23 DIFFERENCES between AMERICAN HOUSES and ITALIAN HOUSES
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- 23 differences between American houses and Italian houses // I'll take you into the houses of Americans and Italians to show you how different can be some of the things that we use every day and give for granted.
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In Italy we don't need fire escape because our houses are made of concrete, not wood :D
Exacty....!!!! Move over🤫...!!! Maybe whith a bidet!!!... .NOW can wash youself...(.. and all the american,too...!!! Bye..👋🇮🇹
And maybe America... if you will build your houses like us, perhaps you won’t loose ALOT of money to rebuild them whenever a tornado or a flood hits your states ;P
Why you spend a loot of money...( 400.000.00$) for an house..probably..fly away...simply.🤔..!!! You brain ...is..blowin in the wind...my dear...!!! Whith fire escape...!!! And julia Robert....too😂😂😂..exluse..bidet...you havent...oops..!!!
yes they are concrete but I can tell you that as a material it is not the best. better wood

@@ss-wj6hs uhm... wood is cheaper yes but... it ages faster and has higher maintenance and repair costs. Wood deteriorates quickly, especially if it is not maintained regularly, concrete has a lifespan of two to three times more than that of most other building materials.
Also concrete absorbs and retains heat increases efficiency in buildings and cuts heating/cooling bills. Wood don’t do that. So I guess that concrete,scientifically and physically, it’s way better than wood.
Il bidet patrimonio dell'umanità.
Veramente 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Infatti non mi pare che ci sia alcun commento di americani che lo nominano. Per non parlare dei loro water che pieni a tre quarti, incutono timore...
@@miocuggino eheheh, provati. Succede esattamente quello che pensi, specie per noi maschietti. Uno schifo indicibile.
@@nomoreexcuses1594 Hahaha, scusa, ma io facevo una spessa "zattera" di carta igienica e stavo a cavallo del water, è stato un inferno... Mi son sempre chiesto come facciano soprattutto gli afro che hanno degli attributi consistenti, boh.
@@miocuggino Nulla, si fanno il bidet nel fogname. Aahahahah. Pure a Londra uno schifo, a mia domanda a coinquilino australiano su come facesse per lavarsi dopo: "Mi faccio la doccia al mattino". Ok, e nel resto della giornata? E se ti scappa dopo aver fatto la doccia? Non ti dico per le donne poi durante il periodo. Ahahahah, buon pranzo e complimenti per il nick.
5. The actual major difference: bricks and concrete, not wood and cardboard built houses.
Ahah yeah I guess! I didn't include it just because I know literally zero about carpentry and I don't want to tell bullshit on the channel, but that's my impression 100%
@@WhatashameMaryJane Of course this do not apply to NY condos. But a large part of Americans live far from urban areas. 175 million live in the suburbs and 46 million in rural areas. The way they built their houses in these large areas of their country is very questionable.
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Ok but building houses from wood, wood chips, cardboard, and plastic is cheaper and allows more mcmansions to be popped up when we have a housing crunch. As long as zoning is permitted you can much more easily build a tract of 350 new woodchip and plastic homes then concrete and bricks.
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se They are not cheaper in the long term. At all. As you can see here these houses get old very quick, and must be renovated often: ua-cam.com/video/wpxLLCdW_Gc/v-deo.html
As crestons wife it's the modern houses that are built cheaply and I've heard can catch on fire easily. I was surprised they could catch on fire easily but the local news showed how it can. I prefer older homes. The newer homes are cheaply made I don't trust them. I would prefer an older home any day. I've heard in new Zealand australia their new homes are not good either. And over priced and new homes are too big in America and canada and australia too I've heard. I prefer a smaller older home in America I don't understand why modern Americans wait a walk in closet how shoes purses clothes does one person need to be content it's ridiculous. I think it's because they are obsessed with celebrities who have way too much stuff. It's a bit self centered. The older Americans or ones who were raised like by older generation of americans don't want to live like that.
They used to hang their clothes on clotheslines for those that didn't have a dryer (machine). Cities started banning the practice of using clotheslines which forced everyone to get dryers. In California they started allowing this again after protests. Why did they ban them for so long? They said it made the neighborhoods look too ghetto. When I was a kid in the 70s about every seven houses had clotheslines and I was in a blue collar/white collar mixed neighborhood.
You can hang the clothes in the basement or in the laundry room
My thoughts as a french person is that Italy is exactly like France, except there isn't always a bidet in the bathroom. Like, my family and I had a bidet in our previous appartment but not in the one we're living in now (and we have wood floors, but it's not super common), so it depends. Appart from that, every singe thing you listed is exactly the same as in Italy, but i guess that's logical since our countries are super close. Thanks to you now I know how different we are from Americans.
I think France is more similar to Italy than Germany then, because not many of the things listed are true for German houses (it's the only country I lived in Europe outside of Italy).
@@WhatashameMaryJane oh! That's interesting! I've never been to Germany but it's strange that Germany and France are not similar but Italy and France are, eventhough Germany and France are next to each other too.
But now I'm thinking maybe it's regional. Because I live in the south east of France (Marseille), 2hours from the Italian border, so maybe that's why we're similar.
I've never been to the north of France close to the German border so maybe life there is more similar to Germany🤷♀️.
But I don't know because i have family in Paris and they live like me and you too so I think maybe it's just that France is closer in culture to Italy than Germany
@@Cloudipy That could definitely be. I made a vlog in a town in Alsace last year where me and my host talked a little bit about these cultural aspects. the town was at the three borders and the French part was definitely more "Italian" looking than the German.
I might as well link you the vlog, there you go ua-cam.com/video/7JwBuhmPofY/v-deo.html
@@WhatashameMaryJane thank you so much, I'll watch it!
@@Cloudipy You're welcome! It's a long one, but the part where we went to the three borders is in the middle if I remember right, you can skip to where you see us talking with the Rhein in the background and biking around.
E quella grande invenzione che sono le tapparelle avvolgibili
Sinceramente sono antiestetiche meglio il vetro opaco mantiene l ambiente bello e luminoso ma impedisce ad occhi indiscreti di vedere . Peccato che in Italia portino tutti per le tapparelle in plastica
Perchè, le veneziane no ?
@@x-fil sono brutte
Tutti abbiamo aspettato con ansia il "momento del : no bidet" 😂😂😂😂😂
Da quando sono piccolo non ho mai avuto la lavatrice in cucina.. ho vissuto in America e posso dire con certezza che le case in Italia sono i gran lunga migliori..
E in quanto a lavoro?
Ma molto migliori in cemento invece del legno da baita di montagna
I totally disagree buddy i'm Sorry. I don't know what kind of place You lived in but i Think American houses are way easier and cuter. Italian houses are safer though.
Molte case italiane sono piene di umidità, e i condomini italiani sono spesso orribili.
ITA: In Italia generalmente costruiamo le case con l'idea che possano durare dei secoli. Ho visto proprio ieri una casa in pietra, su una pietra angolare c'erano incisi il nome del primo proprietario e la data della costruzione : 1689! Questo però fa sì che una casa in Italia costi molto di più di una casa in America.
ENG: In Italy we tend to build houses which are meant to last for centuries. I saw a stonehouse yesterday, on a corner-stone there were carved the name of the first owner and the year of costruction: 1689! That's cool but prices here are way higher than in America.
la casa dei miei è stata costruita nel 1932 e si mantiene bene. le loro case sembrano quelle dei lego, anzi peggio, sembrano dii cartone pressato. avrei paura a stare in mansarda...che schifezza però, poi ci mettono tutti i loro ciaffi e sembrano chissà che cosa.
Ho ristrutturato anni fa un rustico del 1723 con tetto in pietra e muri di 70 cm. Queste sono case!
Dipende dagli stati, non ovunque costano poco, in alcuni stati sono molto care, e, sono solo scheletri di legno e cartongesso, però in zone molto sismiche come la California, fanno bene a costruire così, hai più possibilità di sopravvivenza seti cade addosso una parete di cartongesso di una di mattoni
veramente da quello che ho visto in america costano molto di più considerando pure i materiali
@@cristinad.4211 scusa ma proprio perché è zona sismica andrebbero costruite antisismiche, questo ragionamento è privo di logica
your knowledge of Americans seems to have come just from movies lol I’ve lived in America my whole life and everyone I know uses curtains or sometime of window covering. I also grew up using a clothes line to dry my clothes. I have also always slept on a single bed.
Many of the features you describe for Italian houses also apply to UK houses. So, they are probably European vs American differences. The first difference I noticed in the UK is that they do not have screens on their windows (to keep the insects out).
It depends what kind of houses in UK you're talking about... Cause you know for Victorian style houses you need to make a documentary to describe them 😅😅😅
As an italian that fire escape is scary, everyone has access to your windows? Nope, I'll risk it during a fire! Nice video tho.
The bottom of the fire escape raises up so that people can't access it from the street. Only the people living directly above and below you would be able to access your windows.
Aleesandro , io vivo in America e l'ultima scala sale 6 metri così nessuno può salire....
@@aldod3937 Da terra quindi non sale nessuno, ma dagli altri appartamenti? Inoltre basta anche una scala aggiuntiva.
Bidet has been regulated by the Italian law since 1975: any regular bathroom must have a bidet! That is a pick of civilization!
"In America the entrance of the building is always higher than the ground" me in a wheelchair: "ok, I will not go to America!" 😂😂
I really don't know how people in wheelchair do here. Very modern buildings certainly are accessible to everyone, but especially here in NYC there are so many old buildings that - as far as I know - are not equipped for people with disabilities.
@@WhatashameMaryJane in Italy a lot of places aren't accessible to! My home have a step to get in! I learned how to do step in the wheelchair😂😂
@@lucaluca4954 That's impressive!! What's the secret, strong arms...?
@@WhatashameMaryJane naah, it's only run, wheelie, and push
This channel is awesome!
About the dryers... I live where the average humidity is 60% in winter, 75% in summer. If I hung my laundry to dry on any but the warmest, sunniest summer day, I'd just end up with damp, moldy clothes on the line for 4-5 days. Dryers are a convenience in a lot of the country - a necessity in others.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this video. You and the content you put together is so entertaining.
Thanks, I'm glad to hear.
I once read that entrance in the houses or building in the U.s are higher than the ground, because derived by first dutch colonists and dutch built their houses higher than the ground for fear of flood.
Simpaticissima e piena di energie, bellissimo video grazie.
Funny you should say that about window curtains, because I had the exact opposite experience. As a Norwegian, I'm used to leaving curtains open and being able to look into everyone's houses, and having them be able to look into my house (within reason, of course - bathrooms and rooms facing other houses that are close by will often have curtains or be made so that you can't see clearly through them), but when I lived in the suburbs of Houston, absoultely everyone seemed to draw their curtains or close their blinders.
I think we Norwegians do it the way we do because we live in a cold and dark country, so we want to let as much sunlight and heat in as possible.
Edit: also, what's so weird about showers in bath tubs :P ?
You really need to come down south and stay in a house out in the country. We have really big yards, and we hang our clothes out on the line in the sunshine when it's nice out. I'm barely middle class, but my house is 3000sq/ft, which isn't that big here, and my yard is not big, 2 quite small once you get into the country, but it's an acre and a half. However, there's 1200 acres of woods behind me too, with a creek, and a few nice ponds.
I surely need to come to the South! I've visited 7 or 8 states and thought I had saw a good sample of the US, but then I realized I should have change area, not only state, cause I've always stayed in the North East!
Love the idea of a washing machine in the kitchen☮️💕
We do have casement windows (the kind that open out) in the US. They are less common but they do exist.
Our dryer went down for 5 months! I hung everything up outside until winter hits. Then I studied manuals and found the part and repaired my dryer! Most of my clothes i have up inside, but towels, sheets and blankets go into a dryer!
This is really good!
Wow you are one of the cutest youtubers I've ever seen around here. And funny too XD
Greetings from a bidet lover lol
I enjoyed this video. Thanks
I’m spellbound. Could listen to her forever 😍
Fantastico questo non lo avevo ancora visto fighissimo!!!!!
Ahah mi sono divertita a prepararlo!
I really like watch all your videos ❤
Having lived for seven years in Southern Italy and other European countries there is no doubt in my mind that living in fly-over country USA is the only sensible way to live. Furthermore, comparing NYC living as a "norm" in the US of A is like saying that Napoli is typical of all Italy, it just isn't so.
Leaving in an area that has all 4 seasons sometimes air drying isn't even possible, I'd like to see anyone air dry in freezing conditions and/or there's just not the space to do it in. "air tumblers" aka clothes dryers are just more convenient and faster, has nothing to do with not knowing other means of drying clothes
@@TH159UY do you think in Italy we dont have rigid winter?
@@TH159UY Italy has four season...
@@TH159UY But sun is free....
I air dry my clothes, but I agree- I’m a rarity here in my region of the US. In the South East it can be oppressively humid and cotton takes an eternity to dry. When I lived in Italy and Romania, I was able to air dry my (non-cotton) clothes very quickly. I will say that there are other reasons for Americans’ need for a clothes dryer. One is that some neighborhoods forbid their residents from drying clothes outside. It is thought to look bad.
Cool Video! Very funny and creative editing...also I'm from Philly (Philadelphia) and we no longer have the space our grandparents used to, to hang clothes on a line to dry lol I really enjoy your channel!
Thanks Gianni! You have an Italian name...are you Italian or it's just the username?
Belin ma come to UK you can make a much longer video, talking about the carpet in the toilet or talking about the f..king two taps in the sink, one with iced water and the other with a lava temperature, or you can talk about so many other things like the pressure of the shower that most of the time is very low and if someone open another tap you have a drop coming out and soooo many other things.Belin!
The same as most Italian houses!
@@nikoukhadem4789 in Italy there are rags that you can wash, there are mixing taps, maybe there pressure could go down a bit but not to a drop.
Not to mention when you’re UNlucky enough to find a cottage sink 🤦♀️
I wasn’t even able to wash my face as it was bigger than the sink itself 😂😂😂
But I still love UK, I can’t help it! 😁❤️
I love the UK, but that sink thing makes no sense at all. And as an allergic person (to dust mites) almost all houses are a nightmare to breathe in.
So badass!
Renee L 😜
The walls the design you were talking about is an antique the house could of been built in the 1920s or after that that's why they kept the decorations it's a value to the house if they ever sell they can get more then what they paid for it .
All of us as children and my friends all had single sized beds.
Grandee!
I think the little space between houses is so that the blowing wind can whistle and make people feel they are still living near nature, in the forests.
Senza Bidet mi ucccido! :D
senza bidet non cago!
Allora inizia adesso perché Germania,francia,cananda dove io abito il bidet nn esiste
I have a cooling rack I put on the tiny kitchen counter after I back a cake. If I set it outside birds or neighborhood pets would manage to get over my fence to eat it!
Greedy animals!
The west coast of the USA is very different culturally and physically... My house has the same toilet water level as you see around the world, trying to conserve water!!! Aim well!!! 😂 I love, love you blog!!! Thank you!!!
People used to air dry their laundry. Some still do, but mostly the elderly & those who are super conscious about their clothes. This is because before the advent of the washing machine & other household appliances were made more affordable, they used to be costly & use lots of electricity. Those who couldn't afford a washing machine used to hang their clothes on a clothes line in their yard or between apartment buildings. After washing machines were more affordable & energy efficient, some still could not afford it. So they continued drying their clothes on clothes lines.
In Italy more or less everyone could afford to pay electricity for a drier, but nobody does. I guess because we don't consider the drier a luxury, rather a nonsensical appliance to have in a climate that's warm enough.
@@WhatashameMaryJane Lol! I think I could go without a drier. The washing machine doesn't leave clothing so wet that it drips on the floor. Plus the fabric on some clothes could be ruined when placed in the dryer. I have about 5 pairs of pants & undergarments that I hang dry.
BTW, if you want to buy a bidet in the USA, order it from Target. They have 2 versions & they're pretty cheap & efficient. The one that I have has a knob that sits on the side of the toilet & sprays up. The drawback is that you'll have to install it yourself, but that's not too hard. You just have to tighten the hoses so that they don't leak & the seat so that it doesn't move around.
Wow Mary Jane you look very nice and beautiful amazing video well done 😊😊❤️❤️👍👍
interessante e divertente conoscere la differenza tra culture e nazioni diverse!!
Brava. Molto interessante. ✌
The things that I hated most when I lived in the us is the bathtub and poor quality of the houses with really ancient systems no saving energy system. Ah you forgot to say that most of the US houses have CARPETS which means dirt, dust and all the doors have a large space underneath so no loud isolation from other rooms...
True !
You know, you probably lived in 1 or 2 cities in America. So to make comments about houses in a America is ludicrous. 2nd having nice warm rugs is a luxury us Americans enjoy. And I asked my cousin, why they don't have carpeting. He told me carpeting in Italy, is expensive.
@@thomasbalsamo3734 well I lived in more than 1 or 2 cities if you want I give you the list. In italy we used carpets in 80's, it could be expensieve but we don't need a dirty dust collector, we must add that not all the homes have carpets though. I know the US are backwards for contruction and they don't have any idea of what energy efficient is, my house is A4 but I'm sure you don't know what this means... so I'm sorry if you are touchy but that's the truth... you are basing on your cousin's comment, I'm basing on my 4 years experience in the US
@@scar80 I've been going to Italy since '86 and carpeting was rare
@@scar80 hahahahaha you admitted carpeting is expensive but my dumb cousin don't know what he is talking about. Plus all of my relatives did not have carpeting........
Where I live in America, bathroom washing machines are pretty common. The biggest determining factor on where they are is where the power and water hookups were built in.
As far as tumble dryers, you've got me there. 6-8 months out of the year my clothing would freeze or take forever to air dry. The worst thing is even in summer, I can't air dry my laundry because the home owner's association thinks it's "unsightly" and will fine me for it.
They're trying in some cities in Italy too, to ban hanging laundry outside the apartments. 🤦♀️
as far as the water temperatures and flow of water are concerned it depends on the faucet system and the type of shower head used
Wonderful video!I like to know USA culture!Thank you so much!
Most of this is only a small area of the U.S.
Here we are full of diversity and different culture.
I've lived in the US for few years and one thing I've noticed in many restrooms in the lack of the toilet brush. In Italy is as important as the bidet.
The reason for it is that because they are full of water you don't need to brush them.
@@WhatashameMaryJane I want my brush 😂
@@nikkostrato I want my bideeeet!!!
per la cronaca ti seguivo sul tuo vecchio canale, detto ciò non capisco perchè in tantI osannano gli USA. Ciao....
@@sax6475 perchè no? è un paese meraviglioso con tanti pregi e tanti difetti, come tutti. Se ti v di continuare a seguirmi dai un'occhiata al mio canale. Ciao!
Interessante, grazie. Penso che lil poco spazio tra un edificio e l'altro abbia una sola funzione....poter vedere dalle finestre i vicini da molto vicino!!!!!😂
I'm Italian and I haven't got the washing machine in the kitchen, and not even in the bathroom... 😂😂
you're lucky, most homes in Italy are not big enough to have a proper laundry room like many homes do in the US
@@silmuffin86 Really? I'm italian as well and my washing machine has its own room (a washing room near the boiler room). It's the same with 99% of the houses where I live. Things may be different with appartments though.
@@Tulkash01 I'm from lake Como where my family still is. Everyone I know has the washer in the bathroom. Granted Lombardy, and the north in general, is way more expensive, so maybe people in the south can afford bigger houses
@@silmuffin86 It may very well be so... but I live in Trentino (actually so near the border with Lombardy you wouldn't believe it). I've got relatives in Brescia and they don't have their washing machines in their kitchens either.
Most likely it's something that depends on where you live. In a city I can see apartments having this kind of accomodation (even in the south... given how Naples is basically one of the most densely populated italian cities) but in the countryside having your washing machine in the kitchen is simply something I've never ever seen.
Never seen the washing machine in the kitchen in Italy. Never.
Molto carino e divertente. Complimenti
50 mq di cucina per un amburger e due patatine fritte...
.....diamogli spazio....che ppoi vengono a eating..in itali....!!!!!.. piezza..kkepccino..wat elss..???....😏😏
Certo che se hai un culo all'americana che fa "provincia" hai bisogno di un letto a due piazze...
Sei un/a grande!! 👍🤣
Nice channel, greetings
After 15 years out of Italy... I can tell, when people ask me what I really miss about Italy (considering that we can find good Italian food everywhere in the world).
Mi answer is: the BIDET!!! So cozy and nice to refresh our genitals anytime we like! ❤️
Nice job! Interesting video. I definitely agree that the US should be a little more energy- saving conscious. Miss the fire escapes though 😂
Sei troppo forte!! Spero di non essere il tuo unico follower italiano... 😄 continua cosi!
Ci sono anche io ...ma vedo un po’ di commenti italiani o comunque di italiani
Sono passata da un 6% a più del 10 di audience italiana ultimamente :)
I live in Yuma Arizona it's to hot in summer time to use the dryer it pulls to much electricity because we are running our air conditioner to keep the house cool down it gets between 115 to 120 degrees in our summer time no joke. So I hang out clothes out to dry either in the shade outside , u don't want to put your clothes in direct sun it's to hot and bright and your clothes colors will fade. I also hang clothes out in my bathroom to dry too. Our front doors here do not have steps leading to them but we do park on the street or drive way and walk to the door. I really enjoyed your video :) I hope one day you will be able to visit a town like mine I guess people in New York would call us the "country" and we call them "the big city" but we're very different and our homes are very different to like mine I have a huge front yard and back yard and sides of the house is big too and you can't see your neighbor threw windows I mean unless the purposely open their curtains up at night to all to see lol but we don't do that but during fall we love to open our front and back doors and windows to get fresh cool air flows some allot of people have a screen door so there's that safety but air can still come threw but your animals or small kids can't wonder outside. 🤓🦎🌵 Sending love from Arizona thanks for ur videos!
Well done with the air drying Sandra. I hope I will visit a place like Yuma. I might even visit it! Arizona is a state that I really want to go to and "the countryside" is actually my favorite part to visit, because it's where you see the real side of the country. I send you some love from Italy and thanks for your comment!!
Bellissima, intelligente e molto simpatica ♥️
Falla una puntata intera sul bidet ! Io quando sono all'estero ed incontro qualcuno non riesco a pensare ad altro che questo è andato in bagno e non si è lavato il c....:-)
Una volta pensavo come te, adesso vivo all'estero e ho capito. La pistola che trovi a fianco del wc serve proprio a quello, a pulirti senza spiattellarti la cacca sul culo con la cartaigienica, senza sederti in un altro posto e schizzare ovunque. Paradossalmente e' piu' igienico senza bidet.
@@erzekielekiparesa3091 Quando sono all'estero il 90% delle volte sono costretto a farmi la doccia dopo essere andato in bagno😉. La doccetta che dici tu è raro trovarla, quindi torno alla deduzione precedente 😊
@@samuelescarselli8229 se non c'e' allora le cose son due..o doccia ogni volta o effettivamente come pensi tu!!
Si, per favore! Fai un video sul bidet!
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Wooden slabs hate flooding, so washing machines mandatory go to the basements
Adoro le scale antincendio!!!
thumbs up!
Bravissima!
Sei fantastica!😂
Your Italian accent is really amazing
i think she's italian
@@Gabneo1 She says as much in the video...
Bellissima!
What exactly does mean and in which language
@@theguyver4934 the language is Italian and it means "very beautiful (girl) referred to Mary Jane who is Italian.
@@lillocosta1777 - Well I do agree that italian are very beautiful but this individual is just ok
hmm where I live in Italy (Veneto area) it is very common to have AC and wooden floors instead. I guess it's because it can get cold in the winter, but also hot as hell and super damp in the summer. Forget about living on the last floor without AC from June to August - the combination of heat and moisture leaves you breathless, and I do not mean it in a good way. Not so much in southern Italy, where you have heat only. I also saw many doorbells working with numeric codes.
sei molto brava e soprattutto parli benissimo l'inglese, non hai la minima inflessione italiana.
ti faccio i miei complimenti!
p.s.: anche nel palazzo dove vivo c'è il codice del citofono, e vivo in Italia (Rimini) ;)
I will say that while water pressure in Italian showers can be weak, when we remodeled our house in Italy, we put in a nice English Barber-Wilson showerhead (the same one we use in Stati Uniti) and we get a wonderful shower pressure. In that same bathroom, we have both a lavatrice and asciugatrice.
Do love your videos but, if you want to make US vs. Italia comparisons, you need to get out of NYC (this said from someone who has had a home in Manhattan for >25 years).
Yes you're right about getting out of NYC. But I'd say: out of the North East, because I've visited other 7-8 cities in the US but all in close states.
In italy if you trow a punch against the wall ur hand will broke, not the wall
Sei simpaticissima,e molto divertente 😉😉👋👋
Love your content , however New York and states from up north are not like other southern state, house entrances are road level, we have laundry room dedicated in a house, etc, it varies. Greetings.
Yes you're right, but still those things you can find in the US and they're just unthinkable in Italy :)
@@WhatashameMaryJane thanks for the reply, I have to do Italy in my life sometime.
Il riscaldamento a termosifoni è adoperato solo nelle case più vecchie, quelle recenti hanno il riscaldamento a pavimento con caldaia a condensazione, si ottengono consumi sensibilmente ridotti e gli ambienti vengono riscaldati in modo uniforme.
in Italy only large families had a washing machine in da kitchen, just for cleanse towels, rags, aprons, tablecloths & napkins
Living in America is heaven🙂
Meh...
We DO have balconies! Sometimes laundry rooms are in a hall closet and sometimes, like in California, wash machines can be in the garage. In homes, we have a room for the laundry.
Sure, but you can find big areas that don't have these things, in the cities for example...right? In Italy you can NEVER find these things missing!
@@WhatashameMaryJane well, I am not sure as I have never really lived in a large city. However, I do feel that Europeans pick at every little thing about America. Truthfully, anything in Europe can be found in the US. We DO have brick houses with plaster walls. We DO have cement homes. We have homes with balconies, laundry rooms, tile, carpet, etc., etc...anything you can think of. Yet all I see is how our walls can be punched through. Our doors are so thin. Wood, I assume, was the most available material when settlers started building homes across the western expansion. In desert areas, adobe walls were built, etc. The way Europeans comment, every house in America is inferior and any little wind will turn them into a pile of matchsticks. You can build anything you want here if you have the money to pay for it. From all the videos I have seen, houses in Europe are not better than houses here...perhaps just different. I will take my beautiful 1966 colonial home in the midwest of the United States over anything I have seen in various videos....just sick of the stupid, picky hate.
@@jillkoop5682 I honestly don't see any hate in this video. You must have totally misunderstood my message here. You probably came here already with the assumption that I would have hated because I am European, and therefore were looking for a confirmation of your feeling.
@@WhatashameMaryJane I am so sorry! I did not mean you or your video! I meant the many snarky comments I read. Perhaps it's just me, but I read alot of vitriole in European comments that I just felt were over the top for such a benign subject. It wasn't you, Mary Jane! So sorry I wasn't more clear.
When I grew up in West New Rochelle, NY in the 1960's we had a washing machine in our kitchen
and we used a clothesline out the window to dry them. Oh I forgot to say I grew up in an Italian home and
Grandpa came from the Town called Piso in the region of Calabria. Grandma was from Sicily.
Yes, Grandpa was " Capo Tosto ".
Wow. That's very interesting, your Southern Italian origins... thinking that there two people from Calabria and Sicilia moved all the way to the United States and built a family there. I know there's plenty of stories like this, but still...
in Italy it is called "capa tosta" with the a in the feminine
@@maldextersgames9866 So would it be " capa tosta ' if it was a woman and " Capo tosto " if it was a man with a hard head?
@@Bill23799 No, it is always capa tosta, because it refers to the head which is female.
I hope you understand, sorry but I know little English and I get help from google translate.
@@maldextersgames9866 Ahh thank you very much Maldexter. I did not know all heads are female case. Well maybe the small head on men is in grammar male case haha.
If you are a woman I apologize. I am a man and I am descended from Calabria in Italy so of course i am " Capa Tosta " haha.
Grazie mille amico mio.
( Thank you Google Translate )
We’ve got shades and blinds. Our garbage can is stationed on the far side outside of the house.
Hai dimenticato i microscopici frigoriferi!!!! HA!
Per non parlare della lavastoviglie che in italia manca assieme al tritarifiuti nel lavandino
Some areas are surely like that but, for my people (relatives) it wasn't like that. But yes I know what you are talking about.
Fantastica
Sposami!!!!
I am American. I use a fan. I also keep the curtains closed. Maybe it's a city thing to have them open in the US. You do have a point with the entrance of the building . Ottimo video.
Uh I see inside the buildings also in small towns here in the North East of the country :) You have no A/C? What latitude do you live at?
The Swiss also have their washing machines in the basement...the French and Brits have theirs in the bathroom or more commonly: the kitchen.
By 1950 people used to proudly show their laundry machines in the kitchen as a sign of well being and of keeping in time with all those new technological marvels.
In Italy we began to want AC in our apartment and people who don't want it prefer saving money rather than save environment.
Il fatto che non ci sia la lavatrice comoda in casa mi sconvolge di più del fatto che non ci sia il bidet 🤣
In effetti lavare i vestiti in una lavatrice pubblica e portarsi a casa peli pubici di sconosciuti non é bellissimo 🤪
@@titanio784 immagino 🙈
Sì, concordo, è tremendo. Ora che vivo a New York mi lavo tutto a mano in una bacinella.
As crestons wife I do want to say there are people like me lots of us who are minimalist but not extreme but there are some that are extreme then you have organized hoarders with their walk in closets
Another fun video! TOILET N BIDET SPECIAL. I enjoyed the juxtaposition, especially about the washing. However, I see you left out the very ingenious Italian dish dry racks in the cupboard. I love em n have only seen em in Italy.
As bonus material, you can add the Bialetti mocha percolators. I bought mine in the Netherlands because in Italy the prices of such devices are inflated for tourists. I couldn't find a decent price on a mocha. Maybe Bialetti or Tescoma would sponsor the video? Hint, hint ;-)
Ahaha where did you go to buy a moka in Italy, at the souvenir shop?? I find it difficult you can find them cheaper abroad! I don't think the dish racks are an Italian thing...I'm sure they are common in Germany cause I've lived there
@@WhatashameMaryJane ahaha I went to several places in Napoli... crazy pricing. Found Bialettis for half price in The Hague at a proper department store. When said large stores buy large quantities they get distributor prices. They still make probably 50-60% in the markup.
Regarding the inside the cupboard dishdry racks... only saw them in Italy. From Sicily to Pisa on my last trip. During my time in Gernany... 2007... I don't remember seeing them.
I agree with 99% of this.
Good :)
In vacanza a New York, ho notato il particolare dell'acqua nel water che è quasi a livello della seduta (chiamiamola così) e mi è parsa una cosa giusta dal punto di vista igienico e di "odore"
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This video? Hmmm... 🤔 Interesting, interesting and interesting! Do you know why I repeated interesting x3? Because a podium got 3 places only! 😄
I prefer "old" Italy! ;-)
@6:00 the spacing is regulation. It serves as a firebreak in case one house catches fire, it hopefully gives enough time for the firefighters to arrive and save the neighboring house.
American Here.... The U.S is FULL of diversity, travel past the East coast of the USA and you'll find we do still hang laundry out to dry, people have balconies, washing machines can be in the kitchen and some do have a bidet. I'm from the western U.S. and it is vastly different than the crowded east coast. For instance I have a large garden with my closest neighbors 300 ft away. Come west ;)
You're right, but when abroad I notice what's different not what's the same! West is much better than East I agree ;)
Hi Mary Jane, I am curious ... do you do your own editing... adding music, etc? Your videos are very nice.
Hi Gregory, yes I do everything on my own. Everything you see.
@@WhatashameMaryJane Do you use an Italian camera/editing program? You are very good with video. I do some video as well. You could work as a producer/editor anywhere.
@@greglarry11 iPhone and Premiere Pro
@@WhatashameMaryJane It's very nice. I'm a big fan of your work. You are a natural.
Gregory Larry thanks!
The round light reflected in your eyes makes your sight magic !
Surely americans can have less damages with hurricanes if theyr houses were bild in concrete instead of wood.