I feel like the funniest thing about your videos/channel is that it’s mainly British people that watch your videos and you basically tell us everything we already know but still watch everything and just laugh 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@helenFX

5 жыл бұрын

I watch a few channels from people that have moved to britain - I find it very interesting to hear about the place from a fresh perspective :)

@shaunw9270

5 жыл бұрын

Well I think us British have always been able to have a laugh at ourselves & know when someone is laughing along with us ,not at us. I think Alanna has integrated very well lol 😊👍

@MichaelJohnsonAzgard

5 жыл бұрын

@@helenFX they mention some things we take for granted or are used to, then I say "oh yea, I didn't think about it that way"

@FormulaProg

5 жыл бұрын

Can’t wait for this channel in 10 years when she sounds more English than I do

@MayMay-jy9mr

5 жыл бұрын

literally haha i love watching videos from people who have moved to the uk its so interesting hearing their perspective. Love evan edinger too

The 'closet' with the water heater is called an 'airing cupboard'.

@mikemargo

5 жыл бұрын

Or in London.. a studio apartment

@bexter107

4 жыл бұрын

And the one under stairs is the cupboard or I like to call it a Coraline cupboard

@jaycobbina9529

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikemargo and worth a fortune. So comfortable in the knowledge that I can sell it and buy a big house in the future lol

@krashd

4 жыл бұрын

The cupboard where my water heater is kept was once called a 'coal bunker'. It's a very old house.

@JUANKERR2000

4 жыл бұрын

@George Job No, she is from Canada, were she American I would agree with you!

Houses often dont have driveways because they were built BEFORE people routinely had a car!

@richardbryant3169

4 жыл бұрын

I never thought of that to be honest, good point

@GaryMcCaffrey

4 жыл бұрын

And that's why the roads are small too.

@lindashelley3635

4 жыл бұрын

The Ginger Witch But a lot of people nowadays will pave over their front gardens in order to be able park their car off the road. That’s, of course, if the front garden is big enough, which would essentially mean that your house would have to be either a semi or a detached property as a terrace will usually only have a tiny garden or no garden at all (like in the TV soap Coronation Street)

@BBRC7612

4 жыл бұрын

Except now.. New houses are small and parking for anything bigger than a Mini is a problem in most estates. Small country with too many people!!

@lindashelley3635

4 жыл бұрын

BBRC7612 That’s true, but sometimes the planners will try to find a solution to the problem. My daughter and son-in-law moved into a small 3-bed semi on a new-build estate with a front garden that they can’t pave over, nor are they allowed to park in the road outside. But the builders provided a car park behind the back gardens just for the houses in their street.

Population density of Canada: 8 per square mile. UK 800. Our homes are smaller for a reason

@jadateia

4 жыл бұрын

Thats not true mate. 99% of the houses were built ages ago.

@bobbysausagefingers4405

4 жыл бұрын

I think we got enough room to have bigger houses it’s just a rip off here

@monkeymox2544

4 жыл бұрын

@@jadateia No that's not true. Only just under 5 million British homes pre-date 1900. Most of our homes have been built in an era when Britain is crowded (or at least, its towns and cities are), and have accordingly been built smaller.

@casualprince8779

4 жыл бұрын

Everyone is down near the borders, no one wants to be up north

@tomuxp1

4 жыл бұрын

@@monkeymox2544 crowded? Village after village...

Laundry room! Would love to have one. Many houses in the UK were not even built with a toilet room My first house had a toilet in the back yard Would love to have a basement. You'd have to by a large, old house to get a basement Most houses in the UK were built before the car, hence, no drive-way. My house was built in 1874

@janr2133

5 жыл бұрын

Wow Philip! I am from the Dallas, TX area and I lived in a 1910 two story house and thought that was old! I loved it, then down sized when my kids left. Love hearing about England. Been there 4 times visiting a pen friend and totally loved it, ya'll are soooo lucky!

@marksnow7569

5 жыл бұрын

I live in a modern "every house almost the same as all the others" estate, but the heart of the town where I live, Whitehaven in Cumbria, was developed as a planned community between about 1640 and 1740. It was designed as a rectangular grid, and individual plots, all basically the same width, were sold for development. There was one key rule: houses had to have three storeys above ground. Most of those 300+ year-old houses are still there, all with three storeys of windows visible, but some with rooms not much over 2 metres floor-to-ceiling, and very plain frontages, others on the same street with much higher ceilings (at least on the entrance floor- the servants on the top floor would be a lot more cramped) and much more decoration. Harmonious, but quirky.

@millomweb

5 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure you're right about the basement. Very few houses have basements in the UK. A lot with underground rooms have cellars - often with no natural light down there and often only a single room, maybe 2 rooms. May also be limited headroom too. My grandmother had a house with a cellar. good headroom, and 2 rooms - one was a coal bunker - with a trap door in the street for tipping the coal down and the other room was for storage. Neither room could have been classed as 'dry' but at least not wet either !

@millomweb

5 жыл бұрын

Hi@@marksnow7569 look south to Millom - can you see me waving ?

@marksnow7569

5 жыл бұрын

@@millomweb It's either you or a wind-turbine!

The “floors” are usually called upstairs and downstairs because lots of houses have only 2 “floors” not 3

@drawde_064

4 жыл бұрын

Lucy Foster I have 3 floors in my house and I just call them downstairs, upstairs and upstairs lol.

@mokkaveli

4 жыл бұрын

Or upstairs, downstairs and the loft/attic

They weren't closets, one was an under the stairs and the other was the airing cupboard.

@lwaves

5 жыл бұрын

One for the boiler, one for the electric and/or gas meters.

Optometrist asks, “How are you finding England?” “No problem, with these glasses, I open my front door, and there it is.”

@adamjohannesson3434

5 жыл бұрын

Barry Gower 😹😹😹😹😹

@fatbelly27

5 жыл бұрын

Go to Greenland and turn right

@MarkFrancis-xt7ni

5 жыл бұрын

Barry Gower haha

@cheekyboy5000

4 жыл бұрын

@@fatbelly27 Extra points for the Beatles reference.

@fatbelly27

4 жыл бұрын

Well spotted!

Up north we dont need drive ways, I keep my bike in shed out back wi ferrets.

@chipzz86

4 жыл бұрын

Ur flat caps their too 😆 lol

@virtualatheist

4 жыл бұрын

Aye, next t' privy 😜

@edwardtreen7416

4 жыл бұрын

So where does t'whippet live, lad?

@mickwful

4 жыл бұрын

@@edwardtreen7416 Now don t be daft lad whippets are cosy by fire wi a bowl o tripe. an any road how could our lass do washing wi dolly tub in shed wi dogs under er feet.

@edwardtreen7416

4 жыл бұрын

@@mickwful Dolly tub in t'shed and not in t'back yard? By 'eck, tha spoils that lass!

We have a separate tumble dryer which is great, but there's nowhere for the vent pipe to go so we put it through the cat flap lol.

@SNMG7664

4 жыл бұрын

Be careful or you'll end up with steamed cat

@emilycarroll8320

4 жыл бұрын

Have you ever thought about getting a condenser dryer? 😁

@claveworks

4 жыл бұрын

@@emilycarroll8320 I have not, but will investigate, thank you!

@Aeronaut1975

4 жыл бұрын

@@claveworks Yep, that's what condenser dryers were invented for. Just remember to empty the water collection container every time you use the machine.

@mezmanmerrill7412

4 жыл бұрын

Our vent pipe goes through the window

Alana, I've been watching your posts for a few weeks now and I love what you're doing. I'm originally from Manchester, England but have lived near Toronto (Oshawa) for 31 years (I'm 65).. I can really relate to what you're saying and you are bang on the money. I was just watching a post where you were going through comments and there were idiots saying a lot of mean things. You're a sweetheart and don't deserve to have crap like that thrown at you. Small minded, toxic people make me sick. You are not complaining but comparing, which you are perfectly entitled to do. It's far from negative, as they seem to be making out. Whereas those idiots usually have nothing to compare against and so, are not qualified to comment. I'd advise you to completely ignore them and just keep doing what you're doing. It's very entertaining and we could all do with more smiles. Thank you. Dave

@millomweb

5 жыл бұрын

Where's your vids Dave - comparing Canada with Manchester ?

@davewraxall8021

5 жыл бұрын

Alana, I haven't done any videos other than ones on fishing when I owned a lure company. Having lived in Canada for 31 years. I don't know how relevant it would be. I do tell people here that the only way you know it's summer in England is because the rain gets warmer!

@eattherich9215

3 жыл бұрын

@Dave Wraxall: I visited my sister who lives in Pickering, and her home is large and comfortable, something that I did not expect from the small frontage. There was so much space inside and everything was well appointed. My nieces live in Ajax and their house is luxurious. However, I feel there is far too much reliance on the car and the suburbs all look a little samey.

@davewraxall8021

3 жыл бұрын

@@eattherich9215 I agree with you... to point. While the burbs do look a little samey, there is a fair bit of variation. When you buy a new house, you can pick the interior layout and them choose from several outside treatments. So you can get several houses which are all identical indoors but all look different on the outside. Certainly when I lived in the UK and when I go back to visit, housing estates tend to be full of virtually identical houses. Houses in Canada, are typically bigger and most have basements, which are often converted into living space and aircon, as our summers usually average around 30ºC. You're right about relying on cars too. When I lived in England, virtually everything was a maximum of 20 minutes away. My typical commute in Canada was an hour and a half, thankfully I'm retired and don't have to do that any more! If someone had told me that we want you to live in Manchester but commute to the south of Birmingham every day, I'd have thought they were crazy. But, that's exactly what most people do here. Canada is also ginormous. It's the 2nd biggest country in the World next to Russia. If you look at a map of Canada and focus on Ontario, Lake Ontario, the 2nd smallest of the Great Lakes, it would fit into the UK about 4 times. So that will give you a sense of scale. Yet, our population is about half of yours, at 38 million. The biggest difference I find, is that living in Canada is like Manchester was when I was a kid. There is very little crime or violence here. People are relaxed rather than stressed. We have an American lifestyle with more of a European vibe. It has been voted the best place in the World to live many times. That said, we also have a complete knob running the country, just like you. I really miss the Mancunian culture and all of my family and friends and especially Holland's Steak and Kidney Puddings! If I could get them all to move over here, I'd be like a pig in pooh. Wherever you go, there are things you like and things you don't. Overall, living in Canada has worked out well for me and I got to do things that I probably never would have been able to do in England.

Really enjoyed that. Your amazing personality just radiates from the screen. Thanks Alanna.

I’m failing to explain the differences to my fiancé as I’ve done the opposite to you having moved to Canada. This was a great video! I miss England.

Great comparison video, I always find them very entertaining. Great job fellow Canadian.

🇨🇦 Thanks For this video Alanna, I found your comparisons very interesting. Keep the great content coming!

You have a lovely way of explaining things, You make everything most interesting, a real talent. Good luck for Thursday,.

Cool video Alanna. Looking forward to Thursday 🙂

Washing machine here in Hong Kong is located in the kitchen as well, the same as England! Housing in Hong Kong is also expensive (even more expensive than London) that people won’t waste living space just for laundry. It’s fascinating to learn about Canadian and British Homes. Love your videos!

@AlexKinPongLo

2 жыл бұрын

I’m from Hong Kong too. I was born in Hong Kong. I’ve been in Germany for a year and in the USA for 2 years. I find the houses in the UK are so small. I would say the quality of living would be the worst in the UK compared with HK, USA, and Germany. 1. Let’s see the price. I count it by square feet not by bedrooms and bathrooms. For example, I currently live in southern area of UK. In term of square feet, the price in south and near London is actually the same as those in Hong Kong. It’s a three bedroom house only 1000 square feet. The stairs and hallway just waste a lot of space. It can cost you 600-700k pounds. The tricky thing is that they count the price with bedroom and bathroom. So many developers and house owners will part very small room to maximise the price. 2. The security is very bad. Burglary and thefts are very often in the UK. So you need to buy a lot of security service, pay the service annually, high insurance, and the police will do nothing even you caught the theft. You may think the USA is the most dangerous. But the truth is you have gun at home in the America, so you can literally legally shoot the theft to death if they break in. 3. There are many weird and outdated law to strict your freedom at home, like you can’t do such and such and the like in your private garden. You can’t hang your clothes near the windows. 4. There are many land owned by the Lord and Lady who are the nobles and the UK laws protect them and the government and capitalists can do nothing to them. Just like the native land in the New Territories in Hong Kong. In conclusion, I think the USA would be much better living quality than those of UK in term of square feet and safety. Most importantly, your salary can be doubled in the USA with cheaper houses. The hardest thing for HK people to live in Germany is the language barrier. Before I came to the UK, I think everything would be similar to the America. But I could say please think about why British Empire disappeared and the USA is raising. If the UK can get rid of the nobles and become a capitalism and republic, it will become great. The laws are no longer protect the nobles but the people.

Don't worry about the stream you'll do great, we'll all be here to support you

Enjoyed yet another of your videos. Unfortunately I'm working Thursday evening so will miss you killing it live on You Tube. Best of luck!👍👍👍👍😎

I would use a tumble dryer AND a washing line/clothes horse. Drying outside during good weather and still drying during bad weather. It makes laundry as economic as possible throughout the year. With kids and school uniforms, I can't afford to get a backlog on laundry. Its always drying time that slows things down.

Hi, Alanna, interesting video. You are definitely right about lack of basements here, not many houses have them. Even when you have a washer / dryer or a dryer I think clothes always smell fresher when dried outside so it's nice to do that when the weather permits. Looking forward to your live q and a on Thursday, I'm sure that'll be good. Looking forward to your next normal video soon as well.

Good luck for Thursday! I'll be watching. x

YAY! 40K! CONGRATS!

Dont be afraid.. you will breeze it. We love you for being you. x

Last year my Canadian cousins FaceTimed us to show us their new house. They planned to a magnificent white building 400 metres away surrounded by fields. My daughter exclaimed ‘wow your house is beautiful ‘, my cousins laughed, ‘ oh, that’s the stables for our horses’.

@terryomalley1974

Жыл бұрын

Are you sure it was 400 meters, not 4oo square feet? I ask because, in Canada, we still measure real estate properties in square feet and yards/acres, etc...

There are no words for the kind of week I am having. God bless you for cheering me up!

@rebeccasimantov5476

5 жыл бұрын

I feel the same!

@rebeccasimantov5476

5 жыл бұрын

Fractured my (right) wrist on Sunday, nephew's funeral yesterday...

Good luck with the live stream. You're great. Keep up the good work.

LOL, when you started talking about 'closets', I was initially thinking 'lavatory' :) Interesting what you said about the architecture.

Driveways ? Some houses don't even have a front garden lol it be like them houses on the itv soap coronation street where your front door is basically right on the public pavement/sidewalk 😂

@q3b26

4 жыл бұрын

New builds don't even get pavements anymore 😂😂😂

@eattherich9215

3 жыл бұрын

@@q3b26: you don't get much of anything in new builds. Want a window in that shower room, are you some kind of fanatic?

Another great video Alanah.hope your well

Great video very interesting lil snippets of info 👍

Live Q&A sounds great, I'll be watching

@millomweb

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, me too - when is it ?

@mattinfullvision9598

5 жыл бұрын

@@millomweb it's already happened, she did it yesterday evening

@millomweb

5 жыл бұрын

@@mattinfullvision9598 I knew that - as per my other comment of letting us know BEFORE she does it next time !

@mattinfullvision9598

5 жыл бұрын

@@millomweb she did let us know on this video saying when she was going to do it and she sent us a notification for it like a day or two before she went live., although I think some people said they didn't get the notification

@millomweb

5 жыл бұрын

@@mattinfullvision9598 I only came across her channel yesterday !

I grew up in an ex-British country in Africa and our voltage was 240 volts like the UK. There were no sockets/outlets in the bathrooms - I guess there's a good reason for it. I agreed with you about the character of the buildings - there are so many really old and amazing buildings near my home - a pub that was open when Shakespeare was alive and a little further down the road, a pub that opened in 1320, to name just two.

@janr2133

5 жыл бұрын

Wow I can't even imagine living with such history, America is such a baby compared to England! Hey ya'll from Texas!

@millomweb

5 жыл бұрын

@@janr2133 I bet there's many mind-blowing concepts in the UK for you. Streets with no sidewalks - so you have to walk where the cars drive, houses where your front door is 12 inches away from your neighbour's. Main roads that go between farm buildings and where there are hedges both sides of the road, you can 'stroke' the hedge either side with your mirrors! UK roads are classed A,B, and C. A roads are the best roads (only bettered by dual carriageways and motorways) but where there is only one road between two places, it is always designated an A road even if 2 vehicles can't pass each other going in opposite directions. Imagine a cross-street in a city and you're planning on turning left or right - it's a tight bend. We have bends that tight on roads in general because our roads go round things - whether buildings, farmer's fields or to deal with natural features like rivers. I'm in an industrial town - built about 150 years ago. The houses are in long terraces, the streets weren't designed for cars as no one had a car (nor horse and cart!) people walked everywhere.

@ZainabProductions

4 жыл бұрын

pmailkeey are you joking?

@millomweb

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZainabProductions I'm not joking about any part of that. Which bit are you thinking I was joking ?

@ZainabProductions

4 жыл бұрын

pmailkeey Streets with no sidewalks(pavements)?

Hi Alanna, Another great video. The reason a lot of our housing in this country has no off street parking, is that cars were not commonplace at the time the houses were built, hence people now turn their front gardens into driveways. Of course this is not possible without a front garden. You always seem so so sensitive to the small nuances that make our country different, which is charming to listen to. Looking forward to Thursday's live stream.

In our house we only bath if we have a hangover, on weekends. On weekdays its a shower. We keep pets in our bath tub, my kids have two turtles and a frog in ours, they don't shave or need a hair dryer. We park our cars on the street, driveways are for skips, kids bikes, garage sales and rubbish bins. Guys like to do DIY to improve their homes and go to the pub a lot so they can get tips from other guys on what to do. My wife loves hanging the washing out on a dry breezy day because it smells so much fresher than a tumble dryer, which she hardly ever uses. Thanks for your appreciation of our strange little country.

7:30 - my favourite part of the video by far when you gave the camera a thumbs up 😂😂

As a Canadian living in London now, I can totally relate to everything you're saying! I was shocked when I found no screens on the windows in my new flat, I was like "omg but the bugs!?!" forgetting of course that Canada has way more bugs flying around in summer. Still trying to get used to having no electricity outlets in the bathroom! Trying to figure out how to blow dry my hair early morning in the bedroom without waking up my husband 😆 Oh and the lack of A/C may kill me! haha jk (oh the privilege!) Love your videos!

Everywhere that I have lived in the UK has had a washer/dryer combo (because it saves space). Sure, you can't dry things at the same time that you are doing a wash, but you can get clothes washed and dried in one go (while you are out, or asleep) because you don't need to move the clothes from one machine to another.

@JimpZee

5 жыл бұрын

I just looked more closely at the clip of you in front of wour washing machine and it looks like an Indesit Ecotime. Are you sure that it's not a washer dryer? It has the word "Dry" written on the soap drawer as one of the set of presets, and the Indesit web site shows a washer dryer (6105) that looks exactly the same as yours.

@millomweb

5 жыл бұрын

@@JimpZee Yup, I looked at that and came to the same conclusion. - Is this where we say 'typical woman' didn't realise she had a dryer in the place ;) We're on our 2nd washer-dryer but so rarely use the dryer to cut costs.

I’m a Canadian living in England for 1 year now (I’m from Bradford Ontario and live near York) but I fully related to all the things you said in this video keep up the good work and this channel is really good to watch because I can relate to it a lot 👍🏼👍🏼

@_ellipticalpxin_2543

2 жыл бұрын

Omg, I used to live in Bradford aswell!!

Hi Alana, you alright mate? My Canadian relatives have told us that things in Canada are bigger and better, and that's no problem. But an American once said that things in the US are so much bigger. He criticised the size of our potatoes. So I said that, here we grow them to fit 'our' mouths. Still loving your vids, and youkeep em comin xx

@Sparks127

5 жыл бұрын

Plus they'll never have Jersey Royals. The best potatoes in the world (in season)

you are not complaining, just comparing :) another great vid my friend :)

Another entertaining but educational video. Keep them coming :)))

I like your descriptive insert edits for the electrical appliances. They made me chuckle. I don't know why, as they illustrated your point perfectly.

You can have sockets/electrical outlets in the bathroom here in the UK but you will only find them in large bathrooms as they have to be a certain distance from the basin, shower and bath etc. (3m away from zone 1) As the average home is old or has a small bathroom, the average person probably wouldn't know. I won't go into the zone specifics.

Out and about videos would be brilliant for you to do. Showing the different style houses, in the street and parking, etc etc

@TheCorek1949

5 жыл бұрын

That would, for her, be a bad idea. Too many of the people subscribing are maybe stalkers and this would reveal where she lives. If you want to see out and about use Google maps street view.

@archstanton1628

5 жыл бұрын

4chan users tracked down that guy from the terrible transformers movies using star charts. If someone wants to find you, they will 😁

@FrenchieDogMum

5 жыл бұрын

Clive Powell I’m from the UK so I don’t need to see this stuff but others probably would like to. Talking about how things are is one thing, seeing it is another. Anyway Alanna wouldn’t even have to film where she lives. She could do random videos of places not even where she lives. Plus I’m not stupid, I know she couldn’t film where she lives. She could do them on location somewhere.

Another great vid, i like the social commentary on the differences, well spotted by the way, your very eloquent and a delight to watch....oh by the way, the homes here are small and with lots of character (pokey) because its a small island of limited space. Look forward to the live stream, good luck with everything i'm sure it will all go great lass.

Shout out Alanna, just to give you thumbs up :-) Informative, funny, silly at times but imperfectly PERFECT! Well done, always...don't ever try to "polish" your posts. That very down to earth "real" approach is a very attractive feature...addictive even :-) Okay, gotta run buy a "clothes horse thing"...LOL Still smiling about that. See..your videos are not only informative but also a Rx for SMILES! Eddie~

I just found out Canada isn’t real. Turns out it was all mapleleaf.

@h.calvert3165

4 жыл бұрын

LOL Canadian! 😂

Clothes lines are great for your clothes!! Dryers will most times ruin them, not to mention shrink your T-shirts and jeans.

@rebeccasimantov5476

5 жыл бұрын

I totally agree...also clothes dried outside on the line have a much nicer smell! Btw I'm from Australia and rarely use a dryer...maybe just in winter when it's v. cold and rainy...

@colinfarrow9971

4 жыл бұрын

Try buying better quality products

@colinfarrow9971

4 жыл бұрын

Hanging clothes on a line is so much effort. You have to choose a day when its not going to rain. They sometimes end up smelling of bonfires or barbecues. Far more hygienic to use a condenser dryer.

@JB-ux7ql

4 жыл бұрын

But then your clothes dry weird like you have to take the time & effort to iron. Dryers all the way

Casting aspersions was the phrase you were searching for. Very interesting viewpoint. Great as usual. 👍

Love your videos! I'm from BC Canada, but I lived in West Sussex for a year when I was 18 and I definitely noticed alot of these differences too! I think you forgot to mention staircases , they are crazy in some of the older homes. Another thing I noticed was the obsession with fire escapes and fire doors. I did think the topic of the cookie cutter houses in canada was very funny and very true. And, while that can seem really sterile and boring, it is also comforting and you know what to expect. I ended up buying a house that it almost identical to my childhood home and it took me a while to realize that's why I liked it so much. Anyways, great video, very relatable

As someone from the midwest USA, it was interesting to me That many of your homes in Canada are similar to what I see. :) (I'll be honest, I started watching this video so KZread's algorithm might recommend More vids with thumbnails containing that facial expression... but I enjoyed and stayed to the end.)

Great idea the q&a. You'll breeze it no worries

Looking forward to the Q&A!

I have different houses in my neighbourhood in Markham because the builders made sure that the same layout and elevation only alternates after 5 houses or so and, like always, luuuve your videos!😍

Closets are called wardrobes in the UK and they are usually a separate piece of furniture sometimes with drawers underneath.

@kentix417

4 жыл бұрын

That's a bit like saying our kitchens are a piece of furniture. A closet is a room. A very small room, (or sometimes large, there are walk-in closets as large as a North American bathroom), but still a room.

I live in Texas. Our houses are huge. Idk why I'm watching this 😂

Hooray, a new video from my favourite Derpalina.

Hi Alanna, thanks for sharing another interesting and informative video. The one thing that I notice about the UK homes is that many are two stories and are joined together. I realise the reason for that is shortage of land. Just by coincidence, in our older suburbs, we have similar homes here in Australia. I visited a work colleague living in a home like that and I found it really interesting. It was very comfortable and cosy among other things. We use clothes lines and rotary hoists here in Australia in our back yards. The main problem is that the electric bills are very high priced and this discourages using clothes driers. You would love the power outlets here with three prongs. Two of the prongs are angled anti-clockwise and clockwise horizontally and below that, is the third prong, which is vertical. We have inbuilt wardrobes in the bedrooms, closets in the hall and the other rooms, we had to buy portable closets and add them in. I wish we had basements here. Our neighbours dug under their home and added a basement, but it floods when it rains. Our prior home in Sydney was split level and had several storage rooms underneath. Like you, I have had to cut back on collecting things, due to no space. We have a drive way here in Melbourne, but our Sydney house had no driveway at all. Everyone parked in the street and if we were really lucky, no one stripped the car while it was parked there. LOL. House styles tend to different here, though the older suburbs have similarly designed houses. Anyway, wishing you the very best. I hope all goes well with your live stream, in case I miss catching it. Take care. Robert.

You should upload a remix video of when you say "Hi everyone it's me" and "Byye" from all your videos.

@hairyairey

5 жыл бұрын

Not forgetting "without further ado, let's go!"

Dryers are expensive to run and not environmentally friendly so I only use mine when I really have to. Enjoyed your video .

@autumn5852

4 жыл бұрын

Lesley Allen do other people use them when they don’t have to?

@krashd

4 жыл бұрын

@@autumn5852 Yes, because putting clothes on my line often means stepping into the shit minefield laid by my dogs so into the dryer they go.

Yay! A live stream on a day I can participate.

You have uploaded another amazing video after a long time. I missed you a lot. I was searching you a lot, actually i was seeking your snap voice. So, How are you doing?

In Oklahoma, we kind of use the terms alternatively. Like someone will call the first floor the first floor, and another would call it the ground floor. There are even signs that say its the ground floor then followed by 1st and second. Then ya have some buildings that say Ground floor which is also the first floor in which they skip straight to the second floor because the first floor and ground floor are the same floor. And yes I used floor a lot.

@brentwoodbay

5 жыл бұрын

I think you may have missed the point AFB. Yes here in Canada as in Oklahoma we will call the lowest floor of a building, like a hotel, office building or an apartment block either the 'Ground' floor , or the 'First' floor. In the UK however, the Ground floor is NEVER called the First floor. The first floor in the UK is what we here in North America call the SECOND floor! So in a THREE storey building in the UK, the TOP floor is the SECOND floor! ( Notice also the different way of spelling storey as in a building)

@paulwhitear4983

5 жыл бұрын

In UK the floor at street level is the ground floor and the floor above is the 1st

The other week I noticed that someone in my area had sold there back garden and the council are building houses on it now. Honestly I think they will build houses anywhere in the UK.

@calvincroftavfc4431

4 жыл бұрын

Theres a b and b down the road from my house. They sold their back garden and 3 2 bed houses have been crammed into the space. Its madness the lengths people in the UK will go to get more houses

When I go to Belgium, I am always delighted that not one single house looks the same in appearance. Here in Guelph, Canada, all the houses on my street look very similar. One house is identical to mine!

I didn't know about the Live Q and A stream but I will look for it.

The closets u where talking about are called airing cupboards

The houses I've lived in have always had space for a dryer. Most modern houses do.

@spencerwilton5831

4 жыл бұрын

Paul Whitear modern homes are actually significantly smaller on average than those built in the past. Houses are shrinking every year! The difference is new homes / kitchens are designed with space for a dryer, even though that usually means something else is sacrificed - a cupboard for example.

Thank you for clearing up Ground Floor and First Floor. In my building (work) has ground floor as floor zero and the basement is minus one. Good luck with your live stream on Thursday; sadly I will on my way home from work so will probably miss it.

I loved this. But I can't wait for the Your Comments video that will be inspired from this one :). Rock on Alana

Generalisation or not, you got the comparisons spot on. I’ve lived in UK all my life. Bathrooms didn’t even come inside for the working class until early 20th century. When I was a kid, no bathroom at all but a toilet outside at the end of the back yard. (I’m 56) 🤣🤣

@kadams3029

5 жыл бұрын

I read somewhere that in the 1950s, something like 1/3 of British homes still had outdoor toilets. As an American who grew up in an "old" house (1920s) built with both indoor plumbing and electricity (though it was originally heated with coal), that really blew my mind.

@millomweb

5 жыл бұрын

@@kadams3029 We still have a functional outside toilet. I'll tell you what, it never needs flushing twice ! Not only that, it's much easier and reliable to flush than the modern inside one ! And yes, it has a chain - with a porcelain 'handle' with the word 'PULL' written on it.

10:10 trying to explain that the GROUND floor is the first floor in Canada with out calling it the ground floor, you had me cracking up lol

@GaryHayward

4 жыл бұрын

It's not always the first floor at the top of the ground floor first flight of stairs-could be the mezzanine. :)

Looking forward to the live stream bruh!

There are houses with basements, but for some reason especially where I live in the UK, they tend to be older houses and ones near rivers. My cousin lives near the Thames River and their basement floods every time it rains really hard. Most houses outside of a city have driveways.

@GFSLombardo

5 жыл бұрын

Must be why its called "rising damps" as in old Britsh sitcoms. If a dwelling was built long before the advent of the automobile there is not likely to be a "driveway", as we know it today. However if its really old it may have stables for horses somewhere close by...

In Colorado my mother hung clothes outside even in winter and we had a drier but she hung sheets outside. Sure at times they froze but they thawed a few days later.

I’ve just had a holiday (vacation😉) in Canada, and found the homes in the coastal areas of Nova Scotia to be very unsterile and charming. I know you were only generalising as the big towns & cities tend to repeat styles - it’s the same the world over. Hope the live stream goes well.

@q3b26

4 жыл бұрын

My primary school teacher was from Nova Scotia, she always said she preferred England and couldn't ever move back

Alanna. Another charming post, loving your energy. I couldn't agree more, the majority of houses here are tiny. I was fortunate to live on the 'Ground Floor' of an old victorian mansion for many years, so beautiful, 12ft ceilings, full of old fixtures and fittings, panelled walls, ornate plaster work, appropriate for each room, dining etc. Three enormous marble fireplaces, 10ft high windows all w/wooden shutters, a real sense of history, my present terraced two b,droom house would easily fit into just one of the four large rooms I had (plus two smaller rooms) Driveway, front and back gardens. Anyhoo! So looking forward to Thursday 7pm, best wishes to 'The Queen of Tech' No gremlins! As always. Greetings from Liverpool.

Aww just caught up with this week's video (Sunday) so dadly I missed the live stream :( Hope it went well! :)

Good luck on Thursday , question if you have time - do you think British culture has changed you at all?

I'm always happy to learn something new : ) Ps. Canada seems to be pretty cool !

@TheCorek1949

5 жыл бұрын

I think you mean Canada seems pretty cold.

@ganges4763

5 жыл бұрын

Nice one Clive !

No sockets in the bathroom, extension leads are a blessing. Looking forward to Thursdays stream. On a side note i went to Twitch the other Sunday to pop in and say hello and hope for another Michael Caine impression but couldn't for the life of me find the box to type in and chat.

I was hoping ud do a tour around the house, do that on the livestream :)

Have moved from Australia to the north of England and can relate to everything you said! 😂

@HighHoeKermit

5 жыл бұрын

And the north welcomes you, G'day Erin.

@millomweb

5 жыл бұрын

Were you from Darwin and is your house still empty ?

I actually did grow up with a utility room with our washing machine in it so it isn't a completely unheard of thing here - but I guess it does depend on the size of the house as you said.

@millomweb

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah yeah - an outbuilding containing wash tub, dolly and mangle - the room next to the outside loo and shed.

@smitha1994

5 жыл бұрын

@@millomweb I don't really understand what you're trying to say here...

@millomweb

5 жыл бұрын

@@smitha1994 That old 'utility rooms' were an outbuilding and washing of laundry was not done in the house. So in effect, many houses had the equivalent of a utility room but called it a washhouse.

Hey, that was really interesting, especially about the building styles! :) I SO wish I had screens, living in a very leafy conservation area, I keep all windows just cracked open and put the fan on otherwise insect hell, lol. And I would kill for just 1 closet in my pad (& some space). Also being dyslexic the whole floors in buildings between UK/N America confuses me too. Speaking of I’m not sure if I could contribute on Thursday (spelling paranoia lol)? But will watch at least……Sounds fun....2 Alanna Days in 1 week WAHEY! Good luck! :)

Liking the new pad, clearly not the old house you started your first videos in, great video as always...... p.s. you should check out the prices in Surrey, makes Kent look Cheap

Great video! As Kiwi who has been in the UK for the past year (and lived in Canada for a year back in 2012) a lot of this resonated with me. I love how much personality the UK has, even down to the layout of the buildings or the buildings themselves. I'm still trying to figure out what an 'estate' is though, as I've lived on two (one in Scotland) and I'm none the wiser. Also, Tesco meal deals are life.

@davew4998

5 жыл бұрын

There are two types of estate; a country estate owned by toffs and a housing estate on which I assume you lived. The latter is usually a number of adjacent streets where all the houses were built at about the same time, usually by the same builder and all in a very similar style. An estate is often bounded by a road circling it. You get them on the edge of towns where some countryside has been taken for house building, and also in large cities like London where old houses or tower blocks have been cleared to make room for newer ones. Housing estates are iften given a name to identify them.

@Ajf_24

5 жыл бұрын

@@davew4998 Many thanks, mate! The one in Scotland must have been a country estate as it had a massive house in the centre owned by a Lord and I lived in one of the many cottages surrounding it. The second one definitely sounds more like the housing estate though. Lots of houses that looked very similar, all positioned around a small series of shops and a sort of village square

@Ajf_24

5 жыл бұрын

@Craig Murray Cheers, Craig. The one in Scotland was a bit poncy, so I think it was probably a country estate. The other one sounds very similar to what you described though. I did have a bloke try to sell me coke the first day I got there and walked down to get some groceries, so that would make sense.

@davew4998

5 жыл бұрын

@@Ajf_24 My pleasure Abe.

Up north we have tumble dryers.. The no electric sockets in the bathroom really is an British thing, I guess it's to stop American hugging a toaster while getting a bath ;)

@cogidubnus1953

4 жыл бұрын

Personally I reckon it's to stop me chucking in the hairdryer while the missus is in the bath...

Hi Alana, I agree with your observations. One thing I liked in Canada (BC), is top loading washing machines, so if you had missed putting the odd pair of socks in, there's No Problem just open the top and throw in the socks, which we (in the UK), can't do with our front loaders … I missed not having a washing line although the dryer was much quicker.... I loved my time in Canada and felt totally at home, I hope you feel the same way here in the UK ...

That thunderstorm you talked about half way through, I think we got that storm in the night,the thunder was so loud!

Had several tumble dryers over the years my electric bill was always through the roof 😱

@johnclarke2997

4 жыл бұрын

Wind is free, so use it.

Just think of the hoovering, a small house gets clean quicker :o)

@f3aok

5 жыл бұрын

And cheaper to heat.

@southernmamajones7411

4 жыл бұрын

Is hoovering the same as vacuuming? 💙

@S.p.a.c.e.C.o.w.b.o.y

4 жыл бұрын

@@southernmamajones7411 Yes but in the UK we had a company call Hoover so it was known as hoovering :)

@southernmamajones7411

4 жыл бұрын

Lol ok I figured that is what it meant. We use to have Hoover's in the states as well. We still might. Mine is a Bissell. 😂💚

@amandalewis3898

4 жыл бұрын

Southern Mama Jones mines a dyson but I call it a hoover and I say I’m gonna hoover up or I think I’ll hoover the stairs or I’m hoovering 🤣🤣🤣🤣all branded vacuums are called hoovers 🤣

Alana! I can't wait for your live stream!! :D

@shlibbermacshlibber4106

5 жыл бұрын

You'll have to

Look forward to your live stream on Thursday

No different up north... it's tha age of the area, large proportion of the housing and infrastructure predate the car... so no driveway, garage and alike.

In Australia and New Zealand we have multiple electrical sockets in the bathroom & en-suite and the power is the same as the UK. Australia and New Zealand sound a lot closer to Canada in the size of housing, although here homes are built to last 100 years plus but brick homes in England are meant to last 200 years plus ( I read in an article once that it is 1000 years but that seems crazy) I miss the history of England as you don’t realise that there are so many old buildings with character until it is gone. Generally we don’t have central heating in Australia/NZ but air conditioning and reverse/ heat pump is common place with even underfloor heating more likely than central heating. Keep up the good work, I enjoy the content and look forward to the live stream.

@ianmcrae8860

5 жыл бұрын

We have houses in my small town (pop 30k) that are over 1000 years old and churches that are even older. I read that one village in Yorkshire in the north of the UK has more protected sites than all of Canada. BTW Voltage doesn’t kill .... current does however ....

@MichaelJohnsonAzgard

5 жыл бұрын

My house was built around 70 years before UK homes were fitted for electricity. The ground lease for the house was 999 years from the 1890's, so I'm hoping it'll last that long.

@Frazpas

5 жыл бұрын

Our house is about 600 years old, the first in the village to have electricity: apparently it was a big event in the village to see a light switched on. Imagine. It was build before glass was used in windows: just shutters. Some character.

Alana 👋 really like your presentation style and very engaging. How did the livestream go?

We do use the term "ground floor" in North America (not so much for houses, but for larger buildings with more floors), but "first floor" and "ground floor" mean the same thing. Elevators in larger buildings with 4 or more floors (hospitals, etc.) will often label the ground floor as G, so the elevator buttons might be in an order like this: B, G, 2, 3, 4. (B is Basement.) In big cities, I've also seen P used for the level with access to a parking deck, when that is different from the ground floor (it may be one or two levels below the street), and hotels sometimes use L for the lobby level, regardless of what number it would be. So in a large hotel or convention center, you might have elevator buttons like B, P, G, L, 3, 4, 5, ... or P, L, G, 2, 3, 4, ... or some such combination. If a house doesn't have a driveway, how do you get from the garage to the street? Do you just drive across the yard, or what?

@GamingMattStyle

4 жыл бұрын

Most houses that lack a drive will lack a garage also. Some people decide to pave over a front garden either partially or fully to create a driveway, just as other households decide to convert a previous drive into a front garden. Again - space is a premium so it comes down to personal preference, but many houses lack one, the other or both. On newer estates shared driveways are also common - essentially a wider drive either where each property has an unmarked 'space' reserved. If there are a block of garages your space is usually in front of your garage. Also of interest is that the garage within the block attached to the deed of a property on a shared driveway doesn't necessarily align with the order of houses. Eg a house A,B,C,D assigned corresponding garages 1,2,3,4 may find that despite the order of houses on the street being house A,B,C,D from left to right, the according garages in the block from left to right might be 3,1,4,2 or something similarly random.