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It's all about space and age of housing stock. Most of our places pre-date mass availability of washing machines.
Bigger houses, or ones with enough dead space somewhere will often have hot water tanks, but even so where space is at a premium people will sacrifice it.
For eg my folks have two medium size ones - one in an airing cupboard under the stairs in the basement next to the kitchen, the other next to it in an adjacent coal cellar. But in their road most people typically have knocked out that airing cupboard to make the room bigger and probably extend a bit combining the coal cellar. When they had their house renovated the builders and PM thought my mum was a bit odd for prioritising an airing cupboard and outside storage over having a bigger kitchen. Would have also cost more, so they weren't the most objective, but still shows the trend.
What do you do in apartments? Is it like the States where nicer blocks have a communal set in the basement and less nice ones you go to a laundrette? Fucking hated having to spend $5 to wash anything regardless of size.