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In Arizona, I live in 1,350 sqft, two bedroom, two full bath townhouse with a (not included in the square feet) 2 car garage. The pool, jacuzzi and the gym are around 100 feet from my front door. Upstairs is also a large loft are as well, which can double as a study/2nd living area.
The shared community mailbox is NOT a common feature of most U.S. single-family homes. This couple must live in a planned community from one developer where that choice was made in early stages. Most homes have the mailbox at the front of your property line facing the road for the mailperson to drive up to.
Mailboxes attached to the house beside the front door still prevail in older city neighborhoods. (Mail slots are not unheard of, but are not very practical in cold climates due to drafts!) Roadside mailboxes are more of a suburban or rural thing.
In the Midwest, there were mid-century craftsman houses with enclosed patios or a foyer with another outside door. Kind of overkill to have a mail slot
The only shared mailbox I've had. Is where I now live.
But it's for a far different reason.
My closest neighbors are 20 miles away.
My mailbox is 30 miles away. I go to it a couple times a year
Closest asphalt, paved, or concrete road is 20 miles away.
Closest electric is 20 miles away.
I live off grid and have my own power.
I've gone months without seeing another human.
I did this because I wanted to get away from ignorant and stupid people.
I can do whatever I want. Because no one knows.
I had a neighbor that disappeared 4 years ago. Maybe someday I'll find his remains. Then again. Maybe they will never be found.
Newer construction neighborhoods are now getting postal clusters like they mentioned and not mailboxes. It’s definitely a thing now.
@@ThatCronus a thing, but not yet the standard. They made it sound like it's the norm.
A garden is where you grow vegetables, a backyard is the spot behind your house.
A back yard can pretty much be whatever you want it to be.
But I get the point
Your definition is just one version. Another is that a garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the cultivation, display, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. Botanical gardens have been around for centuries. It also depends on where you live. Just because people in your region define it one way, doesn't mean other regions/countries define it the same way.
So an area behind your house where you can grow flowers and plants isn't a garden?
@@brandonwolfeWrong. You can have a garden in the back or the front. A back yard is in the back whatever part of the world you live in. And a front yard is a front yard even on the sides of a home. Yes,You can call it whatever you like but it doesn’t mean it’s the proper name for that area.
U.S. homes vary WIDELY from place to place, income to income, year built to year built, etc, etc, etc.
My home was built in 1974, is 1800 sq ft, has a tiny kitchen, while some neighbors have a large kitchen, and we all have giant yards.
Most new planned communities are moving to central mail drops, but they're relatively new. They're often located by the community club house, pool, playground, dog park, and picnic area, usually by a body of water (natural or man-made). But, again, these are all relatively new developments.
I have a pretty large back yard for being in the city. There's room for me to park several cars back there if I wanted. Decent sized porch for grilling steaks on the weekend.
I have a really big 10x20 shed with a cathedral ceiling. I can store everything in there.
I did some creative wiring and have power to my shed. I walk in and there's a light switch right there. I turn on the light no problem.
This! I live in Tampa FL and you can have a 8000sqft house next to 800sqft house.
We live out in the sticks. SO everyone out here has a mailbox attached to a post driven into the ground. It is put out on a road in front of your property.
Exactly. Our 1960s house is 1900 sf has tiny bathrooms and a small kitchen. The bedrooms are huge, we have a big front and back yard, with mail at the curb. So, pretty different from the house shown but I'd say the house shown is around $1million. Ours is worth a third of that, and we paid much less than that because we bought it 10 years ago. Houses vary wildly in design depending on when built and what area. HOA versus no HOA is the biggest difference between neighborhoods/houses these days. Team #noHOA
Tile/wood floors have the benefit of being so easy to clean. If you have pets its a MUST have! Carpets are great when you first have them installed, but as they age they turn color, get musty, and become infested with dust mites and other tiny creatures. If you have a spill it creates a permanent stain that can't be removed entirely. Unless you can afford to have your carpeting replaced every few years I wouldn't recommend it. TRUST ME -- don't get carpeting. You can always buy rugs. Rugs can be cleaned easily and you can change them when you re-decorate to match your home decor.
Their description of getting mail in the U.S. is EXTREMELY RARE.
Typically there is a mailbox right in front of your home.
Its 50/50 seems like half of ppl still have their mailbox at the end of their driveway vs right next to or on their door
It's becoming more common, with the new developments that are being built. The USPS is requiring a central location for all mail in that development, as they can't keep up with delivering to all the new addresses.
It depends on where you live. I live in the suburbs of Houston, TX, and there are community mailboxes everywhere. It's not extremely rare at all, depending on where you live.
@@barnabydodd8956 Yeah, here in San Antonio it's more typical to have mailboxes in front of our homes, but I do still see plenty of neighborhoods with community mailboxes.
Where the mailboxes are located depends on the developer's design. I refuse to live where I have to go get my mail.
Actually, in older neighborhoods in the cities, many homes still have "Mail Slots" in the door which are identical to UK "Letter Boxes".
My Southern California townhome, built in 1976, has a mail slot in the garage. In my area there are neighborhoods with the shared community mailbox setup, but there are also houses with mail slots in the door and many with a mailbox in the front. We are a really big country! It’s hard to say what is a “typical” house. It depends on the region, the year the place was built, the density of population in the area, and a ton of other factors. I live in a 1680 square foot townhome with a two car garage and a patio, but people here also live in smaller and larger houses with back yards. We don’t have air conditioning, and there is a door to the bathroom in our master bedroom. Our flooring is a mix of tile and carpet, but we hate the carpet.
I once lived in a house that was built in the 1920s, and it had a very nice one that was built into the brick wall next to the door. It had two iron closures (one outside for the mailman to open, one inside that you would open to receive the mail) so that there wasn't even a draft in the winter. It was very nice! That house also had a laundry chute.
I grew up in a house built in 1950 with the mail slot in the front door. Our dog would destroy the mail when it got put thru the slot and my parents used to get so mad!! lol
Most old houses in my town has them
My parents’ house is like this. The mail carrier walks the neighborhood and each house has a mail slot. It’s the only place I’ve seen this though, the places I’ve lived has a mail carrier drive those little box cars and put mail in the box at the end of the driveway.
Some housing communities have central or universal mail boxes, but for the most part, you have mail boxes at the curbs of your house , at the wall next to your door, or directly in the door. I believe you have the options to choose.
In my area of TX, for the cost of your UK home you could get a 4 bed/3 bath with about 2500 sq ft and about 1/3 acres of land. The average house price in my area is $230k, but that average shot up dramatically since 2020--before then it was around $150k! The biggest home I found for under $240k in my area was about 4100 sq ft and cost $180k, but there were no pictures of the interior, so it probably needed some renovation.
My 4 bed/3 bath house cost $325,000, and has 2.4 acres of land, and ~2850 sq ft. It has an attached 2 car garage, plus an additional 2 car separate garage building (~ 800 sq ft) that the previous owners used to store a boat in. We picked this house for the extra land and the great internet we get here, because we're telecommuters; for the same money we could have gotten a much fancier/larger house in town instead of out of city limits. Low cost of living in our area---love it!
The bedrooms all have carpet, but the rest of the house has tile floors. Sadly, we don't have a garbage disposal, because we're on a septic tank instead of a city sewer system. We do have a mailbox at the end of the driveway, and a laundry room, a fireplace, a largish kitchen (12'x24') and various other bells and whistles. Our house was built in 2008, but our previous house (in Vermont) was built in the 1760s; it was about half the size and about half the price.
Those houses are upper middle class, new build, and urban/suburban. Vegas is a major metro that has exploded over the last couple decades.
Been longer than a couple of decades. I grew up there. Vegas has been growing like a weed since the 80's. I graduated in 86 and there were just about 600k people in the whole valley. As of when I retired in 22, and moved away, we had about 2.7 million.
Even the average middle class houses are still much bigger than average UK houses. In general everything in the US is MUCH bigger than anywhere else in the world. I grew up traveling the world and I’m also a Swiss citizen as well as a US one and it’s a thing I’ve noticed. Everywhere else everything is so small and cramped. Roads, cars, houses, stores, parking spots, backyards literally everything is so cramped. Because everywhere else countries are built around public transportation because there’s just no room for private vehicles, but the US is built around private transportation hence why everything is so massive and that’s why our public transportation is not the best. I’d take the layout of the US anyday though. I can’t live in the EU everything is way too cramped and there’s just no room for anything.
my grandfather bought a 'kit house' from Sears in 1944 for $550 and built it himself. it had a kitchen, living room and bedroom. they had an outhouse. My grandmother refused to move into it until my grandfather built a working bathroom INSIDE the house, which he did. they then added another bedroom with their first child and then a master suit when their 4th child (girl, so she could have her own room from her 3 brothers). by the 1970s, my grandfather had build a new larger kitchen/dinning room. a sitting room, a second larger living room. a car port, and the house was 4 bedrooms, 3 baths with a total of 5,400+ sq ft.... and this was all on 10 acres. it built ALL of the house himself throughout those years.
Unfortunately he's an extinct form of person 😉
Sears homes are awesome
Great story! Thank you. I'm 74 years old, born in 1950, but I remember houses being much less expensive than they are today of course. I don't remember any kit houses but I know that a lot more people built their own houses back than they do today. All of my brothers were excellent carpenters. They would select some land, build a nice home on it and then sell it after they built another one to live in. Made quite a bit of money that way.
@@loribernardisunwell9663 No he's not. My brother is building his house himself, except for some electrical and plumbing work he had to have done, and some construction that needed two people to accomplish. For those tasks he hired a couple of Amish workers. They'll be moving in by the end of summer.
My G'pa ordered his from Popular Mechanics. We didn't have a functional bathroom until the mid 80's (outhouse). But being a Finlander, you're damn right we had a sauna.
Still don't have shower in the cabin.
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yo, lad, take some time and browse through American real estate with how much you paid for your home vs various places in the states. I'd suggest lake homes in landlocked states or places less known for their beaches such as the American South to Southwest, such as Texas, given your reaction to another vid. Additional kicks, you can look up cost of living calculator to compare prices between the uk and living there... If you really want to feel it, try looking up homes under 300k with 3bd 2ba and a minimum of five acres.
The price will vary in the States depending on where you live..example....In NY, you will pay a LOT more for a home as compared to say..Texas, for an equivalent home
Pantry is a walk in closet for your kitchen and your food 😂
They're actually a downsize from a Butler's pantry - which also housed the china, seasonal items, and other small appliances that aren't frequently used. Upscale homes still have them - with a sink, dishwasher, and microwave.
Not necessarily a walk in closet, a small closet is considered a pantry as well...
Yeah we have places to keep our food. Why don't British people have places to store their food? No wonder we left and then we defeated you in a war. Holy shit.
@@vertyisprobablydead why are you so angry?
@@vertyisprobablydead We do we just don’t call it a pantry you strange little man.
My house in the US is a 1 story, 3 bedroom detached house 1431 square ft living space with a 2 car garage. It’s considered a starter home size for most folks. When our kids were still at home, we wished for a bigger place. Honestly if we just had a basement now, I’d be thrilled. We have a decent amount of land lined with trees, a mini barn and a fire pit we sit around and entertain.
yah you ain't getting better now unless you are rich
Ditto
Now it's a start home. 60 yeas ago it was a family home and kids grew up and only moved out when they struck out on their own.
Me too, except we have a basement. Built in 1953, so during the post WWII building boom. Yes, these were built for families. During the 80's, new houses were built farther from the suburbs, and kept getting bigger. My parents bought in 62 for $12,000. Today it's worth $220,000. Midwest area.
Why you gotta brag for? 😂
Yes, fairly accurate. I live in an (original) 2240 sq ft home in an outlying city in central Iowa. Thirty years ago when we had it built, we chose a 0.5 acre lot and it cost $161,000, including a three car garage. Over time we finished the basement and added a sun room making our living space now roughly 3400 sq finished. We have 3.5 bathrooms, four bedrooms, a large kitchen and 3 common (living/family) room areas. They are correct that over time we too have turned our backyard into a spa like space with pool, pool house and extensive garden space with some raised beds for vegetables, etc. Now my guess is, our home is worth roughly $500,000.
American here, we sold our home when we retired, it was 3800 Sq ft. Brick home on 1 acre. It was a 3 bedroom 3 1/2 bath with In-law suite, dining room, living (with Fireplace) kitchen & breakfast room combo, Music room and 4 car garage, two tier back veranda. We downsized to a 2100 sq ft Brick home on 15 acres. 2 bedroom, 2 1/2 baths, office, living (fireplace), dining and kitchen combo, laundry, mud room, front & back veranda, screened in porch with fireplace and 2 1/2 car garage. We also have a 1400 sq ft brick guest home on the property with 1 bedroom, 1 bath, living room kitchen dining combo, on the first floor, 1 bedroom 1 bath and sitting room on the second floor, it also has front and side wrap around veranda and deck. We also have a 48 x72 foot build and a detached 4 car garage. We do light farming on the property with has a creek and wooded area. We love our country life. We are very blessed. This is not typical for most, but in our area most homes are brick and range between 2700 and 3900 square feet.
Nobody in the UK has a clue about square anything when it comes to homes - we use LxB for each of the rooms to be able to understand size
@@dexstewart2450 I genuinely don’t even know what LxB is referring to. Square footage is the same thing as square anything-else-age lol. Square yardage, meterage, acreage, mileage, etc.. This stuff is used all over the world. For example:
Length (in meters) x Width (in meters) = Square Meters (m²)
So if the length of a room is 2.35 meters and the width is 1.08 meters, the area in square meters would be 2.35m x 1.08m = 2.538 square meters (m²)
I have never heard of anybody not having a door to their bathroom. I'm not sure how their bathroom setup is, but it's definitely not the norm. If you are living in the States and want carpet, just have carpet installed easy peasy.
You don't have to have hardwood or tile flooring if you don't want to...lol!😊
I have never seen it unless you actually took the door off the hinges yourself. I know I have a pocket door on mine but its still a door.
where do you people live my bathroom has no door just an entry way then there is a door for the toilet in the bathroom
I'm in Nothern California and the last 4 houses I was in had no door to the en suite bathroom. My current house doesn't have an en suite, but it is pretty standard in homes here built after 2000.
I have seen bathrooms with no doors since at least the 70s- for whatever reason. you get the steam from the bathroom going to the bedroom, light - I consider it impractical.
well probably just the master bedroom
The location in the states really influences the layout and design, that was a typical west coast home. I was raised in San Diego and now live in southern Arizona, our home is 1,350 sq ft, three bedroom, open concept, tile and hard wood floors, with central air and heat, two and half car garage it’s a very relaxed functional, and a five star energy rating. The mid west has a very different feel as does the east coast, and the charm of the southern homes.
Sorry, but I'm going to have to disagree. They were in Vegas, so that's a typical desert style home, minus the grass yard. Vegas homes, typically have dirt, sand and rock instead of grass. Only the higher priced homes & neighborhoods have grass yards. Vegas homes, are almost exactly like Arizona homes, because they share the same climate. But West Coast homes (California, Oregon, and Washington) are quite different. For one, they aren't made of cement & stucco generally, they're made of wood or brick. Just sayin.
@@impishsongster333 I disagree with you about Southern California homes are exactly like the ones in Vegas, stucco and wood is the standard for the homes in the the south west of the U.S.. Oregon and Washington are in the north west a very wet climate and are built different than those in dryer southwest climates.
I’m an American, and I can tell you about American homes I’ve lived in. I lived in one for 30 years that was less than 1700 square feet, and I thought it was too small for my family of three. But then we moved south, where prices were lower, and we now have a house that’s 2700 square feet.
We don’t count the attached garage, only heated living space, but we do have an attached 2-car garage, a patio, a glassed in sunroom, five bedrooms, 3-1/2 baths, an open-concept kitchen, with walk-in pantry, his and hers walk-in closets in the master, a large dining room, and the whole thing was 2,750 square feet when we bought it.
However, it must be slightly bigger now, because we glasses-in the lanai to make the sunroom, which is now considered indoor living space.
Also, everyone I know in the South has central air, which I understand you don’t have on your side of the Atlantic? Correct me if, if I’m wrong about that.
I feel a little sorry for you people. If you want a big house that’s affordable, you’ll have to move to the southern half of America, like Texas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, or the Carolinas.
I live in a 20 year old upscale housing tract and when we first moved here, I didn't like the community mailbox. Now, I love it. It is an excuse to take a walk in the evening and the sidewalks are uncluttered because there are no mail boxes in the way. The city I live in does composting pick-up. So our food scraps and yard clippings get picked up once a week. The only thing we put down our disposal is the tiny stuff that is rinsed off the dishes.
Adam, those houses shown are on the high end of the market. Most homes are not that size. Three bedroom ranchers or split level homes could be 1200-1800 sq ft. Four bedroom, two story homes could be 2000-3000 sq ft. You will find 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 bathrooms on average (1/2 bath is just a sink and toilet). Generally there is a two car garage. There may be a mud room, which is an entrance way within the house and the attached garage that doubles as a laundry room. At my house, the mail box is at the end of the driveway.
We have a four bedroom rancher, 2450 sq feet. Something not touched on, we don't have public water or sewer. It's great because it reduces home density, each home is on a minimum 1 acre lot.
@@1972Ray same here. Lots of wildlife running around as well.
I am a Canadian who spent every summer in London with family growing up. The heating situation was miserable. It was always too cold and damp and drafty. In that dead of summer it was okay, but in September or April...brrrr. But the gardens of the family in the Uk were very beautiful whereas it was just a big square of grass in Canada. Also the houses were wider, more space and generally more comfortable on Canada. But they were brick, narrow, sturdy, and attached in Harrow.
I live in the US now, and they have even more house for less money.
lol, not massive, but the amenities are exact, like the pantry or walk in closet etc. I lived in the UK for several years. No closets, because every room is taxed or was. Our “oven” was not a lovely aga, no it was a 1950 era oven so small, with the broiler on the top. Remember those? My range in the US is 48” wide. Please. This is common in smaller 3 bedroom homes, not mansions or anything. Don’t be fooled. Even our smaller homes are much more user friendly.
The US home they are showing is more typical for a place in the suburbs of Florida or Vegas . That size of home in a big city like NYC or Chicago would cost considerably more.
well duh
Based on comments they made - I reckon they're somewhere outside Vegas.
It’s not uncommon to have large homes in Colorado.
Wherever land is cheap, homes can be bigger. Except for 100 year old homes, the average sq feet on older existing homes here is 2500-3200, but new homes are 3000-4500 sq feet not counting an unfinished basement.
Uh, nope! That’s a rich people home! Most of us in the US have smaller houses.
@@SusanHMcIntyre IKR? I own a 1920s cottage. I have 900 square feet. 1.5 baths, two bedrooms. I inherited the home. The going price for _the land_ my house is on is almost 1 million. I wouldn't be able to afford my home if I had to buy it. I couldn't afford this guy's home in the UK. That's a quarter of a million dollars for a small place and believe me my salary can't afford it.
I live in rural Canada. My house is 5,000 square feet on 160 acres. The garage is a separate building with extra tall doors so a pickup truck may easily enter. We store 2 vehicles, a ride-on lawn mower, a small tractor, and lots of gardening equipment. In my area the house size is fairly typical.
Common area locked mailbox is common in large apartment buildings as well as trailer parks.
The mailboxes are at the main entrance area in an apartment its right inside the front door usually before any elevator.
Also large locked mailbox are in public housing that is spread out over several streets every 2 or 3 blocks you will have a group of locked mailboxes for tennants.
The other is on gated community or a closed one lane suburbs where mailboxes ( not locked) is at the end of the road where you enter the suburbs. ( i grew up where there were 2 dead end housing areas with this very setup.the post office demand the mailboxes were at the end so not to enter the dead end road which was not plowed in winter) im in indiana.
My house in Montana is about 4500 square feet, and my brother's is about 6400 square feet. We have a 3 car garage and my brother has a 7 car garage. We collect and restore old muscle cars so they are all full. We have a shop that also has a booming forklift, a backhoe, a car lift, and a pit for auto repairs and oil changes that will hold 2 more cars. We live in the same area in the mountains on 120 acres about a hundred miles from Yellowstone Park. We also have a gun range and lots of deer, elk, turkeys, and antelope to hunt during the season. We also see the occasional cougar or bear. I wouldn't live anywhere else. We also only have one neighbor within a few miles of us
This is awesome!
You are blessed, man. Awesome.
Our family has a designated "Gun Range" at my brother's property, we all shoot there when we can. And when we say gun, we really mean GUNSSSSSSSS! I'm sure if the Feds are seeing this, we mean water guns, ha, ha!
We have a large creek with a waterfall in our yard.
I'm moving in with you, my friend. What's your address? *Edit* of course I'll kick you down like $200 for rent, gotta do my part 🎉
Many houses here in Nebraska still has a mail slot on the house or door! If not, we generally have mail boxes right outside each house.
Backyards are "a thing" here!
People love to entertain, bbq, have kids, and dogs! We do love our yards!
people have dogs? you have kids. you don't have dogs. you purchase a dog or adobt one. when people start having dogs, this world truly is f*cked.
There is a lot of Nebraska that doesn’t have house delivery.
In the country maybe, like way out west. Nowhere I've ever been.
Some homes have the mailbox right in front of the house on the curb but more modern neighborhoods are opting for the communal mailboxes so usually that's just a bunch of letter boxes and a few package boxes grouped together for x amount of homes usually just down the street like a 2-3 min walk which people usually have dogs so they just stop by during their walk or park there on the way home
And garbage disposals are amazing I love them you just throw food scraps (no fruit peels like orange or lemon/lime obviously no bones or large seeds or egg shells) and it just gets ground up sent down the drain away from home and you never have to throw food in the trash so no bugs or smelly trash I just love it so much
And some apartments like my last one before I bought this house have garages my last apartment had a garage and driveway but most apartments don't necessarily have a designated parking space they just have a bunch of parking spaces and you pick one although more places are opting for designated spaces cause people keep arguing about spaces lol
- Size: In the 1980s, real estate developers started producing McMansions. Large homes, but normally not very good quality. So 3-5K sq ft. This ups the average size of American homes. I rent an older 2 bedroom, 1 bath duplex at 950 sq ft., so 16% over the UK average. In a small town, 59K people, in Arkansas. Rent is $765 per month, with utilities around $200 per month.
- Functionality: People now want a master bedroom, bath and walking closet. The often want each bedroom to have its own bathroom too.
- Kitchen: Newer homes do tend to have an open floorplan, which had the kitchen and an island or a bar, dividing it from the living room. In the US parties tend to center around the kitchen. My laundry is in the kitchen. My pantry is just 1 x 1 meter in the South West corner, I have to keep the door open in the summer.
- Bathrooms: I only have 1 bathroom, but it has 2 sinks and a large area between, for cosmetics, etc.
. Garages: I have a driveway, not a garage, that will fit 3 cars across. Places with extreme cold or heat, tended to have more garages. You don't have to scrape ice off the windshield.
- Mail: The apartment have a box 20 steps away from my door. Lots of city houses have a box next to your front door, and mail carriers, walk around and deliver the mail. Some houses have the slots in the doors. In rural areas, you have a mail box on the side of the road. The mailman, drives along and deposits the mail in your box. There are post office boxes, but more used by businesses.
- Heating: Newer homes have central heat and air conditioning. Overhead ducts bring the heat or cold to each room. Lots of older home have a window AC unit to cool the room that you are in. I use central heat to keep my house above freezing, but use and electric, oil filled radiator to just warm my bedroom/office.
- Gardens: I don't have a garden, or a backyard. Backyards are often fenced, so you can just let your dogs out, and don't have to walk them.
- Flooring: I have carpet. Carpet with padding under it, is great if you have young kids falling down. I don't have kids and I have allergies, so I like hardwood floors. Although I am getting up there in years, so maybe carpet is better for me now.
My parents have heated hardwood floors, which are great. A house built in 1937, in rural Arkansas 1008 sq ft. A sunroom expanded it to 1284 sq ft. Zillow.com estimates it at $242K.
Home prices vary WIDELY in the U.S. A mid-size, single family homes where I live, in suburban New Jersey are currently going for $350K, and, up. A good friend of mine just bought a similar home, away from everything, for $240K. The trade-off is, he lives in the middle of f**kin' NOWHERE.
When I lived in California housing for a small 2-3 bedroom would run you close to a mil, where as now I live down south and a mil would get you a literal mansion. Location is everything.
I live in San Francisco area and rent a 1 bedroom apartment for $3k per month. A single family home here is easily 1mil even for a run down house. Before moving here I lived in the Detroit area and rented a 2 bedroom apartment for $850 per month, and Houston where I rented a 2 bedroom for $900 per month. I'm sure those prices are no longer accurate reflections and it's probably closed to 1k - 1.5k for those same apartments now, but it's still a good representation of how much prices can vary even when comparing major cities.
And in Virginia where I live a townhouse will go $500k+ and a starter home $700k+. It’s so different from state to state!
$350K is cheap. Where I am - put a one in font of that 3 and you're looking at an entry level home that looks decent.
@@QueenofKings-mh7zn Or city to city, or neighborhood to neighborhood within the same state.
My husband and I live in Utah and had our home built about 12 years ago. We chose the smallest floor plan that our builder offered as there’s just us. We still have a 1,750 square foot house. Our basement has the same square footage as the main floor. We turned our basement into an apartment that we rent out so we have another source of income coming in every month.
They must live in some HOA community or something if they’ve got one of those communal mail box things, I’ve never lived anywhere where that’s a thing.
As for having the mailman put the mail through your door, there’s a few things here.
Some people(usuall people living in suburbs) have a little box attached to the outside of the house just next to the front door for that, so not too different… But I don’t think many Americans would like the idea of having a hole in their door that anyone can just put stuff through. Also we have way too many bugs that will fly in through that thing lol.
Beyond that, in rural places mailboxes near the road are really the only way to get mail delivered unless you want it to go to a PO Box. The mailmen couldn’t possibly travel to the front door of every rural house, as a lot of them are located far off of the main road. To get to my house for example you turn off the main road onto a gravel road which is about a quarter mile long(and closed with a gate lol), then turn again into my driveway which is about 50 yards. So we use mailboxes near the road instead.
That mailbox thing is wild. I've never lived anywhere that had the box far away like that. It's usually at the end of the driveway. Hardwood is a more recent thing too, for a long time wall to wall carpet was standard
When I was growing up in the 80's everyone cried about how cold the hardwood floors were and wanted carpet. About 10 years later everyone wanted hardwood floors. Its funny how things go in and out.
I love hardwood floors. Very warm and beautiful - easy to clean - and if your area rug which I personally use in every room gets damaged, just throw it out and buy a new one. Carpet, once laid, is never as clean as it used to be.
Hard floors are better for those with allergies.
Especially with large pets in the home! Hardwood/laminate anyday over carpeting!
We are in the process of getting rid of our carpets & replacing with Luxury Vinyl Planking.
Oh gods, our carpet is less than 10 years old and already needs to be replaced. If you have to go with carpet in a high traffic area, get good quality Berber. I wish I hadn’t been overruled on getting it
They make washable rugs now, too
It's a garbage disposal, the food is ground to a pulp and washes away with the water. You can buy them in the UK.
Garbage disposals are required in some areas because it keeps down the rodents not to mention maggots from getting in the trash.
@@lauriedupont507 I am on a septic, my father was a building contractor and said he would not recommend them for septics. On a septic system, you are responcible for your septic and keeping it in good working order. You pray to God that is stays that way. Replacing any type of septic system is a big expense.
US resident here. I live in a village (yes, I'm a villager) where things tend to be old fashioned. For instance, the house I'm living in was built in 1900 and absorbed sheds and shops as it grew. Originally the house was just a kitchen and bedroom. Later someone got the idea to add on the bathroom and dinning room. Someone at some point decided to do a major add on and built the living room and the two upstairs bedrooms. At one point it absorbed the front porch, doubling the size of the front room. there was a large shop on the property at one point. A covered breezeway was built and then it eventually was absorbed into the house itself. That last chunk happened about 30-ish years ago.
Currently the house is 3 bedroom 1 bath. the bath is barely big enough for a single person to be in at a time. the kitchen is a separate room as is the living room and dining room. the dinning room, living room and master bedroom are all the same size. there are no walk in closets and one of the bedrooms doesn't even have a closet. The electrical outlets are torture. an average of one outlet per room, and that's only because there's two in the kitchen. two of the bedrooms have no outlets. No garbage disposal. hard floors with carpet in the master bedroom. It's common in this area to have hard floors with throw rugs. It's common to have a dishwasher built into the kitchen, or at least a place for a dishwasher, but there's not one in my house. A two basin sink in the kitchen. Also uncommon around here. The biggest room in the house is the pantry or utility room (the ex-shop) as it's called here in the northwest. it is the same size as the kitchen, bathroom, and smallest bedroom combined. food storage, washer and dryer, two freezers, as well as random storage and a cement floor. No air conditioner, just an oil furnace for heat in the winter that was added on when the house was about half the size it is now.
The yard is half yard half garden and bigger than the entire house. it even has fruit trees in it. Two car garage without a door on the front as well as streetside parking. The mail in this area can obtained by one of 3 ways. Most common is the Post Office. A big building where you rent a box and go check it once-in-a-while. it's where the mail is sorted and then sent off to other towns or to the homes. there's one Post Office per zip code. In my area zip codes can be far reaching my zip code is for two villages and 3 hamlets as well as all the farms in between. which means there are people who have to travel 20+ miles to get their mail. In more populated areas there can be 3 or 4 zip codes. Portland, the largest city in my state has 10 zip codes. There's also house boxes where you have a box on the edge of your property and get mail that way. there are communal areas where there might be three or four boxes side by side for the people on the block. the third way is in building delivery. but that's usually reserved for businesses or by arrangement with the post office because the resident has difficulty leaving the house. Since it is a small area, it's not uncommon for the Postal delivery person to also pick up the housebound person's prescription. speaking of prescription, we also have the only pharmacy in about 40 miles and it closes at 4pm and is closed on the weekends. the nearest hospital is 80 miles away.
I live in Minneapolis Minnesota(yes, THAT Minneapolis).
We have a single story ranch style house with walk out basement. Our main floor is 3 bed 1 bath and in the basement we have a 1 bed 1 bath apartment with kitchenette.
We have a miniature lake behind our home as well.
We never could have afforded our home if it wasn't left to us.
To give an idea...
15 years ago we had a house fire...leaving our house value at $60,000 because our basement was just cement and timbers.
After all the work to complete the basement and putting in a near full garden requiring little to no care ( lilies, iris, hosts, blackberries, raspberries, rhubarb, currants and herbs) and mini patio at front door.
Backyard is a large patio, raised garden, smelting table(aluminum), 10×10 shed a MASSIVE 6 STORY tall sugar maple and and another smaller maple. We are adding a largish fountain this summer to use while smelting to cool the metal as well.
Now the value is around $300,000.
If the En Suite Bathroom doesn't have a door, the toilet is usually blocked off from the rest of the bathroom and out of view of the entrance. More commonly, there are separate doors for the bath and toilet area to separate from the sinks and mirrors. Last house was 7,200 sq/ft, 5 bedroom, 5.5 bathrooms on 1.7 acres in suburbs. Current home is 3,000 sq/ft, 4 bedroom 3.5 bathrooms on .5 acres in an urban area. As for mail, some places have a slot in the door, most have a mailbox at the end of the driveway and some places have a community box like they're describing. Community boxes are common in apartments buildings and small lot neighborhoods because the postal workers can deliver and pick up more efficiently. We usually have HVAC systems for climate control. There is a furnace for heating and central air conditioning unit(s) for cooling, both systems use ducts built into walls and ceilings with vents into rooms. I've had fruit trees and vegetable beds at every house I've lived since I was a kid until my current small urban yard which doesn't have much room for much beyond a few tomato plants and the pear tree by my front door. The U.S. is so different from State to State, climate to climate to make many broad generalizations
7000 sq foot is a large house by any measure, much larger than typical. Our rancher is 2450, more than enough for the two of us.
We have those dish drying thingies next to the sink. We just have to buy them in the US. And yes we have 10 varieties in Wall-Mart alone. My trailer house is from 1974. But ya, America. I have a billion dollar view, In Colorado.
So much to respond to.
But I'll go with mail.
It depends on where you live.
My mother's house she has her own box at the end of her driveway.
In the city I live in, most houses have a box attached near their door entrance that mail is dropped into and a lid slid closed.
Or you can rent a P.O. Box at the Post Office.
The trailer park has a communal box that people have to go to, with boxes the average size of a stand-alone all together in a larger secured structure.
My apartment has a long wall in the lobby filled with mail slots and six larger parcel lockers.
Some older houses, the more historical ones, still have slots in their doors for mail. That's one thing I think you do right in the UK, makes stealing mail a lot harder.
Porch pirates swipe packages and letters here all the time due to the setup of the boxes outside the houses.
Okay, that's my novel done, go about your business now.
The house I'm building has it's own movie theater (cinema) with seating for 12 people & a glass popcorn popper, a pub & game room with billiards, etc.. The master suite bedroom has a tiled walk in shower room, an oversized jetted tub, and an attached solarium (glass sun room). The house also has a gest bedroom with it's own full bathroom, there is an office/library, and a room or my collectibles with a place for tabletop gaming with friends. There is a stone fireplace in the great room, and the kitchen has two separate sinks. All the countertops are stained & polished concrete, so the counter is all one piece and flows with the design of the kitchen. The garage has space for 4 cars, and one bay includes a 2-post service lift. There is a 2 bedroom flat on the floor above the garage for guests when they visit.
I live in Galveston Texas and I bought my home in 2010 for around $135,000.00 after a Hurricane. It needed some repair, and I spent around $20,000. to get it bac up to where we wanted it. It is roughly 1,400 ft2. 3 bedrooms and 2-1/2 baths. The Kitchen/dining and Living area are 1 room. My back yard is roughly 600 ft2 and then I walk out onto the dock. Did I mention that I live on a canal that leads out into Galveston bay? I have an underwater light and I catch Trout, Red Drum , Flounder and other fish at night, and the waste goes into a crab trap where I get Blue Crabs. The shrimp and oyster processors come into port about 15 minutes away, so I get the freshest seafood and I grow veggies and fruit in raised bed gardens pretty much year round. The house faces the canal, so I enter from the back, which faces the street. It is paved so I have 10 parking spaces back there. Right now, my house is supposedly worth $450,000.00
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most 'garages' in the U.K. were based on designs for store houses for old horse drawn carriages. they were only meant to be a place to store the carriage and not used for people to be inside the building. those designs were the basis for the first car garages in the U.K. thus you have very small ones. in the U.S. on the other hand, they were designed (and are constantly being redesigned) to not only house the vehicle, but be a place to preform maintenance on the vehicle, thus more room was needed inside the building for this purpose. then as women started joining the work force, an additional car was needed, so the garages expanded to house multiple vehicles.
In cities many people do get mail delivered to the door but the boxes are attached to outside of house next to the door and a few older homes do have mail slots in the door
Most mailboxes are at the end of the driveway. In older homes they are right outside your front door. In apartments there is a row of mailboxes at the end of the street with everyone's mail in a row and it has your house number on it. Some fancier homes have the mail slot in the door. (If your mail carrier delivers to the door).
The things they showed in this video are on the bigger, wealthier side. It's not average. However, more bathrooms, garbage disposals in sink, washer/dryer in a small wash room, or in garage is accurate, for most part...
I was about to say wtf that is no where near average. Im happy just to have a fraction of that like 25% of that US house is what i have
Yes so true. Newer housing 2000 and forward, is .... too big. People live in all kinds of housing. These big brand new lavish places are not the norm.
@@k_salter nearly 20 years in my house with the same garbage disposal when I purchased the house. Pretty sure there isn't much that monster can't chew up. My pipes are still wonderfully clean for a 50 year old house. Was lucky enough not too long ago to have a friend's kid scope them for free when he wanted to show us his "cool new work toy" he purchased for his plumbing business.
These houses are most definitely NOT average.
and because of garbage disposals In The US There Rats In the Houses And So on
I grew up with a lot of nice fluffy carpets … in my own home as an adult I’ve come to realize all that a carpet can harbor even after using a shampooer (you can buy or rent one) the dust mites, dirt, bacteria etc… and if you have animals, their hair and dandruff and whatever else… so in my home I keep mainly all hard surfaces EVERYWHERE and use rugs such as small step rugs or larger 5x8 in strategic places that are soft but that can be physically picked up at and heavily spray washed at a car wash if need be. The fact that I can’t readily pull up carpet to really clean it well doesn’t set well with me with dogs , kids and whatever else it’s just easier and cleaner to use area rugs on hard surfaces.
Carpets are horrible. I buy heavy throw down carpets like businesses use. Roll up and pressure wash outside and hang in the sun the thoroughly dry
I used to replace hardwood flooring.. wait until you find out the issues/allergens/molds from those too!
@@FahimibnDawud my basement is more hazardous than any hard surface under seepage. I’d rather deal with mold than insects hatching and living in my carpet. Hell I poured concrete leveler in my bathroom floor cause the wood was trying to wear down in a spot and was bowled out. Said the heck with it and swept it out laid on the bonding and through it on there. Sealed up the whole thing and that was 3 yrs ago. I also prefer high molding and high gloss paint on said molding and drywall. My step dad is a union painter.. drywaller, carpenter, mason…. Taught me finishing drywall at age 7. Laying brick with him by 12 & couldn’t count how much carpentry and plumbing or random mechanics from Vietnam. Personally I live in a house built in 1929, it’s probably got mold mainly in the dank basement. I pump spray the brick down with bleach water every couple years. I live in West Virginia where I’m probably gonna have more brown recluse spiders under my floor boards than mold. Also if you use the all vinyl fake flooring you’re less likely to have mold… that being said if you don’t seal the floor underneath or cover in a waterproof coating or cover and spilling could get to it.. you just have to not be a complete moron when you put it in. My house doesn’t have forced air or heat. It’s window units and the main space heater plus a few portable electric heaters. Temperatures in most rooms of my house including basement can reach extremely hot or extremely cold if I choose to shut off those window units etc… neither of which mold likes. To be honest “the crud” that everyone in our area gets from the local DuPont is more concerning. So all in all… I know about mold… I prefer removable rugs… cause with carpet you now have whatever is living in the carpet and whatever got underneath, especially if whoever installed the carpet put no barriers between it and the floor.
Mail: I've seen it multiple ways in the US. I live in a planned neighborhood, so my mail goes to a central location for our 'boxes'. As a kid, we had our own box at our house. In older neighborhoods, such as those on the east coast, you can see houses with the door slot that the UK has or there is a box right next to the door that the mailman drops the mail in.
Gardens in the US depend on where you live. If you're in a major suburban area, then you most likely do not have a garden. When you start getting out into the 'country', some houses may have gardens. It definitely isn't the norm.
I have carpet in bedrooms/hallway, hardwood or title everywhere else. This is more standard in my area.
I live in a 1100 sq ft. bungalow, in the desert, built in the 1940s with a detached garage which was built for a tiny car, with a huge backyard (orchard). Plenty of room inside and plenty of stretching out room for the dogs and us. No central air or heat.
lol. I own a home in the USA. 3 Bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2 Car Garage, Kitchen, large dining room, Great Room, Family Room, Laundry Room, walk in closets, etc. but my square footage is a bit under 2k and 2 levels. My house lot is considered small at around 7k sf total land although it’s bigger than the backyard shown in your video. I cannot imagine having a home & battling parking. I love having a large garage that I can park in but use the other half as my wood-shop although I am building a wood-shop in my backyard and fully enclosed patio. Lots of homes in AZ have underground pools, diving pools, fire pits, etc. and I paid approx $300k for it before the housing market inflated, now it’s worth about $500k.
The homes in that video would vary in cost depending on where you live in the US. However as others mentioned, none of them are considered "average" homes. Location plays a huge part in pricing.
I think a better comparison video would be comparing what kind of homes you can get for various price ranges between the 2 countries.
A garbage disposal is a machine connected to the sink that allows for solid things to run through, that has a motor with blades that chop and shred up what goes inside. It then goes through a side pipe that sends the waste to wastewater treatment, just as human waste does when you flush the toilet. It is not run continuously and it is meant for excess food scraps from meals, not entire pieces of fruit..hehee
for Mail, in rural areas mailboxes are on the edge of the road in a box at edge of your property, in apartments there is a bank of boxes where mail is brought and you must go to the boxes and use your key to get your mail.
I love our open floor plan! We built a single story home, 3 BR 2 BA, with porches along the entire front and most of the back, and a screened-in porch between the house and garage (we live in the south, so porches are essential). The "great room" (if you want to call it that) encompasses the living-dining-kitchen area in a 33' x 22' space. And the walk-in shower in the master bath is 6.5' x 4' (which is great for bathing my MiL who is 94. There is room for a shower bench and she doesn't need to step over any threshold). Total sf is maybe 1850.
A little more detail about mail delivery in the US. In "Days of Yore", most mailboxes were either via a slot in the front door or a box attached to the wall next to the front door. The mailman would place the mail for a neighborhood into his mail bag, sling it over his shoulder and walk to each home. This took time - sometimes hours to visit each home in a neighborhood. The next iteration in mail delivery was the mailbox at the end of the driveway facing the street. The mail truck would drive to each mailbox and deliver the mail. The mail truck is one of the few US vehicles that has the driver on the right side - just like UK vehicles. Since the US drives on the right side of the street the mailman can deliver the mail without having to get out of the truck - a much faster delivery method. The next iteration is a community mail box where the mail for an entire neighborhood can be delivered to one location - an even faster delivery method. The placement for the community mail box allowed you to stop to get your mail on your way home from work without having to "go out of your way". All of these delivery methods still exist all over the US.
I grew up in a 3 bedroom 2 bath house in NC. The home was in the ballpark of 2,500 sq ft which is considered to be somewhat small in that particular area. We had a detached garage that was a separate building. The garage was almost 2,000 sq ft. We had 1.5 acres which was a pretty typical sized plot and we had our own creek and wild berry orchard.
your parents were rich, thats not normal
@@bigboy-gw8me You kinda ignored the entire point of the comment. Where I grew up this was very normal. The property and home was about 120k in mid 2000's. Im definitely not saying we were poor, but we weren't rich either. A high standard of living is very affordable where I grew up. The same property in California or NY would be totally unaffordable for us. Using your own poverty as an excuse to insult strangers is pretty lame. That woe-is-me mentality isn't going to get you very far
@@nip9898 im not in poverty though that's just not possible the same way where i liv e ig, tf. I guess it was the land and the garage that made me feel odd because I've never seen a 2000 square foot garage and having a lot of land where i live isnt very possible. "wild berry orchard" made you sound like you were balling. Also that hostility in "Using your own poverty as an excuse to insult strangers is pretty lame. That woe-is-me mentality isn't going to get you very far" is so fucking just not needed. I have no woe is me mentality but any 3 bed house is over 300k where i live and people in cali/NY are moving here because the housing is cheaper.
@@nip9898 well i guess i am technically poor since middle class starts at 120k now at current house prices.
@@bigboy-gw8me Do you not understand how housing works? 120k doesn't mean we paid that all at once. You put a down payment on a home for much less than the total price and then you gradually payoff a mortgage over time. Someone making 40k a year can afford the down payment of a 120k home after saving for a few years and that is not very far above the poverty line. I don't know why you want to believe my dad is Scrooge McDuck so bad. You gain nothing by insisting a total stranger is rich
My house has 5 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, library, kitchen, games room, living room, den, 6 car garage, pool house (also with 2 baths and kitchen). The main house has 6500 square feet and pool house 1200 square feet and out building for parties 900 square feet (also 2 bath and kitchen). I live on a small street with 19 others homes (all similar). Each home is on 6 acres of land.
Great video, Adam: Depending on budget and preferences a home can be as small as 325 square feet on up in the U.S. U.S. homes often have garbage disposals that mulch up food scraps and liquify them. The liquified garbage is pumped out of the disposal and into the septic tank. I live in a three-bedroom, cabin by a lake with an extra-large kitchen and large dining room. Including a large utility room, large family room. large living room and bathroom. Including a two-car garage, with a wraparound front porch, and back porch set on four large lots. Americans often install central cooling and heating systems that both cool our houses in the summer and heat them in the winter.
To be fair, the houses they are showing in the U.S. are million dollar homes (800,000+ pounds). The every day home in the states usually do not have 3-5 bathrooms. The standard is 1 1/2 or 2.
Square footage averages between 1,200 to 2,000 depending on how large the house.
The banana? It got chewed to a pulp by the garbage disposal. Basically, a grinder with knife blades that pulverizes food to a mush so it can go down the drain.
Yes, our mail is usually delivered to a central location, either the post office or some places have a mail box location where each house has one little box for their mail. Only the home owner and the mail delivery has the key. If you have a P.O Box (post office box) you have a tiny little slot with a key that your mail is put in. And yes, we have to go get our mail ourselves. The shared community mail stand is rare, though. Most people have a post office box in the post office. There is still home delivery of mail, but mostly in rural areas.
Price: For a standard 2-3 bedroom home, you will spend $150,00-$200,000 (120,000-160,000 pounds) for a small home. For a larger home with a large yard and double car garage and big rooms, you can expect easily over $300,000 (240,000 pounds)
Well...I would say that's NOT all true. U.S.A is so large and different even within the States. The couple is talking about Las Vegas, which is a lot cheaper for larger homes. Where as, where I live in San Diego, California - a small old home could be almost $1 million and more, where that same exact home could cost maybe on an average $200,000 with a much bigger lot size....and even cheaper with acres of land in more rural areas in the country. So, U.S.A. is not all the same and living in San Diego, California; which is the most expensive city in the country, it's a different world...
I would say the average is more like 2 to 2.5 bathrooms. And the average American home is 2300 sq ft. (That's a statistic) And the homes they're showing aren't necessarily million dollar homes. They're certainly on the nicer end, but in some parts of the country 300-400k will get you a LOT of house and a good size plot of land. And you can definitely get a house with a double garage and good size rooms for *well* under 300k lol.
And the *overwhelming* majority of American homes have a mailbox, either on the curb or attached to the house. Most people don't have to go any further than their yard to collect or send mail.
It really depends where you are.
As more fools move from California.
House prices go up.
But you can find a 2-3br 1-2 bath. For $50k to $100k in areas Californias are not moving to. On 5 to 20 acres.
On average you are correct which I think is what you were going for to give the most accurate depiction of the state of housing in America. What I will say is that pricing does very heavily from State to State. So, lets say there is a house in California with 3,000 sq. ft. Now that will cost you an arm and a leg there; whereas the same house in Georgia would become far more affordable. This is due to the lack of population in Georgia, making the demand for homes in the State fall, and thus driving the price of said home down.
I live in Tucson AZ and my 35 year old home is 1400 sf plus a smallish 450 sf 2 car garage. In Arizona you cannot legally inhabit a structure without heating and cooling; I have a heat pump on the roof for AC and heat. Single level, Three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a laundry room with a sink. You would call it a semi-detached in fact I share a small section of wall with a neighbor.
This is called a townhouse or here in Arizona a "patio home" because the patio in the back is about as big as the house itself. It's common here in Arizona for yards in the back to be separated by a concrete block wall (mine is stucco and painted to match the house). About 200 SF of the patio is covered and the rest is 500 sf pavers to make a larger outdoor area and 250 sf of artificial grass (water is precious) and real mesquite trees which are native to the area.
I have a master bedroom with en suite and walk in closet, a smaller gues bedroom and an even smaller bedroom used as an office (it's about the size of a UK bedroom). Because it's a style of architecure similar to our Mexican heritage here I have clay tile floors ("Saltillo") throughout with rugs. One of the best features is location, I"m in the central area of Tucson so it's not too far to shopping and activities though you would drive to everything because "close" means something else here in America. But there are horse properties and wildlife within half a block.
The mailbox sits on a post by the road. Dishwasher and garbage disposal are standard items but you don't put whole bananas into the disposal, I personally put as little as possible into mine; the water treatment plant separates any solid matter out and sells it as fertilizer and uses the water for golf courses and parks or to recharge the aquifer.
It's currently valued right at $300,000 but until a few years ago it would have been a bit cheaper than yours. There's been a boom in building here so it's possible house prices will drop or at least stay steady in the next few years. My home would be for a couple or small family but I'm 75 and bought the house 25 years ago.
The entry price for a home here is $500,000. Thats for a one bedroom cabin.
I'm a fairly typical middle class American man living in central Texas. My house is what many would consider a "starter home." It's 1400 square feet, with 3 bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms. I also have an attached 2 car garage and a decent-sized back yard. I use 1 of the extra bedrooms as a gym. The sink has a garbage disposal in it. The house was $280,000. You could buy a house like this for under $200,000 8 to 10 years ago.
Mail is delivered to most “normal” US homes. The mail boxes described here are newer developments with small bits of land.
I live in a 2 bedroom apt. I have have rented before with an attached garage. Perfect for winter snow. 👍🏼👍🏼Hardwood is slippery for dogs, but carpeting collects many centimeters of dust, stains, animal hair and other allergens.
A club room is a bonus room for you. One could use it as an podcast studio/office or activity den/salon for your living room. You could put a daybed in there and it could view it as semi-private bedroom for over-flow guests
Many centimeters of dust and hair? Lol perhaps if you dint vacuum for 6 years
Their backyard was actually pretty small. Their comparing a pre-planned housing subdivision to nothing else. In the US, you can literally build your house practically wherever you want. Out in the woods, out in the desert, alongside a lake, canal, bayou, and your "yard" will reflect whatever lifestyle you want. Our house, an average Ranch-style house that was built in the early 1960s (which is 2400 square ft...just measured it on Google Maps) sits on a lot that is roughly an acre of land (500 ft × 85 ft). On it we've got a 36 ft × 48 ft pole barn (1728 sq ft) and in it we have stored 2 campers (travel trailers) and 2 other vehicles. But now, it's just mainly storage. Dad also built a loft into the back half of it which gave us and additional 864 sq ft of storage space. My dad just died a little over a week ago, and so we're gonna have to be doing a lot of cleaning out of the barn over the next wee bit. But we built that barn back in 1985 and was my Dad's pride and joy for the longest time. He had a work bench out there with all kinds of tools and nuts and bolts all over the place. But aside fron the barn, we also have several smaller storage sheds scattered around the property too. Most of the yard is fenced in for an area for my outside dog to run around in. But before we built the fence I like 2011, iirc, we had a vegetable garden in one spot that was about 45 ft × 25 ft (1125 sq ft) at one point back in the 70s and 80s when I was a little kid. We also had about 10 fruit trees (apple, pears) and 3 lines of grapes. Before I got hurt back in '98 I used to have to mow around all this shit. Pain in the ass it was. Lol. And that's another thing...MOWING. Y'all in the UK don't really have to think about mowing your yards that much. Lawn Care is a huge business or industry in the US. From a huge variety of mowers to smaller tools like weedeaters and things like that, but people take pride in a well manicured yard.
Not anymore. The sheer volume of land use restrictions, land rights, zoning, codes, etc have exploded in the past 10 years. That was true a decade ago but now most lands and counties are drowning in so many laws and restrictions, you can barely do anything without paying hundreds of thousands for permits and more before you even break ground. Try putting a tiny home on it and the sheriff is beating on your door.
Here in league city texas most new houses now have three car garages. My sister and her husband just bought one and so did my son and his wife. It allows space for vehicles and the lawn equipment and tools. The yards in the newer homes are usually smaller but still large enough to put in a pool. Mailboxes are near the curb in front of the house. Kitchens are still very large with large pantries and open to the living rooms. Living rooms are very large so you can have a large curved sectional. Ceilings are very high also. I don’t know why he was surprised because you see these homes on television and TH-cam.
It also depends where you’re living! We got a 3,600 square foot house with 6 acres in South Carolina w/1,200 detached square foot garage. Tri level home, has 2 kitchens. It was $360,000 because it was built in the 80s and on a private dirt road. Mailboxes, even here are across the street (sometimes a couple together based on how small your road is). So really it does depend on location!
I will say that in the US the gathering space of the home is definitely the Kitchen...Most people think that the gathering room is the Great Room, the Den, or the Living Room depending on what you want to call it...but in America it is really the Kitchen that brings people together and alongside the Dining Room is where most if not all important conversations happen. Hence why you hear American politicians refer to "Kitchen Table" issues.
So true.
When we renovated our 1959 kitchen, I asked the designer to leave space for dancing in the middle of the kitchen, and I’m so glad we did. Everyone always hangs out in our kitchen. And we do actually dance in there sometimes!
I don't host and I would still say this is 100% correct
Adam the UK styling seems to be about 20-30 years behind the USA. Carpet became a big thing like 70-90's now we are back on solid surface floors as a design statement. Also older homes pre-90's were more compartmentalized but for the past 30ish years we OP for more open floor plans. However, the pendulum is slowly swinging back to closing off the main living space (kitchen, den, & dining)
They are in a gated or newer community that have mailboxes in clutches. In my city, most homes have individual mailboxes in front of the house, which you can receive and send mail from
So in the US those semi detached are called Townhouses/Townhomes in a lot of places and they are usually a cheaper alternative to single family homes. And from what I've seen they're anywhere from 1,000 sqft and up. The one I owned was about 1,500 sqft 3BR 2.5BA.
Adam, I enjoyed this as much as your try-not-to-laugh videos, so by all means, do more! The British ex-pats in this clip present a considerably distorted view of American housing, inasmuch as everything they're showing is new and upscale. On the other end of the housing continuum, millions of Americans still live in "cozy" pre-WWII housing with modest-sized rooms, a couple small bathrooms (at most), tiny closets, walled-off kitchens (no pantries!), washers and dryers in a musty basement, and perhaps a cramped, single-stall garage originally built for a 1920s or '30s Ford. Scads of inexpensive, cracker-box housing developments were also built in the inner-ring suburbs in the early years after the war, with a ground floors typically about 1000 sq ft. and an unfinished basement. "Cape Cod" style homes had an extra half story with a one or two low-ceilinged bedrooms upstairs for the kids, or just an attic!
what he said. I live in a 100 year old farm house
Yup. The subdivisions age can pretty much be determined at a glance by the style of houses.
50s, 60, 70, 80 etc...
Generally the average houses got bigger every decade but now there is a trend towards downsizing the new houses in a lot of areas. Economically it makes more sense including for heat and light expenses.
People are starting to look at overall costs these days.
We do actually have mailboxes for the most part, but you can have some neighborhoods that have designated spots for all mail to be delivered
Your doing it right with the carpet and the hardwood. We're about to tear our all the carpet on the 1st floor and leave carpet on the 2nd floor, basement, and steps up and down, because when you get an area with heavy foot traffic, it gets dirty and gross quickly. It's also easier cleaning rugs than carpet, so strategic rugs on the 1st floor makes a ton of sense. The way I look at it, you should be going to bed or getting up from bed when you're upstairs, so you would be barefoot and as such want something soft to walk on, but downstairs, if you forget something like a bag or a jacket and need to run in, you don't want to take off your shoes and put them back on, so with carpets, you run the risk of soiling them with dirt from the outside, even if you normally take off your shoes. Plus the 1st floor usually is for cooking, eating and coming in from bad weather, so better to have easy clean surfaces.
We do have hardwood in most rooms but we put down area rugs especially in the bedrooms so your feet still touch warmth. Carpet is considered outdated here because of staining, dust, and dirt, and allergens.
This is NOT a typical US home
No, it sure isn't. What I find disturbing is that this couple may believe it is.
@@cag19549 Kind of like watching TV or movies from the US and thinking that is the way Americans live. It's a's almost humorous.
Prices and what you get is determined by locale...in the Midwest $250 buys a nice large suburban house, but in Silicon Valley $1.5 million buys a bungalow or rancher style 2 bedroom, 1 bath on a very small lot, built in the 50-60's that needs a total reno or tear down...if you can find one at all. Outside the cities, semi-detached in the US is a Townhouse or condominum (condo). They can be gated or not, are built to meet given needs, singletons, retirement, or families and can be quite large, with a minimum of a 2 car garage and a very small fenced private backyard & patio. Townhouses tend to be more deluxe, both offer communal facilities, such as a gym, hot tub, a large pool, tennis courts, a putting green and a clubhouse / BBQ area the residents can use for private gatherings. A condo community is usually a mix of sizes, 2-3 bedrooms, 2 bath with a powder room is average. Senior condos are usually age-restricted to 55+ yrs old (no kids), and single story ( no stairs).Condos tend to be in denser developments. Both come with an annual or monthly fee to maintain common areas, communal facilites and grounds and a Homeowner Association (HOA), which can be a gang of Karens/busy bodies enforcing items in the contract like the color of your window coverings and where you store your trash bins. Most Americans hate the HOA system...but if you are a busy couple or single they can be ideal...no lawns to mow or gutters to clean etc., and many have security service patrols at night. But Americans mostly want a detached home on a large lot...(half acre lots are common in the "Burbs now) in a nice neighborhood near good schools.
We have a small house. 4 bedrooms and 2 full size baths. 2100 sq ft. 2 car garage and the drive way is big enough to park 4 SUV’s in the back. Laundry room, kitchen with a walk in pantry. 2 living rooms. Dining room. Most homes have dish washers, ice machines and a beverage refrigerator. As well as an extra refrigerator and freezer in the garage.
Pantries are good for storing long-term goods like rice, canned food, things in case of emergencies. Some pantries are in the basement so if you’re in a tornado and you’re not too injured you’ll have food, water right there until rescue can be there for you to get you out.
Works for earthquakes too.
My house is similar to yours Adam. In fact, many homes in my neighborhood are smaller, though there are some that are 2500 sqft. (those are really large Victorians built in the 1880s by some of our rich residents at the time). My house was built in 1934. Kitchen separate from the rest of the house. Washer and dryer are in the basement (along with my freezer), no pantry, though I have a metal cabinet in the basement I use as a pantry. The house originally had one washroom, with one sink (still one sink in that washroom). In the 1970s a second washroom was installed in the den. Garage is separate. My yard is rather large compared to the UK though.
Middle class varies greatly between states.
I'm from Texas, and well, everything is bigger here of course. 2,000 sq ft is considered the minimum for a house. The average middle class home in Texas is expected to be 1 "master" bedroom, 2 or 3 guest bedrooms, a large kitchen connecting to the dining room and/or the living room, a laundry room, and at least a 2-car garage (maybe 3-car). Homebuilders usually offer additional options like a game room (which can be anything from an office, or a man cave, or a room for all of the kids' toys), and less common, a home theater or sunroom. The master bedroom is truly a "suite" - it's the biggest room in the house, has a private bathroom, usually with a large tub, shower, and a walk-in closet. And, of course, there's always a large front and back yard big enough for a pool or playground. All of this averages $300k - $500k depending on how close to the city you are.
This house is definitely a newer middle-upper class home. Idk the vegas area, but here where I live in the Midwest would be probably close to the $500k range give or take a few tens of thousands.
But what I can give you, is 2 examples with my parents and my own home.
Parents: Lower-middle class
2500sq feet. Detached 2 stall 750sq feet garage with 700sq feet 2nd story loft. 4bedrooms, full basement, 3 bathrooms, garbage disposal, vented AC/Heat pump, with gas furnace, two stories, 1.5 acre land, huge wrap around porch, mailbox at the road, rural/suburb area. Built in the mid 80s. Probably cost them around 350k years ago, now valued probably around 450k.
My house: lower class
1500sq feet, no garage, 3bedroom, 2 bathroom, no garbage disposal, unfinished basement, boiler heat with no AC, small lakeside town, about .66 acre land, small open porch, small mailbox attached to the front of the house, bought recently for 145k, built in 1900.
Now I can't speak for every part of the US. Many areas cost of living differ.
For example, a 2000/mo rental here would probably get you a decent 3bed 2 bath home similar to my own. But in say new york city, you might get a 100sq feet "studio apartment" for that. Or for example I'm in the Midwest, if I were to move to California I'd need to make double what I make now to live as comfortably as I do here.
But there's many different ways to live. I live in a small town in an old house. Living is relatively cheap. But my sister lives on the east coast in a newer home with an HOA (home owners association) where all the houses are pretty much cookie cutter copies of eachother and strict regulations of how your home must look. Has to be clean, can't have your garbage can visible from the street, lawn kept a certain way, etc. Where I can do whatever with my house and let it look any way that I choose.
And my decision to make these comparisons is simply because I see many of these types of reactions from people, but the videos almost always just show middle to mid upper class living. Which is not indicative of how many people actually live.
You can’t just throw a banana down the sink🍌
you definitely are not suppose to just do that lol
insinkerators are just that good, but no rice
Just body parts
And decent size pipes to the sewer
😵💫 I've had to pull a fork from a ruined sink tummy 🤣👍
I just bought a 2 bedroom 1 bathroom single level (unfurnished attic), with a 1 car garage and a small yard for $160,000 850 square feet. I live in the Midwest in America, but the housing market is screwed. 10 years ago it wouldve been half that.
Guess it depends on where in the Midwest I bought mine about 5 years ago and its 4 bedroom with an extra one in the basement 2 bath with a two story heated and air condition detached garage for 58000
@ryanlaymon2329 I'm in Des Moines so it's got a lot to do with it.
I bought my house in the US in 2021. It's 4 bedroom, 2 car garage, 2 bath, detached home (or single family as we call it here). There's a lot to relate on this video except the mail. That's unique to them and where they live. My mailbox (or letter box as they call it) is in front of my house. My grandmothers is attached to her house and some people have the mail slot on their door.
Also, I don't have gas heating. I'm all electric, but I think most places still do gas heating.
The backyard is often an area for entertainment. Some people make it a garden, some do both (like me). When I have guests over, very rarely do we stay inside. We sit out back and hang out, play cornhole, drink, bbq, and have a good time. The indoors is only if you need to use the restroom or if you're using the kitchen (another acceptable hang out spot, at least for my family)
Most people in houses have a mailbox right out front. It's only in communities (like apartment complexes, condominiums or gated communities) where there are mail box stands.
British people commonly call their back area a 'garden' because before and during the world wars, they grew food in those areas as it was common for families to grow their veggies instead of buying most of them, and would buy meats from the store and the few veggies they didn't or couldn't grow. this naming just stuck and it's been that way since for British people. In the U.S. on the other hand, we've rarely grown our own foods, unless you live on an actual farm (small or otherwise) and thus it has nearly only been 'yards'.
garden tends to be more of a area of planting flowers or food kind of like the boat and ship talk as well the front yard and back yard. otherwise it would be front yard and garden instead of back yard.
or front garden and back garden? 😅
A lot of Americans grow tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, cucumbers and herbs in their backyards There are clever self-watering pots that will grow quite a lot of veggies or salad greens on a patio or balacony.
I've always lived in town and we've always had some kind of garden going in the backyard. Veggies, Rhubarb, Raspberries, Fruit trees etc.
It comes down to preference. Our house had wall to wall when we moved in, except the kitchen and bathrooms. We removed carpet from the living and dining room and had hardwood, oak, floors there. Our mailbox was attached to our house, right next to the front door. Our house isn't very big, around 1650 sq ft. but we have 2.5 baths.
5:12 - you can put any food down the sink, there is a blade down there that chops everything
My house is on the small side of average for my area. Its a split level home (main floor is 5' above the ground and the "basement" is only 4' in the ground).
Upper floor is 940 sq/ft and the basement is 860 sq/ft. It has a full kitchen with the dining room right off it. Right next to the hat is the living room.
Half the basement is a "family room" where we can sit and watch TV and play games.
Its 3 bedrooms, 2 bathroom and has an attached 2 car garage thats 22' deep and 24' wide.
The lot size is 75' wide and 120' deep.
The back of the house has a deck right off the dining room and a patio off the bottom of the deck stairs.
The current assesed value by the county is $250k.
They live in Las Vegas, a garden would be very difficult
Correct. It's not easy to grow things in the desert.
@@erickamakesplans incorrect, plenty grows well in the desert, just tougher in the summer. But citrus, lettuces, peppers, tomatoes, herbs and plenty more all grow super well. Anything that requires a lot of sun grows well.
@@xavvi As someone who grew up in the desert, I can tell you that the issue is water not sun. So yes, you CAN grow things in a desert. But is NOT EASY. Especially with the drought restrictions that cities now have in place.
@@erickamakesplans yeah my family has always been in the desert as far back as I can trace, so I understand the challenges. A simple drip system can alleviate that issue.
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Carpet is nothing but a bacteria wounder land. You'd be completely grossed out if you pulled up carpet in a well lived in house after just five years. Not to mention all the chemicals that are in carpets that you end up breathing as they break down over time. New carpet? The new carpet smell is fumes off-gassed (released) from the carpet. The fumes are called volatile organic compounds (or VOCs for short), and one of the most notorious carpet VOCs is called 4-phenylcyclohexenem, aka 4-PC.
These chemicals can effect your health.
5 bedroom home, around 2,500 square feet. 3 levels (full basement, ground floor, and upstairs). My current value of my home is and 200 thousand needs work but its all mine and in about 5 years all that I want will be completed IE remodeling hard wood floors basement theater game and weight room fruit cellar
5 year plan once its completed my home value should be around 300 thousand possible 350
My mailbox is about 4 feet from my home
Hardwood floor heated floor. That is what I am planning on doing
In Canada, I don't know if most places have community postal boxes, but the last time I got any post delivered to my home was around 1992.
I lived in Dublin and Belfast where it sounds like we're Adam's from and I didn't find the houses that much smaller. The only thing I kinda missed was a laundry room. Every home I've been in in North America is open plan. It was strange that every room had a door, I wasn't used to the immersion switch and North Americans never do laundry in the kitchen.
A community mail room is more for gated communities and complexes like apartments. Streets with homes normally have a mailbox outside. We had letterboxes decades ago, but newer homes are built with mailboxes at the curb because to get all the mail delivered, postman drive and don’t get out of the mail truck.
Or in rural areas there can be a mailbox area for several homes.
I own a 2 bed, 1 bath farmhouse that was built in 1965 in small town, Texas. I was very lucky almost 10 years ago when it pretty much fell into my lap and I bought it for less than $100,000… I just had to put a little money and a lot of hammering into it and renovated it to be exactly what I wanted! It sits on 4 acres about 5 miles outside city limits, and my nearest neighbors are about half a mile away. It has an attached garage that can fit 2 cars, but for now it just houses 1 of my cars, my zero turn lawnmower, a riding lawnmower, and push mower on one side… then a beer fridge and elliptical on the other. I’m in the process of building a 30’x30’ “shop” that’ll eventually house the lawn equipment, side by side, 4wheelers, and another vehicle, with space under an awning for people to park or where we can have cookouts/hang out if it’s raining. I do have a mailbox at the end of my driveway, so when I leave or come home, I can just swing in and check it. And as for a garden/backyard… I have both! There’s a small garden where I can grow fresh veggies, then the backyard…which we don’t do much there. My driveway is where we tend to gather, if it’s a small group. But the real fun is when we throw a pasture party and light a bonfire! I typically throw those when it gets cooler. And I have a big blowup screen and projector we take down there and will watch football games on!
The good life
Yes, most new planned communities have several post office stand locations within the community, which allows the postal worker to do their work a lot faster, due to high population of residences...but it's NOT common for most homes. There are homes that still receive mail through the front door slot, but a lot have converted to the mail box post at the end of the property line next to the street, so the postal worker could drive their car, which the driver's seat is on the the right hand, making it easier and faster to put the mail into the mail box, without getting out of the car. We had and have what you guys have, but that was mostly back in the 50's and 60's, where the U.S.A. has just evolved newer ways throughout time and locations.
safer for packages since there locks and reduce cost as well every winter you don't have to worry that your mail box is destroyed
I had my middle class 2855 sq.ft. house on a half-acre lot built in 2002 at a cost of $189,755. My house currently apprises for $368,540. My single-story house consists of a Master Bedroom with a Master Bathroom Suite, three Bedrooms with their own full Bathrooms, one Bathroom with Bathroom in hall, my personal Office, a Great room (with Two complete sitting areas with Fireplace and fully functioning Bar Cabinet), a Dining Room (Table with eight Chairs, Amalfi Buffett, and Display Cabinet ) Breakfast Nook (Table with six Chairs and a Sideboard), Chef styled Kitchen, Washroom combined with Mudroom and a half Bathroom. It also has an attached two and a half car garage, (The Half Car Section is my DIY Woodwork Shop.) Total: 5 BR's & 5.5 BR's. My mailbox is located at the end of my driveway and Street.
The sq footage, back yard, and parking is pretty accurate but their house was bigger and nicer than 80%. If you live in apartments you often have a setting similar to renting a POBox, but there's a tiny covered place with a bank of mailboxes on site and everyone has a key to the 1 for their apmt.
re most places have a mailbox on their own property or have a mail slot, these people just live in a place with a lot of units some kind of centrally controlled community so they have a giant set of individual boxes at the entrance to the property.
Mailboxs are right outside your home. It seems they live in a gated community. We live very rural. We have 3 vehicles and a motorcycle. Plenty of parking. We have a garden for food. Garden for herbs. Also flowers all over.
The scale of the photos they're using are mostly a 3000+ sq ft houses. A two car garage with a driveway is common. Parking problems are usually in major cities really rural places without infrastructure. Or anywhere there's giant apartment density. But older or smaller homes and neighborhoods might have one or the other. After market Car Ports are not uncommon. Or a gravel driveways not a paved ones. Driveway lengths vary widely depending on one's plot size. We have a 2400sqft house with 3 full baths. The master bedroom is decent one other room is decent. And the 3 others are tiny. Like room for a bed and a dresser and thats it. We try to have designated laundry nooks or even rooms. We also use drying machines. We are not allowed in most cities , suburbs and towns to use clotheslines or contraptions outside. Dishwashers are less common in old homes, and apartments, but most new builds houses have them. Most houses will have at least a front or backyard, if not both. The plot size houses sit on vary widely by community.
You asked about our own homes. We live in a 5500 sq ft house on 6/10ths of an acre., which is a “garden”- size lot with trees, built-in concrete chairs, and fire- pit and creek. I have planted lots of flowers, bulbs, annuals, perennials, ornamental grasses and foot paths of stones. however, if I’m ever reincarnated, I want to come back and have a cut garden like Miss Marple.
Our house has 5 beds rooms, 5 full bathroom and I half bath. We have 3 levels. We have an attached 3 car garage and our mail is delivered to our mailbox at the 😂front of our house. 🏠
The price of a home varies dramatically in the US. If you’re close to a big city or a beach, etc., the price of your home is going to be higher than if you live in the middle of the US or small towns.
That’s las Vegas it’s not a cheap place to live. The more cheap places are in the middle of the country. Like here we I live my mom got a Victorian two bathroom, three bedroom with a detached garage, which was a two car garage for $100,000 and the house was over 100 years old and it was three blocks from downtown so you could walk and bike everywhere and it was just behind the public library and post office
How long ago did your mom buy this house? Also if it was recent it must be in a really crappy city like flint.
@@msp9810
Three years before I graduated high school in 2009 and that’s in Minnesota in a town of 25,000 people.
@@SarahBroad-kw7fj That is quite a while ago. Same house today has to be worth at least 2x that. I know I bought my house in March 07 shortly after graduating from college and its worth at min 2x what I paid for it back then. I have thought about selling and buying something else just prices have skyrocketed. I have my house paid off so not like I owe anything but my house is 2800 sq/ft with 4 bed and 3 bath if I wanted something nicer it wouldn't be any bigger might be a bit nicer but it would probably cost at least a half million which is probably what mine is worth anyway but I have thought about buying closer to the beach even though I only live a couple miles from the ocean anyway I have thought about buying on the beach. I looked at one for $1.5m but that was like 7 years ago same house today is probably $2.5 or better had 5 bed 4 bath inground pool and hot tub right on the beach here in SC. I could sell my house and another piece of property I have here and my parents and grandparents houses I have and afford just the one big beach house but not sure I want to deal with how much it cost to take care of a beach house.
@@JesseLJohnson
Yes but the fact is that we sold the house to my cousin and Minnesota is not as expensive as the coastlines of the USA. Today in the most expensive part of town a 4 to 5 bedroom house with a two bath and en suite is 450,000 there’s only two houses that I know of that are in the 1-1.5 million range here
@@JesseLJohnson
Just found a house here in owatonna Minnesota for $ 389,900 that’s 4 bedroom and 3 baths and this an attached 3 cars garage corner lot 2,792 sq.ft so yup