I wish it was this clear cut in the states. Motherfucking builders treat this like guidelines and I'm never sure what button I need to press to be able to walk outside.

Yeah England loses this round.

So the "second story" is "floor 1"? That seems odd.

Speaking of that, you could have also had "stories" vs "storeys" in this.

English is my second language. I use both.

This is where it’s a benefit to live in a hilly area. For a building on a hill, it’s quite normal to enter on a different floor depending on whether you’re on an uphill side or downhill side. The main entrance to my son’s dorm is the third floor

I just assume the Brits are on a hill or slightly tilted

Ok so I need some clarification. Building has a crawlspace so there are a few steps up to the front door (please don't tell me the front has some weird name too), so the entrance level isn't necessarily the ground level what do you do?

Option 2 the building is built on uneven ground so the front entrance is ground level but the back entrance is on the floor below the entrance level. How do you number that?

For simplicity sake front refers to street view side and back is the opposite of front.

do Brits skip 13?

Finally a metric we can agree on "the Americans" do better?! World peace is possible!

Where are the stairs going in that picture? They just make everything more confusing. They seem to go exactly between two levels and not on the bottom level like a normal-ass building.

Same thing in Spain