wealthy country but that wealth is held by only a very small percentage of the population. The majority of us are either poor or in debt or both! The media shows the world a false representation of the US. Everyone hear is NOT rich or wealthy. We struggle working two and three jobs just to make an honest living. Most people I know cannot even afford to buy a home, including myself.
Nacionarg Actually wood framed housing do very well in large earthquakes than brick and masonry. I can definitely account for that when our home in Alaska rode out a 7.2 earthquake and we just had some cracks and broken dishes.
they have wall to wall carpet, but wearing their dirty shoes inside................ Bravo
The narrator seems to think the rest of the world live in tree houses and pick fleas off each other.
70% of comments :This video sucks
Then thats saying something
It's almost worse than the YT rewind
I am from Greece and many of them are true. The only mistake is that this with cold-hot water only exists in the old houses of England.We have the same with US
So true. He Should check facts
Also in my country. ... Romania!
Xristina Pantazi i
I live in England and most sinks have two taps to customise it
Zito e ellas
The hot tap is normally on the left side and the cold tap is normally on the right side.
No shoes in the house- PeriodT
Idk why people do It. Here in NY if you take the train or bus and you wear shoes in your house 🤢🤮
You’re generalizing a lot of British things for all of Europe, in fact for all of the world. Only the British have switches on sockets, or separate hot and cold faucets.
bennyke1979 ok, desperate hot and cold faucets? Unless you are in an old house in the UK, you won’t find that and even that is only if this theoretical old house hasn’t seen a refurb, which is rare.
I have seen faucets which you control hot and cold water separately but they come out together. But even that is rare. (sorry I'm not European actually)
A LOT of innacuracies here. Not very factual or accurate.
Especially the beginning.
well when yu take english as reference for european yu know it gonna be wrong xd
@@shaezbreizh86 what ???????????????
And aggressively boring.
yep equal with germans and the dutch.
When you say Europe I think you mean UK. I've lived in Italy and the UK and most of the things you're sayin' apply for the UK only. Switchable sockets are only a thing of the UK
Edit: I personally prefer switchable sockets so I don't have to unplug btw. My TV for some reason makes a lot of noise when it's turned off so I have to unplug it every time now that I'm not in the UK. Thanx for the likes
And all ex-British countries - Australia, NZ, Singapore, India, etc etc
Ur right I stand behind you 100 percent
Ricky911 True. I lived in Italy for 7 years. Some things he says applies though.
I confirm, in Italy and other EU countries the things are different or like in USA
I'm from the UK and a lot of homes have utility rooms and most don't apply to the UK. Maybe very old homes.
This guys never been anywhere except USA
Pay for a persian carpet then see if you can walk in the house with shoes on 😆
7:01 ‘apparently in Europe’ shows Australian/Chinese power socket
Thx for the likes, I’ve never had so many :)
That's the Australian/New Zealand socket, the Chinese turn their's upside down :-) BTW, the video got the switch wrong too, it's up for off and down for on.
@@Pete856 where I was in China there were only 2 sockets laying side by side
@@elwinphung4299 Never been to China, but from photos I've seen of their sockets, they have 2 types of sockets, often beside each other. One is like I described, and the other is a 2 hole design that takes both the flat pin plug of North America (and where ever else it's used) as well as the round pin plug of Europe. So their sockets are a traveler's dream.....unless you're from the UK.
Ikr
Yeah , that’s not even a European socket and most of the countries in Europe don’t have switched in the sockets . That’s something that only some uk sockets have .