Brit Reacts to What A $1 Million Dollar House Looks like Across America! 

That and businesses

Yep. That's literally the only thing that matters.

yeah, like the Detroit homes...comes with 5 inches of ice and sub zero temps 5 months out of the year. The utility bill alone would leave them crying in their frosted flakes.

In today's world we should clarify: Location quality of land, weather, siting Location taxation and right/freedoms Location safety and neighbors

@@hippiekathy420 Yeah, lol, that's what's wrong with Detroit.

That one shown is basically the entire floor of a business building. It’s all open because there are no individual offices

He could get a nice refrigerator box on Rodeo Drive, for only $50,000!

Indeed

nope. LA is more desirable than Hickville. The market reflects this. I mean, yes, if you are a hateful and racist person, by all means, get your luxury home in Alabama in the middle of nowhere, away from people of color. But here in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in the Los Angeles/San Diego area, we don't subscribe to maga, and we're not hateful, bigoted or racist. That's a huge part of the value of these areas. Same for NYC and the NEC, and the Chicago area, and the Texas Triangle, and Seattle.

@@RogCBrand I'll take that over a mansion in trumpville any day of the week. Any day of the week.

@@neutrino78x LOL! Do you realize that Alabama is 19% Black, while Los Angeles is 8%??? YOUR hateful rant kind of falls flat when YOU show some spectacular ignorance...

I live near Massachusetts and it gets cold here

Also, this may say Boston but I have a feeling it's probably an 'up and coming' suburb as a million dollars in Boston proper is a one bedroom apartment. I Love in MA on the southshore (Cape Cod) and a million does not go far and our taxes are high. Our house on the cape we pay over 20,000 a year. It is called TAXachusetts for a reason lol. We used to own a place in the Back Bay in Boston Proper and it was a small one bedroom in a brownstone, it'd be well over a million today. It's all about location.

Old house. Need fireplaces to heat.

That building says fixer upper and it is a Second Empire style which means it was probably built around 1860. You have some gorgeous but run-down buildings from that era in areas that people still undervalue (I mean, in terms of swooping in and gentrifying, so…) due to racism/“forgetting that it is 2024, people” like Roxbury, Dorchester, JP. The floors and moldings are beautiful but the lights and radiators are old so I can imagine this place having a story like that. Sigh.

@@nimue325 Yea I was going to say possibly dort or roxbury.

I thought it was a dump too.

Lewis definitely had a "WTF is that" look on his face. 🤣😂

Exactly. Sun Sun Sun. It's intolerable pale blonde haired blue eyed little old me. I hated it.

It is miserable, yet California is moving in & raising the costs of EVERYTHING. Traffic is horrendous. Drivers think they're playing grand theft auto. These last 5 years have had more fatal traffic accidents than total deaths in the past 10 years.

I love living in Phoenix. 100° + temps from here on out. I just hate that everyone's moving here and crowding all the roadways

Try Chula Vista. $1M gets you 5 bedrooms 15 minutes from downtown with great views and security with a low HOA. Or if you don’t like HOA, go to Bonita. Southbay San Diego is on the up still, and the best is yet to come with new bayfront development and university.

It's not half the year you liar. It's three and half months that wusses whine about.

what? i think that door leads to the ghost room, so they can be well rested before going coming out wreaking havoc on brits like Lewis

@@stpaley lol 😂

Crawl space... had no idea they simply didnt exist for other people lol I have heard there's a lack of attics in the UK but I could be wrong

Houston rarely reaches 100. Feel like temp is over 100 in the summer when you add humidity. I like heat.

​@@Kenyon712 That's just not true. We had 45 days over 100 degrees in 2023. we break 100 every year.

get AC 🙂 It gets to 110 here in Silicon Valley too, and most of us have AC. Surely you have AC in Houston? If I were to live in Texas, which I wouldn't because of the governor, but if I were to do so, I would live in Houston, because then I would be surrounded by fellow people who hate maga. 🙂

@@bobbyhammers "We had 45 days over 100 degrees in 2023. we break 100 every year." I can relate, my area within the San Francisco Bay Area also gets that hot during the day in the summer. Of course, at night, the breeze from the Bay cools us off, typically down to 60, but during the day you definitely need AC (we have a window mounted AC unit here). What boggles my mind is that the South of France gets that hot too, and yet the French refuse to buy AC. They have this irrational fear, in English "current of air", basically it started in the middle ages when things like The Black Death were going around, and people in Europe mistakenly thought it was caused by cold air, and that idea persists today. Some claim they don't want to get AC because of the environment, but come on, Frenchmen. YOU'RE 80% NUCLEAR POWER!! How is AC causing any pollution in France. lmao at them. As global warming gets places hotter and hotter in summer, Europe will relent. Of course, they have to adopt solar/wind/geothermal/hydroelectric/nuclear too, because it's burning of fossil fuels that's accelerating it, but they'll get there. France is already there, like I said, they're like 80% nuclear. 🙂

@@bobbyhammers Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio always have higher temp, but Houston has higher humidity. I’ve lived in Houston and Austin. Austin is hotter.

Miami is also HOT 🥵, homeowners insurance is more expensive than property taxes, and every year you’ll have a view of the hurricane coming off the ocean.

yes, as a condo owner i pay 300$ a month just in condo fees, you are correct.

@@SBC581 i'd love to have a secondary condo in Miami but you're right, too many natural disasters there so insurance has to be through the roof.

That's why living in Wisconsin is superior to Vermont. You get the snow, freezing weather, and bears

And the lack of cell service or internet unless you live near one of the cities.

Bears will be hibernating, but you'll have to cut a lot of wood to keep your house warm with all those fire places.

If you're from the UK the Southwest will clobber you. Maybe visit but don't live there. Nashville might be just about right. It will still get hot in the summer but it's manageable. You'll even get some snow in the winter. Florida almost never snows. It might get a bit chilly in the winter but snow is super rare. If it does snow, they close the state. Florida doesn't have snow plows. New England reminded the early settlers of England, thus the name. You get 4 full seasons, and a lot of picturesque beauty. However, high taxes. Overall I'm thinking that Nashville home would be right up your alley. 5K sq ft is a lot. I think it roughly equates to 500 sq meters. Plenty of room for a large family, plus guests. If you ever make that good silly money from YT videos, maybe visit Tennessee in the summer. Go visit BBQ places or whatever to make vids about, and it becomes a business expense. Atlanta is much hotter, because of the way the weather works in the South. But there's also lots more to do in Atlanta. Unless you really love country music that is. Kentucky is just north of Tennessee, so a bit cooler overall. Nice rolling hills there. Here's the thing. If you ever get the kind of money to move to America and live in a mansion, you'll still want to see more of the country. America is huge and even for someone like me 900 miles is a long trip. I can burn a whole day driving that. For a Brit, I'd say 200 miles is really pushing it. Americans are much more used to road trips. We just are. So you'll want a place with a really good airport. Overall I'd say Atlanta is best for that. They have a crazy huge airport with flights everywhere, including overseas. You can google a map of all the locations it flies to. People in Atlanta with money tend to live in the NE, in the Buckhead area. Chicago, New York, Los Angeles also have flights everywhere but who wants to live there? And again, this is assuming you have tons of cash.

you liars make sound like it's year round, it isn't. Its during the summer June. July August and part of September. The deep south and Texas are worse due to the humidity and the high temps.

I think that’s the general rule - the further you live from jobs and entertainment, the cheaper it gets. And for some people, that’s just fine.

I own 10 acres, and own a 2,000 + sq ft ranch house. Paid 165k. Property taxes 3k a yr. Live in southwest WI. 35 minutes from a city of 53,000 or 15 minutes from a town of 5,000

26,000 a year for trash pick up and crappy schools. amazing

That's crazy. 🙃 You can get that where I live in Ohio for a quarter of the price.

In a few years with the amount of people moving out of California they will be trying to give away houses to get people to move back

@@briansmith48 yes, but in LA you are not surrounded by Trumptards. LA/SD and SFBA (where I live) voted correctly in 2020 and will again in 2024.

Who is buying them? If I were rich enough to buy a 1.5M house, this is the last place I'd look

And heat it…

Well, keep in mind that Lewis is British, and in the UK, "Homely" means the same thing as "Homey" does in the US

Homely in the UK is Homey in the US

Homely in the US is something plain and unattractive. Homey is comfy and relaxing.

Arizona its a "dry heat" like a CONVECTION OVEN.

Don't forget the chapped lips.

Wonder what the electric bill for air conditioning is in Pheonix when it gets 110 degrees, probably runs all the time, except a short time at night.

I came to the Knoxville area two years ago. Absolutely love it here!

@BbTenn that's awesome. Funny, I hate Knoxville. Way too much traffic. Lol

@@molliew38 The traffic is pretty awful on some routes 🥴. But in comparison to some of the other places I’ve lived (Los Angeles, Vancouver Canada), it isn’t so bad.

Louisville and Memphis aren't big cities

Why are people settling for less by paying significantly more than they should be? This is what’s driving up those housing prices. THEY THEMSELVES are helping to drive up the demand.

expensive = desirable. Here in Silicon Valley (part of the San Francisco Bay Area) it's 1.7 million USD. Of course, your salary is almost much higher. A journeyman electrician makes 81.05 USD/hr and the median salary is 125k USD.

@@rsuriyop "Why are people settling for less by paying significantly more than they should be? " We're not. I pay 1000/month for half of a 1 BR in "Silicon Valley" (which is part of "San Francisco Bay Area"). The total is 2000. I pay this GLADLY. I would not pay 500/month to live in trumpville. We have built a region that changes the world every day. When you bought your cellphone, we got a cut. Whenever you buy an app on it, or make a purchase through an app on it, we get a cut. Most of the technologies being used for us to have this conversation were invented here in Silicon Valley. Plus, we don't like guns, only about 20% of people in California own guns, and I'm not sure what the percentage here in the Bay Area but it's probably less than that. We WANT maga to be priced out. We don't WANT them here.

@@rsuriyop The other thing is, man, there are 950,000 people in San Jose, and 800,000 in San Francisco. San Jose is bounded by hills to the east and west, and the San Francisco Bay to the north. San Francisco is bounded by the Pacific Ocean on the west, and the San Francisco Bay to the east, and the Golden Gate (it's the body of water that the Golden Gate Bridge passes over) to the north, and by cities and suburbs to the south. San Francisco is only about ten square miles. You can't fit 950,000 people at the same density as rural trumpville. So, obviously, your place is going to be smaller here. But, you know, everything I said in my other post. 🙂

@@neutrino78x Stop with the childish "trumpville". You aren't even smart enough to know you should capitalize that. Why don't you discuss that zombie apocalypse that is Oakland, the smash and grabs, the businesses leaving because it's not a crime to steal $900 worth of stuff from a store. You're living in a liberal hell hole, proven by the fact that the most prosperous business in CA is U-Haul selling outbound truck rentals.

Random addition. If you have children involved in marching band, Indy is one of the BEST places in the country for that.

@kester1252 true. My oldest daughter was in color guard at Greenfield Central. She loved it.

I from all the way up in South Bend and I love Indy too. I agree that it is probably one of the most underrated cities in the country. Definitely slept on!

Me and my mom live in Cincinnati, Ohio, sometimes called "the southern most northern city" and/or "the northern most southern city", my mom has one of those chests that she stores stuff in, it used to be at the foot of her bed but it is now close to the wall and she stores stuff on top too (but stuff like a stockpile of food that does not fit in the kitchen cubbered and extra boxes of stuff like trash bags) but at the foot of her bed it now a very nice and comfy long ottoman with storage space inside

We've got a sofa at the end of the bed . Good for putting on shoes etc. Cat likes to sleep on it too 😊

most americans keep a couch at the end of the bed to stash their machine guns and fast food under the pillows.

Not just the south. My mom (half Yankee, half English) had cedar chest at the foot of the bed for decades. She also used it for storage. I used my college footlocker the same way for years.

I mean, it does if you want to live with MAGA. But most Americans don't. I certainly don't. Desirable = expensive. 🙂

Thank the fed

It will get you more than enough house here in South Carolina, as long as you are away from the coast.

@@willrobinson4976 but then you would have to live in trumptown.

It does in Indiana

Scorpions though. 🤷🏻 Everywhere’s got something.

@@JustMe-dc6ks So true!! Counting our blessings, in our 8+ years here, we still haven't seen a scorpion, a rattlesnake or a javelina. Plenty of coyotes, rabbits, bobcats and lizards though!

Agreed. I just moved to Kentucky after living in the UK for 3 years and the house prices were a major consideration in deciding what state to retire to. The property taxes are generally quite reasonable too, depending on the location.

As a native Nashvillian,we are full.Please stop coming here.

@@TNRustedRed yep, you’re getting all the people that helped ruin their own states

And they would all be awful to live in.

And they have mountains and are beautiful. I don’t live there but I’ve vacationed in all these except Missouri and I loved them just so pretty and friendly nice people. never been to Nashville though.

Yup. I live near the top of the McDowells in Scottsdale, next to a nature preserve. It's QUIET as can be, except for the wildlife. The desert is pretty busy at night. ❤

@@AncientActivist I love listening to wolves at night. I grew up in Kansas and used to listen to them every night when I was younger. Now I live in Tempe (101 and Apache Blvd) and don't get to hear them anymore.

@@AncientActivist I'm perfectly fine where I am away from animals that can be dangerous. It's nice living in a state though where you can enjoy the city life and go up north where it's a bit cooler and be back home all in the same day.

@@user-id6tw3of1x Oh, yeah. I LOVE Arizona ❤️. I moved here in 1985. I can't ever see myself anywhere else.

@@AncientActivist My husband and I moved here in the mid '90's and I don't see us leaving either although I do still go back to Kansas to visit my parents, brothers, sister-in-law's, nieces and nephews. Then I'll also go with them to Nebraska to visit relatives as well. I'm actually getting ready to head to Kansas for most of the month of July.

I've lived in AZ nearly my whole life and have never encountered a snake, scorpion, gila monster, tarantula, centipede anywhere in/near my home(s).. I do have desert spiny lizards though and they are welcome over those other options. Oddly, I saw a lifetime of snakes living in CO for less than 2 years.

Born and raised in Arizona since 1949, all that you state will not bother you if you don't bother them with the exception of the scorpions but in almost 75 years I've never been stung by one. As for rattlesnakes I haven't seen one in years because everybody from out-of-state thinks if you see one you have to kill it, and what does that do -- now we have a plethora of roof rats. A rattlesnake will not infest your attic and chew up your wiring, but roof rats will, so there's that.

@@AZHITW lol. I'd rather deal with the rats. 😂

Right! Atlanta has MUCH more to offer at $1M. That house was ugly. I live in JAX and $1M will get you the same as ATL but possibly on waterfront property

But in Winter, December to March, 40's to 50's lows and 60's to 70's highs. Summer Temps are June to September. In the Summer 70's at night in June is cool, Jacket or long sleeves. Up to a 30-degree temperature shift after the Sun goes down. Same for Las Vegas

The man doesn't go outside. As a civilized country we have air conditioning in our homes.

​@@davidruby6240That's right. It can even get colder in the winter. Very similar to Vegas, but I think Phoenix gets a bit hotter in the summer than Vegas. 🔥🌵🔥🌵🔥🏜️

Phoenix feels like an oven in summer. You have to reapply deodorant all day. It’s frightening how hot it is and I’ve lived in AZ for 40 years. 😢

Two additional severe negatives too: Phx is in a basin and the smog has been terrible for decades and getting worse rapidly Crime. Nuff said

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Here in Connecticut, we have a lot of black bears. A lot. However, as a state, we all respect their space. When a Mother bear brings her cubs to play in your kiddie pool on hot days, leave the area immediately. Also, young kids cannot even be on your front porch alone in many areas. And no bird feeders in known. bear areas. Black bears can and will break into cars and houses. They easily open unlocked car doors and shred the upholstery. They still have big sharp claws and will shred screened in porches if they smell food.

I think I saw a radiator in that house. You’ll need those fireplaces and a lot of wood. The northeast is cold for winter.

The bedroom with the couch is a family room. Ok.

Also, some of the houses appeared to be in gated communities, which are often part of a Homeowner's Association (HOA). They charge a monthly fee. And the condominiums will have monthly condo fees.

Well, you wouldn't plunk down a million dollars up front. Maybe half, then you would set-up auto pay. With property taxes in your monthly mortgage payment so you wouldn't get that monthly sticker shock.

Property taxes aren't in your monthly payments unless you choose to pay that way. Some payments can be broken down into quarterly payments. I paid $240.00 each 1/4 for a mobile home on.1 acre. That was over 10 years ago. I don't live there anymore.

Utilities have skyrocketed! So has rent for that matter. "Let's go Brandon"

@@briansmith48Witch property taxes. No thanks.