American Reacts to 4 Ways British and American Houses Are VERY Different! *NO A/C!?*

JT Reacts
JT Reacts
74,950
266
Published 2024-04-09
All Comments (21)
  • @gentleeventful
    Basically here in England we learned from The Three Little pigs. We understood that straw and wooden houses could be easily blown down so we tend to build ours of brick.
  • @missxsoph1
    I'm in Scotland know why there's no A/C.Because it's always bloody freezing 😂
  • @davidjrandall1979
    Living in London, the $450,000 would probably get you a car parking space
  • @lilmsmetal
    Every house in the uk has a kettle. It’s odd not to have one. They are cheap, and do the job quick. Probably because our mains electricity is a higher power. We can have sockets in the bathroom, but they are half our normal strength, and only for shavers and electric toothbrush chargers.
  • @l3v1ckUK
    I would argue that combined washer/dryers in the UK are worse than a separate washing machine and tumble dryer. The only real reason to buy a combined one is because you don't have space for both. We have separate ones for good reason.
  • @mej6519
    You don't need AC when we only have 3 weeks of half decent weather a year. Best to build a house that keeps the warmth in.
  • @mervinmannas7671
    In a recent survey it was estimated that 95-96% of British houses had an electric kettle. All offices etc have them. Plus 90% of hotel and B&B rooms have them.
  • @ShaneH42
    I won’t be the only one who groaned when Lawrence appeared on the screen, it looks like he might have done some research though. Good interesting video JT, I’m glad you survived the eclipse 😁
  • @ArtilleryAmy
    It always makes me laugh seeing how Americans react to our brick houses, especially when most Americans live in houses made of wood or trailers 🤷🏼‍♀️
  • @anitaherbert1037
    We live with buildings and structures where 1,000 years is really old. So our idea of structurally well built implies a degree of permanence. There are stonebuilt walls of Neolithic dwellings on our Orkney isles SKATHA BRAE that are older than the great pyramids of Giza (5,000 years).
  • @antiqueinsider
    Garbage disposal (masserators) are illegal in many countries because the small problem at your end becomes a big problem for the water/sewerage system! One of the reasons why water is expensive! You can get imprisoned in Portugal, I believe.
  • @RollerbazAndCoasterDad
    $450,000 for the colonial sounds cheap in a city where a two bedroom flat costs £300,000 (that's $380,000).
  • @l3v1ckUK
    Almost everyone uses electric kettles here. The only person I know who doesn't, lives on a narrow boat.
  • @l3v1ckUK
    Older houses.... from the 70's? How short is the average life span of a house in America?
  • @seanmc1351
    JT, i live in the north england, our houses, are the row houses as you call them, terraced we call them, 130 years old, and still good condition,
  • @ac1646
    We had a stove top kettle when I was a child, but when electric kettles came out, us Brits swapped to those. They have a MAJOR advantage: they switch themselves off. It was such a novelty to be able to leave the room and know the kettle wasn't going to boil dry or you had to stop what you were doing to stop it whistling all through the house.
  • @markprior2278
    We never use a dryer. We either hang our washing outside on a washing line, or if its raining we hang them inside in front of a radiator.
  • @juliemartin4267
    Surely with the amount of sun you get you hang your washing out to dry rather than use a tumble dryer
  • @joygallavan6790
    Ha ha hearing a really super posh expensive house described as "wow no less than $450,000" like thats a big deal ! thats only £360 thousand ! thats the average house price here,and it would get you a very normal small house,a large posh house with a large garden would be £1million ++++