European reacts to AMERICAN vs EUROPEAN HOMES
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
- European reacts to EUROPEAN vs AMERICAN HOMES
I do America Reaction, some call it Reaction US, Reaction USA. I love to get to know the USA, My videos arent British Reaction or Brit reacts videos. I am also very interested in the usa military reaction as well as us military reaction. I have a passion for us sports reaction, like nfl reaction or nba reaction. I am not brit reacts to america. I do European reacts videos. I also do reaction to america and reaction to us and reaction to usa videos. In this video we cover
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0:00 Intro
0:40 Reaction
17:30 My Opinion to American Homes
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I'm not sure how this couple's bathroom has been designed, but I've never seen a bathroom in any one's home in the U.S. that does not have a door.😳🤣
I've seen no doors quite frequently. usually in homes built in the last couple of decades. This is in the en suite bathrooms only. The toilets in these baths have doors that cannot be seen because they are to one side.
One of the houses I rented in San Diego didn't have a door for the master bedroom. It was just a walk through and I've seen many like that. It's actually not that bad.
It absolutely depends where you live. In the south, all the bathrooms have doors. In the west and southwest, they build lots of homes with no bathroom doors in the ensuite shower area, but the area with just the toilet is separated by a door. I wasn’t a fan of the no-door feature in my last home.
If it is a true master suite bathroom, you have other bathrooms for everyone else. You don't need a door for a private bathroom with a private commode room.
Some times the "water closet" toilet is in its own little room with a door separated from the rest of the room but inside the "bathroom"
Chris checkout Lost in the Pond. A British guy who moved here about 15 years ago. He and his wife just bought a house which is much more like a normal American house.
Yes, Lawrence's house is much more typical, and in a more typical neighborhood, for the Midwest, but there is no such thing as "typical" for the entire US. Lawrence's house was built pre WWII, I think. Houses then were slightly larger, because families were larger. Immediately post WWII houses were "typically" 3 bedroom ranchers on 1/4th to 1/3rd acre lots. Current houses tend to be multi-storey, on smallish lots relative to the house size, because foundation and roofing are the most expensive parts to build, and land, in populated places, tends to be very expensive.
I agree with this also! Lost In The Pond shows an “average” American home and Lawrence is pretty good at explaining a lot of his experiences as a Brit who now lives in the US. Homes vary Soooo much in the US. This couple’s home is actually quite nice and a bit above average I’d say. The majority of US homes have AC and Heat because of temperature extremes with the seasons, 1-2 bathrooms on average, 2-3 bedrooms on average, washer/dryer in a separate laundry room or the garage (in warmer climates) or in a basement.. outside of that, homes range from being pretty old (1800s for a home still standing is old to me) to being built yesterday. My home, for example, was built in 1962 and has 2 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms, an attached 2 stall garage, AC/heat, and not much of a yard (1/4 acre). Some homes have basements and some homes do not, some have garages and some do not as well. Location and climate will very much determine what is standard for homes for that area. I always find it interesting to see what the US looks like to those living in other countries.
Some people actually do have a "mail slot," as pictured. Many people, especially rural, have a mailbox in front of their home, next to the street. These boxes are not secure, so anyone can open them. However, in many newer, more modern housing developments, they have metal boxes on the street corners that have individual boxes in them. There are two sets of keys, one for you and one for the postal carrier.
Some of the older neighborhoods have a mailbox on their front porch adjacent to their front door mounted on the house... But most rural homes have a mailbox mounted on a post by the street or driveway...
It is a federal offense to mess with the mail, so people usually leave mailboxes alone.
@@garycamara9955 DECENT people leave the mailboxes alone. Others steal your personal information and credit cards.
Yes, my 1970s "four square" house (kitchen, dining / bed, bed) had a mailbox mounted on the front of the house (I've since moved it to the porch railing). Our postman parks at the end of the street and walks the mail to each house.
My parents have a ranch-style house with a mailbox at the street curb. Their postman just drives by and pops the mail into the boxes. Same city, different setups.
Mail is a mixed bag depending if you are living in the city, suburb or rural area. And I have seen some planned communities with what these people say where you need to talk to the end of the street. So it really just depends
I'm American, but live on the more poor side. I have never in my 40 years of life lived in a home like these lol.
Me either. I almost want to do a house tour of where I live so that people can see what a real normal home is like here.
It depends where you live
This is the post for those of us that work for a living. My wife and I live in a 500 square foot home with one bathroom and a one car garage.
@@trevor3013 No it doesn't... If you live in a house that is anything like the house seen in this video you have a lot of money. I don't care if that house is in New York, Chicago, LA, or Possum's Breath, Mississippi... You have to have money to own a house like that.
@@StoneE4 that's incredibly ignorant of a statement which completely disregards the vast variances of housing costs, average incomes, etc. Also every single place you just mentioned is a large and expensive city. Which always cost more and are not even close to national averages
I wouldn't call this couple's home "typical". It would be a bit out of the average Americans financial status, methinks.
While yes, its mostly due to the size of the rooms and the fixtures and materials used in their house. For instance, cheaper newer homes can utilize the same sqr. footage of the post WW2 pop up neighborhood houses and also tend to do this "open style" set with the kitchen/living space. They also can be smaller bathrooms that still have the walk-in style showers, can still have 2 car garages attached to them, and most homes outside of inner-cities will have yards about the size of theirs, etc. All while being built for middle class families. The main features are still there, just smaller and cheaper fixtures whereas European homes wont have those features at all because they don't have the room to put them in.
@@TheRayzerBandit……they live in Vegas and maybe the outskirts. Their property taxes are 0.48%, some of the lowest in the USA. That might help quite a bit. Buying a house in New York, Illinois or California would get you a lot less for your money than Nevada.
@@WyattRyeSway Well yeah, even then getting houses in the rural portions of those states would get you more than The big cities all along California coast, Chicago, or New York. It's all a matter of where you live, but that's why we look at "averages". The "average" American can get a house with the features explained for a middle class budget (or at least could before this recent house serge).
We live in the US and our home is a 3 bedroom/2 bathroom, 1495 sq. ft. This is pretty typical for where we live, but housing sizes and prices differ depending what [art of the country you live in.
I can vouch that is NOT a typical American home just by the sheer size 😂
Depends on where you live.
In a gated community by Vegas.....
@@budgreen4x4 in west summerlin they said in another video. Comparable homes in the area are $400-500k
All of these "typical" American homes by wealthy Europeans and Brits are not typical.
They are considered average so yes they are. Probably not by major city standards but they are the average in both cost and size.
all these houses are under $500k
Many Americans live in one and two bedroom apartments or condos. More Americans live in less than 1200 square feet ranch or craftsman style homes, among others. Not in homes above 2000 square feet, those belong to the upper middle class. Unfortunately far too many live in manufactured homes, trailers in trailer parks... See the 1984 film The Last Starfighter...
@@kramermccabe8601Not where I live they're not. If you could even find one that is
@@rabbit_scribe well that is where you are not where they are
Chris,
Bear in mind this is a very expensive house even by American standards, most American houses are roughly 1,000- 2,500 square feet three bedroom 1-1.5 bathrooms meaning a full bathroom has a bath/shower and a half bathroom has a komode and sink, sometimes a basement or a crawl space on roughly a half to two acres of land.
9:53 Here in the US we DO have the mail slot in some places. In the bigger cities where there are a lot of residential houses close together you will see either the mail slot or a mailbox mounted on the exterior wall just beside the front door. Most places in the US have a mailbox that is in front of the home near the entrance/driveway for that home. In some subdivisions ( a grouping of homes in a common location) they will have mailbox centers like what they are describing in the video. It's a central place where the mail carrier can stop once and place all the mail for that entire subdivision. They have special large boxes that are locked with a key for receiving packages also. If you open your mailbox and there is a key inside, it will have a number on it and you then go to that large box, open it with the key and your package will be inside. You simply leave the key in the key slot for that box for the next person to use it. Some places they will actually bring the package to your door even if you dont have a mailbox at your house.
The average family in the US has MUCH more modest accommodations, but a good family income will usually come with a lot of what they show. The baths and kitchens layouts and sizes are particularly exaggerated in this video.
Our house is hardwood & tile in flooring. Only one room, the office, has carpet. However, we do have area rugs to set "gathering places" like a seating area around a fireplace, or under the dining room table. After 20+ years, the rugs look great, because we take them out to hit them about once a year, vacuum regularly, and get them professionally washed about every 10 years (we're due for another). The carpet in the office, however, is starting to fade, get matted, just not look "clean" and "new" anymore. But to fix it, we'd have to take all the furniture out of the office (heavy file folders, bookshelves, etc), have someone pull up the old carpet, haul it away, install carpet pad and new carpet. That's SO much more expensive every 10-20 years than hard floors with easily removable rugs.
Garbage disposal goes into the sewage pipes or the septic tank. I believe in this case, the door to the bedroom would be considered the door to the on sweet bathroom. Most houses have doors into the bathrooms here, perhaps the newer homes don't include that. Their mail is different than where I live, most places have a mailbox in the yard, if not, there is a post office where you would rent a box to receive your mail. You can have heaters put under the tiles and have a heated floor.
It's spelled "en suite", btw.
Most Americans would not drop a whole banana in the garbage disposal. I had a German house guest who marveled at my garbage disposal. Personally, I try to put as little as possible into the disposal and discard most organic waste into the garbage can. Those who are predisposed compost. Every thing dumped into the garbage disposal has to be treated at a sewage disposal plant. Kinda wasteful. If you dump it into your septic tank you will very likely screw up the anaerobic process occurring in the tank.
Hey, Chris. I love your videos. The average cost of a house in the USA is $450,000. This varies by the size of the house, property size, and location. I can assure you that most houses here have their mailboxes at the end of their driveway and the bathrooms do have doors on them.
this might be a gated community where it is usual to have one or two multi-box mail centers
The beginning price of a house here is$500,000. Its not unusual for a house to be $800,000 to a million here.
On my state the average cost of a house is $389,500, but the average cost of a house in my county is $763,000. Prices can vary greatly even within the same state.
These guys pretty much don't know what they are talking about. They were looking at high class suburbs with huge expensive houses. That's life in Vegas.
We have many houses that the kitchens are tiny, the house itself is tiny. And pantries are actually very uncommon in American homes anymore. My house was built with on in 1910 but it was ripped out completely the walls even taken out in the 50's.
Most houses have 1.5 or 2 bathrooms, not multiple.
Just take everything they say with a grain of salt, it's wrong for about 80% of homes.
True
Some peo0le in the northern area of the US, use fireplaces or they get wood/pellet stoves.
The numbers they gave are averages
Las Vegas is in a desert and water is in short supply, so grass is usually artificial, and not much in the way of gardens since they require watering.
And these people make the generalization that all American mail is delivered miles away. Most houses in cities and older suburbs get mail delivered in the door or a private mail bid next to it he front door.
Most of these videos comparing things in America to Europe are based on just one area of this vast country. Different states do things differently.
This is an average house, it isn't a mansion.
Chris, I am from the USA and I like your show. I was in the USAF for a number of years back in the 90s and became friends with some Luftwaffe people at NATO bases. Nice people.
I spent three years at a NATO army base in Vicenza, Italy... Not far from Asiago...
Okay, pretty much everything they showed was upper class stuff in the US. And even when they showed normal things, they showed the upper class version.
Things that are normal in the US for regular people:
1) Backyards and Front Yards.
If you don't live in a very urban area so that you have an appartment/row house, then you have yards on both front and back to play in. Even people who are not well off usually have both, and they usually have a larger footprint than the house itself. A fair number of places, there's even trees, but they live in Nevada aka a desert region, and that's probably why they didn't show any tree areas.
2) Garages.
Yes, pretty much every house comes with a garage. And even apartments have parking garages. I didn't have a garage with my condo. But that wasn't super common. And I did have assigned parking spaces. Even most places with no garage would have a driveway or parking set aside. Also, a lot of them are not attached. The west does attached garages.
3) Open floor plans
Not every place has this. It was extremely popular in the 1990s, and that's when this building style began, and a lot of older houses were renovated to have this. But there's also a good amount of places not built in this way. If your house is over 35 years old, there's a good chance it's not designed this way.
4) Pantries
If you can fit them in, then yes, people like to have them. But this was also a new thing that people started adding in the 1990s.
5) Temperature control
While the majority of US homes have some form of this, it's not all in this manner. There are places that don't have it. There are places that only have heating or only have air conditioning. But those are lifestyle choices. You could get both if you wanted.
6) Size of the home.
You can get large houses in the US, but most of us are not living in 3,000 sq-ft houses. My condo is 888 sq-ft and it's designed for me to live with at least one other person or to have a spouse and a kid in it. And it is fine the way it is. I wouldn't want more space. I have more than enough for just me.
7) Hardwood floors.
They're popular right now. They're fine if you like them. I wouldn't consider them an American thing. It's more a modern thing.
8) Washer doesn't go in the kitchen.
Unless you're in a very tiny apartment, the washer/dryver will not be in the kitchen or bathroom. Usually they're in the basement. Or newer houses may put them in a separate mud room or wash room.
3) Bathrooms.
They are exaggerating on the topic of bathrooms. An older single story house will have 1 or 1-1/2 (basically a toilet for guests). If you have a second story, you're more likely to get a second bathroom on that upper story. Newer homes will usually have an ensuie bath for at least the master bedroom. And then a bathroom for everyone else in the house on the upper story, and a bathroom on the lower story for the guests.
Probably a good rule of thumb is that there will be 1 bathroom per 2 bedrooms.
10) Mailboxes
That's not normal at all. Usually American homes have a mailbox on the house or facing the street so that you just have to walk down the driveway to the corner of your front yard. They must live in some kind of gated community. Because even when I lived in the condo complex, it was not that far for everyone to get their mail.
I find their mailbox situation very odd. I've never heard of such a thing for a single family home.
@@enifled8888 That's why I'm thinking gated community/condo complex. Because my condo does have group mailboxes. But the furthest people have to walk is, like two houses down (it's a very small condo complex).
My friend who used to live in a larger condo complex, they had maybe one mailbox per block. They did not have to go all the way to the front of the complex for their mail. There were several of them in the big looping parking areas. One each.
I thought my answer was long (LOL). I have to disagree with your idea that pantries and hardwood floors are something from the 90's. 1890's maybe. I don't have a built in pantry but have hardwood floors thru out. My house was built in 1910 or 1911.
These Vegas subdivisions are built within the last 30 years or less. they are not stacked next to each other like some older cities. The Post Office would require many more postmen to walk the streets. It is more convenient to put post boxes on a corner for all homes on that street.
A postal carrier in Las Vegas would get heat stroke if they had to walk a typical route. And driving one would be much higher cost if each house had to be stopped at, community or even cluster mail boxes on each corner are much more cost effective, for newer neighborhoods.
Most bathrooms have doors if it’s off a hall or shared with other bedrooms, but many primary suites are open to the en-suite or vanity area. Toilets in these are in their own WC, water closet with its own door. Their neighborhood is a newer master planned community, probably gated, with many houses tightly packed in together. This is why they get their mail at a central neighborhood location. The majority of houses in the US have a mailbox at the end of the driveway for suburban homes. In town houses would have a mail slot on the door or a letterbox on the wall near the front door
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Mail centers are usually limited to gated communities in the US. The vast majority of US homes have a mailbox at the end of the driveway. In our rural area, some driveways can be quite lengthy.
The Garbage Disposal is for food waste, and it's basically like a blender set under the sink. It chops the food up until it's small enough to pass through the drain without issues.
One thing to note is that the types of houses they're describing for the US are newer homes for people in the Middle and Upper Middle Class. Houses for the Lower and Lower Middle Class are more likely to be about midway between that and the UK sizes, with 2-3 bedrooms and 1-2 bathrooms. They still have the garages, and if they're old enough they might have the door slot, but having a separate mailbox on the road is the norm. This is partly because a lot of US homes have a fenced yard in front and in back, and mailmen are sometimes unwilling to go in for fear of dogs, but also so that the mailman can simply reach over and deposit the mail without having to get out of their vehicle. Also, depending on the part of the country the older houses may have a swamp cooler instead of an air conditioner, or may have one or more air conditioner units that sit in the window and are not integral to the house.
Cleaning large open rooms is easy. Cleaning cramped rooms is hard. :)
There is a door on that toilet room. It is off at the left side. She might be referencing some smaller bathrooms where the sink, tub( or most likely a shower stall), and toilet are in the same space; the guest one.
He's a BBJ trainer close to the gym. Otherwise besides work. It's not typical to live in the desert. It's much more like Germany in the mainland
The US is huge and our housing is very regional, so saying there are typical American homes is impossible.
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for mail, remember the US is nearly as large as continental Europe. we also have 330+ million people spread out all over. My state for example is slightly larger than the UK. Postal carriers have a much shorter distance to travel than here. My state, by the way, is Oregon, 255,030 km². UK, 243,610 km², Deutschland 357,592 km².
You can fit more than 2 Europes in the US.
The "Master Bathroom" [en suite is a British term] is only accessible for the Master Bedroom. Presumably, the bedroom door will be closed, but even so, most Master Bathrooms WILL have a door. Some will even have a smaller room inside the bathroom simply to enclose the toilet. There is really no "TYPICAL" design.
Mail in the USA, 380 million ppl....some cities have homes with door slots for mail, some have a central "mailbox" used by the neighborhood (multiple locked mailboxes in 1 big box, maybe 1 for every street), rural or country homes have the mailbox at the end of their driveway. These all depend on when or where the houses were built.
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The letterbox thing is more for new build developments. My house is 50 years old and has a mailbox at the end of the driveway.
I think you would find that where I'm from in the northeast (New Jersey to be precise) but also in most of the rest of the surrounding states also we have many brownstone brick buildings that are packed in much closer together. They still tend to be a bit larger than in the UK on average (with exceptions like NYC perhaps) but even here we have larger/more expensive homes in the suburbs.
yeah the homes they are discussing are definitely homes for the more affluent. for instance, my laundry machines are located in my kitchen, I don't have a dedicated panty, and I have a single bathroom that has a single sink. my mailbox is not a slot in the door, but it is 15 second walk from my front door to the mailbox, and that is rather average for "most" city single family homes. newer homes often do have attached garages or what are often called "shouses", a combined shop and house, but most homes constructed before 2000 don't have the garage fully integrated into the structure. it's either a detached garage, or it's just built directly next to and adjoining the house. an average "starter home" for a young couple or family would be a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom house, somewhere between 900 square feet, and 1500 square feet, and either a 1 car garage (that were usually built with larger american automobiles in mind) or two car garage. much smaller than what they're describing. Las Vegas is sort of the meca for people leaving the extremely high cost of living areas of southern california, so what they are experiencing is most likely an area of new built homes, that is catering to people that sold their homes for well above the national average and can now afford to move to las vegas and purchase what are essentially considered mansions by any metric.
These folks are living in Las Vegas, which is not typical of our US housing at all… I’ve lived in 9 states, and Vegas’ (and Southwestern US housing in general) homes, infrastructure, and building norms are nothing like any other place I have lived.
They may appear “rich” (and housing there is, indeed, outrageously priced) but almost every single post-80s home there is identical in several ways… stucco outdoors, walls covered with “orange peel” texture (spray texture, which after spraying is “knocked down” flat but not perfectly so, which hides a lot of flaws in drywall/sheetrock installation and finishing), and more often than not, pretty much anyplace you go has “builder standard” doors, plumbing fixtures, flooring, tile, counters, etc.
The open bathroom setup in Las Vegas and some other southwestern areas, if present, often has a little side room with a door for toilet usage privacy, and then just the tub/shower and sink areas are open to the bedroom. My house there was set-up with the en suite open to the master bedroom, the toilet was in a side area with a door, and a 2m x 3m (-ish) walk-in closet was across on the opposite side of the sleeping area on the back of the bathing/sink area… which was strange. But in Las Vegas, with the heat and low humidity, I guess the builders don’t worry too much about moisture affecting clothing storage 🤷🏼♀️
Secondary or not-en-suite ones in Las Vegas are generally more traditional, with a door between them and the rooms or halls that they are attached to.
Oh! And that mail thing… that happens mostly in single-builder housing developments that have HOAs and a “main entrance” street, in my experience.
It seemed most common for most neighborhoods’ houses (a ton of which were built in the mid-90s) to have their own private mailbox either at the end of their own driveway or attached beside their front door when I lived there.
PS - carpet is a default in Las Vegas in every room that you generally don’t want to use tile for - the concrete slab that the houses are built on (no basements or cellars, or even crawl-spaces, are standard there… they just slap down a house-shaped slab in a shallow hole dug in the sand, and then build on it directly - most electrical, plumbing, and ductwork for the A/C and heat is installed in the walls or overhead) only easily lends itself to tile, glued-down vinyl roll flooring (cheapie alternative to labor-intensive tile work), or carpet.
Wow this couple is PRIVILEGED! Like holy crap every thing in their house is upper class and then some!
True but they’re still comparing the house they could get in the UK vs US.
They did say they live in Las Vegas and keeps saying what is in their house is not common in all houses in the US.
Privileged? Maybe they worked for it.
I rent one floor of a 104-year-old, 2-family American home, in a historically working-class neighborhood, so I have a living room, dining room, kitchen, full bathroom, three bedrooms with closets, all totaling about 900 sq.ft. where I live alone. There is wall-to-wall carpeting everywhere except the kitchen and bathroom. I have a front porch, and my mailbox is right by my front door. We share access to the basement for our own separate storage and laundry areas. The house comes with an unattached 3-car garage behind the house opening on an alley. There is a back yard between the house and garage, as well as a front yard street-side. It came semi-furnished, with water, sewer, and trash collection included in the rent, which is now $900. All other utilities, such as satellite or cable TV (the house has both a dish and cable connection), Internet & Wi-Fi, landline phone service, hydroelectric power, and natural gas, are additional.
This is not only pretty typical for my area of the U.S., but I think far more representative.
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So to answer your question about mail. Much of how it works in the US is dependent on a few factors 1) When 2) Where 3) Why. Older communities like Philly have homes that date back to the founding of our Nation. They come from a time that mail was delivered directly to the home, and to send it out you would go to the Post, or to a post box. This system is closest to how it works for example in the UK. Other homes have a mail "box" attached to the wall that was used instead of the slot but functions similar as an incoming only or in other cases an omni directional box. Where I live in Florida we have streetside Mail Boxes. I receive all mail save for large packages in it, and can even send OUT letters without going to a dedicated mail "place". And finally communities can opt to have a central, or several mail centers to serve the whole community. The community we have a place at in the mountains of North Carolina has this - because it would be impractical for a mail carrier to go to each home and deliver mail when many homes can be miles away from a main access road - so the burden is shifted to those who live there and the carrier can deliver an entire community worth of mail in one go. Those centers also have an outgoing mail slot so you can drop your post off when you pick up.
When you turn the garbage disposal on, you also turn the water on.
Then there are these sharp knives, wheels inside the garbage disposal and it spends at a high-speed and it basically turns it into mulch and the water help moves away into the sewer.
Their home is definitely for a upper middle class income. For those of us without a dishwasher have a dish drainer that sits on the counter beside your sink not built into the sink design. Some can be sized to fit your sink so as not to take up needed counter space but it can be removed to provide for more sink space. If you have an en suite, your toilet is usually located in its own room with a door which we call a water closet. But a lot of en suites don't have a door because it's only accessible through your bedroom. Their mail is located in a community location. That's NOT the norm and more of what you find in apartment/condo complexes. Most homes you'll see a mailbox either at the edge of their yard or like ours located beside the front door.
We do have mail boxes at each home. Some have a box attached to the home. Some have them right on the road and you might have to walk to the end of your drive way to get mail. Then there are homes that have mail slots in the front door were the mail is put into the home. Where they are is a different type a cluster mail box because the post office is trying to cut jobs.
I consider the area that I live in to be upper middle class. Homes in my neighborhood (like mine) start at around 1 million and go up to about 1.5 to 2 million. Mostly professionals live in this area along with older families that have lived here for about the last 60 years or maybe slightly more--my home was built in 1963, and is 2,000 square feet (not including the basement which is the same size as the house) on over 1 acre of property. Many people commute to NYC--I did when I went to college and started work in Manhattan as an accountant. The Long Island Railroad drops you off under Madison Square Garden--it takes about 50 minutes if your catch an express train in the morning or about an hour or a little more on a non-express train.
Homes are much cheaper to build in the US because we mostly use wood (we have a lot of trees) to build our homes. Building a wood frame home is much cheaper than using concrete brick or poured concrete--this method uses much less time, labor and energy than working with concrete--although almost all basements are poured concrete. If you want to expand or change your home, it's relatively easy and inexpensive.
The garbage disposal does go to the same place where you flush your toilet. A garbage disposal works very similar to a professional wood chipper--it's does not recycle anything. It might be good where you have limited space for a back yard, but where I live on Long Island, NY, I throw most of my vegetable and egg shell waste in a compost pile.
I don't know why, but some gated communities have their mail at a central location--not all, but some. The vast majority of homes that are not part of these gated communities have their own mailbox--usually at the end of the driveway.
I love his comment about "heat from the sky is where it's at," I don't know what that means, but it's funny. I think he's talking about an air source heat pump--I don't know.
Most people have back yards once you leave the cities. I live about 50 miles from NYC. I was born in NYC and commuted to college in NYC, but I was brought up on Long Island. My back yard is at least 10 times the size of this back yard. All my neighbors have large back yards. My two closest neighbors have pools, outdoor kitchens and more.
Because the US is huge, we have a lot more land and space so there is a lot more property to build homes on. Growing up in Michigan every home had almost an acre of land and a 2 car garage. There was. Large farm behind us and a large woods; we lived in the country. Everyone of our bathrooms (3) have doors that close. We have a walk in shower off our master bedroom besides a separate bathtub but one of the reasons we bought this house is because I had knee operations and the walk in shower with a built in seat really made life easier for me. Mailboxes are very common in homes I’ve lived in but apartments have mailboxes that lock on the main floor…this is how our apartment was in NYC. I much prefer living in the countryside. NYC apartments cost way too much and are small. I was so happy to move and have nature and a lot more space in a house.
The most common form of heating in the US is central air. The houses are built with vents for the air to circulate throughout the home. This is also why Americans don't feel any need to open windows to "air out" the home, because air is always circulating automatically. These vents are used for warm air to heat, produced by furnaces, and optionally also for cool air. Heat pumps are also becoming popular. These vents are why it's easy to add air conditioning to older homes in the US. In Europe, the most common form of heating is hydronic, and the homes have additional water pipes to distribute warm water to radiators. Older homes had/have boilers, while Europe has long been transitioning to using instant water heaters for both hot water and for warming the home. They switch to instant easily due to the existence of those water pipes for heating. Existing US homes don't have the option of doing that. You would have to tear the house down and build a new one that includes the necessary water pipes. On the other hand, European homes don't have the air vents, so they have a hard time adding air conditioning. They likewise would have to tear down the house and build a new one to include the necessary vents. Of course, a window air conditioner is still an option, but not a central one.
Some older buildings in America still use radiators.
But a great majority use Furnaces. It is heated forced air through a vent system. It can warm a house up faster than radiators.
The Air Conditioning is usually through that same Vent system.
The one thing about wall to wall carpeting is the feeling of walking on them with your bare feet. They feel very nice.
I'm American and comfortably middle class. My house is just over 3000 square feet, but that doesn't include the attached 2 car garage, not the detached 1000 square foot "shop" or working area that also has its own half bath, heat and AC. It's also sitting on 2 acres of land. This isn't exactly typical, but no one considers it special really, just a nice suburban home.
No idea why they are talking about not having doors to a bathroom...? I'm American and my bathroom has a door to it just like 99% of other homes I've been in lol. Idk what these Brits are talking about.. they did get pretty unrealistic with the footage they are showing during this video. I would say typical or average size house in the United States would be a little bit smaller than what they were showing really.. The stuff that they were showing has got to cost a bit of money..
And we don't put whole bananas down the garbage disposal in the United States.. I don't know why the hell he would think that okay to do? I'm sure it was fine but you just don't do that.
And I have carpet in my house in a few rooms.. everyone I know has carpet in certain rooms.. I don't know why they are saying we all have hardwood floors and don't like carpet? 🤷♂️ News to me lol. I think they hear things one time about Americans and then believe it the very first time lol
Their bathroom is in their master bedroom, where is usually no doors and the couple in the video are American,
I live in Texas. My parents have their own bathroom but it has a door. The other bathrooms all have doors.
European homes don’t have pantries in the kitchens?
Every house I’ve ever been in has washer and dryer in the laundry room.
I could not live without air conditioning. Sometimes we using the furnace.
We use our garbage disposal constantly.
We live in a rural area so we have a huge yard, side yards, with a real garden, several out buildings…..it’s a working ranch/farm. We have a trampoline in one of the side yards.
We have hard wood floors (or the acrylic….im not sure because we aren’t wealthy) and some rugs but our rugs aren’t fluffy.
In the US, you will be using your car or truck a lot. For this reason, integrating the garage makes a lot of sense. The shorter the distance to your cat, the more convenient it is. On hot or rainy days you can walk from inside your home to inside your garage, get in your car, use your garage door opener, and drive away without ever being exposed to the elements.
These homes are NOT typical in any way - they are very high-end. Still they show some of the tendencies you will often see, though on a smaller scale.
Mail slots are fairly common in cities with row houses. These people seem to live in a development (planned neighborhood), likely private (where the streets are owned by the Home Owners Association rather than public), and it sounds like they have a large group of post office boxes near the entrance to the neighborhood. Most homes have a mailbox on the road, as the front door can be a ways from the roadway.
My home is 1152 sq feet (107 m^2) on 0.42 acres of land. It has three bedrooms and two bathrooms (one off the living room and the master bath off the master bedroom). Our kitchen/dining area is half the width of our house and about a third of the length. The laundry is an open area across from the dining area and allows access to our pantry. We are somewhat unusual in that we don't have a garage, or even a carport.
Home layouts will vary widely based on where you are since the zoning, building codes, and natural environments vary widely!
These are not romotely typical in the US. There are specific neighborhoods and areas in rural area that will cater to the very wealthy where that kind of space is available . The typical smaller American home is a two to three bedroom affair with two bathrooms ( one small), with a living room and dining space/ room and an adjascent kitchen. Most will have a pantry, and a small laundry area separate from the kitchen. They will have both a front and back yard with small 'side yards' an either a one or two car garage. Some will have a fire place, some will have a basement, or two floors for larger families but as family size has grown smaller and income levels shrunk those are less common. We just don't have the wages to afford the kinds of mortgages this video reflects.
I have a German friend who lives in both Germany and the US (he travels back and forth). He said they recently changed the zoning laws in his German city to require a driveway and room for a 1-car garage for all new construction or reconstruction. So, eventually, that will be very helpful.
IN MY VIEW
I am an American and I have never seen a bathroom without a door so you have privacy using the toilet. The only exception is a master bedroom suite. It may or may not have a door but the toilet is by itself in it's own little room WITH a door.
They live in Las Vegas where houses are relatively inexpensive
They also live in a planned community which is very different than normal houses on side streets. My house is 120 years old. 1900 Sq. ft. Every room has a door. Air conditioning is a unit in each room. I have parking for 6 cars but no garage. My lot is 100x150 feet, large for my neighborhood. My grandparents from Pforzheim purchase this house 100 years ago. It's been updated many times. At one point we had 4 apple trees and a chicken coop. Grandpa had most of c the yard as a garden. Daddy turned it into maple trees and grass. I'm adding pine trees, other big trees and hopefully no grass..just clover and violets. Natural. I have had deer, turkeys and a Fischer. My current resident is Chuck the ground hog. Yes I name them if they stay...
This is a newer style home. They have been building them bigger over the years. I grew up in a very small house where your mailbox was in front. Trust me that a house like that is not affordable to most if near a coast or near a popular city.
Most Americans live in much smaller homes, all the ones on these videos are upper middle class not average American
They showed the average size of several European countrie' homes and american homes. I was sort of surprised by some of the numbers.
I'm single. My house is 3200 sq. ft. 4 bed/3 bath. It was built in 1900? lol. So not all the modern amenities like A/C. Or efficient heating. Or good insulation. It's too much for one person, I admit.
5 acres. PLUSSES? NO crazy next door neighbors right next door. It was pretty cheap when I bought it. One full basement, and one 7" x 21" basement. Basement sq. ft. is not included in the
overall sq. ft. typically in the U.S. Of course weird stuff happens time to time. Pretty sure it's haunted? Only terrified once, though? And I should not have been, because my dog saw whatever it
was, and was more curious, not scared, didn't bark. Just stared with a quizzical look, ears perked at what ever it was making the way downstairs towards me putting my work boots on. I jokingly
asked my dog what she was looking at, Then it made it's presence known to me. I didn't see it, but it "coughed/growled" in my ear. lol. I got out of there FAST, and went to work.
The ground up scraps go down the pipes with the water, the same place all pipes go, then out to the sewer pipes at the processing plant.
This house is bigger than average. I am a first generation in the U. S. My parents came to New Jersey from Germany in 1952.
The main difference among American homes is the sizes. Most American homes have the same "stuff." More expensive houses have more room, both size of rooms and number of rooms. But the stuff is mostly there in all of them.
My parents built the house I live in now in 1959. In the 1970's a den was added to it. It's not near the size of that house. It's a comfortable place. We used to have a big garden out back. My dad needed his onions. My bathroom is smaller than their shower!
In the Nevada desert you can buy big homes for cheap. My sister has a 5 bedroom 3 bath. $450 about $1600 monthly
So about $150 a month less than my combined monthly mortgage/property tax/HOA dues for a 1-bedroom condo. I am seriously questioning my life choices right now 😭
This home is pretty much standard new construction in the market I live in except it's a bit on the small side. We would also have a full basement and very tiny yard.
In the 90s, my father would travel a lot for work.(usually 2 weeks at a time) Belgium, Germany, Puerto Rico...
One time we hosted an employee from Belgium. When he saw that we had a 2 story home, he thought we were rich.
5-6 ppl living in a 3 bedroom home.
Hardwood flooring is often used in newer homes. I prefer carpets and tile floors in the kitchen, eating area and bathrooms.
Most American homes have a mailbox at the end of their driveway which is a post with a metal box on top with a red flag. Their mailbox being a block away is rare.
Garbage disposals grind everything into tiny bits. They don't have doors on a private bathrooms which are part of the bedroom. They live in a gated community so all their mail boxes are at the entrance.
This is not typical. My first home growing up had one bathroom for a family of 6. Small home, not large like they are talking about. My laundry room is in the basement. I do think having a washing machine in the kitchen is strange. Lots of American homes are not as large as they are showing.
11:12 Sky? He means the ceiling AC vents. As far as for the heat, could be from floor vents or wall mounted ones near the floor
10:19 some newer developments do not want alot of traffic, even from a mail carrier, so they have "condominium" style multi boxes. Maybe each with key openings, Think shoeboxes with the ends in a 1 X 20 or a 2 X 10 or a 5 X 4 pattern,or perhaps more.
The homes these people have been looking at are very modern construction. That's normal in the suburbs, but not in the cities. Las Vegas is a bit different, because it's a 'newer' city, and most of the homes are new construction. There are, however, older homes in the old center of the city that are much different. Where I live in the inner city, the house was built in 1929. There are three floors/levels. One below the ground level (basement/cellar (Keller auf Deutsch), a main floor and an upstairs. Each level is about 75 sq. meters. So, the total size is 225 sq. meters. There are 3 bedrooms and three baths, one on each floor, Older homes like ours don't have the 'open concept' with the kitchen, dining room and living room all in one large space or 'great room'. I actually don't like that. I prefer separate kitchen, dining and living room. Our basement is 'finished' which means, it's suitable for normal living. There is a wash/laundry room, a bathroom, a sleeping room and a larger room with a sofa, chair, and a large screen TV. We call it the 'man cave'. We built a wine cellar out of a storage room (Lagerraum), and another storage area is reserved for my husband's brewing equipment. He brews beer there and he has 4 taps (Zapfhähne). The main floor has a kitchen, a breakfast nische (niche or nook in English), a dining room, bathroom, living room and a study (reading room). There is no pantry like these people have in their home in Vegas. The main floor and upstairs have Parkettboden, and no carpets, but we do have 'area rugs' in the living room, study and the upstairs bedrooms. (I believe area rugs are 'Vorleger' and carpets are Teppiche in German.)
We have a back yard, but we completely changed it and turned the whole space into a patio (Terrasse) with a covered area as well as an open area. In the covered area we have a grill and outdoor furniture. In the open space, we also have a table and chairs, but also a fire pit (Feuerstelle) with chairs around it. The back yard is our 'living room' in the summer time. We almost always grill for dinner and eat outside, and even if it rains, we can do that in the covered area. The patio or Terrasse is surrounded by flowers and greenery but I would not call it a 'garden'. We also have a one-auto garage. It now has 24 solar panels and an electric charging station for our electric auto.
And by the way, we also have a mail slot in our door for the post to be delivered. We don't have to walk to the street to get our mail. The letter carrier brings our mail to the front door and puts it in the mail slot. So, our house (and most houses in the inner city) are not like these houses in the video. They are completely different--much smaller and very different floor plans (Grundrisse).
Most homes will have mailboxes that are upfront by the street that you can get your packages and letters n usually bills that are in there and when you want to send something out, there’s a little red flag on the side that you push up and that tells the mailman that you’re sending things out for him to take! But if you live in community, especially in Nevada all the mailboxes are when you come into the community (that’s probably a gated community) so when you come in the mailboxes are usually on the right hand side you popped out you open up your little mailbox and a lot of them will have oversize mailbox that they will leave the key in your mailbox and you open up the bigger mailboxes and take your package out and just leave the key in the oversize locker But like I live in a community and all of our mailboxes are right across the street from me n right next to the rental office that has a gym a business area, a game room and main office n they probably have the same thing. I hope that answered that question.
You should react to “The origins of each US state name”
This might be surprising but over half of all US states are named after their native people who lived here before the Europeans arrived, as a way to honor the native Americans who already lived there.
My state name Illinois with the French adjective ending “ois” (silent s) is a French version of the native word Illiniwek which meant “men”, “best people” or “warriors”. From the name Illini which was used to call the 12 original tribes of Illinois like the Cahokia, Peoria and the Kaskaskia. The Grande village of Kaskaskia was one of their largest and biggest village in Illinois when the French first explored what is now known as modern day Illinois.
The name Illinois has undergone numerous name changes such as Illiniwek, Illiniwok, Illini and ofc it’s final French spelling of Illinois.
Illinois has also been know as Little Egypt 🇪🇬 because of the massive flooding in its southern city of Ciro, not to be mistaken for the Egyptian city of Ciro. It is also the land of Lincoln and is known as The Sucker State.
The largest city in Illinois and 3rd largest in the USA (Chicago) was founded by a Haitian-French man who settled in the area. The name “Chicago” is a French spelling and pronunciation of the Native American word “Shikaakwa”, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language.
As you can see, the word Chicago and Shikaakwa don’t look related but are pronounced almost the same since the name is derived from Shikaakwa.
Yeah, this was mostly luxury house porn, most of this was atypical. Especially those bathrooms, those are very fancy. Our houses ARE larger than European and especially English, but this was atypical and from what they were showing of their yard, not their house. I never use my garbage disposal, the stupid things gum up. These are Brits who moved to Vegas, which is a big city. Their opinions are rather open to debate with people who've lived other places. They live in a suburban development, with their less than a quarter acre (
While there are a lot of large, luxury homes in the U.S.A., vast numbers of us have lived in smaller and simpler houses.
Most middle class homes are usually 3 bedrooms 2 1/2 bathrooms. This is not a middle class home. Newer middle class homes do have ensuites. However, they usually don't have the bathtub/shower combo. The shower is usually pre-fab and not tiled. That being said, some people do remodel the bathroom and. have it tiled. I would say that home probably sells for $1.5 million. However, depending on location, there are areas of the country that this could sell for as low as $800,000. I live in a detached condo. I have a 2 car garage, 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms and a finished basement. My home is 2700 sq.ft.
I've seen the master bedroom suite with the open bathroom design in newer homes but I don't really like it. I guess they think no one will be there but you and your significant other so nobody cares. There is usually an archway between the bedroom and it's bathroom, however no door. Inside the bathroom is usually a toilet (in older German homes it would be like a "water closet") which has it's own door.
In the US houses are different in different areas of the country. Some places have forests so wood is largerly used for construction. Some places like Florida have hurricanes so houses are built of concrete with reinforced roofs to withstand heavy winds. In California there are earthquakes. Other places have tornados so basements are common.
The mail boxes are outside of the house in 90% of homes. New developments, like where this couple lives, where thousands of houses are built at once, they are installing some mail boxes in groups to avoid having to stop at 2,000 houses every day.
I lived in a house in Germany for 2 years. It was a duplex with a 2 stories above ground and a basement. It had a small backyard but no front yard except some bushes.
Inside the differences came down to just a few things.
1. The whole portable kitchen thing. Our landlord provided the kitchen, for which we were charged extra each month. (For supposedly anti-caitalists, the Germans track every penny.) Since I worked for the US government, they provided us with a full-sized American refrigerator (plain white with no frills). There was room enough in the kitchen, though I had to remove the refrigerator door to get it through the kitchen doorway.
2. The dining room and living room were one open space - maybe unusual for a German house.
3. More tyically, the bedrooms had no closets. The US government gave us a bunch of ugly Schranks, which we put in the smallest bedroom to create a walk-in closet of sorts. We actually had one small closet juet inside the front door, though.
4. The second floor bedrooms and bathroom had the typical sloping wall/ceiling thing at the top, with triangular dormer windows.
5. All the windows and the doors to the patio and second floor balconies all had rolladen shutters.
6. Of course, no air conditionong. But we replaced two ceiling lamps (one in living room, one in main bedroom) with ceiling fans that we bought at American PX. We left the fans there when we moved back home.
The pnly other thing worth mentioning is there there was a single space driveway in front of a small detached, but sometimes we parked on the sidewalk in front of the house - a seemingly normal thing to do in Germany.
The house in Germany was actually bigger than my rowhouse in Baltimore.
I actually have a friend, who lives in a mansion and he has a movie theater in his house.
They are in a gated neighborhood where there is a building at the gate for everyone's mail. It's not like that in most of America. We built our own 2 houses in Montana for a combined 450k, and my brothers is 6400 square feet on 40 acres while mine is 4400 on 20 acres. My brother has two 4 car garages, and I have one 4 car garage. We also share a 2 story shop with a car lift and a pit and paint booth. We restore classic cars and build log homes. Because we did all the labor ourselves they are worth quadruple what we built them for. We also have a natural spring where we get all our water. We lived in cheap rentals and drove cheap cars and saved for 12 years to build them without any mortgages. Our friends drove new cars and went on vacation so it wasn't easy to do but we had a goal to both retire early and fish in Canada and Alaska with our wives and kids for retirement
On suites without doors have a toilet in a small room with a door (a toilet cubicle, if you will). It's more hygienic to separate the toilet from the rest of the bathroom.
The onsuite "door" is the door to the bedroom...if you are bathing, you close the bedroom door.
Most bathrooms in the US have doors, and in the case of an en-suite with no door, there is a separate little room where the toilet is that has a door.
We also have new neighborhoods that can control what we can do with our homes(HOAs). Older neighborhood didn’t have HOAs and people want to buy into these neighborhoods so they can do what they want.
IF the en suite is open (without a door), the toilet will always be in a small separate room with a door (called a water closet). My home has a door to the en suite AND a water closet with a door.
A quick way to convert square feet to square meters is just divide square feet by 10. It's close enough. 2000 sq ft is about 200 sq m.
I love it! Divide by 10. It's easy enough that even I can almost do that.
This house would be considered an upper middle class home. Not every American is fortunate enough to live in such a big beautiful home. I don't live in a house this big but my house does have many of the same features ...just not as much space. As for the mail...they live in what seems to be a gated community so their mail system is different. Many or most Americans have a postman that will come to your house to deliver your mail.
Upper middle!? That's straight up upper class!
Yeah. Those are some high-end homes. Definitely not typical. I'd like to have a home like that!
This is small townhouse in Nevada. The desert homes are much cheaper. Usually much bigger
Not here in Nevada. My sister pays $1600 monthly for a 5 bedroom. Nobody wants to live here
He's a BJJ trainer. Homes come much less in the desert
No, they're correct. In the UK, the washing machine is commonly placed under the kitchen counter next to the sink where a dishwasher would be located in a US home. Go back and look at the photo of the English kitchen
Our mailboxes are by the roadside. It is because the mail carrier has such a large area to deliver to. They drive right up to box and continue on to the next, and the next house
Our washing machine is in the back laundry room, some old houses here in Texas have washing machines outside….my wife’s late mother had that at her home.
If there's one word you need to remember about America in the things we do. It's the word conveniency.
Funny video. It's hard to generalize about US housing.
One note: well off architects like to show their skills by building multiple small houses so that they options of where to live seasonal.
They are correct about space except for large cities for the well off. Space is an option.
Also houses in the US are made with wood which is very plentiful. Another reason that you can but more house.
A note on spacious America: the state of Montana is about the same size as Germany. Montana has a fast growing population at 1.3 million.😂😂😂😂
Climate Control/Heating/Air Conditioning:
The homes I have lived in have a thermostat that senses the temperature inside the house. You simply set the thermostat to the desired temperature and the system will maintain that temperature by blowing hot or cold air as needed.
This is not ideal sometimes since, as you mentioned, the temperatures on different floors tend to vary due to heat rising.
Ceiling fans can help maintain a more constant temperature by circulating air throughout a room.
Some homes even have separate systems for the top and bottom floors.
He sell home kits in the USA Sears used to sell them
I'd love to see a video where you explore different American architectural types. With America having every type of landscape and every cultural influences and not to mention 250 years worth of architectural history. I think you'd be super surprised at all the types of homes there are here!!!!
This is the desert. It gets very hot. Nobody wants to live there. You will get homes very cheap
Exactly. People in the comments don't seem to get that. They think these are rich people homes but desert houses are extremely cheap
The disposal has a rotating blade it eats up whatever you put in it into small enough particles that they can be carried away by the water. Anywhere outside the US where the water treatment plants and sewer systems aren’t made with disposals in mind it could create environmental issues. Especially in older cities where the plumbing tends to be from other eras. If a few people were to have them in more modern cities abroad it wouldn’t be a big deal tho.
Las Vegas isn’t representative of rest of the country. It’s a desert so no traditional gardens which are very common in other areas of the country. Also Las Vegas has mainly new construction which tends to have large square footage but yards are probably smaller. Garages that are separate from a home used to be common but now are attached to the home.
Mail boxes depend on the city and state. In Texas is a mixed bag. Grew up in Houston and my mailbox was right at the end of the driveway. I live in San Antonio now and it mail is a centralized spot in the neighborhood.