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  • [Aiko] Hello world! Last year we bought a new house,

  • and this is how it's different than our old apartment

  • [Shin] In our new house, we have a yard

  • [Aiko] And this is our backyard

  • So this is our little garden

  • [Shin] This is our back side yard

  • [Aiko] So we don't need to share walls with our neighbours anymore, look!

  • [Greg, offscreen] Yeah, but you can almost touch the neighbour's wall

  • [Aiko] But that's a good thing because we can share rice

  • [Shin] Now I can scratch off the wallpaper

  • Now I can make dents in the floor!

  • [Greg] Yeah, we don't have to worry about damage deposits anymore

  • But the floors and walls are easy to dent and scratch kind of like they're from a dollar store

  • [Aiko] The air conditioning uses less energy and less money

  • [Greg] And because the house came with none, it cost a lot to put all them in

  • [Shin] We have a toilet upstairs!

  • We have a toilet downstairs too!

  • [Greg] Which both need to be cleaned

  • We have two balconies and one's over here

  • And one up here

  • [Greg] Although our old single Balcony was still bigger than both of the new ones combined

  • [Aiko] In our old house, we couldn't jump around

  • but here we can

  • [Greg] And because there's no one below us the kids do jump around

  • Being serious though, it really is nice

  • to have a house to call your own.

  • Here's some things we really do like:

  • [Aiko] You have a bigger kitchen and you have more space to cut

  • [Greg] That little strip between the stove and sink was all we had before

  • [Aiko] And it's easy to clean walls

  • [Greg] The kitchen walls in the old place were tile and grout

  • which were harder to keep clean

  • [Aiko] And it's easy to take apart and clean the stove

  • [Greg] In the new house the stove is made up a few parts, and it's a relatively flat surface to clean

  • Whereas in the old place there's simply more to take apart and clean

  • [Aiko] In our new sink, we have regular mode

  • and you have spray mode

  • And we can spray it around

  • [Greg] In comparison the old sink had a simple faucet

  • [Aiko] Our new bathroom is bigger and easier to clean

  • [Greg] This is huge for me because the new place has less parts

  • and there's no space underneath for mildew and mold to grow like in the old place

  • [Aiko] Our new doors can close quietly

  • [Greg] And you can even easily change out the handles to get locks on the doors. Which I did.

  • Doesn't make the knocking sound of little fists any quieter though

  • [Aiko] Our interphone has colour and you can see who visited us before

  • [Greg] Which is great for seeing what weirdos visited your house

  • Our new house has double pane windows. So it has better soundproofing,

  • and it's more energy-efficient.

  • Also the frames are plastic,

  • so moisture doesn't perspire from them.

  • And there's a track to drain condensation from windows, if there is any

  • There were some things that were truly nicer about our old apartment

  • For example if you opens the doors and windows, you could get a nice wind flow going

  • Because the building was concrete the temperature inside was more consistent

  • And when you weren't home there were lockers that the couriers could use

  • [Shin] but kids can't play inside because you can be stuck

  • [Greg] Moving homes was an interesting experience

  • Because our kitchen is on the second floor we had the privilege of paying for a crane to lift up our fridge

  • Luckily our couch and the rest of our stuff didn't require one

  • On moving day, the house was like a corrugated plastic play place

  • We ended up with only one small dent in the floor

  • Which to their credit, the movers did send a repair person the following week to fix it.

  • Since that day, we've made more than a dozen ourselves

  • [Aiko] Are there differences between renting apartments and owning a house where you're from?

  • [Shin] Thanks for watching, see you next time, bye!

  • [Greg] Hey guys, we'd love to see your quick video about where you're from at the end of our videos

  • So please check the description to see how you can share with us.

  • Thanks. Bye!

[Aiko] Hello world! Last year we bought a new house,

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