@@lindacrowe8428No, we are innovative and driven to excel in the innovation process, unlike Europeans, whom are fine with "as things have always been."
Have absolutely never understood why Europeans don't put screens on their windows and doors, ESPECIALLY because they don't use air conditioning. Their windows are open all the time and in come all the flies, mosquitoes and on and on. Makes absolutely no sense. It's old, old, technology, probably 100 years old. Same goes for a flag on a mailbox. It's cheap, cheap, cheap, and doesn't entail all these conversations with the post office to come and pick up some mail. Or put out mail boxes the way we have all over the place. It's just about making life more convenient and comfortable.
I remember sleeping on the top floor of a Palazzo in Spain with giant windows in the summer. No screens. I opened the window to get air flow at night, saw a bunch of bats flying around then slept with the windows shut... lol
It boggles the mind. They open windows so much more than most Americans. Most Europe style windows can cheaply be adapted to use a screen and yet they seem to have never thought of it. The USA has had screens as a standard since the 50s.
What do you expect. They are stuck still doing things the old ways, because that's the way it's always been. People in the US are way more driven to find solutions to problems.
@@european-reactsIn the north woods, screens are necessary. Some places have a lot of mosquitoes. We didn't have many horribly humid days, so we opened windows a lot. One thing though, our cat likes to climb up them. Some holes are big enough for mosquitoes now.
Older American here. Window screens also keep your pets inside the house. There are a variety of build-your-own window screen kits to retrofit aluminum framed screens to your windows.
I was thinking about pets but small children, too. A lady in my church moved to the US from Germany but had a tragedy right before moving. She was distracted for just a few seconds and her young toddler son fell out of the window and died. Terrible tragedy.
That house is an upper middle class house. I would have said middle class but the fact it’s located on a lake makes it pricier. The kitchen and open layout of the house is very similar to my house and I would consider our family middle class.
This might be like my grandparents' house. They bought the land 85 years ago when lakefront land was cheap and then built their house. I would consider my grandparents lower middle class. I am probably upper middle class and could not afford to buy their house today. This house looks like a lakefront house from the 1940's or 1950's that has been nicely renovated. Being on the lakefront, it might now be one of the more expensive houses in town.
It definitely looks like an older home that had a renovation. The stained wood trim is classic mid west mid century modern. The owners probably kept the renovation modest because they are modest people, and and like to put their wealth elsewhere.
This is definitely an upscale home, not the average. I could live without two ice makers and 6 televisions but I could not live without screens on my windows...
Depends on the area - to me, it looked like a custom modular design on a fair patch of water frontage. The dwelling itself looked to be pretty middle class, particularly for an older professional couple.
I was also going to say that this is a nice home and maybe not the average. Depends on a lot of things. I wouldn't call this the average home, for sure.
So many Europeans remark of how much they love the concept of window screens. One of them should start a business of selling and installing window screens.
Very rarely are there fences in American front yards. Most teenagers have their own car. Or at least the oldest teenager. Pretty much every home in America has AC. Screens make 100% common sense. Bugs dude. Bugs exist.
What an eye opener! As a US senior citizen, I've grown up with window screens, mailbox flags, and garbage disposals, and have just taken them for granted. In other countries, I've only stayed in apartments or hotels, so I never questioned their absence. You're right that the house being shown was not really typical for people of average income, though it varies by region. I also doubt that most people have as many televisions or cars as that household. I'm pretty solidly middle class, and I've never had more than one TV in the house, or more than one vehicle per adult. As to Golden Retrievers, yup, they're generally great with kids and cats. But be careful about checking the background of purebred dogs - they can have genetic health issues. My own Golden died quite young of cancer. After decades of fostering dogs, cats, and children, my best "nanny dogs" have been big old mutts. Give them lots of love and they'll for sure return it to everyone around them
As an older American I live in a house that was built in 1940. Middle class neighborhood. All houses in my area have always had screens on all windows that open, and screen doors between the main door and outside. I had to replace those 1940 windows with new double pane windows that are better insulated. Those windows came with screens as part of the installation. My parents house built in 1880 in a small town also has screens everywhere. TV’s prior to my going to college in 1965? We had two. Now I have three, plus 5 computers for myself and my housemate. Neither of us work from home. As a child I had a dog a cat or two, a budgie, snake (he was a catch from the local stream and not happy) and a wild caught chipmunk.
This home looks like an upper middle class home. I live in a rural home. We do have screens like all Americans, but we lack a garbage disposal, central air conditioning, and an ice maker. Also, we have just 2 TVs. And we also don't have a dog 🥺. We are one of the few homes in our agrarian/rural community that does not have a dog. I'm working on that.
I'd love to get rid of my garbage disposal but it costs more to take it out and do the new plumbing under the sink then buying one so I just keep a stopper over it and never use it. We have 2.5 acres and run a dog rescue so we currently have 11 dogs.
Never been in a US house without a screen. In my opinion 6 tvs is a crazy amount. I have 1 and then my tablet. Depending on where this house is located (what state) will have a big impact of the price but in general I agree, these people have a high end house
@@lorettacarroll6015 No tv either, my mailbox is in a casino. Also in the desert, house is fenced in, 1 car. My nearest gas station is ten miles away (we never use it).
I have a Golden Retriever and everybody is right - they are great family dogs. Mine is 3 years old and i had to tell her not to be so excited around my 14 year old cats, so when they're passing ways she always waits for them. It's crazy! She goes out in the yard and stays in my yard even though i don't have a fence and I live at the end of town. So smart. They love everyone. Perfect choice!
Usually in poorer neighborhoods, a family shares a car or take a bus if they live in a city. Sometimes, they have two cars; but the insurance and payments can be costly. Window screens are very common and a/c, however touch facets, multi - functioning refrigerator, electric recliners, and garbage dispenser are upper middle class right now. We do love ice. Most of us can afford a basic form of them, but nothing that too advanced without a lot of savings. The average number of tvs are about two or three. Sometimes, they are used or were on sale.
That wasn't a rich faucet, it has a tiny handle on the side. I have the same one and got it for $80 on Amazon. I hate garbage disposals and never use mine, but even in the cheapest apartments back in college, we had them. My daughter lives in a dorm that's 60 years old, and they have 1 in their tiny kitchen. The electric recliners have been around forever. They also aren't very expensive. My son bought 1 his Jr year of college and he was working part time at a chili's. The fridge was just a basic French door fridge. It wasn't one of the expensive smart fridges. We have 2, 1 came with the house and we bought the other off FB Marketplace for $600. For TVs in our area you usually have 1 in every common room, 1 in every bedroom, and if you have a covered porch 1 outside. I grew up poor but we still had a TV in the living room and in each bedroom. The bedroom tvs were small but still there. We do live in an affluent area now but most people only have 1 extra car. We used to have a convertible for fun. It got old fast and we gave it to our daughter. Now we are looking to buy an older truck for Home depot and Lowes runs.
Lol pretty much all North American homes have window screens and screen doors as well. We get all the benefits of fresh air and no mosquitoes, no flies, nor any other creepy crawlers. I honestly can’t understand European homes that don’t have screens. Even if you don’t have mosquitoes…..everywhere on the planet mostly has insects of some sort…..who would want them in your house?
The mail boxes vary depending on location. Many still have the traditional mail slot in the door. The metal mailboxes are typically used in suburban and rural areas.
Golden Retrievers and Labradors are both excellent dogs for homes with children. Not only do we have screens on our windows, many homes also have screened in porches so that the residents can sit outside and not be bothered by insects.
Absolutely true. We can open the windows with no fear of bugs coming in! I can't believe you guys don't have screens!!! Yes there is a fine screen there, keeps out bugs, but allows air to flow thru!!!
There is not another window; it's a screen - it's a thin metal mesh that lets a breeze in and keeps the bugs out. If one is able to open windows at opposite parts of the room/house, a nice crossflow of air is transported through the rooms.
Yes that's a home on the rich side, BUT, she is right on the product's that are in just about every home. My sister lives in a manufactured home cheaply made and has all those products. She has 4 TV's not 6. You could live on the poor side of town and still have half or more of those things. The chairs are called lazy boys. Your town probably sales screens, may you could fit it to your window. Make it yourself and open your window this summer. 😊
I consider myself middle class and we have 1 tv and 2 laptops. Most of our friends and family have at most 2 tvs. Might be that we are also more tech- savvy so more comfortable with computers than TVs. 🤷🏼♀️ I was shell-shocked when she said 6 TVs!
@@mythicsagefire Yes, you have computers, which is more expensive if you don't know how to program or make your own. That is probably why TV's have become cheaper and more are being bought. TV's are going out like VHS and CDs. I can't afford a computer. My kids bought me one but it only does the basics. It's ok for me because I'm not technically intelligent. You can do more on your phone then a computer and TV. Computer's might also be a thing in the past like everything else.
The stereotypical mailbox is a rural mailbox; what were on farms. They hung out this way so the postal carrier could put in your mail without getting out of the vehicle (mail vehicles are right-hand-drive to make this easier). The US Mail is a service, not unlike military service or the public health service, it is in the constitution that it is to be provided to all homes in the US. Without this mail service, the US would not have expanded as it did (you could literally mail houses or children through USPS)
Golden Retrievers are the best dogs. Windows in the US open by sliding them up and close by sliding them down. That makes it possible to have a screen and still open the window. If your windows open by being pushed out toward the side of the house they can't be opened if you have our type of screen. This looks like a typical middleclass house, built and decorated for comfort and convenience.
We have window that crank out, but have removable screens on the inside. When we put new windows in the house to replace the terrible ones that were there, I wanted the ones that would open out so that if the wind were coming from a the side the window would help to channel the air inside. It works pretty well.
golden retrievers are one of the few dog breeds i like. i'm not much of a dog person (little bit of early childhood trauma with dogs) but golden retrievers are easily an exception for me
American homes come with many amenities no matter the home, from RVs to Mansions. Most of the low income houses like Mobile Homes and Apartment buildings come with the basics, window screens and air conditioning. You can gage amenities and price brackets by looking at vacation homes from low to high to see what is common and not so common throughout America.
1) Ice makers are fairly standard on new refrigerators, garbage disposers have been in our homes for at least 60 years. 2) The faucet and sink shown here are sold as regular items at Costco - many people have them. 3) It is easy to get a TV in all rooms - Walmart sells 32" TVs starting at $100 so not really a problem to accumulate. HELLO from Southern California! - love to watch your videos!
This is most likely a middle-class home. They have a great life, but it isn't a rich home - unless this is close to a major city. This looks and feels like a middle-class home in a nice suburban area. A very nice place to raise a family. The openess in the yards is actually a good thing as the children are likely to play with neighboring children - and mom's and dad's can keep an eye on the kids.
@ARISUinW0NDERLAND I think it just depends on the region. I live in the suburbs of Nashville, and this would be considered an average middle class home. However, the same house inside the Nashville city limits works be considered an upper middle class home as the housing prices inside the city limits are 3 to 4x more than the same home in a surrounding county. In some areas of Nashville this would be over $1M. But the same house is a surrounding county only half an hour from downtown would only be $300-$400k. From my understanding, most of the Midwest is even cheaper.
She made a mistake by showing the screen with the camera too far away to let the viewers see the wire mesh. At that distance you can't see what she means, so you thought it was just another window. If the camera got in close you could see the mesh and it would make more sense.
Window and door screens are normal to keep bugs out. The house she's in is normal. But being on a lake is a luxury property. Lots of TVs are normal, multiple cars are normal. It's a pretty typical middle class to upper middle class home. It's not a mansion or anything.
When we lived in Germany I was astonished that the home we lived in did not have window screens. We had the windows open so much and had to deal with flies coming in all of the time! Why? Why no screens? This is a cultural thing to have the windows open for at least a small amount of time year round, and since there is no air conditioning, it is necessary in the summer to keep windows open for ventilation. Ugh! Up to 5 flies buzzing around in our great room drove me absolutely nuts!
Almost every single window has a window screen. Some homes even have screen doors so you can still have your door open and allow the air to come through without letting the bugs in.
Pretty much everyone has window screens of some sort. I open my windows a lot during the Spring and Autumn when the temperatures are reasonable. I have one car-it’s the one I drive everywhere. I don’t have a fancy faucet like that one and I have a double sink that adds up to about the same space as her big one. I have an ice maker-one of my favorite things, along with my dishwasher. When I moved into this house, there was a refrigerator/freezer that had an external ice and water dispenser. I am enjoying that! Now, to disappoint you…I have one television and it hasn’t been turned on in six years. I can’t afford broadband internet and/or cable vision. I watch UA-cam and I read. I read a LOT! I also listen to music a lot.
In my opinion this is at least upper middle class, not middle class. Our 1000 sq. ft. middle-class home was built in the 1960s, with window screens, no garbage disposal, small lot, no lakefront. Two occupants, 3 tvs. 😊
My first dog as an adult was a golden that needed a new home. She was a little over a year old and was too hyper around the prior owner’s 1 and 3 yo kids (jumped on them and knocked them over a lot). Once she grew out of her puppy phase, she was a wonderful, gentle, loving dog.
Window screens are the best item on that list. The others are nice, but they're just luxuries. Screens are a necessity. Without them, opening your windows is an invitation to all kinds of bugs.
I’m 63 and have had window screens all my life. I love watching you! When you come to America we will spoil you. That house is beautiful but isn’t that big. I doubt it costs a million or even close. I have a big house but only 4 TV’s. I don’t put TV’s in any of my guest bedrooms. Certainly wouldn’t not put one in the formal dining room.
With that lake in the backyard that's definitely a pricey home but the you can generally find the majority of the things she showed (or a version of them) in a good portion of American homes.
In the mid 1960s most houses did have two TVs. The old black & white ones that got moved to another communal room or a kid's room, and the new color TVs that took over where the B&W TV was. I had a small portable B&W TV, that I sometimes lugged around until the 1985 or so. When I was young if someone was having a sleepover, and I had an adult to drive me back and forth (and help me carry it!!), I was asked to bring it so we could lock ourselves away from the adults. My dad had had to move out of state for a project the aerospace company he worked for was designing. He'd only needed it for six months and never used it again. We usually had at least one girl with a portable record player too. Ask your wife if she and her friends all went into a darkend ( except for one candle) to see if they could summon Bloody Mary.
Before we replaced the old windows on our house, it was two single pane windows that had to be opened separately. When you opened the window, there was another glass window. It was trying to be double pane, but before double pane windows were a thing. It was so annoying and would jam all the time. It had three layers. A glass window, another glass window, and a wire mesh screen. The house was built in 1960, and the windows were original to the home.
In the SE US, window screens are a MUST. Admittedly, where I am, the only time I'll open the windows is spring, fall, or to air out the house - otherwise, the heat or air conditioning is on. But those few weeks of perfect weather... in spring are bees, and late summer is mosquitos. No one would open their windows without a screen. They're in every window that opens in most homes.
You need to lobby your home improvement stores for window screens, central air conditioning, sprayer faucets, and garbage disposals. You deserve to live in comfort!
@@MrRedpanda2442 It's a house. I think the builders assumed nobody is gonna want to open their window because it's a very hot desert right outside. But it's not like the weather is never nice. The screens would have been appreciated. Would have liked some screen doors, too. But hey, these are people who put carpet in the master bathroom. Clearly, they have no sense and are some kind of heathen. 😤
Window screens are a must have. You can’t allow all kinds of bugs in your home when you open a window or door. There are also screen doors. That is pretty much a middle class house here (not a rich person’s home). My home has three levels. I currently have six TV’s. One in every bedroom, one in the den off the kitchen, one in the living room and I had one in the Master bathroom but I had it removed because my husband couldn’t get out of the bathroom in the morning watching CNN. He was late every day. The reason people fence in their yards vary. Some do because they have pets. Some do for privacy. You don’t want perfect strangers watching you lounge around in your backyard. And then there is an old saying “ Fences make good neighbors “. As for the mailboxes, my mailbox is attached to my house, as most are in the city. The type of mailboxes you’re seeing are mostly in suburban homes. I don’t have to use a flag, I just put outgoing mail in my mailbox and the postman picks them up when he drops off my mail.
Definitely NOT a millionaire home, lol, esp in the midwest. This would be considered upper middle class...probably around $400-500k based on what we can see.
Not only do our windows have Screens, but I have a Sliding Screen Door on my Sliding Glass Door going out to my backyard. On nice days I can open the Sliding Door, and close the Sliding Screen Door to allow fresh air in, and my cats all sit at it looking out, and smelling all of the outdoor smells. They hear me opening the Sliding Glass Door, and closing the Screen Door they all come running. My cats are strictly Indoor Cats, so this is a way for them to somewhat experience the outdoors.
One strange thing we have is out outlets. We have somthing called gfci (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupt) these will be found near sorces of water and will brake the circuit is it detects power going to ground. It is my understanding that European homes have rcd (Residential Current Device) serves the same function but covers the entire home. In the us each electrical socket equipped with gfci is only braking its conection to the rest of the home. You can tell if a socket is equipped with gfci if there are 2 buttons labeled test and reset normally located between the 2 sockets.
I would like to say that I live in an older house built in the 20’s and it doesn’t have screens. But you can buy portable screens at any number of stores including online.
That home, if it wasn't by the lake, would be pretty typical of a new build. And prices in the midwest are low compared to the coast, so could be pretty affordable.
Was out a lake or an "HOA" fountain. My dad has a lake home and you see nothing but lake in the back yard. One of my best friends lives in an HOA and this looks like her view of one of the large fountains. Usually lakehouses have a boat and a dock and there was none of that.
Metal mesh or polyester mesh screens keep out bugs. And birds I lived in a small pennsylvania town, and nobody had fences. If a neighbor put one up , it might be called. A " spite fence". Yes that is a nice home, looks pretty big, on a lake. It is probably $500000 or More
And the newer ones like hers have plastic gears to releasex the ice. We have 2 of these and neither one will release the ice. 2 repairmen told us it wasn't worth fixing because the plastic will just wear out again. 1 is in the garage now so we don't have it plumbed the other one has the bottom ice but we just bought a countertop ice maker to supplement it and honestly use it the most now.
I'm in America and I've never seen a fridge with two ice makers. No, most homes do not have garbage disposals. I have never lived in a home with a garbage disposal.
@@LaurenD-ew3ltSame here. Standard fridge with door ice and freezer ice and even my roach motel apt in college had a garbage disposal. I hate garbage disposals, I have lost to many things down them so I never use it. I have horrible luck with the door ice. Both of mine are broken ( they do water but the ice dipenser doesn't release the ice) but we bought a countertop ice maker off Amazon rather then repairing them.
Just saying 6 tv's is a lot of tv's even for my home and I live in Kentucky, USA! The window screens are common all across the U.S. and the garbage disposal is common in most households.
@dacrosber Here's a good frozen pizza anecdote. My parents (long passed) always raved about Totino's "Party Pizza." (It's that tiny square pizza.) My parents would always say it tastes good and is a meal. Us kids would always laugh at them. One day my local store was selling 'em for 98 cents. I bought a few and thought my parents weren't wrong as they are decent but aren't exactly a meal.
I have 2 labs that destroyed the screens in my kitchen and sun room when they were puppies. The screens are so cheap though, I just brought the ones they scratched up to Ace Hardware and they made me new ones for $12 each.
There is only one ice maker in the fridge. The ice maker is the box-like part in the fridge. When the door is closed, it dispenses the ice out the front, into your glass.
No, you guys are wrong. I have a similar fridge, it has 2 ice makers. One up top and one on the bottom drawer of the freezer. I never use the lower ice maker and keep the lever up. The fridge literally makes ice in 2 places, it's dumb.
Midwesterner here. I live in town, so my mailbox is attached to the side of the house right outside my front door. It doesn't have the flag, so if you want to send a letter you leave it sticking partway out of the box with the stamp showing and the mailman will take it. Window screens are great - especially in spring and fall. The house in the video, if it was located by me (northwest Indiana) would be considered typical middle class and cost around $200,000 - 300,000, mainly because it's on a lake. If it wasn't on a lake, it would be closer to $150,000 - 200,000. We only have one ice maker built into the fridge and don't use Ice that much. We do have 3 TVs (one in the living room, one in the dart room - dart room is not typical for US but my significant other loves darts, and one in the bedroom), but certainly not 6! We do each have our own vehicle, because I drive an hour away for work, but only one per person. We do not have any pets and there are no golden retrievers in our neighborhood.
Golden Retrievers are some of the best family dogs. They are big lovable goofs. I've never met an angry golden. They are very gentle. That said, there's plenty of good breeds.
Goldens are great dogs for kids. My golden is very patient with all my nieces who range from 1 - 7 yrs old. He is so gentle with them. In fact, he has turned multiple people who were previously scared of dogs (due to being attacked by a dog as children) to proud golden retriever parents.
I could not imagine opening my windows and not having a screen and having flies and bugs come in my house oh God I could not imagine that's unbelievable that they're not a thing everywhere
I was born I'm 1965. My parents bought their first house in 1965 for $35,000, we had 2 cars(one for my dad to go to work, my mom had one to take my sister and I to doctor's appointments, school, the grocery store, amongst other places. In New Mexico we had swamp coolers because it's not as humid as the west coast, east coast, or the southern states that are right by the Gulf Of Mexico. We are in the Southwest so it can get very hot sometimes around 110! The screen in the window let's air in, but keeps the bugs out especially: flies, mosquitoes, bees, wasps, most spiders, grasshoppers, etc. extremely important to have. From 1965 to 1987 we had 2 tv's (one in the den or family room, and 1 in my parents room.) In 1987 when I moved out on my own I only had 1. 6 tv's is a bit excessive, but it depends on the size of the house, how many children you have. My parents have had bigger houses since my sister and I moved out, but we're not excessive maybe a maximum of 3. The garbage disposal is very important because the more food you put in a trash can start to stink or attract bugs. You also don't put just any food down the disposal and you don't put giant pieces of food down it either, from 1965 to the present there have always been garbage disposal's. Ice is a big thing( yes we know it dilutes drinks), but it helps things to stay cold, and if you have an injury of some kind to keep the swelling down you can put ice cubes in a baggie, also I'm probably not the exception, but I like to chew on ice.
Window screens are usually a wire mesh.
screens yes...no bugs and flies
A lot of plastic too these days.
Or maybe nylon?
Yea no wire mesh anymore
@@H0TSp0o0t You can get wire mesh screens, but they are more expensive.
Flags on mailboxes and screens on windows, I had no idea America’s 100+ year old technology was so revolutionary 😂😂
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Why the insult/sarcasm? Wasn't us in the US that called these simple ideas technology or radical. That came from Europe.
We are spoiled in this country.
@@lindacrowe8428No, we are innovative and driven to excel in the innovation process, unlike Europeans, whom are fine with "as things have always been."
Have absolutely never understood why Europeans don't put screens on their windows and doors, ESPECIALLY because they don't use air conditioning. Their windows are open all the time and in come all the flies, mosquitoes and on and on. Makes absolutely no sense. It's old, old, technology, probably 100 years old. Same goes for a flag on a mailbox. It's cheap, cheap, cheap, and doesn't entail all these conversations with the post office to come and pick up some mail. Or put out mail boxes the way we have all over the place. It's just about making life more convenient and comfortable.
DYING when he calls window screens "amazing technology"! They're literally just a piece of mesh fabric.
Somebody needs to start selling window screens in Europe. Untapped market 😂
Let's be kind. I mean, we are watching his video and his reaction. Everyone has different life experiences.
The first time I heard Europe doesn't have window screens, I was shocked
I remember sleeping on the top floor of a Palazzo in Spain with giant windows in the summer. No screens. I opened the window to get air flow at night, saw a bunch of bats flying around then slept with the windows shut... lol
It boggles the mind. They open windows so much more than most Americans. Most Europe style windows can cheaply be adapted to use a screen and yet they seem to have never thought of it. The USA has had screens as a standard since the 50s.
They don't have alot of bugs
@@johnnyhancock76 We had them since way before the 50's.
What do you expect. They are stuck still doing things the old ways, because that's the way it's always been. People in the US are way more driven to find solutions to problems.
Everyone has window screens.
I like that!
But no one opens their windows. At least, in the south
I have double paned windows, and the windows that do open are screened.
I never open the windows!! We don't want humidity inside.
@@european-reactsIn the north woods, screens are necessary. Some places have a lot of mosquitoes. We didn't have many horribly humid days, so we opened windows a lot. One thing though, our cat likes to climb up them. Some holes are big enough for mosquitoes now.
We do in fall and winter in the south. @@geraldmartin5016
In my 72 years, I have never seen a house without window screens!
Keeps animals in, as well as unwanted animals out!!!
I only see it if someone forgot to replace one. It's just a bad idea to not have them!
Where have you been?
Come to rural south.
Because not all older homes have screens. You can buy different sizes of sliding screens to fit the width of the window.
Older American here. Window screens also keep your pets inside the house. There are a variety of build-your-own window screen kits to retrofit aluminum framed screens to your windows.
I was thinking about pets but small children, too. A lady in my church moved to the US from Germany but had a tragedy right before moving. She was distracted for just a few seconds and her young toddler son fell out of the window and died. Terrible tragedy.
Wow, great info - I had no idea there were retrofitting kits! I'll check them out for my off-sized windows
That house is an upper middle class house. I would have said middle class but the fact it’s located on a lake makes it pricier. The kitchen and open layout of the house is very similar to my house and I would consider our family middle class.
This might be like my grandparents' house. They bought the land 85 years ago when lakefront land was cheap and then built their house. I would consider my grandparents lower middle class. I am probably upper middle class and could not afford to buy their house today. This house looks like a lakefront house from the 1940's or 1950's that has been nicely renovated. Being on the lakefront, it might now be one of the more expensive houses in town.
It definitely looks like an older home that had a renovation. The stained wood trim is classic mid west mid century modern. The owners probably kept the renovation modest because they are modest people, and and like to put their wealth elsewhere.
probably around 200k-300k in the midwest. i can get a trailer home on a lake near me for 50k
More like 300-450K.
I was going to say exactly the same thing. Upper middle class. On a lake bumps it up. Houses like that, not on a lake, are very, very common.
The thin wire mesh screen keeps out bugs, birds and little animals. Yes every single window has a screen.
Window screens allow breezes while stopping insects
This is definitely an upscale home, not the average.
I could live without two ice makers and 6 televisions but I could not live without screens on my windows...
Depends on the area - to me, it looked like a custom modular design on a fair patch of water frontage. The dwelling itself looked to be pretty middle class, particularly for an older professional couple.
Same. It looks like an avg Midwest home to me, which is a fairly inexpensive area.
looks pretty middle class to me like 200k-300k in most the midwest
I was also going to say that this is a nice home and maybe not the average. Depends on a lot of things. I wouldn't call this the average home, for sure.
Everyone's life and circumstances are different of course, but I've gotta say it looks pretty fancy to me, too.
So many Europeans remark of how much they love the concept of window screens. One of them should start a business of selling and installing window screens.
We even have screens on our exterior doors! It’s like a door that opens outward outside the front door. Most homes with exterior doors have them.
Very rarely are there fences in American front yards. Most teenagers have their own car. Or at least the oldest teenager. Pretty much every home in America has AC. Screens make 100% common sense. Bugs dude. Bugs exist.
A lot of homes in the city have front yards. Where we live no one has fences around their yards.
What an eye opener! As a US senior citizen, I've grown up with window screens, mailbox flags, and garbage disposals, and have just taken them for granted. In other countries, I've only stayed in apartments or hotels, so I never questioned their absence. You're right that the house being shown was not really typical for people of average income, though it varies by region. I also doubt that most people have as many televisions or cars as that household. I'm pretty solidly middle class, and I've never had more than one TV in the house, or more than one vehicle per adult.
As to Golden Retrievers, yup, they're generally great with kids and cats. But be careful about checking the background of purebred dogs - they can have genetic health issues. My own Golden died quite young of cancer.
After decades of fostering dogs, cats, and children, my best "nanny dogs" have been big old mutts. Give them lots of love and they'll for sure return it to everyone around them
As an older American I live in a house that was built in 1940. Middle class neighborhood. All houses in my area have always had screens on all windows that open, and screen doors between the main door and outside. I had to replace those 1940 windows with new double pane windows that are better insulated. Those windows came with screens as part of the installation. My parents house built in 1880 in a small town also has screens everywhere.
TV’s prior to my going to college in 1965? We had two. Now I have three, plus 5 computers for myself and my housemate. Neither of us work from home.
As a child I had a dog a cat or two, a budgie, snake (he was a catch from the local stream and not happy) and a wild caught chipmunk.
I had my own TV in my bedroom as a kid. From the 5th grade on! Both my daughters had their own TV as well.
Multiple coffee cups is normal.
This home looks like an upper middle class home. I live in a rural home. We do have screens like all Americans, but we lack a garbage disposal, central air conditioning, and an ice maker. Also, we have just 2 TVs.
And we also don't have a dog 🥺. We are one of the few homes in our agrarian/rural community that does not have a dog. I'm working on that.
I'd love to get rid of my garbage disposal but it costs more to take it out and do the new plumbing under the sink then buying one so I just keep a stopper over it and never use it. We have 2.5 acres and run a dog rescue so we currently have 11 dogs.
I hope you get your puppy soon.
You will find Window screens throughout pretty much all of the United States.
I grew up in a house built in 1903... the windows had screens
Never been in a US house without a screen. In my opinion 6 tvs is a crazy amount. I have 1 and then my tablet. Depending on where this house is located (what state) will have a big impact of the price but in general I agree, these people have a high end house
This is an upper income home.
I don't have a tv at all. I have to drive 2.5 miles to my mailbox. I live in the southwest desert and don't have fences at all. 1 car.
@@lorettacarroll6015 No tv either, my mailbox is in a casino. Also in the desert, house is fenced in, 1 car. My nearest gas station is ten miles away (we never use it).
It's in the Midwest so avg there
I have a Golden Retriever and everybody is right - they are great family dogs. Mine is 3 years old and i had to tell her not to be so excited around my 14 year old cats, so when they're passing ways she always waits for them. It's crazy! She goes out in the yard and stays in my yard even though i don't have a fence and I live at the end of town. So smart. They love everyone. Perfect choice!
Coffee cups, mugs, and thermal containers collect up, many as gifts, and most are never used.
Usually in poorer neighborhoods, a family shares a car or take a bus if they live in a city. Sometimes, they have two cars; but the insurance and payments can be costly. Window screens are very common and a/c, however touch facets, multi - functioning refrigerator, electric recliners, and garbage dispenser are upper middle class right now. We do love ice. Most of us can afford a basic form of them, but nothing that too advanced without a lot of savings. The average number of tvs are about two or three. Sometimes, they are used or were on sale.
a/c is literal survival for most this country tbf 😅
ain't nobody gonna want to deal with that triple digit heat 😂
That wasn't a rich faucet, it has a tiny handle on the side. I have the same one and got it for $80 on Amazon. I hate garbage disposals and never use mine, but even in the cheapest apartments back in college, we had them. My daughter lives in a dorm that's 60 years old, and they have 1 in their tiny kitchen. The electric recliners have been around forever. They also aren't very expensive. My son bought 1 his Jr year of college and he was working part time at a chili's. The fridge was just a basic French door fridge. It wasn't one of the expensive smart fridges. We have 2, 1 came with the house and we bought the other off FB Marketplace for $600. For TVs in our area you usually have 1 in every common room, 1 in every bedroom, and if you have a covered porch 1 outside. I grew up poor but we still had a TV in the living room and in each bedroom. The bedroom tvs were small but still there. We do live in an affluent area now but most people only have 1 extra car. We used to have a convertible for fun. It got old fast and we gave it to our daughter. Now we are looking to buy an older truck for Home depot and Lowes runs.
Lol pretty much all North American homes have window screens and screen doors as well. We get all the benefits of fresh air and no mosquitoes, no flies, nor any other creepy crawlers. I honestly can’t understand European homes that don’t have screens. Even if you don’t have mosquitoes…..everywhere on the planet mostly has insects of some sort…..who would want them in your house?
Europeans like to think that they are more sophisticated and cultured than Americans, they are wrong. They are just more arrogant.
The mail boxes vary depending on location. Many still have the traditional mail slot in the door. The metal mailboxes are typically used in suburban and rural areas.
Golden Retrievers and Labradors are both excellent dogs for homes with children. Not only do we have screens on our windows, many homes also have screened in porches so that the residents can sit outside and not be bothered by insects.
Absolutely true. We can open the windows with no fear of bugs coming in! I can't believe you guys don't have screens!!! Yes there is a fine screen there, keeps out bugs, but allows air to flow thru!!!
I have a kitchen sink that fits pots, pans, dishes, glasses, moveable nozzles and spray vs. water faucet. A garbage disposal is standard.
There is not another window; it's a screen - it's a thin metal mesh that lets a breeze in and keeps the bugs out. If one is able to open windows at opposite parts of the room/house, a nice crossflow of air is transported through the rooms.
“Whoa! You must be rich!”
“Honey, he’s teasing. Nobody has TWO television sets.”
Or 7. Wow, that’s nuts.
Yes that's a home on the rich side, BUT, she is right on the product's that are in just about every home. My sister lives in a manufactured home cheaply made and has all those products. She has 4 TV's not 6. You could live on the poor side of town and still have half or more of those things. The chairs are called lazy boys. Your town probably sales screens, may you could fit it to your window. Make it yourself and open your window this summer. 😊
I consider myself middle class and we have 1 tv and 2 laptops. Most of our friends and family have at most 2 tvs. Might be that we are also more tech- savvy so more comfortable with computers than TVs. 🤷🏼♀️ I was shell-shocked when she said 6 TVs!
@@mythicsagefire Yes, you have computers, which is more expensive if you don't know how to program or make your own. That is probably why TV's have become cheaper and more are being bought. TV's are going out like VHS and CDs. I can't afford a computer. My kids bought me one but it only does the basics. It's ok for me because I'm not technically intelligent. You can do more on your phone then a computer and TV. Computer's might also be a thing in the past like everything else.
The stereotypical mailbox is a rural mailbox; what were on farms. They hung out this way so the postal carrier could put in your mail without getting out of the vehicle (mail vehicles are right-hand-drive to make this easier). The US Mail is a service, not unlike military service or the public health service, it is in the constitution that it is to be provided to all homes in the US. Without this mail service, the US would not have expanded as it did (you could literally mail houses or children through USPS)
Not always
We have mailboxes on a post in residential areas here. Actually we always have.
Children?? I'm sure you cannot send children through the U.S. Mail!
Mailing children is a myth based on one picture of a mail carrier that picked up his nephew and let him ride with him to another family members home.
Mailboxes aren't just on farms. They are everywhere, Cities, suburbs, and rural. Even some businesses have mailboxes.
Golden Retrievers are the best dogs. Windows in the US open by sliding them up and close by sliding them down. That makes it possible to have a screen and still open the window. If your windows open by being pushed out toward the side of the house they can't be opened if you have our type of screen. This looks like a typical middleclass house, built and decorated for comfort and convenience.
Thanks for the correction. I have never seen them on crank windows but am glad to know it can be done.@dacrosber
Most of the windows I've seen here slide right to left, or left to right.
If you have casement windows, screens are on the inside and the window cranks open, With the screen inside.
@@drcovell Thank you!
We have window that crank out, but have removable screens on the inside. When we put new windows in the house to replace the terrible ones that were there, I wanted the ones that would open out so that if the wind were coming from a the side the window would help to channel the air inside. It works pretty well.
Yes we have mesh wire screens to keep the bugs out and keep the cats and kids inside
That has a motorized recliner, but if you have one without the motor they will be more like what you see on Friends.
Golden Retrievers are by far the best around kids. Very easy to train and gentle with kids🙏
golden retrievers are one of the few dog breeds i like. i'm not much of a dog person (little bit of early childhood trauma with dogs) but golden retrievers are easily an exception for me
American homes come with many amenities no matter the home, from RVs to Mansions. Most of the low income houses like Mobile Homes and Apartment buildings come with the basics, window screens and air conditioning. You can gage amenities and price brackets by looking at vacation homes from low to high to see what is common and not so common throughout America.
Window screens are a must have. I’ve even bought screens for my vehicle for when I go camping.
1) Ice makers are fairly standard on new refrigerators, garbage disposers have been in our homes for at least 60 years. 2) The faucet and sink shown here are sold as regular items at Costco - many people have them. 3) It is easy to get a TV in all rooms - Walmart sells 32" TVs starting at $100 so not really a problem to accumulate. HELLO from Southern California! - love to watch your videos!
Americans: We have food delivery robots.
Europeans: Yeah sure, but tell us about window screens!
This is most likely a middle-class home. They have a great life, but it isn't a rich home - unless this is close to a major city. This looks and feels like a middle-class home in a nice suburban area. A very nice place to raise a family. The openess in the yards is actually a good thing as the children are likely to play with neighboring children - and mom's and dad's can keep an eye on the kids.
If this is on the coasts its definitely upper upper upper middle class. If its more middle of the country, its could just be a middle class.
@paulsmith8510 she said it's in the Midwest so I'd agree with OP, avg middle class home.
@@paulsmith8510She said Midwest. Only place it would be upper upper middle class would be outside Chicago basically.
Upper middle class. This is nicer than most homes my friends and family have. I think some people don't realize how good they have it.
@ARISUinW0NDERLAND I think it just depends on the region. I live in the suburbs of Nashville, and this would be considered an average middle class home. However, the same house inside the Nashville city limits works be considered an upper middle class home as the housing prices inside the city limits are 3 to 4x more than the same home in a surrounding county. In some areas of Nashville this would be over $1M. But the same house is a surrounding county only half an hour from downtown would only be $300-$400k. From my understanding, most of the Midwest is even cheaper.
It's a rich home, but many of these components are standard here. I live in a no-where Kansas town, but my home still has several of these features.
The golden retriever originally was developed in Scotland
She made a mistake by showing the screen with the camera too far away to let the viewers see the wire mesh.
At that distance you can't see what she means, so you thought it was just another window.
If the camera got in close you could see the mesh and it would make more sense.
Window and door screens are normal to keep bugs out. The house she's in is normal. But being on a lake is a luxury property. Lots of TVs are normal, multiple cars are normal. It's a pretty typical middle class to upper middle class home. It's not a mansion or anything.
It’s an upscale home but is very typical. It’s not a million dollar home by any means.
When we lived in Germany I was astonished that the home we lived in did not have window screens. We had the windows open so much and had to deal with flies coming in all of the time! Why? Why no screens? This is a cultural thing to have the windows open for at least a small amount of time year round, and since there is no air conditioning, it is necessary in the summer to keep windows open for ventilation.
Ugh! Up to 5 flies buzzing around in our great room drove me absolutely nuts!
Actually this home is pretty normal.
Almost every single window has a window screen. Some homes even have screen doors so you can still have your door open and allow the air to come through without letting the bugs in.
Pretty much everyone has window screens of some sort. I open my windows a lot during the Spring and Autumn when the temperatures are reasonable. I have one car-it’s the one I drive everywhere. I don’t have a fancy faucet like that one and I have a double sink that adds up to about the same space as her big one. I have an ice maker-one of my favorite things, along with my dishwasher. When I moved into this house, there was a refrigerator/freezer that had an external ice and water dispenser. I am enjoying that! Now, to disappoint you…I have one television and it hasn’t been turned on in six years. I can’t afford broadband internet and/or cable vision. I watch UA-cam and I read. I read a LOT! I also listen to music a lot.
In my opinion this is at least upper middle class, not middle class. Our 1000 sq. ft. middle-class home was built in the 1960s, with window screens, no garbage disposal, small lot, no lakefront. Two occupants, 3 tvs. 😊
Golden retrevers are definitely a great dog for children ❤
Goldies are wonderful dogs. Highly energetic as puppies, though. But, they calm down.
My first dog as an adult was a golden that needed a new home. She was a little over a year old and was too hyper around the prior owner’s 1 and 3 yo kids (jumped on them and knocked them over a lot). Once she grew out of her puppy phase, she was a wonderful, gentle, loving dog.
@@Baker_Lyn Exactly!
Window screens are the best item on that list. The others are nice, but they're just luxuries. Screens are a necessity. Without them, opening your windows is an invitation to all kinds of bugs.
Or something weirder, like a bird or a bat. Maybe a surprise cat or racoon, lol.
I’m 63 and have had window screens all my life.
I love watching you! When you come to America we will spoil you.
That house is beautiful but isn’t that big. I doubt it costs a million or even close.
I have a big house but only 4 TV’s. I don’t put TV’s in any of my guest bedrooms. Certainly wouldn’t not put one in the formal dining room.
I have to agree with you...this is a very nice home, but the things she has pointed out are very common in all homes.
How does any European country NOT have screens on their windows. This is very bizarre to me.
The insulated cups are for hot or cold liquids. Keeps coffee hot and sodas or waters cold.
You can buy window screen kits online and make your own custom window screens. I need to repair some of my screens
Portable screens can be put in any window. They are light weight and don't have be part of the window. The window holds it in place.
That's a pretty basic home. I have. 4 TVs. Living room Bedroom. Guess room. Art studio. William s
Yes it is. Not sure where people are coming up with this being a "rich" home, especially in the Midwest
No screens AND no air conditioning? That's just mean.
With that lake in the backyard that's definitely a pricey home but the you can generally find the majority of the things she showed (or a version of them) in a good portion of American homes.
It wasn't a lake, it looked like an hoa fountain.
The thermal cups keep the hot hot, and the cold cold.
In the mid 1960s most houses did have two TVs. The old black & white ones that got moved to another communal room or a kid's room, and the new color TVs that took over where the B&W TV was. I had a small portable B&W TV, that I sometimes lugged around until the 1985 or so. When I was young if someone was having a sleepover, and I had an adult to drive me back and forth (and help me carry it!!), I was asked to bring it so we could lock ourselves away from the adults. My dad had had to move out of state for a project the aerospace company he worked for was designing. He'd only needed it for six months and never used it again. We usually had at least one girl with a portable record player too. Ask your wife if she and her friends all went into a darkend ( except for one candle) to see if they could summon Bloody Mary.
Before we replaced the old windows on our house, it was two single pane windows that had to be opened separately. When you opened the window, there was another glass window. It was trying to be double pane, but before double pane windows were a thing. It was so annoying and would jam all the time. It had three layers. A glass window, another glass window, and a wire mesh screen. The house was built in 1960, and the windows were original to the home.
This is what I grew up with, too! Then they had to rebuild their house.
We only have 1 tv for 2 people!
In the SE US, window screens are a MUST. Admittedly, where I am, the only time I'll open the windows is spring, fall, or to air out the house - otherwise, the heat or air conditioning is on. But those few weeks of perfect weather... in spring are bees, and late summer is mosquitos. No one would open their windows without a screen. They're in every window that opens in most homes.
I love your complete amazement about the screens lol. As an American living in the midwest, I cannot imagine not having air conditioning or screens!
HOW do you all NOT have SCREENS in Europe?!?!
Every home has screens to keep out insects from coming inside while you can still get fresh air. I live in Georgia, USA and we love our ice.
You need to lobby your home improvement stores for window screens, central air conditioning, sprayer faucets, and garbage disposals. You deserve to live in comfort!
Yep, window screens are really common. Nobody likes bugs coming in their windows!
Every house in America has window screens.. every single one . New or old houses
Mine doesn't. :(
@@chere100then you don't live in a house
Not all most not all
@@MrRedpanda2442 It's a house. I think the builders assumed nobody is gonna want to open their window because it's a very hot desert right outside. But it's not like the weather is never nice. The screens would have been appreciated. Would have liked some screen doors, too. But hey, these are people who put carpet in the master bathroom. Clearly, they have no sense and are some kind of heathen. 😤
Ok, so you are the exception that proves the rule .... @@chere100
Window screens are a must have. You can’t allow all kinds of bugs in your home when you open a window or door. There are also screen doors. That is pretty much a middle class house here (not a rich person’s home). My home has three levels. I currently have six TV’s. One in every bedroom, one in the den off the kitchen, one in the living room and I had one in the Master bathroom but I had it removed because my husband couldn’t get out of the bathroom in the morning watching CNN. He was late every day. The reason people fence in their yards vary. Some do because they have pets. Some do for privacy. You don’t want perfect strangers watching you lounge around in your backyard. And then there is an old saying “ Fences make good neighbors “. As for the mailboxes, my mailbox is attached to my house, as most are in the city. The type of mailboxes you’re seeing are mostly in suburban homes. I don’t have to use a flag, I just put outgoing mail in my mailbox and the postman picks them up when he drops off my mail.
That is a middle class home. About a hundred million people live like that❤
Definitely NOT a millionaire home, lol, esp in the midwest. This would be considered upper middle class...probably around $400-500k based on what we can see.
Not only do our windows have Screens, but I have a Sliding Screen Door on my Sliding Glass Door going out to my backyard. On nice days I can open the Sliding Door, and close the Sliding Screen Door to allow fresh air in, and my cats all sit at it looking out, and smelling all of the outdoor smells. They hear me opening the Sliding Glass Door, and closing the Screen Door they all come running. My cats are strictly Indoor Cats, so this is a way for them to somewhat experience the outdoors.
Very nice home. Probably slightly above average. The fast recliners are manual.
One strange thing we have is out outlets. We have somthing called gfci (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupt) these will be found near sorces of water and will brake the circuit is it detects power going to ground. It is my understanding that European homes have rcd (Residential Current Device) serves the same function but covers the entire home. In the us each electrical socket equipped with gfci is only braking its conection to the rest of the home. You can tell if a socket is equipped with gfci if there are 2 buttons labeled test and reset normally located between the 2 sockets.
I would like to say that I live in an older house built in the 20’s and it doesn’t have screens. But you can buy portable screens at any number of stores including online.
That home, if it wasn't by the lake, would be pretty typical of a new build. And prices in the midwest are low compared to the coast, so could be pretty affordable.
Was out a lake or an "HOA" fountain. My dad has a lake home and you see nothing but lake in the back yard. One of my best friends lives in an HOA and this looks like her view of one of the large fountains. Usually lakehouses have a boat and a dock and there was none of that.
Metal mesh or polyester mesh screens keep out bugs. And birds
I lived in a small pennsylvania town, and nobody had fences.
If a neighbor put one up , it might be called. A " spite fence".
Yes that is a nice home, looks pretty big, on a lake. It is probably $500000 or More
11:00 Dedicated icemakers in refrigerators are wasteful to me because you have to have a second plumbing line for the icemaker.
And the newer ones like hers have plastic gears to releasex the ice. We have 2 of these and neither one will release the ice. 2 repairmen told us it wasn't worth fixing because the plastic will just wear out again. 1 is in the garage now so we don't have it plumbed the other one has the bottom ice but we just bought a countertop ice maker to supplement it and honestly use it the most now.
It's a fine wire mesh. We have had them in the US for decades, even in the 1950's.
I'm in America and I've never seen a fridge with two ice makers. No, most homes do not have garbage disposals. I have never lived in a home with a garbage disposal.
I have two ice makers in my standard LG fridge- I’m 53, and have never lived in a home or apartment without a garbage disposal
@@LaurenD-ew3ltSame here. Standard fridge with door ice and freezer ice and even my roach motel apt in college had a garbage disposal. I hate garbage disposals, I have lost to many things down them so I never use it. I have horrible luck with the door ice. Both of mine are broken ( they do water but the ice dipenser doesn't release the ice) but we bought a countertop ice maker off Amazon rather then repairing them.
It will depend on Sewer vs septic tank for the disposal.
1:20 You hear all those *bugs?* That's why US houses usually have screens.
Just saying 6 tv's is a lot of tv's even for my home and I live in Kentucky, USA! The window screens are common all across the U.S. and the garbage disposal is common in most households.
10:48 This women hails from Wisconsin or Minnesota. That frozen pizza is "Lotzza Motzza." It's good pizza.
@dacrosber Lottza Motzza grew on me.
@dacrosber I only buy it when it's on sale.
@dacrosber Here's a good frozen pizza anecdote. My parents (long passed) always raved about Totino's "Party Pizza." (It's that tiny square pizza.) My parents would always say it tastes good and is a meal. Us kids would always laugh at them. One day my local store was selling 'em for 98 cents. I bought a few and thought my parents weren't wrong as they are decent but aren't exactly a meal.
I have 5 TVs with a household of 3.
Yes we all have intact screens on our windows. Except for the ones that have clawed cats, like me!
I have 2 labs that destroyed the screens in my kitchen and sun room when they were puppies. The screens are so cheap though, I just brought the ones they scratched up to Ace Hardware and they made me new ones for $12 each.
There is only one ice maker in the fridge. The ice maker is the box-like part in the fridge. When the door is closed, it dispenses the ice out the front, into your glass.
I don’t think I laughed so hard when she said, how many ice makers…lol! I was like nope just 1.
No, you guys are wrong. I have a similar fridge, it has 2 ice makers. One up top and one on the bottom drawer of the freezer. I never use the lower ice maker and keep the lever up. The fridge literally makes ice in 2 places, it's dumb.
Some people have one tv in every room. Others may have only two or three for the house. I only have two.
A house on a lake around here in Massachusetts will easily go for $ 2 million. Price depends on location.
Absolutely
Midwesterner here. I live in town, so my mailbox is attached to the side of the house right outside my front door. It doesn't have the flag, so if you want to send a letter you leave it sticking partway out of the box with the stamp showing and the mailman will take it. Window screens are great - especially in spring and fall. The house in the video, if it was located by me (northwest Indiana) would be considered typical middle class and cost around $200,000 - 300,000, mainly because it's on a lake. If it wasn't on a lake, it would be closer to $150,000 - 200,000. We only have one ice maker built into the fridge and don't use Ice that much. We do have 3 TVs (one in the living room, one in the dart room - dart room is not typical for US but my significant other loves darts, and one in the bedroom), but certainly not 6! We do each have our own vehicle, because I drive an hour away for work, but only one per person. We do not have any pets and there are no golden retrievers in our neighborhood.
Golden Retrievers are some of the best family dogs. They are big lovable goofs. I've never met an angry golden. They are very gentle. That said, there's plenty of good breeds.
Never not had window screens. This is a normal home especially in California
Goldens are great dogs for kids. My golden is very patient with all my nieces who range from 1 - 7 yrs old. He is so gentle with them. In fact, he has turned multiple people who were previously scared of dogs (due to being attacked by a dog as children) to proud golden retriever parents.
I don't like dogs but my neighbor just got a Golden and I told her "That's one type of dog no one would be afraid of."
2:17 It is nice. Always use the little red flag.
I could not imagine opening my windows and not having a screen and having flies and bugs come in my house oh God I could not imagine that's unbelievable that they're not a thing everywhere
I was born I'm 1965. My parents bought their first house in 1965 for $35,000, we had 2 cars(one for my dad to go to work, my mom had one to take my sister and I to doctor's appointments, school, the grocery store, amongst other places. In New Mexico we had swamp coolers because it's not as humid as the west coast, east coast, or the southern states that are right by the Gulf Of Mexico. We are in the Southwest so it can get very hot sometimes around 110! The screen in the window let's air in, but keeps the bugs out especially: flies, mosquitoes, bees, wasps, most spiders, grasshoppers, etc. extremely important to have. From 1965 to 1987 we had 2 tv's (one in the den or family room, and 1 in my parents room.) In 1987 when I moved out on my own I only had 1. 6 tv's is a bit excessive, but it depends on the size of the house, how many children you have. My parents have had bigger houses since my sister and I moved out, but we're not excessive maybe a maximum of 3. The garbage disposal is very important because the more food you put in a trash can start to stink or attract bugs. You also don't put just any food down the disposal and you don't put giant pieces of food down it either, from 1965 to the present there have always been garbage disposal's. Ice is a big thing( yes we know it dilutes drinks), but it helps things to stay cold, and if you have an injury of some kind to keep the swelling down you can put ice cubes in a baggie, also I'm probably not the exception, but I like to chew on ice.