Brits React to BRITISH vs AMERICAN Homes

Brits Reacts to BRITISH vs AMERICAN Homes
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[@bford5357]

Im 74 years old. Born, and lived in the U.S. all of my life. I have never had a bath suite without a door. I find the idea of it ridiculous. 😅

[@tracyperez1755]

I used to do home health, so I was in a lot of houses, I only saw one with no door, but it had a sort of a hall, almost like a walk through closet between the sleeping area and the actual bathroom area, so you really didn't notice it being gone. I think that they did it that way to have more closet area, the woman had literally tons of clothes, accessories and shoes.

[@desertrat7634]

​@@tracyperez1755how does a door take up closet space? My door-less en suite has no halfway and it sucks!

[@tracyperez1755]

@@desertrat7634 I didn't mean the door would take up closet space, I meant that because of the hall/closet walk through, the bathroom area was really kind of separated from the sleeping area so it was pretty private.

[@desertrat7634]

@@tracyperez1755 Sorry. I should've considered that when I read it. It didn't register that way though. My brain is weird. On that note, I did have an open en suite separated from the bedroom by a long hallway and I really did miss the door. I can't see any design without a door that would ever work for me. But I'll take the long hallway over the no hallway that I have now if I have to not have a door.

[@margaretcherry]

This is not a typical basic home is is a upgraded home and expensive

[@DavidZinselmeier]

99.9 percent of all bathrooms in america have doors. I have never seen a bathroom without a door

[@holyfire11]

When you get away from the cities some of the public bathrooms dont have doors but most do

[@DavidZinselmeier]

@@holyfire11 yep , another person who will disagree wit anything to get his 2 minutes of fame. don't be an idiot

[@DamienWillis]

I completely agree. I've never seen a home bathroom without a door. But I've only lived in America for 46 years. Maybe one day?

[@bluflaam777]

A friend of mine that lives in a ritzy neighborhood doesn't have a door on his master bedroom bathroom. They have a 'booth' with a door for the toilet but the bathroom doesn't.

[@CptGreenJeans]

Agree. I’ve never seen one without a door.

[@DebraRodriguez-fc3fk]

I had never seen a bathroom without a door.

[@Instantphojo]

I agree. Even in the suite.

[@bluflaam777]

I have once. My friend's master en suite doesn't have a door. They have a both for the toilet that has a door and their bedroom has a door that locks, but their bathroom doesn't.

[@3DJapan]

I've never seen one but just recently I was seeing online open plan bathrooms where the tub, sink, and toilet are basically in the bedroom.

[@lionelhutz3142]

Unless the previous home owners had someone in the home who was special needs and could have fallen or drown behind a locked door. Or were swingers. They keep an "open door" policy and want to know if you "see anything you like"! 😒

[@DroneStrike1776]

I actually have seen one. Because it's a long hallway to get to the bathroom, there's two huge his and hers walk in closet on both sides of the hallway. The toilet has it's own room too keep the stink out.

[@REOGURU]

Typically, you'll find all master bathrooms have a door. The larger master bathrooms will sometimes have the toilet in its own tiny room with a door. The only time I've ever seen a bathroom without a door in the US, its been in a builder's model home.

[@lorrainemiller688]

Which is actually extra private!

[@jishani1]

apartments don't tend to have a door to the en-suite bathroom, but they have a door to the room you would have to go into to access the bathroom.

[@80sGamerLady]

​@@jishani1All the ones I've lived in did. It's highly unusual to not have a master bathroom without a door or pocket door.

[@phoenixrising8231]

My doesn't.

[@DEEKWD-cd2zb]

Correct. I’ve built mansions for 20 years and they have a wide range of features to use. From floor heaters under the tile, steam showers with 8-10 water nozzles, whirlpool hot tubs, waterfalls, etc. I worked on one that had his side and her side which were connected by an enormous steam shower. I’ve seen bathrooms that are bigger than some apartments I’ve worked on…..it’s ridiculously excessive

[@bjishername]

Giving you a heads up, they live in a gated community and therefore, they go to a building to pickup the mail.

[@ThatCronus]

Not necessarily because of that. New construction has been getting Postal Clusters instead of Mail Boxes (at least here in NC).

[@danhollifield]

There's a difference between in the city and in the country, as well. Out here in the countryside of Georgia, we have mailboxes at the end of our driveways. I walk roughly 30 meters to the end of my driveway to get incoming mail or put outgoing mail in our mailbox. I own 2 acres, half of which is forest. My family home, about 3 miles away, has a driveway that is close to 1/4 mile long, sitting on a 12-acre lot. My brother's house is on the very back of the family farm on a lot that is 56 acres, and his mailbox is almost a mile away from his house. My wife's youngest daughter lives in New Mexico, and theirs is a cluster of mailboxes on a post almost 4 miles away from their house, and the nearest paved road is almost 12 miles away. --Dan

[@rayj1011]

The US Postal Service started implementing this in the 1980's primarily for efficiency and cost-cutting. Door delivery in established areas is primarily fixed but new developments either get curbside delivery or neighborhood cluster boxes. Deliveries in rural areas is mostly curbside at the nearest route near the home, or grouped curbside deliveries , or even the neighborhood cluster boxes in newly added additions to routes.

[@desertrat7634]

New neighborhoods have been being built with mail clusters since at least the early 2000s--probably earlier. They don't have to be gated for that to be a thing. Mine wasn't.

[@MatthewC137]

@@ThatCronus I bought a house in 1994 that was built in 1982 and it had the postal cluster.

[@jono8884]

The toilet usually has a door. Not sure why they don't in such an expensive home.

[@MrsZen1]

I never had a toilet with a door.

[@HRConsultant_Jeff]

NOBODY puts a full banana into a garbage disposal!! That is nothing but trouble later on. Further, most homes (millions of them) are at least 40 years old or more and the average size was much smaller as well as the inside style was more individual rooms and not open concept which is mostly in the past 20 years. So this is not a fair or realistic representation of the average home. Homes are entirely different from east coast to west and I would guess that more than 50% of home have only 1 1/2 or 2 bathrooms.

[@DroneStrike1776]

Rich people bruh. That was perfectly ripped for a smoothie.

[@ohshetz8478]

Wasted nutrients

[@HRConsultant_Jeff]

@@DroneStrike1776 rich and stupid is a common problem. Other comment said it was a waste of nutrients.

[@joanyow7952]

agree my neighborhood is about 50 houses and none are more than sixteen hundred sq feet. with basements Some finished as living space

[@RichardDCook]

I wouldn't say that houses are entirely different eastern US to western US, the standard post-WWII middle-class tract houses are the same here in California as the ones I've seen in West Virginia (where my relatives all live) the only difference being that some of the older West Virginia homes have basements, which are pretty much nonexistent here.

[@anitamafoa6361]

This couple was showing you top of the market type of home in the US. It is NOT the norm for most people in the US in all of the categories.

[@aprilsatterfield3868]

Most US homes the mailbox is at the road in front of the home. In gated communities the mailboxes are at entrance of community.

[@jackio46]

Mail delivery varies by area here in USA. Some go to Post Office to pick it up, some have a mailbox out by the street, others have it either on the porch or a mail slot...there is no standard means of mail delivery in the USA.

[@geneself2090]

Typically, the average home in the US is a 3 bedroom 2 bath 2 car garage. 1200 - 1800 sqft. Depending on your geographic location, you may have a basement which can be used as living quarters, entertainment room, office, home gym, ect....

[@GatBlackistan]

These are NYC numbers. The average size of a house in America is well over 2000 square feet. Look it up.

[@3DJapan]

For a suburban home. Most people live in the city where there isn't room for that.

[@jackedwards7420]

​@GatBlackistan , BS, most homes in the US are between 1200 and 1800 sq ft very rarely 2100 and up in high end areas! You must be in thr upper crust or you would know this! In low to low middle income areas its even smaller with homes between 800 and 1200 sg ft! I'm in Tennessee!

[@GatBlackistan]

@@jackedwards7420 I'm talking about the average size of all houses, not just in the city center. Everything I'm finding online is saying it's 2000+. I'm no real estate agent so if you can point me to your source I'll happily check it out. Also, I grew up in the projects and lived the first 50 years of my life in the city. I'm definitely not the upper crust.

[@tosweet68]

​@@3DJapanI would say far more people live in suburbs than in the city.....if we're talking about places that aren't NYC.

[@msurreal_929]

This comparison isn’t a middle class home in 🇺🇸 nor older builds

[@thegamerchef7220]

As far as hard wood flooring, you can add heating underneath to keep the floor from being too cold

[@MrsZen1]

Any hardwood flooring I had in any of the places never had heating under it.

[@3DJapan]

That's a strange mail situation. Every house I've seen had a mail box either at the curb or on the porch, or a slot in the door.

[@tosweet68]

Lot's of neighborhoods now have mailboxes in little areas where everyone's for a block or two are all together now.....in many parts of the country.

[@fp5495]

1:58 That's literally the house on the ranch that was used for the television show Dallas. It's Southfork Ranch and what you are seeing is basically a museum you can visit in Texas that was used on location for the show.

[@3gunshooter60]

My wife and i live in rural Tennessee. We live on 44 acres with a log home we built 6 years ago. We have a basement and 2 stories above that. Including the basement it is 3300 square feet of space. We are retired on fixed incomes, but we are still able to live comfortably. We probably are not typical in our situation because I was a building contractor for most of my life, and we built our home ourselves. I think you will find it pretty hard to compare the American lifestyle to that of British lifestyle because there is such a wide variety of lifestyle here in this massive country. There are so many different climate zones here and a different way to build and live in each one. You need to spend a few months here and travel a long distance to experience them all. I am blessed to live in a country like this one.

[@ohshetz8478]

I have never seen or heard of a house in the US without a door for the restroom. I was actually surprised when she mentioned that.

[@cincygal4490]

I've never heard of a bathroom not having a door. Everyone I know with an en suite has a bathroom door. As far as the mailboxes, our mailbox is at the end of our driveway so the mail truck can dry by and deliver your mail without having to walk to the door. He only comes to the door if a package won't fit in the mailbox.

[@lionelhutz3142]

My "swinger" neighbors took the doors off their bedroom and master bath. Very very weird 😮😂

[@garycamara9955]

Our space is not excessive, its just what we have. Britain is miniscule.

[@claregale9011]

And it's what your used to . But we do get large houses I rural areas . You should look up chatsworth House or Highclere Castle. 😊

[@joanyow7952]

Depending on the economy during the time a house is built. I can remember when one bath three bedrooms was standard

[@avstryker]

The best part of an open kitchen is you can prepare meals for family and friends and still be included socially.

[@cdoggyish]

The mail situation for them is unique. I've lived in the US all my life, I'm 66 years old. 95 % of the places I've lived in have had mail delivered in the door, or a mailbox on your front porch. I've lived in apartments, and they have mail delivered in the front lobby (1st floor), in a communal mail area where everyone has a lockable mailbox. The home I have now is a 2100 sq foot townhome, in a development here in southern Pennsylvania. The mail is delivered to a communal outside box where we have a keyed mailbox. It's about 100' from my front door. I personally love mail delivered to my front door, but that's typically not done in a more rural setting, which I like living in the rural area. I hope that helps!!

[@evalynnchristiansen9430]

My mail comes to a mailbox on the curb in front of my house.

[@denniss5505]

Many master suites in the US are open onto the vanity/bath area, especially in larger houses, but there is always a door to the Water Closet(toilet area). If your en-suite is just a regular sized bathroom, it would definitely have a door.

[@tedtimmis8135]

As an American, I’ve never seen a bathroom without a door.

[@phantom629]

i call bovine excrement, that couple are a double 6 figure income couple and their house reflects it. also they live in a desert where water is at a premium so you wouldn't have a "garden" per say you would go broke hydrating it. and like the uk it depends on the age of your house mostly as to the amenities you get. area also dictates housing prices here in miami like ny a small apt will cost you $2500 and a simple house will set you back $500k down here you really dont worry about heat (i haven't worn long pants in 5 years) but you do have higher insurance costs due to storms. there's a lot about this video that doesn't apply to most of the US.

[@deniseolson6158]

It's amazing the vast differences! I live in a suburban area of upper-middle class homes. My home is almost 70 years old, so it is not the more modern "open-concept" with the kitchen part of the living room. We have a two-car garage, as opposed to the 3-car garages more popular in newer homes. You're correct that most people do not have all the luxury shown in the featured home. But overall, we Americans are spoiled in what we take for granted. I couldn't live without central heat or AC.

[@lionelhutz3142]

Truth! Just came back from using AirBNB in Europe. We also take for granted mesh window screens, laundry drying machines and clothes closets. 😂

[@lunatuna79]

@@lionelhutz3142SCREENS! They should be mandatory.

[@claregale9011]

But you don't miss what you never had . 😊

[@bleachedbrother]

Draining boards next to the kitchen sink can be purchased at Walmart, etc. They're relatively inexpensive.

[@markmartineau1015]

When I built my home in the 70’s we opted for the open style even my smaller home feels so much larger without the walls.

[@DroneStrike1776]

Same, my house is only 1200sqft, two beds upstairs, one down stairs, and the kitchen, living, and dining is one open space.

[@jaycooper2812]

Another thing that is different between U.S. and UK homes is that the clothes washer and dryer are in the kitchen in the UK and they are in a separate area of the home in the U.S. I can not imagine trying to wash my dirty laundry in the same room where i prepare my food. Laundry facilities vary in location depending on the size of the home here. In some homes they are located in the basement, some home have dedicated laundry rooms, and in some homes they can even be located in the garage. I have lived in homes where the laundry facilities are located in the above mentioned places. My sister's house has a little alcove off of the hallway that has folding doors specifically for the washer and dryer.

[@jamesjones8482]

After my wife(a cancer patient) passed 13 years ago, I downsized into a new home closer to my relatives in central Texas. I bought the smallest house being built in a new subdivision that is a 3 bedroom(4th room for BR, or other purpose), 2 bath, 2 car garage. Using the chart in your video, it is more than twice the size of an average UK home. We just have more land for homes, compared the UK. I would have been perfectly fine living in a smaller house, just for myself, but they don't build smaller houses in this area. ❤

[@babyfry4775]

They’re showing big houses in the US. Not all of us live in homes like that. Yes, new construction is opening up homes with big kitchens and bigger rooms but we have plenty of smaller homes here too. I grew up in a small home with one bathroom and 3 bedrooms and shared a bedroom with my little brother. We were able to afford a bigger house as I grew into a teen but not all of us can do that.

[@mommabear2305]

A lot of master bathrooms don't have doors as you enter the bathroom because the toilet has its own space within the bathroom with a door.

[@leecarole1]

Lived in the U.S. for 64 years. Always had a bathroom door and my mail always comes to my front door.

[@LisaMarshall0]

My ensuite has a door. Also, there is a separate room within the bathroom for the toilet - it is called the toilet room.

[@hopper8794]

Most mail in the U.S. is delivered directly to the home's mailbox out front. Walking to get your mail is rare.

[@tejida815]

Maybe the main part of a bathroom doesn’t have a door, but the toilet area does. 🤷‍♀️ I heard, that in the UK, there are no minimum room size requirements. Water is scarce in the Southwestern US. Gardening might be mostly drought tolerant plants.

[@rmlrl1971]

I live in a house that has a basement, first and second floor. Each floor of my house is about 400sq ft. I have a galley kitchen, one full bath (we have 3/4 bath, in the basement, but it's just a place for bugs to go die). The bedrooms are big enough for a twin bed, and the "master" can fit a queen. When it comes to my kitchen, I have 2 normal sized cabinets and 2 very small cabinets on the bottom and 3 regular sized cabinets up top. I would kill for a larger kitchen with a full pantry, but my house isn't built that way. The houses that are shown in these video's are great, if you can afford it, but for the most part more people live in homes like mine.

[@johnmorin2371]

My wife and I lived in a very large flat on Upper Whimpole St. in London. We were lucky to get it (2+ years), but it was expensive! The bedrooms were large, but no closets...WTH?? The one bathroom was 10' x 10' and it had heated towel racks!! We had the entire 3rd and 4th floors with a couple doctor offices on the first and second. The kitchen was small with a washer that was also the dryer. A wash and dry session took over 3 hours, but our clothes came out very clean. One thing all the Americans noticed was our "whites" came out incredibly white!! We had a good time in London and our weekend road trips to the English countryside were the best!!

[@bradparnell614]

They can buy a drainage thingy to put next to the sink. Rubbermaid and I imagine other companies make them. They also usually have a rack that sits on top where you can put your wet dishes as they dry and drain into the sink. They are probably at every dollar store.

[@DroneStrike1776]

I put a dish rack in my sink, it's a double sink. One side for washing and one side for drying. Then I have another dish rack on the counter for the heck of it, just to put mugs.

[@jmcg6189]

I have a dish rack I can put in one of the double sinks.

[@garycamara9955]

I have NEVER seen a bathroom without a door.

[@mbourque]

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'. Widespread carpet in homes is a fad that changes decade to decade. in the 60s and 70s it was highly used (even some bathrooms had carpet up to and could include the sides of the bath), even on the stairs. but in the 90s and 2000s, non-carpet floors became more popular. it started off being that the kitchen and living rooms were non-carpet (along with bathrooms and laundry rooms. basically anywhere that water might spill). then it spread to bedrooms as people started to understand that it was much easier to keep non-carpet areas clean than carpeted areas. thus you have now that it's popular to have nearly (or entirely) the whole house without carpet. some may have it already (or get it installed) in specific places for comfort, like the bedrooms or living rooms, but it's preference now. and area or small rugs are used in those non-carpet places to keep the cold off people's feet.

[@southernwanderer7912]

Open plans with kitchens are fairly new. My house has doors on each room, including the kitchen. It was built in the 1940s and the rooms are small.

[@maureencoyle666]

Hardwood floors every time!!! They are beautiful, and tou can cozy them up wirg large area rugs around the bed, couch, etc. Har wood is essential for tjose of us with allergies!!!

[@3DJapan]

In nearby Philadelphia the average square footage for homes is 1,420. I live in the suburbs about a half hour away so homes here are definitely bigger. 2:00 This house is HUGE!

[@stevenrpagano]

Residential mail delivery receptacles (i.e. where you pick up your mail) come in a few flavors in the US: * slot on front door (this tends to be only very old houses) * mailbox mounted on house (this requires the route to be walked by the postal carrier, so it's also a bit less prevalent) * mailbox at the end of your driveway (carrier drives a mail truck), or across the street from that (this being required if the driving mail carrier will only traverse the road in one direction) * multiple boxes or multiple cells in one spot in the neighborhood * mailbox that you rent from the post office (or one of its competitors)

[@maureencoyle666]

That house, the first one, looks like rhe home on the old tv show, Dallas!! Way before your time!! Its ginormous!!!

[@tosweet68]

The actual house in Southfork is much smaller than it looked on tv. I used to live near it and also toured it when I was younger.

[@trevor3013]

What time are you talkin?

[@csdurch]

In our en-suite, we have what we call saloon doors just for a little privacy. One has to be in the bedroom before getting to the bathroom. The saloon doors also serve as a bit of a light diffuser for the night light we have in the bathroom. If those doors are kept open at night, more light shines into the bedroom.

[@RichardDCook]

At 8:18 I've lived my whole life in the US and never seen or heard of a bathroom without a door. A lot of the things they're talking about must be with expensive new builds. The standard US middle-class detached "tract" houses built in the 1950s through 1980s (which we Baby Boomers grew up in) are bungalows with three or four bedrooms and two bathrooms, one off the Master Bedroom and the other in the hallway. These houses would have a decent-sized kitchen (not the narrow "galley kitchen" many UK homes have) and a dining room, formal "living room", "den" or family room, and small "laundry room" having the washer and dryer, then a hallway leading to the bedrooms and bathrooms. What I envy with UK homes are the huge "utility rooms".

[@mbourque]

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. He built ALL of the house himself throughout those years.

[@pghjack]

Houses in America, with lots of windows, tends to be in locations with mostly sunny weather. Too many windows in cold climates, means cold air, which means high utility bill. One more point, my experience growing up was 3 bedroom home, with 1 bathroom, no basement. Not the normal. I currently reside in a home with 4 baths, walk in closets, brick home. There is what i would say is an older stock of homes, and a newer, more modern stock. The homes on here, is typically newer, higher end homes.

[@chrissauter7501]

14:58 where I am (El Paso, Tx), replacing an hvac system (assuming a split unit - condenser outside with evaporator and furnace inside) for a residential @ 1600 square foot single story house would cost from $6,800 (low quality) to @ $15,000 (high end system - this includes a thermostat that also displays info useful to a tech and the condenser has a display panel of pressures and temps of refrigerant with other useful info allowing the tech to not have to connect gauges and other tools/equipment)

[@chrissauter7501]

@coollady2179 Cost does vary by location (cost of living differences), installer, type of equipment, and brand. There is also with some installers, a "cost" because they can. I used to work for one of THOSE installers.

[@phantom629]

Pro tip for you, the seer number is the efficiency of the unit, and the higher the number the more it costs, buy the highest number you can afford. It will save you more in the long run. I've seen high quality units last 25 years but you should replace every 12-15 years due to Improvements.

[@jackflash9735]

You should start a channel "The Beesleys move to America" move to America and start a Vlog like "Lost in the Pond" but from the view of a newly arrived British Couple.

[@thor-cj9dh]

That's why you put heated floors in the master bedroom/bathroom.

[@waynecerne7649]

mail slots are in old neighborhoods. The postal service pushes for boxes since it is more efficient for them.

[@robinm.2246]

My house is 3,200 sq ft of living space (5 bedroom,3.5 baths, live in basement). Our kitchen opens into the family room. And our mail is delivered to the door. And we have a single carport, so we have to park our cars behind each in the driveway.

[@starparodier91]

This is almost the same as the house I grew up in and the one I live in now (which is only 10 mins away since my fiancé and I didn’t want to leave where we grew up and be close to our parents and I’m an only child) but we had a three car garage and mail was at a community box down the street. My place has a three car garage but I’m unable to drive so I use most of it as a crafting area and mail is still a community one. Our basement is our “geek den”. We have no idea what to do with most rooms since it’s just the two of us and a dog and bird. 😅

[@garycamara9955]

3200 sqft and no garage, really, thats just lame!

[@3DJapan]

Sounds pretty nice!

[@DroneStrike1776]

You're making be feel bad with my 1200sqft home, 3 beds, 1.5bathroom. Remodel the entire basement so there's an extra 400sqft of living space. The kitchen, dining, and living room is one open space. 8000sqft property and they could've built a bigger home. 2 car driveway, but I can open my gate to the backyard and park an extra car, or use the entire back yard as a parking lot. Town I live in has no parking code unless it snows, so residents here can park on the streets overnight. Southern New England homes are generally small. 3000sqft and up are in the ballpark of $1million.

[@1972Ray]

@@garycamara9955 Agreed.

[@waynecerne7649]

in the US you have a yard and a garden is an area where food is grown. The yard can have flowers, trees, etc. referred to as landscaping but we would never call that a garden. Even at our farm we call the landscaped area around the house and barn a "Farmyard" and the sub-area with fruit trees the "fruit orchard" (we are not there enough to take care of a garden with vegetables).

[@mbourque]

originally, British homes were built out of stone (with little wood, as it's scarce for building material there) and the interiors were walled off rooms so that the heat could be kept in the rooms that were being used, while the rooms that weren't in current use to get cold until they were needed again. thus why your traditional building schemes still work that way. In the U.S. we used to build that way until we created 'central' heating and aircon. then that allowed us to keep the whole house at the same temp, so there was no longer a need to keep the rooms walled off to keep heat or aircon within those rooms that were currently occupied. this allowed for the 'open' floor plans, thus you have it as the default building plan now in the U.S.

[@TeacherTonya74]

Houses are smaller in the UK due to heating costs. When most homes were built, the technology to build them at the time needed you to have smaller rooms to keep in the heat. More homes in the US are newer. With building technology today, you can have those open floor plans. Windows today keep a lot more heat/cold out. Central heat/air in the US helps keep those bigger spaces comfortable. The ensuite might not have a door, but they usually have a toilet closet with a door.

[@kathykaufman1244]

That home is the site for Dallas the tv show, it’s enormous! My new home in SC was 2,200 which is typical middle class.

[@tosweet68]

Southfork is much smaller than it appeared on the TV show.

[@marknotestine424]

The house image at about the 2:00 mark is not typical in size. That is actually the house filmed in the TV show Dallas.

[@urstrulypalmer83]

No these are not normal homes for big cities. Here in the Midwest the homes are bigger and cheaper with huge yards. 80+% of the population lives on the coast. You would be surprised what you find. The Chiefs coach like 5 mins from my house.

[@joeyrobison6629]

The house pictured at 1:58 is actually Southfork Ranch, home of the Ewing family in the 70s and 80s television show "Dallas" which is by no means a standard house in the US. Never put a banana with the peel in the garbage disposal because they could wrap around the blades and damage the motor. We buy draining racks to stack dishes after hand washing them. Most kitchens in the US have double sinks instead of one sink and a drainage area, one sink to wash and one sink to rinse.

[@lunatuna79]

I thought it looked familiar! Yeah, much of their visuals was hardly representative, but the amenities they describe (except the lack of doors on the toilet and communal mail experience) felt pretty common.

[@pudgytodd-gt6yo]

We aren't wealthy at all but our house has an open floor plan so our kitchen dinning and great room are all visible from any room and so is our fireplace. Our fireplace is the focal point of our house. We have doors on all our batrooms.

[@adamcronin8846]

I'm a commercial plumber here. Having a master bedroom with a bathroom with no door attached is very common if you have money.

[@cmohnasky]

We have a bathroom in every bed room & a powder room for guests on the main level.

[@waynecerne7649]

we prefer hard floors with rugs because it is cleaner. Carpet captures dirt and dust and is hard to clean. We send out our rugs for complete 100% cleanings.

[@josephsoto9933]

In older communities, where houses are both closer together and more near the sidewalk, the mailman CAN walk a normal route. In some areas the houses are both far from the neighbors and from the street. This means that the mailman will have to walk huge distances between houses. In those cases you have a mailbox on a pole at the edge of your property and at the street. In this way the mailman drives a little truck delivering (and picking up mail) into those mailboxes at the street. Now many new housing developments believe that those street mailboxes are unsightly. In some new areas where they have smaller houses, a forest of mailboxes on poles is quite ugly. So now those new communities will have a little oasis of mailboxes (usually under cover and maybe a picnic table). They might look like small high-school book lockers. The mailman comes with a truck and a "master key" to open the individual mail boxes and distribute the mail (and packages) into "locked" boxes. Each "oasis" might have boxes for 20-30 houses or more. Some communities may have several....situated every 2 to 3 streets. In California my sister's each have their community mail boxes just around the corner. My son here in Florida has their's a block away.

[@warrenbfeagins]

Common area bathrooms have doors, but in some homes the bedroom bathrooms may not. It's YOUR bedroom. Lol!!

[@SaintGregTravel]

That “stunning” house at the beginning is Southfork Ranch from the TV show “Dallas.” That’s where I watched the solar eclipse.

[@pokerpariah]

Concerning the missing door to the en-suite bath room, I have only ever seen it in Las Vegas homes.

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

Oh. Ok.

[@babs4833]

The master en-suite in my childhood home had an open doorway, but the toilet was in an enclosed room with a door inside the bathroom.. Most people have letterboxes or mailboxes at their residence. Our mail is delivered straight to our houses, with few exceptions. If you don't like hardwood, put a large stylish rug down.

[@jacobpoore8331]

Enjoyed hearing from a couple from England. It makes me feel I should be more thankful for all we have in the USA. Thank you for sharing.. My name came from England in the 1600's, I think.

[@kaojinn]

The in-home climate control systems we use here are sometimes referred to as HVAC. Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning system. The system consists of 3 different machines working in concert, and a network of ducts that connect the furnace to the rooms of the house. Inside the house, the furnace is the central hub. It is responsible for heating, filtering, optional moisture control or even airborn bacteria killing. It also forces the air into the ducts, distributing it around the house. The condenser unit is outside, and it provides the cooling of the air, as well as moisture removal. Lastly, theres the thermostat, which is what you use to control the system. If everything is going right, you will only ever have to deal with the thermostat, aside from occasionally needing to change your furnace filter every 6-12 months. Some modern thermostats have more advanced controls, where they will give you temperature and humidity readings outside, courtesy of the sensors on the condenser. They can also be programmed with schedules, so you could program the system to turn off while you're at work, and set it to turn back on 30 minutes before you get home.

[@Kovitlac]

A coworker of my mom's from Shanghai visited us a number of years ago. The second she saw the house she exclaimed "You didn't tell me you lived in a VILLA!" Now my parents have a nice house, absolutely, but no one in the US would call it a mansion much less a villa. More of a mid-to-upper-middle class kind of home. But even that is unheard of in China. Ironically, I actually live in a villa or castle of sorts now. My apartment is in a building that was built to be a school in the late 1800s. It has TURRETS for God's sake. It's so cool.

[@jl696]

In hot climates like Las Vegas, many people have coated cement, marble, or ceramic/porcelain tile floors. It keeps the heat down and is easier to clean. People will put down a throw-down rug in areas for comfort.

[@youp9546]

The "no door to the ensuite bathroom" was a fad and one of the biggest complaints people had. The new homes which are in a neighborhood may have a central mail area due to the Post Office cutting down on the number of post men and women. Depends on the Post Office.

[@theravenloons5945]

USED to be the size of homes. Back in the 90's we had a 2,000+ sq ft house for around $214,000. In the 2000's we had to downsize to a 1,000+ sq ft house for around $400,000. We just bought a house and not only is it manufactured but it's only 717 sq ft. = $200,00 + the land/lot it is on, and the total came out to $300,000. Life here is not what it used to be.

[@rhondapease8516]

I live in the country within Connecticut. My house is 1233 square feet, L-shaped ranch, with 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom. It sits on a very large piece of property on a dead end road. Eventually I would like to have a half bath (just toilet and sink) built in the basement. It is more typical for the average home to have 1.5 baths and not 3 or more. Half of my basement is finished off as a recreation room. I have no garage and no carport but a driveway that can fit plenty of cars. The homes on my road were built in 1965 and all have just 1 bathroom, except for one which put on a second floor with another bathroom upstairs. If you go into the cities in the USA you can find plenty of small houses. Where my mom grew up in Pennsylvania there were many narrow 3 story houses to fit them on the small plots of land.

[@tosweet68]

This, again, is completely about where you live. I'd say more of the country than not has at least 2.5 bathrooms or more.

[@DroneStrike1776]

Mine is anAmerican 2 story bungalow style home, only 1200sqft with an additional 400sqft fully finished basement with a half bathroom and laundry room, sucks that it's not a full basement. There's an open space used as a movie room, and a small bedroom size I used to store things. The living room, dining, and kitchen with an island is open space, 2 beds upstairs, one bed downstairs, and a big bathroom. Sitting on a 8000sqft lot in a small town in RI. Home was built in 1950. Decent size home for this area, and very quiet and safe.

[@rhondapease8516]

@@tosweet68 This would be an interesting and funny survey to take. I always had the impression that you would only find that many bathrooms in the more expensive homes. Any friends or family I visited at a variety of different states from east to west averaged 1.5 to 2 bathrooms. Maybe it also depends when the homes were built and if they are in the cities or out in the country. These homes I visited were all built prior to 1990.

[@taobarb1]

Their mail situation isn’t typical. A lot of homes have door mail slots and others have mail boxes on the outside of the house or on the street in front of your house. A/C is fabulous, as are garbage disposals, lol. We have a true garden as part of our backyard. Lots of English roses!

[@jono8884]

Many years ago my wife and I went to the UK and we stopped to visit an elderly cousin of her's. I remarked to her what a lovely "back yard" she has....she immediately corrected me and said it was a "garden" as in the UK a back yard was full of junk.

[@claregale9011]

Workers yard . Or businesses that have an outdoor space would be a yard 😊

[@duanelavely5481]

I bought a 2-bedroom, 2-bath home on 3/4 acre in the mountains of Idaho. It didn't have a garage! Since I decided that I needed a garage, I decided it would be cost effective if I built a garage (3 car) with a 2nd story apartment for my Mother. I designed a loft style apartment. with a large deck on the south side (above the original house) & a balcony on the north side. The deck has a patio (sliding) door & the balcony has French doors. This allows a breeze in the summer. There is a full kitchen with dish washer & built-in microwave. All interior walls are 3/4 height including the bathroom, i.e., open concept. The bathroom has a Jacuzzi, toilet, bidet, pedestal sink, & a stacked washer/dryer. I did include a door to the bathroom. I installed double swinging "bar doors" for the perfect amount of privacy for an apartment dweller.

[@shadowkissed2370]

If they are in Vegas in that size house in a gated community they have pretty good money. They probably live in Summerlin, which is a wealthy neighborhood in Las Vegas. I used to live in Vegas, my kids were born there my ex-husband and father-in-law were security guards for the Prince of Brunei's Vegas mansion so I have been in the gates of the rich areas. For a long while I had marble slabs that were cut off from the Prince's mansion's kitchen counters when they were installed.

[@Msfelixthecatz]

Something nobody mentions is the size of furniture. My husband is British and his family moved to the States in the late 1960s. When I dated my husband I commented on the rocking chairs in the living room because they (in my eyes) were child sized. He laughed and said they were brought over from England. Furniture in England is smaller because the rooms are tiny. I started to pay more attention when watching British television, and my husband is right.

[@user-nk7yp8sj6o]

Older American here. I live in southern New Mexico, in what is often called the high desert. We have a house with a climate controlled system similar to what was shown in your video. Last summer it reached 132°F [55°C] in our back yard. We had well over 44 days of consecutive 100°F [38°C] days last year. In the winter it can drop down below 32 deg. F [below 0 deg. C]. You simply set the thermostat to heat or cool & forget about. It is pretty efficient & isn't really very expensive to run on either setting.

[@JelloMan2024]

Usually if you don’t have a door on your master bathroom it will have a water closet. That’s a toilet in a separate tiny room with a door

[@rrrxx11]

If the home is without a bathroom door then it probably has a separate room for the toilet. With a door. Some homes have a closet beyond the bathroom, meaning you have to walk through the bathroom to get to the closet.

[@3DJapan]

I don't have a pantry now but an old apartment used to have one. But that's only because the building used to be a house and the pantry used to be a bedroom closet.

[@caracrabtree715]

You’re correct about the pictures, 80% of people can’t afford a home that large. A small space looks a lot larger with an open plan. Even tiny apartments are now doing this.

[@nataliewalters2759]

Most homes get their mail at the end of their drive way . There are also homes that get mail in their doors as well. Having to travel far fir your mail is not that common .

[@s001dxp]

I'm an American and have never seen a en suite without a door. As far as parking, it depends on the city and neighborhood if you have on street parking vs a car port, driveway or garage

[@troyeggena718]

It's a master bathroom of the main master's bedroom. Normally does not have a door just as curtains. Everything else has a door including the other four bathrooms

[@toddsonnier3763]

I've never seen a bathroom without a door. Our home here in Southeast Texas is just about avg - 2759 sq feet. Our kitchen is a third the size of the one that they showed in a photo. It's very open-plan, has three bedrooms, two baths, an office and a nice front room for a man cave/media room. But Millie is right - they are showing 4-5k sq foot homes. Those ARE here in abundance, but certainly not average.

[@bigplanett]

Older American homes all had carpet, but more modern homes tend to have tile or hard wood floors because they are easier to clean and maintain. It's the newer trend here.

[@brucew7062]

You can plant a garden in your backyard. A garden for us can be a vegetable garden or a flower garden (which people plant in various locations of the front, side, or backyard).

[@nancypparsons2818]

Our family has lived in several US states. We did live in one home where the master bath sink area was open to the bedroom, but the toilet was still in a separate area with a door.

[@MA-jd4ui]

If you're building the house and you're looking at plans, it's up to you to put a door in your bathroom, sweet. Now if you buy a house that's already built, probably some of them didn't come with doors, but you can always put them in

[@jokerz7936]

Yeah, the house they showed the exterior for is Southfork the mansion from the tv show Dallas.

[@tosweet68]

Southfork, in real life, is much smaller than it looked on the TV show.

[@briankirchhoefer]

Homes in the midwest away from large cities are average this size.

[@vikingturtle5479]

They don't have a garden because they live in a desert. In most of the country, gardens, flowers, and trees are common

[@Sandman60077]

Carpeting is so much better than hardwood floors. Most people who have hardwood floors usually put rugs over them.

[@brucew7062]

Just remember that these homes they are showing are single-family detached homes in suburban neighborhoods. Many cities still have attached row houses like the British picture they showed.