Had a garbage disposal under our sink, but it broke and when we found out how expensive a new one was said forget it. My sister in law had a washer dryer combo , the washer was leaking so she had to get rid of the whole thing and bought separate washer and separate dryer
"Is the film 'The Goonies' popular in America?" I laughed so hard I almost choked! I'm 47 and saw "The Goonies" in theaters when I was 11! It's been a staple of American childhood ever since. So, to answer your question: yes, yes it is. LOL!
Window screens aren’t really just to keep spiders and moths out but rather to keep birds, squirrels, flies and burglars out. Honestly I wouldn’t open my window at night, usually all windows and doors are locked at night.
Yep. In America if you say "move house" it literally means you are relocating the building you live in to another location. 🤣 It is not super common, but you can pay a company to move the home to a new spot or property.
Also, you don't usually just say "I'm going to move." You would qualify it like this, "I'm going to move to Florida." On the occassions you might just say "I'm going to move" the other person already knows, usually by previous conversation that qualifies the statement, that you mean "move house".
I helped get house's ready too move, depending on the size of course it takes a lot of hydraulic jacks, cement blocks & 12"x12" wood beams, length varies....a lot of work.
As a person who lives in Arizona, I think there’s some laws stating that it’s literally ILLEGAL to build apartments and houses without air conditioning. And just in general throughout the entire country A/C is standard no matter what. Garbage disposals are also almost guaranteed to be in any apartment or house too. It’s not a luxury thing, most places have them
Not sure about a/c being standard throughout the entire country. Most of the houses I’m looking at in MN and WI don’t have it, and I hear the north east is similar.
Up here in the frozen north we are not required to have A/C, we are required to have heat. It is illegal to turn off someone's heat (electric or gas) in the winter. In the south the heat can kill you, in the north the cold can kill you. I have never lived in a place that had a garbage disposal. I don't have one now.
I live in Texas. If you leave your window open your house will develop it's on ecosystem with a food pyramid. You will start to see the the massive cockroaches getting eaten by massive wasp and the wasp eaten by lizards.
Yeah, I was like open an window in the middle of the summer...that would accomplish nothing and except letting in all creep crawlers. The air is hotter than your heater during the winter.
"Moving house" here means physically detaching the house from its foundation and moving the entire unit to a new location where it is mated to a new foundation. Not common, but it does happen.
Unless you're out in the country and not on public sewer. Even more modern houses in the sticks tend to not have them, as they are generally bad for septic systems. They have come out with specially-designed, "septic assist" ones that are better, but in general they aren't recommended. :)
@@dragonfly6193 Not in the Southern states, I hadn’t see a garbage disposal until I moved to Seattle. But Seattle homes seemed to never have AC but it was a standard for homes to have AC.
@@PodiumTuningRacing the south has garbage disposals lol. If you have a septic tank you won't have disposal. On public serwer you dill most likely have a disposal.
In the USA we used to have Sears Catalog homes. It's a really interesting concept. You look through a catalog of house blue prints and if you lived along a rail line they'd ship you the materials so you could build it yourself. It's such an interesting idea. Also some of the homes are just gorgeous.
Oh my goodness YES! I live in Northeast Pennsylvania. The closest city is about 25 minutes away- Allentown Pennsylvania. There is STILL a Sears catalog house standing near where my dad grew up! It looks like it is made of bathroom tiles on the outside! It is a real piece of Americana at this point😊
Those Sears houses are so cool. I've only ever been inside one original- it was the house that Laura Ingalls Wilder lived out her final years in in MO. Her daughter had it built when she got too old for the other house on the property I believe. I've always been a little obsessed with them.
Most households in America do not have an electric tea kettle. We don't drink that much tea. Instead you will find an electric coffee maker in almost every house.
Just a little tidbit, in the US you cannot call a room a "bedroom" unless it has a closet. Otherwise it's an office/den. That closet highly increases the value of your real estate here, as the number of bedrooms will dictate the price.
When he talked about walk in closets, they don’t come standard in the average house. Good size closers do, but a true walk-in is large enough to go in and comfortably dig through clothes and change, and what ever else tickles your fancy. A true walk-in does, in someways show a kind of stature or income level, but not always. The size of home and amount of land can usually be determined by how rural or urban you residence is. If you live out of town a little ways land is generally cheaper so one can afford a sizable piece without growing broke. Where we live we’re just in a neighborhood where everyone has 1-1/2 acres, but not all the houses are 4,000 sq.ft. There again, it’s up to the individuals whether a large home on their land is necessary, or even something they want. I have a friend that owns 250’acres but loves his 1,100 sq.ft. home because he waits it doesn’t take much to keep it clean. He and his Wife raised 4 kids in it, so it’s up to each family. I personally love our larger home. (the first one I mentioned) If you want alone time you have plenty of home to go to.
Depends on state/location. My house has four bedrooms - 2 are without closets - and all four meet code. . A 5th room has a closet, but is not a legal bedroom because it's on the same level as the garage.
Yes, many people don't have an electric kettle. I think most people use a coffee pot in place of that here. I recently got an electric kettle and it is very handy to make a quick cup of tea, but I didn't own one until I was 40 years old and it is kind of a novelty item.
I was so confused when my European friends talked about electric kettles because as an American, I had only ever seen stovetop kettles. We didn't even use it, just heated up water in the microwave if we needed hot water for something.
In most places in the U.S.A., even in cities, you would never get away with opening a window without a screen in place to keep bugs out. The bugs are terrible, we have gnats, flies, mosquitoes, bees, wasps, hornets, and others I can't think of right now. Also, having one single, combined hot and cold tap for water allows you to adjust it to the right temperature you want.
I live in a desert I rarely get enough rainfall for there to not be a constant drought without the air conditioning also electrician still call them mains don't fuck with mains voltage if you don't want to die
I live in Tennessee. In the south, if you don’t have air conditioning in at least one room. You could die. The heat and humidity is terrible. If you want to know what summer in the American southern states is like. Go take a steaming hot shower, and put your clothes back on without drying off. Seriously, elderly, or people with health issues just can’t live without it. And even healthy people can get sick. It’s essential for survival here.
I live in Tennessee where it is not only hot but humid.if you don't have central air you're a goner.yes goonies is like a cult classics.my apartment has a walk in closet that is massive.apartments here also have amenities like tennis courts,pools, fitness centers and 24/7 maintenance and I only pay 795.00 a month.of course utilities are extra,but here in Tennessee are very reasonable as opposed to n.y.where I was raised.
A condo is basically an apartment but you own a condo like you would own a house, an apartment you pay rent to whoever owns the whole apartment complex, and what he called row houses that are connected, we would call "townhouses" and yeah, we just say that we're "moving"
Row house is used in the Northeast states in cities like New York, Boston, Washington D.C. etc. Most of the rest of the country says townhouse or townhome, but all three terms can be used interchangeably. Condo is a weird one though that has multiple uses and meanings. For example, my mother owns and lives in a condo that is also a townhouse (not an apartment). Some of her neighbors are owners and some are renters... but they are all still called condos. You can rent a condo to live in or rent a vacation condo, and in big cities you can buy and own individual apartments in huge buildings that are still called apartments. Condo seems to be used more to imply that the residence is larger than a standard small apartment but still has some sort of attached neighbor or shared walls, as well as sometimes being used to imply ownership. Condo is kind of a throw away term that doesn't really mean anything specific.
Row houses are an older name and are usually rented like an apartment but a town house is usually newer and frequently owner occupied. There are also regional differences in terminology. Row houses are more of an east coast term and town houses more west coast.
@@themourningstar338 Condo actually does mean something specific - it means that it's part of a condominium trust. It also means that there is an individual owner of the living unit and a collective owner of the land or overall structure. Even when there is a renter in a condo, they are renting from an individual owner, not the condominium trust. It's a description of the property's ownership and management structure, not a description of the type of housing. Condos can be apartment-style (also known as garden style), townhouses, duplexes or single family houses. Sometimes you get all of them in a single condo development. However, in all cases, the owner of the living space does not own the land the housing is on. The condominium trust does.
Here in the States, we actually have "mobile" homes (single wide, double wide, triple wide and modular) that can be moved to new properties. So to say, "move house", some would think you were actually moving your house.
Usually, it’s really all about context. If three people have bumped into me in the hall and I say I’m going to move people know that I’m going to move to somewhere where I’m out of the way. But without any other context saying I’m going to move means I’m going to pack up my belongings and move to a different home.
@@pjschmid2251 for sure. I would also say that if the person doesn’t specify what they are physically moving, they are likely talking about “moving house.” Like it is very rare that someone will say “I am moving” as a way to say that they are moving around, as it is either self evident or there is a more specific way to word it (ie “I’m coming” or “I’m going”)
If someone told me they were going to move house, I would honestly think that they are physically moving their house because we actually do that here. We physically dissasimble a house, move it elsewhere and reassemble it. It's not common, but we do it a lot with older houses to preserve them.
I'm sure the Kettle question has a wide variety of answers, I will say that anecdotally myself and anyone I know who regularly drinks Tea (which is more common than you may think, a lot of folks are less into the coffee craze than may otherwise be indicated) we all have stovetop kettles. Put some water in it, pop it on the stove (gas, electric, or otherwise) and wait a couple minutes for it to whistle at you and you're off and running :)
In much of the US, bedrooms are required by code to have closets. You can have a room that would be a perfectly serviceable bedroom, but if it doesn't have a closet, you can't call it a bedroom when you sell the house. As a result, even the smallest houses and apartments will have a closet in the bedroom. Even a studio (one-room apartment; I'm not sure if you have that in the UK) will always have a separate closet.
Older houses had a coat closet near the front door, a broom closet to keep cleaning supplies in and a linen closet in addition to clothes closets in each bedroom. I think all houses should have all of them.
A closet AND a window!! Another thing we like in the US, we like windows!! I recall reading that many years ago, British homes were taxed by the number of windows in the home (?), so many older homes don't have many windows. Is this correct?
I live in Oregon, USA. About the water kettle we have the old fashion ones, we have the ones you can plug-in but some of us also have hot water dispensers built into the sink but for some people it’s a soap dispenser. And in the Housing the ‘row’ Can also be called a townhome
I started watching it, in January 2019, when I was stuck inside one weekend, with a combination of a bad cold, and a blizzard. I binge watched most of that weekend. I've been hooked ever since.
@@candysmith8724 Just in Texas? not, say....Oklahoma or other states bordering y'all? We call them townhouses here in the northern part of the country too.
I have a regular stove top kettle, and so does everyone I know. I think I've known one person here in America that had an electric kettle. They've all been stove top models LOL
The Goonies is EXTREMELY popular in America. Almost every kid who was born or grew up in the 80's has a Goonies memory, and most of them have watched the film with their kids.
One thing I was adamant about having when buying my condo was putting in an overhead fan with a light. Which I ended up just having installed in both bedrooms. & never been a tea drinker. Prefer coffee. And if someone says they're moving, we assume they mean to a different house/city/location lol
And in fact people do that sometimes. My cousins told me of a friend of theirs who had her actual physical house transported across the city. It's rare, though.
@@DelGuy03 Yeah, I've seen it happen. In my hometown, there was a house that was fairly close to the road and the county was widening the road, so they had to either move it or knock it down. But their lot was deep enough that they simply moved it back like 50 feet.
@@jeffburdick869 I used to accept the idea more easily when I was little, than I do now that I've seen houses built -- when 90% of the construction time seems to be devoted to getting the foundations deep and immovable enough. To uproot all that and plant it somewhere else now seems crazy to me! And yet it happens.
@@TheBeesleys99 I've seen several people physically move their houses. Sometimes preparing the foundations are harder, like in Minnesota where everyone has a basement... because you have to dig down below the frost line for the foundation. Pour a floor and it's a basement anyway. But in Arizona, 95% of homes are just on a concrete slab (plumbing is underground obviously, but that's really all because it's extremely rare that we drop below freezing at night for more than 5 nights every winter (not always consecutive nights either). Last 2 years it never even got to freezing. The most I've ever needed was a hoodie. Summers get scorching hot tho (kills people every year) and last from mid-March sometimes, mid-April at the latest, ends sometime in mid - late October. For renters, landlords MUST provide working air conditioning or pay for a hotel if it breaks, but providing heating is optional. Tenants can buy their own space heaters if needed. I haven't needed any heating the past 3 winters, and maybe needed it for 2 weeks per year before that.
When I was younger, when microwaves were still large and rather expensive, people occasionally had hot pots. It was a common gift for dormitory bound high-school grads. They were the size and shape of a small coffee pot and were used for heating water for instant coffee or soup.
Yes. College students or other people who live in places that don't have kitchens use electric hot pots. Poor people who live in motels, or office workers. Although most office workers have communal coffee pots and microwave ovens.
Not to me! I’ve lived in apartments across the Chicago suburbs since the 1980s, and a 1BR unit usually averages around 700 square feet. 900, you are getting closer to a small two bedroom place.
so the average Brit is living in the equivalent of a 60 ft. singlewide? how does a family fit in that kind of space? I thought my doublewide was small, although that could partly be due to inefficient layout of the house...
When the average size houses were mentioned I thought that the American size was ridiculous, my house is a tiny 3 bedroom ranch. Then I thought about the full size semi finished basement and the heated oversized attached 2 stall. Yah, we're just the Midwestern version of the American stereotype.
I’ve don’t think I’ve ever lived anyplace without multiple built in closets, usually in every room, including many bathrooms and most kitchens. Just another thing we take for granted.
Speaking of moving house. I have seen an old house being moved. It was quite a production. The overhead wires on the street had to be moved to let the house pass under them. It was a two story house. They had to close the road the day they moved it. It was several months of preparation for the move. Building the new foundation and getting the house off the old foundation. I have also seen several lots where prebuilt houses were for sale. These are also called prefabricated of modular homes. You can tour the houses and buy one to be put on your land. I have seen these houses being driven down the highways. They are easier to move because they are built to be moved. They can be shipped in large sections, usually two halves then put back together at the location. Building a house from scratch is called "stick built".
I'm an American tea drinker. I heat/boil my water in the microwave. Or on the rare occasion, a pot on the stove top. I don't know anyone with an electric kettle.
@@TheBeesleys99 you would only really boil water in the mircowave for tea only, we have tea bags that you just put in a mug with water and then put the mug in microwave
Hello,I am Stephanie and have 3 kettles.One electric,one regular common type and one antique cast iron.I don't own a microwave (I have a bizarre phobia of them)
Goonies was awesome, I live in the southern part of the United States we drink sweet ice tea so we usually do ours in a pot or we make sun tea in a large jar. . I have been watching some British home make over shows and I is very strange to see such small rooms . I notice the refrigerators over there in a lot of homes are smaller as well where you can hope on down to the market and we have to drive quite a ways to go to stores . Have to say the show where people look at 3 house in the country of your way is a great show. I love seeing the history of your beautiful homes over there. Thanks for the video.
Yes! Lost in the Pond is a fantastic channel. Laurence is hilarious. So dry. He does his research and presents lots of great info about the US and the UK that many people don’t know. He lives in my area of the US so the weather episodes are near and dear to my heart! Haha his polar vortex of 2018 videos are pretty great. It was -25 degree F during the day before the windchill. Love it!
We do have regular kettles, as well as the electric ones. I live with a family of coffee-drinkers though, so we mostly use a Keurig machine. Mainly for coffee, but quickly pours hot water for pretty much anything, and in three different measurements. Purely for the sake of time and efficiency, but I agree the stovetop kettle needs more love :)
We do have switches on outlets in the kitchen and bathroom for safety, all others in the house are live all the time. Which are perfect for paper clips and forks. And yes we do put the tea pot (kettle) on the stove, but we also do electric ones as well, a coffee pot, and Kurieg. Which one you own depends on the person 🤷♀️
Tea is often served cold hints why its called iced tea (not need for a kettle). Tea also is either sweet or unsweetened. But we have the stove top kettles but we also have Keurig which will make tea, coffee, and hot chocolate drinks. But the "plug in kettles" (we call coffee pots) we have are mostly used as coffee makers.
Another thing left out is the large portion of mobile homes in the US. Which are homes that come on wheels and you can literally go to a lot and buy one like you would a car and they will bring it to your property.
And unless you are a retiree living in a planned community in Florida or Arizona, these mobile homes are in a place called trailer parks and that is where the term trailer trash comes from.
@@send2steph Not all are in trailer parks. Plenty of people have them on their own land here in NC and Tenn. Some people just don't want the hassle of building a house.
@@waynepurcell6058 And having your own land means you don't have to rent a lot for your trailer. There's nothing dumber, imo, than owning your trailer but having to rent land to put it on.
I live in a suburb of Phoenix Arizona, during the summer it routinely hits 115° Farenheit and many nights it doesn't dip below 100°. My swimming pool will reach 90° in the summer. I have ceiling fans in every room in my house
Currently living in Phoenix myself. Ceiling fan and table fan going. Not even the end of March and it's 78 Fahrenheit at 10 pm. Alas. The hot is coming. Again.
Not mentioned in this or the original video: homes in the Southwest are not typically wood sided. More often they are stucco sided with wood framing and tile roofing.
The good thing about wood is that it creates space in which to place insulation. Older homes in Phoenix like mine (1950s) were built with concrete block. They absorb the heat all day, and even in the evening they're hot. It doesn't really cool down until early morning.
I LIVE in Astoria, Oregon, the town setting for the Goonies. Our lovely little town is on a hillside full of Victorians and craftsman style houses, like the one I live in built in 1903. Astoria is located in the west coastal rain-forest so just so you know, nobody has A/C here. But just because we never need it. If you ever make it to Astoria, I'd love to show you around!
In many old houses, (prior to building codes requiring built-in closets) we used wardrobes or chifforobes. Chifforobes are built with wheels or casters, so they may be moved around the room (for deep cleaning or whenever the lady of the house takes a notion to rearrange the furniture).
I have a stovetop kettle If I’m going into another room I’d say I’m going to the bathroom. I’ll be in my bedroom if you need me. “I’m moving” means moving residences. I love Lost in the Pond. Lawrence is great. Ive watched him for years
When I do laundry, once the washer is done, it gets tossed in the dryer and another load goes in the washer. When the washer is done so is the dryer. Rinse and repeat till it's all done. You can buy the washer/dryer combo here I don't own a kettle, electric or stove type. I just use my coffee pot if I need water that hot. For row houses, we call em townhouses. We just say move. Watching from Texas, USA.
If someone state side tells you I'm moving this weekend, or I'm going to be moving out, or I can't come because I'm moving, it's pretty much understood what is meant by that. You can literally move a house here, I've seen that a few times myself. I been a subscriber to Lost In The Pond for years now, that's a great channel, and I agree you should react to more of his videos. Great reaction mate, your channel is growing.
Ahh ok yeah i guess in context and of people understand it makes sense! Yeah 100% going to check more on him! Hope you are ok mate! Also i did message you on pretreon a while back in case you havnt seen it :D
haha i have also seen a house on a flatbed going down the highway... but yeah. I feel like if they say "moving" we know it as relocating but you would say "move" normally with a location (maybe just a philly thing)
I think Lawrence is mixing up walk in closets with built in closets. As it's name suggests, a walk in closet is a storage area you can physically walk into, and are generally only found in larger fancier houses. Built in closets that are part of the wall structure are in almost every house.
We have bungalows as well, they are older and, like your English version, are one story, the older ones are commonly known as "Arts & Crafts" or "Craftsman" style. The originals from before WW2, features 4 to 6 rooms with doors, etc between rooms. After the war, the typical new homes were either "Cape Cod', 1 story with finished attic (loft to you) or "ranch-style" homes which are single-story with open planned living areas (no doors between every room) which followed the design philosophy of Frank Lloyd Wright's "Usoian" or "prairie-style" homes. As most North American homes have central heating rather than individual room heating (rads or fires), most homes constructed after WW2 have open floorplans as the need to shut off unheated rooms no longer existed. He missed a few things in his video though, codes require a mixed faucets rather than individual taps for safety, (anti-scolding) and taps in America ( typicall cold water) refer to those which are located outside in front and rear "gardens" to water the plants and wash cars. Other things you do differently are interior doors open towards the nearest wall rather than out into the room and kitchen sinks are in front of windows, but bath sinks are not to allow for mirrors. As an architect to be, you should look up NorthAmerican building codes, I am sure they would be enlightening, as would study the design principles of FLW.
Goonies in a US classic!! Converted for you, my house is 118.63 square meters- perhaps a little smaller than many of my neighbors., and yes we have A/C! but considering our temperatures here (in central california) can reach 110F( 43 deg C) in the middle of summer, we need it! Every house I have lived has had a garbage disposal. Some apartments (flats) may not, but most detached homes do. Every house in the US has built in closets- and many have walk ins. Yes, I have a tea kettle (it's bright yellow) that I put on the stove top (there are the european style plug-in ones available, but you don't see them much). There is something very comforting about putting the kettle on the stove for a cup of tea. Actually if you relocate, you would more likely say you were "moving out", (ie. moving out of your previous home). And Lawrence is awesome, isn't he?
In America when we say we are "going to move" or "moving" without any additional info it means moving to a new living space. We don't often say we are "moving to the kitchen". We say we are "going to the kitchen". Also when we say tea kettle or tea pot we normally mean the stovetop variety. If it is an electric appliance, we usually say something like "hot pot" or "electric hot pot". That is probably because we don't have near the level of hit tea drinkers as the UK. A lot of college student may use them if they don't have a stove because you can heat a lot of different things in them. Also I feel like in the US only really new houses have enough outlets to include that appliance. An electric coffee maker would be given a much higher priority.
🤣🤣 if you were to say "I'm going to move house" in the US the first thing that would come to mind is you have a mobile home and you're going to move the entire thing. When we say something like "I'm going to move" it's normally preceded by "..to {insert place name}".
I just got an electric kettle and it makes me feel fancy 🤣🤣🤣 I mainly got it to use with my French press, but am enjoying using it for tea, hot chocolate, etc as well 😊
"Move House" reminds me of the show Texas Flip N Move, where they literally buy the house for like $500 bucks, then pick the house up, go 20 miles down the road, fix it up and sell it.
Air conditioning is more common in the US because some of the weather can be pretty intense. In the Southwest, you have states like Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico, where the temperature easily gets up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit, which is close to 50 degrees Celsius. In Florida and other Southeastern states, the humidity is very high, so it's best to keep the windows closed so that you don't get a humidity problem inside your house. Air conditioners tend to pull air in from the outside, but it's usually less air than you'd get if you just kept the windows open for an extended period of time. So the inside of these houses usually end up not being quite as humid as the outside.
Bungalows typically have basements where I live. A ranch house wouldn’t often, although some might have a daylight basement if built against a hillside.
@@BlackSmokeDMax Yeah. Like in Florida, to my knowledge, basically no houses have basements. Where I grew up, basically every house had a deep basement. Its often a matter of geography, climate, etc.
We use stove top kettles and electric. But we don’t use them a lot! We drink much more coffee than hot tea. We do love our closets (in most every room), our pantry closets in the kitchen, our mud rooms (small rooms at the back door) used for taking off boots, dirty shoes and hanging jackets, keeping outdoor wear in. We love high ceilings, screened in porches, hardwood floors, built in bookcases, covered front porches, double car garages, wide hallways, open plan kitchens and living rooms and French doors.
Ah, you've discovered Laurence and his "Lost in the Pond" series! He's been a favorite of mine for years; sometimes his (American) wife participates as well. They now live in Chicago and just moved (house, or rather apartment) for the second time in a year. I hope you do a lot more of his episodes. And yes, for the most part in the US, if we want to boil water, we use a stovetop kettle. I know it's possible to buy an electric kettle here (one of our best cooking-show hosts recommends them), but they're not a national habit. I've recently started to drink more tea, and I'm seriously thinking about acquiring one.
Here in the US, what is typically referred to as a "Bungalow" style house, is generally not a "Ranch" style house. If you are interested, look up "Craftsman" style bungalows... though there is a lot of overlap in styles.
In Chicago, there is the Bungalow Belt, a ring of mostly bungalows built in the first quarter of the last century that wrap around the outer edge of the city from north to south. These houses are usually brick, 1 1/2 or 2 stories with a full basement, with a narrow width on the street edge, but go back quite far on the lot to a detached garage on the back alley. They usually have a front porch and the original design commonly included a stained glass window in the front and some decorative brickwork also in the front. Speaking of the bricks, fancier bricks tended to be used on the front facade, with plainer brown bricks on the rest of the building. These went into decline after WWII, but Boomers started snagging the more decrepit ones for cheap in the 1960s and ‘70s and they started gentrifying the Belt in the ‘80s. Now, they are quite pricey!
We have used kettles in the past, but today it's the Keurig coffee maker that is more popular now. They can be used to make hot tea, hot chocolate, and other hot drinks as well. They use a small pod that makes a single serving in about a minute or so.
Garbage disposal is a must for any house I move into. Theyre banned in some areas but everywhere else, theyre in pretty much every newer house/kitchen thats been renovated recently
i dont know anybody that has ever owned a stovetop kettle or plug in kettle, we have coffee makers that plug in but most people do not drink hot tea (unless you are sick) in the US and if they do they just warm the water in the microwave
I have an electric teapot, a whistle teakettle and a coffee machine. My husband still heats up his tea water in the microwave.... hahaha i’m in the US btw. I drink hot tea because it is good for your throat when you sing... so it became a staple for me. And the Goonies is a national treasure.
@@TheBeesleys99 I don't drink coffee, but I have a coffee machine that I only use to make hot black tea or preferably Earl Gray tea. It works quite well actually.
When it comes to housing styles, the styles he covered are more common along the east coast and Midwest, but as you go further west, the city houses are more likely to have brick and limestone exteriors. The reason for this is because the further west you go, the newer the architecture. Before the houses were wood because it was the most abundant resource. As time went on, more building material became easier to transport across the country, and bricks and stone were more sturdy. Also, in places like the southwest are more desert and there ain’t many trees there, so you would also get more concrete and limestone houses. Along the gulf coast the houses are often made of concrete to withstand things like hurricanes.
In America is you said you were going to "move house" someone would think you are having the house picked up and moved to a new location. Sometimes people will do that (not very common) -- but they may find an inexpensive historic house that they love in a bad location and they will have the house picked up off of the foundation and moved to a new location. There are companies that specialize in that and it is expensive. What we generally say is the we are "moving to a new house".....
We have usually an electric plug on every wall, sometimes more. We have light switches to turn on the lites, or for a switch in the kitchen or bathroom in addition to the lights.
I'm in Texas and we make our tea on the stove top with a kettle. Then the tea gets refrigerated and poured into a glass with ice for some good Ole sweet iced tea
if they lived here they would have it just because the heat is so higher in summer! their summer highs r like low 80's .no humidity! look how far north they r on the map! they r across from northern canada,we r across from africa where i live in SC .so humid! here u have to have air con as they call it!
From Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada 🇨🇦 All of this is true...usually we say something like “we’re moving at the end of the month” or “we need a bigger house so we’re going to move”. We don’t move house unless you are actually moving your house to a different location which can be done. Love our air conditioning, fans and screened windows...we stay cool without letting the creepy crawlers in. We generally use stovetop kettles no electric ones although both are available. UK 🇬🇧 is on my bucket list, can’t wait to visit 😊
Male sure your fan is set to rotate "cool" and not rotate "hot" else your just adding unnecessarily to your expenses. And yes, all modern ceiling fans have two ways to rotate, hot or cold.
Yep. My house has 3br/living room/ kitchen/dining room and the only room that doesn’t have a ceiling fan is the bathroom. Oh yes I also use 4 air conditioners during the summer. One big one downstairs and one small one in each bedroom. lol. I live in the city so there isn’t as much airflow so we would die upstairs without it.
We plug something in, use it, then unplug and put the item away until it's needed again. For items that are used daily, we often plug them into sockets, leave them on and ask home smart devices to turn something on/off. I'm not sure I understand the benefits of having a switch on electrical sockets, seems like an unnecessary feature for the most part.
It’s Laurence! Anyway I live in a modest two bedroom one bath 1929 bungalow in Illinois, near Chicago, that suits me fine. Can’t survive a Chicago summer without air conditioning. No garbage disposal in my kitchen. Washer and drier are in the basement. I heat water in the microwave or Keurig.
I'm an older guy... so here is my observation on kettles. When I was growing up - in the western US, where most houses had Gas (natural) in the house... stove top kettles, or, often times - stove top coffee percolators were most commonly seen in houses. In small apartments, or places without gas was were you would be more likely to find either an electric kettle or percolator. In the last 40 years, coffee percolators have become an oddity, I suspect that many younger people have never seen one. We use new technology to make coffee in the US. At the same time, electric kettles have become much more common than I remember them being - but ours typically are built with an internal switch - because the outlet has no switch. I think a couple of other folks have weighed in already - but if I were to say "I'm going to move house." to anyone that I know, I would need to do some explaining - because that would potentially imply that I was going to physically lift my house off of its foundations, and relocate it. Not a particularly common thing... but not unthinkable either. Alternately, announcing that I was departing one location in my home and relocating to another location in my home... would be considered... "eccentric".
I agree if someone I’m going to move house I would think that you would be jacking up the foundation and moving the entire house down the street I think I’m going to move isn’t a common way the US says to walk from one spot to another Growing up we always had a whistling kettle, it is way less common for one to have an electric kettle Nowadays I would just run the water through my coffee pot. It is very nostalgic to hear a kettle or a percolator.
“Move house”, that phrase sounds so weird. Closest thing I’ve heard in the US is “move my house”, which was said in the context of a mobile/manufactured home. Side note, you should probably look those up - would love to see you’re reaction, especially to how their transported 😂
Most houses and apartments have built in closets, not all of them are deep enough to be walk-ins though. Id only ever seen stovetop kettles and I didn’t even know electric kettles existed until like 2 years ago when I got a roommate from Europe… And we really do just say “I just moved” or “I’m moving”
@@TheBeesleys99 you can find (electric) coffee machines in every house but I know people who don’t have a kettle at all, electric or stove top. So maybe since it’s less common people have the old fashioned one and don’t think about electric? I’ve seen the stovetop ones in just about every store with that kind of stuff and I don’t recall seeing an electric one up until very recently
Also, I have literally seen pieces of houses on huge flatbed trucks moving down the road.... so moving house can literally mean moving the physical structure. The prefabrication of many modern house parts allows for homes to be partially built in chunks and moved to wherever the buyer chooses. Then the pieces are attached and no one knows the difference... unless you watched that living room roll down the highway. Haha it’s a very odd experience to watch a house pass you on the street but it’s not uncommon. It’s even weirder to watch the gigantic wind turbine blades travel to their final destination.... they are absolutely gargantuan and they go down some pretty small, back roads... it can get dicey when they attempt to turn in any direction.
As others have mentioned, we just say moved. If we're leaving the area, often we just say we're "going to go" and leave that area (normally the building). Of course we also say "get going," "head out," "leaving," etc if we're leaving the building. We also say things like we need to "go to the bathroom," are "going to the bathroom"(even if we're already in the bathroom, yes, weird, we know but we still say it), or need to "use the bathroom." Oh, and "bathroom" is also interchanged with "restroom" very often. Here, "restroom" is the more "posh" way to say the more basic, "bathroom."
You do a really good job with reaction videos! I really enjoy your style. Keep up the good work. Also, I'm 58 and have never seen an electric kettle and never lived anywhere without central air and a garbage disposal.
I can confirm that all these are true. I'm from Florida, so if you have any questions or would like any clarifications, feel free to ask. My wife is from London, so I'm much more familiar with yall than some from over here. As an answer to your last question though, yes we say, "Moving." As in, "Sorry man. I can't make it this weekend. We're moving." It's very clear in context. If you said moving house, you're likely to get someone asking why you'd want to move your house instead of getting another one.
I think that’s likely because, while it is still uncommon in America, I suspect actually moving an entire house is much MORE common in America than the UK.
@@THEQuantumBacon yeah Americans enjoy ,moving houses for some reason it started with pre cut houses in the late 1800s and eventually cars came along and started moving bigger and bigger pieces of house. eventually mobile houses even started be categorized by their length and how many pieces they had to be manufactured in to fight on the highway hence terms like singlewide, doublewide and, triplewide which refer to 16, 32 and, 48 feet wide homes. doublewides and triplewides are sent in two or three pieces since the max width on a highway in most states is 16 ft. We even have tv shows about people that exclusively move old buildings. Don't know why but history channel just loves filming people with odd jobs and over dramatizing any minor problem that arises to keep you in suspense during the commercial break.
We can get washer/dryer combos but the separate ones generally hold a lot more. Love the garbage disposal! It prevents stinky, wet garbage, also. Moving house in America is a mobile home or RV. On rare occasion, people will actually move a stick-built house and it's a huge project! A house is detached.
Astoria Oregon has a Goonies museum. Was a HUGE HUGE SUCCESS. The road they ride bikes down and the guy Troy who hangs onto brads hand the road is going up to the Astoria Column Tower. Different beaches where used to. Like the pirate ship gets free. Different beach.
In the US, a room is not legally a "bedroom" unless it has a built-in closet. For example, you can't advertise a house as "3 bedrooms" unless every one of those rooms has a closet. It doesn't need to be walk-in; it can be really tiny. But it must be there.
I disagree with "yall" lol . I live in Michigan and granted it gets hot here in the summer. But not everyone here has AC. Lots do but when the nights dip into the 50s and 60s at night, I just open a window (with screens of course!!).
@@butcharmstrong9645 I would hate sleeping with a drafty window open, not to mention the lack of security system having contacts met. Glad I have HVAC system.
