I moved from the US to the UK – these are the issues in British homes that make no sense to Americans

An American woman has revealed all the things she finds ‘strange’ about living in a British home.

Brittany, a content creator who grew up in Florida, said she moved to the UK 12 years ago, but still finds it tough to adapt to features like ‘double taps’ that gush ‘ice cold’ or ‘scalding hot water’ and ‘no between’.

In a video shared to TikTok, the DIY influencer gave a tour of her Birmingham home, where an automated voice described having a washing machine in the kitchen and no electrical outlets inside a bathroom as odd, especially compared to back home in the US.

In a caption accompanying the post, she revealed she often angers British viewers with her lamenting of British norms, to the point where some people have told her to ‘go home’.

However, she revealed she’s putting down roots in the UK, where she lives with her ‘crazy British husband’.  

As she reeled off a list of things about British life she finds unusual, she began with bathroom sinks. 

‘First there is this double tap situation where one is scalding hot water and the other is ice cold – and there is no in between,’ the automated voice on the clip said.

She mocked the creation, saying it reduced her to waving her ‘hands around like an idiot – which she awkwardly demonstrated by throwing her hands from side to side while water splashed around the basin.

Brittany, a content creator who grew up in Florida, has revealed all the things she finds ‘strange’ about living in a British home

‘Thankfully these have become a lot less common recently,’ it continued. 

She then posted a picture of the couple’s current contraption – an updated single tap faucet.

Her next gripe was about the location of the washing machine, which is commonly placed in kitchens in most British homes.

Brittany dubbed this ‘odd’ before boasting that US homes normally had separate in-built rooms for washing machines and dryers ‘or they’re in the bathroom or a closet’.

She claimed the few electrical outlets she’d spotted in British bathrooms were only for ‘shavers’, and dubbed this ‘sexist’. 

Adding a short clip of a woman delightfully grooming her hair, the voice chimed: ‘But I want to do my hair in the bathroom and be as happy as this stock footage lady’.

Some US homes are permitted to have power sockets fitted in bathrooms – however in the UK this practice is currently illegal, unless it can be fitted at least three metres from the bath or shower.

She said she found it tough to adapt to features like ‘double taps’ that gush ‘ice cold’ or ‘scalding hot water’ and ‘no between’

Brittany (pictured) said she moved to the UK to live with her ‘crazy British husband’

The creator also bemoaned the sizing of glass shower doors as it rendered them non-functional and leaked water all over the floor – ‘make these glasses longer England I beg you!’ the voice exclaimed.

Last but not least was the topic of British weather, which was described as a ‘fiery hell’ during the summer. For this, she instructed Brits to install air conditioning units in their homes.

‘I spent one summer here before buying a portable unit and our first year in our house we got an AC installed’ the creator recounted.

‘A necessary evil, but by God was it necessary.’ 

In the post’s caption, Brittany took a swipe at ‘British humour’ and said she had expected Brits to take her pointers ‘in stride’. 

However not everyone saw the funny side and instead, some furious Britons told her to leave the country if she doesn’t like living here. 

‘I got a lot of messages from people taking it very seriously and telling me to go home,’ she wrote.

This sentiment was echoed in the comments section, with viewers quickly defending British homes.  

‘How hard is it to fill a sink with the correct temperature water?’ asked one user.

‘We don’t need AC, we just open the windows and doors to let the breeze in’ wrote another.

Meanwhile one person wrote: ‘An outlet in the bathroom is a death wish.’

In a separate TikTok video, Brittany addressed enquiring minds who questioned her move to the UK.

‘The short and not controversial answer is that my husband lives here’ she explained.

She told viewers that the couple could have indeed moved to the US – and though she didn’t explicitly say why they changed their mind – a pop up image of Donald Trump sort of gave it away.

‘Don’t get me wrong the UK has its faults’ she continued. ‘But when given a choice between the two we chose here [the UK]’.