Those versions of wife beaters are CREEPY, hahahahahahahahahaha
I got taught at GCSE history that the Americans started calling 'sweaters' jumpers because the day Wall Street crash happened lots of people jumped off buildings wearing sweaters so they started calling them jumpers instead lol! The schooling system REALLY confuses me! In the UK there's playgroup, nursery, reception, infants, primary, comprehensive, college then university but America is different?
Preschool - age 4
Elementary school - kindergarten - 5th grade (age 5 - 10)
Middle school / junior high - 6th - 8th grade (11 - 13)
High school - 9th - 12th (14 - 18)
College and University are essentially the same. We also have trade or technical schools. Colleges tend to offer 4 year + degrees and tech schools offer 2 year degrees.
Some elementary schools go up to 8th grade, skipping the middle school. Some go to 9th. There's a lot of variables.
A levels are qualifications that you get at 18, you spend the two years after your GCSE's (which you get at 16 at the end of high school) working towards your Alevels. You need them (or equivilant) to go on to University x
Also I have to say it isnt dumb, its one of my favourite bnb questions everYou made me smile at 2.25am when I cant sleep, I thought that was impossible.
The terraced housing and semi detached homes look like what we would call townhomes. They're more common in city type areas.
They look like this:
https://images.apartmentfinder.com/phototmp/photos_nt/27901/4E25D445-DF7E-4CE3-9E14-78227DD0BD87.jpg
https://www.ryvenco.com/images/community/e8b29466.jpg
Regular large (detached) homes are more common. My home is 2800 sq ft and 4 bedrooms/3 bathrooms which is pretty typical. This is what a common house looks like here (no idea who that is in the photo btw).
https://fromthebedside.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/img_1720.jpg