17 House Details in the US That Puzzle Foreigners

[Music] the land of the free and the home of the brave and apparently huge freezing cold houses with weird sockets wait what's so strange about American homes well anytime I invite my non-american friends over to my house they're happy to point out how bizarre it is for example what big houses first of all not all Americans have huge houses plenty of people rent small apartments and houses come in all different sizes but yeah I'll agree that the typical American home is pretty big and spacious compared to other countries where the average square footage for European houses is about 1500 feet it's 2700 feet in the US I guess the numbers don't lie number 2 a room for everything to fill our giant houses we've got a room for pretty much anything you can imagine if you can count closets as tiny rooms and they kind of are when you think about it every American home has multiples of those there are closets for clothes in each bedroom usually one near the front door for coats and shoes one in the bathroom or hallway for towels one in the kitchen in the form of a pantry yep we love storage space that's built into the house those big wardrobes you might get from Ikea aren't really a thing here number three huge personal washers and dryers speaking of rooms there's also usually one just for doing laundry also most Americans have both a washer and a separate dryer and they tend to be big too my European friends tell me that their washer is in the kitchen or bathroom and they hang their clothes to dry but again I'm sure it comes down to the issue of space still even if a person in the US doesn't have their own they just go down to the laundromat to use the machines there you won't see many Americans hand washing their clothes or hanging them the dry I mean who has time for that for basements and here's yet another way to have plenty of storage space or of course if you're in the Midwest basements serve as a shelter when a tornado hits but besides storage and tornado safety a lot of American homes have gorgeous finished basements that serve as another living space it might be in the form of a guest room or a recreational area to hang out in five the abandoned dining room and there are some rooms that we don't even use at all okay maybe this just applies to my family but we never use the dining room it's there we have a beautiful dining table but we always just take our dinner to the living room and watch TV while we hae dinner in a movie six serious about fire safety more specifically I'm talking about having multiple smoke alarms throughout the house I personally have one in the kitchen another in the hallway and one in each bedroom that's what the National Fire Protection Association recommends and I'm probably not alone in following their guidelines to a tee fire safety is taken so seriously in the States that landlords can get in big trouble if they don't immediately fix a nonworking smoke alarm for their tenants and perhaps it's for fire safety or just a convenience thing but I've always had an electric stove in any house I've lived in gas stoves aren't as popular as they are elsewhere in the world seven wall-to-wall carpeting this point will often depend on how old a house is because a lot of the old ones have wooden floors but most homes especially the newer ones have wall-to-wall carpeting in every room well now the kitchen or bathroom of course but everywhere else it's carpeted is this really just an American thing if you're from another country you'll have to let me know down below eight how low can you go now my European friends find my toilet quite fascinating and mildly confusing I guess toilets in the US sit lower than the ones in Europe do it's not because we're necessarily shorter or that it's more comfortable for us low sitting toilets actually serve a purpose being closer to the ground is a healthier and more natural way to you know do your numbers before we even had commodes our caveman ancestors squatted on the ground so just trying to keep it on natural over here and well civilize too of course 9 toilet bowls full of water you didn't think I was done talking about toilets did you okay one more toilet fact for the day in the US they're full of water on his first visit to the States one of my friends actually thought my toilet was clogged nope all that water is totally normal and serves several purposes as well first of all it keeps the bull from getting too dirty and staining the porcelain that way we don't have to use the brush as often it also minimizes smells but there is a downside of more splashing if you know what I mean and I think you do 10:1 faucet to rule them all I haven't done a lot of traveling but I have been to the UK and I was flabbergasted by the separate faucets in the bathroom how do you guys use those anyways I have to wash my hands under scalding hot or freezing cold water separately jump back and forth between the two in the u.s. sinks always have just one faucet and you can customize the temperature of the water however you like now as for getting that perfect temperature when you're taking a shower don't even get me started on that 11 crank up the AC yeah most of us leave the AC running all through the summer instead of opening a window or using a fan probably not the most cost efficient solution especially in a big house but it just feels so nice the same goes for cranking the heat up in the winter you won't see many radiators in the US twelve wearing shoes inside most of the world has a pretty strict policy about taking your shoes off at the front door but that's not really the case here most families are totally okay with wearing shoes inside around the house as long as they're not muddy or anything sure there are those American families that don't do it so if you're ever in the States it's customary to ask if you need to take your shoes off at the front door most of the time the answer will be yeah you're fine 13 switch lists sockets now apparently in Europe you have a switch to either allow the power to flow by turning a button on or cutting it by switching it off in America you don't have this option and that's most likely because of the fact that we have a lower voltage running through our sockets so the risk of shocking yourself when you unplug something without turning the socket off first isn't as high 14 no teakettle in the kitchen the u.s. is mostly a coffee drinking country so we don't really use tea kettles and if you're thinking well what about a kettle to boil water for instant coffee the answer to that my friend is that most homes have a coffee maker to brew it fresh 15 garbage disposals ah yes the convenience of rinsing your plate right in the sink flipping the switch and sending all that ground-up food down the drain garbage disposals are a lot more common in the states in fact over 50% of American homes have one I imagine it comes down to better sanitation and avoiding raunchy smells coming from your trash can 16 flags everywhere Americans really do love to display the old star-spangled banner so most homes here have at least one hanging outside the house but it's not just our national flag we like the hoist a lot of people have a flag with their favorite football team or the college they went to on it what can I say we like flags 17 pristine lots and finally surrounding that big house full of rooms closets carpet and weird sockets we have our beautiful lawns okay the perfect pristine kind are usually only found in the suburbs but in general Americans like to take care of their yard plus most neighborhoods have rules about it even if you don't want to you often have to keep your lawn mowed and free of leaves or clutter everything's got to look nice and clean and now whether you're American are not which of these things apply to your house let me know down in the comments if you learned something new today then give this video a like and share it with a friend but hey don't go anywhere just yet 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Keywords: American houses, American homes, the US, the USA, America, traditions, foreign countries, strange rules, travelling, traveling, fire safety in the US, wall-to-wall carpeting, toilets in the US, wearing shoes inside, garbage disposals, American flag, US flag, homes in America

Id: dNLJj7MYhEQ

Length: 9min 32sec (572 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 06 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/Twad]

How does having more space stop you from hanging clothes to dry?

I really doubt it saves much time either, you don't stand there and watch them dry.

[u/woodhead2011]

I'm from Finland, what is a coffee machine?

[u/knubbiggubbe]

Does this man think we don't have coffee machines?... Also, the reason we hang our clothes to dry instead of using dryers (which, believe it or not, we're familiar with!) is because it's way more cost efficient and also saves on the environment quite a lot.

Don't even get me started on the "way more sanitary" garbage disposals they have. We have a government compost program, which creates biofuel for public transport. These guys are missing out on free energy!

[u/Pandora_DRK]

I stopped at "Land of the free", fuck that.

[u/wieson]

The comments under that video are gold, though

[u/rapaxus]

What's his point about fire alarms? In my small apartment literally every room has a fire alarm.

[u/Weltraumbaer]

Smoke alarms are pretty standard in Germany and mandated by law recently. There are homes in the UK with one faucet per sink and the fact that European homes usualy dont come with AC has something to do with the fact that OUR HOMES ARE NOT MADE OUT OF CARDBOARD THICKNESS WOOD.

Did he also brag about coffee machines?

[u/MaiLifeIzShit]

Lol, of course, its 5-minutes crafts' bastard love child the Bright Side

[u/MetallicOrangeBalls]

I love how all non-USAmericans are automatically Europeans. I never realised that I was secretly European all along. Unless this onionfucker's point is that people from outside of the US or Europe don't count as people? That seems more likely.