I was having a chat with some friends and we were talking about how, in the U.S. at least, washers are usually on the left and dryers on the right and why that might be. Someone pointed out that we wash first and then we dry. But then someone else pointed out that we are sort of primed to think in left-to-right terms already since that’s the direction in which we read. So here is my question:

Are washers usually on the right and dryers on the left in the Middle East?

  • eatham 🇭🇲
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    6 hours ago

    From what I’ve seen, both Israel and Australia (not in the middle east) stack the dryer over the washer most of the time.

  • thisnameisnottolong
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    9 hours ago

    Interesting question. I wonder how common dryers are in the Middle East? It’s famously hot and dry there so a dryer seems a bit redundant.