Brit Reacts to A Typical American House Tour 

This is California. Listen,We have all types of homes in different states and there is no one type of typical house in America.

I wouldn't call this typical. It looks more like a university/college house.

It's important for people to understand one thing about the USA - nothing is the same everywhere you go. Some houses have the typical mailboxes, some have ones like this. Some neighbourhoods will have a centralised communal mailbox in a single location, oftentimes far away from the actual house. Some have letterboxes. NOTHING in the US is One way. Expect variety. This house looks like a typical old-school California house. Newer houses will not look much like this, but as I said above, the only constant is variety. We have everything. Swimming pools are very common out west. He definitely had some old stuff, like the computer and Nintendo, which attests to the age of the house. Maybe it was his parents' house and he took it over and made some modern modifications (?). This house would not be typical where I live in North Carolina. Our standard houses here are very different.

I would say size wise, this is like a typical middle class home. Most would have 3-4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, kitchen, maybe a garage or at least a driveway to park, yard size depends on where you live, kitchen, living room, maybe some type of bonus space either in an attic or a basement.

I live in Southern California. This is a typical smaller home in Southern California built in the 1970s or earlier. The street I grew up on had more houses with swimming pools than not. Unfortunately, newer houses in this area rarely have pools because they are on smaller lots. More modern houses have more and larger windows. A more typical house in CA would have a family room in addition to the living room and a large master bedroom along with two or three smaller bedrooms. The kitchen was fairly typical for the era, newer houses generally have larger kitchens. I don't know what to make of the room with the stripper pole, maybe it was originally designed for a clothes washer and dryer and pantry space. Newer houses always have garages.

Those houses are “cookie cutter houses”. There are whole neighborhoods of homes that look alike, particularly out West. They have small lots, so not much of a yard to speak of & your neighbor is ridiculously close. I live in the Deep South, where I live neighborhoods don’t look like that. Most homes sit on 1-5 acre lots & the homes don’t’ all look the same. My home sits on 2 acres, my closest neighbors are 6 acres away. Yes, I have an in-ground pool. A lot of people have pools, they are common, but a lot of people don’t want one, as they are a pain sometimes. It’s not so much a money thing, as a liability & maintenance thing for a lot of people. I didn’t want mine, but my late husband did. That home looks like it was built in the 1950’s or around then, that tiny garage is the tell tell sign. You also have to remember the region you live dictates price range of the home. So what I can get here in the Deep South, would be very expensive on the West coast. Here that home would be lower middle class, barely making it into the middle class at all. What’s “typical” in one region, wouldn’t be typical in another.

This is a ranch style house with 1 floor. Smaller then most. You can find anything you're looking for!

This is a fairly normal size house set up for a couple of bachelors. It would probably be a good starter home for newlyweds or a young couple with one or two kids. Swimming pools are not in everyones yard. In-ground pools like theirs cost quite a bit to install and then, they need regular maintenance to keep them running properly.

I gonna agree with other comments this is not persay a typical house in America..if truth be told there is no typical house in America

This is an example of a small older ranch home. It is smaller than any home I've ever lived in. Also most of the other homes you have shown are more typical of newer construction homes. You have to consider the location. That small home could cost a million in California, while that same million could buy a 4000-5000 square foot home with a lot of land elsewhere. Location is key.

Yeah. Just like the upper and elite class houses are different in the UK, it's the same in the US. I live in a typical two floor house and a built in basement but some houses have just the main floor and the basement. Some house have a more open house plan. However the one I live in is one of the older houses where there's an island counter.

Yep, the only thing typical about USA houses is that from one neighborhood to the next they're atypical. Mine is a 3BR/2.5 bath 3-level townhome, about 1800sq', with a finished basement, located in Pennsylvania. My daughter's house which is just 12 mins away is big because they have a big family, has 4BR/3.5 baths, huge basement that's basically the 3 kid's playroom, 3350 sq', 2 car garage and a big pool. Except for the pool it's very typical for their development/neighborhood. You can pretty much go to Anytown, USA and find everything from mobile homes and prefabs to what people call mini-mansions or McMansions.

I grew up in the 70’s, my house was brick, 3 bedrooms, 1 full bath and a Jack & Jill bathroom (toilet, ,sink, shower) between 2 bedrooms, a full basement

That kitchen was very nice and large compared to the size of the other rooms. Usually kitchens feel like an afterthought in a typical place.

This is definitely one of those houses where it's for a couple of people. However... if you have the big bucks and the room for it in the back yard: I've seen families have a pool there.

A typical American house is built of wood framing in one of a wide variety of styles. I grew up in a craftsman style 2 story (3 with the unfinished basement,) Halfway up the hill in southern Ohio. You could enter the basement through the tiny garage. (My childhood neighborhood dates to around 1920s - 1930s, you you know cans were smaller back then!) The only thing the unfinished basement was used for was storage & the washer/dryer. Whinny dad developed an amateur interest in photography, we had a basement annex dug out under the "breakfast room" for his darkroom -- which, being the only part of the basement w/out windows, was where we dove to when the tornado warnings said we were in danger! The stairs go up the back wall. A few steps down from the kitchen is the back door into our triangular lot's small back yard. Immediately to the left is the open door to the combo breakfast room/sewing room (my mom made nearly all my Halloween costumes!) The door to the small pantry (made smaller by the recessed wall so out fridge wouldn't block the window) is from this room. The basement steps open into the small kitchen. Double sink & fridge commands one side, the small window looks onto our trianglar side yard; opposite to the sink was counter, stove & radiator. Beautiful furnace before we got central in our later years was silent for the simple reason that heat rises! Doorway from the kitchen leads to a meh dining room, which was also my parents' home office w/ desk, phone, ledger, etc. This was a landline hardwired into the house when my panprents bought it in the 1950s. Plug in landlines weren't a thing yet, except maybe in newer builds! We finally had to get one when changing business practices demanded we get a touchtone; & the phone company technician was so thrown by the archaic technology he had to go back to his truck for special tools! (Our old house even still had knob & tube wiring -- original to the house -- until a shower of sparks from our Christmas tree pointed out the fire danger. We didn't know! Knob & tube was decades obsolete!) From the dining room, you could detour the extendable wood table & go out the louver doors to the "sun room" (over half the garage length) to the front porch (other half of garage length.) Or you could hang a right & in the living room. Sofa along the wall facing the porch, my parents' 2 recliners facing each other; the console TV & stereo aside the steps going upstairs. My parents had a fondness for beige, so there were a lot of beige downstairs walls when I was growing up. (The stairs opening into railing stairs were very useful when I was old enough to figure out my folks were playingStants Claus!) Above the tiny kitchen was the tiny bathroom & my & the hall closet; above the living room was the master bedroom, above the small dining room was my bedroom. Typical older neighborhood built into the clay hills of southern Ohio. Circa 1965 thru 1990.

Another thing about typical American houses is that the homes are not from one point a few hundred years ago but rather developers buy land to be constantly building and developing new concepts to be ahead of their competitors. So home design changes every 5-10 years and they vary greatly between cities and states. A house in Los Angeles will look very different than a house 100 miles away in Santa Barbara. Here in the Austin- San Antonio area our hill country style homes look completely different than homes from Dallas or Houston.

there are many many styles of homes here but this is much more accurate than most videos and more similar to what most people would live like, just with some added fancy features. a lot of 'american house tour' videos are taken in brand new overly-modern and very very expensive homes most of us do not live in. those houses only exist in their own separate neighborhoods and most people hate them lol. also yes this mailbox is different than most homes, but older cities have different styles.

There are 330 million Americans and 170 million house so just because you see one house is know why what people live in. So much variety, so many styles, and sizes from junk to huge mansions.

Truthfully, there is no 'typical' house in America.... Houses differ from state-to-state, community, etc...You can go to neighborhoods that has large houses AND smaller houses in the same neighborhood. It just differs from place to place.

I grew up in California and moved to rural Georgia when I was thirty. Houses in California are on the smaller side. Our house is six bedrooms and bathrooms and around 5,000 sq feet on 5 acres of land. I do not have or want a swimming pool. We have a typical house for our area.

It's an older, fairly typical house. The others were fairly, typical newer houses.

As others have mentioned, because of the size of the United States and the range of climate zones, there are hundreds of different regional design styles and massive differences in house types. From State to State there are even more deviations from what is considered average as well.

Homes in the LA area are ludicrously expensive so it may be typical there but not in the Northeastern US

My om has a swimming pool, but my grandmother doesn't (I live w/ Gram atm, she's 95 & needs help getting meals etc... she's pretty self sufficient... tho. It was a typical home, but a 'bro-pad' on the inside. CA homes often have pools or at least pool access.

looks like lower mddle class house

Great video! It’s good to see your reaction

Swimming pools are actually quite common in LA, even in low income housing. There is probably 3 out of 10 houses have some type of pool in the city.

The houses for a typical family oriented group(mom,dad, and children) will look very different from a group bachelor pad(flat). The 'man cave' themes should be a heads-up,and this is a very old video.

As you recognized, the video was from decades ago. If that house were placed on the market today in that condition, it would be called "in need of renovation." Price would depend on location. In parts of California, it might be $1-million. In a popular hot market suburban small town in Texas, it would likely ask about $350,000, as is. In a more remote small town, perhaps $250,000 or a bit less. In an overheated market, like Austin, it would bring a premium price and then would be immediately torn down to put up new construction. I'm in a small town near a lot of high tech, and people sell out in California to come here and buy three houses for the proceeds of their one in California.

My family had an above ground pool, and a trampoline. And that’s a bachelor pad but it’s around the normal size normal for someone on a $300,000-$400,000 in LA or San Francisco. Because it’s not cheap living in California I know this because my brother living there and is living in a multi-generational home with his fiancé and family

this was more typical than those bigger house videos

I've been to San Diego, CA, and it the house was similar, but you're right, this is a bachelor pad. Not the typical house in Utah, where I live; although, I live in a duplex, which are becoming more common. Thanks, for your video.

In big cities there isn't room for sprawling homes with 4 bedrooms and 3 baths and a pool. The houses jn the suburbs outside the metro area look a lot like this one mostly all built between 1945 and 1970. The big sprawling homes started in the 90's sometime. If you are going to build a home you will need a place with land to accomodate the newer home size.

This is a pretty typical house here. There are probably 100 different types of "typical", but this more so than the ones you have posted.

This is a typical middle class house, right in the center of the middle class. Not too big, not too small. comfortable. The pool is a luxury the family has decided to add to the house. The cost of this house will vary greatly depending on the location. It would be about twice as much in California as in Kansas.

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Definitely the most expensive home! California is INSANE! That’s probably about 700k.

The Lost in the Pond house tour is very typical for a Midwestern home. But yeah, there isn't any one standard for what a typical American house is like. There's a lot of variety in this country. In Louisiana, almost nobody has a basement. In the Southwest, there's a lot of adobe-type construction. On Mackinac Island, nobody has a garage. In Boston there are row houses. In some areas, everything's a ranch-style house; in other areas, everything's two-story, or cape cod, and in a lot of areas it just varies. If you spend enough time in America, you'll see everything from A-frame houses to straw-bale construction. I've never lived in a house with a pool, but I certainly know people who do; and this is the Midwest, where six months out of the year the pool would be useless (unless it's indoor; I've been in a house with an indoor pool, once). In California, where it's nearly always warm enough for the pool to be useful, the pool ownership rate is considerably higher than here.

Looks to be a house built in the late 1950's-1960's. And some people collect old computers. Looks to be a recent video based on how he's dressed.

This is more like a normal house. It is older so not like a normal newer home & there are plenty of those. This being in Los Angeles is a very expensive home too. So if you ignore the price, add about 50% more space, this is a typical older American home. Soccer is pretty big here. I asst coach a youth team. It just has a hard time breaking into mainstream pro sports. It is getting there. Only about 10% of homes (probably less) have swimming pools. We have a community pool. And grotto area.

You should try looking at million dollar brownstones in Brooklyn new york those are really cool houses

This looks like a small house. I live in NJ where our properties are typically smaller than the average US property, but this looked small.

The best thing to have is a friend with a pool. Pool maintenance sucks!

This is California, so you get very little for your money in many parts of the state. The USA is massive and there is no such thing as a standard American house. I consider this house quite small and it doesn’t feel like a family home.

Home in US are different to a degree as to different states. The suburbs tend to have better homes. Cities here in New York have a lot of older homes. Also most houses here have a cellar. Most in the south don’t. The weather has a bearing as to type of houses also. I’m in a city and live in a house built in the 1880s turned into studio apartments. Not uncommon here at all. It’s a big country. Definitely homes have pools but not common as we have a short summer and expensive to buy and care for. Definitely have air conditioners. Summers here are hot and humid. Pools are more common in states that are warm and sunny all year. One story homes are all over but are more common in warmer states as they stay cooler. Cellars are more common in northern states as we don’t usually have as many floods or unstable ground. Also some homes are beautiful but not a lot of us can afford them. I’ve never even seen 90% of our country.

A lot of people have a swimming pool especially in California and Texas. I didn’t want one and when I was house shopping it was hard not finding a house with a swimming pool. My neighbors on each side of me both have a pool. They’re are a lot of them.

This is more normal than the other two houses

This is pretty standard for LA California. You won't get a lot of house for the money in LA. A lot of these houses are old and small, but are getting pretty expensive due to gentrification and location of the neighborhood. The design predates the open concept plan. A lot of flippers are refurbishing these houses and tearing down the walls to be more modern and reselling for a huge profit.

There are hundreds of different types of "typical" american houses so im sure you have seen one but commentors who cant think outside of their own backyards told you it wasnt. Comment sections are the worst place for acurate info.

That did seem like it was a very old vid, definitely not seen the inside of a home look like that. 340 million ppl live in the US so a lot of variety I guess 😂

Nice to see a Brit look at an American house that isn't a million dollar McMansion.

There’s really no such thing as a “typical” American house because they vary greatly in size and style from state to state, city to city. And the prices for equivalent size houses changes dramatically depending on location. I consider myself “middle class” (not wealthy by any means, but not poor) and my house is more similar to the one you did in your last video. But I also do not live in Connecticut. If I did, I’d never be able to afford that house. Whereas in Texas a house like that is very affordable. This house is what I’d describe as a “working class”, and possibly quite dated. It also has quirks about it due to the personal preferences of the owner. You picked up on the stripper pole right away. That’s not a typical family home.

Interior wise I think this is more normal honestly, every house I’ve been in or have seen in America usually has crap everywhere lol not dirty just a lot of stuff.

Most Americans who live in the city as opposed to living out in the country, has mail boxes attached to their house. I can open my front door and reach my mail without stepping onto the porch. It's right there. A few people who live in town may put a mailbox at the curb at the street, but that's not the norm. People who live out in the country side have their mailboxes at the road. Also to agree with Kim-427, there is NO typical American homes. Some people live in very small houses. Some live in mid-size "ranch" houses, and some people live in nice 2 story houses with a built-on garage, some with a double garage. Then there's some people who live in a large 2 story house that is very large with maybe 4 or 5 bedrooms, a sort of luxury home. Many people live in apartments, some small and some very large and luxurious. We have poor neighborhoods where very poor people live, and those streets are nothing fancy and most people wouldn't want to live there. So you can't pinpoint one type of house as being a typical American house.

I have a pool available to me, but I share it with 48 other units, since I own a condominium. I never use it...but I seriously hate those HOA dues that pay for it

20% of homes in Southern California have swimming pools.

I don’t have a swimming pool nor do my neighbors. But people in Arizona have more swimming pools just because of their heat.

Yep almost all adult life

Blue collar older house, nothing fancy, but still maybe expensive depending on the state and neighborhood. This house in Arkansas might go for $170K... or be $750K in California. Or $1.5 million in certain areas of Cali. Just depends where it's at.

Agree with your conclusion. This looks like a “normal” house for college kids, or young, depending on state and city. Overall California is more expensive than most states so money doesn’t go far. We have all different types for homes and sizes and prices range depending on location however I recently read average American home is around 2,000 square feet.

If you live in a neighborhood with an HOA, everyone will have the same mailbox. Otherwise, you can have any kind you like. I used to live in central Florida in a house with a pool and large patio that was screened in (lanai). This house looks like it was probably built in the late 40s-50s and modernized. The lounge room looks like it might have been an open walkway, or hallway, to the garage that was converted into a room and fair sized bathroom added on. I am sure that wasn't original to the house at all.

He’s being sarcastic, a TV home decorating show would not have decorated a room like that. A typical American house does not have a stripper pole like that, he’s obviously a single guy who’s added things to make it an entertainment hangout for him and his friends. They’re in California so pools are common even in average homes. He has a lot of “toys” that you wouldn’t see in a family home. As someone else pointed out, there’s not really a standard “average” home, geographic, climate, and whether your living in a city, a suburb, a rural area, a farm or ranch makes a difference. We have such diverse climates that it also determines what design and features a house would have.

Lots of American houses have pool. Specially in hotter states

This is an older home in California, not a typical 3 bedroom, older home in my state of South Carolina.

Typical for the 1930's or 40's! The age of the home reflects the trends of the day...

His home is quite a bit older. It would be more typical of homes built in the 1950s-1970s. I agree with you Nick, this is more of a bachelor pad (at least iit would be n my part of the country. Keep in mind, this home is in LA where your buying dollar extends to the end of you nose, and no farther. But I agree with others, I have no idea what "typical" American is supposed to mean. Housing sizes and prices vary a lot across the country. My daughter and her husband live in California and they bought a house that is valued at more than 1 million. Her million dollar California home (and yard) would fit in my Arkansas 4-car garage. Pools are not rare in the US, especially in the hotter climates. The last stat I saw: there were nearly 11 million pools in the USA.

I've never seen a shower like that either

There is no "typical" American home. People buy what they can afford and homes differ throughout the different regions and locations throughout the states.🙂

I live in LA too. Pole Dancing is becoming an exercise craze in California, especially for Instagrammers. My house is similar to this house on the outside. Two Rooms and a garage apartment conversion.

No pool, but a lot of people do, middle or upper class. Some normal people have above ground pools. No I don’t know anyone with a stripper pole. 😂😂😂 But it’s pretty typical. His choices were his, right bachelor pad. He’s probably an old video geek. They love those old games here that need old technology.

A lot of people in California have swimming pools

There is no such thing as a typical house in the USA that's going to be representative of the country. Los Angeles is very expensive and the typical house is going to be different from a typical house in the Midwest, Southeast, Northeast, etc. And you are correct that this is not a typical family house, even for Los Angeles. It's definitely a bro's house.

bachelors pad lol

IN MY VIEW Remember this a house that single men live in so it is decorated by single men.

Pretty sure two single guys live here. It seems like a "bachelor pad." Also, pools are not uncommon in Southern California,

I very much would call that typical. in idaho thats average, in California its not. Average is very dependent on area over here, and the people as well.

This is more of the typical small city house. It does give you a better picture of normal American life. This is the average working class home. Most houses will look very similar though many are larger but the rooms and furniture is very much like this. Except for the party room, that probably has some college girls doing strip teases in it every weekend. That would probably be a bedroom in a similar house owned by a family. After the party room, everything ceased being normal except for the garage.

This is LA -- Not typical. Every city, state, county is different -- impossible to get typical.

I don't think there is a typical American house. Layouts vary dramatically.

Must be a pain to clean!

Is this a typical American house built in California, Nevada, Oregon, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, Rhode Island 😆😆😆

It starts out looking pretty typical to me. The stripper pole, the pool and the steam shower all seem untypical to me. If you have a pool, your doing pretty well for yourself.

Not everyone has a swimming pool and to say this is a typical house is misleading.

I've never had a pool or sauna, so I'm thinking it is all that typical..they

That is a 1950 or 60s home. It's not as common in other states. In California it's probably2 or 3 Times as much as you would pay for it in other states. Y'all need to quit looking at California for comparisons everything there is extremely expensive. That's why so many people are moving out. It's a nice place to visit but not to live.

Own homes

This looks like a Batchelor pad.

You don't have to be rich to have a swimming pool in the USA.

Definitely late 90s early 2000s. Guys house not a family home.

This is more like a frat pad for 2 boys, and it is California. You are not getting much for our money here.

Is this a typical house built in the city or out in the country?

This looks like a rental. This is not like my homes or any of my friends places. Looks like a college kids place. Didn't even show the grounds, upstairs/basement/porches/ grounds. come on this is not representative of much. Think you got steered the wrong way, here, my friend. Good luck in the future on your channel. Peace and love, bruh, from this old, longhaired, hippy dude in the mountains of East Tennessee. U.S.A. See y'all on the next. Later.

Not typical, new homes are cheap and fast built. Mid century of the 50-80’s are one story, split level of the 80’s, 90’s McMansion-now, no character

But, give him lots of subscribes and likes😂 so he can make a living

This is more like a clutter house

I want to like your channel, but it feels disconnected bc your laptop is low and you look down constantly instead of connecting with us by being able to have that steady gaze. Its petty, yes, but its why i usually click off. Maybe use the desk behind you?, change the room around? Best of luck to you though❤

😂 typical American house? Is this a typical American house built in 1950 1960 1970 or 1980?

Not a fan of that house.

Crap house