British man travels to Canada and is left stunned after spotting huge difference

Daily Record

8 hours ago

A British man who travelled to Canada to see his partner was left gobsmacked after spotting a 'mad' difference in houses when driving to her house - but some locals say he's got the wrong idea
A Brit who recently travelled to Canada to visit his partner has shared his shocked at a significant difference between the two countries that he can't get his head around.
Rayhaan, a man from the UK, took to social media to document his trip to Canada as he visited his wife in the Toronto area for the first time. While it's normal to experience cultural shocks and differences when travelling abroad, and especially when staying with locals, Rayhaan's first cultural shock came during the car ride to his wife's home, where he was baffled by one major dissimilarity to UK houses.
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"F**k me are these not mansions?" exclaimed Rayhaan at the beginning of his video, which has since racked up over 1.4 million views on his TikTok account.
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The footage showed them driving through a neighbourhood filled with several large detached houses, each appearing to be spacious two or three-storey homes with integrated garages.
"That's a mansion in England. Then, oh, another mansion. You're telling me these ain't mansions?" he questioned his partner, who was behind the wheel.
Despite her dismissing his thoughts that the properties were mansions, he said: "What do you mean no? Look at the state of these houses. You're telling me they ain't mansions? [...] F**king hell. Mansion ones."
As they continued to drive past through the neighbourhood, they continued to pass several similar houses that were all large detached homes with built in single or double garages, multiple storages, and included a large driveway and front gardens. Some homes also had porches that wrapped around the side of the home.
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'This is a madness, I'm telling you, yeah. The houses here are insane," Rayhaan told his viewers. "I just can't get over it. This is just f**ked, it's just stupid. It's absolutely stupid. What is going on bro?"
"I don't know why she'd come to England," he said.
Viewers quickly took to the comment section to share their thoughts, with many telling Rayhaan that these home were in fact not 'common' Canadian homes.
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"I'm Canadian, those...are NOT standard houses, those people are wealthy," one viewer insisted, while another said: "Those are definitely NOT average middle class houses."
Another viewer wrote: "They're priced like mansions now so let's just call them mansions and be done with it,".
A fellow Brit also shared his thoughts as he wrote: "As a British man in Canada I can confirm this is true... but after living here for five years it's sad to say that these are just average homes with million $ price tags which is ridiculous and what makes it worse is that these homes are made out of cardboard literally not even worth that much at max they should be $350 K.."
Another Brit claimed: "In South England they build a house like that, divide it into 4 terraced houses and sell them for 400k each."