Across the pond, our British friends are having a bit of a meltdown. Why, you wonder? Well, it seems they’re peering over the fence—or rather, the ocean—and eyeing the American lifestyle with envy. Specifically, they’re marveling at the grand scale of U.S. homes and wondering if there’s room for a bloke or two in those spacious abodes.

It seems that what they see online has them scratching their heads. For the price of a relatively modest semi-detached house in the UK, Americans can secure a detached property with more room than they know what to do with. Brits are gawking at four-bedroom beauties with sprawling hallways and majestic staircases that belong more in a Jane Austen novel than on their Instagram feed. For the same budget, they lament the British must settle for snooze-inducing, run-of-the-mill houses.

However, before we start welcoming a line of Brits wanting to test their first American backyard barbecue, it’s their quirky immigration policies that need revising. Some folks jest that maybe the Sceptered Isle should reconsider their stance on keeping Americans out if they want to enjoy the simple luxury of a house as vast as their dreams.

Our British counterparts seem to be nursing a tongue-in-cheek grudge over the Revolutionary War, only now the battlefield consists of house prices and floor plans. If they think they can woo us back into the empire fold with their historical grievances and quaint accents, think again. Instead, let’s turn over to what Dame Liberty says—something about teeming masses yearning to breathe… space.

While we’re not advocating a cross-cultural housing trade-off just yet, it might indeed be time to pop the kettle on and have a chinwag on sharing a slice of the American Dream. As the British go dotty over our golden square footage, maybe it’s a cue for them to spruce up the immigration policy paperwork instead of simply drooling over Zillow listings from afar.