So the toilets are not THAT FULL that splash on ur bum is not common and the thought of it having less water stresses me out there would b turd tracks..the tea kettle thing NOT TRUE like we TOTALLY have tea kettles on our stoves BUT WE DONT KNOW WHY…we certainly aren’t making hot tea a lot we do drink tea and in the south it’s sweet we make a big pitcher and put in fridge drink it cold over ice…the no air conditioning and no dryer thing in UK is a deal breaker for me..it’s so serious to me I’m like well I for SURE can’t even visit UK in summer. I keep my house at 68 and if it hits 69 I FEEL IT AND WILL FIND OUT WHO TOUCHED THE THERMOSTAT the thermostat touching is a HUGE DEAL FOR PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE..it’s such a big deal that u literally dream about the day you move out of ur parents house so u can control the thermostat! If I had to hang my clothes to dry I would lose my mind! I can’t imagine having to wait for the right weather to do laundry! That is bonkers to me!

I would say that they are completely generalizing. I'm sure there are plenty of places in the UK where you can park more than three cars😁 there are plenty of spaces in the US where houses are tiny and on top of each other. Just depends on where you live. Location location location!!😂

1st point really does not go for downtown newyork or any big city . it's only the car dependent suburbs that have the single family homes with a big yard around. (btw those are financialy not solvent.. ie subsidized by the rest )
Edit. yea the rest of the topics just fill in the USA sitcom reality . every thing big, no time for family, gogogo hop in the car . drop kids off . no time to cook just have pizza . etc etc .

This guy might eat in the living room, lots and lots of people eat in there dining room, or kitchen and talk to our loved ones not watch the idiot box.

Well, Chuey, Hank, and the rest of us live in a 100+ year 2 story old brick house that has dementia! It is 2800-2900 sq ft, 5 bedrooms 1 teeny tiny bathroom that used to be a closet, as the house was born before indoor plumbing. We have a wonderfully creepy dirt root cellar that I avoid mostly. YES, the 'ol outhouse is STILL available for the brave. Thank the good Lord above a previous owner installed central air and oil heat, which is kept year round at 62 degrees. My husband (a classic car FIEND) added a 3 bay garage and a couple car ports. We have a good chunk of land by rural standards and beyond that is woods.

That was fun guys. Most homes up until say 20-30 years ago had carpet but it has been a big thing all over the US to take out the carpet and install wood or tile for easier maintenance. Carpets hold, dirt, get stained and get very worn in high traffic areas. I live in South Florida so it's rare to see a basement since we are only 20-30 feet above sea level but I would love to have a basement if it wouldn't flood. Many people including me don't park their car in the garage because it is used for all the stupid stuff we hold onto instead of throwing out or giving away, LOL. As far as the socket we never unplug b/c all devices have on/off switches. You do see a flag being flown on some houses but not that many esp. if you live in a homeowners association where the bylaws may not allow it or they might limit the size of the flag. Most homes in South Florida do not have big lawns b/c land is so expensive. Most suburbs require that you properly maintain your lawn or you can be fined. In other parts of the country people will have many acres of land and can do whatever they want so it just depends on where you live.

I live in a doll sized house with two taps in the bathroom and a single tap in the kitchen, my garden is patchy with dried up yellow bits at the moment and the local cats like to use it as a toilet 🤦🏻‍♀️! My partner is from Scotland and he says you definitely wouldn't want to put up football flags there! This was entertaining though, I'm envious of all their space!

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Some of this is bull. Most modern homes DON'T want carpet wall to wall. Our toilets aren't full. Maybe halfway. He makes it look like it's about to over flow at all times…geez! Also in places like where I live in Texas we have the A/c running most of the time during spring, summer and fall because it's typically in the 90's to 100's most of the year. And opening a window doesn't help. One a rare nice fall or spring day I gladly open up the windows!And I do NOT drink coffee- only hot tea. I don't often use a kettle because of time. I stick my mug in the microwave to heat up my water. Great reaction guys! Have a great day!

Maybe it's a regional thing, but it's quite common to see tea kettles on stoves,. I can't recall the last time I saw an electric kettle, though.

I'd seen a lot of these in other videos. There's a US reactor who watches all the Brit stuff (he's pretty funny) so these weren't really surprising. It's funny how many differences there are though, so these are always good to watch.

My front 'lawn' is a lovely combination of yellow and brown, with random shoots of green in there. There's a lot of cats in my street (not including my two). My back garden is huge (my house would probably fit 6 to 8 times into it) and at the rear of it is a wooded area leading down to the River Ely. It's current state is shocking, it has to be said. There's a few trees out there (I think one of them is an apple tree), and I have blackberries growing randomly everywhere. Very hard to keep on top of. When my back fence came down a few years back I even had the local horses out there. They destroyed everything 🙈

Sorry, long one folks. … Overall better than many US vs The World videos.
The single faucet vs two taps is always in.

In the rented apartments I lived in, I noticed:
1. Bedroom doors had locks built into the door knob (on the inside). Maybe that was so repairs needed only one type?
2. Bedrooms didn't always have ceiling-mounted light fittings. Instead some sockets were controlled by a wall switch I'd associate with ceiling-mounted lights. So residents bought their own free-standing bedroom lights.
3. Bathrooms had ordinary mains power sockets, with no 'fancy' safety cutout!
4. No radiator or heated towel rail in bathrooms to get towels or dressing gowns toasty.

Closet space in bedrooms was lovely. In one apartment, the two 'walk-in' closets were much bigger than the spare room or bathroom in my UK house.

Wall to wall carpeting seems 'standard' in the UK except for kitchens and hardwood floors. So I never noticed that.

Toilets are half-full of water. Yes, 'splash back'. US cisterns seemed larger, and use more water. Some don't use syphons. When they break, water flows continuously (they have stopcocks).

Some friends drink tea. They have a water boiler which looks like a tiny espresso machine. Pour a cup of water in, and it boils quickly. No waste. It works very well. I've never found it in the UK.

In some parts of the states, there are residential 'zoning' laws with low maximum number of houses per acre. I think a friend said 6 houses/acre, but maybe 8/acre. I don't think I understood why. He thought it was intended to maintain a roomy, 'rural', feel, and maintain property values (knowing no more houses will be squeezed into view).

A separate laundry room was useful! The 'industrial scale' washer and drier generates a lot of heat and noise. Laundry rooms were vented independently from the air conditioning. That amount of heat was best kept within its own almost-passively cooled room (AFAICT fans but no air cooling). Also, the apartments I lived in had open-plan kitchen/dinning/living rooms, so the noise of laundry wasn't interfering with conversation, TV or music.

From a very small sample of friends houses in the USA (CA, GA, MA, NH, TX) most do not have any basement. However, one has a multi-room basement with a 'Den', bigger than the ground floor of my house; sofas and a big screen TV, for 'watching sports and drinking with buddies'. Another room holds a big gun-safe, workbench and tools.

The other friends with a basement have their antiquated central heating there. They have no central cooling, so summer is hot. They moved way out of cities and towns to get several acres at an affordable price. Only seven homes on a mile of road.

I've never researched garbage disposal vs garden and food waste bin collection. I give my food waste to a neighbour who has a 'Hot Compost Bin' (composts 4-8x faster?). When I had a garbage disposal in the US, I guess it used no more water or power than a quick (electric) shower each day (less than a rubbish collection lorry loitering outside my house two minutes every two weeks?). However, I have no clue whether the increase in 'organic matter' in sewage is good or bad.

Un-switched US sockets are a 'crock'. See below.

Best Wishes Chaps. ☮

——— US domestic electrical plugs and sockets ——–
1. I never assume anything is off unless it has a proper mechanical switch. (So nothing with a remote control 'On/Off', a built in digital clock that is always correct, or a 'clicky' old calculator push button on/off, like my new, temperature adjustable, kettle,) So, to ensure electrical equipment is off, I either used a switched extension, or pull the plug out.

2. A lot of US electrical 'stuff' have only two pin plugs, and don't have the round Earth pin. So, no UK Earth-leakage protection in US 'fuse boxes' or electrical distribution boxes. AFAIK, Earth-leakage protection saves more lives and injuries than fuses.

3. A 3KW kettle in the UK uses 12.5Amps at 240V (Power = Current (I) × Voltage (V)). At 110V that translates to over 27Amps. Power loss (heat) in wiring is proportional to I² so doubling the current increases wasted energy from 1x to 4x. IIRC US domestic sockets are rated for 15Amps or 20Amps.

4. US plugs and sockets are quite flimsy by comparison with UK plugs and sockets. So plugging and unplugging always seemed wear-inducing. The brass pins are just thin strips, without any insulation at the plug-body end. This seems 'dodgy' compared to UK plugs where live and neutral are insulated at the plug-body end to prevent electrical contact if the plug isn't fully pressed home.

5. As well as bare brass pins at the body, US sockets are 'flush' with the wall. Many (eg European) sockets are recessed for the plug body, so it is practically impossible to touch a live pin.

notice they don't have electric jugs there. guess the low 110 voltage wouldn.t let them boil quick enough, if at all.

This video is too far-fetched in my opinion.

This whole thing is just too generic for words. Kept me busy shaking my head saying no, no! It would take way too long to type rebuttals. There aren't many green lawns in California this year for sure.

Occasionally one of you does this mockingly exaggerated American accent. It seems it is meant to be disparaging but comes off as a tad immature. If you disagree or don't like something said, perhaps voice why rather than mocking the accent?

I think the average size is over stated. There are bigger houses here but more like 1600 sq ft average versus about 900-1000 there. Anyone correct me if you thing the estimate of 2700 sq ft is closer. Full tiles floors in hot climates like mine.

Hello Gentlemen hope all is well.

Hey guys from South Carolina.

The US’s geography and size of said geography lends housing to be very diverse. BP 1 mentioned gated communities. I’d bet to say that nationally it’s a low percentage of folks living in them. I admit that in the metropolitan areas and suburbs the gated communities appear to run rampant. It’s the larger picture that counts in the statistics. We downsized to a 1535 square foot house on five acres about 30 miles outside of Nashville, TN. Previously, we had that “basement” and double the size. Neither house had wall to wall carpeting. Hardwood floors in both. Our toilets aren’t the same height. Hubby prefers the taller seat. Not me. Hell, I’m shorter. Toilets not “high water” filled either. Have coffee maker. Heat water for tea in it or microwave. No garbage disposal. Feed the compost to feed the garden. No sports flags, much to my husband’s dismay though he is weird about the pristine lawn, all 5 acres. I wear shoes inside due to crappy feet needing support. Sorry, know you give give a hoot about my house and yard, much less my feet. Just using my ramblings an example to rebuke some of the videos comments. Last note: location really dictates what’s happening in the US , not to mention folks’s mindset. Cheers to you two. Love ya!

We can fly any flag we want in the US. The only exception would if you live in a neighborhood with a HOA or Homeowners Association. The HOA makes the rules and everyone who lives there agrees with said rules or they cannot reside there.

Remember this: Many Americans are armed and throwing a brick through a window or damaging anyone's private property could get you legally shot. Here in Florida, defending your home with deadly force is protected by law. Of course, if I break my neighbor's on accident, he will not shoot me. If I do it on purpose, however, then I could end up dead.

By the way, you are not allowed to let your lawn turn yellow or brown in most places in the US. You are required to maintain your lawn at all times. Failure to do so is a hefty fine.