Terraced houses are common across the UK, not just in big cities. Most towns have plenty of them. It's not like the US where outside of big cities there is plenty of space, in the UK even smaller towns need fairly compact housing.

The vast majority of UK housing is NOT detached. I'd say semi-detached is most common, but there's a lot of terracing too , even in more rural areas

Apartments and flats do mean the same thing! They were just highlighting the type of housing you’d associate if you said ‘I live in a flat’ (old, tower block) vs ‘I live in an apartment’ (new build, pricier flat)

No, if someone in the UK says they live in an apartment, we just think they're being pretentious! He says he associates apartments with being new, high-end and luxurious because developers these days build new blocks of flats but call them apartments because they think it sounds "cool", and "cool" sells, especially to the pretentious! You do have terraced houses in the US, but I think you call them row houses? I've seen plenty in the likes of New York, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, etc. But yes, they tend to be in inner cities where space is at a premium.

Terraced houses are very common throughout the UK. I grew up in South Wales in a cottage, moved to semi-detached house 3 floors, then to a 2 bed end terraced house, then to a bungalow (single storey). I moved to council property a 2 bed terraced house, then 3 bed semi detached and finally I'm in a terraced home I now own x

Just to confused you even more, they didn't mention bungalows which are properties with only 1 level, a bit like the picture you showed except most UK properties are built out of brick. I live in a garden flat. Literally a flat with it's own private garden which I count myself very lucky to have. My flat was built in 2004 and is in a small block of 4 flats that looks like a house from the outside not anything like the tower blocks that they showed and there are more than a few like mine in the area that I live in.

Also have Bungalows, Coach Houses, Stately Homes, Cottages and Castles as other forms of accommodation.

Britain has terrace house, detached houses, semi detached houses (2 houses attached together), bungalows, dormer bungalow’s, Victorian houses, Tudor houses, wooden houses, pebble dash houses, rendered houses, brick houses, stone houses, churches/water towers/barns/mills etc. converted into houses & much more. It all depends where you go in the uk. We have a real eclectic mix because our country is so much older than America so we have so many different types of houses.

Lots of ‘terraced’ properties in the USA. Mostly Victorian era, in New York and on the east coast, and way larger than in Britain. They are often known as ‘Brownstone’ or ‘Greystone’ terrace houses: built of brick, but faced with stone cladding.

The term 'maisonette' comes from the French word 'maison' meaning house and the 'ette' ending, also ultimately Old French, used to form nouns meaning a smaller form of something. Think cigar and cigarette. Thus maisonette means small house. A maisonette is like a flat, but whereas a flat often only consists of one floor, a maisonette usually covers two. The big factor that makes a property a maisonette is direct, and private, access inside and outside the building. I'm a little surprised they didn't mention bedsits and studio flats.

Another name for the bigger, more expensive terraced housing is a "townhouse" and that may be used more in some parts of the world.

Let's boil it down (after having eliminated insignificant differences): The size of an average American house is approx. twice the size of an average British house.

*Europe industrialised before the US or Australia so people lived in cities where they had to live near their factories or places of work.* Without cars, that meant a walkable distance away. Cities were very densely populated but people still wanted houses rather than flat

Terraced houses are extremely common in the UK. Much UK housing is old, dating from early 1800s to early 1900s - the inner areas of most cities and big towns have terraced houses. Some are very expensive and some are very working class. Semi-detached houses became extremely common from the 1930s as car use increased and the suburbs expanded. Semis were a cost-effective and space-saving way to provide huge numbers of homes during the inter-war boom and the baby boom after WW2. Detached houses are more common in rural areas and in wealthier suburban areas - both modern and older.

Terraced houses are common in the UK & are considered well built, mine was built 1910.

A council estate is basically an area which was specifically developed for lots of council properties which can be just council flats or even maisonettes - the oldest examples looked very nice when most were built during the 60's but as time when on, they can be rather grim and have antisocial issues to the point some have been completely redeveloped in more recent times - I've lived on two council estates throughout my 34 years of existing and they're interesting for all sorts of reasons both for what was there before they came along and whats happened since

I live in a town about an hour from London and I live in a terraced house. They are common in places other than cities. Another difference between U.K. and US houses is that ours are usually brick built due to our climate.

They missed bungalows. These are one storey houses that are either attached on one side or detached. Bungalows normally have decent sized gardens too. Bungalows I believe came to the UK via India where they are very common.

The other terraced house life-hack is to get a middle terrace (i.e. not the end house), because then you've only got two outside walls, so your heating bills are cheaper. There is another type of terrace too, called a back-to-back, which is just two rows of terraced houses that are connected to one another at the back, so a middle terrace would only have one outside wall (the front). Most back-to-backs are very small, so-called "two-up-two-down" houses because they have two rooms upstairs and two rooms downstairs; two-up-two-downs are also common single row terraces in some parts of Britain.

Terraced houses share 2 walls with neighbours. There is an older thing called back-to-backs, where you share 3 walls; with no back gardens.

This couple are obviously from a more " well to do " background ! Detached houses are at the upper end of the housing market. Terraced and semis are the norm. The examples they show in the video are from the more expensive and newer areas. The terraced or semi in a council estate area will be far less " fancy" ! Some house are split into flats for sale or rent. In London one of these flats can cost more than a whole house in the rest of the country. A " council estate" is an area of housing where people rent from the council/local authority. You have to join a waiting list to get one. They are far cheaper to rent than private rentals. Believe me, a council estate is FAR from " fancy" in some areas ! They can be very run down and the people living there are usually feral ! I think the "projects" in America are akin to some council estates in the UK.

Just to confuse you more, there is also the linked terrace. That is a row of semi attached houses and linked by the garages. So a shared wall on one side (like a semi attached) and attached to the garage on the other side attached to the next garage. So no outside access from the front garden to the back garden.

Oh, the inside of some of the huge houses built in pre-Victorian and Victorian England are absolutely magnificent - with their original fittings, if `fittings` it is.

Detached houses are the most expensive variety simply because they're in their own grounds and are, therefore, the most private houses there are. Semi-detached are, as the name suggests, only half-detached with one side joined to another house. They're a mirror opposite of their other, 'half', so to speak with only a wall at the front and back separating the grounds they're in. These are moderate to expensive, depending on the area they're built in. Usually the quieter suburbs. Terraces housing is quite literally a block of houses, usually of 10 or more which a-join the one next to it, with only the 2 end houses not sharing 2 walls with the neighbours either side. They only have grounds in front and at the back of the houses, each separated by a wall. Although, some don't even have any front ground with the front door going straight out onto the street. Unsurprisingly, these are at the lower end of the cost scale. There are bungalows, which are small homes, often detached or semi-detached with only a ground level. (There's no, 'upstairs'), so the bedrooms are downstairs. Generally, these are smaller than semi-detached houses and often cater to older people due to no need for stairs. Council owned buildings tend to get a bad rap, but it's only because they're synonymous with the rough areas where there's more crime and social degradation. The buildings tend to have poor maintenance and aren't what you'd call comfortable. They're basically for those who can't afford anything else.

British houses are pretty similar to American houses, but in our old and ancient towns and villages, they are mainly built as terraces, and have been there for a couple of hundred years at least. It saves space !

Terraced house = row house Detached house on its own plot of land Semi detached, two co joined house Flat = sub division of any of the above, or part of a purpose built block Apartment = generally a higher end flat Masionett = a flat/apartment over two or more floors Bungalow, single floor house

In older cities like Edinburgh, London and Manchester Terrace houses are by far the most common type of housing.

I live in Leeds, and if you go out from the city centre to where I live (basically the furthest out you can go and still be in a town) you first get lots of flats, then long rows of terraces (usually over 20 houses), then some semi-detached and shorter terraces (3-6 houses), with detached houses being rare and only really bungalows, new builds or posh houses.

Semi detached houses are very common in the uk so are terraced houses.

Older type terraced housing was often built before the car was invented so no need to accommodate driveways or parking areas. As a result these places have become quite crowded. My house was built before electricity was a thing. Lights in rooms were lit using gas. Heating was an open fireplace. Toilets were out in the yard not indoors. The only running water was in the kitchen. These houses were built so well that they have needed to be adapted to modern life.

Houses in European countries, each have a very, very, distinct style of building. When you get used to it, you can actually tell which country you're in, just by the building style (if you had forgotten where you are). Of-course, this rule is not applicable to modern apartment blocks. The national caracteristics of building style are really quite pronounced.

We bought an ex council, terraced house , (social housing) great value for money. Big garden and a garage on the side. There are only three in my terrace it is a 70's built property and in a little remote village. A flat is usually a single floored apartment. A maisonette is a two story apartment. A terraced house makes a great starter home for those struggling to get on the housing market. There aren't enough being built. There is a huge price hike for a detached place. If you live in your council house for years and pay your rent, you can quite often buy it at a discount. It isn't a perfect system because the council don't spend the money back into social housing. A lot of councils have passed their housing stock to housing associations and I'm not sure how good they all are.

I've lived in fancy detached home with a pool, semi- detached & end terraced! I've noticed that detached there is less of a social community. Keeping private! The closer you are the better the community spirit & interaction. Looking out for each other, knowing neighbours names along the whole terrace! Keeping an eye on each others kids, looking after the elderly residents. Its a whole different culture.

A maisonette (I was born in one) can be one or two floors. What makes a maisonette is that it has its own entrance in a shared building rather than a flat which has a common entrance with other flats. Maisonettes can be owned or rented.

They didn't mention bungalows. I grew up in a two bedroom bungalow with a very big garden. My mum and dad moved in there when they got married, then I was born after a few years. When my brother was born he slept in the same bedroom as mum and dad right up until I was 20 and left home to get married. It was only then at the age of 18 did my brother have a bedroom of his own. Looking back on it, that was not good at all but my parents couldn't afford to move until later on.

Semi detached is common in english villages where once big farmhouses were made into two or more houses. A converted pub or building could well be semi-detached also as an example. I've lived in villages most of my life, and most were semi-detached because it was cheaper, and still in a nice area. As prices increased it became very lucrative to split once big houses into many smaller ones. Garages for example being split into two between two houses would mean semi-detached, and is probably the best sort as no noise other than into the garage travels through the walls. The downside is you can't convert the garage in that scenario, at least we couldn't.

19:55 They didn't mention the price differences.. Back in the 90s I lived in an undesirable semi worth about £60,000. The same year, I viewed a house across the pond that was just like the one pictured (but I think a bit bigger) for the same price. Also I remember someone telling me that in America only posh people live in houses made of bricks? That blew my mind.

Semi detached houses are indeed very common. They were very commonly built after the second World War. Terraced houses are also very common especially on older areas. Getting the end of terrace is not always great as, due to bomb damage the whole terrace may start to lean with the whole weight on the end house.😮

When I lived in New Hampshire, I lived in a semi-detached house ..the locals called it a "duplex" . Terraced houses are extremely common in the UK. Many were built during the industrial revolution to house workers in the 19th century.

The council/social housing worked really well for decades. Unfortunately the tories decided to implement 'the right to buy' which gave council tenants the right to buy the house they lived in, but didn't take the money from the sales to build new houses. Council houses are now in very short supply, especially in London where they've sold entire apartment blocks off to developers who only give back a few flats for social rent. Scotland no longer has 'right to buy'. You many know terraced houses as 'row houses' - very typical of Industrial cities & towns here in the UK.

Terraced housing is everywhere in uk, its very common. American houses are at least twice the size of uk houses so large houses like that are usually detached or semi-detached. Yes flat is apartment. Most are one level, small rooms but a maisonette is an apartment with 2 floors

In Britain most of the houses are terraced. To give you an idea around 70% of houses are terraced houses around 20% are semi detached houses and 10% are detached houses (percentages are just a guess). A flat is just that. It is on all one floor but a floor of a property can be split into multiple flats. A maisonette is like a flat but covers multiple floors in a property. A council house/flat like is said in the video are government owned and are low end of the property range. And are slightly cheaper and are poorer quality than most private properties(other than properties rented out by rouge landlords).

I've moved around a lot, my parents moved from London to Hove when I was five and since then they've lived only in detached Houses, I think in London we had a semi-detached House. I moved around a lot until about 20 years ago, At university after I moved out of Halls I lived in firstly a Terraces house and for my Master's degree in a semi-detached house. When I first moved back to London I firstly lived with my grandmother in her maisonette. After that I lived in a terraced house with and then a semi-detached house. Since then I've only lived in flats until I moved into Sheltered accommodation (where I still have a self-contained flat. My sister lives nearby in a semi-detached house. You're quite right about space. The UK is the 50th most densely populated country or dependency on earth, the USA is 185th (out of 248). Some inner London Terraces are very desirable and will cost far more than a detached or semi-detached house in the suburbs.

In the US Terraced houses are usually called ROW HOUSES. These homes are far cheaper to build as they have shared walls and sit on less land than semi or detached homes. In the UK we have very few wooden homes- our homes are built from stone brick or concrete. Trailer home parks are just not a thing here either.

...and there is more, my first place to live was a Bedsit, this was one room in an old house with my bed, kitchen area and living area all in the same room. The bathroom was outside my 'bedsit' and shared with others. Then there are studio flats which are all one room again but include a small bathroom.

Council houses/flats were actually owned by the council, but they are now replaced by management companies. This is Social Housing where poorer people may be able to rent their own home. Detached - house on it's own Semidetached - two houses joined together Terraced - several houses joined together. Flat - apartment . Maisonette - flat with two floors on top of a flat or another maisonette Apartment - very posh flat. Hope this makes sense for you, Tyler.

As someone in the UK (Scotland) I had heard all of these terms apart from the idea of an apartment in the UK being a fancy flat, but that might just be because I don't hang out in the circles where that would be used.

Tyler, there is another type of housing which the video failed to mention, which is called a back to back terraced house. This type of house is similar to a terrace house except that each house has shared walls on three sides as the rear wall of a front house is also the rear wall of the house behind, at the same time the two houses ( front and back) share walls on each side of a property in a mirror image and the next set of 4 houses are also similarly attached to following group of 4 . In order to provide access to the back houses a tunnel large enough to allow a small vehicle to pass through into a small enclosed yard although not many people use the tunnel to take a vehicle into the yard area, preferring to use the back areas either for gardening space or as an area in which to hang laundry out to air dry and freshen or to allow the younger children to play in safety. Many of these types of house pre-date indoor plumbing and have small brick or stone sheds at the far end of these yards to accommodate a toilet although most homes have being retrofitted with indoor plumbing and the exterior sheds are used to store items such as garden tools or bicycle storage. I’m just old enough to recall having to go by torchlight to use the toilet before going to bed until our plumbing was moved indoors, in our case after reducing the size of our back bedroom of our terrace home.

For those unaware Terraced houses are townhouses or row-houses that are physically attached to one another. These are the most common type of home in Britain Detached houses are single family dwellings that occupy their own freestanding buildings. Only one dwelling unit per building (with the possible exception of an accessory dwelling unit\guest suite) Semi-detached houses are basically side-by-side duplexes A council estate is a public housing development

Terraced homes are common within every city and town, semi-detached homes are common in the suburbs. Flats are common in council estates (areas of welfare housing for the unemployed and low income). Apartments are built by developers and are privately owned.

I lived for years in a terraced house in Spain. They are so common both old- and new-build, urban and rural. If you only ever go to Benidorm, then maybe you won't see any from the beach bar. As for the UK, you would have to have never watched any film or TV from the UK not to have seen either semis or terraces at some point. Space/materials/cost is an issue but also heating is very important, and yes, they were built according to the British class system, ie. poor people live in lower quality and must aspire to climb one step of the ladder. I live in a small, rented, rural, terraced, 18th century cottage in Dorset - built for the estate workers, so nothing special - and benefit from not having either side open to the elements - it's bad enough having two exposed walls in winter. Then again, we have a decent-sized garden and the views are worth the odd shiver. There is a lot of snobbery about housing in the UK, especially England. Unfortunately, council housing was chuffed by a witch in the 80s. The waiting list for council/housing association housing in the UK can be decades long these days. And yes, they didn't use a single word that isn't familiar to anybody in Britain, except perhaps maisonette. They are more common in some areas than others.

A council house is run by the local authority, they are not free as rent is paid! Rent in London and other large cities is high and council housing is slightly lower than renting privately. Those who rent from local authorities or private landlords usually are not able to buy a property with a mortgage! A flat is a single story apartment and can be in a purpose built block or an individual house A maisonette is a flat with two floors and is usually in a large house. A terraced house is attached on both sides A semi detached is attached on one side A detached is a stand alone house with nothing attached to it. An apartment is the same as a flat although tends to be open plan with kitchen, lounge and dining room in one space, bedrooms and bathroom in separate rooms and can also be called a studio flat.

Terraced houses in London can be very large and grand. The beautiful 'Nash' terraces in Regent's Park, London, designed by the famous architect John Nash who also designed Buckingham Palace are very imposing and large properties. They cost around £20 million and sometimes much more!

Semi-detached houses are reasonably common in Germany, Switzerland and Austria as well. One key downside is that you lose windows on side of the building, which of course means two sides with terraced houses, which makes them darker inside.

Some stats for you Tyler. Semi detached houses are the most common, 32% of households are in those. 23% each are detached house or terraced houses, with 22% in Flats or Maisonettes (Maisonettes being apartments with more than one floor). So less than a quarter of us live in what you would just think of as a house. I live in an end terrace built as a row of 13 houses by a local cotton mill owner for his workers in 1800. I don't live in a city, it is a former mill town with a population of 10,000, the older housing here is of a similar type, almost all the other types were in the town were built in the last hundred years.

Flats tend to be taller blocks, usually at least in blocks 12 to 15 floors high with multiple blocks and apartments tend to be private owned, with parking underneath and not more than 10 floors. They are usually newer more glass and have balconys. maisonettes are usually two stories but are in blocks of 4 and each one is a separate flat. They always have a separate door. I large building, 2 flats on 1st floor 2 flats on ground floor with 4 doors!

Hi . Have a look at your historic houses in USA. A lot are joined together as in Charleston SC. These were built about the same time as many of our Georgian or Victorian homes in and around many UK cities, but also found rurally in villages. Presumably it has always been cost effective to build a block of housing and divide it into several homes. Land here is expensive and tightly controlled to avoid loss of ‘green belt’ so this practice continues in uk.

A semi is called a duplex in the States, many cities have terraced houses (townhouses, brownstone) The more dense the population the more compact the housing, in many parts of the world stand alone buildings are very rare and high-rise is quite normal. The biggest difference in most noticeable out in the countryside where you will find properties built before the Americas were 'discovered' by Europeans. Stone built and even Cob (mud and straw) with stone, slate or thatched roofs. We tend to adapt and add to older houses and we prefer the solid craftsmen built over new even though modern buildings are built for thermal efficiency.

I live in street with terraced houses (in blocks of 4, rather that a continuous row). The next road are all semi-detached houses. The maisonette near me are "semi-detached" house split into two dwellings, by floor with external stair case to access dwelling at 1st floor. Council houses and apartments are owned by councils not the government. To me flats and apartments are basically the same, but apartment is a "more" up-market name for them. You can find detached, semi detached and terraced houses across whole of UK.

Incredibly expensive Terraced housing can be found in the city of Bath (see The Royal Crescent, Bath) and also in Belgravia and Mayfair in London.

Remember Tyler, most British Housing, although often smaller, are built of more substantial materials than the majority of American properties. Therefore, less problems with insulation, noise and upkeep. As an example, there are thousands upon thousands of suburban semi-detached houses built for the new middle and upper working classes in the 1920's and 1930's. Most of these are still highly desireable, depending on the location?

I live in a terraced house in Manchester, they’re much more common in the bigger industrial urban areas than rural areas. My terraced house is actually bigger inside than some friends semi-detached houses, and has much taller ceilings being built in the 1890s. 2 up 2 down terraced houses were built for factory workers / miners, bigger terraced houses tend to be more like “townhouses” with much more space, dining rooms etc.

Most of my town is terraced houses. It's a Victorian Railway town. Didn't exist until until 1830 when a railway company decided to have a factory there, the railway company built the whole town. Shops, schools, churches and all the houses for the workers they would be bringing in. Almost all the houses are terraced. No front yard, you step out of the front door straight onto the pavement (sidewalk) and just a tiny back yard, approx 5yds by 10 yds. A lot were built as "two up two down" houses. Lounge and kitchen downstairs, two bedrooms upstairs, no bathroom inside. Your toilet was in the yard in a separate small building, you washed in a "tin bath" that you usually used in the lounge in front of the fire then put away afterwards. Almost all have now been converted to have an inside bathroom. There are a lot of factory towns in the UK My house was built way before electricity was a thing. When I was recently doing some work on my house I removed about 100yds of lead piping from the floors/ceilings that used to supply the gas powered lights

In America, council flats are often called projects. Or the projects. And a semi detached is know as a condo. But condos can also be four in one flats. 2 up and 2 down or even just a flat that is rented.

Newer terraces can be very fine. Worthing has some stately 1920s terrace houses. London has terraced Town Houses, with servants' rooms.

" council estates sound fancy!" Hahahaha....

In Sweden it's fairly common with attached houses in the suburbs, we call them radhus (row houses), or kedjehus (chain houses) where the garage is attached to your house on one side and to the neighbor's house on the other

Terrace houses come in a variety of sizes so some of them are very small, 2 rooms upstairs, 2 rooms downstairs, outside toilet, opening directly onto the street with only a small rear concrete yard. There would be several narrow streets built like this for the lower paid workers who would rent their home. These were built beginning of 20th century and proliferate in northern England cities where all the factories would be surrounded by clusters of these homes.

I live in a "4-in-a-block" also called "cottage flats", a type of house popular in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the North of England. These are one-level bungalow/cottage houses arranged as two below, and two above seperated by a shared wall like a semi-detached house. These were designed as four seperate houses and each house has its own door. The bottom two houses have front and back doors, the upper flats have a side door leading up to their house There is a large communal rear lawn seperated into 4 equal plots - one for each house. The bottom houses have a private front lawn, and the upper houses have a private side lawn.

The issue with council homes is that in the 1980's Margaret Thatcher gave long time tenants of council property the right to buy at great prices so many did. Since then local governments haven't replaced these so in some areas including my area of outer London there's huge waiting lists and a very strict policy of who gets offered something. Even then Harrow usually offer a council property 100 miles away in places that have spare capacity but where often vulnerable people have no infrastructure. Maybe an idea for another video is developers have to offer x amount of 'affordable' housing in new apartment blocks or agree a payment to the local council as a forfeit for not doing so. Funny enough that's what most developers do especially in London where a cupboard sized studio apartment can be sold for £100k's! The councils don't use the money to build council homes but sconder it usually!

Yes hes spot on! When travel was very limited they use to build houses close to the work place for the workers

British houses are generally built with fences front, sides and backs for our gardens (yards), where it seems in America they all seem to be 'open plan' with no defining fences, which can cause a lot of trouble with neighbours if you happen to 'trespass' a couple in inches into their yards by mistake or something, front side and backs because of no defining property lines between them. Oh and the girl is very pretty, and seems to have a nice personality too....

I was brought up in a 1950s semi-detached in a small mining village where 90% of the houses were terraced. After I got married I moved to a bigger town to a Victorian terrace. That was massive inside though it looked small outside. Now I live in a borough (large town, not quite city) in another Victorian terrace, again, deceptively large. And yes I do know all these terms.

Our first house when we got married in 1971 was a new-build linked 2-bedroom bungalow in a short line (about 10 bungalows), the links being wide, open -fronted car ports in lieu of garages. They had decent-sized gardens behind. Most of the development was a mixture of 3 and 4 bedroom detached houses. All very 70s in style.

I live in a ground floor flat. it's fairly spacious and I have my own front door and back door with an easily accessible garden. it's a council property. the two flats above me (low-rise) are privately owned. the advantage of council over owned is, if any repairs need to be made, the landlord (the council) will get that work done - it costs you nothing. I'm currently suffering at the hands of the numpty upstairs because his landlady (the woman that owns it) doesn't live in the area and tends not to be quick to fix things and now I need a new bathroom ceiling and other work done because of mould caused by leaks upstairs. to make things more complicated, the wiring for the lighting needs to be done too. I'm disabled and if I were to undertake any of the work that needed doing, I'd end up sicker than I already am. believe me, this feels like the house that Jack built 😛 but the council are fixing things. all I have to do is make space for the influx of workmen. meanwhile, the owner of the property upstairs is going to be sued for the damage done to council property - and for throwing stuff off the balcony which they shouldn't be doing. it's fun living here. got a druggie on the top floor in one of the bedsits and people shout up to him morning, noon and night, so I've nicknamed him Rapunzel. 🤣 low-rise flats aren't as popular, but they should be. I get more entertainment here than I would anywhere else. including a random death in Rapunzels bedsit on Christmas day three years ago. that was a fun morning. trying to prep Christmas dinner and the whole block is swarming with police of every acronym! and it would have to be the year where I invited a friend for Christms dinner too! she arrived just as they were taking the body out. PPE *everywhere*. and I have a 'ranty shouty sweary neighbour'. I know the football team he supports and the times of the remaining matches this season. I record him because he's so loud. and I've turned it into song. if you go to soundcloud and look up 'the ranty shouty sweary neighbour song' (look for the little green alien profile pic), you'll find it. contains a ton of profanity - if you're sensitive to that amount of swearing, don't go there!! working on a follow-up song, but it takes ages to edit through several hours of audio at a time. you have to have a pretty thick skin to put up with the stuff that goes on here, but, I've lived here 24 years exactly today. it's not perfect, but damnit it's been a crazy 24 years of a heckuva lot happening. yes, our housing is complicated to the uninitiated, but we understand it and have learnt to live with it. in fact some of us don't care where we live as long as there are four walls👍

Old houses built for wealthy Londoners in the past are terrace houses but huge. They are mostly turned into flats or marionette now that few people have servants. I grew up in a 16 room semi detached house built in Victorian times. My bedroom was 30 feet square as it was in the attic and used to be a bedroom for all the maids. It was a cold house. Coal was cheap in Queen Vic's days but not by the 1960s. A council estate is a housing project.

As well as "space", it also a question of "age" and "status", as far as housing in much of the uk is concerned. There is still a lot of old housing stock in use. Some several hundred years old. From small individual cottages in rural villages, all the way through to large mansions in their own estates with acres of parkland. Of the mansions, both in towns (including London) and in rural areas, many have now been taken over by institutions, become Hotels, or converted into luxury apartments. Much of the housing was built before cars, or even mechanised public transport. We're talking horse & cart, mail coaches, stage coaches, individual horses (for the more affluent), or the default... walking. History played its part. The agricultural and industrial revolutions of the 18th and 19th centurys saw large increases in population. In 1700 estimates of 5 million. In 1801 about 9 million. In 1901 about 41 million. Towns and cities expanded exponentially. Industries needed workers. They built plentiful, cheap housing, either free/tied or low rent, to recruit previously mainly rural labour.

Yes we are I live in a terrace house and it's a council house that means you pay your rent to the local authority, they are not big houses but they do the job, most place that people live are in one or another of the categories that the two of them have mentioned we are a small country and want to keep the lovely countryside we have.❤

Some council estates are like the projects.... and some arent. I live in a council flat its lovely

Oh we also have Tenements in Scotland "Two or more related but separate flats divided from each other horizontally" They are a very specific style you don't see in many other places outside of Scotland cities / large towns. Also something called "non-traditional construction" which means corrugated iron, usually in the north / west coast of Scotland :D

Just to make it clear, those terraced houses could be between 12 and 20 million pounds if they had the right address attached to them. Say Notting Hill, Knightsbridge, Hampstead, Kensington, Chelsea and basically Westminster as a whole will set you back a minimum of 6 million pound and up. So the look might look poor to some, but its definitely not.

When I lived with my parents, ( many years ago), we not only had a toilet across the garden, our kitchen was also across the garden, I think it was a bit unusual, walking across the garden with our dinner was a bit iffy, especially in the winter.

Council= local government so council housing = social housing. I, personally, have never lived in a detached house despite living in some very nice places. Terraced houses were built for high-end buyers in the 18th & 19th century as well as for low-end. Semi-detached were built (mostly) from the Victorian period and became commonly built in the 1920s &30s due to mass transport making suburbs possible for mid-level workers (bank managers, doctors etc.) Tyler should look up the history of Saltair - it would show a lot of history of housing.

Surely housing styles vary widely across USA just like UK? Surely Spain has townhouses that are like terraces?

0:52 - ‘in America, this is a house’ - in Britain, that is a bungalow - it only has a ground floor, no stairs because there are no other storeys to it.

My house is around 120 years old. Victorian terraced, 2 bed. I love it.

Everyone knows all the terms for types of houses .The use of apartment " hints" as it's an American name that it's modern and posh ,usually in a newly built development of conversion. Most houses are terraced or semi's and smaller than the average US. house . We are a small Island with 60million people but value our environment and heritage so there are planning procedures which try to ensure developments have infrastructure and are built in the right place .

Council housing is also known as social housing when it is owned by a private company. You might know it as subsidised housing.

I had a council flat in London. There's now a 10 year wait in that particular London Borough! I'm now in a Victorian terrace in a seaside town. It was built as 2 rooms upstairs and 2 rooms downstairs but has been extended. Some terrace hoses still have the outside toilets in place though do have modern facilities inside now.

I live on the East Coast. 3 floor end terrace. The rest of the terrace is 2 floors. Historically, these were the homes of fishermen. The 3 floor/story was for the captain, so, they could look over the harbour looking for the boats returning home! Unfortunately, so many of these homes are split into room rents, with shared kitchen, bathroom & living room.

Flat (appartment) Appartment (Posher flat) Maisonette (Duplex) terrace (multi houses joined together) semi detached (two houses joined together) detached (stand alone house) Mews House (Converted stabling normally in London in a terrace style)

Typically smaller with a front and back garden terraced housing is very common some have a garage at the rear ,there are semi detached as in two together ,then detached houses there are .many terraced houses in Spain in land in Spain .terraced is I.believe what is known as a town house in USA .we have maisonettes which are a house in two parts upper and lower seperate homes .and houses split into flats .blocks of flats (apartments)

I live in Liverpool which is a city , we have council houses which can be 2-3 beds or more . They also have gardens front and back. A lot of ppl have also purchased their homes from the Government also . These homes are rather spacious and we’re built after WW2 in the 40’s and 50’s these houses are usually attached or semi detached and are far lager than there “down south “ counterparts. But yes we all know the differences between the types of properties and what there called . Although I can’t ever remember anyone telling me 😊. I really love watching your videos I find you very endearing and love to see your reactions and I love that you love to learn ☺️

Most people in the UK either live in a terraced house or a semi detached house. This is for several reasons. Not only does the UK not have enough land for it's population to all have a detached house, but house prices are so high here that a terraced house or a semi detached house is all they can afford to buy. Then add into it the fact much UK housing is so old, such as the terraced houses in my northern industrial town pre dates mass ownership of the car. An example is the terraced house I called my first home after leaving my parents house. My first own home was a mid terrace that was around 120 years old. It had an old fireplace in every room including the bedrooms as it's construction pre dated modern heating systems. It did have a combi boiler heating system when I lived in it but that was obviously a later addition many decades after the house's original construction was completed. The internal walls upstairs had been changed, altering the floorplan so that the bedrooms were made a bit smaller in order to create a small bathroom and an inside toilet cubicle as originally the toilet would have been in the outhouse down the back of the garden and there originally wouldn't have been a fitted bathroom at all. (Originally a bath would most often have been taken in a tin bath infront of the fire in the living room). Things like tiny inside toilets, kerbside parking only, bricked up old fireplaces are just a few examples of how we often, in the UK have to compromise between modern living and coping with old architecture that has had to be adapted as time and technology moves forward. Even many semi detached houses where I now live that were built in the mid 50s don't have their own driveway to park a car in. Don't forget in the US an old house would probably be classed as 20 or 30 years old so even those will contain many modern technologies from their construction whereas here in the UK so many houses are 70, 80, 100 years old. There's a house local to me that was built in the 15th century so imagine the updating the family that lives in it have had to make over the years.

Yes, I’d say we all know all these terms. Plus terraced houses are across all of the UK and are definitely not just for working class anymore!!!

End terrace are usually larger than the rest of the properties on the block but requires more maintenance. And it’s generally cold because the side wall is exposed to the weather. Leasehold is a con, because technically you don’t really own the property outright

Terrace are more common, but semi detached is a close second. I live in a 1940s semi detached house in Wales. All the housing terms are well known by everyone here. Never heard of a free council property, you still have to pay rent, whether you're in a flat, terrace, etc. People on benefits don't get it free, where did they get that idea from, of course it would be a lot cheaper than a private landlord, but certainly never free.

In my village a row of semi-detached houses were build for managers on one side of the village green. On another side there is a terrace with the houses having a small front garden for the senior workers, and on the other side is a terrace with no front garden for ordinary workers. These were built by the factory owners in Victorian times. Another terrace with larger gardens extends away from them. On the main road that runs near the village are a lot of 1930s/30s semi-detached houses on one side. More modern development has added s few detached houses and more semi-detached houses (including a lot of bungalows. The old school was replaced in the 1970s and demolished because it became unsafe. It is in a conservation zone so it was replaced by a short terrace using recycled stone and slate from the school on the same footprint in the 80s. I own one of the end terraces. The is a modern estate of mainly terraced houses on the other side of the main road, That is social housing owned by a housing association.

Council flats/public housing is the reason the UK (and every other developed nation) doesn’t have the homeless problem that the US does, but many Americans see that as socialism. And because Americans equate socialism with communism, it’s completely off the table. You can tell a lot about the nature of a country by the way it treats its most vulnerable citizens.

I think the biggest comparison is that UK houses are usually built from brick making them much more sturdy and longer lasting. Whereas in the US, they are built from wood making them much less likely to be able to withstand any kind of adverse weather. I think it also means that we get much better value for money since it’s less likely we’ll have to do any kind of repairs. Yes in the US your houses are bigger but it seems like you regularly have to replace the roof or even have to rebuild completely if you let’s say have a hurricane. Chances are that if for some freak reason we had a hurricane, most likely our roof might get damaged, we’d lose the trampoline and the wheelie bin might get knocked over.