As a Brit, you should tell them about your carpeted (private) bathrooms.
When I was a kid, we had a carpeted bathroom toilet area.
What lunacy. Mold grows easily (carpet was always damp in high humidity summers, due to condensation, near the toilet), and worse, one bad flush and your carpet is now literally encrusted with human shit.
How do you feel comfortable keeping it clean?!
> (BTW, in the 1990s a Boston-area radio station used to broadcast bits where they would sit in a stall and strike up a conversation with whoever sat next to them.)
I'm British and I think we have just found the most important, deepest cultural difference between the UK and the US there is!