I am American and when visiting the UK my wife and I met an elderly cousin. I remarked how nice her "yard" was. She corrected me, a little upset too, by telling that she had a "garden" and that a "yard" was like a junkyard. We call the grassy area around a home a yard or the lawn. A garden refers to areas of specific plantings - a flower garden, a vegetable garden, a rock garden etc.
Have you done a episode about British relationships? What is dating/living together/marriage/divorce like there? British terms of endearment? When you marry someone, are you marrying the family too?
I love this video! I live in America I can tell we have very similar housing styles here too especially in larger cities. I love though how you call your green outdoor area a garden. In America a garden is a patch of our land we use to grow produce or flowers we don’t call the entire area the garden. We call that a yard. For example I have a huge garden in my back yard! Lol sooo neat to see the differences!! Love watching you two!!!
People who want to grow things they can get an allotment (a piece of land they can rent from the council to grow vegetables) somewhere in their city or town, allotments came about during the Dig For Victory campaign during WW2 where empty land was used to grow vegetables and are still in use today though there has been a in decline and some have since been repurposed for other use or sold off for housing.
Im sure someone has done this but im bored and this is a good distraction from work: American terms SINGLE FAMILY HOME = detached house DUPLEX= two homes sharing a single wall. TOWNHOME = terraced homnes APARTMENT = usually any building that has multiple units for rent. We would call that an apartment. CONDO = This is a bit trickier as it really is a definition of ownership (though some people use to mean apartment). Where as an apartment is almost always a rental, a condo is by its nature owned as a unit separate from the other units in the same building. The person may rent it out but its still considered i single owned unit. You are also then responsible for your fractional cost of common repairs. For example if the condo building has 10 floors and 4 units per floor you have essentially 1/40th of the ownership obligation to replacing the roof. This is a very long explanation but I worked in the mortgage industry for many years and i cant help myself FLAT = we have stolen your word and try to pass ourselves off as worldly and well travel by saying flat (and lift.. do you even say that anymore?) GOVERNMENT HOUSING (ALSO SUBSIDIZED HOUSING, AND SECTION 8(A REFERENCE TO TAX CODE) = Council housing CO-OP = Similar but slightly different than a condo. I usually see that in NYC and not really other places but it may occur PENTHOUSE = similar to your maisonette. Though the stairs within the unit is not the defining aspect. The penthouse is the top floor. Though nobody calls a 4th floor unit in a 4 story building the penthouse. Its typically reserved for a tall building and implies luxury and would typically have the best view of its surroundings. GARDEN APARTMENT = Maybe this is a Chicago thing. Its the only place i've heard it. But here we have bottom units that are partially below ground level. So your windows are typically right at ground level from the outside but they are 4 feet or more up your wall from the inside looking out. You look out right into the grass and people walking by on the sidewalk look down into your apartment. I think we call it garden apartment because it sounds better than basement. MOBILE HOME(TRAILER) = I'm from the American south and this is quite common. Its a house that was originally on wheels (not like a caravan.. your term i believe). these are far more common in rural areas and are typically far less expensive than a similar sized home of normal construction.
DOUBLE WIDE = originally a mobile home attached to another mobile home, now more often a factory built home that is twice the width of a trailer home. Another form of more affordable housing for rural areas, where the land may be affordable, but construction can be cost prohibitive.
I enjoy watching "ESCAPE TO THE COUNTRY" now and then and Im amazed at how expensive even the smallest houses are going for. Converted stables seem to be fairly popular. Ive also noticed that some of the houses on the registry have very low ceilings as well as rafters I couldn't stand up to my full height of 6feet 2inches without ducking. Over all though I've seen lots of houses and flats I wouldn't mind living in but couldn't afford.
In British houses there are usually fitted carpets everywhere (even on the stairs) and "heavy" curtains which is lovely during the winter (if everything is clean) but horrible during the summer because it makes everything feel so hot and warm.
As well as blinds ,I have heavy velvet curtains for the winter & lightweight linen for the summer. It's fairly common. The same as having winter throws & cushions. Lighter weight for the summer, fur & velvets in winter
In the US we have houses, duplexes, townhouses (what you call terraced homes). Apartments can be either high rise or just ground floor...sometimes 2 or 3 story buildings...but each apt. Is only one floor.
A garden is what you plant flowers or vegetables in here in America. We call them yards. I live in a 2 story house with the bedrooms upstairs and the living area downstairs. There is a complete bathroom upstairs and a complete bathroom downstairs.
In the US we call a garden that has vegetables growing or a flower garden. Otherwise we call it a yard. If there is a space is outside work With some kind of stone floor then it might be called a patio. Or if it has a wooden structure for a barbecue and chairs it might be called a deck.
I’m (American and) obsessed with your channel. This video reminds me of a story a friend of mine told me. She was born and raised in Glasgow (but has now lived in the US for many years) and mentioned that when one is selling their home it is customary to invite the prospective buyer over for tea, get to know one another, and talk about the house. She found it odd in the US that when one is selling their house here, they remove all personal items such as family pictures, and leave the property when it is being viewed as if to make it look like no one even lives there. I’ve always found this comparison she made so interesting. I know you’re English and not Scottish, but curious if this is a normal UK thing. Or maybe this was common many years ago? Would love to know! Not sure if this would make good content for a future video, but just came to mind as I was watching this. Keep up the great work... love you guys!
Lia the flat and masonette idea (sp?) exists here in the US as well. Older homes (usually built before 1920)(funny that I consider that old...😅) are split into one floor renovated out as separate dwellings with separate entrances. Usually a common laundry facility is located im the basement. I lived in one in Kansas City, MO.
In Italy, a terraced house is una villa a schiera. A semidetached home is usually called terra a cielo, or earth to sky. We don’t distinguish between kinds of apartments, other than to mention if one is su due piani, etc., or on two floors, or even three floors. Most historic centers are attached homes, even grand palazzi of the medieval or renaissance eras. I live in a terra a cielo, which is a third of a very big villa.
The council flat that you swooped in as an example happens to be the most expensive one yet sold on - a snip at London house prices going at £1 million for the South Ken address (if you look carefully there's a Stella McCartney below). The other ones are in the Oxo Tower, the exclusive development on the Thames, whose penthouses went to needy locals when it was converted in the 90s. One of the most controversial recipients of a council flat (yes, in the Oxo) was a new family - a DJ married to an out of work single mum with multiple kids, also known as Jade Jagger, worth £200 million and daughter of Mick. They pay £120 a week to live there.
I found your channel because of the royal wedding and now I'm addicted. I've been watching your videos since yestarday! About this topic, I'm from Ecuador and I went to London in 2014. In Ecuador we don't have terrace houses but we do have semi detatched ones. I remember though that when I went to London I absolutely loved the terraces. So I'm surprised you associate them with working class, since most of them were gorgeous and looked expensive. So I guess it's just that terrace houses in London are fancy and in other places of the UK aren't. Is it like that? Also, it's funny because it was my understanding that you only used the word flat for appartments and now I know you have both terms. Interesting.
Terraced houses are “ row houses” in the U.S the terraced houses in London were not fully for workers but also for the growing middle class of the 1880’s 1890’s- (Victorianism and Victorian history major )a semi- detached is also called a duplex home. A council house in the us is called a “ housing project” or sometimes called a “ hud” house ( which is abbreviated from “ housing and urban development “ home. ( which are rented at a reduced cost for those in need)-often at 30% of ones income for elderly or disabled or families in need. I have also heard detached homes be called “ stand-alone homes” A garden apt in the u.s is often just a fancy name for a 3 level apt building and means the apt is on the basement floor.
In America we have: *Houses *Condos/duplex which are side by side houses connected by a wall. * Apartments * Studio/ flat apartments which are small one bedroom places * Penthouse which is the whole top floor of an apartment/ hotel * Government housing is reduced or free depending on the situation
Terraced houses are often called “brownstones” in the US. I’m guessing that the brick and stone construction influenced the names. We have government subsidized housing of whole neighborhoods called “projects” and “section 8” housing that can be any rental home if the landlord agrees and the government approves the home. Every other sort of housing is basically the same.
Hi, guys! I love British houses (I 've lived in the UK, in two different terraced houses). We do have terraced houses in Spain as well, although the flats or apartments are the most common kind of housing here, specially for working class. Thank you so much for the video😘
Here in the US we have a variety of term to refer to different types of housing. Here is a list of the common terms that I recall. Sorry but RUclips doesn't retain paragraph formatting or blank lines.. BUNGALOW: Any simple single story house that does not have a basement. FARMHOUSEe: The main house that resides on a farm. A-FRAME HOUSE: A usually rather small house with a very steep roof that ends quite close to the ground. MANSION: A usually quite large and luxurious house detached house. RANCH: A single story farm house without a basement. DUPLEX House: Commonly refers to two residences separated by a single wall. CONDOMINIUM "CONDO": It is basically an apartment that one buys and owns. There are usually a variety of shared facilities such as gyms, play areas, recreation areas, etc. STUDIO or EFFICIENCY: A apartment which consists of a single room that doubles as a living/sitting, kitchenette, and bathroom. TOWNHOUSE: Same as what is referred to in the UK as a Terraced House. Here in the US a Terrace usually refers to level platform next to building. Also referred to as a patio or veranda.
Us equivalents are: House, duplex, townhome/townhouse, apartment (one floor or multiple), public housing. BTW, a condominium is a form of private ownership, and a condo could actually be any of those listed except public housing.
Allow me to explain the different KINDS of "single-family homes" in the US. RANCHER - a single-story, usually 3BD/1BA home with an attached garage. First built in the 50's and 60's. (See "Lyon Estates" in Back to the Future) SPLIT-LEVEL - a two-story home with an attached garage where when you walk in the door, you are faced with two staircases - one going up to the main living area, the other going down to a basement/extra apartment. Usually built in 70's/80's. BUNGALOW - a 1-1/2 story house with one dormer window for an upstairs bedroom built into the roof. About the same age as Crackerbox. For example, all the neighborhood houses in the movie "Halloween" are bungalows. CAPE COD - like a bungalow but longer, with 2 or more dormer windows facing out the same direction in the roof. CRACKERBOX - a single-story house that appears very small and square (boxy) on the outside (but inside is actually quite roomy!) These were built in haste almost 100 years ago to accommodate the working families of the Industrial Revolution. Usually found in the oldest parts of big cities. The neat thing about crackerboxes is that you can walk the entire house in a circle from room to room via an open doorway in every inside wall. VICTORIAN - very old and rare - can be 100-200 years old. Usually very tall, 2-3 stories, multiple rooms, with lots of decorative ironwork. A-FRAME - A single-story cabin with a loft that has a steeply-sloping roof that reaches the ground (shaped like an "A"). GAMBREL - a 2-story barn-shaped cabin. I'm sure there are more, but these were just off the top of my head!
In the U.S, a garden is a piece of land of your property, where you plant vegetables and/or fruit. To what you refer to as a garden, we call it the "back yard".
In Washington DC and NYC (for instance) we have another type of owned-apartment like condos, called CO-OPS. The difference is the form of ownership. Co-ops are like owning stock in a building. You own a share of the building. Lenders in most places don't like co-ops because the buyer doesn't get a mortgage on real property. Plus, the existing co-op owners have a board that has to approved all new purchasers. We also have LOFTS.. commercial buildings that are re-purposed as apartments or condos. Just to make things more confusing, if you have an apartment/condo with an upper floor, that upper floor is often called a loft.
"It's okay you still look pretty" that bit melted my heart! Hahah Very interesting video by the way, the terrace houses are definitely a british thing to me as well!
Here appartments are all one level and usually in high rise buildings or one on top of the other in a structure similar to a detached home but with two doors. One leads to one appartment and the other to the other appartment. In big cities you can get large fancy appartments called penthouses but usually appartments are smaller. Some are section 8 or HUD which means that you pay 30% of your income and the state pays the rest. This may also be the case for mobile homes which are detached small house generally shaped like semi truck trailers and are made of metal. There will often be many of these in an area that is called a trailer park. Note: moblie homes aren't nessicarily moblie. Then we have manufactured homes which are basically nicer, more upscale, larger mobile homes but may be made out of wood and mostly indistinguishable from detached houses unless looked at closely. There are also townhomes and row houses. A town home is two houses attached at one side and row houses are many of these put together, but maybe multiple identical detached homes as well. We don't really have flats but townhomes can be one or two levels.
My hubby being British was blown away the first time he visited my parents. Of course like England and Republic of Ireland very few have a large garden, so when he saw that my family home in Tennessee was on 12 acres he was totally shocked and I was laughing so hard at his reaction. My mum couldn't understand why (they have never traveled outside the U.S. it was hilarious.
In Germany apartment blocks owned by building cooperatives are very common. That's means you are paying rent but you have to buy a stake of the cooperative as well.
Some US vocab to add, since yall are awesome at giving us Americans vocab from the Uk, Semi attached here are called "Duplex" and the Terrist? Houses are called "Town houses/ town homes" Flats here I believe are called Apartments. and we call them apartments even if there is more than two floors. Apartments are mostly stairs outside under a commonly shared shelter, and there will be two to four apartments on each side. In bigger cities though, apartments are in block form all inside a building.
Here in the United States a detached house is called a single home, s semi-detached house is called a half double, terraced houses are called row homes, and of course a flat is called an apartment. You were talking about the homes the government pays for less fortunate people, we call them projects. I’m in the state of Pennsylvania and these are the housing “terms” I grew up with! Love your videos!
Attached houses are call either Row houses or town homes semi detached would be called a deuplex, detattched houses are called single family homes. I personally would refer to the massonette as a penthouse
Many council rented (project/public) houses that people have lived in are available to purchase once you've lived and paid rent for a set amount of years... e.g. If you live in a house, you could get a discount of between 35% and 70% of its value, up to a maximum of £77,000 (or £102,700 in London), whichever is lower. Discounts start at 35% for 3 years’ tenancy. Add 1% for each extra year of tenancy beyond 5 years (so 10 years tenancy = 40% discount, 20 years = 50%). Flat If you live in a flat, you could get a discount of between 50% and 70% of its value, up to a maximum of £77,000 (or £102,700 in London), whichever is lower. Discounts start at 50% for 3 years’ tenancy. Add 2% for each extra year of tenancy beyond 5 years (so 10 years tenancy = 60% discount, 15 years = 70%).
In the United States (Arkansas) there are lots of mobile homes. There are a few small country towns that I can think of where over half of the homes are mobile homes. Other than that most everything is detached houses except for in more populated areas. In the country a lot of houses are miles in between each other. Plus rent prices are decreasing because everyone is leaving for the cities.
In America, we call detached houses "stand alones", semi detached "half houses" or "townhouses" and terraced houses are called "row homes". Maybe that's where I am in Pennsylvania, but this is usually slang terms
The U.S. has row houses, nice row houses are called Townhouse. Brownstones a type of Townhouse . single and duplex. Apartments and condos. Tailers and government projects.
In the United States we have Detached homes, Semi-Detached homes, Apartment building, Apartment Complex, the Projects, Mansions/Manors, Condominium, Penthouses, Townhouses, Mobilehomes, & Cabins.
Terraced houses would be the equivalent of townhouses in Canada. If one owns an apartment, those are called condominiums, if they rent them, they are called apartments. The rest is exactly the same as you guys have said: detached, semi-detached hoses.
It's interesting that in the US, if you have a "garden", you have a plot of land where you are growing vegetables. What you call a garden, we refer to as a yard
One place I think you two would be startled by is Chicago which has amazing architectural diversity in its Home styles of all types. Of course, being an American Midwest City there is nothing built before the mid 19th century and much of what was, was destroyed in the Chicago fire of 1871. However, that disaster was a boon to local architecture bringing architects and home builders from across the country here from across the nation and starting a tradition of urban planning and creative design that continues until today. One thing that my friends from across the country are often startled by is how different the homes are on each block. Unlike the rows of terraced attached houses, we have detached houses of a wide variety of styles, designs, materials and ages on the same block. My block has everything from 1880 Victorian frame houses to 1920 Dutch colonial, to 1920’s Chicago Bungalows, to the list just goes on and on. My neighborhood includes houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Burleigh Griffith, and many other prominent local architects building in a variety of styles from two to three bedroom homes to 17-25 room mansions. Just fascinating. Chicago also has 30 miles of unobstructed lakeshore that the gives the public access to Lake Michigan with beaches, parks, golf courses, picnic areas, concert areas, chess pavilions, skating facilities, a zoo and many other wonderful things. So come visit!
What I don't understand is why they don't just do detached houses in the West that are really close together like they do in Japan, just a few feet apart. That way it cuts down on the noise, but doesn't take much space.
Where I am, semi detached houses are very rare, and if there are any, they are generally smaller. Almost all of our houses are detached. Do you guys have trailer parks in Britain? We have some...
A friend of mine lives in Chilworth in Southampton The houses there are not numbered, they are named. Being from the US, I found that to be a bit different.
In Canada, we have detached houses, semi-detached, row houses (your terrace houses), duplexes (one house divided into two flats or as we call it apartments), triplexes (one house divided into 3 apartments). I don't think we have name for an apartment that has two floors. I think we just call it a two story apartment. We have co-op (short for co-operative) houses that are rented to people based on their income but they are not government owned. We have 'low income' housing also known as 'subsidized housing' or 'government housing' which is rented to low income people or people on government assistance. Thank you for explaining British housing. I have a number of friends in the UK and they each talk about their housing, like council flats. I didn't want to be rude by asking them if that was like our government assistance/welfare housing. My UK friends have also told me that they can't move to a different house unless someone is willing to change with them. I didn't really understand this. One of my friends moved to a different town about a year ago. They didn't like it and wanted to move back to their old town but they had to wait until someone was willing to trade houses with them. Is that because there aren't enough houses available? I have another friend who moved across the street from her house and is selling her old house. I guess I just found it all a bit confusing.
Thanks for this video. About two months ago I talked to one British friends about it and was stunned that I have not had this conversation before. It is sooo interesting!!! By the way, in the Republic of Moldova we have individual houses and blocks of flats/apartments. We do not have terraced houses, which to me look very coll but might as well be unconformable. My argument is though that terraced houses could be a great idea for big cities where space is a problem. It also could have been a solution for the Moldovan society because all of our individual houses look waaaay too different and are built sometimes just wrong...and it is not a nice diversity to witness on a daily basis.
Those Terraced houses would be called Row Houses in Cities like Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston or New York. Not so much here in Minneapolis as Duplexes are more common.
Dear Joel & Lia, In term of concept, it is quite same between UK and Malaysia. detached house = bungalow, semi-detached house = semi-D, terrace, flat, apartment etc. ; )
And is it correct that by garden in the UK, it's what us Americans call a yard? We have a yard or a lawn with grass. What we call a garden is tilled dirt where we plant vegetables & flowers.
I was shocked how small the homes are in the UK. I live in a 5 bedroom 5 bath house here in Texas. But I keep remembering the UK is nearly the size of my state!
I've noticed the lower middle to middle class commonly live in row homes in the midlands n other places as well like whales. Their yards n back gardens have clothesline and are both walled off lol! Irish homes look old and dreary on the outside but quite modern and posh on the inside. Irish make ave of 70 K a year.
In the US, a single house is called a "single-family home". A "semi-attached" is called a Duplex; 3 attached is a Triplex, then a Fourplex. Less common are Fiveplexes and Sixplexes. These are not in a row (like New York). A Fourplex would be two-down stairs and two upstairs - on top. More than that would probably be an apartment building or condo(minium). Apartments can be worth millions, but I believe in most areas, apartments are lower income. And then we have mobile home / trailer parks which are frowned upon. Some states have outlawed creating new mobile home parks..
Growing up in California we lived in the suburbs in a tract house. It's a neighborhood where they have houses that pretty much look the same. Here in Florida the houses are all different in the same neighborhood. Many houses have a carport instead of a garage. Some housing areas have HOA Home Owners Association were you pay a fee every month. It gives homeowners access to pools, some have gyms and community activities. It also regulates the rules and make sure people follow them. I personally dislike HOA. i don't like someone telling me I can't park my work vehicle in the driveway.
We have all of the same types of housing, we just call them something different... Detached House: Single-Family Home, a House with property around it. When the property is 3+ acres these are usually called Estate Homes, but Generally, they are between 1/3 acre and 1 acre. This is probably the most common type of Home in the U.S. Semi-Detached: a Duplex, Two Homes attached by a common wall with property around them. We even have quad-plex (or 4-plex), where four, individual homes are attached by common walls but have property around them, they also called patio homes if there is a yard and a small garden area. When there are two levels (or eight homes 4 bottom & 4 top) they are usually called condos or townhomes, but apartment complexes are also built this way and you cannot buy them, only rent from a private management company. Terrace Homes: These we call Brownstones or Townhomes depending on the way the Ownership of the commons are established and whether they are on-street (built right to the side of a city street) or complexes (an entire neighborhood, with it's own streets and conveniences, built exclusively of similar housing type and style by the same builder). Mason-Terrace Homes: Townhouse Condos or Apartment Townhouses depending upon if they are individually owned and managed, Individually owned but managed by the group of Owners, or Owned in whole by an investment firm or group and managed by a private company separate from the ownership and only available for people to rent, not purchase. Block-Towers: High-Rises either Apartments or Condos...again depending upon the Ownership setup mentioned above. In addition to these, we have production farms and ranches, you would probably call estates, that are self-supporting because of the industry conducted within the property boundaries. These are generally more rural and may or may not provide additional housing for workers within the property boundary and probably would not provide amenities like shops, etc like the Estate townships in the UK have done for ages (No Daughton Abby in the US). On the other end of the spectrum, we have trailer courts (also called mobile home courts), where the land is Owned by one person (or group of persons) and they provide the infrastructure (roads, drainage, underground water piping, etc.) for those who own mobile (manufactured or recreational) homes to be placed for a monthly rental cost. Sometimes these courts are set-up for the Owner of the home to buy the parcel of land they place their home on and then pay fees to the land developer for the infrastructure provided.
council flat UK = public housing US (aka low income housing)detached and semidetached are same here but is usually realtor lingo. regular folks say single family home or house for freestanding house. we might say townhouse or condo for attached housing. But condos tend to relate to ownership--it is usually referring to a single floor apartment space in a tall tower or block. townhouse is usually 2 floors or more and attached in a pair or a row (row houses are common in Philly and DC areas). If you only rented any of these we'd say apartment. If you rent a house, you'd say "my house" rather than my apartment. unless the house were subdivided into smaller individual units inside. I'm getting the feeling that apartment (US) and flat (UK) can be used comparatively when talking about renters who live in small individual units. even those living in public housing here would still call it "their apartment". Assuming probably the more specific names would be used when referring to ownership or real estate terms. Thanks for explaining this complicated topic.
I own a condo that has a little garden patch in the back as well as the front that I'm responsible for maintaining. This is very rare for a condo (it's a townhouse style). I'm terrible at it. The whole reason I bought a condo was so I didn't have to deal with keeping up a yard. Ir turns out that I can't even keep up with these little plots. When I plant something I expect it to just thrive on its own...I mean isn't that what plants do in the wild?
I never really realised just how different the North and South is. In the North we most likely have gardens, not all very big mind you, but my mum and dad have a front and back garden.
I've reached the top of the housing assistance list 6 weeks ago. Expires in 2 weeks and nothing is available who takes th voucher. For 1 bedroom 700 apartment id only pay 114 dollars.
Had to replay it a few times, I thought they said "terrorist houses" !! Interesting to note: Condominiums don't exist outside the US.......and even in the US they only appeared around the 1960's. I was looking to see if the UK has anything similar, but I don't think they do.
Semidetached in Texas is a duplex. Tenement housing is what we call council housing. Detached housing is just housing to us. Lol I have always wanted this explained! Thanks guys!
We have the same but just called different names. I live in Florida where most homes are detached and hearing Joel say that in Florida they are all attached made me curious where in Florida you went. I’ve lived in South Florida and Central Florida and have been to North Florida and it’s mostly detached houses unless it’s in city and not too many high rise because we are on sand. So I’m really curious where Joel went in Florida
UK housing is very expensive compared to the States, Canada, and the continent. I is because land is at a premium, and the feudal system going back to centuries.
In Spain we dont have much of those "in a row houses" (dont remember the name), as you said its a very victorian style, here the most common way to live is in a flat or a semiattached house.
Wow! A house that is connected to another! I live in a single story apartment. One person on the left and 2 on the right. The noise is maddening. I can imagine what an apt bldg would be like. :(
In my country(Kazakhstan) we've got only flats/apartments and detached houses... I'm now studying in the UK and it was shocking to see terraced houses for the first time :) My mom was rather more surprised by semi-detached houses...
That's so interesting!! To us it's just normal, but that's why we made this video, because we realised it might not be the same everywhere else in the world!
Semi detached we call a duplex Terrace we call a row home and for for military reasons so all all our spillers could bunked down after a long hard shift Love you two Your videos are awesome 👏👍xxx
I am American and when visiting the UK my wife and I met an elderly cousin. I remarked how nice her "yard" was. She corrected me, a little upset too, by telling that she had a "garden" and that a "yard" was like a junkyard. We call the grassy area around a home a yard or the lawn. A garden refers to areas of specific plantings - a flower garden, a vegetable garden, a rock garden etc.
Next you should talk about English names for clothing items that non-Brits may not know. E.g. Jumper, knickers, etc.
That's a good idea! Will add it to our list! Thanks for watching!
What is a jumper? First time I ever heard that was in the final Harry Potter movie.
@@chrissede2270 A jumper is what we'd call a pullover sweater.
A purse is small. A handbag is LARGE.
Have you done a episode about British relationships? What is dating/living together/marriage/divorce like there? British terms of endearment? When you marry someone, are you marrying the family too?
Donna good question
Council flats here are called The Projects or Public housing
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I love this video! I live in America I can tell we have very similar housing styles here too especially in larger cities. I love though how you call your green outdoor area a garden. In America a garden is a patch of our land we use to grow produce or flowers we don’t call the entire area the garden. We call that a yard. For example I have a huge garden in my back yard! Lol sooo neat to see the differences!! Love watching you two!!!
People who want to grow things they can get an allotment (a piece of land they can rent from the council to grow vegetables) somewhere in their city or town, allotments came about during the Dig For Victory campaign during WW2 where empty land was used to grow vegetables and are still in use today though there has been a in decline and some have since been repurposed for other use or sold off for housing.
Such comprehensive break downs like this one are helpful indeed, especially for people learning english and about UK like myself, thank yous ☺️
Thank you Klim! Glad you found it helpful!
Im sure someone has done this but im bored and this is a good distraction from work:
American terms
SINGLE FAMILY HOME = detached house
DUPLEX= two homes sharing a single wall.
TOWNHOME = terraced homnes
APARTMENT = usually any building that has multiple units for rent. We would call that an apartment.
CONDO = This is a bit trickier as it really is a definition of ownership (though some people use to mean apartment). Where as an apartment is almost always a rental, a condo is by its nature owned as a unit separate from the other units in the same building. The person may rent it out but its still considered i single owned unit. You are also then responsible for your fractional cost of common repairs. For example if the condo building has 10 floors and 4 units per floor you have essentially 1/40th of the ownership obligation to replacing the roof. This is a very long explanation but I worked in the mortgage industry for many years and i cant help myself
FLAT = we have stolen your word and try to pass ourselves off as worldly and well travel by saying flat (and lift.. do you even say that anymore?)
GOVERNMENT HOUSING (ALSO SUBSIDIZED HOUSING, AND SECTION 8(A REFERENCE TO TAX CODE) = Council housing
CO-OP = Similar but slightly different than a condo. I usually see that in NYC and not really other places but it may occur
PENTHOUSE = similar to your maisonette. Though the stairs within the unit is not the defining aspect. The penthouse is the top floor. Though nobody calls a 4th floor unit in a 4 story building the penthouse. Its typically reserved for a tall building and implies luxury and would typically have the best view of its surroundings.
GARDEN APARTMENT = Maybe this is a Chicago thing. Its the only place i've heard it. But here we have bottom units that are partially below ground level. So your windows are typically right at ground level from the outside but they are 4 feet or more up your wall from the inside looking out. You look out right into the grass and people walking by on the sidewalk look down into your apartment. I think we call it garden apartment because it sounds better than basement.
MOBILE HOME(TRAILER) = I'm from the American south and this is quite common. Its a house that was originally on wheels (not like a caravan.. your term i believe). these are far more common in rural areas and are typically far less expensive than a similar sized home of normal construction.
DOUBLE WIDE = originally a mobile home attached to another mobile home, now more often a factory built home that is twice the width of a trailer home. Another form of more affordable housing for rural areas, where the land may be affordable, but construction can be cost prohibitive.
Mike Smithgall sounds right to me. From Florida now Kansas.
I enjoy watching "ESCAPE TO THE COUNTRY" now and then and Im amazed at how expensive even the smallest houses are going for. Converted stables seem to be fairly popular. Ive also noticed that some of the houses on the registry have very low ceilings as well as rafters I couldn't stand up to my full height of 6feet 2inches without ducking. Over all though I've seen lots of houses and flats I wouldn't mind living in but couldn't afford.
In British houses there are usually fitted carpets everywhere (even on the stairs) and "heavy" curtains which is lovely during the winter (if everything is clean) but horrible during the summer because it makes everything feel so hot and warm.
As well as blinds ,I have heavy velvet curtains for the winter & lightweight linen for the summer. It's fairly common. The same as having winter throws & cushions. Lighter weight for the summer, fur & velvets in winter
In the US a garden is called a yard. A garden is either a lot of flowers planted or vegetables planted in a specified area, often as part of the yard
In the US we have houses, duplexes, townhouses (what you call terraced homes). Apartments can be either high rise or just ground floor...sometimes 2 or 3 story buildings...but each apt. Is only one floor.
Council houses are not owned by the government though but by local government which is a different idea.
Also by housing associations
A garden is what you plant flowers or vegetables in here in America. We call them yards. I live in a 2 story house with the bedrooms upstairs and the living area downstairs. There is a complete bathroom upstairs and a complete bathroom downstairs.
In the US we call a garden that has vegetables growing or a flower garden. Otherwise we call it a yard. If there is a space is outside work
With some kind of stone floor then it might be called a patio. Or if it has a wooden structure for a barbecue and chairs it might be called a deck.
I’m (American and) obsessed with your channel. This video reminds me of a story a friend of mine told me. She was born and raised in Glasgow (but has now lived in the US for many years) and mentioned that when one is selling their home it is customary to invite the prospective buyer over for tea, get to know one another, and talk about the house. She found it odd in the US that when one is selling their house here, they remove all personal items such as family pictures, and leave the property when it is being viewed as if to make it look like no one even lives there. I’ve always found this comparison she made so interesting. I know you’re English and not Scottish, but curious if this is a normal UK thing. Or maybe this was common many years ago? Would love to know! Not sure if this would make good content for a future video, but just came to mind as I was watching this.
Keep up the great work... love you guys!
Lia the flat and masonette idea (sp?) exists here in the US as well. Older homes (usually built before 1920)(funny that I consider that old...😅) are split into one floor renovated out as separate dwellings with separate entrances. Usually a common laundry facility is located im the basement. I lived in one in Kansas City, MO.
In Italy, a terraced house is una villa a schiera. A semidetached home is usually called terra a cielo, or earth to sky. We don’t distinguish between kinds of apartments, other than to mention if one is su due piani, etc., or on two floors, or even three floors. Most historic centers are attached homes, even grand palazzi of the medieval or renaissance eras. I live in a terra a cielo, which is a third of a very big villa.
The council flat that you swooped in as an example happens to be the most expensive one yet sold on - a snip at London house prices going at £1 million for the South Ken address (if you look carefully there's a Stella McCartney below). The other ones are in the Oxo Tower, the exclusive development on the Thames, whose penthouses went to needy locals when it was converted in the 90s. One of the most controversial recipients of a council flat (yes, in the Oxo) was a new family - a DJ married to an out of work single mum with multiple kids, also known as Jade Jagger, worth £200 million and daughter of Mick. They pay £120 a week to live there.
I just want you to know how happy I am every time I watch your videos. In fact I am obsessively in love with you guys.
Aw thank you Charlene, so glad you enjoy our videos - that's so nice!
I found your channel because of the royal wedding and now I'm addicted. I've been watching your videos since yestarday! About this topic, I'm from Ecuador and I went to London in 2014. In Ecuador we don't have terrace houses but we do have semi detatched ones. I remember though that when I went to London I absolutely loved the terraces. So I'm surprised you associate them with working class, since most of them were gorgeous and looked expensive. So I guess it's just that terrace houses in London are fancy and in other places of the UK aren't. Is it like that? Also, it's funny because it was my understanding that you only used the word flat for appartments and now I know you have both terms. Interesting.
Terraced houses are “ row houses” in the U.S the terraced houses in London were not fully for workers but also for the growing middle class of the 1880’s 1890’s- (Victorianism and Victorian history major )a semi- detached is also called a duplex home. A council house in the us is called a “ housing project” or sometimes called a “ hud” house ( which is abbreviated from “ housing and urban development “ home. ( which are rented at a reduced cost for those in need)-often at 30% of ones income for elderly or disabled or families in need. I have also heard detached homes be called “ stand-alone homes” A garden apt in the u.s is often just a fancy name for a 3 level apt building and means the apt is on the basement floor.
In America we have:
*Houses
*Condos/duplex which are side by side houses connected by a wall.
* Apartments
* Studio/ flat apartments which are small one bedroom places
* Penthouse which is the whole top floor of an apartment/ hotel
* Government housing is reduced or free depending on the situation
Terraced houses are often called “brownstones” in the US. I’m guessing that the brick and stone construction influenced the names. We have government subsidized housing of whole neighborhoods called “projects” and “section 8” housing that can be any rental home if the landlord agrees and the government approves the home. Every other sort of housing is basically the same.
Hi, guys! I love British houses (I 've lived in the UK, in two different terraced houses).
We do have terraced houses in Spain as well, although the flats or apartments are the most common kind of housing here, specially for working class.
Thank you so much for the video😘
Here in the US we have a variety of term to refer to different types of housing. Here is a list of the common terms that I recall. Sorry but RUclips doesn't retain paragraph formatting or blank lines..
BUNGALOW: Any simple single story house that does not have a basement.
FARMHOUSEe: The main house that resides on a farm.
A-FRAME HOUSE: A usually rather small house with a very steep roof that ends quite close to the ground.
MANSION: A usually quite large and luxurious house detached house.
RANCH: A single story farm house without a basement.
DUPLEX House: Commonly refers to two residences separated by a single wall.
CONDOMINIUM "CONDO": It is basically an apartment that one buys and owns. There are usually a variety of shared facilities such as gyms, play areas, recreation areas, etc.
STUDIO or EFFICIENCY: A apartment which consists of a single room that doubles as a living/sitting, kitchenette, and bathroom.
TOWNHOUSE: Same as what is referred to in the UK as a Terraced House. Here in the US a Terrace usually refers to level platform next to building. Also referred to as a patio or veranda.
Us equivalents are: House, duplex, townhome/townhouse, apartment (one floor or multiple), public housing. BTW, a condominium is a form of private ownership, and a condo could actually be any of those listed except public housing.
Two houses attached by a wall here is a duplex. Many attached houses are row houses. Attached houses with two levels or more are townhomes
Allow me to explain the different KINDS of "single-family homes" in the US.
RANCHER - a single-story, usually 3BD/1BA home with an attached garage. First built in the 50's and 60's. (See "Lyon Estates" in Back to the Future)
SPLIT-LEVEL - a two-story home with an attached garage where when you walk in the door, you are faced with two staircases - one going up to the main living area, the other going down to a basement/extra apartment. Usually built in 70's/80's.
BUNGALOW - a 1-1/2 story house with one dormer window for an upstairs bedroom built into the roof. About the same age as Crackerbox. For example, all the neighborhood houses in the movie "Halloween" are bungalows.
CAPE COD - like a bungalow but longer, with 2 or more dormer windows facing out the same direction in the roof.
CRACKERBOX - a single-story house that appears very small and square (boxy) on the outside (but inside is actually quite roomy!) These were built in haste almost 100 years ago to accommodate the working families of the Industrial Revolution. Usually found in the oldest parts of big cities. The neat thing about crackerboxes is that you can walk the entire house in a circle from room to room via an open doorway in every inside wall.
VICTORIAN - very old and rare - can be 100-200 years old. Usually very tall, 2-3 stories, multiple rooms, with lots of decorative ironwork.
A-FRAME - A single-story cabin with a loft that has a steeply-sloping roof that reaches the ground (shaped like an "A").
GAMBREL - a 2-story barn-shaped cabin.
I'm sure there are more, but these were just off the top of my head!
In the U.S, a garden is a piece of land of your property, where you plant vegetables and/or fruit. To what you refer to as a garden, we call it the "back yard".
In Washington DC and NYC (for instance) we have another type of owned-apartment like condos, called CO-OPS. The difference is the form of ownership. Co-ops are like owning stock in a building. You own a share of the building. Lenders in most places don't like co-ops because the buyer doesn't get a mortgage on real property. Plus, the existing co-op owners have a board that has to approved all new purchasers.
We also have LOFTS.. commercial buildings that are re-purposed as apartments or condos. Just to make things more confusing, if you have an apartment/condo with an upper floor, that upper floor is often called a loft.
I grew up in a detached house built in 1906. It was lovely.
"It's okay you still look pretty" that bit melted my heart! Hahah
Very interesting video by the way, the terrace houses are definitely a british thing to me as well!
Thank you for watching! Yeah it seems not many countries have them!
Here appartments are all one level and usually in high rise buildings or one on top of the other in a structure similar to a detached home but with two doors. One leads to one appartment and the other to the other appartment. In big cities you can get large fancy appartments called penthouses but usually appartments are smaller. Some are section 8 or HUD which means that you pay 30% of your income and the state pays the rest. This may also be the case for mobile homes which are detached small house generally shaped like semi truck trailers and are made of metal. There will often be many of these in an area that is called a trailer park. Note: moblie homes aren't nessicarily moblie. Then we have manufactured homes which are basically nicer, more upscale, larger mobile homes but may be made out of wood and mostly indistinguishable from detached houses unless looked at closely. There are also townhomes and row houses. A town home is two houses attached at one side and row houses are many of these put together, but maybe multiple identical detached homes as well. We don't really have flats but townhomes can be one or two levels.
maisonette means separate entrance not 'it has stairs'. I used to think the same as you until recently but a state agent educated me lol
In America, a terraced house is called a row house (pronounced roe, not row as in how).
We call a "semi-detached" house a duplex.
My hubby being British was blown away the first time he visited my parents. Of course like England and Republic of Ireland very few have a large garden, so when he saw that my family home in Tennessee was on 12 acres he was totally shocked and I was laughing so hard at his reaction. My mum couldn't understand why (they have never traveled outside the U.S. it was hilarious.
We Americans grow veggies in our gardens and grass in our yards. We also have a preferred method to keep the grass cut. We call that a Mexican.
In Germany apartment blocks owned by building cooperatives are very common. That's means you are paying rent but you have to buy a stake of the cooperative as well.
Ah I see, sounds similar to Shared Ownership which is something we have here!
Some US vocab to add, since yall are awesome at giving us Americans vocab from the Uk, Semi attached here are called "Duplex" and the Terrist? Houses are called "Town houses/ town homes" Flats here I believe are called Apartments. and we call them apartments even if there is more than two floors. Apartments are mostly stairs outside under a commonly shared shelter, and there will be two to four apartments on each side. In bigger cities though, apartments are in block form all inside a building.
Agree with Judy. My brother lived in a townhouse. Never heard of rowhouses. I live in Florida. Definitely townhouses there!!!!
Here in the United States a detached house is called a single home, s semi-detached house is called a half double, terraced houses are called row homes, and of course a flat is called an apartment. You were talking about the homes the government pays for less fortunate people, we call them projects. I’m in the state of Pennsylvania and these are the housing “terms” I grew up with! Love your videos!
Attached houses are call either Row houses or town homes semi detached would be called a deuplex, detattched houses are called single family homes. I personally would refer to the massonette as a penthouse
Many council rented (project/public) houses that people have lived in are available to purchase once you've lived and paid rent for a set amount of years... e.g.
If you live in a house, you could get a discount of between 35% and 70% of its value, up to a maximum of £77,000 (or £102,700 in London), whichever is lower.
Discounts start at 35% for 3 years’ tenancy. Add 1% for each extra year of tenancy beyond 5 years (so 10 years tenancy = 40% discount, 20 years = 50%).
Flat
If you live in a flat, you could get a discount of between 50% and 70% of its value, up to a maximum of £77,000 (or £102,700 in London), whichever is lower.
Discounts start at 50% for 3 years’ tenancy. Add 2% for each extra year of tenancy beyond 5 years (so 10 years tenancy = 60% discount, 15 years = 70%).
In the United States (Arkansas) there are lots of mobile homes. There are a few small country towns that I can think of where over half of the homes are mobile homes. Other than that most everything is detached houses except for in more populated areas. In the country a lot of houses are miles in between each other. Plus rent prices are decreasing because everyone is leaving for the cities.
In America, we call detached houses "stand alones", semi detached "half houses" or "townhouses" and terraced houses are called "row homes". Maybe that's where I am in Pennsylvania, but this is usually slang terms
In rural Pennsylvania we have mostly stand alone homes. With a few apartment buildings
The U.S. has row houses, nice row houses are called Townhouse. Brownstones a type of Townhouse . single and duplex. Apartments and condos. Tailers and government projects.
In the United States we have Detached homes, Semi-Detached homes, Apartment building, Apartment Complex, the Projects, Mansions/Manors, Condominium, Penthouses, Townhouses, Mobilehomes, & Cabins.
Terraced houses would be the equivalent of townhouses in Canada. If one owns an apartment, those are called condominiums, if they rent them, they are called apartments. The rest is exactly the same as you guys have said: detached, semi-detached hoses.
It's interesting that in the US, if you have a "garden", you have a plot of land where you are growing vegetables. What you call a garden, we refer to as a yard
The moment Lia coughed, you guys just cracked me out!!!
*”Are you okay??”*
*”I’m dying...”*
🤣🤣🤣
One place I think you two would be startled by is Chicago which has amazing architectural diversity in its Home styles of all types.
Of course, being an American Midwest City there is nothing built before the mid 19th century and much of what was, was destroyed in the Chicago fire of 1871. However, that disaster was a boon to local architecture bringing architects and home builders from across the country here from across the nation and starting a tradition of urban planning and creative design that continues until today.
One thing that my friends from across the country are often startled by is how different the homes are on each block. Unlike the rows of terraced attached houses, we have detached houses of a wide variety of styles, designs, materials and ages on the same block. My block has everything from 1880 Victorian frame houses to 1920 Dutch colonial, to 1920’s Chicago Bungalows, to the list just goes on and on. My neighborhood includes houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Burleigh Griffith, and many other prominent local architects building in a variety of styles from two to three bedroom homes to 17-25 room mansions. Just fascinating.
Chicago also has 30 miles of unobstructed lakeshore that the gives the public access to Lake Michigan with beaches, parks, golf courses, picnic areas, concert areas, chess pavilions, skating facilities, a zoo and many other wonderful things.
So come visit!
What I don't understand is why they don't just do detached houses in the West that are really close together like they do in Japan, just a few feet apart. That way it cuts down on the noise, but doesn't take much space.
Where I am, semi detached houses are very rare, and if there are any, they are generally smaller. Almost all of our houses are detached. Do you guys have trailer parks in Britain? We have some...
We in the US have govt assisted housing as well, we call them Section 8 or Low/Medium income properties.
A friend of mine lives in Chilworth in Southampton The houses there are not numbered, they are named. Being from the US, I found that to be a bit different.
Semi-detached would be called duplex in USA. Terraced houses would be townhomes in USA. I have one & have an end unit too 😊🏘
In Canada, we have detached houses, semi-detached, row houses (your terrace houses), duplexes (one house divided into two flats or as we call it apartments), triplexes (one house divided into 3 apartments). I don't think we have name for an apartment that has two floors. I think we just call it a two story apartment. We have co-op (short for co-operative) houses that are rented to people based on their income but they are not government owned. We have 'low income' housing also known as 'subsidized housing' or 'government housing' which is rented to low income people or people on government assistance.
Thank you for explaining British housing. I have a number of friends in the UK and they each talk about their housing, like council flats. I didn't want to be rude by asking them if that was like our government assistance/welfare housing.
My UK friends have also told me that they can't move to a different house unless someone is willing to change with them. I didn't really understand this. One of my friends moved to a different town about a year ago. They didn't like it and wanted to move back to their old town but they had to wait until someone was willing to trade houses with them. Is that because there aren't enough houses available? I have another friend who moved across the street from her house and is selling her old house. I guess I just found it all a bit confusing.
Thanks for this video. About two months ago I talked to one British friends about it and was stunned that I have not had this conversation before. It is sooo interesting!!!
By the way, in the Republic of Moldova we have individual houses and blocks of flats/apartments. We do not have terraced houses, which to me look very coll but might as well be unconformable. My argument is though that terraced houses could be a great idea for big cities where space is a problem. It also could have been a solution for the Moldovan society because all of our individual houses look waaaay too different and are built sometimes just wrong...and it is not a nice diversity to witness on a daily basis.
I thought they were saying terrorist houses lol
haha! No that's something very different!
It’s terraced not terrorist
nista this aint Saudi Arabia lol.
LOL ME TOO I WAS LIKE WAIT WHAT?
nista lmao!!! I was about to write that in the comments.
Those Terraced houses would be called Row Houses in Cities like Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston or New York. Not so much here in Minneapolis as Duplexes are more common.
Dear Joel & Lia,
In term of concept, it is quite same between UK and Malaysia.
detached house = bungalow, semi-detached house = semi-D, terrace, flat, apartment etc. ; )
Hi Ibrahim! That's interesting that our countries are so far away from each other but we still have similarities! We forgot to add bungalow!!
And is it correct that by garden in the UK, it's what us Americans call a yard? We have a yard or a lawn with grass. What we call a garden is tilled dirt where we plant vegetables & flowers.
I was shocked how small the homes are in the UK. I live in a 5 bedroom 5 bath house here in Texas. But I keep remembering the UK is nearly the size of my state!
I've noticed the lower middle to middle class commonly live in row homes in the midlands n other places as well like whales. Their yards n back gardens have clothesline and are both walled off lol!
Irish homes look old and dreary on the outside but quite modern and posh on the inside. Irish make ave of 70 K a year.
In the US, a single house is called a "single-family home". A "semi-attached" is called a Duplex; 3 attached is a Triplex, then a Fourplex. Less common are Fiveplexes and Sixplexes. These are not in a row (like New York). A Fourplex would be two-down stairs and two upstairs - on top. More than that would probably be an apartment building or condo(minium). Apartments can be worth millions, but I believe in most areas, apartments are lower income. And then we have mobile home / trailer parks which are frowned upon. Some states have outlawed creating new mobile home parks..
hahahaha You are so lovely at the end.
Growing up in California we lived in the suburbs in a tract house. It's a neighborhood where they have houses that pretty much look the same. Here in Florida the houses are all different in the same neighborhood. Many houses have a carport instead of a garage. Some housing areas have HOA Home Owners Association were you pay a fee every month. It gives homeowners access to pools, some have gyms and community activities. It also regulates the rules and make sure people follow them. I personally dislike HOA. i don't like someone telling me I can't park my work vehicle in the driveway.
Two houses attached are called a duplex in USA
Semi detached are referred to as Duplex in the US.
I'm moving to London to work as a Nurse. What price range is considered good deal? I'll be living in Harrigay.
Very interesting! In Eastern Europe the housing is very different compared to this. And also from what I've seen in Austria, Germany, Croatia
It would be interesting to know what rent or mortgage prices would be.
We have all of the same types of housing, we just call them something different...
Detached House: Single-Family Home, a House with property around it. When the property is 3+ acres these are usually called Estate Homes, but Generally, they are between 1/3 acre and 1 acre. This is probably the most common type of Home in the U.S.
Semi-Detached: a Duplex, Two Homes attached by a common wall with property around them. We even have quad-plex (or 4-plex), where four, individual homes are attached by common walls but have property around them, they also called patio homes if there is a yard and a small garden area. When there are two levels (or eight homes 4 bottom & 4 top) they are usually called condos or townhomes, but apartment complexes are also built this way and you cannot buy them, only rent from a private management company.
Terrace Homes: These we call Brownstones or Townhomes depending on the way the Ownership of the commons are established and whether they are on-street (built right to the side of a city street) or complexes (an entire neighborhood, with it's own streets and conveniences, built exclusively of similar housing type and style by the same builder).
Mason-Terrace Homes: Townhouse Condos or Apartment Townhouses depending upon if they are individually owned and managed, Individually owned but managed by the group of Owners, or Owned in whole by an investment firm or group and managed by a private company separate from the ownership and only available for people to rent, not purchase.
Block-Towers: High-Rises either Apartments or Condos...again depending upon the Ownership setup mentioned above.
In addition to these, we have production farms and ranches, you would probably call estates, that are self-supporting because of the industry conducted within the property boundaries. These are generally more rural and may or may not provide additional housing for workers within the property boundary and probably would not provide amenities like shops, etc like the Estate townships in the UK have done for ages (No Daughton Abby in the US). On the other end of the spectrum, we have trailer courts (also called mobile home courts), where the land is Owned by one person (or group of persons) and they provide the infrastructure (roads, drainage, underground water piping, etc.) for those who own mobile (manufactured or recreational) homes to be placed for a monthly rental cost. Sometimes these courts are set-up for the Owner of the home to buy the parcel of land they place their home on and then pay fees to the land developer for the infrastructure provided.
Apartment, townhouses, condominium, house, two story house, mansion, studio apartment, trailer, modular, RV, government housing
council flat UK = public housing US (aka low income housing)detached and semidetached are same here but is usually realtor lingo. regular folks say single family home or house for freestanding house. we might say townhouse or condo for attached housing. But condos tend to relate to ownership--it is usually referring to a single floor apartment space in a tall tower or block. townhouse is usually 2 floors or more and attached in a pair or a row (row houses are common in Philly and DC areas). If you only rented any of these we'd say apartment. If you rent a house, you'd say "my house" rather than my apartment. unless the house were subdivided into smaller individual units inside. I'm getting the feeling that apartment (US) and flat (UK) can be used comparatively when talking about renters who live in small individual units. even those living in public housing here would still call it "their apartment". Assuming probably the more specific names would be used when referring to ownership or real estate terms. Thanks for explaining this complicated topic.
In FL ppl out in the country have trailers mostly double wides
Also in America we have town home which are terraced house in NYC
You should do a tour of your homes so we can see what they look like from the inside
I'd love a garden but I literally can't even take care of my balcony plants... so it's probably not meant to be.
You're welcome in my garden any time. I can teach you how to pick up a watering can and pour some water onto the soil...
Joel & Lia Watering can? I don't know her
you can't just assume someones gender like that AJ!
I own a condo that has a little garden patch in the back as well as the front that I'm responsible for maintaining. This is very rare for a condo (it's a townhouse style). I'm terrible at it. The whole reason I bought a condo was so I didn't have to deal with keeping up a yard. Ir turns out that I can't even keep up with these little plots. When I plant something I expect it to just thrive on its own...I mean isn't that what plants do in the wild?
pocketgoth Haha, this made me laugh. And I agree. This is why I live in the city and not on a farm in the country.
I never really realised just how different the North and South is. In the North we most likely have gardens, not all very big mind you, but my mum and dad have a front and back garden.
Well it tends to be London that doesn't have gardens, as space is so limited, but other places down south do have front and back gardens.
I've reached the top of the housing assistance list 6 weeks ago. Expires in 2 weeks and nothing is available who takes th voucher. For 1 bedroom 700 apartment id only pay 114 dollars.
Had to replay it a few times, I thought they said "terrorist houses" !! Interesting to note: Condominiums don't exist outside the US.......and even in the US they only appeared around the 1960's. I was looking to see if the UK has anything similar, but I don't think they do.
Semidetached in Texas is a duplex.
Tenement housing is what we call council housing.
Detached housing is just housing to us. Lol
I have always wanted this explained! Thanks guys!
We have the same but just called different names. I live in Florida where most homes are detached and hearing Joel say that in Florida they are all attached made me curious where in Florida you went. I’ve lived in South Florida and Central Florida and have been to North Florida and it’s mostly detached houses unless it’s in city and not too many high rise because we are on sand. So I’m really curious where Joel went in Florida
The council estate housing you call council housing, I always hear it referred to as, "the estate," in films and television from the U.K.
UK housing is very expensive compared to the States, Canada, and the continent. I is because land is at a premium, and the feudal system going back to centuries.
In Spain we dont have much of those "in a row houses" (dont remember the name), as you said its a very victorian style, here the most common way to live is in a flat or a semiattached house.
Terrace houses! We didn't think many European countries had them, so glad you've confirmed it!
We have all those types of housing in America we just call them different names. Semi-detached = Duplex, Masonette = Townhouse
Wow! A house that is connected to another! I live in a single story apartment. One person on the left and 2 on the right. The noise is maddening. I can imagine what an apt bldg would be like. :(
In my country(Kazakhstan) we've got only flats/apartments and detached houses...
I'm now studying in the UK and it was shocking to see terraced houses for the first time :) My mom was rather more surprised by semi-detached houses...
That's so interesting!! To us it's just normal, but that's why we made this video, because we realised it might not be the same everywhere else in the world!
Out in the country ppl have trailers mostly doublewides
In the United States a terrace house is a house that hangs over a cliff or the side of a big hill.
There's a bunch of (what they described as) terrace houses in San Francisco, CA.
Lovely British accent ❤️thanks a lot it was useful and fun , I enjoyed it ❤️
Semi detached we call a duplex Terrace we call a row home and for for military reasons so all all our spillers could bunked down after a long hard shift Love you two Your videos are awesome 👏👍xxx
I have learned quite a bit here, great video!
Just curious. By garden do you mean a back yard or a lawn?
Here semi detached are called duplexes
Oftentimes semi-detached houses here in the US are also calling duplexes
The way you say Joel is so British Joel lol. I love it