all you have to do is turn the knob all the way up and the window comes down to about it's kind of
fancy even with it like this i can already start to feel the cool air start to come into the room
but if you want to completely air out the room the window actually comes all the way open
and all you have to do is turn the knob to the side and now the window opens all the way
to lock it hey guys welcome back to foreign reacts it's been a minute since i've been here i was
having a lot of technical difficulties with the internet so i'm finally back doing reaction videos
again but either way today we're going to be checking out german houses compared to uh american
houses uh it says part one i don't know if i'm gonna do the part two but i think part one should
be enough but either ways the major differences so we're gonna be checking that out right now
so uh all my germans thank you for watching and everybody else here at foreign reactors thank you
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well so sit back and relax and let's see what are the uh major differences between these uh
two particular homes of uh different countries uh without further ado guys let's get right into it
if you're an american and you're thinking about moving to germany i'm gonna share with you ten
differences between german houses and american houses okay what's up everybody i'm steve miguel
and you're watching xp life now on this channel i share with you new things that i learned
experience as it pertains to travel and different cultures so if you're new to the channel consider
subscribing there's a lot of differences between german houses and american houses that's right
but this video won't be all inclusive i'm just going to share with you 10 things that i feel are
an important thing to know if you're considering moving to germany so the first major difference
is actually not in the house at all german houses are typically close together in a community since
i've been here i've never seen a house that was just off by itself compared to the u.s it's very
common for houses to be separated by a kilometer or so especially in rural areas like in the south
the second major difference is german houses tend to be built up i've never seen a house that was
only one floor typically it's at least two floors the house that i live in is actually three floors
versus in the u.s it's very common to find houses that are only one floor the third major difference
is the carport for german houses it's a common thing to have the carport separated from the house
sometimes you'll have one like mine where it's just a cover other times you'll actually have one
that you can close now this is different from the u.s where the garage is usually a major piece of
the house and it's actually attached to the house it also serves as another point of entry into the
house and typically they're made to fit one or two cars so the fourth major difference between
german houses and american houses are the doors no doorknobs the only way to lock the doors in german
houses are with the key another thing to note is that if you don't have your key when you go
outside you could potentially be locked out of the house because as you can see
most doors don't have any kind of door knob so when you close it
it's it's shut and you have to have a key in order to open it
that's scary the fifth major difference between german houses and american houses is the heating
in my house and in most german houses you have radiators to heat the house up and what's cool
about these things is they're all throughout the house in every single room and you only heat the
rooms that you are in for example i spent most of my time downstairs so i almost never turned on the
ones on the second and third floor including the bedroom because i like my bedroom cold
the sixth major difference between german houses and american houses are the refrigerators in most
german homes your fridge won't actually look like a fridge but will look like a
ordinary cabinet it does not have a freezer which is something that i think is pretty standard
i've been in quite a few german homes and i have yet to see a freezer typically all refrigerators
within american houses will also be a freezer the seventh major difference between german houses
and american houses is that german houses don't have closets so most of the time you have to buy
something like a wardrobe in order to store your clothes in american houses every single bedroom
will have a closet for you to put your clothes in so the eighth major difference between german
houses and american houses are the windows the first thing i want to point out about the windows
are the rolotens outside metal or plastic shutters that you can let either up or down
depending on what you want to do the second thing i want to point out about the windows is that
there are two different ways that you can open them if you don't want to open the window all the
way up so that you don't have to deal with bugs and potentially birds flying in all you have to do
is turn the knob all the way up and the window comes down to about that's kind of fancy even with
it like this i can already start to feel the cool air start to come into the room but if you want to
completely air out the room the window actually comes all the way open and all you have to do is
turn the knob to the side and now the window opens all the way
to lock it just turn it down now there's no standard window for
american homes but one of the things that really comes in handy
that you find in the u.s but won't find in germany are screens typically in america windows
screens in order to keep the bugs out if you want to open it up the ninth major difference
between german houses and american houses are the ceilings looking at german houses from the outside
they tend to have very steep chimneys they tend to have very steep chimneys
and you actually see that when you go into the house so you definitely want to take this into
consideration when you think about uh the different types of furniture that you want
to buy or move over here is it like something is it that is is that something that has to be
that way or could you possibly build your own house and uh actually have it built a different
way because that would be iffy because i mean like you know like what if you're tall you know
that's kind of iffy difference between german houses and american houses are the bathrooms
um specifically the toilet and the tubs is that thing levitating that i want to a
couple things i want to point out about the toilet if you'll notice it does not have a
back tank to it that is visible or um accessible also uh it doesn't go into the floor and typically
what you'll find in american houses is you the toilet will be mounted onto the floor
um and it'll have a water tank so bad doesn't that fall what the heck i've never seen this before
another thing i want to point out about the toilet is that german toilets don't have a lot of water
in the bowl um the the hole is typically far in like way in the back and you have like all this
flat space in the toilet so you have to do a really good job aiming or you're going to
have to use the brush to clean it also with german toilets they do a really good job
flushing compared to american toilets the toilets in america when you flush them unless you're in a
public restroom when you flush them they tend to do um they do this swirl the water comes
in and it does the swirling motion um to drain out but with german toilets when you flush it
it just does that that makes more sense and i've never had a problem with anything
uh not going down in german toilets as i said the tubs are different as well
they tend to have these shower nozzles attached to them but as you can see there is no shower curtain
or anything to stop the water from getting onto the floor that is because the shower
is actually over here question of the day what are some things that you liked about german houses
that you would like to incorporate into your own i hope you guys enjoyed this video don't forget
to like share and subscribe as well as check out my other videos about my time abroad i'm steve
miguel and thank you that was that was wild that was why i i saw things i never even knew existed
right the window was pretty cool that was pretty cool the window was pretty cool can't lie to that
and um i think the toilet the way i had a flush that was pretty cool too neither was guys y'all
can tell me any other things that are different over there in germany would be really amazing to
hear uh you guys's feedbacks and uh thoughts about it so i'm out of here guys until next time peace