European reacts to AMERICAN vs EUROPEAN HOMES

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Chris Reacts

Chris Reacts

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@renee176
@renee176 8 ай бұрын
I'm not sure how this couple's bathroom has been designed, but I've never seen a bathroom in any one's home in the U.S. that does not have a door.😳🤣
@dwightpalmer9730
@dwightpalmer9730 8 ай бұрын
I've seen no doors quite frequently. usually in homes built in the last couple of decades. This is in the en suite bathrooms only. The toilets in these baths have doors that cannot be seen because they are to one side.
@laguzl
@laguzl 8 ай бұрын
One of the houses I rented in San Diego didn't have a door for the master bedroom. It was just a walk through and I've seen many like that. It's actually not that bad.
@livesouthernable
@livesouthernable 8 ай бұрын
It absolutely depends where you live. In the south, all the bathrooms have doors. In the west and southwest, they build lots of homes with no bathroom doors in the ensuite shower area, but the area with just the toilet is separated by a door. I wasn’t a fan of the no-door feature in my last home.
@spaceshiplewis
@spaceshiplewis 8 ай бұрын
If it is a true master suite bathroom, you have other bathrooms for everyone else. You don't need a door for a private bathroom with a private commode room.
@tandaknights9047
@tandaknights9047 8 ай бұрын
Some times the "water closet" toilet is in its own little room with a door separated from the rest of the room but inside the "bathroom"
@pauladuncanadams1750
@pauladuncanadams1750 8 ай бұрын
Some people actually do have a "mail slot," as pictured. Many people, especially rural, have a mailbox in front of their home, next to the street. These boxes are not secure, so anyone can open them. However, in many newer, more modern housing developments, they have metal boxes on the street corners that have individual boxes in them. There are two sets of keys, one for you and one for the postal carrier.
@ronclark9724
@ronclark9724 8 ай бұрын
Some of the older neighborhoods have a mailbox on their front porch adjacent to their front door mounted on the house... But most rural homes have a mailbox mounted on a post by the street or driveway...
@garycamara9955
@garycamara9955 8 ай бұрын
It is a federal offense to mess with the mail, so people usually leave mailboxes alone.
@pauladuncanadams1750
@pauladuncanadams1750 8 ай бұрын
@@garycamara9955 DECENT people leave the mailboxes alone. Others steal your personal information and credit cards.
@PongoXBongo
@PongoXBongo 8 ай бұрын
Yes, my 1970s "four square" house (kitchen, dining / bed, bed) had a mailbox mounted on the front of the house (I've since moved it to the porch railing). Our postman parks at the end of the street and walks the mail to each house. My parents have a ranch-style house with a mailbox at the street curb. Their postman just drives by and pops the mail into the boxes. Same city, different setups.
@fmcloughlin85
@fmcloughlin85 8 ай бұрын
Mail is a mixed bag depending if you are living in the city, suburb or rural area. And I have seen some planned communities with what these people say where you need to talk to the end of the street. So it really just depends
@terrycarter1137
@terrycarter1137 8 ай бұрын
Chris, Bear in mind this is a very expensive house even by American standards, most American houses are roughly 1,000- 2,500 square feet three bedroom 1-1.5 bathrooms meaning a full bathroom has a bath/shower and a half bathroom has a komode and sink, sometimes a basement or a crawl space on roughly a half to two acres of land.
@eurekahope5310
@eurekahope5310 Ай бұрын
In California, the majority of homes would measure their properties in sq.ft., rather than acres. Acreage is for the very wealthy or the semi-rural.
@terrycarter1137
@terrycarter1137 Ай бұрын
@eurekahope5310 that's the same everywhere, and the amount of land the house is on, the house isn't floating, you can purchase a house based off square foot and the amount of land it sits on anything from 2, 000 square lot to several acres.
@SuperDrLisa
@SuperDrLisa 8 ай бұрын
Chris checkout Lost in the Pond. A British guy who moved here about 15 years ago. He and his wife just bought a house which is much more like a normal American house.
@deaniej2766
@deaniej2766 8 ай бұрын
Yes, Lawrence's house is much more typical, and in a more typical neighborhood, for the Midwest, but there is no such thing as "typical" for the entire US. Lawrence's house was built pre WWII, I think. Houses then were slightly larger, because families were larger. Immediately post WWII houses were "typically" 3 bedroom ranchers on 1/4th to 1/3rd acre lots. Current houses tend to be multi-storey, on smallish lots relative to the house size, because foundation and roofing are the most expensive parts to build, and land, in populated places, tends to be very expensive.
@BonneKlide
@BonneKlide 8 ай бұрын
I agree with this also! Lost In The Pond shows an “average” American home and Lawrence is pretty good at explaining a lot of his experiences as a Brit who now lives in the US. Homes vary Soooo much in the US. This couple’s home is actually quite nice and a bit above average I’d say. The majority of US homes have AC and Heat because of temperature extremes with the seasons, 1-2 bathrooms on average, 2-3 bedrooms on average, washer/dryer in a separate laundry room or the garage (in warmer climates) or in a basement.. outside of that, homes range from being pretty old (1800s for a home still standing is old to me) to being built yesterday. My home, for example, was built in 1962 and has 2 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms, an attached 2 stall garage, AC/heat, and not much of a yard (1/4 acre). Some homes have basements and some homes do not, some have garages and some do not as well. Location and climate will very much determine what is standard for homes for that area. I always find it interesting to see what the US looks like to those living in other countries.
@mmmdnvr
@mmmdnvr 7 ай бұрын
This is reality.
@byronicman
@byronicman 4 ай бұрын
He reacts to Lost in the Pond a lot actually. He does have a little bit of an issue understanding Lawrence sometimes, as his humor is verrrry British, lol. He tends to not understand when he's being facetious or sarcastic.
@Logan-ed4pu
@Logan-ed4pu 8 ай бұрын
I'm American, but live on the more poor side. I have never in my 40 years of life lived in a home like these lol.
@Lina_unchained
@Lina_unchained 8 ай бұрын
Me either. I almost want to do a house tour of where I live so that people can see what a real normal home is like here.
@trevor3013
@trevor3013 8 ай бұрын
It depends where you live
@karlporath8904
@karlporath8904 8 ай бұрын
This is the post for those of us that work for a living. My wife and I live in a 500 square foot home with one bathroom and a one car garage.
@StoneE4
@StoneE4 8 ай бұрын
@@trevor3013 No it doesn't... If you live in a house that is anything like the house seen in this video you have a lot of money. I don't care if that house is in New York, Chicago, LA, or Possum's Breath, Mississippi... You have to have money to own a house like that.
@trevor3013
@trevor3013 8 ай бұрын
@@StoneE4 that's incredibly ignorant of a statement which completely disregards the vast variances of housing costs, average incomes, etc. Also every single place you just mentioned is a large and expensive city. Which always cost more and are not even close to national averages
@trombone113
@trombone113 6 ай бұрын
Chris, I bought my current home about 5 years ago. It is a "ranch" style (just 1 floor) because I walk with a cane, so I don't have to climb stairs. It's roughly 1400 square feet, 3 bed, 2 bath with full 2 car garage. The driveway is large enough to fit 10 cars and my yard is 1 acre. (Roughly 43,500 square feet). I paid $205,000 and thankfully, I don't pay property taxes as I'm 100% disabled from the military. But I live in the country and am surrounded by farms. In the typical city, the average lot would be about 1/3 the size of my acre. My house is considered a "typical" size for a family of 4. Although there are many areas where the homes are much larger, they are not "typical". Hope this helps.
@1079walter
@1079walter 8 ай бұрын
I wouldn't call this couple's home "typical". It would be a bit out of the average Americans financial status, methinks.
@TheRayzerBandit
@TheRayzerBandit 8 ай бұрын
While yes, its mostly due to the size of the rooms and the fixtures and materials used in their house. For instance, cheaper newer homes can utilize the same sqr. footage of the post WW2 pop up neighborhood houses and also tend to do this "open style" set with the kitchen/living space. They also can be smaller bathrooms that still have the walk-in style showers, can still have 2 car garages attached to them, and most homes outside of inner-cities will have yards about the size of theirs, etc. All while being built for middle class families. The main features are still there, just smaller and cheaper fixtures whereas European homes wont have those features at all because they don't have the room to put them in.
@WyattRyeSway
@WyattRyeSway 8 ай бұрын
@@TheRayzerBandit……they live in Vegas and maybe the outskirts. Their property taxes are 0.48%, some of the lowest in the USA. That might help quite a bit. Buying a house in New York, Illinois or California would get you a lot less for your money than Nevada.
@TheRayzerBandit
@TheRayzerBandit 8 ай бұрын
@@WyattRyeSway Well yeah, even then getting houses in the rural portions of those states would get you more than The big cities all along California coast, Chicago, or New York. It's all a matter of where you live, but that's why we look at "averages". The "average" American can get a house with the features explained for a middle class budget (or at least could before this recent house serge).
@juliaswandanner6944
@juliaswandanner6944 6 ай бұрын
People who come here from other countries seem to be professionals (doctors, tech) or refugees. Only one of these groups is doing home tours on KZbin.
@lydiaedwards8100
@lydiaedwards8100 2 ай бұрын
Not in Vegas. It's an expensive home, but it's mid range; not unusual for a 2 income family or even a single professional. This neighborhood was a middle classed neighborhood and included smaller but well appointed homes, too for single people or new families.
@Diesal3
@Diesal3 8 ай бұрын
9:53 Here in the US we DO have the mail slot in some places. In the bigger cities where there are a lot of residential houses close together you will see either the mail slot or a mailbox mounted on the exterior wall just beside the front door. Most places in the US have a mailbox that is in front of the home near the entrance/driveway for that home. In some subdivisions ( a grouping of homes in a common location) they will have mailbox centers like what they are describing in the video. It's a central place where the mail carrier can stop once and place all the mail for that entire subdivision. They have special large boxes that are locked with a key for receiving packages also. If you open your mailbox and there is a key inside, it will have a number on it and you then go to that large box, open it with the key and your package will be inside. You simply leave the key in the key slot for that box for the next person to use it. Some places they will actually bring the package to your door even if you dont have a mailbox at your house.
@knighthawk3749
@knighthawk3749 7 ай бұрын
And usually cluster mailboxes like that are designed to be accessible from your car. At least for letters.
@judyhuurman1237
@judyhuurman1237 8 ай бұрын
We live in the US and our home is a 3 bedroom/2 bathroom, 1495 sq. ft. This is pretty typical for where we live, but housing sizes and prices differ depending what [art of the country you live in.
@Cashcrop54
@Cashcrop54 8 ай бұрын
My parents built the house I live in now in 1959. In the 1970's a den was added to it. It's not near the size of that house. It's a comfortable place. We used to have a big garden out back. My dad needed his onions. My bathroom is smaller than their shower!
@1stTrickiwoo
@1stTrickiwoo 8 ай бұрын
Mail centers are usually limited to gated communities in the US. The vast majority of US homes have a mailbox at the end of the driveway. In our rural area, some driveways can be quite lengthy.
@maureen14
@maureen14 2 ай бұрын
I'm American.I've been in many different homes.From multimillion-dollar mansions to small little Cape Cod cottages and I've NEVER seen a bathroom without a door in a home. I've seen it in nightclubs in BOSTON but never in a home. So I don't know what she's talking about.
@maureen14
@maureen14 2 ай бұрын
Maybe it was a sliding "pocket door" and she didn't know it to pull it shut?
@anthonysalomone3698
@anthonysalomone3698 8 ай бұрын
Hardwood flooring is often used in newer homes. I prefer carpets and tile floors in the kitchen, eating area and bathrooms.
@2012escapee1
@2012escapee1 8 ай бұрын
All of these "typical" American homes by wealthy Europeans and Brits are not typical.
@trevor3013
@trevor3013 8 ай бұрын
They are considered average so yes they are. Probably not by major city standards but they are the average in both cost and size.
@kramermccabe8601
@kramermccabe8601 8 ай бұрын
all these houses are under $500k
@ronclark9724
@ronclark9724 8 ай бұрын
Many Americans live in one and two bedroom apartments or condos. More Americans live in less than 1200 square feet ranch or craftsman style homes, among others. Not in homes above 2000 square feet, those belong to the upper middle class. Unfortunately far too many live in manufactured homes, trailers in trailer parks... See the 1984 film The Last Starfighter...
@rabbit_scribe
@rabbit_scribe 8 ай бұрын
​@@kramermccabe8601Not where I live they're not. If you could even find one that is
@kramermccabe8601
@kramermccabe8601 8 ай бұрын
@@rabbit_scribe well that is where you are not where they are
@ladyshark6485
@ladyshark6485 8 ай бұрын
I can vouch that is NOT a typical American home just by the sheer size 😂
@garycamara9955
@garycamara9955 8 ай бұрын
Depends on where you live.
@hiddenInsight486
@hiddenInsight486 8 ай бұрын
In a gated community by Vegas.....
@kramermccabe8601
@kramermccabe8601 8 ай бұрын
@@hiddenInsight486 in west summerlin they said in another video. Comparable homes in the area are $400-500k
@GimleysGirl
@GimleysGirl 6 ай бұрын
Here in America, the mail comes several ways, depending on where you live. Some subdivisions will have a central location of mailboxes where you have your own box and you have your key, there are homes that get their mail delivered to their homes by way of a mail slot in the door or a mail box right outside on the curb in front of their home. Some people who live in rural America, have to pick up their mail at a local post office who puts their mail in a separate box and they have to pick it up. Just depends on where you live. I lived in Strassburg Kaserne for several years, right outside of Idar-Oberstein Germany and found the town of Idar-Oberstein charming and the people were welcoming, nice and sincere. I miss it. Some of the best years of my life.
@cinderblockstudios
@cinderblockstudios 8 ай бұрын
Wow this couple is PRIVILEGED! Like holy crap every thing in their house is upper class and then some!
@Allaiya.
@Allaiya. 8 ай бұрын
True but they’re still comparing the house they could get in the UK vs US.
@marydavis5234
@marydavis5234 8 ай бұрын
They did say they live in Las Vegas and keeps saying what is in their house is not common in all houses in the US.
@1972Ray
@1972Ray 8 ай бұрын
Privileged? Maybe they worked for it.
@JoAnnaHolsman
@JoAnnaHolsman 8 ай бұрын
Oh please! These guys are pulling this info out of their ass! First of all, Las Vegas is not representative of American homes. The very large houses that they described belong to the very rich. The size and cost of the home depends on where you live. I live in California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. My home is an 816 sq ft. Craftsman. I have one bathroom and one plus bedroom (8X10ft room off the bedroom), a living room, dining room, kitchen and laundry room, hardwood floors, fireplace, large walk in closet off the entryway. No off street parking, I park on the street. If you buy a house like they were describing (5 bathrooms) it would cost about $6million. .....The mailman (Steve) brings my mail to my house and puts the mail in my box on the porch. You can choose to have your mail delivered to the post office or private version and pick it up there but most get it delivered. We recycle garbage here. There is one small can for garbage and a large blue can for paper, plastic, boxes, bottles and a yard waste can where, besides trimmings, grass, and weeds, we put food waste in. I guess some still have garbage disposals. That's kind of old school. .... This is a very big country. There are very rich and very poor and a lot of people in between. I'm in between. ... The stereotypes about Americans are just stupid. There are about 327 million people in this country. I certainly don't know them all. No one does. ..... Thanks for your channel. I just discovered it.
@ladyofwinterfel8143
@ladyofwinterfel8143 6 ай бұрын
@@JoAnnaHolsman 😆😆because youre in cali! If youre in a rich state that state is literally where beverly hills is and where rodeo drive is… if you want quality housing if yiu want more bangs for your buck move out into west virginia the houses there are awesome and clean i live in a neighbourhood thats actually descent and the houses i am shocked a 4 bedroom brick house is literally just 380,000$ thats impossible in california😂
@suzanneemry5770
@suzanneemry5770 6 ай бұрын
Yes. Those pictures were what I consider a VERY rich person's home here in the US. What they are showing is not typical. I have NEVER seen a bathroom without a door. Most homes have a mailbox either attached to their house or at the edge of their yard. Apartment complexes and some developments (pre-planned neighborhoods) will have all the mailboxes for a set area (a building in a complex or a section of the development in a development) but most individually built houses have their own mailboxes on their own property. Mail slots were very popular in the late 40s and 50s but most people have closed those off so things other than mail cannot come in, small birds, rodents, insects, cold air, small bombs, or (if someone were trying to frame you) drugs or stolen goods. As a side note, the US Postal service is very possessive about those boxes and (in the homes that still have them) slots. It is actually illegal to put anything other than mail that has been sent through the US Postal Service in the mailboxes and mail slots. Depends on the postal worker, but some of them, if they find a hand written encouraging note or even a homemade invitation to a kids birthday party will use their knowledge of which names go with which houses to issue a formal warning that next time you deliver something to a mailbox or mail slot without paying to have it deliver you will receive a citation and/or fee. I have experienced homemade invites being pulled out of mailboxes and the mail slots where the post person could still reach them and returned to my home. So you have to make anything your want to deliver by hand either hangable (of a doorknob or doorhandle) or bring tape with you. Some people have built a second box for friends and family and marked as specifically NOT for U.S. Mail as an act of civil disobedience.
@revgurley
@revgurley 8 ай бұрын
Our house is hardwood & tile in flooring. Only one room, the office, has carpet. However, we do have area rugs to set "gathering places" like a seating area around a fireplace, or under the dining room table. After 20+ years, the rugs look great, because we take them out to hit them about once a year, vacuum regularly, and get them professionally washed about every 10 years (we're due for another). The carpet in the office, however, is starting to fade, get matted, just not look "clean" and "new" anymore. But to fix it, we'd have to take all the furniture out of the office (heavy file folders, bookshelves, etc), have someone pull up the old carpet, haul it away, install carpet pad and new carpet. That's SO much more expensive every 10-20 years than hard floors with easily removable rugs.
@shadownor
@shadownor 8 ай бұрын
Chris, I am from the USA and I like your show. I was in the USAF for a number of years back in the 90s and became friends with some Luftwaffe people at NATO bases. Nice people.
@ronclark9724
@ronclark9724 8 ай бұрын
I spent three years at a NATO army base in Vicenza, Italy... Not far from Asiago...
@bamnet2k
@bamnet2k 8 ай бұрын
So to answer your question about mail. Much of how it works in the US is dependent on a few factors 1) When 2) Where 3) Why. Older communities like Philly have homes that date back to the founding of our Nation. They come from a time that mail was delivered directly to the home, and to send it out you would go to the Post, or to a post box. This system is closest to how it works for example in the UK. Other homes have a mail "box" attached to the wall that was used instead of the slot but functions similar as an incoming only or in other cases an omni directional box. Where I live in Florida we have streetside Mail Boxes. I receive all mail save for large packages in it, and can even send OUT letters without going to a dedicated mail "place". And finally communities can opt to have a central, or several mail centers to serve the whole community. The community we have a place at in the mountains of North Carolina has this - because it would be impractical for a mail carrier to go to each home and deliver mail when many homes can be miles away from a main access road - so the burden is shifted to those who live there and the carrier can deliver an entire community worth of mail in one go. Those centers also have an outgoing mail slot so you can drop your post off when you pick up.
@tinahairston6383
@tinahairston6383 8 ай бұрын
Their home is definitely for a upper middle class income. For those of us without a dishwasher have a dish drainer that sits on the counter beside your sink not built into the sink design. Some can be sized to fit your sink so as not to take up needed counter space but it can be removed to provide for more sink space. If you have an en suite, your toilet is usually located in its own room with a door which we call a water closet. But a lot of en suites don't have a door because it's only accessible through your bedroom. Their mail is located in a community location. That's NOT the norm and more of what you find in apartment/condo complexes. Most homes you'll see a mailbox either at the edge of their yard or like ours located beside the front door.
@Theegreygaming
@Theegreygaming 8 ай бұрын
yeah the homes they are discussing are definitely homes for the more affluent. for instance, my laundry machines are located in my kitchen, I don't have a dedicated panty, and I have a single bathroom that has a single sink. my mailbox is not a slot in the door, but it is 15 second walk from my front door to the mailbox, and that is rather average for "most" city single family homes. newer homes often do have attached garages or what are often called "shouses", a combined shop and house, but most homes constructed before 2000 don't have the garage fully integrated into the structure. it's either a detached garage, or it's just built directly next to and adjoining the house. an average "starter home" for a young couple or family would be a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom house, somewhere between 900 square feet, and 1500 square feet, and either a 1 car garage (that were usually built with larger american automobiles in mind) or two car garage. much smaller than what they're describing. Las Vegas is sort of the meca for people leaving the extremely high cost of living areas of southern california, so what they are experiencing is most likely an area of new built homes, that is catering to people that sold their homes for well above the national average and can now afford to move to las vegas and purchase what are essentially considered mansions by any metric.
@usmc24thmeu36
@usmc24thmeu36 8 ай бұрын
When you turn the garbage disposal on, you also turn the water on. Then there are these sharp knives, wheels inside the garbage disposal and it spends at a high-speed and it basically turns it into mulch and the water help moves away into the sewer.
@SnapesHoney2800
@SnapesHoney2800 8 ай бұрын
Some older buildings in America still use radiators. But a great majority use Furnaces. It is heated forced air through a vent system. It can warm a house up faster than radiators. The Air Conditioning is usually through that same Vent system. The one thing about wall to wall carpeting is the feeling of walking on them with your bare feet. They feel very nice.
@denniss5505
@denniss5505 8 ай бұрын
Most bathrooms have doors if it’s off a hall or shared with other bedrooms, but many primary suites are open to the en-suite or vanity area. Toilets in these are in their own WC, water closet with its own door. Their neighborhood is a newer master planned community, probably gated, with many houses tightly packed in together. This is why they get their mail at a central neighborhood location. The majority of houses in the US have a mailbox at the end of the driveway for suburban homes. In town houses would have a mail slot on the door or a letterbox on the wall near the front door
@DeRothschild
@DeRothschild 7 ай бұрын
Many people with large homes have a cleaning service visit weekly or biweekly
@commonsence1129
@commonsence1129 8 ай бұрын
Hey, Chris. I love your videos. The average cost of a house in the USA is $450,000. This varies by the size of the house, property size, and location. I can assure you that most houses here have their mailboxes at the end of their driveway and the bathrooms do have doors on them.
@VirginiaPeden-Harrington-qd5zu
@VirginiaPeden-Harrington-qd5zu 8 ай бұрын
this might be a gated community where it is usual to have one or two multi-box mail centers
@garycamara9955
@garycamara9955 8 ай бұрын
The beginning price of a house here is$500,000. Its not unusual for a house to be $800,000 to a million here.
@shoughlepuff
@shoughlepuff 8 ай бұрын
On my state the average cost of a house is $389,500, but the average cost of a house in my county is $763,000. Prices can vary greatly even within the same state.
@RebeccaRN1972
@RebeccaRN1972 6 ай бұрын
In my area, we have nice homes available for $150K.
@BriBryBriBry
@BriBryBriBry 8 ай бұрын
No idea why they are talking about not having doors to a bathroom...? I'm American and my bathroom has a door to it just like 99% of other homes I've been in lol. Idk what these Brits are talking about.. they did get pretty unrealistic with the footage they are showing during this video. I would say typical or average size house in the United States would be a little bit smaller than what they were showing really.. The stuff that they were showing has got to cost a bit of money.. And we don't put whole bananas down the garbage disposal in the United States.. I don't know why the hell he would think that okay to do? I'm sure it was fine but you just don't do that. And I have carpet in my house in a few rooms.. everyone I know has carpet in certain rooms.. I don't know why they are saying we all have hardwood floors and don't like carpet? 🤷‍♂️ News to me lol. I think they hear things one time about Americans and then believe it the very first time lol
@marydavis5234
@marydavis5234 8 ай бұрын
Their bathroom is in their master bedroom, where is usually no doors and the couple in the video are American,
@dwightpalmer9730
@dwightpalmer9730 8 ай бұрын
These Vegas subdivisions are built within the last 30 years or less. they are not stacked next to each other like some older cities. The Post Office would require many more postmen to walk the streets. It is more convenient to put post boxes on a corner for all homes on that street.
@deaniej2766
@deaniej2766 8 ай бұрын
A postal carrier in Las Vegas would get heat stroke if they had to walk a typical route. And driving one would be much higher cost if each house had to be stopped at, community or even cluster mail boxes on each corner are much more cost effective, for newer neighborhoods.
@owenshiverdecker6999
@owenshiverdecker6999 3 ай бұрын
Houses are too far apart to deliver mail door to door except in the city, in Las Vegas it is probably 35 Celsius, you go from ac house to ac garage to ac car, not going outside for nothing.
@StoneE4
@StoneE4 8 ай бұрын
It always blows my mind how so many rich people assume that everyone lives like they do. The American homes featured in this video are not typical American homes... They are homes owned by wealthy people.
@Alesia_Ianotauta
@Alesia_Ianotauta 8 ай бұрын
Yeah, it's getting ridiculous. Most of us don't live in houses like this.
@TheRockkickass
@TheRockkickass 8 ай бұрын
No they’re not
@rabbit_scribe
@rabbit_scribe 8 ай бұрын
Agreed. I'm reminded of a woman quoted in the local paper insisting that "$250,000 a year doesn't go as far as it used to." Boo hoo. 🙄
@IanFitzgerald
@IanFitzgerald 8 ай бұрын
It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost, ten dollars?
@1972Ray
@1972Ray 8 ай бұрын
They're very typical in my area of Maryland.
@Cookie-K
@Cookie-K 8 ай бұрын
This house would be considered an upper middle class home. Not every American is fortunate enough to live in such a big beautiful home. I don't live in a house this big but my house does have many of the same features ...just not as much space. As for the mail...they live in what seems to be a gated community so their mail system is different. Many or most Americans have a postman that will come to your house to deliver your mail.
@cinderblockstudios
@cinderblockstudios 8 ай бұрын
Upper middle!? That's straight up upper class!
@RealDiehl99
@RealDiehl99 8 ай бұрын
Yeah. Those are some high-end homes. Definitely not typical. I'd like to have a home like that!
@Tbone1492
@Tbone1492 8 ай бұрын
This is small townhouse in Nevada. The desert homes are much cheaper. Usually much bigger
@impossibleisjustanopinion9898
@impossibleisjustanopinion9898 8 ай бұрын
Not here in Nevada. My sister pays $1600 monthly for a 5 bedroom. Nobody wants to live here
@americasfavoritebrazilian2399
@americasfavoritebrazilian2399 8 ай бұрын
He's a BJJ trainer. Homes come much less in the desert
@ricardosaenz569
@ricardosaenz569 7 ай бұрын
When I was growing up our home was 5800 sq ft with 5 and a half bathrooms as well as a one bathroom studio. I have lived on both ends of the financial spectrum in my life and i can confirm that, like many things in the US, you see a large spectrum I have never seen a master bathroom without a door, EVER
@netdragon256
@netdragon256 7 ай бұрын
I have two homes in the Atlanta area. The biggest house is 4,300 sq ft and has covered deck, wrap around front porch, daylight basement, 10 ft ceilings, all upgrades possible including quartz, farmer's sink, butler's pantry (this is pantry #2, like a bar for entertainment), 4 car garage, wrap around front porch with fans, covered screened back deck with fans, grass sprinkler system, 300 sq ft closet in master suite, 6 bedrooms. Both houses have walk-in pantries, 100 sq ft showers, two walls of counter tops and 9x12 island, large nooks for tables in the kitchen (and separate formal dining), 2 story foyer or gallery, walk-in closets, daylight walk-out basements, bathrooms for every bedroom, media rooms in the master suite, HOAs with pool/tennis. The smaller home has a sunroom with vaulted ceilings continuous with the kitchen along with two-story tall custom windows in multiple locations of the house. Both homes are two new to have mailboxes. Homes built after 2015 have to have central mailboxes for the entire subdivision.
@tcb9351
@tcb9351 3 ай бұрын
Loved your commentary/reaction to the American home video, but I have to say that the Las Vegas couple's home is not a typical U.S. home. I've lived in more than 7 U.S. states on both the eastern and western coasts, in the far northern and southern U.S. as well as the midwest and southwest. I have good experience for what is typical. Many of their remarks are exclusive to affluent suburban homes. In major cities, yards/gardens and personal parking can be nonexistent. Mail slots and mailboxes at the house (or front door) is quite common. Ensuite bathrooms can have doors separating it from the bedroom (and it's likely the Vegas couple's ensuite bathroom had a private room with a door for only the commode). That said, I love your reactions -- keep on making your videos!
@DeRothschild
@DeRothschild 7 ай бұрын
Where I live. This is typical. The Woodlands, TX and Kingwood, TX.
@stevenwilgus5422
@stevenwilgus5422 8 ай бұрын
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Erfolg deines Kanals, Chris. Du hast 5K überschritten. Gut gemacht! 👍
@dovah69_5
@dovah69_5 7 ай бұрын
Chris, there are also things called "Modular Homes" or "double wides". You should check out some videos where they do walk throughs of 2024 models available.
@LivWonce
@LivWonce 8 ай бұрын
I consider the area that I live in to be upper middle class. Homes in my neighborhood (like mine) start at around 1 million and go up to about 1.5 to 2 million. Mostly professionals live in this area along with older families that have lived here for about the last 60 years or maybe slightly more--my home was built in 1963, and is 2,000 square feet (not including the basement which is the same size as the house) on over 1 acre of property. Many people commute to NYC--I did when I went to college and started work in Manhattan as an accountant. The Long Island Railroad drops you off under Madison Square Garden--it takes about 50 minutes if your catch an express train in the morning or about an hour or a little more on a non-express train. Homes are much cheaper to build in the US because we mostly use wood (we have a lot of trees) to build our homes. Building a wood frame home is much cheaper than using concrete brick or poured concrete--this method uses much less time, labor and energy than working with concrete--although almost all basements are poured concrete. If you want to expand or change your home, it's relatively easy and inexpensive. The garbage disposal does go to the same place where you flush your toilet. A garbage disposal works very similar to a professional wood chipper--it's does not recycle anything. It might be good where you have limited space for a back yard, but where I live on Long Island, NY, I throw most of my vegetable and egg shell waste in a compost pile. I don't know why, but some gated communities have their mail at a central location--not all, but some. The vast majority of homes that are not part of these gated communities have their own mailbox--usually at the end of the driveway. I love his comment about "heat from the sky is where it's at," I don't know what that means, but it's funny. I think he's talking about an air source heat pump--I don't know. Most people have back yards once you leave the cities. I live about 50 miles from NYC. I was born in NYC and commuted to college in NYC, but I was brought up on Long Island. My back yard is at least 10 times the size of this back yard. All my neighbors have large back yards. My two closest neighbors have pools, outdoor kitchens and more.
@cp368productions2
@cp368productions2 8 ай бұрын
These guys pretty much don't know what they are talking about. They were looking at high class suburbs with huge expensive houses. That's life in Vegas. We have many houses that the kitchens are tiny, the house itself is tiny. And pantries are actually very uncommon in American homes anymore. My house was built with on in 1910 but it was ripped out completely the walls even taken out in the 50's. Most houses have 1.5 or 2 bathrooms, not multiple. Just take everything they say with a grain of salt, it's wrong for about 80% of homes.
@ilikepotatoez11
@ilikepotatoez11 8 ай бұрын
True
@catw6998
@catw6998 8 ай бұрын
Some peo0le in the northern area of the US, use fireplaces or they get wood/pellet stoves.
@trevor3013
@trevor3013 8 ай бұрын
The numbers they gave are averages
@richardm2069
@richardm2069 8 ай бұрын
Las Vegas is in a desert and water is in short supply, so grass is usually artificial, and not much in the way of gardens since they require watering. And these people make the generalization that all American mail is delivered miles away. Most houses in cities and older suburbs get mail delivered in the door or a private mail bid next to it he front door. Most of these videos comparing things in America to Europe are based on just one area of this vast country. Different states do things differently.
@spaceshiplewis
@spaceshiplewis 8 ай бұрын
This is an average house, it isn't a mansion.
@waltermaples3998
@waltermaples3998 8 ай бұрын
Hello 👋 Chris. I Love your reaction videos 😉👍❤️❤️❤️
@Chrisb.reacts
@Chrisb.reacts 8 ай бұрын
Hey Walter :) Thank you, you are always one of the first :)
@babyfry4775
@babyfry4775 8 ай бұрын
This is not typical. My first home growing up had one bathroom for a family of 6. Small home, not large like they are talking about. My laundry room is in the basement. I do think having a washing machine in the kitchen is strange. Lots of American homes are not as large as they are showing.
@BSGSV
@BSGSV 6 ай бұрын
My last house was 3600 square feet. It had a huge kitchen with a room for breakfast, a pantry, and a formal dining room, a family room and a formal living room. Upstairs, I had 4 bedrooms and a total of 5 bathrooms in the house: one attached to each bedroom and one for guests. The master bedroom was 22 feet long, the width of a 747. The master ensuite bathroom was 800 square feet, bigger than my student apartment or a UK home according to this couple's chart. It did not have a door, but when you consider the size, a door is irrelevant. The shower had a door. My shower was 5 feet x 7 feet with a large window on the mountains. The toilet area had a door too. My closet was bigger than some studio apartments. As a single man, I had the smallest house in the neighborhood.
@SuperDrLisa
@SuperDrLisa 8 ай бұрын
They live in Las Vegas where houses are relatively inexpensive They also live in a planned community which is very different than normal houses on side streets. My house is 120 years old. 1900 Sq. ft. Every room has a door. Air conditioning is a unit in each room. I have parking for 6 cars but no garage. My lot is 100x150 feet, large for my neighborhood. My grandparents from Pforzheim purchase this house 100 years ago. It's been updated many times. At one point we had 4 apple trees and a chicken coop. Grandpa had most of c the yard as a garden. Daddy turned it into maple trees and grass. I'm adding pine trees, other big trees and hopefully no grass..just clover and violets. Natural. I have had deer, turkeys and a Fischer. My current resident is Chuck the ground hog. Yes I name them if they stay...
@Charlee1776
@Charlee1776 8 ай бұрын
I think you would find that where I'm from in the northeast (New Jersey to be precise) but also in most of the rest of the surrounding states also we have many brownstone brick buildings that are packed in much closer together. They still tend to be a bit larger than in the UK on average (with exceptions like NYC perhaps) but even here we have larger/more expensive homes in the suburbs.
@Sunshineandflowers1997
@Sunshineandflowers1997 5 ай бұрын
We have mailboxes at our home addresses here in America. Having community boxes is something of a newer concept in some modern neighborhoods. In more expensive neighborhoods, the mail is always delivered to a personal mailbox.
@NurseEmilie
@NurseEmilie 8 ай бұрын
The ground up scraps go down the pipes with the water, the same place all pipes go, then out to the sewer pipes at the processing plant.
@Sivartius
@Sivartius 8 ай бұрын
The Garbage Disposal is for food waste, and it's basically like a blender set under the sink. It chops the food up until it's small enough to pass through the drain without issues. One thing to note is that the types of houses they're describing for the US are newer homes for people in the Middle and Upper Middle Class. Houses for the Lower and Lower Middle Class are more likely to be about midway between that and the UK sizes, with 2-3 bedrooms and 1-2 bathrooms. They still have the garages, and if they're old enough they might have the door slot, but having a separate mailbox on the road is the norm. This is partly because a lot of US homes have a fenced yard in front and in back, and mailmen are sometimes unwilling to go in for fear of dogs, but also so that the mailman can simply reach over and deposit the mail without having to get out of their vehicle. Also, depending on the part of the country the older houses may have a swamp cooler instead of an air conditioner, or may have one or more air conditioner units that sit in the window and are not integral to the house.
@adventureridergirl
@adventureridergirl 6 ай бұрын
I'm a dual US/Italian citizen (birthright citizenship for both) and I grew up both in the States and in Italy. There are two main things that prevent me from moving back to Europe, 1. air conditioning and 2. house sizes. My current house in the States is over 325 square meters (3,500 square feet) and only costs $600,000 US (and about $350,000 of that price is location). An equivalent house in Italy is €1,000,000 minimum.
@katiee263
@katiee263 8 ай бұрын
These folks are living in Las Vegas, which is not typical of our US housing at all… I’ve lived in 9 states, and Vegas’ (and Southwestern US housing in general) homes, infrastructure, and building norms are nothing like any other place I have lived. They may appear “rich” (and housing there is, indeed, outrageously priced) but almost every single post-80s home there is identical in several ways… stucco outdoors, walls covered with “orange peel” texture (spray texture, which after spraying is “knocked down” flat but not perfectly so, which hides a lot of flaws in drywall/sheetrock installation and finishing), and more often than not, pretty much anyplace you go has “builder standard” doors, plumbing fixtures, flooring, tile, counters, etc. The open bathroom setup in Las Vegas and some other southwestern areas, if present, often has a little side room with a door for toilet usage privacy, and then just the tub/shower and sink areas are open to the bedroom. My house there was set-up with the en suite open to the master bedroom, the toilet was in a side area with a door, and a 2m x 3m (-ish) walk-in closet was across on the opposite side of the sleeping area on the back of the bathing/sink area… which was strange. But in Las Vegas, with the heat and low humidity, I guess the builders don’t worry too much about moisture affecting clothing storage 🤷🏼‍♀️ Secondary or not-en-suite ones in Las Vegas are generally more traditional, with a door between them and the rooms or halls that they are attached to. Oh! And that mail thing… that happens mostly in single-builder housing developments that have HOAs and a “main entrance” street, in my experience. It seemed most common for most neighborhoods’ houses (a ton of which were built in the mid-90s) to have their own private mailbox either at the end of their own driveway or attached beside their front door when I lived there.
@katiee263
@katiee263 8 ай бұрын
PS - carpet is a default in Las Vegas in every room that you generally don’t want to use tile for - the concrete slab that the houses are built on (no basements or cellars, or even crawl-spaces, are standard there… they just slap down a house-shaped slab in a shallow hole dug in the sand, and then build on it directly - most electrical, plumbing, and ductwork for the A/C and heat is installed in the walls or overhead) only easily lends itself to tile, glued-down vinyl roll flooring (cheapie alternative to labor-intensive tile work), or carpet.
@WyattRyeSway
@WyattRyeSway 8 ай бұрын
I live in Texas. My parents have their own bathroom but it has a door. The other bathrooms all have doors. European homes don’t have pantries in the kitchens? Every house I’ve ever been in has washer and dryer in the laundry room. I could not live without air conditioning. Sometimes we using the furnace. We use our garbage disposal constantly. We live in a rural area so we have a huge yard, side yards, with a real garden, several out buildings…..it’s a working ranch/farm. We have a trampoline in one of the side yards. We have hard wood floors (or the acrylic….im not sure because we aren’t wealthy) and some rugs but our rugs aren’t fluffy.
@Vinylrebel72
@Vinylrebel72 8 ай бұрын
Great video again Chris!!! BRAVO!! Love your channel!
@scottdean2199
@scottdean2199 8 ай бұрын
These homes are NOT typical in any way - they are very high-end. Still they show some of the tendencies you will often see, though on a smaller scale. Mail slots are fairly common in cities with row houses. These people seem to live in a development (planned neighborhood), likely private (where the streets are owned by the Home Owners Association rather than public), and it sounds like they have a large group of post office boxes near the entrance to the neighborhood. Most homes have a mailbox on the road, as the front door can be a ways from the roadway. My home is 1152 sq feet (107 m^2) on 0.42 acres of land. It has three bedrooms and two bathrooms (one off the living room and the master bath off the master bedroom). Our kitchen/dining area is half the width of our house and about a third of the length. The laundry is an open area across from the dining area and allows access to our pantry. We are somewhat unusual in that we don't have a garage, or even a carport. Home layouts will vary widely based on where you are since the zoning, building codes, and natural environments vary widely!
@jeannine1739
@jeannine1739 6 ай бұрын
Many years ago, Sears, a mail order catalog company, actually sold and shipped build-your-own house kits. Funny, no? There are many of the homes still standing, apparently the kits were very well designed.
@michelem226
@michelem226 5 ай бұрын
The mailbox unit in newer neighborhoods in America is made up of individual boxes with locks. Each person on that street has their own key to their box. The back of the unit is one large door and only the mailman has the key. He opens up the door and slots all the mail into the correct boxes. It's so much easier for the mailman and he/she gets their work done much faster.
@notshylo
@notshylo 6 ай бұрын
Most new construction communities in the US since 2018 or so will have centralized mailboxes aka cluster box units. For houses built before that date, most people have street side mailboxes and older areas might have a box near the front door or a mail slot in the door.
@Trifler500
@Trifler500 8 ай бұрын
The most common form of heating in the US is central air. The houses are built with vents for the air to circulate throughout the home. This is also why Americans don't feel any need to open windows to "air out" the home, because air is always circulating automatically. These vents are used for warm air to heat, produced by furnaces, and optionally also for cool air. Heat pumps are also becoming popular. These vents are why it's easy to add air conditioning to older homes in the US. In Europe, the most common form of heating is hydronic, and the homes have additional water pipes to distribute warm water to radiators. Older homes had/have boilers, while Europe has long been transitioning to using instant water heaters for both hot water and for warming the home. They switch to instant easily due to the existence of those water pipes for heating. Existing US homes don't have the option of doing that. You would have to tear the house down and build a new one that includes the necessary water pipes. On the other hand, European homes don't have the air vents, so they have a hard time adding air conditioning. They likewise would have to tear down the house and build a new one to include the necessary vents. Of course, a window air conditioner is still an option, but not a central one.
@karenthompson8038
@karenthompson8038 8 ай бұрын
Most homes will have mailboxes that are upfront by the street that you can get your packages and letters n usually bills that are in there and when you want to send something out, there’s a little red flag on the side that you push up and that tells the mailman that you’re sending things out for him to take! But if you live in community, especially in Nevada all the mailboxes are when you come into the community (that’s probably a gated community) so when you come in the mailboxes are usually on the right hand side you popped out you open up your little mailbox and a lot of them will have oversize mailbox that they will leave the key in your mailbox and you open up the bigger mailboxes and take your package out and just leave the key in the oversize locker But like I live in a community and all of our mailboxes are right across the street from me n right next to the rental office that has a gym a business area, a game room and main office n they probably have the same thing. I hope that answered that question.
@cjordan724
@cjordan724 8 ай бұрын
Mail in the USA, 380 million ppl....some cities have homes with door slots for mail, some have a central "mailbox" used by the neighborhood (multiple locked mailboxes in 1 big box, maybe 1 for every street), rural or country homes have the mailbox at the end of their driveway. These all depend on when or where the houses were built.
@LJones-tx6eg
@LJones-tx6eg 8 ай бұрын
Most Americans live in much smaller homes, all the ones on these videos are upper middle class not average American
@karenjayne24
@karenjayne24 8 ай бұрын
They showed the average size of several European countrie' homes and american homes. I was sort of surprised by some of the numbers.
@ladyofwinterfel8143
@ladyofwinterfel8143 6 ай бұрын
@@LJones-tx6eg the average american is upper middle class for the most part majority of americans are well off check the statistics we have 820 billionaires and almost 2,000 millionaires are created everyday… you have to move out of where you live to see it
@shallowgal462
@shallowgal462 8 ай бұрын
I rent one floor of a 104-year-old, 2-family American home, in a historically working-class neighborhood, so I have a living room, dining room, kitchen, full bathroom, three bedrooms with closets, all totaling about 900 sq.ft. where I live alone. There is wall-to-wall carpeting everywhere except the kitchen and bathroom. I have a front porch, and my mailbox is right by my front door. We share access to the basement for our own separate storage and laundry areas. The house comes with an unattached 3-car garage behind the house opening on an alley. There is a back yard between the house and garage, as well as a front yard street-side. It came semi-furnished, with water, sewer, and trash collection included in the rent, which is now $900. All other utilities, such as satellite or cable TV (the house has both a dish and cable connection), Internet & Wi-Fi, landline phone service, hydroelectric power, and natural gas, are additional. This is not only pretty typical for my area of the U.S., but I think far more representative.
@michelem226
@michelem226 5 ай бұрын
The ground food scraps go into the wastewater system. This means the wastewater treatment plant has to work harder to filter out all that solid waste. The solid waste is then disposed in landfills. The plus side is that you don't have big chunks of food clogging your pipes. We don't have a garbage disposal and big chunks of food get down into the drain all the time.
@b.sherrieb9977
@b.sherrieb9977 5 ай бұрын
Doors to the on-suite are pretty standard - at least to the bathing and toilet area. Because of declining use of hand delivered mail, the post office has gone from delivery at the door (very old neighborhoods), to a box at the street, to consolidated mail box locations - typically 20 to 30 mail boxes at the corner for the one day a week you actually want to check your mail.
@noonespecial3878
@noonespecial3878 8 ай бұрын
for mail, remember the US is nearly as large as continental Europe. we also have 330+ million people spread out all over. My state for example is slightly larger than the UK. Postal carriers have a much shorter distance to travel than here. My state, by the way, is Oregon, 255,030 km². UK, 243,610 km², Deutschland 357,592 km².
@garycamara9955
@garycamara9955 8 ай бұрын
You can fit more than 2 Europes in the US.
@davide.s.9880
@davide.s.9880 8 ай бұрын
We do have mail boxes at each home. Some have a box attached to the home. Some have them right on the road and you might have to walk to the end of your drive way to get mail. Then there are homes that have mail slots in the front door were the mail is put into the home. Where they are is a different type a cluster mail box because the post office is trying to cut jobs.
@maureen14
@maureen14 2 ай бұрын
I've seen a lot of homes, especially older homes that have the mail slot in the front door. She's out in Vegas and that's a lot newer than the rest of the States.
@Ginoulmer
@Ginoulmer 8 ай бұрын
They are in a gated neighborhood where there is a building at the gate for everyone's mail. It's not like that in most of America. We built our own 2 houses in Montana for a combined 450k, and my brothers is 6400 square feet on 40 acres while mine is 4400 on 20 acres. My brother has two 4 car garages, and I have one 4 car garage. We also share a 2 story shop with a car lift and a pit and paint booth. We restore classic cars and build log homes. Because we did all the labor ourselves they are worth quadruple what we built them for. We also have a natural spring where we get all our water. We lived in cheap rentals and drove cheap cars and saved for 12 years to build them without any mortgages. Our friends drove new cars and went on vacation so it wasn't easy to do but we had a goal to both retire early and fish in Canada and Alaska with our wives and kids for retirement
@kurtsnyder4752
@kurtsnyder4752 8 ай бұрын
There is a door on that toilet room. It is off at the left side. She might be referencing some smaller bathrooms where the sink, tub( or most likely a shower stall), and toilet are in the same space; the guest one.
@MichaelDrone
@MichaelDrone 8 ай бұрын
Mail boxes depend on the city and state. In Texas is a mixed bag. Grew up in Houston and my mailbox was right at the end of the driveway. I live in San Antonio now and it mail is a centralized spot in the neighborhood.
@AlaskanGlitch
@AlaskanGlitch 7 ай бұрын
I own a 210 sq. m. (2,260 sq. ft.) two story, 4-bedroom, 2-bathroom home with a 55.7 sq. m. (600 sq. ft.) attached garage. The home includes central heating, but no air conditioning. At 61.5°N, I do not require air conditioning. On those rare Summer days when temperatures exceed 26.6°C (80°F) I open a window. The garage has its own separate natural gas heater, and I keep the garage temperature at a minimum of 1°C (33°F) all year. I also get my water from a well and my wastewater is processed through my septic system, both of which are on my property. The only services that are provided to my property are electricity, natural gas, and telephone. Mail services vary depending on where one lives. In cities and towns, the mail carrier will deliver to each home, as they do in Europe. If you live in the suburbs or outside of the town/city limits, then you live on what is called a Rural Route and mail is delivered to a specific area, not each individual home. It is up to the home owner on Rural Routes to establish their own mailbox in the area designated by the post office in order to receive free mail delivery. For the even more remote areas, towns and villages are not even given a ZIP Code. They are required to share the ZIP Code of the closest bigger town or city. For example, Sleetmute, Alaska must share the same ZIP Code as Bethel, Alaska. Which means that all the mail for Sleetmute is delivered to Bethel by the USPS, but then it is left up to private individuals to deliver the mail the rest of the way. It is common for private bush pilots bringing supplies to places like Sleetmute to also bring the mail. One can also obtain a Post Office Box, which is typically located within the Post Office. There is an annual fee associated with Post Office Boxes.
@americasfavoritebrazilian2399
@americasfavoritebrazilian2399 8 ай бұрын
He's a BBJ trainer close to the gym. Otherwise besides work. It's not typical to live in the desert. It's much more like Germany in the mainland
@Dank_Nuggetz
@Dank_Nuggetz 8 ай бұрын
In the 90s, my father would travel a lot for work.(usually 2 weeks at a time) Belgium, Germany, Puerto Rico... One time we hosted an employee from Belgium. When he saw that we had a 2 story home, he thought we were rich. 5-6 ppl living in a 3 bedroom home.
@kurtsnyder4752
@kurtsnyder4752 8 ай бұрын
10:19 some newer developments do not want alot of traffic, even from a mail carrier, so they have "condominium" style multi boxes. Maybe each with key openings, Think shoeboxes with the ends in a 1 X 20 or a 2 X 10 or a 5 X 4 pattern,or perhaps more.
@aresee8208
@aresee8208 8 ай бұрын
I lived in a house in Germany for 2 years. It was a duplex with a 2 stories above ground and a basement. It had a small backyard but no front yard except some bushes. Inside the differences came down to just a few things. 1. The whole portable kitchen thing. Our landlord provided the kitchen, for which we were charged extra each month. (For supposedly anti-caitalists, the Germans track every penny.) Since I worked for the US government, they provided us with a full-sized American refrigerator (plain white with no frills). There was room enough in the kitchen, though I had to remove the refrigerator door to get it through the kitchen doorway. 2. The dining room and living room were one open space - maybe unusual for a German house. 3. More tyically, the bedrooms had no closets. The US government gave us a bunch of ugly Schranks, which we put in the smallest bedroom to create a walk-in closet of sorts. We actually had one small closet juet inside the front door, though. 4. The second floor bedrooms and bathroom had the typical sloping wall/ceiling thing at the top, with triangular dormer windows. 5. All the windows and the doors to the patio and second floor balconies all had rolladen shutters. 6. Of course, no air conditionong. But we replaced two ceiling lamps (one in living room, one in main bedroom) with ceiling fans that we bought at American PX. We left the fans there when we moved back home. The pnly other thing worth mentioning is there there was a single space driveway in front of a small detached, but sometimes we parked on the sidewalk in front of the house - a seemingly normal thing to do in Germany. The house in Germany was actually bigger than my rowhouse in Baltimore.
@scipioafricanus2
@scipioafricanus2 7 ай бұрын
I use the unfinished portion of my basement as my storage room and it is also a laundry room, and a boiler and furnace room. works out well and the other half of the basement is finished which I use as my study.
@maureen14
@maureen14 2 ай бұрын
We need to fill up all the space we got here in the United States!
@suzeheidt8358
@suzeheidt8358 2 ай бұрын
We do have our own mailboxes, what they're talking about must be a Nevada thing. By the way, older homes often have a separate garage. In newer homes, the garage is typically built into the house
@billsturm9225
@billsturm9225 5 ай бұрын
Something you must realize, their point of view is based on their unique experiences living in Las Vegas where prises are a bit different to the rest of the country because the casinos suppliment living in the area in order to keep people living there. Las Vegas has the best funded school district in the country and cost of living is considerably lower as it is in the desert and get opressively hot.107 farenhiet (41 celcius) makes it difficult to be outside. I have seen it get up to 117 farenhiet (47 celcius) there. Backyards in America are varied depending on interests. Some have pools, others have gardens, some have neither and are just set up as a nice area for their kids or animals to play. Some people keep smaller animals such as goats or chickens while others have a mixture of all of it. Harwood vs carpeted floors are also a matter of preference. Most Americans have tile floors in their bathrooms but put soft bathmats in them. For kitchens, its common to have a hard floor of some type which can be wood, laminate, tile or lenolium. Where things differ is the living spaces. Some have harwood throughout the home, these are typically older homes whereas newer homes will be carpeted or laminate. Most Americans do prefer their bedrooms to be carpeted however because no one wants to get up in the middle of the night or early morning and step on a cold floor. This is what people mean by "cozy".
@deanbarcelona1427
@deanbarcelona1427 4 ай бұрын
We use to have the one in the door mail in older houses in Chicago
@johnniekight1879
@johnniekight1879 8 ай бұрын
Garbage disposals grind everything into tiny bits. They don't have doors on a private bathrooms which are part of the bedroom. They live in a gated community so all their mail boxes are at the entrance.
@suzeheidt8358
@suzeheidt8358 2 ай бұрын
A pantry isn't exactly just a storage area. Only food items are stored in there, or at least those that don't need to be refrigerated. You want your food close to the kitchen, which is why separate pantries are attached to kitchens
@JIMBEARRI
@JIMBEARRI 8 ай бұрын
The "Master Bathroom" [en suite is a British term] is only accessible for the Master Bedroom. Presumably, the bedroom door will be closed, but even so, most Master Bathrooms WILL have a door. Some will even have a smaller room inside the bathroom simply to enclose the toilet. There is really no "TYPICAL" design.
@chasecarter8848
@chasecarter8848 8 ай бұрын
I'm American and comfortably middle class. My house is just over 3000 square feet, but that doesn't include the attached 2 car garage, not the detached 1000 square foot "shop" or working area that also has its own half bath, heat and AC. It's also sitting on 2 acres of land. This isn't exactly typical, but no one considers it special really, just a nice suburban home.
@dmpvip
@dmpvip 7 ай бұрын
This home is pretty much standard new construction in the market I live in except it's a bit on the small side. We would also have a full basement and very tiny yard.
@heathersantell1228
@heathersantell1228 8 ай бұрын
We do have some bigger homes if you can afford them.. I am poor and my family has always lived in apartments. We never owned our own home. We have small homes and big homes. please don't think all US homes are this big. or that we are all able to afford.
@cjordan724
@cjordan724 8 ай бұрын
On suites without doors have a toilet in a small room with a door (a toilet cubicle, if you will). It's more hygienic to separate the toilet from the rest of the bathroom. The onsuite "door" is the door to the bedroom...if you are bathing, you close the bedroom door.
@kurtsnyder4752
@kurtsnyder4752 8 ай бұрын
11:12 Sky? He means the ceiling AC vents. As far as for the heat, could be from floor vents or wall mounted ones near the floor
@BTURNER1961
@BTURNER1961 8 ай бұрын
These are not romotely typical in the US. There are specific neighborhoods and areas in rural area that will cater to the very wealthy where that kind of space is available . The typical smaller American home is a two to three bedroom affair with two bathrooms ( one small), with a living room and dining space/ room and an adjascent kitchen. Most will have a pantry, and a small laundry area separate from the kitchen. They will have both a front and back yard with small 'side yards' an either a one or two car garage. Some will have a fire place, some will have a basement, or two floors for larger families but as family size has grown smaller and income levels shrunk those are less common. We just don't have the wages to afford the kinds of mortgages this video reflects.
@kristenboren7853
@kristenboren7853 8 ай бұрын
texas here!! no sweetheart. all of our houses aren;t this huge. mine is very small but i love small homes. a lot less to clean 🤪 great reaction!
@lydiaedwards8100
@lydiaedwards8100 2 ай бұрын
In Las Vegas, having homes with these features is typical. Homes range in size from 1200sq ft to over 3000sq ft for typical family homes.
@j.w.greenbaum7809
@j.w.greenbaum7809 8 ай бұрын
Because the US is huge, we have a lot more land and space so there is a lot more property to build homes on. Growing up in Michigan every home had almost an acre of land and a 2 car garage. There was. Large farm behind us and a large woods; we lived in the country. Everyone of our bathrooms (3) have doors that close. We have a walk in shower off our master bedroom besides a separate bathtub but one of the reasons we bought this house is because I had knee operations and the walk in shower with a built in seat really made life easier for me. Mailboxes are very common in homes I’ve lived in but apartments have mailboxes that lock on the main floor…this is how our apartment was in NYC. I much prefer living in the countryside. NYC apartments cost way too much and are small. I was so happy to move and have nature and a lot more space in a house.
@CD-Oylee
@CD-Oylee 8 ай бұрын
This is a newer style home. They have been building them bigger over the years. I grew up in a very small house where your mailbox was in front. Trust me that a house like that is not affordable to most if near a coast or near a popular city.
@anncawthon9183
@anncawthon9183 Ай бұрын
Larger homes are less crowded and have more storage, so easier to keep neat and clean.
@Sunshineandflowers1997
@Sunshineandflowers1997 5 ай бұрын
We also have huge gardens in our backyards in the suburbs and in the countryside here in the US.
@Alesia_Ianotauta
@Alesia_Ianotauta 8 ай бұрын
The letterbox thing is more for new build developments. My house is 50 years old and has a mailbox at the end of the driveway.
@JohnFourtyTwo
@JohnFourtyTwo 6 ай бұрын
It depends on the post office how your mail is delivered and letterboxes have been around for a very long time in the US, not something new at all.
@jennifergreen1567
@jennifergreen1567 7 ай бұрын
The postman would never have enough time in the day to deliver mail directly to the door. In cities mostly mailboxes are mounted on the exterior wall beside the front door. A door with a mail slot would be a special order. So many open spaces in the US we need a mail truck, the driver puts mail in a mailbox usually at the end of your driveway. It’s a bit inconvenient but realistic.
@DanielGrigg-d2n
@DanielGrigg-d2n 8 ай бұрын
One of the things we don’t have is an excess of is water, at least in the southwest. My family once owned 90 acres of land but only owned the water for 10 .
@NancyVaughan-qp2gn
@NancyVaughan-qp2gn 8 ай бұрын
Our mailboxes are by the roadside. It is because the mail carrier has such a large area to deliver to. They drive right up to box and continue on to the next, and the next house
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