America versus UK

[Mrs W 11]

Oh and petrol = gas!

 

[mommy0629]

Do Americans say faucet instead of tap? I alway used to wonder what that meant!

Both actually lol. I'll say "tap water" but if my ds leaves the water running while brushing his teeth for example, I'll say "turn off the faucet". We also use the term tap to refer to beer in a bar (pub) that isn't canned or bottled, it's from the "tap".

The pop/soda thing, I'm in the north and NO one here calls it pop, you'd get looked at weird, that's more of an old fashioned term. We call is soda. and if you ask for a "coke" it means whatever cola soda the place has (could be Pepsi or any other brand, we still ask for a Coke LOL).

EDT: Oh, and I almost never keep soda in my house, I drink water and coffee mainly, ds drinks water, milk or juice and dh drinks iced tea. I drink hot tea also so I usually offer guests coffee, tea or iced tea. We only really drink soda if we're out to eat or brink home fast food or take-out. And at parties or cookouts in the summer.

That's weird. Everybody I met from PA at college always said pop lol must be regional in the state too lol

I have a question for all you UK peeps... What is squash? I keep seeing post about drinking squash and I keep picturing putting a straw into a zucchini or yellow squash LOL

I know down around Philly they say pop, in the the north east part of the state. It is weird lol.

 

[mommy0629]

FAUCET!!! THAT'S what she says. Since I was a girl the scene in Grease with the ear piercing sleep over baffled me as to what was said when co was asked for. But I think it must have been "why don't you let the cold water run and stick her ear under the FAUCET"

DUHHHHHH

Yep.

 

[Tasha]

Couldn't care less - enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw

Made me laugh

 

[aliss]

Yeh when UK girls go on about drinking squash I can't help but picture sticking a zucchini in a blender.

 

[mommy0629]

Couldn't care less - enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw

I 110% agree with the "queen", I can't stand when ppl say it that way and I've actually corrected people

He is wrong about the fort thing though, it's just a term in the US, we use "hold down" to refer to guarding something. "Hold DOWN the the fort" makes perfect sense to me lol

 

[jessicatunnel]

Where I'm from (Texas) our houses look like this. This was very similar to the house I grew up in.

https://i1248.photobucket.com/albums/hh484/jessicatunnell/hr3806718-1_zps50a601b0.jpg

They run anywhere from 100k to 200k which is pretty average for my area. This particular one was actually $109,000 on a real estate website.

The cost of houses and sizes of house can be VERY different in different parts of the US. I've noticed the house that are more NorthEast are a lot more expensive for smaller homes.
Down south where I'm from you can get a HUGE house for 150k. We have more spread out houses with bigger yards here, where as in the northeast the homes are closer together and the yards are smaller.

We also have townhomes that look like this.

https://i1248.photobucket.com/albums/hh484/jessicatunnell/ar120209601505469_zpsb770b0e6.jpg

 

[babybrums]

Where I'm from (Texas) our houses look like this. This was very similar to the house I grew up in.

https://i1248.photobucket.com/albums/hh484/jessicatunnell/hr3806718-1_zps50a601b0.jpg

They run anywhere from 100k to 200k which is pretty average for my area. This particular one was actually $109,000 on a real estate website.

The cost of houses and sizes of house can be VERY different in different parts of the US. I've noticed the house that are more NorthEast are a lot more expensive for smaller homes.
Down south where I'm from you can get a HUGE house for 150k. We have more spread out houses with bigger yards here, where as in the northeast the homes are closer together and the yards are smaller.

Depending on the town, a house like that could easily be over $200k by me. Brick homes are a premium. Honestly you'd have a hard time finding a home for $109k in my neck of the woods that was either really small or needed a lot of work. You're right though, home prices vary by area. You could buy a home in a bad neighborhood (crime wise) for $15k. Not the nicest home but a home none the less. The same home could be 10 to 20 times as much in a good neighborhood.

 

[omfgski]

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[theraphosidae]

We have them in Canada so I'd assume so.

I just noticed you're from North Bay! I lived there for 20 years! Moved there from Toronto when I was 9 months old and then moved here to Ottawa only 2 years ago.

 

[jessicatunnel]

Depending on the town, a house like that could easily be over $200k by me. Brick homes are a premium. Honestly you'd have a hard time finding a home for $109k in my neck of the woods that was either really small or needed a lot of work. You're right though, home prices vary by area. You could buy a home in a bad neighborhood (crime wise) for $15k. Not the nicest home but a home none the less. The same home could be 10 to 20 times as much in a good neighborhood.

See, it's not uncommon at all to own a brick house in Texas. It's crazy how much it can differ in our country.

 

[MommaAlexis]

We have them in Canada so I'd assume so.

I just noticed you're from North Bay! I lived there for 20 years! Moved there from Toronto when I was 9 months old and then moved here to Ottawa only 2 years ago.

Haha yepp! I live right downtown beside that giant noisy clock that rings at all hours of the day lol.

 

[Dragonfly]

It took me ages to find out what a flannel was when English people said it. We dont say that here its a face cloth.

 

[mrsbeano]

It took me ages to find out what a flannel was when English people said it. We dont say that here its a face cloth.

There's a lot of England/NI things that can be lost in translation. My favourites are 'awk, isn't he a wee dote' and 'making strange.' TBH I can't quite get a direct translation for wee dote because my MIL just said that he's just a wee pet when I asked.

 

[Dragonfly]

It took me ages to find out what a flannel was when English people said it. We dont say that here its a face cloth.

There's a lot of England/NI things that can be lost in translation. My favourites are 'awk, isn't he a wee dote' and 'making strange.' TBH I can't quite get a direct translation for wee dote because my MIL just said that he's just a wee pet when I asked.

There is a sub doc here I love going to that talks like that she calls me a wee dote and the kids she calls wee cuddles. Shes like an explosion of happiness, even cheers you up talking to her. The rest the docs are all square.

 

[MrsT&Ben]

Ok what is copays and deductables????

 

[babybrums]

I was wrong. See link below for a really good explanation.

 

[kwood]

Ok what is copays and deductables????

Copay is how much you have to pay everytime you visit the doctor. My copay was $20 a visit in my last job in the U.S. and deductible is what you have to pay prior to insurance paying out (same way as car insurance normally works) so If someone has a $20,000 bill and a $2000 deductible, you would have to pay $2000 out of pocket and the insurance would cover the remaining $18,000.

 

[babybrums]

Okay maybe I got that wrong. Check out this link.

https://www.staysmartstayhealthy.com/health_insurance_deductibles

I'm getting co-pays and co-insurance confused. Ugh, insurance here SUCKS!

 

[chell5544]

^^ ah to me that sounds what we would call our excess fee on insurance claims