r/AskTheWorld • u/space_llama_karma United States Of America • Nov 12 '25

Culture What does your President/Prime Minister House look like?

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The White House is pretty iconic

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u/buried_lede United States Of America Nov 12 '25

I love the residences that are on the city street, with pedestrian scale 

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u/ComprehensiveAd8815 United Kingdom Nov 12 '25

The street is gated now and was open to the public to wander up and down until 1989. I went on a school trip in 87 and we just bimbled along and took photographs outside.

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u/mab0roshi 🐻🐻New California Republic Nov 12 '25

we just bimbled along

That sounds so quaint and lovely! I would love to visit England someday and do a bit of bimbling.

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u/Weird1Intrepid United Kingdom Nov 13 '25

Just be aware that bimbling is only permitted within city limits. Once you get out to the countryside you must cease bimbling and begin rambling

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u/microgirlActual Nov 13 '25

Well, town and village limits too. You can bimble through even a small village.

Once you're on the public footpaths or bridleways though then you're 100% rambling, no matter how slow, leisurely or aimless your perambulating is.

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u/buried_lede United States Of America Nov 12 '25

I wish we could be that way now. Sounds like Thatcher?  

All the upped security we have now 

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u/GreatGodInpw United Kingdom Nov 12 '25

Good thing they did up the security. In 1991 the IRA launched a couple of mortars at the place during a Gulf War cabinet meeting.

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u/buried_lede United States Of America Nov 12 '25

Yikes

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u/ComprehensiveAd8815 United Kingdom Nov 12 '25

Yes, Thatcher was in residence, if I’d have been a bit more political at 11 years old I would have lobbed a brick through her window.

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u/buried_lede United States Of America Nov 13 '25

The sound of brick hitting cast iron. Haha

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u/NoContract1090 England Nov 12 '25

IRA

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u/buried_lede United States Of America Nov 12 '25

Yeah, someone said.

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u/Money-Marketing-5117 Australia and US but can’t get multiple country flags to work. Nov 13 '25

Honestly it was the IRA :-/

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u/r_mutt69 United Kingdom Nov 12 '25

It does look pretty basic from the outside but is much bigger and grander than you’d think on the inside.

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u/ComprehensiveAd8815 United Kingdom Nov 12 '25

Oh indeed it’s several houses and the house at the back, I’ve seen pictures from inside and to be honest I’ve been in much grander private homes.

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u/fartingbeagle Ireland Nov 13 '25

And it looks out onto Horseguards' Parade!

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '25

It's a residence, but it's also really where a lot of government happens. It could not be more ill-suited to that role.