Differences Between Living in the US vs the UK!

What great duo these two have been , even though i love Christina and Lauren together , Callie is pretty smart and likable

We do have "conservatories" in the US. They are called sunrooms or Florida rooms

There are houses in the States with sort of conservatory setups. We usually call them sun rooms. And there are many houses in the States with no garage. Just depends on your area. No one on my street had a garage.

I've seen some have a combo washer/dryer unit, all in one. - For the outlets, some people use 'power strips' to plug in their electrics, and use these to turn things on and off, with one flick of the switch. - As far as ACs, it varies on the neighborhood, if people have central air/heating, or just window units.

One thing to understand regarding AC is that there are parts of the US where it gets hot enough that older or sick people can die from the heat, or at the least there will be some folks taken to the hospital

The Air conditioner may be pretty common in some part of US 🇺🇸 , probably the hottest places , but in the weather cold isn't necessary at all , i didn't know that UK doesn't has air conditioner

My childhood house in the UK was like technically a flat I think and my parents had renovated the loft into a second storey. It had a kitchen, a living room, a dining room, 2 bathrooms, and 4 bedrooms. It was quite spacious actually. My bedroom was like double the size of my current room in the house we built in New Zealand. The problem with it though was that we had downstairs neighbours so we couldn’t be loud and it was a bit hard to access the garden. You had to go down all the stairs, out the front door, through the gate and into the garden. It meant I could never go outside and play unsupervised because it was hard for my parents to keep an eye on me. Before the house was renovated it was just 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, kitchen and living room. Despite the great renovations, when my parents sold the house it basically sold for the same price they originally bought it for.

Our tubes have AC in London, as do offices, Universities, shops, restaurants, and new builds with built-in AC, which we primarily use for warming our rooms in winter, as Heatwaves max lasts for two weeks. Also, we have a washing machine with built-in tumble driers, so washer/dryer machines and everyone I know in London have one. I am talking about London, but not sure about other cities in the UK.

in the USA, major appliances often have a single/different electric socket. i.e. dryer, cooking stove.

I don't need my A/C for heat. I can handle heat. I need it for the humidity. It can be 25°C and I'll turn it on if the air starts getting too damp and uncomfortable. It's also good for allergy season, which can get particularly nasty if you're in a rural area.

I live in a cold climate in the US, with 3 children. I can’t imagine hanging up the wash indoors during the snowy months. It would take over the entire house with the amount of laundry I do daily!

In Spain AC is much more common than in other European countries. Most public spaces, stores and malls have it, also all transit systems. Houses don't teng to have it though but again it depends on where you live. In the north no one would have it but in the south it's much more common, depending basically on what each family can afford and how old the building is. I live in Barcelona and many apartments including mine have it and it's progressively becoming a need (fucking climate change)

I know in arizona it is illegal for a landlord to not provide an AC, because it can get past 120 in the summer and people have died from heatstrokes

We do have a “conservatory” in the states. We just call it a “Sunroom” and it’s common in the southern states like Maryland on down. I know a lot of people in Virginia have them.

We do have the conservatory type of rooms in the U.S., but we call them a "sun room." In the U.S. the average size of houses began to blow up in about the 1990s, and accelerating since then. City houses (especially row houses) and older suburban houses built in the 1960s or earlier are actually pretty small. The grandiose, too-big-for-their-britches houses here are often called "McMansions." We have to have air conditioning here because in many parts of the country, the temps are into the 30s celsius (38c is common) for three months without a break. Add to that the 80 percent humidity, and it would be dangerous to elderly and sick people not to have a/c. Finally, some newer U.S. electric outlets do have on/off buttons -- we just keep them on all the time.

The word "conservatory" is typically used in the context of the university study of music. (in NA)

the sockets are also mounted horizontally, but this is mostly in older houses.

Big houses in Texas used to be cheap. However, that changed when all the Californians started moving here. 😔

Kitchens used to be truly separated in from the house in South, or they would have a summer kitchen that was separated. The idea was to keep the rest of the house from being heated up by cooking, when cooking was done by wood or coal stoves and there was no air conditioning. Later, sometimes the summer kitchen was repurposed. In my family, the summer kitchen was put on skids and draged backwards and made into a barn. It had been a fairly large kitchen. There were ten children in the family plus work hands on the farm.

It’s also very common to have a dryer in the UK, haven’t heard many people that don’t have a dryer unless they can’t afford it or the person/head of household has a particular issue with getting dryers