British Guy Reacting to 4 Ways British and American Houses Are Very Different
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I will never understand why homes in the UK don't have window screens. Apparently y'all are okay with having flies, spiders, mosquitos, moths, etc in your house I guess!
Regardless bugs still infiltrate America lol. They're very, very sneaky.
That brings back bad memories. One August, I was staying at a swanky hotel in Costwold Water Park (water park is apparently British fancy talk for swamp). It was balls hot and there was no A/C. So I opened the windows so I wouldn't suffocate in my sleep. But there were no screens and, again, this hotel was in the middle of a swamp. When I woke up the next morning, there were a million spiders and flying things in my room. It was heinous, but the weather was so awful, it was unbearable with the windows closed.
I don’t even open my window and they still get into my room.
@@LeveyHere cracks in the foundation
@@LeveyHere No it's just because most homes in America are built very poorly and have lots of cracks for all the bugs to come through.
In California, wood helps keep houses standing during earthquakes; bricks are a bad idea.
Yep. Wood can flex with the earthquake.
In California Bricks = Death
But then a wildfire comes along and burns it to the ground. California has problems.
@@pjschmid2251 You don't have to call us out like that😭, but yeah our houses have to sway and the price of that is burning down I guess. I'm so glad the worst thing I've had to deal with in terms of fires is not being allowed to go outside and not being able to see in the middle of the day because the sky is orange in the air is filled with ash and smoke.
@@pjschmid2251 Bricks in a wildfire would turn your house into a giant oven. When it comes to wildfires, you're pretty much screwed regardless of the material.
I think it's funny British people call yards "gardens". In America, a garden is a space in your yard where you grow vegetables. And yes, we do have plug-in kettles.
"In America, a garden is a space in your yard where you grow vegetables." Well, that or grow flowers. When I hear the word garden, I think of flower gardens moreso than vegetable gardens.
I have a tea maker, something people would have at restaurants I think. I get confused when I see these tiny kettles. They aren’t the same.
It's probably not that different really. Gardens were intended to be used for growing food but in an era of supermarkets, gardens have just become decorative features really. Something nice to look at.
I personally think of a yard as a square of concrete at the front or rear of older houses. It just differentiates it from a house without a garden.
A house without either might be 'front facing' or 'back to back' for example.
Plug in kettles for tea are rare. I think also coffee>tea in America. Also, see the Boston Tea Party
I've never seen a plug in kettle :)
Interesting point about closets. In the US, a room HAS to have a closet to be considered a bedroom, at least in marketing.
Edit.
Idk why yall are ranting about inspections...nobody said it would fail. I simply said that it can't be advertised as a bedroom if there's no closet. For example, a 3 bedroom where one has no closet has to be described as a two bedroom. You can call the other a bonus room, family room, whatever, just not a bedroom.
Yep, a closet and a window if you want to call it a bedroom.
It actually won’t pass inspection.
Basically in the US - if it doesn’t HAVE a closet, it IS a closet lol.
By law, at least in my state, a bedroom must have a closet and a window. The window is for fire egress in an emergency.
As a broker, I have to say this is unequivocally false information. This isn't stated in the IRC or even mentioned within HUD. A closet is nothing more than a feature, it isn't required.
We not only have screens on our windows, but in the southern coastal states we also have rooms built of screens.
Doesn't even have to be a coastal state. We have those here in Tennessee, too. Not as common, I'll admit, but we have a fair few.
Screen porches/rooms are also very common in New England
We have wooden decks surrounded with screens and below them surrounded with them too, great to BBQ and drink while it rains a lil bit on a warm day in the Midwest
@Debra what do you call that screened room and in what state do you live?
Where I live in Florida, we call it a lanai. I didn't realize until recently that it's pretty much only Florida and Hawaii that call it that.
@@CakeCakeCake Ours was a pool enclosure, now have a screened in deck. Makes summers on the Gulf easier to deal with.
People drink tea, but Coffee is substantially more common.
Yeah, I believe this largely comes from the tea taxes in the revolution where coffee was used as a substitute for boycotted tea.
lol - yes, a preference rooted in history. The colonies had a hard time importing tea once they gained independence and thus began America's addiction to coffee.
I drink coffee every day before work, but tea only when I feel like it.
Tea is still common, just not AS common.
There are definitely tea lovers in the states, but coffee is much more popular. I actually have a monthly tea subscription box.
Americans don't like the washer and dryer combined because it works a lot worse than having them separate. Also our houses are so big we can fit them
Also you can’t dry a load while simultaneously washing another...
@@alyssabrolsma3854 I was thinking the same thing
For real! The combo units are more expensive, slower, and less efficient. Kind of just a waste. Get a stacked setup if you need to save space.
I'm American and my apartment doesn't even have washer and dryer hookups 😭 but I do have air conditioner lol that's a must with 100 degree summers here in Tennessee.
If they are separate units, you can wash the next load while the first load dries.
The general lack of window screens in Europe blows my mind.
No screems and no central air, because apparently life should be hell.
It's called 'yellow fever' or malaria...
@@ElliWoelfin parts of New England are similar
Yea, I get enough bugs getting in my house even with the screen, can't imagine without.... heck... bats? birds?
@@xDarkTrinityx while living in Germany, I had a bird fly into my room and poop on my lunch, so yeah, that can happen
I'm a bit disappointed that he didn't mention American Victorian houses, they are quite a bit different from their UK counterparts. Plus they are a work of art and definitely deserved a mention!!
Victorian and Craftsman are my favorite!!😍
What about the vintage houses
Not having AC was actually considered an emergency in some of the places I've rented. You got moved to the top of the maintenance list if your AC went out in the summer.
It's a "livability" issue, since people can die of overheating in summers. Same for heating systems in winter.
Yep, in Louisiana a/c is a must have. It is hot all the time
In the US the average person doesn't need an electric kettle because they're drinking coffee, so they probably have a drip coffee maker
Yup, exactly.
I personally make a compromise and make tea in a drip coffee maker. More convenient and I drink a lot of iced tea
I originally bought an electric kettle for pour over coffee but find I use it daily for so many purposes. It has a permanent spot on my counter. I still have a drip coffee maker but it’s put away because it takes up too much space and I just prefer pour over coffee.
Kettle (electric, or stove top) for coffee made with a French press. Coffee with ALL the flavor.
@@jreyman This is my setup.
He said his grand parents in-laws lived in a ranch style house. His wife is American, and it was her grandparents he was referring to. He, himself, is originally from the UK.
She also has a RUclips channel.
Luka, Lawrence B., met his American wife while at British University. They were both students. Don't know which one. So, when he moved to American, he had a ready-made family waiting for him.
@@ChrisBl33p She actually commented on his previous reaction to them on her RUclips account.
ranch is very common in Indiana which is where it looked like the grandparents were from also im from Indy
Laurence actually does have relatives that live in Utah, though. He's talked about that on his channel.
America is more of a coffee country, most people don’t have a kettle at all. That being said I have an electric kettle
I just use a pot to boil the water. No sense in spending more money for the same function. Something portable would be kinda nice though...
I have one mainly for ramen or the occasional hot tea
My husband and I (Americans) bought an electric kettle last year, and we use it all the time for hot cocoa, instant mashed potatoes, ramen, etc. I occasionally make rooibos tea, but not often.
@@sophiefilo16 I used to do that too until I got an electric kettle. The electric kettle is much better. It's more efficient and most models can be temp control because certain teas taste better at certain temps. Was only like $25 on Amazon.
I have a manual kettle that goes on a range/stove top. I don't heat water frequently enough to buy an electric kettle. Just another item to take up space in the kitchen.
As a US native, I've never heard townhouses called Row houses. Maybe in New England, but I've always heard "townhouse" for houses attached in a line.
Row Houses & townhouses are two different types of homes. Think of Brooklyn, NY for Row Houses...
Row houses are common in older american cities, Chicago, Baltimore, New York.
Town houses are common terms for attached condominium homes. At least here in the west.
@@AmericanMick13 NYC is part of New England, so kind of proving my point it might just be a new england thing.
@@annajohnson8124 no it’s not, it’s just close to New England and is in the northeast, but not all of the northeast is New England.
@@kaylahall1219 Older cities might be accurate, but I grew up in Virginia in some of the oldest towns in the country, where they were called townhouses or townhomes. According to google, it says coastal towns/cities. But I went to college in Savannah, Ga, and there it's also townhomes. I'm currently living in Florida coastal city, and it's also townhomes here.
I don't know how it is on the WC but condos on the EC are just apartments you can buy. NYC is a bit weird, because I've heard them also use the term flat, which is british.
Per my online research, I think the term row houses pretty much sticks to New England, plus Baltimore (it was the only city outside of new england to feature them).
I wish he had mentioned craftsman style houses. One of my favorites. And we also have gorgeous, large Victorian homes!
Yes, there are so many more types of houses than he mentioned! But that's ok he mentioned it was a short overview
we have historic Georgian homes in many of the original 13 states (colonies) as well... considering we were part of England at the time that those homes were built. We often refer to them as “colonial homes”... “center hall colonial” is a very very common revival style that you see in neighborhoods all the way up and down the East Coast
I have a 1923 craftsman and my parents have an 1890 Victorian. I love the character of them.
True, but most of us live in post WWII ranch style homes, 1200 to 2200 square feet.
In Florida our houses are framed with concrete blocks for hurricanes, our front doors are hinged to swing out to resist wind, and our glass is rated to resist flying objects.
Hopefully you'll never have the "Trial Run" experience.
@@scottmiller6270 I've already had some trial runs! Fortunately I live in a tall concrete tower and I am above flood zone. Thanks!
@@jlpack62 Well that's good to hear!! 😊
Can't relate.
I live in SETX, we have reinforced houses to withstand hurricanes too. They may not “look” as sturdy but they’re engineered to withstand hurricanes.
He totally missed the Spanish/Mediterranean style that's so popular in tract homes in the California and the Southwest (somewhat it Florida too). Stucco with tile roofs. They're all over the place here.
Yes, pueblo style is what I think you’re referring too
@@Squ33zemly No, that's more in Arizona and New Mexico. We have this fake Mediterranean style. Its definitely not Southwest style.
My parents nearly bought a Spanish style
In California is called Mission Revival architecture and in New Mexico and Arizona is called Santa Fe style or Pueblo Revival architecture, both are derivative of pueblo style but have some regional distinctions, but overall they use cement or brick to imitate adobe exterior walls and use more earth tone palettes that fits the tone of the surrounding dry, arid climate. In California the constructions imitate Spanish missionary churches from when Spanish missionaries first came to California and built structures based off of Native pueblo style. And New Mexico has their own style from when the Spanish missionaries who settled there built structures in that region. In California during the 90s it was required for students to study about Spanish missionary style architecture and then we had to make a model of one of the Missionary Churches because of how big of an impact it had in California’s cultural history.
My late uncle built houses in the northeastern area of new Mexico. They all had basements in them as far as I know. I'm guessing that's the Spanish style that you're talking about.
I live in “Tornado Alley” and it really doesn’t matter what your house is made of when a tornado hits, except in a trailer park. They are never left standing and it seems they are always in the path of tornadoes.
So you don’t buy houses there then right? If it gets wrecked by tornadoes often then it would be better to rent them.
@@gxrdin9523 or just get house insurance.
@@gxrdin9523 Someone's gotta own the property right?
Alot of the houses in are bermed they do fairly well in tornadoes
@@Keeslinger yes, that's a good option too, but in some areas like Oklahoma the soil isn't suitable for basements and stuff (so I've been told, at least). I mention the concrete dome homes because they are a good above ground solution. www.monolithic.org/domes
I’ll be honest, I’ve looked at the size of uk houses and I start feeling claustrophobic. My personal home is 1500 square feet and I’m just one person.
Yes that’s what I said too! I’d feel like the walls are closing in on me, I think my 3 bedroom apartment in the US is still at least 1250 square feet!
God dammit rich country people, stop bragging your excess of space on me.
@@SpecterNeverSpectatoronly if you agree to call toilets commodes,
@@DaniEl-lv7hi
At a glance, my house looks quite small, but it’s got four bedrooms with another two bedrooms on the third floor. I can’t recall the total area, but it must be over 2500sqare feet. And every day I say a prayer of thanks for making drug dealers. If my house hadn’t been put up for auction after this drug dealer was snagged by the law. Nobody else even bothered to bid so I got a house for 23K.
My 3-person family moved from renting a 900 square foot house (with 2 bedrooms), to buying a 1600 square foot house (with 4 bedrooms). I thought it would take forever to use up the space, but within a year we had too much hobby stuff crammed into the "guest" bedroom to have guests sleep over, and the garage (which is exactly large enough to park a mid-size sedan and a motorcycle, if it had nothing else in it) is also crammed full of "storage" boxes & bins.
In the US, the mailbox is usually located in a spot convenient for the postman to get to. If the house it set a way back from the main road, the mailbox is in the front of the yard so the mailman/person can get to it. In large rural areas, houses can be very far from the main road, so you’ll see a bunch of mailboxes together in a spot on the main road for the occupants to get to. If the house has a short front yard, then the mailbox can be on the house.
Second year I lived in Florida back in the early 70's, I seem to recall the mailbox was a least a quarter of a mile from the house.
And now we have community mailboxes at the entrance to neighborhoods to make things more efficient for postworkers. (I am not a fan.)
@@loverlyredhead As a rural mail carrier, I can tell you the majority of us are not fans of those boxes either. For the most part, we'd much rather have the boxes at each house. PO is saving money by not adding miles to our routes for new subdivisions...problem is, since package volume has increased dramatically, we have to drive to many of those houses anyway...and not get paid that mileage.
Are you actually using your own car and gas ?? Because if they don't pay you milelage, you can, and should, claim it on your taxes. You can either claim the miles (currently 48.5 cents/miles) or you can save receipts and claim gas. My recommendation?? Always claim the miles. It won't come under question. Wheras claiming the gas is more difficult because then uou have to try and take out for personal off the job miles driven. Most likely only being able to claim 1/2 to 2/3 of the gas paid for.
And get this. Our mailboxes have red flags on them that you'd flip up, letting the mailman know you have outgoing mail.
Where I live the houses have the mailboxes next to the front door.
@@gxrdin9523 When I lived in a house with a mailbox on the house we used a big red clothes pin on the front to let the mailman know we had mail to pick up.
Where I live its a big mailbox for everyone with its separate compartments amd locks
i love how luka is like, yea we don’t have AC in the UK, and then there’s me wrapped in my covers cause the AC is blasting at 68° degrees
AC down to 68-degrees; plug in electric blanket to get toasty warm or floor heater to warm legs in the WFH office--power company loves me!
Window screens are very necessary.
Many places in the US don’t have air conditioning. I moved from FL to San Francisco and the lack of AC was so confusing.
@@FirstNameLastName-wt5to that sucks, I live in Michigan and it gets humid in the summer so I need AC but there are definitely houses (rentals at least) without it
In the US pretty much every window has a screen on it to keep bugs from coming inside. I can’t speak for others, but my family keeps the windows open quite often.
If it starts to get hot I turn on the ac, I can’t have my windows open. I think I have phobia of people looking at my while I sleep.
I live in Minnesota and my preference is to have windows open most of the time. Only when it gets into the 90s and is very humid do I turn on my central air. And of course I have screens on the windows, and I have a screen door as well as a solid wooden door in the back. I keep the wooden door open and enjoy the breeze through the screen door.
@@gxrdin9523 we have central air that kicks on automatically when it hits a certain temperature.
Otherwise if it's in the 70's I just open the screened back door.
Or rather the wooden door to the screened door.
Here in Texas it gets to around 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer and air conditioning is necessary for survival 😆 🥵
It almost always hits 115 in my area plus the humidity you can almost cut the air!
In California to but were not humid so its not as bad
I live in az and it’s normal for it to get to 120°F in the summer😭
East Texas here! Living behind the Pine Curtain causes extremely high humidity and heat. The air feels heavy and wet and sweat doesn't evaporate.
Same in Oklahoma. Seems every summer, people without AC actually die of heat stroke because they don't have AC or can't afford to run it because of the electric bill. When the heat index is 110°F, some way to cool down is a necessity.
I hope you never stop pausing the video and googling things to see them or learn more in these reaction videos. It really adds a cool layer to the video. I don't think I've seen any other reaction youtubers do it, it's great. 👌
In Texas, you're rich if your whole house exterior is brick. But they still build the entire house of 2x4s. It's just a brick facade.
Ooo fun fact :) A brick/block/rock exterior provides insulation from both heat and cold especially if there's insulation on the inside as well. It may be laid over 2 ×4s but if you have the money for brick/rock exteriors your home is better insulated than if it was shingle. It looks nice and is functional :)
I’m in Texas all brick house but it’s a small 1300 sq ft. But only the ones on corners are all brick... I’m guessing for visual appeal in the neighborhoods.
I don’t live in Texas but my house is built with bricks but it was a lot cheaper in the 1940s. When it was built. I’ve seen a lot of newer builds with the brick veneer. I think both look great.
One thing about usa is you can find any thing of anything
Yeah lol
@James Rooks 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Almost lol
@James Rooks no one wanted you to bring politics into anything
except GPU's
"why" do houses get torn down by hurricanes and tornadoes? Lol because of how strong the winds are. The houses in Florida are made of cement bricks.
Don't forget the drop in barometric pressure. When the pressure is vastly different on the inside of the house from the outside of the house, windows blow out, roofs explode off, entire walls pop off, or worse yet, the house explodes.
I helped cleanup a neighborhood church after a tornado took it's roof off. The guy inside during the tornado said he heard the nails popping off before the roof left. Strong winds don't pop out nails.
..."blocks" there's a big difference between blocks and tiny bricks lol
@@lexithomas9694 yeah the blocks are much bigger. I don’t like the look of them, but they seem a lot sturdier.
@@kathyp1563 pressure has absolutely nothing to do with the damage caused
Yeah I think people underestimate how strong properly built wooden houses can be, and overestimate stone and brick. There were plenty of brick houses destroyed by katrina and other major hurricanes in the US.
With the mailbox along the road, the mailman never gets out of his truck and can cover more houses. There are cities in the US where you have a mailbox next your door on the house, but only in high density places because it require walking up to each house. So the person delivering the mail has to walk the route.
They do cluster boxes where I live in California and a whole block of houses have one central box like an apartment building.
Hot tea is a thing in America, although we don't have a specific time called "tea." :-)
Well in the south (Texas) I’ve herd and know absolutely no one that has had hot tea lol. But we drink cold sweet tea like no tomorrow!
@LIZZY Texas native for 30 years.. go to Tennessee every 2 years.. Oklahoma and Georgia a few times.. not to much that’s more southern than that.
@@likeaboss1059 but if you live in the southeast you have to be specific if you want unsweetened. Otherwise you'll get sweet tea by default
@@ShadowSkyX same in Texas
I don't think I could sleep very well in a room with the window open and there was no screen.
I can’t sleep well even with the screen on if the window is open
I'd just take the heat. Like hell I'm going to be battling bugs all year long...
I'd have to spray my whole room with bug repellent or at least get a mosquito net. I hate bugs crawling on or biting me especially when I'm sleeping.
Couldn't do that man I don't even have screens in my bedroom windows I have a AC but I used to have my window opened all the time but never without the screen down
I had no idea people live without window screens. That’s crazy!
If a tornado hits your house, what it’s made of doesn’t matter.
Depends on how strong the tornado is! 😊
YES, when I heard the bricks vs wood thing I immediately thought 'It's not the Big Bad Wolf after the Three Little Pigs, it's a fucking TORNADO' lol
I've seen big brick buildings be ripped apart by tornadoes.
Two words: cinder blocks.
@@tjcassidy2694 Even with cinder blocks you are going to lose part or all of your roof. If the tornado (or hurricane) is strong enough and you get a direct hit, the building is toast.
Tea's been climbing the ranks in the US mostly because some are giving up coffee for it, but tea is still nowhere near coffee in terms of popularity.
US is more into iced tea and green tea
I think its more to do with the fact that coffee has an "acquired" taste so people like myself just don't like it and end up drinking tea instead, though we are the minority you will usually find a tea packet or two in most people cupboards.
@@cheeseninja1115 what about milk and juice?
Tea makes my throat feel weird so I dont like it
@@cashmoneycockburn9502 Also, sweet tea is very popular in the south
"Is tea a big thing in the US?"
Not since Boston threw that massive Tea Party 1773. Tea just never really tasted the same to us after that.
Oh that’s a myth! They drank smuggled tea with enthusiasm. It’s so much more about what beverage one could get at a better price. After the revolution there was no more British East India Company and Americans could increasingly get coffee from the Caribbean and S. America easier and at a better price.
@@mrmadness2699 It's called a joke, as harbor-water tea would likely taste bad.
But, if you want to get historical, it's also understandable that taxation without representation on substances like tea did leave a poor taste in the mouths of patriots. So, I wouldn't necessarily call it a myth as the cultural impact of the moment likely did lead to us seeing tea culturally as superfluous rather than a necessity (like in England), which could also be accounted in the true drop in tea and tea time (afternoon tea) as a cultural staple in America during the great depression and the decades leading up to it, when we saw mainly the wealthy taking part in such a past-time. This is because in the 1800s, green tea punches became popular among the wealthy, and were seen as an extravagance. Then a second cultural shift expounded on that during WWII when trade with China and Japan was cut, cutting off our access to these fancier teas, and then were again seen as "un-american" to drink. In effect, the Boston Tea Party did set a seed that hot tea was "un-american" which then grew under social, economical, and historical influences.
These cultural shifts mainly took place in the North, where it was harder to get such imports from our southern neighbors, which accounts for why the New England states still have a designated "season" for tea. The south always had steady access to black tea and accounts for the majority of tea drunk in the US, however since the weather is generally hot and humid, colder drinks were preferable in the area, which is why cold sweet tea is still a staple in the South.
Hot tea sales were only picked back up to what they were before then in the '90s to 2000s after a reintroduction alongside other eastern practices like Yoga in the 70s, but by then, coffee had replaced it, mainly for its higher caffeine content and the cultural shift seeing tea and tea-time as an effeminate past-time meant to teach young pre-debutante girls how to host parties.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_tea_culture
www.thrillist.com/drink/nation/tea-culture-in-america
stories.kitchenaid.com/article/steeped-in-history-the-rise-of-tea-in-america
Anna Johnson, firstly let me apologize for completely missing your joke. I’m sorry. I did read and enjoy the articles you cited. Still even in those articles some sentences popped out at me. From the KitchenAid article: “Not long after independence was declared, Americans were back to drinking tea.” This was immediately before the green tea punch information. I read this as the ‘tea is unpatriotic’ backlash was a temporary phenomenon much like the backlash against German beer in the lead up to prohibition or freedom fries. I see no evidence of a ‘tea is unpatriotic’ backlash in WWII. the KitchenAid article states: “But during World War II trade with China and Japan was cut off, and Americans went to drinking almost solely black tea - upwards of 99%” which doesn’t have anything to do with patriotism or quantity of tea consumed at all. So apologies, I reacted against what I thought was the reductive assertion that it has been unpatriotic to drink tea since the Boston Tea Party with a somewhat reductive response of my own. It wasn’t just market forces, but classism and misogyny also that suppressed hot tea consumption in the US. Nevertheless I stand by my dismissal of the B.T.P. as very important to the drinking habits of modern America. To say that the Boston Tea Party planted a ‘seed’ would be like saying that the anti-German lager backlash planted a seed that ended in the rise of microbreweries. Lastly, Thank you; I learned something new today.
@@danstadler3752 I accept. As to the two quotes in question tea sales just after independence is mainly talking about Black tea, which is what southern sweet tea is mad of. The wealthy then began to drink fancier hot tea imported from china and japan. This is 1800s, so for America's first century. In that time, tea parties became a staple in the wealthy classes (again, mainly to teach young debutantes, which then compounded on itself), and less in the working classes. While tea was still very popular, it was still a luxury that was dropped a bit during the depression, and then fancier teas (which we associate hot teas with all together) were dropped during WW2. Again, cold black tea never dropped in sales, because sweet tea is such a bastion in southern culture. But the North is considered America's cultural epicenter, and their position on tea is what has fluctuated the most.
I think the anti-german lager sentiment during WW2 was the same sentiment with anything japanese then, but we didn't have a rebellion centered around beer that could cause a cultural echo of "unamerican" or "unpatriotic," which tea did because of the Boston Tea Party. That is the seed I am referring to.
Also, the black tea drink of the south is not cooked with a kettle, but with a pot. With that being the main tea drinking sales percentage people point to saying "tea is still popular here" the culture around it and making it is different. He asked if tea was popular in America, because we often don't use kettles. The answer is hot tea has had to go through some rebranding, but the most popular type of tea drunk in America is not made with a kettle, but a pot.
Another type of housing in the US is the “mobile home” aka trailer. They are on wheels and can be relocated, although not easily. Where I live in Florida, a lot of older people live in them when they retire. The big version is called a double-wide!
Yeah, in America we have large gardens, which are called either yards or lawns (US gardens are things in which specific plants like flowers or vegetables are grown), & the mailbox is at the very edge - facing the street. This is so the postmen won't have to get out of their vehicles & walk all the way up to the house to deliver the mail.
My mailbox is on my porch. Our mailman walks his route.
@@adventuresinlaurenland same
In regards to the tea question, historically in the United States tea was fairly popular during the colonial period, with tea being among some of the most popular imported goods in the United States. This attitude towards tea changed during the American Revolution for two dominant reasons.
1. Tea became a heavily taxed good and rather than pay the tax, many colonists preferred other alternatives to tea such as coffee and other drinks. With time this would become the norm.
2. Tea at this point in time was alreadly being seen as something that denotes Britishness, so to further separate ourselves from Britain identity wise, it became more popular to drink coffee.
Yea but since then, we just think it’s weird to drink hot tea(in my experience). Iced sweet tea is better IMO. Plus coffe is more normal here then hot tea
You seem to have forgotten one important point, distance. Once coffee was found to be commercially grown, it was much easier to transport from Columbia, across the Gulf to any eastern seaboard port than across the Atlantic.
@@ThatColtGuy It's common enough, in the north, to drink hot tea in the evening. There is a large collection of flavors. Some I consider to be like dessert, like apple-cinnamon tea. No sweetener needed.
Some prefer hot tea to hot coffee in the morning. Some.
But, in American, I never hear anyone inviting someone over "for tea", or to meet "for tea". We do invite people to meet us "for coffee". If I invite you over "for coffee", I'll have tea available if you prefer. But the phrasing is "Let's meet for coffee".
I think there's a big misconception that Americans don't drink tea. Here in the South, we drink a lot of sweet tea, ice tea, sun tea, etc.
It's still a very popular drink, hot tea may not be as popular.
@@mistermisanthrope4106 hot tea is popular, just not in the South
He's kind of got that wrong. When they are in cities we call them row houses but in suburbs we call them townhouses and they are not uncommon at all. Their are millions of all of these types of houses of course, just like in the UK.
I think of row houses as having a negative connotation to it too. Usually in a bad neighborhood, otherwise they are called townhouses, duplexes, or apartments. Edit: the style that is
The point about kettles: you CAN BUY electric kettles at any appliance store, but most households don't drink tea often enough to justify permanently taking up counter space with that thing. I usually microwave my mug of water if I'm in a hurry. Or I use a sauce pot on the stove if several people want tea.
Ginger- I just use my coffee pot with no coffee in the hopper so I just get the perfect temperture hot water for whatever else I want to drink like hot chocolate, cider or tea.
Not to mention that in the American Southwest we have Stucco homes which is basically plaster based instead of traditional brick, siding, or wood because of the quick erosion that would happen if you did make it out of the traditional methods of materials.
And exposed wood would easily catch on fire
Yup in California a lot of stucco. Ours has wood siding but if you look carefully it’s just a facade. Wood frame, stucco walls and wood siding over that just to look pretty.
In New York rowhouses are referred as brownstones. And the most famous row houses are in San Francisco, known because of the TV show Full House
Brick houses get torn down just as easily (by tornados and stuff), but they are harder to repair. Think about that.
They don't get damaged as easily compared to wooden structures most of which are built to the minimum standards of the International Residential Code in the USA. Reinforced concrete bunker as a safe room is probably the only practical option to save lives
@@Kay-uy4xn The brick homes are also built that way, with the disadvantages of being up to older code, and overall, being older.
@@Blueyzachary It would certainly depend on the quality of bricks and mortar. There is a surprisingly modern looking house over 500 years old in London made of brick and a 900 year old abbey in Coggeshall which uses bricks from Roman ruins ( they occupied Britain from AD 43 for nearly 500 years so not sure how old those bricks were! We have tornados here but not on the same scale as the US. As to the comment about housing and tornados I got most of the info from a video by Cheddar about American homes.
The other issue with brick homes is that you have more stuff for the tornado to send flying.
@@Kay-uy4xn both houses will get damaged, but flying wood planks aren’t going to kill people the way flying bricks will. That’s why.
I used to think basically every house in the UK was either a flat or a duplex, and didn't think there were single houses really lol
The only countries I know of that are comparable to the US in regard to how many people own single family, medium to large homes on such a scale is Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Germany. If UK did what US does, there would be no farmland left, literally.
I would die without air conditioning. I can’t stand bugs, particularly spiders.
Mosquitoes create the ultimate need for window screens. My daughter lives on St John in the US Virgin Islands and doesn't have the same type of window screens or glass windows (rich people may have) because of hurricanes. BTW, she is a boat captain and frequently takes charters to Tortola (British Virgin Island, nearby)
Idk how you guys do it with no air conditioner.. I couldn't sleep in a hot ass room 😂
A neighbor of mine has an old photo of banker J. P. (Who used to live here) and family playing lawn tennis during what appears to be swelteringly hot day. The women wore fancy dresses and hats and the men are wearing three piece business suits while playing. I don’t know how they stood that kind of heat.
A lot of new. York brownstones have what they call English basements, although I don’t know if English basements even exist in England.
@@carowells1607 there's also what was called an "Italian kitchen" in my area, which is in a basement so it would be cooler to cook in during the summer, without AC. My sister-in-law has one, I still find it weird.
Why doesn't Britain have screens in their windows??? No bugs then! Poor Luka! Go on Amazon and buy flexible screen material and tape it up to your window! I hate spiders too!!
Or those little wood framed expandable screens
Craftsman houses are the best type of houses in US...especially with a wraparound porch.
A wrap around porch is atypical of the Craftsman style. That feature is more associated with Farmhouse style.
but they do exist...
Omg I cannot explain how much I LOVED your confusion over American outlets 😂😂 this is the content I come for.
Edit: also as an American I can confirm my only kettle is a stove top one. We have electric ones but I like the stovetop kettle.
I’m an American that loves her electric kettle. I highly recommend it they are so much faster than the stove top sort and more energy efficient.
@@pjschmid2251 I had both for a while and while the speed is really nice I’m also in a tiny apartment so the stovetop one saves counter space. Also the satisfaction of the whistle noise!
@Kiki Woodbury A stove is not more energy efficient regardless of whether it’s electric or gas. An electric kettle has the element directly in contact with the water so all the energy is going into heating the water. A stove you need to heat the kettle and then the kettle transfers the heat to the water. In addition the stove is losing a great deal of its heat to the air this is even more pronounced with a gas burner than it is with an electric burner. So out of the four methods of boiling water; electric kettle
, microwave, electric stove, and gas stove, the gas stove is the least efficient of all of them
I have the stovetop too.😊🐝❤
I think he was surprised that there aren't switches on American outlets. Britain's outlets run 230 volts while in the USA it's 110. This also makes the water boil faster in an electric kettle.
In Florida houses are built with concrete and steel (think hurricanes). In California houses are built with wood as wood is very strong and light and flexible thus making for safety in earthquakes. In Minnesota due to the cold houses are built of ice as they are in Alaska.
😳😆😂😂 ... Am I the only one who laughed @ the Alaska reference??? I heard about Minnesota winters. NO THANKS. I live in California and I still complain about cold ... it's like 55..
Blm melted all the Minnesota ice homes with peaceful structure fires!
@@rolanddeschain965 - Best to "rake" those forests before fire season 😉😉🤦♀️🤦♀️😆😆😆
Haha I remember one winter it got around -50°F out (don’t live in Minnesota, but Iowa) Thank god my family and I were on vacation in Florida!
🤣🤣
He met his American wife when she was studying in England, she had to come back home, they had a long distance relationship for a time, and eventually he moved to the US to be with his wife.
Plugs don't use power if they don't have a complete circuit (something plugged in). The electricity doesn't "leak out". In the US, the appliances generally have switches.
The US also has lower (120V) voltage for regular outlets, only major appliances like A/C, fridge, stove, water heater get 240 volts. Though apparently UK plugs 🔌 and outlets are better about making it hard to shock yourself. Tom Scott has a video about that. No, Luka Americans almost never shock themselves or start fires plugging and unplugging things, but it’d be easier than it should be to do so.
Yes, America have electric kettles. It's very common here. In fact, I have one. Some people prefer stove top kettles.
I just use the microwave. Just as fast as an electric kettle and you don't need another appliance.
@@randyparker4766 Same for me. But apparently, in the UK, it's looked down upon to use a microwave. (It apparently makes tea not taste as good compared to a kettle. (Of course, this has been debunked scientifically a million times over as well throughout the years.) But so many brits don't want to hear that a microwave is just as good and probably superior in reality to a kettle. I have literally pissed off Brits in comment sections here on RUclips saying a microwave is just as fast and good. I don't know why they get so mad about this?
Though to be fair, some Brits have also admitted a microwave is just as good too. So they don't all think that way. LOL! XD
@@waycoolscootaloo didn’t realize they look down on microwaves. That’s all I use and it’s a big over range built in. I mean I would look down on a kettle more than a 500.00 microwave lol. Crazy.
- We most definitely have electric kettles. I use mine all the time for tea, instant coffee, ramen.
- Most houses have the three prong outlets now in the USA. I think most switched in the 1990s.
- My house in the US is about 1300sqft (~120sqm) which smaller than most people I know
- AC is a necessity in the US southeast, evening during winter at times lol
- Tornados don't care what your house is made of - it'll destroy it.
Tornadoes in the southwest I don't recall my relatives saying anything about that but while visiting our aunt and uncle back in March of 2001 in northeastern New Mexico the fog rolled in and stayed for days.....
It depends on how strong the tornado is.
One difference I noticed while watching "Changing Rooms" is that lots of dining rooms in the UK have a door that closes them off. Most American dining rooms are open, with at least one wall missing.
When I was in London I so confused about how the washer and dryer were one machine and that it was normal for it to be in the kitchen.
Washer and dryer being in or next to the kitchen is a thing in the US if your apartment/duplex or whatever is small, but just big enough to have them. Sometimes they'll be on a porch or in the basement. Personally being near-ish to the bathroom makes more sense than the kitchen.
2:55 Also, that isn't how electricity works.
If something isn't drawing power, the socket isn't draining power.
Imagine if your kettles, after boiling the water, then brewed your tea for you, and stored it in a warmed pot. Now imagine that it makes coffee instead of tea.
In America, we have coffee pots instead of standing kettles.
I have a hot chocolate machine that's basically a heated blender that I sometimes make tea with
While I do have an electric kettle, I have programmed my coffee maker to have tea ready for me in the morning. Just clean it out, then fill the reservoir and put tea bags/loose tea in the carafe, and set to start about 5 minutes before you get up.
And then there are Keurigs which will brew just about any beverage that you could want in about 3 minutes which pretty much beats any plug in kettle imho.
I don’t even have that. I have single packs of coffee or tea and a microwave. The less appliances the better.
He’s talking about Americans being shocked by the small houses, everyone who’s ever lived in a city especially New York is just like 👁 👄 👁
THIS lol. Our apartments are hella tiny. Not to mention when owners break up rooms into smaller rooms so they can charge more
LOL ikr I live in an apartment in California, its hecka tiny
Besides being close to a job, I can’t think of a single positive for a city, it’s even more expensive, I mean I guess you close to the police and stuff so if you call 911 they get there faster
Some of you should move out of the city... and probably out of Taxifornia & Tax York. 🤪
Would recommended get out of the cities, riots are happening and they are just going to get worse
In the US a lot of people who live in Duplexes, own the whole building, they live in one unit and rent out the other for income.
I've got a 3600 Sq. Ft. Brick duplex, my tenant pays the mortgage.
Maybe it's a Utah thing, we have duplexes but the different sides are owned. A lot of times when we have large houses multiple families are living in them. Big housing boom in the 60s in the US, too. Architecture is very diverse.
@@kaylahall1219 I live in Utah and have seen each side of the Duplex separately owned, separately rented, as well as ones that use them for investment properties like Roland mentioned above- where tenants rent one side and the owner lives in the other side and has a portion/ possibly all of their mortgage paid for thanks to the tenant's rent.
@@kaylahall1219 How big are the "multiple family" houses you're speaking of?
@@kaylahall1219 After the Second World War there was a housing boom in America as very few new homes had been built during the depression and war years. When the troops came home there was a housing shortage and therefore a housing boom...
We have plug-in kettles here. It's just that kettles in general are not very common in the US. Coffee is the morning drink of choice here, and while kettles can be used to heat water for pour-over coffee, most people opt for the more convenient coffee makers. Tea is still popular here, too, but many will choose to microwave the water instead of waiting for a kettle to heat up. Essentially, Americans tend to see kettles as sort of unnecessary, because we already have other accessories/appliances that we prefer, and which work just as well.
I guess I'm the oddball, because I love my kettle. (BTW, I know a lot of other people who do as well) I find flipping the switch on a kettle much easier than trying to boil water in the microwave and much quicker than the stove. And if you microwave your mug/cup, then the whole damn thing is piping hot.
Had to laugh when barely a minute in your mind was blown by power outlets. 🤣 They'll be 3-prong unless an old home, and switches would be quite rare. However, near water (kitchen & bath) they will have built-in breakers, ay least if relatively new. You could theoretically use the "Reset" and "Test" buttons as an on/off if you wanted to.
Baltimore row homes used to be well known for their marble front steps. Now most of them are dilapidated and boarded up (a lot of the pictures you clicked on were Baltimore). I’ve always associated “row homes” with the city and “townhouses” with more suburban areas. Basically the same thing though they’re usually in groups of 3-4
Not in my neighborhood. We all have beautiful rehabbed row homes. Not a single vacant.
Anything goes in the USA. Single home, townhome, condo, apartment complex, mansion, 2 story, 3 story with elevator, 4 story, one level ranch, tree house, boathouse.....concrete, wood, brick, stone, or combination of all......in the old days the faucets were always separate, and many still are, but there are also single faucets where you control the temperature with the knob.....it’s more about choices
In the US I have never seen separate faucets, one for hot and one for cold. I have seen, of course, separate knobs for each temperature but the mixed temperature water came out of a single faucet. (Except, once where the kitchen sink had a separate faucet just for cold that bypassed the water softener because they didn't want to drink softened water.)
@@cindyknudson2715 I believe the separate knobs is what they are referring to as separate faucets.
There was a thing in Britain where the hot water could be contaminated with dead animals so they had separate faucets so the drinking water didn’t share a faucet. Separate hot and cold faucets remained standard afterward because it’s what they grew up with and were used to even if they never knew why it started. It’s been typical for American sinks to have a single faucet with hot and cold knobs (or increasingly those all in one levers) to control the water flow and temperature.
most houses you’ll come across in california (and probably most of the southwest idk) are usually made out of wood and stucco, i’m surprised he didn’t mention that style since it’s so popular here
He lives in the East coast so he wouldn't know my cousin from Indiana didn't know that either
@@jonathanprime1507 he lives in Chicago, not the east coast
Yeah I’m in south Texas and our most popular style is stucco houses. Although I’m on the coast so that’s why. The more inland you go the less you see it here.
I have an issue with the term “row” houses. Never have I ever heard of that term before here in the Midwest. We call them townhomes/townhouses.
Louisiana shotgun houses too.
It's regional
If there's nothing plugged into the socket, then there's no completed circuit, no electricity is flowing. I think the UK just uses switches on plugs to as a safety feature.
How is it a safety feature? There is still power up to the switch, which is right on the outlet. Unless it's to quickly shut off a malfunctioning appliance without touching it.
I mean it is a safety feature. It stops the current of electricity going to the outlet. In my home, there are switches on the wall that control the lights for the room and another switch that connects to an outlet
In the us, living in a duplex is mostly typical of the less affluent.
I never really thought about it but duplexs do tend to be in "rougher" areas.
@Therese A. Judith Izzo-Davis not in Tennessee
Triplexes and quadplexes are the most indicative of the 'rougher' areas, but you should also realize that townhouses are usually duplexes, but yes, for the more affluent.
@@zuzax1656 I grew up in a more affluent suburb in Ohio and most of our houses are either singles or multi family 3-4 story homes. It was seen as a way to keep the whole family under one roof without sacrificing space and privacy. You usually see 3-4 generations occupy these houses over renters. But we also see a pretty big turnover on these houses either due to kids graduating or unfortunately grandparents dying.
@@deehines5750 I was thinking more of single story, usually with a small backyard/patio area. These are more common in the southwestern states where land is relatively open and cheap.
You should do a video looking at the different US house styles. They can be very different regionally. Like the difference between a cape cod and a craftsman or a salt box. I like residential architecture, so that would be vool.
Anna, I live in a 2.5 story craftsman. Oversized soffits, large clunky trim around the windows, and 90 degree angles abound lol
Love a traditional saltbox style home, though!!
@@heidileigh7023 Craftsman is my husband's favorite, and they can look so interesting with all those angles!
I feel like Lawrence didn’t do his research on this one. In my city most people are in colonials or townhouses and cape cods are in the older ww2 suburbs. Ranchers are really hard to find. I usually associate cape cods with the Midwest suburbs.
@@catgirl6803 really? In New England, colonials and other larger houses are more for the well to-do. It's mostly capes and ranches in my neck of the woods, but I haven't traveled much in the midwest.
We totally have plug in teapots here in the States. I’ve owned one for years. (But kettles for the stove are more common, though.)
We tend to differentiate between row houses, townhomes, and duplexes as well as condos and apartments. Row houses are the pictures you were looking up, usually in the city. Townhomes are the same as row houses but usually in the suburbs. Duplexes are typically on an individual lot, basically one large house intentionally built to be a multi-family home. All of these types are cheaper than having a single family home on your own lot. Apartments are similar to condos in terms of layout. They are usually multiple buildings that have identical exteriors and the interiors range from having studios (you live in one giant room) to three bedrooms, or about the size of the average home in the UK. The owner of the entire group of buildings takes care of all maintenance in apartments (interior and exterior) whereas condos are more like an individual home where each owner is responsible for the inside, but an owner will take care of the exterior. You can’t really paint or make permanent changes to an apartment. Also, people who rent apartments pay their landlord (owner) a set amount monthly. People who own condos pay a mortgage (basically a fancy term for a loan for your house).
About mailboxes, I have only lived in one house (in southern California) that had its own individual mailbox out front in the yard. Every house I've lived in since then (across Utah and Arizona) has used a "cluster" mailbox, where every house has its own assigned slot and you get the key to it when you get the keys to your house
American watching a British guy watching a British person that lives in America
2 prong plugs are out of date
3 plugs are standard
things go to standbye state when a tv is off, not fully off but standby or sleep mode
as for adding switch we never bothered even power strips we never turn them off
Honestly asking anyone that's British how often do you really turn off the socket?
every time you go to bed like / often when you leave the room
every few days or just when you go to bed
every week when you feel like it?
do you even use the switch?
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Gotta say in the US when it’s storming really bad I do turn off my power strips so my electronics plugged in don’t get fried. From personal experience 🤷🏼♂️😂
@@ThatColtGuy ya same that's one time I really do unplug things.
I had a friends barn that got hit by lightning but traveled to the house and fried everything
@@ThatColtGuy The moment I see lightning, I yank out my laptop charger...
Also, most plugs in the US don't have switches unless you're in a hotel or some apartments.
Most tea in the US is served over ice and with a meal. Coffee is much more popular than hot tea. Duplexes make sense when you have one lot but want 2 houses on it, often they are rented, or the owner lives on one side and rents the other.
Something Lawrence didn't bring up was the fact that US homes have window screens. A lot of people in the us don't turn on the AC to save money. We don't get bugs in our homes because our windows have screens.
Lot's of houses in the USA have the mail go through a slot in or next to the front door. I think it maybe be more varied than you have experienced.
Electric tea kettles aren't very common here, but they're not unheard of. I have one. To be fair, I bought it when I came back from visiting England and loved how easily they boiled water.
Funny I have a stove top and an electric kettle and I don't use either. I think they were house warming gifts.
My husband and I just bought a 2100 square foot house and it's only the two of us lol (plus our two cats). We definitely like our space
Alot of british houses look like apartment buildings or condos/townhomes we have in america.
We had a tea get together back in 73 in Boston and things didn’t go well so we stopped drinking it
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I absolutely love that you take the time to investigate for yourself each thing that you want to know more about. Knowledge is power young man. never stop searching it out for yourself. Your searches are what kept me watching :)
No, he said his In-laws his wife’s grandparents lived in the ranch style home. Not his family being American.
There are a lot of small houses here as well. Post WWII homes are typically very small. They were built fast to house military families. We have something called shotgun houses, they are really skinny.
After we dumped the tea in the harbor during the revolutionary war, no, we aren't big tea ppl anymore. Some ppl drink tea, but it's not a big thing here. We're coffee ppl. Unless ur in the south then it's cold sweet tea.
My ancestors came over from Sweden way after the American Revolution and they were are coffee drinkers. They made coffee so weak that you could see the bottom of the cup. It was called Nebraska coffee.
19:43 actually, "row houses" are, at least here in southern california, usually just called townhouses or townhomes
Housing designs are highly regional. Florida has tons of stucco houses. California has its style. Midwestern houses. Southwestern style houses. A lot of ranch style homes in the southeast along with old mill houses.
In California we also have Spanish style but its usually just for the rich
People in America drink very little hot tea compared to the UK. I maybe only drink it once or twice a year
Yeah, the who plug switch thing threw me when I visited London for the first time. I knew about the current difference so had adapters but the socket switch was a bit weird.
I have never had a plug in with a switch on it
It mainly cause lower voltage than any where else
I live in Maryland and Row houses are called Townhouses. I think you should look it up I am sure It looks more similar to those in the Uk.
Actual Row Houses are different from townhouses.... row houses are houses that are so close together that you could reach out your kitchen window and smack your neighbor. Townhouses actually share walls with the neighbors.
I’m from the USA southeastern coast NC. I boil a gallon of water with a gallon tea bag and a half cup of sugar on the stove only to cool for iced tea . We have wooden and brick houses , cement, stucco. Most damage caused by hurricanes is caused by water, falling trees and flying debris. Sometimes we get tornadoes during the hurricane. I live in a average colonial style brick . It was built in the 1940s. We have both kinds of taps for water 😂 my house has 2 closet’s in each room. Bathroom has a closet but only a few of houses have those and a linen closet and a broom closet a coat closet and a pantry closet . I don’t have a dishwasher in my house the kitchen is small and we have a dinner room. My house is 3 floors but we use the top floor for storage. This is a family home. My grandparents bought it in 1940 and my mother is now the owner and I care for her and care for the house. It will be passed to my son. Over 50 family members have lived in this home . At some point. It’s a tradition if anyone was in need. Trust me having a bigger house comes with it’s problems. More to clean, more to keep up on repairs which gets very expensive and more taxes have to be paid. Not to mention the more junk we find to put into any available space . But I’m grateful. By the time you pay a mortgage, property taxes, upkeep and insurance. Most are what we call. House Poor. If you’re wondering why Americans stand strong on gun rights. Because a lot of us have to shoot squirrels to eat. 😂😂😂
Just bought my house in Florida about 2 months ago. 2 bedroom, 2 baths, and 2002 sq. ft. total with a two car garage. And it’s only me.
He called our "detached" houses "row houses". That is very regional. In my area we call them "townhouses". They have only 2 floors. Those 4-floor "Row houses" are mostly in very large cities for the upper class. I doubt most mid-sized cities have 4-floor townhouses, but I really don't know.
Prior to buying a house, I lived in a duplex, an apartment, a quadplex, and rented a house. The traditional apartment (or flat) had someone living below, above, & to one side. I hated having someone live above me. I'd hear her walk & sing & even turn on light switches. I only lived there a year. I preferred the duplex & quadplex. In parts of U.S. that are not over crowded, the duplex & quadplex (4 apartments attached) are for people who need an apartment, but need more elbow room. It also gave me a tiny yard to plant petunias or hang a basket of flowers.
they're called tenament for the non-upper class.
Also you don't see cars in front of houses in pictures in the usa because 90 percent of places even apartments will have a garage for your cars.
My family must be lazy. We don’t use the garage that much, we just park on the street.
90 might be a bit high, maybe closer to 65% nation-wide, but yeah, we have alot more than Europe.
We’ve got a garage, but our cars are outside because the garage is full.
Buildung codes say that there must be a 20 foot or 7.5 yard seperation between houses unless they are a duplex wich is usually a low income housing wich are very rare.
Unless they are in the North East. People there are wierd. We do not claim them.
I have like 10 flavors of tea and 3 flavors of coffee. I drink coffee in the morning and tea in the afternoon. I have 4 types of matcha alone.
That's me except for the coffee. I can only have one type thanks to health issues.
I always think of apartments or duplexes as meant for like young people or newlyweds. I don’t really know anyone who lives in either. I don’t know how anyone could stand to have another family living just on the other side of a wall.
If you have a strong enough storm it doesn't matter what your house is made of it will go. While wood was the main building material but the majority are now brick.
Most newer house have a brick and concrete foundation with the rest of the house built out of wood
I wouldn’t say the majority are brick particularly new housing stock most of it is frame build houses and any brick you see is simply decoration. It’s not the main building material of the house. Brick houses are common in older cities like New York and Chicago. Particularly in Chicago because housing codes changed dramatically after the fire of 1871. But when you get out to the suburbs most of the houses are made of wood frames. Newer houses built since the 1960s any brick you see on the outside of the home is a decorative element not a structural one. Frankly if I was in a brick house in a hurricane I would be even more worried that I’d be crushed to death. And don’t get me started on places that get earthquakes, brick is a death sentence.
With tornados, you're screwed. But a well built house will survive all but the worst hurricanes (unless you get hit by the storm surge).
But if you only have an f0 or f1 tornado you may only lose a few shingles off of your roof.
Our house has been shaken but not stirred....
Coffee is our version of Tea but Tea is also very popular here. Like you said, cold tea is probably the most popular here
Omg luv me some good sweet tea
Whats really popular in America is having an icemaker in the door of the refrigerator. Cubed or crushed ice that we esp love in drinks .
@@kathybouziane5269 While this is true, this was in response to him asking if Americans love tea?
@@kathybouziane5269 omg yes ma'am we do and I thought I was in heaven when my ice maker blessed me with sonic ice 💗💗💗💗
@@PhotonBread This was meant to address that in America a lot of people like their tea iced. Esp sweet tea. Coffee is my personal drug of choise though . All day long ! ☕☕
If you don't have a yard in the US (for example, live in an apartment) and sometimes even if you do have a yard, the mailbox will be a communal lock-box somewhere down the street with individual lockers for each address.
In Florida and southern states where hurricanes blow through frequently, you will find concrete block is one of the top building materials of choice. There are wood frame houses and apartments, but there are also many homes which are built of concrete, or "cinder" block.
Concrete blocks are about four times the size of a brick, and have hollow parts for steel reinforcement bars to go through, and that part is then usually then filled with concrete. There are also very strict building codes for these states so they don't build houses easily blown apart, even the wooden ones.
In this country, unless one wants to pay a HUGE amount of money, you have to use building materials which are readily available in your area. Here in the South, that's lumber and concrete. Out west, people love to build in adobe, which is basically the local soil mixed with sand and hay. Works very well, out there. Lots of people still build log cabins where there are forests. Brick houses tend to be seen where there are lots of clay deposits.
Anyway, point is, we don't build fragile wood frame buildings. Most states have some sort of natural disaster which hits frequently enough for building codes to make houses strong, no matter the building material.