Non-US Dopers, Have You Seen The Movie 'A Christmas Story'?

[Melbourne]

@minor7flat5

… No, average families don’t live in houses like that from “Home Alone.” And no, not every American couple is an architect married to a lawyer.

“A Christmas Story” seems like any Midwestern setting in the middle of winter, complete with the other kids daring Flick to lick the frozen flag pole and Ralphie regularly being stalked by bullies on the way home from school (and eventually getting into a fight with them).
And any homeowner can relate to the father’s constant battle with the furnace, complete with his beautiful woven tapestry of profanity that is allegedly still floating over Lake Michigan somewhere.

The one moment in Home Alone that really resonated with me, that I thought my Australian friends would completely miss, was the moment when our hero went into the basement – alone – and was scared sh–ss by the furnace.

[HeyHomie]

@Melbourne

The one moment in Home Alone that really resonated with me, that I thought my Australian friends would completely miss, was the moment when our hero went into the basement – alone – and was scared sh–ss by the furnace.

Because Australians don’t have furnaces? Or basements? Or neither?

[GuanoLad]

@HeyHomie

Because Australians don’t have furnaces? Or basements? Or neither?

Correct. We have neither.