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- Today i am reacting to an American House Tour in Connecticut, this has sealed it, i am moving to the USA!
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So that home that you are looking at is an “unfinished basement”. The basement in our home is a finished basement which has 2 bedrooms, a full bath, a laundry room, and an office nook. Depending on where you live will determine if you buy a home with an unfinished basement or a finished basement. My home including our basement is about 2,000 liveable square feet, 2 car garage, and a big backyard. Paid $235k for it.
As an Australian I picked his Kiwi accent straight away.
Thats NOT houses that most Americans live in!
My uncle's house: th-cam.com/video/2VenLpCVI58/w-d-xo.html
Connecticut is where rich New Yorkers go to feel like they are 'roughing' it in the country.
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@@MoreAdamCouser i was visiting a friend who lives in Connecticut and we went to nyc on the commuter rail. on the way back it the entire train was literaly only 30 to 50 year old business men who work in ny and bought nice houses in Connecticut and then me and my friend drinking vodka in a mountain dew bottle lmao.
My family are Quaker dairy farmers in rural Connecticut..
All the rich uppity NYC folks have caused property values to soar in many small towns.
They aren't welcome my father's family have lived in Connecticut sense 1665.
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Or where middle class people live under a very heavy tax burden, lol. I live in Connecticut, I know. It is a good place to live otherwise. I was born and have always lived in CT.
Best way I can explain where Connecticut is to a foreigner is: It's a state that's in-between the cities of Boston and New York.
We indeed are
We are a highway state.
@@Avarice21 Is Connecticut *big* enough to have a highway? On the map, it looks like it would have maybe two or three exits at most.
@@jonadabtheunsightly we have some of the most congested highway stretches in the entire US. stamford CT takes up 4 spots in the top 10 most congested roads in the country.
@@jonadabtheunsightlyomg! I make the drive from NY to Boston regularly. I95 has 94 exists!! It is a nightmare to drive with all the traffic & construction. Are you sure you aren’t looking at the state next to it called Rhode Island? That is tiny.
This is ALSO NOT representative of American homes. There are huge regional differences...Some areas have no basements because of the water underground, or there is so much room, they make bigger homes....etc Other areas have older homes that more like UK terraced homes... mostly in the east where british influence was strong... Other areas have Spanish influence, french, log cabin styles, modern.... The U.S. is so huge, you will find many styles and sizes of homes, flats, semi-detached all in the same city. Country homes are again another sub set... Want to get a real feel? Look that the real state search sites and see what is on the market... lots of interior pictures to look at.
Adam, just for clarification, a house like this in Connecticut would cost at least three times as much as your current home in Ireland.
Try 5x more lol
Indeed, still not an accurate reflection of an "average" home here in the US.
Although, if you take that same house and drop it in Adams County, PA (around Gettysburg), it would probably run about $500,000. Still not an “average” house, but location means everything.
@@scottspringer3625you're right. Same house cost different in different places. I'm in Pennsylvania too. South East. Giant houses. But overpriced.
Add a zero, it's in CT. I don't see this for less than 2 million. Hell it would be nearly 1 million in rural Indiana as long as it's within an hour of Chicago, Indianapolis, or Cincinnati.
Basements are usually the same foot print as the house. The main portion of our house is 28ft x 40ft. That is the dimension of our basement. No basement under the 16ft x 28ft garage. My mother in law had a home with a basement that included the area under her two car garage. That basement was enormous!!!
In locations where winters get particularly cold, the ground freezes substantially for several months.
In these locations, building code requires that the area under rooms that are considered living spaces have at least a basement or at minimum a sunken space.
Reason: The frost from the frozen ground will "seep" into a floor that is only a cement slab. By putting in a basement or sunken space under the main floor, frost cannot make the flooring around the house freeze. This also helps mitigate rotting of walls at the floor level since the basement must also be heated.
Bonus for having a basement: More space to put the furnace, HVAC, water heater, and other utilities necessary for the house without consuming space in the living spaces.
All that being said, if you go to warmer locations where the winters do not freeze the ground, you will find that most homes do NOT have basements to save cost on the building. Building code in these locations are different because of the climate requirements.
Connecticut is a state part of the tri-state area suburbs (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut) of New York City. And yes, that house is a fairly typical home for the area BUT it is a high income area. I have seen many times that natives of England, Ireland, Scotland, etc don't really grasp the enormity (thus the huge diversity) of the U.S. For example, Edinburgh to London is 384 miles and could be driven in a day. Bridgeport, Connecticut to L.A. California is about 2,850 miles and would take the better part of a week to drive. So lots of America means lots of different standards of living.
Any reason you chose Bridgeport as a starting point.
Just to clarify - a home like this is not the average American home, but it's not rare by any means. A lot of houses in the midwest and the South have this much space. It really depends on what state you live in.
The most surprising thing about this video is that you didn't recognize that this guy is NOT American. I thought he was Australian, but apparently he is from New Zealand. Very distinctive NON American accent! As to Connecticut: we don't pronounce the c in the middle. We say Conneticut. I don't know why! This house is quite lovely, very large, and on a big lot. Not the "average" home. I live in Dallas, TX, and you would not believe the wealth here. Neighborhood after neighborhood after neighborhood of enormous homes, it starts to seem like everyone is rich. But, no, that's not the case. But North Texas is unbelievable in terms of the number of huge, beautiful homes. You would just not believe it.
I pronounce is "connect-i-cut" in my head when I need to spell it thought.
What? @ 10:00 he literally says he doesn't sound American
Everything is bigger in texas. Main reason i wont date a texas woman.
This is a totally typical suburban house where I live. The only difference is most people have a liveable space finished in their basement. Most don’t have that extra space in the attic though.
That Connecticut home is typical of newer builds. The rest of us in CT live in regular ranch homes. FYI, our property taxes are very high.
I think this is a pretty typical home for the area. It would be in the bigger side in my area, but not the biggest. It reminds me of my grandparents home. That front room would have been filled with the "good" (read expensive or antique) furniture that kids were not allowed to play in and definitely not allow to sit on said furniture.
Basements are typically (depending on the home design) the entire size of the main floor of the house. Usually you finish them and can divide the space into more bedrooms and/or a game room.
I was surprised because a house that appeared that large had a pretty small garage.
I live in the Midwest, we built a Shome ... footprint is 80x60 ft with 1800 sq ft of living space (3 bedrooms and 2 bath), connected to the shop 2400 square feet with 5 bays for vehicles. We live on 10 acres. Our cost was 189,000. Depending on where you want to be and how you want to live, prices vary significantly from area to area.
I grew up middle class, and to me this definitely qualifies as a "rich people house", but its a lot more "normal" house than the previous house.
Such a beaut home
There's rich and then there's rich and then there's rich. This is probably somewhere around 80th-90th percentile, I guess: definitely quite a bit nicer than average, but not nice enough to be really unusual. I think most Americans don't live in a house this nice but do *know* somebody who does. I've visited houses this nice or nicer on a number of occasions but have never lived in one.
He needs to watch one of those shows that fixes older homes like Good Bones or Love it or List it.
So he can see the before and after.
Depends where you live. Solidly middle class in Boise metro area.
This is not rich 😂 you can afford this is you're making 6 figures rich is 7 and 8 figures
In my old home we had a fully furnished basement with storage, a workshop for my moms scrapbooking, a living room with a couch, chairs, a carpet and a projector for games/tv. Then we had a bathroom with a shower and I full bedroom with a walk-in closet at the end of the basement. I was very fortunate but basements can be absolutely massive in the US.
I’ve live in Tennessee and have lived in Alconbury England in addition to Tampa Florida and Joshua Tree California.
The houses compared cost twice as much as your home and mine.
Although the homes being built all over the US are unaffordable for the general public.
I live in middle America where there are small, medium & large homes. I do think the average home in America is probably about 2000 square feet. We do love a large kitchen, where family & friends can gather. I would love to see a tour of your home.
This is not a typical home in the USA, this is a home owned by someone with lots of money, and a job with great income...Its the kind of house most of us average people dream of too, but u could work a lifetime on regular wages and never be able to afford this kind of home.. I wouldn't be supprised if the monthly pymts on this house were anything from $3500-$5,000 a month, and the taxes and Insurance could be in the thousands too...and altho it is very beautiful, and has lots of rooms and space, why would u need a home this big unless u had a large family...like 6-8 kids...to me its just plain greedy to have just a husband, wife and dog to take up this much space on our planet, when there are so many people working their A**es off to live in a small cramped house that was built in the 1950's- 1960's and can barely afford to pay their electric and heat bill every month...Can u imagine what the utility bill is for a house this large, to house just 2-3 people?... I wish all Americans could have a big beautiful home like this, but its not the typical or average home, so don't be to excited...
I lived in Connecticut for 17 years before moving cross country to California. Our house was in Easton Ct. and zoned for 3 acres. Many of our neighbors had more acreage and had horses. Beautiful State.
Yup. This is a good representation of my house. My basement is like a man cave. All gaming stations, billiard, a bar, has halfbath. All appliances (Tv, fridge, mini kitchen, everything you need without going upstairs. A giant Tv is a must.😊
Prices for homes vary very widely, depending on location. In the Boston, New York, Southern California areas homes are very expensive.
My father just sold his home in a suburb of San Diego for $1.3 million. By no stretch of the imagination is the home huge. It has five bedrooms, three full baths, a bonus room and is roughly 3000 ft.².
@@michaelnguyen4603 In Manhattan that is the cost of a 2 bedroom apartment with way less square footage!
Best houses: big kitchens, t-bowls for each and every b-hole, giant backyard, finished basement, attached garage
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This has a basement. Connecticut gets very cold in the winter. Living in the east coast US in several different states, my personal opinion is that this house and others built since 20 years ago is an average middle class house. Variations are seen everywhere with more or less land.
More please; love seeing how happy these make you.
Hahaha more are coming!
Houses are different depending on what part of the country you live in. I’m in Texas and we don’t have basements usually due to the kind of soil we have and where the water table is. In the northeast part of Texas many houses do have storm cellars because that area is on the edge of Tornado Alley and people need a safe place to go.
I'm in Connecticut. It's southern New England east of New York.
Adam, regarding the basement thing. Basements are essentially the foundation of the house when they are incorporated, so they, by necessity, have to extend to the size of the first floor of the house. So yea, if you convert the basement of a house to be livable, it's a huge amount of extra living space. My parents, using only half of their basement, basically have a second living room, complete with TV, Lazy Boy Chairs, couch, dartboard, and a full bar and bar stools. Basements are awesome, and they're usually the coolest part of the house, temperature-wise. It's really nice in the summer.
Note this house is in Connecticut and is 1.2 million dollars even though that house here in Minnesota where I live is cheaper.
Yeah seriously our house in Wisconsin is nicer with a much bigger yard and was way cheaper
@@sarahwolfe1154 Try Texas. It's even more cheaper. I don't get the upside these people have living in areas paying so much for the price of less that you can get in other places like both our home states.
@tyreek.6815 Proximity to culture, Boston and New York.
That's just because of inflation.
My house is in Georgia and sits on one acre with a community pond in the back and a Canal across the road. 3 bdrms/2baths, open dining/kitchen with island/living room, walk in closets, walk in pantry, laundry room, and connected 2 car garage. $238,000 for 1548 sq ft single level.
When he finishes that basement... ceiling, sheet rock, carpet... it will be additional useful living space. A game room, an extra bedroom, and extra bath. That door likely has stairs behind it going back up to ground level. If the zoning allows it, you could make it into a separate basement apartment with a mini-kitchen.
Basements can get crazy. A lot of southern homes don't have them but so many cool types of houses out here!
The reason southern homes don't have basements is that a few inches below the grass is rock. It would take a few sticks of dynamite to blast a hole big enough for a basement.
Whereas the region I live in (30 miles from the beach) having a basement means you get a high risk of an unwanted indoor pool. The only way to only maybe get around that is with fully poured and properly sealed cement and even then it’s not a guarantee
@@ronaldjohnson7855 I wonder about that, because New York City and the surrounding areas are mostly built on top of granite. You can even see a lot of it poking out of the ground in many places, Central Park included. Most homes in NYC and the surrounding suburbs do have basements. The house I where I grew up in northern NJ had a full basement. Where I am now in Southern NJ, there are few basements because I'm much closer to the ocean - water table is too high, whereas my childhood home was in a rocky, mountainous area.
My typical home/apartment is a short hall way that leads into a living room, next to the kitchen that has just enough for one person to be in and I have to use the sink in a addition to the miniscule counter when cooking. One bedroom with the bathroom off of it, so that any guest have to go into the bedroom to get to the bathroom. Cupboards and shelf space is limited. This configuration is typical for many Americans. With maybe a few added bedrooms for larger families.
This isn't quite fair, but it is very much like a house that middle class Millennials grew up in because Gen Xers could afford this house when it was actually affordable. It just has a rich single guy aesthetic with no kids to fill it with toys and school work. Connecticut is super expensive but normally this sort of house would be $500k-$700k with updates. In Connecticut, this house was sold to him for apparently about $990k, which makes sense as actual mansions over in that area are about $1.2mil.
very true. This house in suburban Houston would probably be around 600 to 700k, more towards downtown in the heights about 1.2 million. In rural Texas probably 400 to 600k depending on how much land it sits on. Location is everything. But, it wouldn't have a basement in the South. Too much groundwater.
@@laynem3242 There's many reasons why basements are less common in certain regions. and like most things, it usually comes down to money. The reason why many southern homes don't have basements is because they simply don't need too, because the ground doesn't freeze so a slab on grade foundation is cheaper. If you wanted to have a basement in the south, you certainly could. It doesn't matter how much groundwater there is, it's just a matter of the proper design. People in the south still build in-ground swimming pools, and it's important that the water in pool doesn't leak out and that groundwater doesn't leak in. Not to mention people have literally build concrete tunnels underwater for vehicles to travel through.
The door in the basement most likely leads outside, where usually there's a set up steps leading up uncovered or covered by bilco doors. Another thing with basements, some houses have finished basements that act as game rooms or family rooms. In my parents house, one side of the basement was a finished family room and the other side was unfinished, used for storage and held the washer, dryer, furnace, and water heater.
If you want to see houses with full size basements, check out houses in Colorado. Almost every house in that state has one.
Nebraska has great basements, they need them for the tornadoes.
Also note that warmer regions of the United States that don't get much snow, don't have a frost line and therefore don't have a basement.
@@Agra586 I’ve never heard of ppl having basements bc if snow. That’s odd.
I've been living in the Denver area for 10 years, and have lived in 3 different houses. None have had basements (or air conditioning either).
Now, growing up in IL, every single house I ever lived in or had friends at or visited had fully finished basements with carpeting and furniture. Often 2nd living rooms, guest bedroom, and bathrooms down there.
9:03 yep, more or less the norm if you have a basement, pretty much the wood house is built on top of a cement pit, not the garage or driveway for obvious weight reasons, and then the central part of the building is held up with an i beam and really thick steel round beams.
if you don't have this style basement, then it was either an addition to the house and its a small pit on the side, or you have essentially a crawl space,
I was born in Connecticut!
Pronounced: connet-a-kit, 3 syllables, let it roll off your tongue without too much emphasis on pronunciation. It's on the East Coast, a small state and one of the 13 original colonies (now states) when America was founded.
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Connecticut is up North and very, very cold in winter. But lovely in summer. Basement is usually the exact same square footage as the main level. So everything you see on the main level with his study living room, family room, kitchen, toilet, etc. will be the same square footage is the basement. In our basement, we have big room guest suite with a full bath, several storage closets and Office and a big storage area for Christmas stuff and luggage, and things like that. My last house did not finish so it became a junk yard. 😂
This is still definitely an above average home in the US. Not as luxurious as the one's we saw in the other video though.
It also looks like this is an older home that has been extended based on the interior. The original footprint was likely only the front living room, dining room and part of the kitchen. As well as the second floor and basement above and below, respectively.
Glad to know I'm not the only one to name rooms by their color, not necessarily their function. We have a "green room" that is technically a bedroom (has a closet, entrance door, and escape window) but we use it full-time as an office. We have a "yellow room" that is a guest bedroom. And we have a "brown den" because it's completely paneled with dark wood (which is different than the "gray den/living room" which we keep nicer for guests). Looks like you hit 3K! Eager to see your place!
Adam, you are more than welcome here! You can join the rest of us friendly bunch of Americans! I’m a US citizen born and bred. It isn’t perfect here for sure and we have our problems, but I would not choose to live anywhere else.
Love this!
I'd say financially supporting overseas genocides while our own citizens go hungry qualifies as quite a bit more than "problems". this place is just a third world country with a Gucci belt that worships a stick of wood used to torture their god to death.
you Only Say that because you never Left the US
@@LiaGarciaNu1 well I will second his notion. And I have traveled to Canada, Mexico, The Caribbean, The Netherlands, Austria, Germany, France, The UK, Egypt, UAE, The Philippines, Japan, and Costa Rica. As well as traveling all over the continental USA including Hawaii and Alaska. And you don’t have to take our word for it. The USA is overwhelmingly STILL the number one destination for immigrants and is still by far one of the most desirable passports on earth.
@@LiaGarciaNu1 Nah, people who have never learned about any place else say dumb junk like "America has the best health care system in the world" or "America is the most racist country in the world" or "Everyone loves America" or "Everyone hates America" or "Where is Amsterdam? I looked all over the map of Scotland and couldn't find it." Nuanced views like "[place] is not perfect, but I would not choose to live elsewhere" come from people who actually know things.
I moved to Bridgeport, CT in 2002, was paying about $875 for an efficiency apt, then moved a few years later into a one bedroom apt within the same complex a few years later for about $975 a month, finally at the age of 45, bought my first home in Meriden, CT for $175 K, a 90 year old home with almost a half acre of land, now valued at $295 K - was able to buy through a VA Loan
Easy way to pronounce Connecticut. Cun- etiquette . Say it quickly. Now I am Midwestern, so keep that in mind too.
This is a larger house where I’m from (southern Georgia) and it would be between $200,000-400,000 depending on the area. I have a single level, 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, built in the 90s “ranch” style house that’s 1400sq ft and I bought it for about $120,000 but it’s worth closer to $180,000 now. My kitchen and living room are much smaller and I don’t have an official dining room, but there’s an extension of the kitchen where there is a dining table. All the bedrooms are made to house king size beds and still have room for bedroom furniture. I have a smaller laundry room, a carport vs a garage, and over 0.5 an acre of land. No basement because we have a lot of ground water. We do have well water though, so that’s a fair trade off in my opinion.
Yeahhhhhh don't say "luring children in" unless you want Chris Hansen knocking on your door there bud
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"Why don't you take a seat over there?"
Don’t get ur panties in a twist
Our basement is a walkout which means it has a doorwall, a full size windows that face outward, it's also not finished per se, but it's 2200sq ft of shite. Old furniture, pool table, summer furniture storage, my messy corner where I paint, and the other corner where my husband works. We worked so much we never used it other than what I listed, and we have a 2nd floor we don't use at all, 3 bedrooms, and 2 baths, just wasting space. Personally, I want to downsize, but we don't owe anything and price of moving for a smaller place would be ridiculous at this time. Would LOVE to see YOUR home!!!
Thrilled about Connecticut? Spring summer and fall consist of only 3 months, all the rest, bitter cold and wet. Holy smokes, that's a big basement. Cheers!
Connecticut is not that bad. Yes winter lasts until April but the summer is beautiful as well as the fall. I lived in CT for 3 years as a teenager and loved going to Long Island sound and taking ski trips in the winter. That said, Im a southerner and would never live north of North Carolina now.
@@scottc8127 You're right. Connecticut is not that bad if you're a kid. I loved the snow sports in New York State growing up. It's when you get older, the weather's not so friendly.
Seriously, 3 months of nice weather? I don’t know what part of Ct you live in but we have warm/hot weather from end of April thru Oct/Nov. that’s a lot more than 3!! Today is a lovely 72 degrees. Couldn’t ask for better
I live in a 1550 sq. foot home on the river, a floating home. Our moorage has six acres across the street where we have gardens and a garage with a loft. When we lived on land we had a 1700 sq. foot 3 bedroom/2 bath home with a double car garage. A home that size in my area of Portland, Oregon USA is $559,000. I have family in Bromely, England and their biggest complaint is heating/cooling/parking and the kitchen. Great video. The couple had a much larger home then most of us.
Price per square foot in Albuquerque NM is currently $211. Home sold average price is $340,000. Most are built on cement slab, no basements.
We live in a desert area, so we have xeriscaping and water saving tactics. Most homes at that price are 3 bedroom, 2 bath. A fancy condominium downtown is costly. More rural areas are less expensive with possibly more acreage. Our metro population is almost 916,000, city only is 562K. Median household income 2021 was $60-75 K. (Resources vary)
State population is 2.113 million, in 121,697 square miles. 5th largest state, 36th in population. 35% of the state is federally owned, and there are a lot of Native American reservations-with casinos!
Hes got a bowl of sweets for luring children in made me laugh more than it should of 😂😂
Until you get to his bedroom and notice the binoculars on his window sill lol
His joke about that is related to the large basement.
I live in TN and am currently working on getting my home finished. Its about 600 square feet and will have a 20×20 Florida room added, as well as an enclosed front porch. Im building it on the 7 acres I bought several years ago, and when its finished I will be debt free. No rent, no mortgage. Adding the cost of the property with the cost of the house gives me a total of about $80k. Thats about average around here. Im in the boonies of Tennessee, and its a VERY rural, low income area with the exception of the big farms.
The 2 houses youve looked at so far are NOT typical homes in this area.
You just said you live in the boonies & that’s not a typical home for you. Conneticut is not the boonies, and that is a typical home for people who live in the suburbs.
That house here in north alabama would cost around 350k
When I retired, I bought land and built a house in rural America, where prices are cheaper. It is 3,400 square feet on five acres. Four bedrooms , three bathrooms. It cost me $250,000. That was just four years ago. My backyard is 14,000 of National Forest (public land).
I love that he turned the "lobby" or "foyer" into his favorite room, which is traditionally used as sort of a waiting room or room to go when you first enter a house and hang out before entering the real thing.
Would like the kitchen more with different stools, but that's just me. The rest of it was amazing. Love the cabinet space.
Pretty nice house with good land in CT and that's not cheap. Especially nowadays.
Yessss
I used to call my room like that was the Boyfriend room. I have a daughter and when she was younger and a boy came to pick her up for a date, that’s where I sat him.
@@causticchameleon7861 lol I like that. The waiting room.
Typically I’ve heard it called either the sitting room or the formal living room though I prefer the older term of parlor
@@sevenember3332 Parlor is definitely the winner IMO
Basements are usually found in the northern regions of the US, because of how cold it gets in the winter. To get below the frost line, and thus eliminate frost heaving, you have to dig down about 1.3m to 1.5m or so for the foundation walls. Once you're down that deep, might as well make a basement out of it.
On 7:35 Adam goes full on James May with "hello" I'm dying!!!!!
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I'm an american who lives in Connecticut. It's located on the eastern coast of the US in-between Massachusetts (boston) and New York. I will say. This is a pretty typical home here for middle class family. But I would like to point out. Everywhere in the US is different. As most housing developments were built all at once. The entire street/town will usually all have pretty similar homes. This is the same across the whole country. That being said. The average connecticut home won't be similar to an average florida home. But, for the most part. The basic layout and rooms are usually pretty similar. All have great rooms with kitchens usually attached. Most have multiple bathrooms. And most will have some type of driveway/garage for personal vehicle parking. Some towns and road require your yard and property to be maintained a certain way. And others don't. So it really does depend on the area. Average home price being roughly $300,000-$400,000 (2024 pricing)
He said “phallic” and “succulent” in the same phrase. I’m trying to not have a dirty mind.
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Basements are basically the same footprint as the house for the most part. Basement is built first and the house is built on it. The basement walls are the footers for the house
That house in Connecticut (which is the most prosperous state in the whole US)is probably worth at least a million, which 95% of average Americans can’t afford! Don’t be fooled most people can’t afford this house!
You can get very nice houses in central CT for a lot less than a million.
I live in northeast CT, and this house would probably be about $500,000 ish around here
Check the prices of similar houses in Connecticut right now in 2024! And where in Connecticut it’s located!🇺🇸
Where did you get that Connecticut is the richest state? According to Nasdaq, in 2023, Connecticut was number 8.
Connecticut is in no wat the most prosperous state, and that is a basic middle class home, which is where an average professional will live. It is not lower class, but it is not even close to upper middle class. CT is not even in the top 5 prosperous states.
Our houses are generally around 1400 to 2000 sq. ft. Give or take.. Basements don't usually include under the garage like his does
There is a big variety in what could be considered a typical US home. Especially in the cities, either apartments, condos (like an apartment but with ownership of the unit) or townhouses are quite common. And still there are usually quite a lot of free-standing homes as well. See the opening credits of All in the Family (70s US sitcom) for a more typical urban neighborhood or free-standing homes. Or in LA, the homes shown in the movie King Richard are probably more typical - certainly compared to, say, the mansion in The Beverly Hillbillies. The average US freestanding house is about 2000 sq ft (186 sq. meters), but the average for newly built homes is 2300 square feet 213.677 sq. m). The home in the video is probably 4-5000 square feet, so well above average, though there are lots of neighborhoods comprised of houses just like this.
You immediately jump to "sex dungeon". Lol
I refuse to speak on this
@@MoreAdamCouser My dude is pleading the 5th and he ain't even from America. lol
Too large for a sex dungeon. Those are normally tight and creepy but functional areas. So I'm told. This basement is best suited for a sex gymnasium.
@@MoreAdamCouser I want one
That's called a full basement, meaning it's the same dimensions as the house footprint. Usually your mechanicals like water heater, furnace, etc are down there. It also looks like it's a walkout (door at opposite end goes outside).
You’re kidding, right? I worked on Wall Street for decades…and now live in a teeny rented apartment in the middle of nowhere, because that’s what I can afford. That’s reality.
The state is one of the original 13 colonies - it’s on the northeast coast & is beautiful in spring & fall can’t be beat
This is still not the "average" house to me. The fact he has a BMW in his driveway says a lot. The people I know could never afford that house
Bmws arent expensive. But the BMW he has is still worth 40k and its 10 years old.
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Well I know what $ you make if you think BMWs aren't expensive...and did you forget about his Porsche?
That is a VERY average house for that area. You need to know what is typical for the given area.
Connecticut is in the East portion of the US.
@@jesi3336 A used BMW is only somewhat more expensive than a VW or some stupid crossover SUV.
I have a variety of experience despite being lower middle class. My first childhood home wasn't half bad. I'd say about equal to that ground floor. We got out of it a year or so before the 2008 crash. Second house was smaller, at about half of that ground floor. I had a neighbor that raised 6 kids in a house that size. Lived in a rich friend's 9 bedroom house for a bit. Saw a lot of enourmous houses in that neighborhood. That was high middle to low upper. Current family home has a bunch of bedrooms but not much living space. Better for utility. I'd say that that house is middle to upper middle class. About 30-50% bigger than the normal houses. My middle class uncle had a place that was roughly 70% of that. I'd say it's the house of someone who makes about 120k. Current market is insane though. My area that would go for 1 million dollars right now. 😂 Reasonable market would put it at about 550k.
That’s one fancy schmancy house! This guy must make tons of money. Good for him.
Awesome for him!
That house is average for the area.
@@bsbrocks8 Location, location, location.
@@manxkin again, it’s typical for that AREA.
Connecticut is a state in the northeast and is part of New England. The name is of Native American origin.
Ok.. Over 6 k likes... where is the tour of your house?? lol
Basements in America are usually the size of the house footprint because its the foundation that the rest of the house is built on.
Sounds like a Kiwi or an Australian
Connecticut is pronounced "kuh NET uh cut". Family has been there since 1639. First thing - Fairfield and Litchfield Counties, closest to NY are overrrun with rich New Yorkers. Looks like this guy works for Sikorsky helicopter in Stratford. The rest of the state is blue collar manufacturing or insurance or pharma. Some towns close to NY have a minimum 2-acre zoning so that drives up prices also. That home was obviously updated, we have homes going back to the 1670s if you want..... but check for ghosts!
Upper middle class, not rich by any means.
Connecticut is part of New England in the Northeast area of the United States, not far from New York City. Not too far from Boston too. Connecticut has some great antique shops.
Just want to say from thumbnail clip houses may look bigger here in USA but USA is also biggest in inequality how many millennials do you know that own a house? Enjoy your healthcare over there
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I grew up in Florida, and (outside of the house we moved out of on my third birthday), I have never lived in a house with a basement. Of course, places like San Diego, South Florida, Gainesville, Jacksonville, and Olympia (Washington, the odd man out) ordinarily have basements. In south Florida, the frost line (used to determine slab foundation depths) is three *inches.* In upstate NY, it's nine *feet.* Basements are an added expense that are not needed in warm climates.
Connecticut is right next to New York and New Jersey on the East Coast. It is considered the southern most “New England” State. A lot of people who work in Manhattan live in Connecticut and commute daily.
Adam, a basic rule of thumb for basements is that they are generally the same size as the footprint of the house. So however big the first floor is that's how big the basement is.
Here in Arizona, most homes do not have a basement until you get up north of the Phoenix area and into the higher elevations, and even then it's rare because of the rocky ground. In the central states (the Midwest) generally speaking like anything east of the Rocky mountains where there's actually soil, you dig a basement.
Connecticut is one of the 3 states that make up the "Tri-State area," along with New York (the State) and New Jersey. It is a small state, and parts of it have people who drive/take the train/commute to New York City to work. Houses on the East Coast tend to have basements, while houses on the West Coast do not, (people use their garages instead.)
Connecticut is East of New York state and South of Massachusetts. Massachusetts is where Boston is. Connecticut is where the HQ of WWE/WWF is.
I grew up in a middle class family! My home was fairly large;5 bedrooms 3 baths, a sunroom and huge backyard. My home was absolutely about the same size. The only difference is that I’m from the south and we have more house for the bucks than you would in the north!
11:28 Yeah, my attic is just a square hole in the ceiling that requires standing on a chair then standing on a bookcase to get into. Then you have to crouch walk on wood beams to get around, it's a whole workout.
It’s wild 🤣
Most people finish their basements and make them into another room. They're good for putting in a pool table, having your weights down there so you don't have to go to a gym to lift, putting the drums & guitar amps down there for when your buddies come over to jam. good for parties. They always have a bar put in. I just bought a house with a huge basement with only a quarter that is finished. Going to get rest of it finished next year.
Many houses for middle class is around 600ft to 2000ft.
In this video of the attic many aren't like in this video. Many are like a craw space or unfinished. And most don't have stairs going to the attic mostly a pull down latter or a hole in the ceiling that's covered
Depends where you are. 600sqft is TINY and not typical. 800sqft to 2300 sqft is pretty typical
Connet I Cut. Is a state on the east coast, north of New York, south of Massachusetts near Rhode Island.
Although the size isn't over the top, considering the location, this is more of an upscale home with the architectural details and high-end Viking appliances. The basement is typical for that area; the one in the video is unfinished, many people will finish it as an additional liveable space. In South FL we don't have basements.
It is all about location. My house would be a mansion in some parts of the country or considered a starter home in others. Had it but in 2020 for $400k (including purchase of 3/4acre lot). 2300sqft, 4bedroom, 2 3/4bath, 1000sqft garage that has a 350sqft bonus room with bath.
There are many houses that look like that, some bigger, some smaller, some older, the best house in my opinion only is one that was built in the 60's, 70's or 80's and redone on the inside. They were built so much better, in terms of better materials. Basically, every city, town, state, has a variety of home designs, some better than others.
I see that you've started the long slide into videos about America... the food tasting ones are great and the 'life in the U.S.' one are good too. the 'American Stores' can be good if they actually show enough of the store for you to get a good feel about the sizes of stores in the U.S.... I look forward to more of your videos...
Adam it has been three weeks so I do not know if you will see this, but please look for EPIC LOG HOMES these are mansions constructed from logs as in a big log cabin.
You can make one of those clocks yourself, just look up how to make a nixie tube clock - TH-cam has lots of videos on it. This video has 4.1k likes so far, Adam, so you have to do a tour of your house!! The basement is usually the same size as the rest of the house because it's the same footprint. This one looks so large because it's the same as the floor above but without all the separating room walls. The unfinished space at the top of the stairs is the attic. A lot of people finish both their attics and basements.
Each state the median home prices varies. The area I live in Georgia the median home price that would be comparable to yours (3 bed 2 bath, detached house with a garage and 121 sq m.) would be close to 220,000. Also have a nice sized lot, about 1/4 (.25) of an acre, with a nice backyard/garden.
Connecticut is a state, yes, but a small one. It's next to Rhode Island, which is even smaller, and Massachusetts, which is slightly larger.
That is easily $750,000 or greater in Texas. Where real estate is cheaper by comparison. In CT there's no doubt that the home is no less than $1 million.
That house is pretty big, but yes, homes with basements are usually the footprint of the house. We like basements because it gives us shelter from those TORNADOES in your other videos....also cool places for workout stuff, work benches storage. lots of cool things you can do with a good basement.
That place Connect a Cut looks DAMN nice!
Helpful hint : if you're going to be coming to Connecticut, bring LOTS of money. The house you're looking at, between the house and the property, cost at minimum 400-500k, maybe more. Also, prices and taxes are NOT going to be cheap on anything!! I personally would recommend another more reasonably priced state, where you could get a better deal for less money. New York, California, and Hawaii are probably the only states more expensive than Connecticut, to live in. Great show dude, and we'd love to have you here with us in America! Peace bro!! 😎🇺🇸
Fairly typical house. The NYC suburbs have very expensive towns all over. I grew up in one. Live in Manhattan now.