In Arizona, I live in 1,350 sqft, two bedroom, two full bath townhouse with a (not included in the square feet) 2 car garage. The pool, jacuzzi and the gym are around 100 feet from my front door. Upstairs is also a large loft are as well, which can double as a study/2nd living area.
I live in a 2000 square foot 3 bedroom 3 bath house. That's about the average size house. But we have our mailbox at the end of our driveway. Some subdivisions have it all in this one little area that you have to drive down. But I don't live in the subdivision.
My Los Angeles condo is 1400 square feet, a guest bedroom with guest bathroom with walking closet, its own bathroom with shower, tub, toilet and sink, master bedroom with 2 walk in closets and larger master bathroom with two sinks, huge tub, shower toilet, upstairs laundry room, downstairs a half bath(toilet and sink) galley kitchen, dinning area, living room with fire place, a entry closet, and hall closet, pantry, two car garage with built in storage, small backyard with deck and pergola coving it. Neighbor sold their condo next door (same size) for $780,000 about a month ago
The shared community mailbox is NOT a common feature of most U.S. single-family homes. This couple must live in a planned community from one developer where that choice was made in early stages. Most homes have the mailbox at the front of your property line facing the road for the mailperson to drive up to.
Mailboxes attached to the house beside the front door still prevail in older city neighborhoods. (Mail slots are not unheard of, but are not very practical in cold climates due to drafts!) Roadside mailboxes are more of a suburban or rural thing.
In the Midwest, there were mid-century craftsman houses with enclosed patios or a foyer with another outside door. Kind of overkill to have a mail slot
The only shared mailbox I've had. Is where I now live. But it's for a far different reason. My closest neighbors are 20 miles away. My mailbox is 30 miles away. I go to it a couple times a year Closest asphalt, paved, or concrete road is 20 miles away. Closest electric is 20 miles away. I live off grid and have my own power. I've gone months without seeing another human. I did this because I wanted to get away from ignorant and stupid people. I can do whatever I want. Because no one knows. I had a neighbor that disappeared 4 years ago. Maybe someday I'll find his remains. Then again. Maybe they will never be found.
Your definition is just one version. Another is that a garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the cultivation, display, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. Botanical gardens have been around for centuries. It also depends on where you live. Just because people in your region define it one way, doesn't mean other regions/countries define it the same way.
@@bw1074Wrong. You can have a garden in the back or the front. A back yard is in the back whatever part of the world you live in. And a front yard is a front yard even on the sides of a home. Yes,You can call it whatever you like but it doesn’t mean it’s the proper name for that area.
This couple must live in an upper class new built community. Not everyone in the US have 5 bathrooms, a walk in pantry and an open floor plan kitchen. My home is 1400 sq ft, 4 bedroom 1 bath. No pantry, closed off kitchen and tiny bathroom. This is the largest house ive every lived in lol. The pictures of American homes they keep showing are homes of people who are well off. Also, the US is absolutely huge so different areas have different homes and prices. Most large cities are old and have smaller homes. While outside of these cities are new suburban planned communities which are where these huge homes are. Everything being built now are "luxury homes or luxury apartments" while the lower and middle class here struggle and can not afford these homes. As far as costs? Totaly depends on where you live. I just bought my 1400 sq ft home in a nice neighborhood in Minnesota for $189k but sold my 824 sq ft home in Florida with no parking in a bad area for $319k. Their video is full of misinformation. We all aren't living in these kinds of homes
The medium priced home in the U.S. is $415k. It depends on where they live, but I would guess this home has a medium price of $500k. In CA, that's over 1M, but in a small or medium-sized city suburb, it could be $400k. Of course, wages are relative to those prices.
The median home size in the US is 2164 square foot with the biggest homes being in the midwestern/mountainous and southern states like Texas, Utah, Colorado Indiana, Minnesota, North carolina etc. This isn’t misinformation.
I just tried to make all these points with the comment that was about three times as long, so congrats to you because it frustrates me so bad that they keep trying to show these videos like this is common like this is how Americans live like no no it’s not and it’s such a big difference depending on where you live California, Nevada versus Texas, Florida versus North Carolina, Tennessee versus Michigan versus Colorado. They’re all vastly different styles and stuff which $500,000 house here could be beautiful 40 acre horse farm that is where I came from versus in Florida. That’s pretty typical Home to be honest with you may be a little large but pretty typical that’s why I did not move to Florida when I had the chance, congrats to you on your cell and move into a home for less!!
@@aimxdy8680 The problem with using Median home size to portray what an average US citizen would experience is the scale of difference. There are mansions in USA that are literally 8,000 Sq feet or more. Only newer developments which are spread out for the rich and wealthy in our countryside are able to afford the houses with 2,000+ sq feet with 3.5+ bathrooms, walk in closets, pantry, open concept kitchen, 1.5 acre backyard, etc. This video is NOT a good representation of the Average American Family Household. The couple in this video are disingenuous.
@@itsjust2hard Median is the 50th percentile aka 50% of americans have bigger or smaller homes, Average is actually FAR HIGHER than the median. And 2,000 sq ft isn’t rich by any means, a 4-5 bed 2,000 sq ft house that’s built newer than 2005 is like 280K USD in my area, that isn’t rich buddy.
The mailbox debacle depends on where you live. If you live in apartments or newly built neighborhoods there's usually a community mailbox or center where you're assigned a space for your post (excluding excessive size package). But for older neighborhoods and houses you usually have a mailbox at the end of your driveway, it's more common this way.
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My Southern California townhome, built in 1976, has a mail slot in the garage. In my area there are neighborhoods with the shared community mailbox setup, but there are also houses with mail slots in the door and many with a mailbox in the front. We are a really big country! It’s hard to say what is a “typical” house. It depends on the region, the year the place was built, the density of population in the area, and a ton of other factors. I live in a 1680 square foot townhome with a two car garage and a patio, but people here also live in smaller and larger houses with back yards. We don’t have air conditioning, and there is a door to the bathroom in our master bedroom. Our flooring is a mix of tile and carpet, but we hate the carpet.
I once lived in a house that was built in the 1920s, and it had a very nice one that was built into the brick wall next to the door. It had two iron closures (one outside for the mailman to open, one inside that you would open to receive the mail) so that there wasn't even a draft in the winter. It was very nice! That house also had a laundry chute.
I grew up in a house built in 1950 with the mail slot in the front door. Our dog would destroy the mail when it got put thru the slot and my parents used to get so mad!! lol
My parents’ house is like this. The mail carrier walks the neighborhood and each house has a mail slot. It’s the only place I’ve seen this though, the places I’ve lived has a mail carrier drive those little box cars and put mail in the box at the end of the driveway.
Adam, those houses shown are on the high end of the market. Most homes are not that size. Three bedroom ranchers or split level homes could be 1200-1800 sq ft. Four bedroom, two story homes could be 2000-3000 sq ft. You will find 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 bathrooms on average (1/2 bath is just a sink and toilet). Generally there is a two car garage. There may be a mud room, which is an entrance way within the house and the attached garage that doubles as a laundry room. At my house, the mail box is at the end of the driveway.
We have a four bedroom rancher, 2450 sq feet. Something not touched on, we don't have public water or sewer. It's great because it reduces home density, each home is on a minimum 1 acre lot.
I am a Canadian who spent every summer in London with family growing up. The heating situation was miserable. It was always too cold and damp and drafty. In that dead of summer it was okay, but in September or April...brrrr. But the gardens of the family in the Uk were very beautiful whereas it was just a big square of grass in Canada. Also the houses were wider, more space and generally more comfortable on Canada. But they were brick, narrow, sturdy, and attached in Harrow. I live in the US now, and they have even more house for less money.
lol, not massive, but the amenities are exact, like the pantry or walk in closet etc. I lived in the UK for several years. No closets, because every room is taxed or was. Our “oven” was not a lovely aga, no it was a 1950 era oven so small, with the broiler on the top. Remember those? My range in the US is 48” wide. Please. This is common in smaller 3 bedroom homes, not mansions or anything. Don’t be fooled. Even our smaller homes are much more user friendly.
I agree, I think this video is generalizing a lot of the amenities across “all” US homes. It really depends on where you live, the age of your community and house. Older homes in the US are not as open concept or have the very large square footage.
We live in the country now and our farmhouse is laid out rather oddly. It’s over 180 years old, 4.5 stories, and the stairs are very small. Treads are 6” and steep. The main level is the living room, 12’x24”, a small bedroom, and the full bath (larger than the bedroom. We have a landing where you can go upstairs to the master bedroom, or downstairs into the kitchen, which is huge. From the kitchen, you go down more tiny stairs to the well room/root cellar. Then more stairs to the basement! And there’s a full bathroom in the basement. So our place is rather unique.
The photos they’re showing are high-end homes w/ all the best modern features found in wealthy areas, at least upper middle class. These are the type of pix found in architectural magazines! Remember USA is a very large & spread out country; no one can expect a small island to compare with that! They must be doing very well. ✨💖✨
U.S. homes vary WIDELY from place to place, income to income, year built to year built, etc, etc, etc. My home was built in 1974, is 1800 sq ft, has a tiny kitchen, while some neighbors have a large kitchen, and we all have giant yards. Most new planned communities are moving to central mail drops, but they're relatively new. They're often located by the community club house, pool, playground, dog park, and picnic area, usually by a body of water (natural or man-made). But, again, these are all relatively new developments.
I have a pretty large back yard for being in the city. There's room for me to park several cars back there if I wanted. Decent sized porch for grilling steaks on the weekend. I have a really big 10x20 shed with a cathedral ceiling. I can store everything in there. I did some creative wiring and have power to my shed. I walk in and there's a light switch right there. I turn on the light no problem.
We live out in the sticks. SO everyone out here has a mailbox attached to a post driven into the ground. It is put out on a road in front of your property.
Exactly. Our 1960s house is 1900 sf has tiny bathrooms and a small kitchen. The bedrooms are huge, we have a big front and back yard, with mail at the curb. So, pretty different from the house shown but I'd say the house shown is around $1million. Ours is worth a third of that, and we paid much less than that because we bought it 10 years ago. Houses vary wildly in design depending on when built and what area. HOA versus no HOA is the biggest difference between neighborhoods/houses these days. Team #noHOA
my house was built in 1915 and its a Prairie house. Though when we bought it it had only one bathroom. The family before us had like 6 kids and they all had to share one bathroom for the whole house. thankfully we added 2 more bathrooms while renovating it.
my grandfather bought a 'kit house' from Sears in 1944 for $550 and built it himself. it had a kitchen, living room and bedroom. they had an outhouse. My grandmother refused to move into it until my grandfather built a working bathroom INSIDE the house, which he did. they then added another bedroom with their first child and then a master suit when their 4th child (girl, so she could have her own room from her 3 brothers). by the 1970s, my grandfather had build a new larger kitchen/dinning room. a sitting room, a second larger living room. a car port, and the house was 4 bedrooms, 3 baths with a total of 5,400+ sq ft.... and this was all on 10 acres. it built ALL of the house himself throughout those years.
Great story! Thank you. I'm 74 years old, born in 1950, but I remember houses being much less expensive than they are today of course. I don't remember any kit houses but I know that a lot more people built their own houses back than they do today. All of my brothers were excellent carpenters. They would select some land, build a nice home on it and then sell it after they built another one to live in. Made quite a bit of money that way.
@@loribernardisunwell9663 No he's not. My brother is building his house himself, except for some electrical and plumbing work he had to have done, and some construction that needed two people to accomplish. For those tasks he hired a couple of Amish workers. They'll be moving in by the end of summer.
My G'pa ordered his from Popular Mechanics. We didn't have a functional bathroom until the mid 80's (outhouse). But being a Finlander, you're damn right we had a sauna. Still don't have shower in the cabin.
Been longer than a couple of decades. I grew up there. Vegas has been growing like a weed since the 80's. I graduated in 86 and there were just about 600k people in the whole valley. As of when I retired in 22, and moved away, we had about 2.7 million.
Even the average middle class houses are still much bigger than average UK houses. In general everything in the US is MUCH bigger than anywhere else in the world. I grew up traveling the world and I’m also a Swiss citizen as well as a US one and it’s a thing I’ve noticed. Everywhere else everything is so small and cramped. Roads, cars, houses, stores, parking spots, backyards literally everything is so cramped. Because everywhere else countries are built around public transportation because there’s just no room for private vehicles, but the US is built around private transportation hence why everything is so massive and that’s why our public transportation is not the best. I’d take the layout of the US anyday though. I can’t live in the EU everything is way too cramped and there’s just no room for anything.
Upper-middle class, definitely, but many middle-class people have homes with spacious kitchen, living room and dining room/area, at least two full bathrooms, large master bedroom or suite (bedroom with ensuite bath and big walk-in closet), a front yard and substantial back yard, and garage for two cars. I'm talking suburban homes here, but some homes in cities are almost as large but with little or no yard/garden. And these are suburbs that are part of a "major metropolitan area"--once you get more rural, or places with vast upper-middle-class subdivisions, every home has well over 1500 sq. ft. and sits on at least 1/3 acre of land. When it comes to cost, you can still get some of these "McMansions" (although the prevalence of "semi-custom" homes these days makes them less cookie-cutter than they used to be) for $250,000 in some places, but the major metropolitan areas encompassing the largest cities, and even smaller cities near the East Coast or West Coast, quickly rocket through $350,000, with $400k-$500k being pretty typical for an upper-middle-class family home. Then you have the more posh suburban neighborhoods where $500,000 is a starter home, and the upper-upper middles have homes ranging in value from about $750k to more than $1.5 million. Even though I was born in the US and have lived here for all of my 60 years, have friends with homes like the monstrosities described in the Las Vegas video, and used to own a 1600 sq.ft. house on a one-acre property in an affluent neighborhood, I think it's, at best, ridiculous and, at worst, obscene. (My house had five bedrooms, but all were small and one had been turned into a walk-in closet. The house was built in 1895 as a working carriage house--i.e., intended for a workman's family--and was almost Spartan compared to what you're seeing now.)
It's becoming more common, with the new developments that are being built. The USPS is requiring a central location for all mail in that development, as they can't keep up with delivering to all the new addresses.
It depends on where you live. I live in the suburbs of Houston, TX, and there are community mailboxes everywhere. It's not extremely rare at all, depending on where you live.
@@barnabydodd8956 Yeah, here in San Antonio it's more typical to have mailboxes in front of our homes, but I do still see plenty of neighborhoods with community mailboxes.
I have never heard of anybody not having a door to their bathroom. I'm not sure how their bathroom setup is, but it's definitely not the norm. If you are living in the States and want carpet, just have carpet installed easy peasy. You don't have to have hardwood or tile flooring if you don't want to...lol!😊
I'm in Nothern California and the last 4 houses I was in had no door to the en suite bathroom. My current house doesn't have an en suite, but it is pretty standard in homes here built after 2000.
I have seen bathrooms with no doors since at least the 70s- for whatever reason. you get the steam from the bathroom going to the bedroom, light - I consider it impractical.
13:39 No, many US homes have gardens IN their yards; flowers, vegetables, fruit trees, or a combination of them all. In the Southwest, where they are, it’s harder to grow much of anything, so they probably don’t see many gardens.
They're actually a downsize from a Butler's pantry - which also housed the china, seasonal items, and other small appliances that aren't frequently used. Upscale homes still have them - with a sink, dishwasher, and microwave.
Yeah we have places to keep our food. Why don't British people have places to store their food? No wonder we left and then we defeated you in a war. Holy shit.
I remember when my Irish friend came over to the US to work at our company for a year, and I showed him my garbage disposal. He went through 3 stages. Fear from the noises that it made, confusion on where the food scraps went, and then amazement.
PSA here, please do NOT put grease down the disposal, folks! Fatbergs are a thing and the sewer system on our street is garbage because people dump grease in the disposal!
My house in the US is a 1 story, 3 bedroom detached house 1431 square ft living space with a 2 car garage. It’s considered a starter home size for most folks. When our kids were still at home, we wished for a bigger place. Honestly if we just had a basement now, I’d be thrilled. We have a decent amount of land lined with trees, a mini barn and a fire pit we sit around and entertain.
Me too, except we have a basement. Built in 1953, so during the post WWII building boom. Yes, these were built for families. During the 80's, new houses were built farther from the suburbs, and kept getting bigger. My parents bought in 62 for $12,000. Today it's worth $220,000. Midwest area.
My parents’ home was 96 new build and is probably creeping up on around $400k+ at 2500 square feet while the house I currently live in is a 2000 square foot new build around $300k. When we moved in, there were 4 of us and my husband and I have about 1/3 of the total space.
The price depends on where you live. If you live in New York or California expect to pay big dollars. I just sold my 3 bedroom/2 bath house in Carlsbad, California for 1.5 million dollars and believe it or not that’s a small starter home with 1500 sq ft. But the house is only a mile from the beach and the weather in Calif. is amazing. Not all home are that expensive but many cost way more. In other states the cost is lower and you can find a nice house for the same price that you spent. I have family in Manchester, England their house is cozy but certainly doesn’t have all the comforts of American homes.
The US home they are showing is more typical for a place in the suburbs of Florida or Vegas . That size of home in a big city like NYC or Chicago would cost considerably more.
It’s not uncommon to have large homes in Colorado. Wherever land is cheap, homes can be bigger. Except for 100 year old homes, the average sq feet on older existing homes here is 2500-3200, but new homes are 3000-4500 sq feet not counting an unfinished basement.
@@SusanHMcIntyre IKR? I own a 1920s cottage. I have 900 square feet. 1.5 baths, two bedrooms. I inherited the home. The going price for _the land_ my house is on is almost 1 million. I wouldn't be able to afford my home if I had to buy it. I couldn't afford this guy's home in the UK. That's a quarter of a million dollars for a small place and believe me my salary can't afford it.
The location in the states really influences the layout and design, that was a typical west coast home. I was raised in San Diego and now live in southern Arizona, our home is 1,350 sq ft, three bedroom, open concept, tile and hard wood floors, with central air and heat, two and half car garage it’s a very relaxed functional, and a five star energy rating. The mid west has a very different feel as does the east coast, and the charm of the southern homes.
Sorry, but I'm going to have to disagree. They were in Vegas, so that's a typical desert style home, minus the grass yard. Vegas homes, typically have dirt, sand and rock instead of grass. Only the higher priced homes & neighborhoods have grass yards. Vegas homes, are almost exactly like Arizona homes, because they share the same climate. But West Coast homes (California, Oregon, and Washington) are quite different. For one, they aren't made of cement & stucco generally, they're made of wood or brick. Just sayin.
@@impishsongster333 I disagree with you about Southern California homes are exactly like the ones in Vegas, stucco and wood is the standard for the homes in the the south west of the U.S.. Oregon and Washington are in the north west a very wet climate and are built different than those in dryer southwest climates.
@@brianlynch2512 I haven’t seen many homes in Vegas built like the ones in the video. I grew up in Vegas, moved away in 2021, and plan to return in the next 3-4 years. I’ve seen some homes like the one in the video, but not many. Those homes were mainly in the suburbs and typically cost around $700k. My old house was 1,650 sq. ft. in North Las Vegas. The average home in Vegas is usually built in a desert style, without grass and featuring rock and sand. Newer houses are being built in a more modern desert style, mostly without grass.
Tile/wood floors have the benefit of being so easy to clean. If you have pets its a MUST have! Carpets are great when you first have them installed, but as they age they turn color, get musty, and become infested with dust mites and other tiny creatures. If you have a spill it creates a permanent stain that can't be removed entirely. Unless you can afford to have your carpeting replaced every few years I wouldn't recommend it. TRUST ME -- don't get carpeting. You can always buy rugs. Rugs can be cleaned easily and you can change them when you re-decorate to match your home decor.
It depends on where you live IMO. In a colder area, like the north, northeast, Midwest, yes carpet feels nice, especially in the bedrooms. But in the south, southwest, west, bare floors are the best. There is no need for carpet, it doesn't get that cold and bare floors are so much easier to take care of. I've lived both ways, and will never go back to carpet
Our first house here in Virginia was 1400 sqft, 3 bed/2bath and a small yard with a carport. It was $180k in 2008. Our house now is over 2400 sqft, 5 bed/2.5 bath with a 1/4 acre of land (in the city) and attached 2 car garage which we got it for $257k in 2013. We have a mostly open floor plan downstairs with hard flooring and carpet upstairs, which I hate so much because it's so hard to clean. Also, our mailbox is attached to the house next to the front door. I've only ever seen community mailboxes in apartment buildings.
In my area of TX, for the cost of your UK home you could get a 4 bed/3 bath with about 2500 sq ft and about 1/3 acres of land. The average house price in my area is $230k, but that average shot up dramatically since 2020--before then it was around $150k! The biggest home I found for under $240k in my area was about 4100 sq ft and cost $180k, but there were no pictures of the interior, so it probably needed some renovation. My 4 bed/3 bath house cost $325,000, and has 2.4 acres of land, and ~2850 sq ft. It has an attached 2 car garage, plus an additional 2 car separate garage building (~ 800 sq ft) that the previous owners used to store a boat in. We picked this house for the extra land and the great internet we get here, because we're telecommuters; for the same money we could have gotten a much fancier/larger house in town instead of out of city limits. Low cost of living in our area---love it! The bedrooms all have carpet, but the rest of the house has tile floors. Sadly, we don't have a garbage disposal, because we're on a septic tank instead of a city sewer system. We do have a mailbox at the end of the driveway, and a laundry room, a fireplace, a largish kitchen (12'x24') and various other bells and whistles. Our house was built in 2008, but our previous house (in Vermont) was built in the 1760s; it was about half the size and about half the price.
Those are some good prices and great features. I’m from Texas too (Houston) and although this area is better than a lot of other places in the US, it is much more expensive than your great find. Post 2020 didn’t help with home prices either, just made it almost unattainable to buy for many.
Ha! For comparison, I live in an unpleasant part of London, UK, my flat is 720 square feet. Cost £150k in 2002. Now worth £450k. 2 tiny bedrooms and a little garden. Very friendly neighbours, loads of public transport and free health care…and peaceful transfer of power during elections 🫣
The USA has such a diverse housing market. Affordability, size and features vary greatly depending on where you want to live. You can buy a super cheap house in Mississippi or Arkansas or Indiana or West Virginia or rural Pennsylvania, but home prices in Los Angeles, CA, San Jose, CA, New York City, Washington, DC or other areas will be comparable to London suburb prices. I have an old 2000 square foot house that is about $1 million in my city in Virginia outside of Washington, DC. I have no garage, 4 bedrooms, no basement, medium size yard. A new construction in my area is huge and nice, but about $2 million. We have a mail box on the outside of our house. We do not have to walk far.
Same in the PNW , from Washington to Idaho over to Montana. My wife and I bought our 1800sqft home in 1994 for $136k an hour north of Seattle. Today it is by no means the original layout and we’ve taken incredible care of it. Today the value is north of $700k, but we won’t sell because we can’t afford the market. My daughters biggest goal is to buy a home, even with her and her boyfriends income being $200k with one bill, they can’t afford a home. Not to mention there are none available. It sickens me that her monthly rent is $3000, 3x my house payment
The things they showed in this video are on the bigger, wealthier side. It's not average. However, more bathrooms, garbage disposals in sink, washer/dryer in a small wash room, or in garage is accurate, for most part...
@@k_salter nearly 20 years in my house with the same garbage disposal when I purchased the house. Pretty sure there isn't much that monster can't chew up. My pipes are still wonderfully clean for a 50 year old house. Was lucky enough not too long ago to have a friend's kid scope them for free when he wanted to show us his "cool new work toy" he purchased for his plumbing business.
Quite a few new build communities in Miami are usually broken down into 4-categories of homes, townhomes, townhouses, and condos with each having 1-central mailbox box hub for each of the them at the entryway to the subdivision. One of the main builders here is Lennar and they do this for all of their new builds mainly because they shove so many homes (typically 4/5-bd/2.5 bth @ 2200/2500 sq ft on small 5000sq ft lots. Townhomes (duplexes) are usually 2-attached and typically are like 1900/2100 sq ft. Townhouses are like the Brit row houses and run 1500-1800sq ft w 3bd/2.5bth. Condos are standard 800/1200 w 1/2/3bd/2bth.
My house in Montana is about 4500 square feet, and my brother's is about 6400 square feet. We have a 3 car garage and my brother has a 7 car garage. We collect and restore old muscle cars so they are all full. We have a shop that also has a booming forklift, a backhoe, a car lift, and a pit for auto repairs and oil changes that will hold 2 more cars. We live in the same area in the mountains on 120 acres about a hundred miles from Yellowstone Park. We also have a gun range and lots of deer, elk, turkeys, and antelope to hunt during the season. We also see the occasional cougar or bear. I wouldn't live anywhere else. We also only have one neighbor within a few miles of us
Our family has a designated "Gun Range" at my brother's property, we all shoot there when we can. And when we say gun, we really mean GUNSSSSSSSS! I'm sure if the Feds are seeing this, we mean water guns, ha, ha!
I grew up in the 60s in the US. There were 4 of us living in 2 bedrooms, 1 bath 900 sq ft house. Now, I have a 3300 sq ft house, 5 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom,3 car garage ( my next door neighbors have a 5 car garage), It is way way too big for 2 people. I’d downsize, but the new mortgage would be $1000 more a month for a smaller home with today’s interest rates. We live excessively in the US for sure. But it is nice. Btw, where I live gets 300 days of sun. Come on over, we have room for more Brits.
I grew up in Southern California just outside Los Angeles. All the houses in my neighborhood were two bedroom one bath.Most family’s were two - three kids, so sharing a bedroom was no big deal
Then don't mortgage. When you downsize, the entire point is to sell the current place for a profit, use your capital gains tax exemption and have money left over.
@@shockwave6213Inflation eats up any profit most people might have. We own a basic ranch and could sell it for a substantial profit...but chances of finding a home anywhere for that amount is not going to happen.
Many houses here in Nebraska still has a mail slot on the house or door! If not, we generally have mail boxes right outside each house. Backyards are "a thing" here! People love to entertain, bbq, have kids, and dogs! We do love our yards!
I like having carpet because I live in a cold climate where it starts snowing in October til Summer arrives. We literally lose Spring every year because of Winter. So to keep warm and cozy, carpet helps. Downside to carpet is allergies and dirt being tracked in. But I love carpet in the living room, bedrooms, and maybe hallways.
Home prices vary WIDELY in the U.S. A mid-size, single family homes where I live, in suburban New Jersey are currently going for $350K, and, up. A good friend of mine just bought a similar home, away from everything, for $240K. The trade-off is, he lives in the middle of f**kin' NOWHERE.
When I lived in California housing for a small 2-3 bedroom would run you close to a mil, where as now I live down south and a mil would get you a literal mansion. Location is everything.
I live in San Francisco area and rent a 1 bedroom apartment for $3k per month. A single family home here is easily 1mil even for a run down house. Before moving here I lived in the Detroit area and rented a 2 bedroom apartment for $850 per month, and Houston where I rented a 2 bedroom for $900 per month. I'm sure those prices are no longer accurate reflections and it's probably closed to 1k - 1.5k for those same apartments now, but it's still a good representation of how much prices can vary even when comparing major cities.
I grew up with a lot of nice fluffy carpets … in my own home as an adult I’ve come to realize all that a carpet can harbor even after using a shampooer (you can buy or rent one) the dust mites, dirt, bacteria etc… and if you have animals, their hair and dandruff and whatever else… so in my home I keep mainly all hard surfaces EVERYWHERE and use rugs such as small step rugs or larger 5x8 in strategic places that are soft but that can be physically picked up at and heavily spray washed at a car wash if need be. The fact that I can’t readily pull up carpet to really clean it well doesn’t set well with me with dogs , kids and whatever else it’s just easier and cleaner to use area rugs on hard surfaces.
@@FahimibnDawud my basement is more hazardous than any hard surface under seepage. I’d rather deal with mold than insects hatching and living in my carpet. Hell I poured concrete leveler in my bathroom floor cause the wood was trying to wear down in a spot and was bowled out. Said the heck with it and swept it out laid on the bonding and through it on there. Sealed up the whole thing and that was 3 yrs ago. I also prefer high molding and high gloss paint on said molding and drywall. My step dad is a union painter.. drywaller, carpenter, mason…. Taught me finishing drywall at age 7. Laying brick with him by 12 & couldn’t count how much carpentry and plumbing or random mechanics from Vietnam. Personally I live in a house built in 1929, it’s probably got mold mainly in the dank basement. I pump spray the brick down with bleach water every couple years. I live in West Virginia where I’m probably gonna have more brown recluse spiders under my floor boards than mold. Also if you use the all vinyl fake flooring you’re less likely to have mold… that being said if you don’t seal the floor underneath or cover in a waterproof coating or cover and spilling could get to it.. you just have to not be a complete moron when you put it in. My house doesn’t have forced air or heat. It’s window units and the main space heater plus a few portable electric heaters. Temperatures in most rooms of my house including basement can reach extremely hot or extremely cold if I choose to shut off those window units etc… neither of which mold likes. To be honest “the crud” that everyone in our area gets from the local DuPont is more concerning. So all in all… I know about mold… I prefer removable rugs… cause with carpet you now have whatever is living in the carpet and whatever got underneath, especially if whoever installed the carpet put no barriers between it and the floor.
I live in Galveston Texas and I bought my home in 2010 for around $135,000.00 after a Hurricane. It needed some repair, and I spent around $20,000. to get it bac up to where we wanted it. It is roughly 1,400 ft2. 3 bedrooms and 2-1/2 baths. The Kitchen/dining and Living area are 1 room. My back yard is roughly 600 ft2 and then I walk out onto the dock. Did I mention that I live on a canal that leads out into Galveston bay? I have an underwater light and I catch Trout, Red Drum , Flounder and other fish at night, and the waste goes into a crab trap where I get Blue Crabs. The shrimp and oyster processors come into port about 15 minutes away, so I get the freshest seafood and I grow veggies and fruit in raised bed gardens pretty much year round. The house faces the canal, so I enter from the back, which faces the street. It is paved so I have 10 parking spaces back there. Right now, my house is supposedly worth $450,000.00
Every state is different, and every city or county within that state can be very different. I grew up in a house with seven people in Chicago and lived in a 3 bedroom 1 1/2 bathroom bungalow style house with no garage and about 1,100 square feet. The mailbox was attached to the house right outside the front door. When I got married, my husband and I moved to the Western suburbs and had a 3 bedroom 1 bathroom with 1 car garage, and we could park one car in the driveway. We had a small backyard. Also, our laundry "room" was in the kitchen. Again, the mailbox was attached to the house and was about 1,500 square feet and cost $136,000. Right before Covid, we moved to Georgia and bought a 3 bedroom, 3 1/2 bathroom, 3 level house with an in-law suite and attached 2 car garage on just under an acre of land. It's my first time living in a home where the mailbox is at the end of the driveway. Our Master bathroom is about 300 sq ft, and the Master bedroom is 20x20 square ft. The house is about 4,300 sq ft. The previous owners had the house built and lived in it for 27 years, and they paid $197,000 in the 90's. We bought the house from them for $340,000. If we were to buy the house we live in now in the same kind of neighborhood in Illinois, it would have easily cost us $600,000 - $700,000 and over $20,000 in property taxes.
Came to the US from the UK. We live in IL in a 3 bed, 2 bath, 2,400sqf house on an acre. My driveway has space for a camper and 6 cars. We are the only ones with a fully fenced in back garden, because I'm from Europe! 😂 My front yard is bigger than the back garden I had in the UK. I'm surprised they didn't compare the washing machines. American washers are like European industrial sized ones and the average washing cycle takes 30 minutes. European washing cycles take at least an hour. Same with dryers. In Europe we had a washer/dryer combo but it's quite common to hang your laundry out to dry.
I used to be a personal chef for people who lived in those big, suburban homes, and those are NOT typical except for a higher-end working couple, typically one will be successfully self-employed or both will have executive positions in other companies. These are $400-500K homes just to start, and people are buying WAY too much house for their incomes now.
Those houses shown in the video are the common size seen in rural and suburban areas for a single family house. Obviously those renting out of a townhouse or a apartment will not see the same luxuries but that is not the average home in the USA.
here in oklahoma, it is normal for houses to be (on average) 2-bed, 1-bath, with separate living, kitchen, and dining areas. my childhood home was built by my great-great-grandparents on land they claimed in the Oklahoma land runs. still standing today! and probably haunted. 2 bedrooms, both the same size (no main bedroom). both have in-wall closets, but not walk-ins. one bathroom, big kitchen, open layout for the living and dining area - about 900 sqft total. our washer/dryer is in the kitchen. it's a very small house compared to all our neighbors (2000-2500 sqft), but it's plenty for two people. no garage, but we have several detached sheds on the property for storage, and a gravel loop driveway. enough room for 10 cars easily, but we park in the grass lol. our mailbox is out on the street, where our mailperson can drive up and toss it in! it's large enough to hold packages too. interestingly, fishing boats are relatively common here! any given person in OK probably knows someone with a boat.
I live in rural Canada. My house is 5,000 square feet on 160 acres. The garage is a separate building with extra tall doors so a pickup truck may easily enter. We store 2 vehicles, a ride-on lawn mower, a small tractor, and lots of gardening equipment. In my area the house size is fairly typical.
Well thanks for your input being that Canada and the world never really stick up for us lol😂. Canada is too expensive to live for most of us but love to visit. ❤
We live in a very normal house in Arkansas. 2100 sq ft, 3 full baths, 4 bedrooms, 2 car garage that fits my 4 door Tundra. Its easy to take things for granted until you’re reminded of other ways of life
I live in a very normal house in South Florida with three bedrooms, three baths two car garage 2200 square feet, with a lanai and a pool that looks out onto the water . To me, there’s nothing that compares to waking up, looking at sunshine palm trees.& water. Wouldn’t live anywhere else for any amount of money. . New York can keep its concrete jungle., no thank you.
I have an older home (built in 1963) with 3200 sq. ft, 4 bedrooms, 3 full baths, and a kitchen that basically has its own zip code (it's what sold the house, the kitchen itself is over 600 sq. ft). Most of the things in this video are pretty common, but it depends on where you live.
My apartment is just over 600 sq ft. 😭 Most older people I know live in ~1,000 sq ft houses. All the people I know around my age (30s) and younger, as well as a couple older people, live in apartments.
My apartment in the US was 3 bed 3 bath. I had the master room with a bathroom shower combo and outside my door was a toilet room. UK places sound too small.
@@christophermarrero9766 Which is a long way (in more way than one) from my childhood home in San Francisco. Even the larger homes in different parts of town and in Daly City aren't that big.
@@christophermarrero9766 Yes, it is true. Many homes in "your" AREA may be that big, but the average home is 1700 sq ft in Florida. In fact, if you look state by state, most are around 1800 sq ft, which is still large.
@@nightthornkvala94132most of America isn’t a giant city tho majority of our land is ruralish or suburbs with bigger homes ofc you can’t compare living in one of the most packed cities in america to somewhere the south not to mention politics play a big role in this it depends on what you can afford in Florida for example taxes are light no income tax and land and housing fairly cheap inland especially the farther north you go but this was such a dumb comment most people aren’t living in crowed cities
@@zo1379 I think you're the one posting dumb comments seeing as how I recognized the differences between here and there in my first sentence. Try reading something before spouting on it.
My husband and I live in Utah and had our home built about 12 years ago. We chose the smallest floor plan that our builder offered as there’s just us. We still have a 1,750 square foot house. Our basement has the same square footage as the main floor. We turned our basement into an apartment that we rent out so we have another source of income coming in every month.
From central Florida USA. I bought house in 2023. It’s 4 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage, 2400 sqft on a 1/4 acre lot for $310,000. It’s not new by Florida standards, built in 2006 but in good condition shape. I relate to a lot in this video now a day. The house I and the one wife grew up in don’t have as much amenities as this house by far. We both grew up in houses from the 1930s, which isn’t uncommon. There are a lot of house from between the 30s and 50s here. A good amount very nice. So I more so feel it depends on the age of your house. You won’t have built in gps in your car if it’s from 1950 but it’s a cool and valuable ride.
I have a new build in Florida around the same price point. Biggest problem is garage and driveway size. My tundra doesn’t fit in the garage and takes up an entire side of the driveway. At least down here, if you want those big garages and driveways you’re looking at the 400k range or an older build, or central Florida rather and coastal
The past two homes we (single mom with three kids) lived in were: a 130 ac secluded farm, 5,200 sq ft house heated floors, 6+ bedroom4 bath, plus huge 3 car garage, separate storage space rooms and buildings, in-ground pool, a 5000 square ft barn, and more…with stunning mountain and country farm views!!! (Less than 1,000 a month) for five years…private spring, and septic…so no typical utilities other than electric…and with a switch to some solar and wind, even that could have easily been omitted! Endless possibilities for gardens, farm, etc. And the second was a 3,500 sq ft classic farmhouse with a 4500+ sq ft barn, numerous other storage buildings,etc…on 95 acres…open farm…with part in trees (many of which we also tapped for our own maple syrup making)…and where we later developed over 12000 sq ft of gardens, a very diverse farm with hundreds of different animals and much more. For 1200 a month for 15 years
These people moved from the UK to a nice suburban neighborhood in the US where doctors, lawyers and business owners live and never visited anywhere else in the country.
I can show you PLENTY of communities all across the Midwest where the houses are just as big and have just as many amenities where the inhabitants are not doctors, lawyers, etc. Additionally, doctors, lawyers, etc in the UK do not live in large homes, they live in very small homes. I don’t think the American way of life is better, it just is what it is.
@@paulhamrick3943 Please do as I would like to live there. That is absolutely an upper middle class neighborhood and not representative of how the median American lives. Though yea, the median American will still own a much larger house. It’s just a huge country in comparison to the UK, overall and per capita.
If the En Suite Bathroom doesn't have a door, the toilet is usually blocked off from the rest of the bathroom and out of view of the entrance. More commonly, there are separate doors for the bath and toilet area to separate from the sinks and mirrors. Last house was 7,200 sq/ft, 5 bedroom, 5.5 bathrooms on 1.7 acres in suburbs. Current home is 3,000 sq/ft, 4 bedroom 3.5 bathrooms on .5 acres in an urban area. As for mail, some places have a slot in the door, most have a mailbox at the end of the driveway and some places have a community box like they're describing. Community boxes are common in apartments buildings and small lot neighborhoods because the postal workers can deliver and pick up more efficiently. We usually have HVAC systems for climate control. There is a furnace for heating and central air conditioning unit(s) for cooling, both systems use ducts built into walls and ceilings with vents into rooms. I've had fruit trees and vegetable beds at every house I've lived since I was a kid until my current small urban yard which doesn't have much room for much beyond a few tomato plants and the pear tree by my front door. The U.S. is so different from State to State, climate to climate to make many broad generalizations
I'm in the Midwest of the US, and we had 5 kids, when we were tired of renting 3bdrms we ended up purchasing a 5bd 2½ bath 2 car garage home. It was up for $245,000 and we got it on a $225,000 offer. We absolutely love the large front, backyard and amazing covered back deck. There's so many family memories we've had on this property
My house is a 3-bedroom, 1 and half bath townhome, one of four townhomes connected to each other appearing as one unit. Our neighborhood was originally built to accommodate families attached to the local Naval Air Station (closed in the early 2000s) and has singles, twins, townhomes and condominiums. Each townhome is about 1250 sq. ft. The kitchens and bedrooms are small, but we managed to raise three children here. Each townhome is on a slab (no basement) and has a driveway for two cars plus plenty of street parking. On the other hand, many of my piano tuning customers live in very large homes much as are depicted in the video, and many are exquisite and lovely. Every one of those homes has a mailbox at the end of their driveway. Our townhome has a community box to which we have a key, just a short walk up the sidewalk.
12:01 most 'garages' in the U.K. were based on designs for store houses for old horse drawn carriages. they were only meant to be a place to store the carriage and not used for people to be inside the building. those designs were the basis for the first car garages in the U.K. thus you have very small ones. in the U.S. on the other hand, they were designed (and are constantly being redesigned) to not only house the vehicle, but be a place to preform maintenance on the vehicle, thus more room was needed inside the building for this purpose. then as women started joining the work force, an additional car was needed, so the garages expanded to house multiple vehicles.
We have those dish drying thingies next to the sink. We just have to buy them in the US. And yes we have 10 varieties in Wall-Mart alone. My trailer house is from 1974. But ya, America. I have a billion dollar view, In Colorado.
I love hardwood floors. Very warm and beautiful - easy to clean - and if your area rug which I personally use in every room gets damaged, just throw it out and buy a new one. Carpet, once laid, is never as clean as it used to be.
Oh gods, our carpet is less than 10 years old and already needs to be replaced. If you have to go with carpet in a high traffic area, get good quality Berber. I wish I hadn’t been overruled on getting it
It depends what part of the US. I live in rural Alabama and our house cost 165k. It has 4br, 3 bath, living room, dining room, den, eat in kitchen, laundry room, and attic. We have a good size front yard and fenced large back yard. I live in a rural area and our house was built in the 1990s.
The homes in that video would vary in cost depending on where you live in the US. However as others mentioned, none of them are considered "average" homes. Location plays a huge part in pricing. I think a better comparison video would be comparing what kind of homes you can get for various price ranges between the 2 countries. A garbage disposal is a machine connected to the sink that allows for solid things to run through, that has a motor with blades that chop and shred up what goes inside. It then goes through a side pipe that sends the waste to wastewater treatment, just as human waste does when you flush the toilet. It is not run continuously and it is meant for excess food scraps from meals, not entire pieces of fruit..hehee
A little more detail about mail delivery in the US. In "Days of Yore", most mailboxes were either via a slot in the front door or a box attached to the wall next to the front door. The mailman would place the mail for a neighborhood into his mail bag, sling it over his shoulder and walk to each home. This took time - sometimes hours to visit each home in a neighborhood. The next iteration in mail delivery was the mailbox at the end of the driveway facing the street. The mail truck would drive to each mailbox and deliver the mail. The mail truck is one of the few US vehicles that has the driver on the right side - just like UK vehicles. Since the US drives on the right side of the street the mailman can deliver the mail without having to get out of the truck - a much faster delivery method. The next iteration is a community mail box where the mail for an entire neighborhood can be delivered to one location - an even faster delivery method. The placement for the community mail box allowed you to stop to get your mail on your way home from work without having to "go out of your way". All of these delivery methods still exist all over the US.
I will say that in the US the gathering space of the home is definitely the Kitchen...Most people think that the gathering room is the Great Room, the Den, or the Living Room depending on what you want to call it...but in America it is really the Kitchen that brings people together and alongside the Dining Room is where most if not all important conversations happen. Hence why you hear American politicians refer to "Kitchen Table" issues.
When we renovated our 1959 kitchen, I asked the designer to leave space for dancing in the middle of the kitchen, and I’m so glad we did. Everyone always hangs out in our kitchen. And we do actually dance in there sometimes!
Also, based on where you live plumbing will vary drastically. In most major cities the public sewers takes both black water( poop and piss) and grey water which comes from sinks and drains. However people regularly have "garbage disposals units" (usually attached to the sink drain) which grind up food waste from the sink to allow it to flow to the sewers. In rural areas , any times they don't have access to city sewer systems and build back yard or underground sceptic systems that allow Black water to run there and grey water to run to the yard or to street drains.
Most bathrooms in the US has a door. It's very rare for a home to not have a door to the m.bathroom. We don't put bananas in our garbage disposal. We throw it in the trash. In actuality you could ruin your garbage disposal. Scraping left over food down the garbage disposal we normally do. Not something that bulky. Most of us has a farm style sink or two sided sink. Not many have a dripping sink. We do have gardens it really depends where you live. The back yard we tend to like to entertain and bbq. We have a large deck in the back that overlooks the property and large front yard just for curb appeal. We're more into landscaping and entertaining in our yards. Except front lawn, like I said it's more for curb appeal. We have a decent size home with a 3 car garage, pretty standard in our area. We also have a long and large driveway. We have a living room downstairs and family room upstairs. Central AC and heat, etc... typical detached single family home in the state we live in.🤷♀️
@@lauriedupont507 I am on a septic, my father was a building contractor and said he would not recommend them for septics. On a septic system, you are responcible for your septic and keeping it in good working order. You pray to God that is stays that way. Replacing any type of septic system is a big expense.
I’m an American, and I can tell you about American homes I’ve lived in. I lived in one for 30 years that was less than 1700 square feet, and I thought it was too small for my family of three. But then we moved south, where prices were lower, and we now have a house that’s 2700 square feet. We don’t count the attached garage, only heated living space, but we do have an attached 2-car garage, a patio, a glassed in sunroom, five bedrooms, 3-1/2 baths, an open-concept kitchen, with walk-in pantry, his and hers walk-in closets in the master, a large dining room, and the whole thing was 2,750 square feet when we bought it. However, it must be slightly bigger now, because we glasses-in the lanai to make the sunroom, which is now considered indoor living space. Also, everyone I know in the South has central air, which I understand you don’t have on your side of the Atlantic? Correct me if, if I’m wrong about that. I feel a little sorry for you people. If you want a big house that’s affordable, you’ll have to move to the southern half of America, like Texas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, or the Carolinas.
Here in Ohio its pretty affordable. My house is considered old (not by European standards) at 104. Its a 4 bedroom, 1 bath at 1500 square feet. Not big at all, though it sits with open land around it. We are in a city though and not in a rural neighborhood. So size varies in America depending on where you choose but the thing we all have in common is we like our space, whether that means in square footage or square acreage. lol
@@OrondeBranch In some cases you probably can’t due to technical issues with how the house is built in other cases it’s probably a legal issue the UK required permits for a TV I don’t think you can just make substantial alterations to your home plus the building might be considered historic and in such cases in the US even you aren’t allowed to make alterations without approval
As to mailboxes- I am in a suburb of Los Angeles that the post office refers to as a "rural route" in which we have individual post boxes at the curb. And yes a back yard is for recreation, a garden is for growing fruits & vegetables. We have had both 👍
lol. I own a home in the USA. 3 Bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2 Car Garage, Kitchen, large dining room, Great Room, Family Room, Laundry Room, walk in closets, etc. but my square footage is a bit under 2k and 2 levels. My house lot is considered small at around 7k sf total land although it’s bigger than the backyard shown in your video. I cannot imagine having a home & battling parking. I love having a large garage that I can park in but use the other half as my wood-shop although I am building a wood-shop in my backyard and fully enclosed patio. Lots of homes in AZ have underground pools, diving pools, fire pits, etc. and I paid approx $300k for it before the housing market inflated, now it’s worth about $500k.
I'm also in AZ. Growing up in the Midwestern US and in older neighborhoods (pre-1980s) here in Phx, there are mailboxes at the end of the driveway. In newer detactched housing developments, there are communal mailboxes. Lucky for us, ours is directly across the street. Lots have also shrunk. Cities have decreased setbacks from property lines, and builders are shoehorning more houses in a given area. My total land area is ~7k ft², even the smaller homes I grew up in had probably ¾ again to double the land. It's 1,900 ft² and we bought it new in 1991 (33 years in the house as of the end of June 2024) for $96,000. It's worth between $500k and $600k now.
I lived outside RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk UK in the 1970s. One winter I rented a roughly 900 square foot, three room, thatched roof, bungalow with a loft bedroom. It cost me 15 pounds per month. My only issue with it was when I would run a space heater to take the frost off the air the walls would sweat and the condensation would pool in a low spot on the floor. I moved into a three room walk up apartment in the NCO club building on RAF Feltwell. I was raised in a two story US house (each floor was 2,000 square feet) with 4 bedrooms, full bath, 2 half baths, 4 fireplaces, walk in closets, full kitchen, formal dining room, living room/library over a full basement and two car garage on a 6 acre lot. My father built it in 1951 for the family. We had an orchard, large vegetable garden, pasture, yearling beef cows, milk cow, chickens, milk goats and a large cut flower garden with a gazebo that my mother loved sitting in on summer days. In the states the smallest house I've lived in is a 1500 sq ft one story with an attached two car garage, a full basement on two acres. One acre is where the veg garden and chicken run/coop is. It cost me $62,000 in 2017. We simply have a lot more room in the US.
@@smwinstarable I used coal in the fireplace and kerosene in the space heater. I am just a big baby when it comes to wet cold. I preferred the steam heated brick radiators in the RAF Feltwell NCO club. Nice even heat and I didn't have to keep feeding it through the night or worry about carbon monoxide buildup.
I live in the USA,. My house was built in 1930 and it's furnished like the 1950s. The more space and things one has,, the more time and money it costs for maitinence and cleaning.
The reason behind the kitchen (its not IN the living room) but next to it usually, is cultural. It has to do with entertaining family and company and the flow of traffic from the dining room. People who own houses like these (as I do) usually have lot's of family/friends over. I just entertained 25 family at my house the other day and when your feeding that many people it works really well. And I'm in a measly 2380 sq. ft. house. Also 'trailer' parking is becoming more common on houses from 2000 and newer. I have my 28' trailer, my 2nd truck (used for towing) on the side of the house and I keep my boat in the garage next to my Honda Accord. I still have enough space for 5 cars to park in front of the house. Now washing machines for clothes are either in the garage or in a separate room depending on how the house was designed.
I grew up in a 3 bedroom 2 bath house in NC. The home was in the ballpark of 2,500 sq ft which is considered to be somewhat small in that particular area. We had a detached garage that was a separate building. The garage was almost 2,000 sq ft. We had 1.5 acres which was a pretty typical sized plot and we had our own creek and wild berry orchard.
@@bigboy-gw8me You kinda ignored the entire point of the comment. Where I grew up this was very normal. The property and home was about 120k in mid 2000's. Im definitely not saying we were poor, but we weren't rich either. A high standard of living is very affordable where I grew up. The same property in California or NY would be totally unaffordable for us. Using your own poverty as an excuse to insult strangers is pretty lame. That woe-is-me mentality isn't going to get you very far
@@nip9898 im not in poverty though that's just not possible the same way where i liv e ig, tf. I guess it was the land and the garage that made me feel odd because I've never seen a 2000 square foot garage and having a lot of land where i live isnt very possible. "wild berry orchard" made you sound like you were balling. Also that hostility in "Using your own poverty as an excuse to insult strangers is pretty lame. That woe-is-me mentality isn't going to get you very far" is so fucking just not needed. I have no woe is me mentality but any 3 bed house is over 300k where i live and people in cali/NY are moving here because the housing is cheaper.
@@bigboy-gw8me Do you not understand how housing works? 120k doesn't mean we paid that all at once. You put a down payment on a home for much less than the total price and then you gradually payoff a mortgage over time. Someone making 40k a year can afford the down payment of a 120k home after saving for a few years and that is not very far above the poverty line. I don't know why you want to believe my dad is Scrooge McDuck so bad. You gain nothing by insisting a total stranger is rich
Adam, I enjoyed this as much as your try-not-to-laugh videos, so by all means, do more! The British ex-pats in this clip present a considerably distorted view of American housing, inasmuch as everything they're showing is new and upscale. On the other end of the housing continuum, millions of Americans still live in "cozy" pre-WWII housing with modest-sized rooms, a couple small bathrooms (at most), tiny closets, walled-off kitchens (no pantries!), washers and dryers in a musty basement, and perhaps a cramped, single-stall garage originally built for a 1920s or '30s Ford. Scads of inexpensive, cracker-box housing developments were also built in the inner-ring suburbs in the early years after the war, with a ground floors typically about 1000 sq ft. and an unfinished basement. "Cape Cod" style homes had an extra half story with a one or two low-ceilinged bedrooms upstairs for the kids, or just an attic!
Yup. The subdivisions age can pretty much be determined at a glance by the style of houses. 50s, 60, 70, 80 etc... Generally the average houses got bigger every decade but now there is a trend towards downsizing the new houses in a lot of areas. Economically it makes more sense including for heat and light expenses. People are starting to look at overall costs these days.
I live in a 2 bedroom apt. I have have rented before with an attached garage. Perfect for winter snow. 👍🏼👍🏼Hardwood is slippery for dogs, but carpeting collects many centimeters of dust, stains, animal hair and other allergens. A club room is a bonus room for you. One could use it as an podcast studio/office or activity den/salon for your living room. You could put a daybed in there and it could view it as semi-private bedroom for over-flow guests
They mentioned living in Las Vegas Nevada. Couple things it depends on how old the house is as to the way the inside of your house is. May i suggest hopping on zillow and looking at pre owned and older homes and new build sites. In new build sites( communities) post office now requires the post box has a few locations within the communities depending on size of communities. My best friend had a 3 bed 2 1/2 bath semi detached home in cali. And in order to afford that home she had to buy 1 hour 45 min away from her job. And 1 hour 45 min was on a good day a wreck could mean it would take her 2 1/2 hours to get to work. She sold this house rented a room from a friend 40 mins from her job. And she had a house built in Las Vegas and yes her mailbox was right as you came into her gated community her community was fairly small. This house had 5 bedrooms 3 baths 2 car garage and a smaller back yard. We picked out carpet colors for the stairs and the loft and bedrooms. The baths all had tile as well as kitchen, dining and living room. It costed her 345,000 just sold for 565,000 2 years later. Only lived in for total of a year as she only got to be there 2 weeks every month. I suggest you hop on zillow and type in Las Vegas nevada and just look at all the houses for sale. You can look up other cities and states and check out their houses and prices. You might find you want to sell over there and move here lol.
Some housing communities have central or universal mail boxes, but for the most part, you have mail boxes at the curbs of your house , at the wall next to your door, or directly in the door. I believe you have the options to choose.
Adam the UK styling seems to be about 20-30 years behind the USA. Carpet became a big thing like 70-90's now we are back on solid surface floors as a design statement. Also older homes pre-90's were more compartmentalized but for the past 30ish years we OP for more open floor plans. However, the pendulum is slowly swinging back to closing off the main living space (kitchen, den, & dining)
My house is similar to yours Adam. In fact, many homes in my neighborhood are smaller, though there are some that are 2500 sqft. (those are really large Victorians built in the 1880s by some of our rich residents at the time). My house was built in 1934. Kitchen separate from the rest of the house. Washer and dryer are in the basement (along with my freezer), no pantry, though I have a metal cabinet in the basement I use as a pantry. The house originally had one washroom, with one sink (still one sink in that washroom). In the 1970s a second washroom was installed in the den. Garage is separate. My yard is rather large compared to the UK though.
I live in the US. My home is an older home that was originally a 2 bedroom, 1 bath. We remodeled it about 25 years ago and added to it. it is now have a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, with a 2 car garage. It is around 1600 sq ft. I think a lot of the homes in the US are now built so that they are more handicap accessible as far as larger open floor plans and bathroom and showers being larger as well. I know we took that into consideration with a recent master bathroom update. We remodeled so that our shower is much larger and could have a wheelchair rolled in if needed. We are only in our late 40's, but you never know what could happen. As far as the mail goes, we have a mailbox on our house, which is pretty standard. There are certain housing additions and apartment complexes that have the boxes at the entrance to their additions.
I live in Tucson AZ and my 35 year old home is 1400 sf plus a smallish 450 sf 2 car garage. In Arizona you cannot legally inhabit a structure without heating and cooling; I have a heat pump on the roof for AC and heat. Single level, Three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a laundry room with a sink. You would call it a semi-detached in fact I share a small section of wall with a neighbor. This is called a townhouse or here in Arizona a "patio home" because the patio in the back is about as big as the house itself. It's common here in Arizona for yards in the back to be separated by a concrete block wall (mine is stucco and painted to match the house). About 200 SF of the patio is covered and the rest is 500 sf pavers to make a larger outdoor area and 250 sf of artificial grass (water is precious) and real mesquite trees which are native to the area. I have a master bedroom with en suite and walk in closet, a smaller gues bedroom and an even smaller bedroom used as an office (it's about the size of a UK bedroom). Because it's a style of architecure similar to our Mexican heritage here I have clay tile floors ("Saltillo") throughout with rugs. One of the best features is location, I"m in the central area of Tucson so it's not too far to shopping and activities though you would drive to everything because "close" means something else here in America. But there are horse properties and wildlife within half a block. The mailbox sits on a post by the road. Dishwasher and garbage disposal are standard items but you don't put whole bananas into the disposal, I personally put as little as possible into mine; the water treatment plant separates any solid matter out and sells it as fertilizer and uses the water for golf courses and parks or to recharge the aquifer. It's currently valued right at $300,000 but until a few years ago it would have been a bit cheaper than yours. There's been a boom in building here so it's possible house prices will drop or at least stay steady in the next few years. My home would be for a couple or small family but I'm 75 and bought the house 25 years ago.
It comes down to preference. Our house had wall to wall when we moved in, except the kitchen and bathrooms. We removed carpet from the living and dining room and had hardwood, oak, floors there. Our mailbox was attached to our house, right next to the front door. Our house isn't very big, around 1650 sq ft. but we have 2.5 baths.
They live in a community where people who dont live there or arent guest arent allowed in. This includes the mailman so there is usually either a building or a main mailbox area outside by the gate. This is not common but a feature of these types of neighborhoods. Some houses do have mail slots, others have mailboxes right next to the door, and others have it at the end of the driveway. This is mostly to the discretion of the home owner.
My house is 3600 sqft. 5 bedroom, 3 full bathrooms , 2 living rooms, a big kitchen, a big laundry room, a gym, a 2 car garage ,a loft and a 1.5 acre yard
To be fair, the houses they are showing in the U.S. are million dollar homes (800,000+ pounds). The every day home in the states usually do not have 3-5 bathrooms. The standard is 1 1/2 or 2. Square footage averages between 1,200 to 2,000 depending on how large the house. The banana? It got chewed to a pulp by the garbage disposal. Basically, a grinder with knife blades that pulverizes food to a mush so it can go down the drain. Yes, our mail is usually delivered to a central location, either the post office or some places have a mail box location where each house has one little box for their mail. Only the home owner and the mail delivery has the key. If you have a P.O Box (post office box) you have a tiny little slot with a key that your mail is put in. And yes, we have to go get our mail ourselves. The shared community mail stand is rare, though. Most people have a post office box in the post office. There is still home delivery of mail, but mostly in rural areas. Price: For a standard 2-3 bedroom home, you will spend $150,00-$200,000 (120,000-160,000 pounds) for a small home. For a larger home with a large yard and double car garage and big rooms, you can expect easily over $300,000 (240,000 pounds)
Well...I would say that's NOT all true. U.S.A is so large and different even within the States. The couple is talking about Las Vegas, which is a lot cheaper for larger homes. Where as, where I live in San Diego, California - a small old home could be almost $1 million and more, where that same exact home could cost maybe on an average $200,000 with a much bigger lot size....and even cheaper with acres of land in more rural areas in the country. So, U.S.A. is not all the same and living in San Diego, California; which is the most expensive city in the country, it's a different world...
I would say the average is more like 2 to 2.5 bathrooms. And the average American home is 2300 sq ft. (That's a statistic) And the homes they're showing aren't necessarily million dollar homes. They're certainly on the nicer end, but in some parts of the country 300-400k will get you a LOT of house and a good size plot of land. And you can definitely get a house with a double garage and good size rooms for *well* under 300k lol.
And the *overwhelming* majority of American homes have a mailbox, either on the curb or attached to the house. Most people don't have to go any further than their yard to collect or send mail.
It really depends where you are. As more fools move from California. House prices go up. But you can find a 2-3br 1-2 bath. For $50k to $100k in areas Californias are not moving to. On 5 to 20 acres.
On average you are correct which I think is what you were going for to give the most accurate depiction of the state of housing in America. What I will say is that pricing does very heavily from State to State. So, lets say there is a house in California with 3,000 sq. ft. Now that will cost you an arm and a leg there; whereas the same house in Georgia would become far more affordable. This is due to the lack of population in Georgia, making the demand for homes in the State fall, and thus driving the price of said home down.
I live In Utah in America. We have had 3 bed 1 bath homes that are 1200 sq ft with 500 sq ft detached garage that cost $75,000. 5 bed 2 bath 1500 square foot home with a 1200 ft detached garage $135,000. We have since upgraded to a 5 bed 4 bath with a 1/3 ache yard. The basement was converted into its own separate 1600 square foot apartment with 2 beds and 2 baths own kitchen laundry, living room and storage. The back yard is amazing. In is huge and 2 huge storage sheds and next to it a gated garden I built. If you want pictures just ask. I pay $1200 a month for the basement and my parents pay $1000 for the rest of the mortgage. The smallest apartment I have lived in was around 864 sq feet. Most houses are 2-3 bedrooms 2-3 baths. Utahs housing market went insane last 5 years though and now houses are $250,000 and up. My house would sell for $800,000 or more. Other states it could be same house $150,000. All depends on economy and location of area.
Their backyard was actually pretty small. Their comparing a pre-planned housing subdivision to nothing else. In the US, you can literally build your house practically wherever you want. Out in the woods, out in the desert, alongside a lake, canal, bayou, and your "yard" will reflect whatever lifestyle you want. Our house, an average Ranch-style house that was built in the early 1960s (which is 2400 square ft...just measured it on Google Maps) sits on a lot that is roughly an acre of land (500 ft × 85 ft). On it we've got a 36 ft × 48 ft pole barn (1728 sq ft) and in it we have stored 2 campers (travel trailers) and 2 other vehicles. But now, it's just mainly storage. Dad also built a loft into the back half of it which gave us and additional 864 sq ft of storage space. My dad just died a little over a week ago, and so we're gonna have to be doing a lot of cleaning out of the barn over the next wee bit. But we built that barn back in 1985 and was my Dad's pride and joy for the longest time. He had a work bench out there with all kinds of tools and nuts and bolts all over the place. But aside fron the barn, we also have several smaller storage sheds scattered around the property too. Most of the yard is fenced in for an area for my outside dog to run around in. But before we built the fence I like 2011, iirc, we had a vegetable garden in one spot that was about 45 ft × 25 ft (1125 sq ft) at one point back in the 70s and 80s when I was a little kid. We also had about 10 fruit trees (apple, pears) and 3 lines of grapes. Before I got hurt back in '98 I used to have to mow around all this shit. Pain in the ass it was. Lol. And that's another thing...MOWING. Y'all in the UK don't really have to think about mowing your yards that much. Lawn Care is a huge business or industry in the US. From a huge variety of mowers to smaller tools like weedeaters and things like that, but people take pride in a well manicured yard.
Not anymore. The sheer volume of land use restrictions, land rights, zoning, codes, etc have exploded in the past 10 years. That was true a decade ago but now most lands and counties are drowning in so many laws and restrictions, you can barely do anything without paying hundreds of thousands for permits and more before you even break ground. Try putting a tiny home on it and the sheriff is beating on your door.
This is a much newer expensive house they have. I live in indiana, and my house is 2900 sq ft, built in 2003 (.27 acre lot). It has a basement as well as a 3 car garage. I payed 277k before covid. Covid just made everything way worse as far as prices. I can't imagine living in a country that is that close to people. I'd lose my marbles.
11:30- Mailbox- It depends I am from New Jersey, and growing up we had a mailbox attached to our house, and our next-door neighbors had one set in the door, the mailman would pop their mail directly into their house but it would be half chewed because of their dog.
I’m from NJ too. Now living in PA. The mailman comes to our mailbox attached to our home. Also, the houses shown here are not your average home. These r out of most people’s reach.
Carpet qnd wood floors vary. Some like one type and others like a mixture. Entryways are smooth wood or other smooth surface, same foe bathrooms, usually tile, BUT bedrooms and living rooms are more likely to have carpet, whether wall to wall, or area rugs.
0:07 I caught my grandma throwing an orange peel down the garbage disposal and I was like, "are you crazy? you're going to ruin it" but after she scolded me I googled it and apparently it's good for it, it helps to clean it.
I remember when I worked in a kitchen and I had to do dirty side dishes, they also wanted us to periodically put ice down the disposal because it sharpens the blades.
I've lived all over the USA and always had a mailbox at my house. There are far fewer homes that have a collective place for mail. Most of it is delivered right to the house and in some cases they still use the mail slot like in the UK.
I just bought a 2 bedroom 1 bathroom single level (unfurnished attic), with a 1 car garage and a small yard for $160,000 850 square feet. I live in the Midwest in America, but the housing market is screwed. 10 years ago it wouldve been half that.
Guess it depends on where in the Midwest I bought mine about 5 years ago and its 4 bedroom with an extra one in the basement 2 bath with a two story heated and air condition detached garage for 58000
I grew up in a small home, when my sister came along, she was moved into my bedroom (it was the larger of the 2 bedrooms, besides the master suite, & the bathroom in the master was tiny) the kitchen was like a small hallway. There was no garage. There was a basement, a small part was for dad’s tools, the oil heater & water heater, the laundry area, & the other part for the kids to play in, where the mess can stay since most guests would never go downstairs. They did fix it up downstairs into a gaming area with a pool table, plus a furniture setting around a fireplace. I live in a 2 bedroom condominium (apartment), about 925 square feet, not counting the patio. I have 2 parking spots but they are not assigned it’s first come first gets Don’t forget, most people don’t have a palatial home. US homes are larger, but different features vary in different homes. Any place that has all the features cost more than most can afford.
The median household income is 75,000 USD in the US as of 2022 , meanwhile the poverty line household income is 25,000 USD as of 2024.. I think there’s a way bigger line bud.
Yes, most new planned communities have several post office stand locations within the community, which allows the postal worker to do their work a lot faster, due to high population of residences...but it's NOT common for most homes. There are homes that still receive mail through the front door slot, but a lot have converted to the mail box post at the end of the property line next to the street, so the postal worker could drive their car, which the driver's seat is on the the right hand, making it easier and faster to put the mail into the mail box, without getting out of the car. We had and have what you guys have, but that was mostly back in the 50's and 60's, where the U.S.A. has just evolved newer ways throughout time and locations.
Pantries are good for storing long-term goods like rice, canned food, things in case of emergencies. Some pantries are in the basement so if you’re in a tornado and you’re not too injured you’ll have food, water right there until rescue can be there for you to get you out.
this pretty accurate for newer homes and neighborhoods, we have to go two blocks to get our mail out of a shared lock box. its a big metal box with like 50 different mail boxes each with their own lock. its way faster for mail service than having to go door to door as our houses are spaced out more with usually a large front yard to cross, that could also be gated.
I’m an American Texan. It’s true. We have a lot of space for our vehicles. I actually live in apartment that used to be a garage for the house that’s been converted and we still have plenty of room to park.
Probably THE SMALLEST American home on this list of comments. I recently bought a 100 yr old completely redone cottage in a modest lake community in Ohio for $118,500 USD. It was listed as 2 bedroom, 1 bath and about 650+ sq ft HOWEVER the 2 bedrooms are upstairs and have very low ceilings (can only stand up in a small portion of each room and I'm 5 ft 4 inches) and not much usable space - which didn't bother me because I didnt want an upstairs anyway. So 1 bedroom is guest room, 1 is storage and I spend my time downstairs in my 18 ft × 24 ft cottage with additional 6 ft x 6 ft bathroom - so I live in about @ 460 sq ft (so @ 42.74 m2). I LOVE IT! The lot is @6500 sq ft, with a large gravel driveway, which can fit at least 4 cars. Campfire ring area out back and also lovely trees. I inherited a 2000+ sq ft condo with 3 baths, 3 beds and 1 car attached garage, but i detest it and will be selling it as soon as I finish moving. Its just me, for the time being, and why the heck would I want to maintain so much space, clean 3 baths etc?! I'd rather spend more time enjoying myself. My cottage is a 10 minute walk to the beach. At the end of my street, there's water access for putting in a kayak etc. The people are really friendly. And there's that old, cozy charm about old homes - something I also admire about homes in Europe and other countries. ❤
@moreadamcouser I would second this comment above. There are smaller homes in the U.S., you find them much more in small/older towns or older residential areas of cities. I owned a 2bd, 1 ba, 850 sqft house in Iowa - Bungalow style, no pantry, full basement with laundry, modest yard and a detached single car garage. It was plenty of space for me, 3 pets, and the occasional guest. I personally think it would work for just fine for a small family. My (now) husband, however, made fun of it CONSTANTLY. That his apartment (at the time) was larger than my house (it was) and how unreasonably small my house was. Easily, a 3rd of the houses in this small town were small like mine - between 600 and 900 sqft. They are the perfect size for retired couple, young single people, young families. I don't think (in the U.S.) it is enough if you choose to grow your family, simply because there is almost no space to store enough food or other stuff. And in these small towns, that is PARAMOUNT, because there are few to no grocery stores in these towns. You have to go to the next largest town, and that might be 30 minutes to an hour's drive away. In the U.S., we don't have resources within walking distance - you HAVE to drive. So having appropriate storage is a *must*. Especially for big families or families with older children who just... also have stuff. We now have 2 story, 1800sqft + house with 1 acre of 'yard'. We have areas we don't use for sure, but my husband is a 'stuff' person (just really likes to have and keep things) and any extra corner of space we do have is filled with stuff. Not my favorite thing, but definitely something that happens in larger american homes.
@elizabethhines6983 I agree! Smaller homes are their own kind of awesome! Unless you have $ to hire cleaning service or time/don't mind cleaning so many bathrooms etc, IMHO it just doesn't make sense to have such a large home, especially for singles, elderly etc. But, everyone is free to make their own choices on living arrangements. People who like to hold parties and entertain more probably do need the space. I just wanted to post because it seems like most on the comments list reinforced the American stereotype that everyone has enormous homes here. Sounds like your home was a cutie! Bigger isn't always better. Lol I don't have a basement - it really is just @ 460 sq ft on the first level that I do my living in. The extra 200+ sq ft upstairs is nice for storage, though. I really wish to have a garage and may add one eventually. The amusing part is it'd probably have more sq ft than my living space! Lol.
British people commonly call their back area a 'garden' because before and during the world wars, they grew food in those areas as it was common for families to grow their veggies instead of buying most of them, and would buy meats from the store and the few veggies they didn't or couldn't grow. this naming just stuck and it's been that way since for British people. In the U.S. on the other hand, we've rarely grown our own foods, unless you live on an actual farm (small or otherwise) and thus it has nearly only been 'yards'.
garden tends to be more of a area of planting flowers or food kind of like the boat and ship talk as well the front yard and back yard. otherwise it would be front yard and garden instead of back yard. or front garden and back garden? 😅
A lot of Americans grow tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, cucumbers and herbs in their backyards There are clever self-watering pots that will grow quite a lot of veggies or salad greens on a patio or balacony.
The garages are common but not included with every home and there are two types: detached and attached. My home currently has a two car detached that sits aside from the home. Our yard space is very large which is relatively common unless you live in much larger cities and even then, there are still a decent amount of homes with yard space that are multipurpose including gardening. The communal mailbox is not common unless you live in a trailer park, apartment, or gated communities that normally operate with an HOA. Not all homes and appartments are hard floor only. There are many here that have hard floors only in the kitchen, dining, and bathrooms. With love from a friend in Michigan. Really enjoy the videos.
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In Arizona, I live in 1,350 sqft, two bedroom, two full bath townhouse with a (not included in the square feet) 2 car garage. The pool, jacuzzi and the gym are around 100 feet from my front door. Upstairs is also a large loft are as well, which can double as a study/2nd living area.
I live in a 2000 square foot 3 bedroom 3 bath house. That's about the average size house. But we have our mailbox at the end of our driveway. Some subdivisions have it all in this one little area that you have to drive down. But I don't live in the subdivision.
What the hell did you say at 2:30 lmaooo😂
My Los Angeles condo is 1400 square feet, a guest bedroom with guest bathroom with walking closet, its own bathroom with shower, tub, toilet and sink, master bedroom with 2 walk in closets and larger master bathroom with two sinks, huge tub, shower toilet, upstairs laundry room, downstairs a half bath(toilet and sink) galley kitchen, dinning area, living room with fire place, a entry closet, and hall closet, pantry, two car garage with built in storage, small backyard with deck and pergola coving it. Neighbor sold their condo next door (same size) for $780,000 about a month ago
I paid $50,000 for my house. Granted it wasn't that big of a kitchen but it was a nice kitchen and open like that
The shared community mailbox is NOT a common feature of most U.S. single-family homes. This couple must live in a planned community from one developer where that choice was made in early stages. Most homes have the mailbox at the front of your property line facing the road for the mailperson to drive up to.
Mailboxes attached to the house beside the front door still prevail in older city neighborhoods. (Mail slots are not unheard of, but are not very practical in cold climates due to drafts!) Roadside mailboxes are more of a suburban or rural thing.
In the Midwest, there were mid-century craftsman houses with enclosed patios or a foyer with another outside door. Kind of overkill to have a mail slot
The only shared mailbox I've had. Is where I now live.
But it's for a far different reason.
My closest neighbors are 20 miles away.
My mailbox is 30 miles away. I go to it a couple times a year
Closest asphalt, paved, or concrete road is 20 miles away.
Closest electric is 20 miles away.
I live off grid and have my own power.
I've gone months without seeing another human.
I did this because I wanted to get away from ignorant and stupid people.
I can do whatever I want. Because no one knows.
I had a neighbor that disappeared 4 years ago. Maybe someday I'll find his remains. Then again. Maybe they will never be found.
Newer construction neighborhoods are now getting postal clusters like they mentioned and not mailboxes. It’s definitely a thing now.
@@ThatCronus a thing, but not yet the standard. They made it sound like it's the norm.
A garden is where you grow vegetables, a backyard is the spot behind your house.
A back yard can pretty much be whatever you want it to be.
But I get the point
Your definition is just one version. Another is that a garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the cultivation, display, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. Botanical gardens have been around for centuries. It also depends on where you live. Just because people in your region define it one way, doesn't mean other regions/countries define it the same way.
So an area behind your house where you can grow flowers and plants isn't a garden?
@@bw1074Wrong. You can have a garden in the back or the front. A back yard is in the back whatever part of the world you live in. And a front yard is a front yard even on the sides of a home. Yes,You can call it whatever you like but it doesn’t mean it’s the proper name for that area.
This couple must live in an upper class new built community. Not everyone in the US have 5 bathrooms, a walk in pantry and an open floor plan kitchen. My home is 1400 sq ft, 4 bedroom 1 bath. No pantry, closed off kitchen and tiny bathroom. This is the largest house ive every lived in lol. The pictures of American homes they keep showing are homes of people who are well off. Also, the US is absolutely huge so different areas have different homes and prices. Most large cities are old and have smaller homes. While outside of these cities are new suburban planned communities which are where these huge homes are. Everything being built now are "luxury homes or luxury apartments" while the lower and middle class here struggle and can not afford these homes. As far as costs? Totaly depends on where you live. I just bought my 1400 sq ft home in a nice neighborhood in Minnesota for $189k but sold my 824 sq ft home in Florida with no parking in a bad area for $319k. Their video is full of misinformation. We all aren't living in these kinds of homes
The medium priced home in the U.S. is $415k. It depends on where they live, but I would guess this home has a medium price of $500k. In CA, that's over 1M, but in a small or medium-sized city suburb, it could be $400k. Of course, wages are relative to those prices.
The median home size in the US is 2164 square foot with the biggest homes being in the midwestern/mountainous and southern states like Texas, Utah, Colorado Indiana, Minnesota, North carolina etc. This isn’t misinformation.
I just tried to make all these points with the comment that was about three times as long, so congrats to you because it frustrates me so bad that they keep trying to show these videos like this is common like this is how Americans live like no no it’s not and it’s such a big difference depending on where you live California, Nevada versus Texas, Florida versus North Carolina, Tennessee versus Michigan versus Colorado. They’re all vastly different styles and stuff which $500,000 house here could be beautiful 40 acre horse farm that is where I came from versus in Florida. That’s pretty typical Home to be honest with you may be a little large but pretty typical that’s why I did not move to Florida when I had the chance, congrats to you on your cell and move into a home for less!!
@@aimxdy8680 The problem with using Median home size to portray what an average US citizen would experience is the scale of difference. There are mansions in USA that are literally 8,000 Sq feet or more. Only newer developments which are spread out for the rich and wealthy in our countryside are able to afford the houses with 2,000+ sq feet with 3.5+ bathrooms, walk in closets, pantry, open concept kitchen, 1.5 acre backyard, etc. This video is NOT a good representation of the Average American Family Household. The couple in this video are disingenuous.
@@itsjust2hard Median is the 50th percentile aka 50% of americans have bigger or smaller homes, Average is actually FAR HIGHER than the median. And 2,000 sq ft isn’t rich by any means, a 4-5 bed 2,000 sq ft house that’s built newer than 2005 is like 280K USD in my area, that isn’t rich buddy.
The mailbox debacle depends on where you live. If you live in apartments or newly built neighborhoods there's usually a community mailbox or center where you're assigned a space for your post (excluding excessive size package). But for older neighborhoods and houses you usually have a mailbox at the end of your driveway, it's more common this way.
PSA do not put bananas peels in the garbage disposal. They are too fibrous.
Several food items should be avoided when using a garbage disposal to prevent clogs and damage. Here are some key items to keep out of the garbage disposal:
1. **Grease, Fats, and Oils:** These can solidify and clog the pipes.
2. **Fibrous Vegetables:** Celery, asparagus, and corn husks can tangle and jam the disposal.
3. **Starchy Foods:** Pasta, rice, and potatoes can expand and cause blockages.
4. **Coffee Grounds:** These can accumulate and create a thick sludge in the pipes.
5. **Eggshells:** The membrane inside the shell can wrap around the blades, and the shell itself can create a gritty residue.
6. **Bones:** They are too hard and can damage the blades.
7. **Fruit Pits:** Hard pits, like those from peaches or cherries, can damage the disposal.
8. **Large Amounts of Food:** Too much food at once can overwhelm and clog the disposal.
What about fingers
@@Originalname829fingies go in my mouth 🤤
So nearly everything in a kitchen?
@@Originalname829 did my comment about fingers get deleted?? 🖕
@@Originalname829only the skins of fingers no bone unfortunately
Actually, in older neighborhoods in the cities, many homes still have "Mail Slots" in the door which are identical to UK "Letter Boxes".
My Southern California townhome, built in 1976, has a mail slot in the garage. In my area there are neighborhoods with the shared community mailbox setup, but there are also houses with mail slots in the door and many with a mailbox in the front. We are a really big country! It’s hard to say what is a “typical” house. It depends on the region, the year the place was built, the density of population in the area, and a ton of other factors. I live in a 1680 square foot townhome with a two car garage and a patio, but people here also live in smaller and larger houses with back yards. We don’t have air conditioning, and there is a door to the bathroom in our master bedroom. Our flooring is a mix of tile and carpet, but we hate the carpet.
I once lived in a house that was built in the 1920s, and it had a very nice one that was built into the brick wall next to the door. It had two iron closures (one outside for the mailman to open, one inside that you would open to receive the mail) so that there wasn't even a draft in the winter. It was very nice! That house also had a laundry chute.
I grew up in a house built in 1950 with the mail slot in the front door. Our dog would destroy the mail when it got put thru the slot and my parents used to get so mad!! lol
Most old houses in my town has them
My parents’ house is like this. The mail carrier walks the neighborhood and each house has a mail slot. It’s the only place I’ve seen this though, the places I’ve lived has a mail carrier drive those little box cars and put mail in the box at the end of the driveway.
Adam, those houses shown are on the high end of the market. Most homes are not that size. Three bedroom ranchers or split level homes could be 1200-1800 sq ft. Four bedroom, two story homes could be 2000-3000 sq ft. You will find 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 bathrooms on average (1/2 bath is just a sink and toilet). Generally there is a two car garage. There may be a mud room, which is an entrance way within the house and the attached garage that doubles as a laundry room. At my house, the mail box is at the end of the driveway.
We have a four bedroom rancher, 2450 sq feet. Something not touched on, we don't have public water or sewer. It's great because it reduces home density, each home is on a minimum 1 acre lot.
@@1972Ray same here. Lots of wildlife running around as well.
I am a Canadian who spent every summer in London with family growing up. The heating situation was miserable. It was always too cold and damp and drafty. In that dead of summer it was okay, but in September or April...brrrr. But the gardens of the family in the Uk were very beautiful whereas it was just a big square of grass in Canada. Also the houses were wider, more space and generally more comfortable on Canada. But they were brick, narrow, sturdy, and attached in Harrow.
I live in the US now, and they have even more house for less money.
lol, not massive, but the amenities are exact, like the pantry or walk in closet etc. I lived in the UK for several years. No closets, because every room is taxed or was. Our “oven” was not a lovely aga, no it was a 1950 era oven so small, with the broiler on the top. Remember those? My range in the US is 48” wide. Please. This is common in smaller 3 bedroom homes, not mansions or anything. Don’t be fooled. Even our smaller homes are much more user friendly.
I agree, I think this video is generalizing a lot of the amenities across “all” US homes. It really depends on where you live, the age of your community and house. Older homes in the US are not as open concept or have the very large square footage.
We live in the country now and our farmhouse is laid out rather oddly. It’s over 180 years old, 4.5 stories, and the stairs are very small. Treads are 6” and steep. The main level is the living room, 12’x24”, a small bedroom, and the full bath (larger than the bedroom. We have a landing where you can go upstairs to the master bedroom, or downstairs into the kitchen, which is huge. From the kitchen, you go down more tiny stairs to the well room/root cellar. Then more stairs to the basement! And there’s a full bathroom in the basement.
So our place is rather unique.
The photos they’re showing are high-end homes w/ all the best modern features found in wealthy areas, at least upper middle class. These are the type of pix found in architectural magazines! Remember USA is a very large & spread out country; no one can expect a small island to compare with that! They must be doing very well. ✨💖✨
Exactly!
U.S. homes vary WIDELY from place to place, income to income, year built to year built, etc, etc, etc.
My home was built in 1974, is 1800 sq ft, has a tiny kitchen, while some neighbors have a large kitchen, and we all have giant yards.
Most new planned communities are moving to central mail drops, but they're relatively new. They're often located by the community club house, pool, playground, dog park, and picnic area, usually by a body of water (natural or man-made). But, again, these are all relatively new developments.
I have a pretty large back yard for being in the city. There's room for me to park several cars back there if I wanted. Decent sized porch for grilling steaks on the weekend.
I have a really big 10x20 shed with a cathedral ceiling. I can store everything in there.
I did some creative wiring and have power to my shed. I walk in and there's a light switch right there. I turn on the light no problem.
This! I live in Tampa FL and you can have a 8000sqft house next to 800sqft house.
We live out in the sticks. SO everyone out here has a mailbox attached to a post driven into the ground. It is put out on a road in front of your property.
Exactly. Our 1960s house is 1900 sf has tiny bathrooms and a small kitchen. The bedrooms are huge, we have a big front and back yard, with mail at the curb. So, pretty different from the house shown but I'd say the house shown is around $1million. Ours is worth a third of that, and we paid much less than that because we bought it 10 years ago. Houses vary wildly in design depending on when built and what area. HOA versus no HOA is the biggest difference between neighborhoods/houses these days. Team #noHOA
my house was built in 1915 and its a Prairie house. Though when we bought it it had only one bathroom. The family before us had like 6 kids and they all had to share one bathroom for the whole house. thankfully we added 2 more bathrooms while renovating it.
my grandfather bought a 'kit house' from Sears in 1944 for $550 and built it himself. it had a kitchen, living room and bedroom. they had an outhouse. My grandmother refused to move into it until my grandfather built a working bathroom INSIDE the house, which he did. they then added another bedroom with their first child and then a master suit when their 4th child (girl, so she could have her own room from her 3 brothers). by the 1970s, my grandfather had build a new larger kitchen/dinning room. a sitting room, a second larger living room. a car port, and the house was 4 bedrooms, 3 baths with a total of 5,400+ sq ft.... and this was all on 10 acres. it built ALL of the house himself throughout those years.
Unfortunately he's an extinct form of person 😉
Sears homes are awesome
Great story! Thank you. I'm 74 years old, born in 1950, but I remember houses being much less expensive than they are today of course. I don't remember any kit houses but I know that a lot more people built their own houses back than they do today. All of my brothers were excellent carpenters. They would select some land, build a nice home on it and then sell it after they built another one to live in. Made quite a bit of money that way.
@@loribernardisunwell9663 No he's not. My brother is building his house himself, except for some electrical and plumbing work he had to have done, and some construction that needed two people to accomplish. For those tasks he hired a couple of Amish workers. They'll be moving in by the end of summer.
My G'pa ordered his from Popular Mechanics. We didn't have a functional bathroom until the mid 80's (outhouse). But being a Finlander, you're damn right we had a sauna.
Still don't have shower in the cabin.
The fact that you’re home is just over 200k is a gift. In cali a basic 2 bedroom home is over 700k
I got my 3 bed 3 bath, .25 acre yard California home for $180k in 2019
Those houses are upper middle class, new build, and urban/suburban. Vegas is a major metro that has exploded over the last couple decades.
Been longer than a couple of decades. I grew up there. Vegas has been growing like a weed since the 80's. I graduated in 86 and there were just about 600k people in the whole valley. As of when I retired in 22, and moved away, we had about 2.7 million.
Even the average middle class houses are still much bigger than average UK houses. In general everything in the US is MUCH bigger than anywhere else in the world. I grew up traveling the world and I’m also a Swiss citizen as well as a US one and it’s a thing I’ve noticed. Everywhere else everything is so small and cramped. Roads, cars, houses, stores, parking spots, backyards literally everything is so cramped. Because everywhere else countries are built around public transportation because there’s just no room for private vehicles, but the US is built around private transportation hence why everything is so massive and that’s why our public transportation is not the best. I’d take the layout of the US anyday though. I can’t live in the EU everything is way too cramped and there’s just no room for anything.
Those are on the the mid to upper range midwestern US homes scale. Out here usually around $250 -$300,000 new.
Upper-middle class, definitely, but many middle-class people have homes with spacious kitchen, living room and dining room/area, at least two full bathrooms, large master bedroom or suite (bedroom with ensuite bath and big walk-in closet), a front yard and substantial back yard, and garage for two cars. I'm talking suburban homes here, but some homes in cities are almost as large but with little or no yard/garden. And these are suburbs that are part of a "major metropolitan area"--once you get more rural, or places with vast upper-middle-class subdivisions, every home has well over 1500 sq. ft. and sits on at least 1/3 acre of land.
When it comes to cost, you can still get some of these "McMansions" (although the prevalence of "semi-custom" homes these days makes them less cookie-cutter than they used to be) for $250,000 in some places, but the major metropolitan areas encompassing the largest cities, and even smaller cities near the East Coast or West Coast, quickly rocket through $350,000, with $400k-$500k being pretty typical for an upper-middle-class family home. Then you have the more posh suburban neighborhoods where $500,000 is a starter home, and the upper-upper middles have homes ranging in value from about $750k to more than $1.5 million.
Even though I was born in the US and have lived here for all of my 60 years, have friends with homes like the monstrosities described in the Las Vegas video, and used to own a 1600 sq.ft. house on a one-acre property in an affluent neighborhood, I think it's, at best, ridiculous and, at worst, obscene. (My house had five bedrooms, but all were small and one had been turned into a walk-in closet. The house was built in 1895 as a working carriage house--i.e., intended for a workman's family--and was almost Spartan compared to what you're seeing now.)
Vegas has been blowing up since the first pig farm was built there
Their description of getting mail in the U.S. is EXTREMELY RARE.
Typically there is a mailbox right in front of your home.
Its 50/50 seems like half of ppl still have their mailbox at the end of their driveway vs right next to or on their door
It's becoming more common, with the new developments that are being built. The USPS is requiring a central location for all mail in that development, as they can't keep up with delivering to all the new addresses.
It depends on where you live. I live in the suburbs of Houston, TX, and there are community mailboxes everywhere. It's not extremely rare at all, depending on where you live.
@@barnabydodd8956 Yeah, here in San Antonio it's more typical to have mailboxes in front of our homes, but I do still see plenty of neighborhoods with community mailboxes.
Where the mailboxes are located depends on the developer's design. I refuse to live where I have to go get my mail.
I have never heard of anybody not having a door to their bathroom. I'm not sure how their bathroom setup is, but it's definitely not the norm. If you are living in the States and want carpet, just have carpet installed easy peasy.
You don't have to have hardwood or tile flooring if you don't want to...lol!😊
I have never seen it unless you actually took the door off the hinges yourself. I know I have a pocket door on mine but its still a door.
where do you people live my bathroom has no door just an entry way then there is a door for the toilet in the bathroom
I'm in Nothern California and the last 4 houses I was in had no door to the en suite bathroom. My current house doesn't have an en suite, but it is pretty standard in homes here built after 2000.
I have seen bathrooms with no doors since at least the 70s- for whatever reason. you get the steam from the bathroom going to the bedroom, light - I consider it impractical.
well probably just the master bedroom
13:39 No, many US homes have gardens IN their yards; flowers, vegetables, fruit trees, or a combination of them all. In the Southwest, where they are, it’s harder to grow much of anything, so they probably don’t see many gardens.
Pantry is a walk in closet for your kitchen and your food 😂
They're actually a downsize from a Butler's pantry - which also housed the china, seasonal items, and other small appliances that aren't frequently used. Upscale homes still have them - with a sink, dishwasher, and microwave.
Not necessarily a walk in closet, a small closet is considered a pantry as well...
Yeah we have places to keep our food. Why don't British people have places to store their food? No wonder we left and then we defeated you in a war. Holy shit.
@@vertyisprobablydead why are you so angry?
@@vertyisprobablydead We do we just don’t call it a pantry you strange little man.
I remember when my Irish friend came over to the US to work at our company for a year, and I showed him my garbage disposal. He went through 3 stages. Fear from the noises that it made, confusion on where the food scraps went, and then amazement.
PSA here, please do NOT put grease down the disposal, folks! Fatbergs are a thing and the sewer system on our street is garbage because people dump grease in the disposal!
Then you woke up and had your cornflakes?
@@sepocon nope. The first part only happened.
My house in the US is a 1 story, 3 bedroom detached house 1431 square ft living space with a 2 car garage. It’s considered a starter home size for most folks. When our kids were still at home, we wished for a bigger place. Honestly if we just had a basement now, I’d be thrilled. We have a decent amount of land lined with trees, a mini barn and a fire pit we sit around and entertain.
yah you ain't getting better now unless you are rich
Ditto
Now it's a start home. 60 yeas ago it was a family home and kids grew up and only moved out when they struck out on their own.
Me too, except we have a basement. Built in 1953, so during the post WWII building boom. Yes, these were built for families. During the 80's, new houses were built farther from the suburbs, and kept getting bigger. My parents bought in 62 for $12,000. Today it's worth $220,000. Midwest area.
My parents’ home was 96 new build and is probably creeping up on around $400k+ at 2500 square feet while the house I currently live in is a 2000 square foot new build around $300k. When we moved in, there were 4 of us and my husband and I have about 1/3 of the total space.
The price depends on where you live. If you live in New York or California expect to pay big dollars. I just sold my 3 bedroom/2 bath house in Carlsbad, California for 1.5 million dollars and believe it or not that’s a small starter home with 1500 sq ft. But the house is only a mile from the beach and the weather in Calif. is amazing. Not all home are that expensive but many cost way more. In other states the cost is lower and you can find a nice house for the same price that you spent. I have family in Manchester, England their house is cozy but certainly doesn’t have all the comforts of American homes.
The US home they are showing is more typical for a place in the suburbs of Florida or Vegas . That size of home in a big city like NYC or Chicago would cost considerably more.
well duh
Based on comments they made - I reckon they're somewhere outside Vegas.
It’s not uncommon to have large homes in Colorado.
Wherever land is cheap, homes can be bigger. Except for 100 year old homes, the average sq feet on older existing homes here is 2500-3200, but new homes are 3000-4500 sq feet not counting an unfinished basement.
Uh, nope! That’s a rich people home! Most of us in the US have smaller houses.
@@SusanHMcIntyre IKR? I own a 1920s cottage. I have 900 square feet. 1.5 baths, two bedrooms. I inherited the home. The going price for _the land_ my house is on is almost 1 million. I wouldn't be able to afford my home if I had to buy it. I couldn't afford this guy's home in the UK. That's a quarter of a million dollars for a small place and believe me my salary can't afford it.
The location in the states really influences the layout and design, that was a typical west coast home. I was raised in San Diego and now live in southern Arizona, our home is 1,350 sq ft, three bedroom, open concept, tile and hard wood floors, with central air and heat, two and half car garage it’s a very relaxed functional, and a five star energy rating. The mid west has a very different feel as does the east coast, and the charm of the southern homes.
Sorry, but I'm going to have to disagree. They were in Vegas, so that's a typical desert style home, minus the grass yard. Vegas homes, typically have dirt, sand and rock instead of grass. Only the higher priced homes & neighborhoods have grass yards. Vegas homes, are almost exactly like Arizona homes, because they share the same climate. But West Coast homes (California, Oregon, and Washington) are quite different. For one, they aren't made of cement & stucco generally, they're made of wood or brick. Just sayin.
@@impishsongster333 I disagree with you about Southern California homes are exactly like the ones in Vegas, stucco and wood is the standard for the homes in the the south west of the U.S.. Oregon and Washington are in the north west a very wet climate and are built different than those in dryer southwest climates.
@@brianlynch2512 I haven’t seen many homes in Vegas built like the ones in the video. I grew up in Vegas, moved away in 2021, and plan to return in the next 3-4 years. I’ve seen some homes like the one in the video, but not many. Those homes were mainly in the suburbs and typically cost around $700k. My old house was 1,650 sq. ft. in North Las Vegas. The average home in Vegas is usually built in a desert style, without grass and featuring rock and sand. Newer houses are being built in a more modern desert style, mostly without grass.
Tile/wood floors have the benefit of being so easy to clean. If you have pets its a MUST have! Carpets are great when you first have them installed, but as they age they turn color, get musty, and become infested with dust mites and other tiny creatures. If you have a spill it creates a permanent stain that can't be removed entirely. Unless you can afford to have your carpeting replaced every few years I wouldn't recommend it. TRUST ME -- don't get carpeting. You can always buy rugs. Rugs can be cleaned easily and you can change them when you re-decorate to match your home decor.
Not.
It depends on where you live IMO. In a colder area, like the north, northeast, Midwest, yes carpet feels nice, especially in the bedrooms. But in the south, southwest, west, bare floors are the best. There is no need for carpet, it doesn't get that cold and bare floors are so much easier to take care of. I've lived both ways, and will never go back to carpet
Yeah, there's a lot to be said for being able to casually throw out an old rug and drop a new one in its place in two minutes.
Our first house here in Virginia was 1400 sqft, 3 bed/2bath and a small yard with a carport. It was $180k in 2008. Our house now is over 2400 sqft, 5 bed/2.5 bath with a 1/4 acre of land (in the city) and attached 2 car garage which we got it for $257k in 2013. We have a mostly open floor plan downstairs with hard flooring and carpet upstairs, which I hate so much because it's so hard to clean. Also, our mailbox is attached to the house next to the front door. I've only ever seen community mailboxes in apartment buildings.
In my area of TX, for the cost of your UK home you could get a 4 bed/3 bath with about 2500 sq ft and about 1/3 acres of land. The average house price in my area is $230k, but that average shot up dramatically since 2020--before then it was around $150k! The biggest home I found for under $240k in my area was about 4100 sq ft and cost $180k, but there were no pictures of the interior, so it probably needed some renovation.
My 4 bed/3 bath house cost $325,000, and has 2.4 acres of land, and ~2850 sq ft. It has an attached 2 car garage, plus an additional 2 car separate garage building (~ 800 sq ft) that the previous owners used to store a boat in. We picked this house for the extra land and the great internet we get here, because we're telecommuters; for the same money we could have gotten a much fancier/larger house in town instead of out of city limits. Low cost of living in our area---love it!
The bedrooms all have carpet, but the rest of the house has tile floors. Sadly, we don't have a garbage disposal, because we're on a septic tank instead of a city sewer system. We do have a mailbox at the end of the driveway, and a laundry room, a fireplace, a largish kitchen (12'x24') and various other bells and whistles. Our house was built in 2008, but our previous house (in Vermont) was built in the 1760s; it was about half the size and about half the price.
Those are some good prices and great features. I’m from Texas too (Houston) and although this area is better than a lot of other places in the US, it is much more expensive than your great find. Post 2020 didn’t help with home prices either, just made it almost unattainable to buy for many.
Yup that sounds about right, I'm in Texas too
@@DeLeahMarie Hrm, I might have to try that. Installing a garbage disposal--how hard can it be?
...Where's that Jeremy Clarkson emoticon, again? 😜
@@exstock I understand your prices are low, but I hear that property taxes are really high
Ha! For comparison, I live in an unpleasant part of London, UK, my flat is 720 square feet. Cost £150k in 2002. Now worth £450k. 2 tiny bedrooms and a little garden. Very friendly neighbours, loads of public transport and free health care…and peaceful transfer of power during elections 🫣
The USA has such a diverse housing market. Affordability, size and features vary greatly depending on where you want to live. You can buy a super cheap house in Mississippi or Arkansas or Indiana or West Virginia or rural Pennsylvania, but home prices in Los Angeles, CA, San Jose, CA, New York City, Washington, DC or other areas will be comparable to London suburb prices. I have an old 2000 square foot house that is about $1 million in my city in Virginia outside of Washington, DC. I have no garage, 4 bedrooms, no basement, medium size yard. A new construction in my area is huge and nice, but about $2 million. We have a mail box on the outside of our house. We do not have to walk far.
Exactly! The average home in my area is 1600-1800sqf and average price is $350-450k with a TINY yard. That’s in ND!!!
Same in the PNW , from Washington to Idaho over to Montana. My wife and I bought our 1800sqft home in 1994 for $136k an hour north of Seattle. Today it is by no means the original layout and we’ve taken incredible care of it. Today the value is north of $700k, but we won’t sell because we can’t afford the market. My daughters biggest goal is to buy a home, even with her and her boyfriends income being $200k with one bill, they can’t afford a home. Not to mention there are none available. It sickens me that her monthly rent is $3000, 3x my house payment
The things they showed in this video are on the bigger, wealthier side. It's not average. However, more bathrooms, garbage disposals in sink, washer/dryer in a small wash room, or in garage is accurate, for most part...
I was about to say wtf that is no where near average. Im happy just to have a fraction of that like 25% of that US house is what i have
Yes so true. Newer housing 2000 and forward, is .... too big. People live in all kinds of housing. These big brand new lavish places are not the norm.
@@k_salter nearly 20 years in my house with the same garbage disposal when I purchased the house. Pretty sure there isn't much that monster can't chew up. My pipes are still wonderfully clean for a 50 year old house. Was lucky enough not too long ago to have a friend's kid scope them for free when he wanted to show us his "cool new work toy" he purchased for his plumbing business.
These houses are most definitely NOT average.
and because of garbage disposals In The US There Rats In the Houses And So on
Quite a few new build communities in Miami are usually broken down into 4-categories of homes, townhomes, townhouses, and condos with each having 1-central mailbox box hub for each of the them at the entryway to the subdivision. One of the main builders here is Lennar and they do this for all of their new builds mainly because they shove so many homes (typically 4/5-bd/2.5 bth @ 2200/2500 sq ft on small 5000sq ft lots. Townhomes (duplexes) are usually 2-attached and typically are like 1900/2100 sq ft. Townhouses are like the Brit row houses and run 1500-1800sq ft w 3bd/2.5bth. Condos are standard 800/1200 w 1/2/3bd/2bth.
My house in Montana is about 4500 square feet, and my brother's is about 6400 square feet. We have a 3 car garage and my brother has a 7 car garage. We collect and restore old muscle cars so they are all full. We have a shop that also has a booming forklift, a backhoe, a car lift, and a pit for auto repairs and oil changes that will hold 2 more cars. We live in the same area in the mountains on 120 acres about a hundred miles from Yellowstone Park. We also have a gun range and lots of deer, elk, turkeys, and antelope to hunt during the season. We also see the occasional cougar or bear. I wouldn't live anywhere else. We also only have one neighbor within a few miles of us
This is awesome!
You are blessed, man. Awesome.
Our family has a designated "Gun Range" at my brother's property, we all shoot there when we can. And when we say gun, we really mean GUNSSSSSSSS! I'm sure if the Feds are seeing this, we mean water guns, ha, ha!
We have a large creek with a waterfall in our yard.
I'm moving in with you, my friend. What's your address? *Edit* of course I'll kick you down like $200 for rent, gotta do my part 🎉
I grew up in the 60s in the US. There were 4 of us living in 2 bedrooms, 1 bath 900 sq ft house. Now, I have a 3300 sq ft house, 5 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom,3 car garage ( my next door neighbors have a 5 car garage), It is way way too big for 2 people. I’d downsize, but the new mortgage would be $1000 more a month for a smaller home with today’s interest rates. We live excessively in the US for sure. But it is nice. Btw, where I live gets 300 days of sun. Come on over, we have room for more Brits.
I grew up in Southern California just outside Los Angeles. All the houses in my neighborhood were two bedroom one bath.Most family’s were two - three kids, so sharing a bedroom was no big deal
Then don't mortgage. When you downsize, the entire point is to sell the current place for a profit, use your capital gains tax exemption and have money left over.
where do you work richard
We had 6 in 900 Sq ft 1 bathroom 3 bedroom
@@shockwave6213Inflation eats up any profit most people might have. We own a basic ranch and could sell it for a substantial profit...but chances of finding a home anywhere for that amount is not going to happen.
Many houses here in Nebraska still has a mail slot on the house or door! If not, we generally have mail boxes right outside each house.
Backyards are "a thing" here!
People love to entertain, bbq, have kids, and dogs! We do love our yards!
people have dogs? you have kids. you don't have dogs. you purchase a dog or adobt one. when people start having dogs, this world truly is f*cked.
There is a lot of Nebraska that doesn’t have house delivery.
In the country maybe, like way out west. Nowhere I've ever been.
I like having carpet because I live in a cold climate where it starts snowing in October til Summer arrives. We literally lose Spring every year because of Winter. So to keep warm and cozy, carpet helps. Downside to carpet is allergies and dirt being tracked in. But I love carpet in the living room, bedrooms, and maybe hallways.
Home prices vary WIDELY in the U.S. A mid-size, single family homes where I live, in suburban New Jersey are currently going for $350K, and, up. A good friend of mine just bought a similar home, away from everything, for $240K. The trade-off is, he lives in the middle of f**kin' NOWHERE.
When I lived in California housing for a small 2-3 bedroom would run you close to a mil, where as now I live down south and a mil would get you a literal mansion. Location is everything.
I live in San Francisco area and rent a 1 bedroom apartment for $3k per month. A single family home here is easily 1mil even for a run down house. Before moving here I lived in the Detroit area and rented a 2 bedroom apartment for $850 per month, and Houston where I rented a 2 bedroom for $900 per month. I'm sure those prices are no longer accurate reflections and it's probably closed to 1k - 1.5k for those same apartments now, but it's still a good representation of how much prices can vary even when comparing major cities.
And in Virginia where I live a townhouse will go $500k+ and a starter home $700k+. It’s so different from state to state!
$350K is cheap. Where I am - put a one in font of that 3 and you're looking at an entry level home that looks decent.
@@QueenofKings-mh7zn Or city to city, or neighborhood to neighborhood within the same state.
I grew up with a lot of nice fluffy carpets … in my own home as an adult I’ve come to realize all that a carpet can harbor even after using a shampooer (you can buy or rent one) the dust mites, dirt, bacteria etc… and if you have animals, their hair and dandruff and whatever else… so in my home I keep mainly all hard surfaces EVERYWHERE and use rugs such as small step rugs or larger 5x8 in strategic places that are soft but that can be physically picked up at and heavily spray washed at a car wash if need be. The fact that I can’t readily pull up carpet to really clean it well doesn’t set well with me with dogs , kids and whatever else it’s just easier and cleaner to use area rugs on hard surfaces.
Carpets are horrible. I buy heavy throw down carpets like businesses use. Roll up and pressure wash outside and hang in the sun the thoroughly dry
I used to replace hardwood flooring.. wait until you find out the issues/allergens/molds from those too!
@@FahimibnDawud my basement is more hazardous than any hard surface under seepage. I’d rather deal with mold than insects hatching and living in my carpet. Hell I poured concrete leveler in my bathroom floor cause the wood was trying to wear down in a spot and was bowled out. Said the heck with it and swept it out laid on the bonding and through it on there. Sealed up the whole thing and that was 3 yrs ago. I also prefer high molding and high gloss paint on said molding and drywall. My step dad is a union painter.. drywaller, carpenter, mason…. Taught me finishing drywall at age 7. Laying brick with him by 12 & couldn’t count how much carpentry and plumbing or random mechanics from Vietnam. Personally I live in a house built in 1929, it’s probably got mold mainly in the dank basement. I pump spray the brick down with bleach water every couple years. I live in West Virginia where I’m probably gonna have more brown recluse spiders under my floor boards than mold. Also if you use the all vinyl fake flooring you’re less likely to have mold… that being said if you don’t seal the floor underneath or cover in a waterproof coating or cover and spilling could get to it.. you just have to not be a complete moron when you put it in. My house doesn’t have forced air or heat. It’s window units and the main space heater plus a few portable electric heaters. Temperatures in most rooms of my house including basement can reach extremely hot or extremely cold if I choose to shut off those window units etc… neither of which mold likes. To be honest “the crud” that everyone in our area gets from the local DuPont is more concerning. So all in all… I know about mold… I prefer removable rugs… cause with carpet you now have whatever is living in the carpet and whatever got underneath, especially if whoever installed the carpet put no barriers between it and the floor.
I live in Galveston Texas and I bought my home in 2010 for around $135,000.00 after a Hurricane. It needed some repair, and I spent around $20,000. to get it bac up to where we wanted it. It is roughly 1,400 ft2. 3 bedrooms and 2-1/2 baths. The Kitchen/dining and Living area are 1 room. My back yard is roughly 600 ft2 and then I walk out onto the dock. Did I mention that I live on a canal that leads out into Galveston bay? I have an underwater light and I catch Trout, Red Drum , Flounder and other fish at night, and the waste goes into a crab trap where I get Blue Crabs. The shrimp and oyster processors come into port about 15 minutes away, so I get the freshest seafood and I grow veggies and fruit in raised bed gardens pretty much year round. The house faces the canal, so I enter from the back, which faces the street. It is paved so I have 10 parking spaces back there. Right now, my house is supposedly worth $450,000.00
nice
Every state is different, and every city or county within that state can be very different.
I grew up in a house with seven people in Chicago and lived in a 3 bedroom 1 1/2 bathroom bungalow style house with no garage and about 1,100 square feet. The mailbox was attached to the house right outside the front door.
When I got married, my husband and I moved to the Western suburbs and had a 3 bedroom 1 bathroom with 1 car garage, and we could park one car in the driveway. We had a small backyard. Also, our laundry "room" was in the kitchen. Again, the mailbox was attached to the house and was about 1,500 square feet and cost $136,000.
Right before Covid, we moved to Georgia and bought a 3 bedroom, 3 1/2 bathroom, 3 level house with an in-law suite and attached 2 car garage on just under an acre of land. It's my first time living in a home where the mailbox is at the end of the driveway. Our Master bathroom is about 300 sq ft, and the Master bedroom is 20x20 square ft. The house is about 4,300 sq ft.
The previous owners had the house built and lived in it for 27 years, and they paid $197,000 in the 90's.
We bought the house from them for $340,000.
If we were to buy the house we live in now in the same kind of neighborhood in Illinois, it would have easily cost us $600,000 - $700,000 and over $20,000 in property taxes.
Came to the US from the UK. We live in IL in a 3 bed, 2 bath, 2,400sqf house on an acre. My driveway has space for a camper and 6 cars. We are the only ones with a fully fenced in back garden, because I'm from Europe! 😂 My front yard is bigger than the back garden I had in the UK. I'm surprised they didn't compare the washing machines. American washers are like European industrial sized ones and the average washing cycle takes 30 minutes. European washing cycles take at least an hour. Same with dryers. In Europe we had a washer/dryer combo but it's quite common to hang your laundry out to dry.
I couldnt wear clothes after having them dry outside, what if an insect decides to take up residence there or if birds poop on them? lol
@@specopswolfmp ha ha, you curse the birds and wash them again! At least that is what my mom did! HA HA
“WHERE DOES THE BANANA SLIP OFF TEWWW” had me rollin 😂🤣
I used to be a personal chef for people who lived in those big, suburban homes, and those are NOT typical except for a higher-end working couple, typically one will be successfully self-employed or both will have executive positions in other companies. These are $400-500K homes just to start, and people are buying WAY too much house for their incomes now.
125,000 a year puts you in the upper 25% of income for the US who are these houses even for now days no jobs pay that much
Those houses shown in the video are the common size seen in rural and suburban areas for a single family house. Obviously those renting out of a townhouse or a apartment will not see the same luxuries but that is not the average home in the USA.
Yep
$400-$500k is pocket change for a house. My first house at 23 was $490k. I sold it for $620k and bought a bigger house.
@@nothanks9503That’s a lie. 90% of people I know make $275k and up annually.
here in oklahoma, it is normal for houses to be (on average) 2-bed, 1-bath, with separate living, kitchen, and dining areas.
my childhood home was built by my great-great-grandparents on land they claimed in the Oklahoma land runs. still standing today! and probably haunted.
2 bedrooms, both the same size (no main bedroom). both have in-wall closets, but not walk-ins. one bathroom, big kitchen, open layout for the living and dining area - about 900 sqft total. our washer/dryer is in the kitchen. it's a very small house compared to all our neighbors (2000-2500 sqft), but it's plenty for two people. no garage, but we have several detached sheds on the property for storage, and a gravel loop driveway. enough room for 10 cars easily, but we park in the grass lol. our mailbox is out on the street, where our mailperson can drive up and toss it in! it's large enough to hold packages too.
interestingly, fishing boats are relatively common here! any given person in OK probably knows someone with a boat.
I live in rural Canada. My house is 5,000 square feet on 160 acres. The garage is a separate building with extra tall doors so a pickup truck may easily enter. We store 2 vehicles, a ride-on lawn mower, a small tractor, and lots of gardening equipment. In my area the house size is fairly typical.
I live in Texas and in the country parts of Texas or the northern states near y'all I believe that is normal as well
How much do those go for?
@jonm610 when you live on 160 acres of land, you paid for the land, the house just happen to come with it, lbvs.
What’s it worth? What province are you located? How close to the border are you?
Well thanks for your input being that Canada and the world never really stick up for us lol😂. Canada is too expensive to live for most of us but love to visit. ❤
We live in a very normal house in Arkansas. 2100 sq ft, 3 full baths, 4 bedrooms, 2 car garage that fits my 4 door Tundra. Its easy to take things for granted until you’re reminded of other ways of life
I live in a very normal house in South Florida with three bedrooms, three baths two car garage 2200 square feet, with a lanai and a pool that looks out onto the water . To me, there’s nothing that compares to waking up, looking at sunshine palm trees.& water. Wouldn’t live anywhere else for any amount of money. . New York can keep its concrete jungle., no thank you.
@@LynneNinonuevo-fp7ov exactly! Its ok to want to do better but we should always be grateful for what we have
I have an older home (built in 1963) with 3200 sq. ft, 4 bedrooms, 3 full baths, and a kitchen that basically has its own zip code (it's what sold the house, the kitchen itself is over 600 sq. ft). Most of the things in this video are pretty common, but it depends on where you live.
i love the kitchen part so much hahahaha this is awesome!
Same bro my house is old
My apartment is just over 600 sq ft. 😭
Most older people I know live in ~1,000 sq ft houses. All the people I know around my age (30s) and younger, as well as a couple older people, live in apartments.
@@absolutelynot7993I’m young, and I just live with my parents still. Idk why you’d want to move into an apartment alone.
I would say that isn’t “average for the whole US. I would say 1800 square ft is your average middle class home.
My apartment in the US was 3 bed 3 bath. I had the master room with a bathroom shower combo and outside my door was a toilet room. UK places sound too small.
this is NOT an average house in the U.S.
That’s not true, it’s very normal for us here in South Florida
@@christophermarrero9766 Which is a long way (in more way than one) from my childhood home in San Francisco. Even the larger homes in different parts of town and in Daly City aren't that big.
@@christophermarrero9766 Yes, it is true. Many homes in "your" AREA may be that big, but the average home is 1700 sq ft in Florida. In fact, if you look state by state, most are around 1800 sq ft, which is still large.
@@nightthornkvala94132most of America isn’t a giant city tho majority of our land is ruralish or suburbs with bigger homes ofc you can’t compare living in one of the most packed cities in america to somewhere the south not to mention politics play a big role in this it depends on what you can afford in Florida for example taxes are light no income tax and land and housing fairly cheap inland especially the farther north you go but this was such a dumb comment most people aren’t living in crowed cities
@@zo1379 I think you're the one posting dumb comments seeing as how I recognized the differences between here and there in my first sentence. Try reading something before spouting on it.
My husband and I live in Utah and had our home built about 12 years ago. We chose the smallest floor plan that our builder offered as there’s just us. We still have a 1,750 square foot house. Our basement has the same square footage as the main floor. We turned our basement into an apartment that we rent out so we have another source of income coming in every month.
From central Florida USA. I bought house in 2023. It’s 4 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage, 2400 sqft on a 1/4 acre lot for $310,000. It’s not new by Florida standards, built in 2006 but in good condition shape. I relate to a lot in this video now a day. The house I and the one wife grew up in don’t have as much amenities as this house by far. We both grew up in houses from the 1930s, which isn’t uncommon. There are a lot of house from between the 30s and 50s here. A good amount very nice. So I more so feel it depends on the age of your house. You won’t have built in gps in your car if it’s from 1950 but it’s a cool and valuable ride.
I have a new build in Florida around the same price point.
Biggest problem is garage and driveway size. My tundra doesn’t fit in the garage and takes up an entire side of the driveway.
At least down here, if you want those big garages and driveways you’re looking at the 400k range or an older build, or central Florida rather and coastal
The past two homes we (single mom with three kids) lived in were: a 130 ac secluded farm, 5,200 sq ft house heated floors, 6+ bedroom4 bath, plus huge 3 car garage, separate storage space rooms and buildings, in-ground pool, a 5000 square ft barn, and more…with stunning mountain and country farm views!!! (Less than 1,000 a month) for five years…private spring, and septic…so no typical utilities other than electric…and with a switch to some solar and wind, even that could have easily been omitted! Endless possibilities for gardens, farm, etc.
And the second was a 3,500 sq ft classic farmhouse with a 4500+ sq ft barn, numerous other storage buildings,etc…on 95 acres…open farm…with part in trees (many of which we also tapped for our own maple syrup making)…and where we later developed over 12000 sq ft of gardens, a very diverse farm with hundreds of different animals and much more. For 1200 a month for 15 years
These people moved from the UK to a nice suburban neighborhood in the US where doctors, lawyers and business owners live and never visited anywhere else in the country.
for real
you are correct!
I can show you PLENTY of communities all across the Midwest where the houses are just as big and have just as many amenities where the inhabitants are not doctors, lawyers, etc.
Additionally, doctors, lawyers, etc in the UK do not live in large homes, they live in very small homes.
I don’t think the American way of life is better, it just is what it is.
@@paulhamrick3943 Please do as I would like to live there. That is absolutely an upper middle class neighborhood and not representative of how the median American lives. Though yea, the median American will still own a much larger house. It’s just a huge country in comparison to the UK, overall and per capita.
Come to tennessee @@tykohn
If the En Suite Bathroom doesn't have a door, the toilet is usually blocked off from the rest of the bathroom and out of view of the entrance. More commonly, there are separate doors for the bath and toilet area to separate from the sinks and mirrors. Last house was 7,200 sq/ft, 5 bedroom, 5.5 bathrooms on 1.7 acres in suburbs. Current home is 3,000 sq/ft, 4 bedroom 3.5 bathrooms on .5 acres in an urban area. As for mail, some places have a slot in the door, most have a mailbox at the end of the driveway and some places have a community box like they're describing. Community boxes are common in apartments buildings and small lot neighborhoods because the postal workers can deliver and pick up more efficiently. We usually have HVAC systems for climate control. There is a furnace for heating and central air conditioning unit(s) for cooling, both systems use ducts built into walls and ceilings with vents into rooms. I've had fruit trees and vegetable beds at every house I've lived since I was a kid until my current small urban yard which doesn't have much room for much beyond a few tomato plants and the pear tree by my front door. The U.S. is so different from State to State, climate to climate to make many broad generalizations
7000 sq foot is a large house by any measure, much larger than typical. Our rancher is 2450, more than enough for the two of us.
I'm in the Midwest of the US, and we had 5 kids, when we were tired of renting 3bdrms we ended up purchasing a 5bd 2½ bath 2 car garage home. It was up for $245,000 and we got it on a $225,000 offer. We absolutely love the large front, backyard and amazing covered back deck. There's so many family memories we've had on this property
My house is a 3-bedroom, 1 and half bath townhome, one of four townhomes connected to each other appearing as one unit. Our neighborhood was originally built to accommodate families attached to the local Naval Air Station (closed in the early 2000s) and has singles, twins, townhomes and condominiums. Each townhome is about 1250 sq. ft. The kitchens and bedrooms are small, but we managed to raise three children here. Each townhome is on a slab (no basement) and has a driveway for two cars plus plenty of street parking. On the other hand, many of my piano tuning customers live in very large homes much as are depicted in the video, and many are exquisite and lovely. Every one of those homes has a mailbox at the end of their driveway. Our townhome has a community box to which we have a key, just a short walk up the sidewalk.
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most 'garages' in the U.K. were based on designs for store houses for old horse drawn carriages. they were only meant to be a place to store the carriage and not used for people to be inside the building. those designs were the basis for the first car garages in the U.K. thus you have very small ones. in the U.S. on the other hand, they were designed (and are constantly being redesigned) to not only house the vehicle, but be a place to preform maintenance on the vehicle, thus more room was needed inside the building for this purpose. then as women started joining the work force, an additional car was needed, so the garages expanded to house multiple vehicles.
We have those dish drying thingies next to the sink. We just have to buy them in the US. And yes we have 10 varieties in Wall-Mart alone. My trailer house is from 1974. But ya, America. I have a billion dollar view, In Colorado.
I love hardwood floors. Very warm and beautiful - easy to clean - and if your area rug which I personally use in every room gets damaged, just throw it out and buy a new one. Carpet, once laid, is never as clean as it used to be.
Hard floors are better for those with allergies.
Especially with large pets in the home! Hardwood/laminate anyday over carpeting!
We are in the process of getting rid of our carpets & replacing with Luxury Vinyl Planking.
Oh gods, our carpet is less than 10 years old and already needs to be replaced. If you have to go with carpet in a high traffic area, get good quality Berber. I wish I hadn’t been overruled on getting it
They make washable rugs now, too
It depends what part of the US. I live in rural Alabama and our house cost 165k. It has 4br, 3 bath, living room, dining room, den, eat in kitchen, laundry room, and attic. We have a good size front yard and fenced large back yard. I live in a rural area and our house was built in the 1990s.
The homes in that video would vary in cost depending on where you live in the US. However as others mentioned, none of them are considered "average" homes. Location plays a huge part in pricing.
I think a better comparison video would be comparing what kind of homes you can get for various price ranges between the 2 countries.
A garbage disposal is a machine connected to the sink that allows for solid things to run through, that has a motor with blades that chop and shred up what goes inside. It then goes through a side pipe that sends the waste to wastewater treatment, just as human waste does when you flush the toilet. It is not run continuously and it is meant for excess food scraps from meals, not entire pieces of fruit..hehee
A little more detail about mail delivery in the US. In "Days of Yore", most mailboxes were either via a slot in the front door or a box attached to the wall next to the front door. The mailman would place the mail for a neighborhood into his mail bag, sling it over his shoulder and walk to each home. This took time - sometimes hours to visit each home in a neighborhood. The next iteration in mail delivery was the mailbox at the end of the driveway facing the street. The mail truck would drive to each mailbox and deliver the mail. The mail truck is one of the few US vehicles that has the driver on the right side - just like UK vehicles. Since the US drives on the right side of the street the mailman can deliver the mail without having to get out of the truck - a much faster delivery method. The next iteration is a community mail box where the mail for an entire neighborhood can be delivered to one location - an even faster delivery method. The placement for the community mail box allowed you to stop to get your mail on your way home from work without having to "go out of your way". All of these delivery methods still exist all over the US.
I will say that in the US the gathering space of the home is definitely the Kitchen...Most people think that the gathering room is the Great Room, the Den, or the Living Room depending on what you want to call it...but in America it is really the Kitchen that brings people together and alongside the Dining Room is where most if not all important conversations happen. Hence why you hear American politicians refer to "Kitchen Table" issues.
So true.
When we renovated our 1959 kitchen, I asked the designer to leave space for dancing in the middle of the kitchen, and I’m so glad we did. Everyone always hangs out in our kitchen. And we do actually dance in there sometimes!
Also, based on where you live plumbing will vary drastically. In most major cities the public sewers takes both black water( poop and piss) and grey water which comes from sinks and drains. However people regularly have "garbage disposals units" (usually attached to the sink drain) which grind up food waste from the sink to allow it to flow to the sewers. In rural areas , any times they don't have access to city sewer systems and build back yard or underground sceptic systems that allow Black water to run there and grey water to run to the yard or to street drains.
Most bathrooms in the US has a door. It's very rare for a home to not have a door to the m.bathroom.
We don't put bananas in our garbage disposal. We throw it in the trash. In actuality you could ruin your garbage disposal. Scraping left over food down the garbage disposal we normally do. Not something that bulky. Most of us has a farm style sink or two sided sink. Not many have a dripping sink.
We do have gardens it really depends where you live. The back yard we tend to like to entertain and bbq. We have a large deck in the back that overlooks the property and large front yard just for curb appeal. We're more into landscaping and entertaining in our yards. Except front lawn, like I said it's more for curb appeal.
We have a decent size home with a 3 car garage, pretty standard in our area. We also have a long and large driveway. We have a living room downstairs and family room upstairs. Central AC and heat, etc... typical detached single family home in the state we live in.🤷♀️
It's a garbage disposal, the food is ground to a pulp and washes away with the water. You can buy them in the UK.
Garbage disposals are required in some areas because it keeps down the rodents not to mention maggots from getting in the trash.
@@lauriedupont507 I am on a septic, my father was a building contractor and said he would not recommend them for septics. On a septic system, you are responcible for your septic and keeping it in good working order. You pray to God that is stays that way. Replacing any type of septic system is a big expense.
I’m an American, and I can tell you about American homes I’ve lived in. I lived in one for 30 years that was less than 1700 square feet, and I thought it was too small for my family of three. But then we moved south, where prices were lower, and we now have a house that’s 2700 square feet.
We don’t count the attached garage, only heated living space, but we do have an attached 2-car garage, a patio, a glassed in sunroom, five bedrooms, 3-1/2 baths, an open-concept kitchen, with walk-in pantry, his and hers walk-in closets in the master, a large dining room, and the whole thing was 2,750 square feet when we bought it.
However, it must be slightly bigger now, because we glasses-in the lanai to make the sunroom, which is now considered indoor living space.
Also, everyone I know in the South has central air, which I understand you don’t have on your side of the Atlantic? Correct me if, if I’m wrong about that.
I feel a little sorry for you people. If you want a big house that’s affordable, you’ll have to move to the southern half of America, like Texas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, or the Carolinas.
Or Northern Michigan
Here in Ohio its pretty affordable. My house is considered old (not by European standards) at 104. Its a 4 bedroom, 1 bath at 1500 square feet. Not big at all, though it sits with open land around it. We are in a city though and not in a rural neighborhood. So size varies in America depending on where you choose but the thing we all have in common is we like our space, whether that means in square footage or square acreage. lol
Pretty sure the issue with central air is most homes in the UK were built before central air was invented
@@nothanks9503 they can still get it installed OR….just buy anwindow or small wall AC unit.
@@OrondeBranch In some cases you probably can’t due to technical issues with how the house is built in other cases it’s probably a legal issue the UK required permits for a TV I don’t think you can just make substantial alterations to your home plus the building might be considered historic and in such cases in the US even you aren’t allowed to make alterations without approval
As to mailboxes- I am in a suburb of Los Angeles that the post office refers to as a "rural route" in which we have individual post boxes at the curb. And yes a back yard is for recreation, a garden is for growing fruits & vegetables. We have had both 👍
lol. I own a home in the USA. 3 Bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2 Car Garage, Kitchen, large dining room, Great Room, Family Room, Laundry Room, walk in closets, etc. but my square footage is a bit under 2k and 2 levels. My house lot is considered small at around 7k sf total land although it’s bigger than the backyard shown in your video. I cannot imagine having a home & battling parking. I love having a large garage that I can park in but use the other half as my wood-shop although I am building a wood-shop in my backyard and fully enclosed patio. Lots of homes in AZ have underground pools, diving pools, fire pits, etc. and I paid approx $300k for it before the housing market inflated, now it’s worth about $500k.
I'm also in AZ. Growing up in the Midwestern US and in older neighborhoods (pre-1980s) here in Phx, there are mailboxes at the end of the driveway. In newer detactched housing developments, there are communal mailboxes. Lucky for us, ours is directly across the street.
Lots have also shrunk. Cities have decreased setbacks from property lines, and builders are shoehorning more houses in a given area. My total land area is ~7k ft², even the smaller homes I grew up in had probably ¾ again to double the land.
It's 1,900 ft² and we bought it new in 1991 (33 years in the house as of the end of June 2024) for $96,000. It's worth between $500k and $600k now.
I lived outside RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk UK in the 1970s. One winter I rented a roughly 900 square foot, three room, thatched roof, bungalow with a loft bedroom. It cost me 15 pounds per month. My only issue with it was when I would run a space heater to take the frost off the air the walls would sweat and the condensation would pool in a low spot on the floor. I moved into a three room walk up apartment in the NCO club building on RAF Feltwell.
I was raised in a two story US house (each floor was 2,000 square feet) with 4 bedrooms, full bath, 2 half baths, 4 fireplaces, walk in closets, full kitchen, formal dining room, living room/library over a full basement and two car garage on a 6 acre lot. My father built it in 1951 for the family. We had an orchard, large vegetable garden, pasture, yearling beef cows, milk cow, chickens, milk goats and a large cut flower garden with a gazebo that my mother loved sitting in on summer days.
In the states the smallest house I've lived in is a 1500 sq ft one story with an attached two car garage, a full basement on two acres. One acre is where the veg garden and chicken run/coop is. It cost me $62,000 in 2017. We simply have a lot more room in the US.
I lived in Beck Row in the 80's. My husband was stationed at Mildenhall. Our house had no heat. We used Colar heat. 😅
@@smwinstarable I used coal in the fireplace and kerosene in the space heater. I am just a big baby when it comes to wet cold. I preferred the steam heated brick radiators in the RAF Feltwell NCO club. Nice even heat and I didn't have to keep feeding it through the night or worry about carbon monoxide buildup.
I live in the USA,. My house was built in 1930 and it's furnished like the 1950s. The more space and things one has,, the more time and money it costs for maitinence and cleaning.
True! I prefer living in my small ranch . They are building homes that are too big and kind of tacky here .
The reason behind the kitchen (its not IN the living room) but next to it usually, is cultural. It has to do with entertaining family and company and the flow of traffic from the dining room. People who own houses like these (as I do) usually have lot's of family/friends over. I just entertained 25 family at my house the other day and when your feeding that many people it works really well. And I'm in a measly 2380 sq. ft. house.
Also 'trailer' parking is becoming more common on houses from 2000 and newer. I have my 28' trailer, my 2nd truck (used for towing) on the side of the house and I keep my boat in the garage next to my Honda Accord. I still have enough space for 5 cars to park in front of the house. Now washing machines for clothes are either in the garage or in a separate room depending on how the house was designed.
I grew up in a 3 bedroom 2 bath house in NC. The home was in the ballpark of 2,500 sq ft which is considered to be somewhat small in that particular area. We had a detached garage that was a separate building. The garage was almost 2,000 sq ft. We had 1.5 acres which was a pretty typical sized plot and we had our own creek and wild berry orchard.
your parents were rich, thats not normal
@@bigboy-gw8me You kinda ignored the entire point of the comment. Where I grew up this was very normal. The property and home was about 120k in mid 2000's. Im definitely not saying we were poor, but we weren't rich either. A high standard of living is very affordable where I grew up. The same property in California or NY would be totally unaffordable for us. Using your own poverty as an excuse to insult strangers is pretty lame. That woe-is-me mentality isn't going to get you very far
@@nip9898 im not in poverty though that's just not possible the same way where i liv e ig, tf. I guess it was the land and the garage that made me feel odd because I've never seen a 2000 square foot garage and having a lot of land where i live isnt very possible. "wild berry orchard" made you sound like you were balling. Also that hostility in "Using your own poverty as an excuse to insult strangers is pretty lame. That woe-is-me mentality isn't going to get you very far" is so fucking just not needed. I have no woe is me mentality but any 3 bed house is over 300k where i live and people in cali/NY are moving here because the housing is cheaper.
@@nip9898 well i guess i am technically poor since middle class starts at 120k now at current house prices.
@@bigboy-gw8me Do you not understand how housing works? 120k doesn't mean we paid that all at once. You put a down payment on a home for much less than the total price and then you gradually payoff a mortgage over time. Someone making 40k a year can afford the down payment of a 120k home after saving for a few years and that is not very far above the poverty line. I don't know why you want to believe my dad is Scrooge McDuck so bad. You gain nothing by insisting a total stranger is rich
Adam, I enjoyed this as much as your try-not-to-laugh videos, so by all means, do more! The British ex-pats in this clip present a considerably distorted view of American housing, inasmuch as everything they're showing is new and upscale. On the other end of the housing continuum, millions of Americans still live in "cozy" pre-WWII housing with modest-sized rooms, a couple small bathrooms (at most), tiny closets, walled-off kitchens (no pantries!), washers and dryers in a musty basement, and perhaps a cramped, single-stall garage originally built for a 1920s or '30s Ford. Scads of inexpensive, cracker-box housing developments were also built in the inner-ring suburbs in the early years after the war, with a ground floors typically about 1000 sq ft. and an unfinished basement. "Cape Cod" style homes had an extra half story with a one or two low-ceilinged bedrooms upstairs for the kids, or just an attic!
what he said. I live in a 100 year old farm house
Yup. The subdivisions age can pretty much be determined at a glance by the style of houses.
50s, 60, 70, 80 etc...
Generally the average houses got bigger every decade but now there is a trend towards downsizing the new houses in a lot of areas. Economically it makes more sense including for heat and light expenses.
People are starting to look at overall costs these days.
I live in a 2 bedroom apt. I have have rented before with an attached garage. Perfect for winter snow. 👍🏼👍🏼Hardwood is slippery for dogs, but carpeting collects many centimeters of dust, stains, animal hair and other allergens.
A club room is a bonus room for you. One could use it as an podcast studio/office or activity den/salon for your living room. You could put a daybed in there and it could view it as semi-private bedroom for over-flow guests
Many centimeters of dust and hair? Lol perhaps if you dint vacuum for 6 years
They mentioned living in Las Vegas Nevada. Couple things it depends on how old the house is as to the way the inside of your house is. May i suggest hopping on zillow and looking at pre owned and older homes and new build sites. In new build sites( communities) post office now requires the post box has a few locations within the communities depending on size of communities. My best friend had a 3 bed 2 1/2 bath semi detached home in cali. And in order to afford that home she had to buy 1 hour 45 min away from her job. And 1 hour 45 min was on a good day a wreck could mean it would take her 2 1/2 hours to get to work. She sold this house rented a room from a friend 40 mins from her job. And she had a house built in Las Vegas and yes her mailbox was right as you came into her gated community her community was fairly small. This house had 5 bedrooms 3 baths 2 car garage and a smaller back yard. We picked out carpet colors for the stairs and the loft and bedrooms. The baths all had tile as well as kitchen, dining and living room. It costed her 345,000 just sold for 565,000 2 years later. Only lived in for total of a year as she only got to be there 2 weeks every month. I suggest you hop on zillow and type in Las Vegas nevada and just look at all the houses for sale. You can look up other cities and states and check out their houses and prices. You might find you want to sell over there and move here lol.
Some housing communities have central or universal mail boxes, but for the most part, you have mail boxes at the curbs of your house , at the wall next to your door, or directly in the door. I believe you have the options to choose.
Adam the UK styling seems to be about 20-30 years behind the USA. Carpet became a big thing like 70-90's now we are back on solid surface floors as a design statement. Also older homes pre-90's were more compartmentalized but for the past 30ish years we OP for more open floor plans. However, the pendulum is slowly swinging back to closing off the main living space (kitchen, den, & dining)
My house is similar to yours Adam. In fact, many homes in my neighborhood are smaller, though there are some that are 2500 sqft. (those are really large Victorians built in the 1880s by some of our rich residents at the time). My house was built in 1934. Kitchen separate from the rest of the house. Washer and dryer are in the basement (along with my freezer), no pantry, though I have a metal cabinet in the basement I use as a pantry. The house originally had one washroom, with one sink (still one sink in that washroom). In the 1970s a second washroom was installed in the den. Garage is separate. My yard is rather large compared to the UK though.
I live in the US. My home is an older home that was originally a 2 bedroom, 1 bath. We remodeled it about 25 years ago and added to it. it is now have a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, with a 2 car garage. It is around 1600 sq ft. I think a lot of the homes in the US are now built so that they are more handicap accessible as far as larger open floor plans and bathroom and showers being larger as well. I know we took that into consideration with a recent master bathroom update. We remodeled so that our shower is much larger and could have a wheelchair rolled in if needed. We are only in our late 40's, but you never know what could happen. As far as the mail goes, we have a mailbox on our house, which is pretty standard. There are certain housing additions and apartment complexes that have the boxes at the entrance to their additions.
I live in Tucson AZ and my 35 year old home is 1400 sf plus a smallish 450 sf 2 car garage. In Arizona you cannot legally inhabit a structure without heating and cooling; I have a heat pump on the roof for AC and heat. Single level, Three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a laundry room with a sink. You would call it a semi-detached in fact I share a small section of wall with a neighbor.
This is called a townhouse or here in Arizona a "patio home" because the patio in the back is about as big as the house itself. It's common here in Arizona for yards in the back to be separated by a concrete block wall (mine is stucco and painted to match the house). About 200 SF of the patio is covered and the rest is 500 sf pavers to make a larger outdoor area and 250 sf of artificial grass (water is precious) and real mesquite trees which are native to the area.
I have a master bedroom with en suite and walk in closet, a smaller gues bedroom and an even smaller bedroom used as an office (it's about the size of a UK bedroom). Because it's a style of architecure similar to our Mexican heritage here I have clay tile floors ("Saltillo") throughout with rugs. One of the best features is location, I"m in the central area of Tucson so it's not too far to shopping and activities though you would drive to everything because "close" means something else here in America. But there are horse properties and wildlife within half a block.
The mailbox sits on a post by the road. Dishwasher and garbage disposal are standard items but you don't put whole bananas into the disposal, I personally put as little as possible into mine; the water treatment plant separates any solid matter out and sells it as fertilizer and uses the water for golf courses and parks or to recharge the aquifer.
It's currently valued right at $300,000 but until a few years ago it would have been a bit cheaper than yours. There's been a boom in building here so it's possible house prices will drop or at least stay steady in the next few years. My home would be for a couple or small family but I'm 75 and bought the house 25 years ago.
The entry price for a home here is $500,000. Thats for a one bedroom cabin.
It comes down to preference. Our house had wall to wall when we moved in, except the kitchen and bathrooms. We removed carpet from the living and dining room and had hardwood, oak, floors there. Our mailbox was attached to our house, right next to the front door. Our house isn't very big, around 1650 sq ft. but we have 2.5 baths.
They live in a community where people who dont live there or arent guest arent allowed in. This includes the mailman so there is usually either a building or a main mailbox area outside by the gate. This is not common but a feature of these types of neighborhoods. Some houses do have mail slots, others have mailboxes right next to the door, and others have it at the end of the driveway. This is mostly to the discretion of the home owner.
My house is 3600 sqft. 5 bedroom, 3 full bathrooms , 2 living rooms, a big kitchen, a big laundry room, a gym, a 2 car garage ,a loft and a 1.5 acre yard
To be fair, the houses they are showing in the U.S. are million dollar homes (800,000+ pounds). The every day home in the states usually do not have 3-5 bathrooms. The standard is 1 1/2 or 2.
Square footage averages between 1,200 to 2,000 depending on how large the house.
The banana? It got chewed to a pulp by the garbage disposal. Basically, a grinder with knife blades that pulverizes food to a mush so it can go down the drain.
Yes, our mail is usually delivered to a central location, either the post office or some places have a mail box location where each house has one little box for their mail. Only the home owner and the mail delivery has the key. If you have a P.O Box (post office box) you have a tiny little slot with a key that your mail is put in. And yes, we have to go get our mail ourselves. The shared community mail stand is rare, though. Most people have a post office box in the post office. There is still home delivery of mail, but mostly in rural areas.
Price: For a standard 2-3 bedroom home, you will spend $150,00-$200,000 (120,000-160,000 pounds) for a small home. For a larger home with a large yard and double car garage and big rooms, you can expect easily over $300,000 (240,000 pounds)
Well...I would say that's NOT all true. U.S.A is so large and different even within the States. The couple is talking about Las Vegas, which is a lot cheaper for larger homes. Where as, where I live in San Diego, California - a small old home could be almost $1 million and more, where that same exact home could cost maybe on an average $200,000 with a much bigger lot size....and even cheaper with acres of land in more rural areas in the country. So, U.S.A. is not all the same and living in San Diego, California; which is the most expensive city in the country, it's a different world...
I would say the average is more like 2 to 2.5 bathrooms. And the average American home is 2300 sq ft. (That's a statistic) And the homes they're showing aren't necessarily million dollar homes. They're certainly on the nicer end, but in some parts of the country 300-400k will get you a LOT of house and a good size plot of land. And you can definitely get a house with a double garage and good size rooms for *well* under 300k lol.
And the *overwhelming* majority of American homes have a mailbox, either on the curb or attached to the house. Most people don't have to go any further than their yard to collect or send mail.
It really depends where you are.
As more fools move from California.
House prices go up.
But you can find a 2-3br 1-2 bath. For $50k to $100k in areas Californias are not moving to. On 5 to 20 acres.
On average you are correct which I think is what you were going for to give the most accurate depiction of the state of housing in America. What I will say is that pricing does very heavily from State to State. So, lets say there is a house in California with 3,000 sq. ft. Now that will cost you an arm and a leg there; whereas the same house in Georgia would become far more affordable. This is due to the lack of population in Georgia, making the demand for homes in the State fall, and thus driving the price of said home down.
I live In Utah in America. We have had 3 bed 1 bath homes that are 1200 sq ft with 500 sq ft detached garage that cost $75,000. 5 bed 2 bath 1500 square foot home with a 1200 ft detached garage $135,000. We have since upgraded to a 5 bed 4 bath with a 1/3 ache yard. The basement was converted into its own separate 1600 square foot apartment with 2 beds and 2 baths own kitchen laundry, living room and storage. The back yard is amazing. In is huge and 2 huge storage sheds and next to it a gated garden I built. If you want pictures just ask. I pay $1200 a month for the basement and my parents pay $1000 for the rest of the mortgage.
The smallest apartment I have lived in was around 864 sq feet. Most houses are 2-3 bedrooms 2-3 baths. Utahs housing market went insane last 5 years though and now houses are $250,000 and up. My house would sell for $800,000 or more. Other states it could be same house $150,000. All depends on economy and location of area.
Their backyard was actually pretty small. Their comparing a pre-planned housing subdivision to nothing else. In the US, you can literally build your house practically wherever you want. Out in the woods, out in the desert, alongside a lake, canal, bayou, and your "yard" will reflect whatever lifestyle you want. Our house, an average Ranch-style house that was built in the early 1960s (which is 2400 square ft...just measured it on Google Maps) sits on a lot that is roughly an acre of land (500 ft × 85 ft). On it we've got a 36 ft × 48 ft pole barn (1728 sq ft) and in it we have stored 2 campers (travel trailers) and 2 other vehicles. But now, it's just mainly storage. Dad also built a loft into the back half of it which gave us and additional 864 sq ft of storage space. My dad just died a little over a week ago, and so we're gonna have to be doing a lot of cleaning out of the barn over the next wee bit. But we built that barn back in 1985 and was my Dad's pride and joy for the longest time. He had a work bench out there with all kinds of tools and nuts and bolts all over the place. But aside fron the barn, we also have several smaller storage sheds scattered around the property too. Most of the yard is fenced in for an area for my outside dog to run around in. But before we built the fence I like 2011, iirc, we had a vegetable garden in one spot that was about 45 ft × 25 ft (1125 sq ft) at one point back in the 70s and 80s when I was a little kid. We also had about 10 fruit trees (apple, pears) and 3 lines of grapes. Before I got hurt back in '98 I used to have to mow around all this shit. Pain in the ass it was. Lol. And that's another thing...MOWING. Y'all in the UK don't really have to think about mowing your yards that much. Lawn Care is a huge business or industry in the US. From a huge variety of mowers to smaller tools like weedeaters and things like that, but people take pride in a well manicured yard.
Not anymore. The sheer volume of land use restrictions, land rights, zoning, codes, etc have exploded in the past 10 years. That was true a decade ago but now most lands and counties are drowning in so many laws and restrictions, you can barely do anything without paying hundreds of thousands for permits and more before you even break ground. Try putting a tiny home on it and the sheriff is beating on your door.
This is a much newer expensive house they have. I live in indiana, and my house is 2900 sq ft, built in 2003 (.27 acre lot). It has a basement as well as a 3 car garage. I payed 277k before covid. Covid just made everything way worse as far as prices. I can't imagine living in a country that is that close to people. I'd lose my marbles.
11:30- Mailbox- It depends I am from New Jersey, and growing up we had a mailbox attached to our house, and our next-door neighbors had one set in the door, the mailman would pop their mail directly into their house but it would be half chewed because of their dog.
I’m from NJ too. Now living in PA. The mailman comes to our mailbox attached to our home. Also, the houses shown here are not your average home. These r out of most people’s reach.
You can’t just throw a banana down the sink🍌
you definitely are not suppose to just do that lol
insinkerators are just that good, but no rice
Just body parts
And decent size pipes to the sewer
😵💫 I've had to pull a fork from a ruined sink tummy 🤣👍
Carpet qnd wood floors vary. Some like one type and others like a mixture. Entryways are smooth wood or other smooth surface, same foe bathrooms, usually tile, BUT bedrooms and living rooms are more likely to have carpet, whether wall to wall, or area rugs.
0:07 I caught my grandma throwing an orange peel down the garbage disposal and I was like, "are you crazy? you're going to ruin it" but after she scolded me I googled it and apparently it's good for it, it helps to clean it.
I remember when I worked in a kitchen and I had to do dirty side dishes, they also wanted us to periodically put ice down the disposal because it sharpens the blades.
orange gets rid of odor
Ice for the blades, orange and lemons for smell and the acidity helps break down a very small amount of gunk
I've lived all over the USA and always had a mailbox at my house. There are far fewer homes that have a collective place for mail. Most of it is delivered right to the house and in some cases they still use the mail slot like in the UK.
I just bought a 2 bedroom 1 bathroom single level (unfurnished attic), with a 1 car garage and a small yard for $160,000 850 square feet. I live in the Midwest in America, but the housing market is screwed. 10 years ago it wouldve been half that.
Guess it depends on where in the Midwest I bought mine about 5 years ago and its 4 bedroom with an extra one in the basement 2 bath with a two story heated and air condition detached garage for 58000
@ryanlaymon2329 I'm in Des Moines so it's got a lot to do with it.
I grew up in a small home, when my sister came along, she was moved into my bedroom (it was the larger of the 2 bedrooms, besides the master suite, & the bathroom in the master was tiny) the kitchen was like a small hallway. There was no garage. There was a basement, a small part was for dad’s tools, the oil heater & water heater, the laundry area, & the other part for the kids to play in, where the mess can stay since most guests would never go downstairs. They did fix it up downstairs into a gaming area with a pool table, plus a furniture setting around a fireplace.
I live in a 2 bedroom condominium (apartment), about 925 square feet, not counting the patio. I have 2 parking spots but they are not assigned it’s first come first gets
Don’t forget, most people don’t have a palatial home. US homes are larger, but different features vary in different homes. Any place that has all the features cost more than most can afford.
Middle class in the USA is not a regular Joe anymore. There’s a thin line between middle class and poverty here.
Get a better job then.
@@xFatal4 you must be a boomer
@@creaturelost4354 nope. Millennial. Nice try though. It’s not hard to put in the work and get better jobs and buy a house.
The median household income is 75,000 USD in the US as of 2022 , meanwhile the poverty line household income is 25,000 USD as of 2024.. I think there’s a way bigger line bud.
Yes, most new planned communities have several post office stand locations within the community, which allows the postal worker to do their work a lot faster, due to high population of residences...but it's NOT common for most homes. There are homes that still receive mail through the front door slot, but a lot have converted to the mail box post at the end of the property line next to the street, so the postal worker could drive their car, which the driver's seat is on the the right hand, making it easier and faster to put the mail into the mail box, without getting out of the car. We had and have what you guys have, but that was mostly back in the 50's and 60's, where the U.S.A. has just evolved newer ways throughout time and locations.
safer for packages since there locks and reduce cost as well every winter you don't have to worry that your mail box is destroyed
Pantries are good for storing long-term goods like rice, canned food, things in case of emergencies. Some pantries are in the basement so if you’re in a tornado and you’re not too injured you’ll have food, water right there until rescue can be there for you to get you out.
Works for earthquakes too.
this pretty accurate for newer homes and neighborhoods, we have to go two blocks to get our mail out of a shared lock box. its a big metal box with like 50 different mail boxes each with their own lock. its way faster for mail service than having to go door to door as our houses are spaced out more with usually a large front yard to cross, that could also be gated.
I’m an American Texan. It’s true. We have a lot of space for our vehicles. I actually live in apartment that used to be a garage for the house that’s been converted and we still have plenty of room to park.
Probably THE SMALLEST American home on this list of comments. I recently bought a 100 yr old completely redone cottage in a modest lake community in Ohio for $118,500 USD. It was listed as 2 bedroom, 1 bath and about 650+ sq ft HOWEVER the 2 bedrooms are upstairs and have very low ceilings (can only stand up in a small portion of each room and I'm 5 ft 4 inches) and not much usable space - which didn't bother me because I didnt want an upstairs anyway. So 1 bedroom is guest room, 1 is storage and I spend my time downstairs in my 18 ft × 24 ft cottage with additional 6 ft x 6 ft bathroom - so I live in about @ 460 sq ft (so @ 42.74 m2). I LOVE IT!
The lot is @6500 sq ft, with a large gravel driveway, which can fit at least 4 cars. Campfire ring area out back and also lovely trees.
I inherited a 2000+ sq ft condo with 3 baths, 3 beds and 1 car attached garage, but i detest it and will be selling it as soon as I finish moving. Its just me, for the time being, and why the heck would I want to maintain so much space, clean 3 baths etc?!
I'd rather spend more time enjoying myself. My cottage is a 10 minute walk to the beach. At the end of my street, there's water access for putting in a kayak etc. The people are really friendly. And there's that old, cozy charm about old homes - something I also admire about homes in Europe and other countries. ❤
@moreadamcouser I would second this comment above. There are smaller homes in the U.S., you find them much more in small/older towns or older residential areas of cities. I owned a 2bd, 1 ba, 850 sqft house in Iowa - Bungalow style, no pantry, full basement with laundry, modest yard and a detached single car garage. It was plenty of space for me, 3 pets, and the occasional guest. I personally think it would work for just fine for a small family. My (now) husband, however, made fun of it CONSTANTLY. That his apartment (at the time) was larger than my house (it was) and how unreasonably small my house was. Easily, a 3rd of the houses in this small town were small like mine - between 600 and 900 sqft. They are the perfect size for retired couple, young single people, young families. I don't think (in the U.S.) it is enough if you choose to grow your family, simply because there is almost no space to store enough food or other stuff. And in these small towns, that is PARAMOUNT, because there are few to no grocery stores in these towns. You have to go to the next largest town, and that might be 30 minutes to an hour's drive away. In the U.S., we don't have resources within walking distance - you HAVE to drive. So having appropriate storage is a *must*. Especially for big families or families with older children who just... also have stuff. We now have 2 story, 1800sqft + house with 1 acre of 'yard'. We have areas we don't use for sure, but my husband is a 'stuff' person (just really likes to have and keep things) and any extra corner of space we do have is filled with stuff. Not my favorite thing, but definitely something that happens in larger american homes.
@elizabethhines6983 I agree! Smaller homes are their own kind of awesome! Unless you have $ to hire cleaning service or time/don't mind cleaning so many bathrooms etc, IMHO it just doesn't make sense to have such a large home, especially for singles, elderly etc. But, everyone is free to make their own choices on living arrangements. People who like to hold parties and entertain more probably do need the space.
I just wanted to post because it seems like most on the comments list reinforced the American stereotype that everyone has enormous homes here.
Sounds like your home was a cutie! Bigger isn't always better. Lol
I don't have a basement - it really is just @ 460 sq ft on the first level that I do my living in. The extra 200+ sq ft upstairs is nice for storage, though. I really wish to have a garage and may add one eventually. The amusing part is it'd probably have more sq ft than my living space! Lol.
Well yeah , living near the ocean always is considered better than any big house.
118k for a house is a steal. That’s 1991 prices.
@@dukedubthey’re all over the Midwest if you aren’t too close to an urban area.
British people commonly call their back area a 'garden' because before and during the world wars, they grew food in those areas as it was common for families to grow their veggies instead of buying most of them, and would buy meats from the store and the few veggies they didn't or couldn't grow. this naming just stuck and it's been that way since for British people. In the U.S. on the other hand, we've rarely grown our own foods, unless you live on an actual farm (small or otherwise) and thus it has nearly only been 'yards'.
garden tends to be more of a area of planting flowers or food kind of like the boat and ship talk as well the front yard and back yard. otherwise it would be front yard and garden instead of back yard.
or front garden and back garden? 😅
A lot of Americans grow tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, cucumbers and herbs in their backyards There are clever self-watering pots that will grow quite a lot of veggies or salad greens on a patio or balacony.
I've always lived in town and we've always had some kind of garden going in the backyard. Veggies, Rhubarb, Raspberries, Fruit trees etc.
The garages are common but not included with every home and there are two types: detached and attached. My home currently has a two car detached that sits aside from the home. Our yard space is very large which is relatively common unless you live in much larger cities and even then, there are still a decent amount of homes with yard space that are multipurpose including gardening. The communal mailbox is not common unless you live in a trailer park, apartment, or gated communities that normally operate with an HOA. Not all homes and appartments are hard floor only. There are many here that have hard floors only in the kitchen, dining, and bathrooms. With love from a friend in Michigan. Really enjoy the videos.