American reacts to what Brit's LOVE and HATE about London
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I recall at school in Westminster, one of our masters quoting someone, "After a long weekend in London, you've seen everything. After a year in London, you realise you've just scratched the surface of a lifetime of discovery."
She didn't say a happy place she said a happening place. Meaning there's lots to do.
I live in Ireland, we suffer the same weather. So when I heard you say it was an "ugly day", I was shocked.
It looked like quite a pleasant day.
Also lesson number 1 when looking at a British & Irish weather forecast... don't trust it completely! No weather channel can predict sun, then rain, then sun and rain at the same time, and don't forget the random hail in the middle of May.
It rains more in the northern part of America than it does in London.
Yes it gets cold in the Winter and yes there is a thing called April Showers.
But this stereotype that it rains in London everyday is almost insane.
I will say though this year, it's not as warm as it should be, I don't usually need my heating on after February but I'm still using my heating.
When you ask tourist about London they only ever talk about the City of London.
Greater London is the real London is where the real life is.
The City of London is just a extremely small part of London and it's what is only ever shown on TV screens across the world.
the sunlight hours are notoriously low in the UK, (google sunlight hours world map) because while we do technically have less annual precipitation than many sunny parts of the world like Japan & America, we also don't get much heavy rain, it usually comes in the form of frequent light showers and for most of the rest of the time it's overcast
Fascinating that you think it rains continually in London. In the UK we have something called 'seasons'. Google will explain what seasons are if you are interested in learning.
It doesn't rain so much; southeastern England is dryer than Bilbao. Colder and cloudy might be though.
Ha ha us Londoners really do love to share our stories to the tourists. Lovely jubbly 😂 I think the tourists bring a positive vibe to my city.
It's correctly 'Lubbly Jubbly' A Jubbly was an orange drink in a triangular cardboard container which could be bought liquid or frozen which was a new concept in the 1950s as freezers were in shops for the first time.
It rains less in London than New York and Rome ffs.
In total mm's perhaps yes, but the amount of total sunshine is alot less, as many of the days are very cloudy, filled with light drizzle from the beginning to the end.
it rains a little, but three f***king times a day!
@@BearWith Indeed, it's very in Belgium (which is a bit sunnier and warmer). A summer thunderstorm can bring as much precipitation in total mm's as a full month of rain in winter. But perception wise that winter month may appear gloomy and rainy from the beginning to the end.
Most Brits love our multiculturalism. It's wonderful. In mg small town, I can hear six different languages on a walk down the high street. It's wonderful.
Londoners won't make small talk on public transport as a rule but will help if asked. I was born and raised in York (North East England) where people will chat to you on public transport.
Yes London's a melting pot of pretty much every nationality, race, religion and sexuality. People do their thing. Great for trying different foods!
You were saying that someone might complain about the weather. That's not really specific to London I believe, I've heard Brits complaining about the weather across the country. When I lived in the Middle of England of a few months at Uni, people were apologizing to me about the weather. Well, the joke was on them: I'm Dutch. We're professional complainers about weather (and other things)!
Add us Germans to it, please! 😂
Yeah but no but yeah but. We get the Atlantic weather, the North Sea weather, whether the weather be good or whether the weather be bad. We should have a friendly complaining match. Good to know we have competition 😂
@@Burglar-King AAAND companions!!!
@@Burglar-King Love that. And bonus points for your choice of words! In your defense, when I lived in the UK, two roofs collapsed due to weather. One was the gymnasium at campus, the other was part of the roof at the local train station. In the Netherlands, I hardly hear about collapsed roofs. At most, I hear about flying roof tiles.
On the other hand, maybe we just build roofs better ;)
Last summer me and my family went on a holiday trip to London. A bunch of silly, Swedish tourists, who had a great time and look forward to come back! 😃
"if you're tired of London you're tired of life" was said by Samuel Johnson in 1777. He was a writer and probably his greatest work was a A Dictionary of the English Language.
London has changed hugely since he was alive so not everyone would agree with the quote now.
I thought it was his Scottish amanuensis and biographer, James Boswell, who said this, but I could be wrong.
London has gone to the dogs thanks to Khan the Troll.
As someone who'd visited some other European capitals (like Amsterdam/The Hague, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Helsinki, Brussels, Vienna, Bern, Budapest, Luxembourg) as well, I can tell that London is amongst the best walkable of them, indeed. I second what was said in some other comment below "After a long weekend in London, you've seen everything. After a year living in London, you realise you've just scratched the surface of a lifetime of discovery". Oh, and I also travelled to non-European capitals, just to let you know.
Best walkable? How can it be with car congested narrow streets and sidewalks, with obscured sunlight by too densly populated buildings, few outdor resting areas, except for unevenly distributed and centralized parks..? London can not even compete with Paris or the majority of other capitols in Europe.
@@spatialvision4191 Keep calm and don't wear yourself out. I said "amongst the best walkable". I didn't say it's THE best walkable. 😉
The transport system is very easy to use and has very good signage.
London is a geat city. I just came back from there but I could never live there.Too many people too much noise and much too expensive...but I love this city...😄
I use to live in London when I was younger. Loved it and for a younger person it has everything and more. Moved down to a village on the Kent coast, enjoy the quieter life but miss those wonderful London days and nights.
Overall I’ve had a wonderful life in London and continue to have despite the political restrictions forever being thought up by incompetent governance. There are more beautiful cities in Europe but none have the wide range of attractions including the incomparable green areas in the central areas. The weather is unpredictable and annoying sometimes for sure but it’s not always raining that’s a myth.
16c/60f in North London atm, with a 1% chance of rain.
I might be a wierdo but the climate is what I love most about this country. No extremes really. Moderate temperature all year round, rarely if ever above 25 degrees and rarely below 0. Most of the time it sits somewhere in the 10-20 range which is just comfortable. It probably explains why historically we were so productive. It does rain often but not very much when it does usually
Absolutely I agree! I can take my dogs EVERYDAY for a,walk because it rarely gets too cold or too hot.
17:46 🤣🤣🤣
From a German perspective that joke hit different!!!😂
Gekühlte Eier. Autsch! Kein Spaß.
What is the joke?
@@helenag.9386
In German „eggs“ are also what „balls“ are in English. 😉
Wow! They must have searched all day to find a real Londoner.
Exactly
Rare as Hens teeth nowadays!
I guess less sun exposure and more walking in the fresh air keeps you looking young 😊
It’s April, it’s wet. London is one of the most expensive cities I think. You have to go elsewhere, out of London then it’s cheaper.
London has so many trees it is officially a forest.
No it does not. The center feels like a crowded concrete, steel, and glass mess.
@@spatialvision4191 You're getting London confused with New York City. A proven fact is that London has actually more trees than people!
Think no traffic on London bridge had something to do with upgrading it for modern traffic so they made it pedestrian only
G'day Mate! London must have changed since I was there working in a repertory company for nearly 3 1/2 years in the late 70's...Loved the museums, galleries, concerts and the theatre but the rest was just grey... The skies, the streets, the buildings, the Tube and the people's faces. As soon as you got outside of London everything changed. The people had a much happier demeanour and we worked across 16 English cities and it was such a relief to get away each time... It would be nice if London is better now... Cheers!
Why would the pedestrianisation of London Bridge have anything to do with Brexit? Though in actual fact it hasn’t been pedestrianised, Monday to Friday between 7am and 7pm only buses, black cabs and cyclists (as well as pedestrians) can travel across the bridge. This is likely due to both trying to preserve the structure by minimising the traffic that crosses it and trying to keep the traffic in central London as low as possible by encouraging the use of public transport instead. I haven’t been to London in many years but back in the 90’s and early 2000’s driving in central London was horrendous. Severe congestion, lack of parking and a general exorcise in futility, you back to the 60’ to 80’s and you had hideous overexposure to exhaust fumes (this was prior to the lead being removed from petrol and the introduction of catalytic converters). So essentially the governing bodies of Greater London are likely trying their best to improve the environment of the city by reducing pollution to create cleaner air and making it a more pleasant experience to spend time in central London.
Also probably the cost of maintenance of the bridge scares them shitless. Full maintenance was never cheap and for the Bridge of London it would be horrendous.
@@SasquatchTheMighty definitely and if I’m being honest, one of the points I intended to make but I ended up with my brain taking me in a different direction and forgetting to add that in, so that you for resolving that for me 😊
Im originally from East London and now live in a town that likes to call itself a City and miss London so much, I did not come here out of choice but my kids are settled here and have to stick it out, London is an amazing place, literally the only good thing about where I live now is there isn't a single speed camera.
Secret to a long life: unrefrigerated eggs. Noted.
JK, thx for jour work, I always look forward to your videos
It was Dr (Samuel) Johnson who said "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life” - to his friend and biographer James Boswell in 1777.
I don't know when this was filmed but London Bridge was closed for 6 months for repairs but that was in 2020. Since April 2022 there was an ETO (emergency traffic order) restricting use to buses, taxis, motorbikes, cyclists and pedestrians between 7am and 7pm to reduce traffic congestion.
I'm Norwegian, and visiting London is always a glorious experience to me. The saying is right: If you get bored with London, you're bored with life. However, the crowds of people buzzing around you everywhere can get a bit overwhelming when you're not used to it.
Would I have liked to live there? Not really. I'm more of a small town/ village person. Living in one of those quaint little, super idyllic villages not too far from London would have been glorious, though. But in order to own or buy a home in England, especially in a reasonable distance from London, I'd have to win the lottery.
When it comes to violent crime levels, use the statistics of registered crimes year by year. Social media is not to be trusted in any way, about anything - literally. A person's opinions or feelings about something is usually not based on facts.
You may have come across comments about the weather for the last few months because from middle of October to March we have had a remarkable amount of rain and wind. I am 70+ and I cannot remember so many wet and windy days before. We have had Atlantic storms one after another; probably rolling across from the USA!
Here in Perth, Western Australia we're having the opposite problem. We've had the driest 6 months on record and we're having summer temperatures in autumn. It's going to be 34 C on Thursday! We're in drought conditions in all of south west WA while the east coast of Aus has had lots of rain and flooding in some areas. 😊
@heatherfruin5050 It's all really volatile and you can't tell how it's going to manifest in different parts of the world.
I love the history of London and the energy . I’m only 35 mins on the train away so often visit as there isn’t a lot happening here. There is always something going on there. It is really busy now, had a couple of quiet years after Covid. I don’t find it a sad place at all.
As someone who lives in London and have done my whole life, a lot of tourist don't realise how dangerous it can be and how high the crime is. Especially in Greater London areas, so outside of the main central London (tourist hotspots) besides that everything in London is very expensive, housing, food, transport etc..
In relation to everyone being miserable in London, this is true if you live there because you see it constantly. People like to be left alone to go about their business. However, that's not every one of course.
How dangerous exactly? I've never once felt in danger living in London and I've lived all over London!
@@B-A-L maybe you've never personally felt in danger, as I've never personally felt in danger myself. But it really depends where in London & what time of the day you're out. But if you look a knife & gun crime (mostly all gang related) it's very prevalent in London, at an all time high.
I used to live in London. The weather was MUCH better than anything to be found in northern Germany. Statistically, 50 days (!) of rain less in a year.
There are tourists in Indiana? Well, once in a hundred years for an eclipse isn't too bad, I guess.
8:06 *WELCOME TO BRITAIN, YOU'VE PASSED THE TEST*
Too buisy in London but it's a great city full of history fab restaurants , lots of parks and free museums . 😊
On crime in London, my sister frequently goes to London to see shows. I'm not interested, so she goes alone. She's never felt unsafe, even very late at night.
I lived in London for 20 years and moved away last year. The only crime I personally encountered in all those years was two instances of people watching me type in my PIN and then trying to grab my card at the cash machine, and one instance of getting my card taken by a 'Lebanese loop' inside another cash machine.
We have something up north called Yorkshire weather as my nephews call it and when it is pouring Down all days
Could you export some of that water to Perth, Western Australia we're in drought conditions? I love Yorkshire people who my husband and I found the friendliest people in England.😂
I love London! Been living here 20 years. I reckon people get the impression that London is unfriendly as they only see the chaos at the train stations like Euston; where people are mission based and stressed. London overall is chatty and friendly. Each area has a different feel. So chill.
A good one Ryan .
I feel like an "interview" is different to a random stranger stopping you for small talk, plus he wasn't on the busy parts where people don't have time to even look at ya, let online stop and speak 😅
It’s an especially rainy season (and by season I mean the whole year 😂) in the whole of UK. It’s never been so bad…. 😢
Someone, anyone, send us sunshine!!! ☀️☀️☀️
Same in Germany this year 🥲
@@juliii_g I’m still hoping for a break though. 🙏🙏 😊
Yes please!
For what it's worth, Sydney, Australia gets a lot more rain than London U.K. I guess the reason you don't hear so much about that is that their rain is probably warmer!
London actually gets less rain than parts of the Sahara Desert. They have to import water from Lincolnshire.
3:17 - A portuguese girl called Inês, it doesn't get more "brit" than that. 😂
Dearest Ryan, you don't comprehend the amount of tourists in London
6:22 Telling your life story isn't small talk in my opinion. He approached people for this exact reason (more or less). But standing in line at the bakery and someone starts mentioning the weather or if I'm here for the >>insert item this bakery is famous for
Being a Londoner - South of the river, latterly, although now in Edinburgh - I like most of it. But not Bank underground station, not neither Oxford Street.
This can be sorted by not going there
Many bits have got better - Brick Lane, Commercial Street were crappy places when I was a kid; they are now full of fun and vibrant.
London's best: art, museums, history, music, pubs, food, parks
Worst: air pollution (although improving), low quality tourism (e.g. M&M Store)
“American reacts to what Brit is LOVE and HATE about London”. I bet you put that apostrophe in the video title just to annoy me!
The love and hate belong to Brit...
Strictly speaking, "Brit's" is correct as the apostrophe is showing the omission of "on" from Britons, so is a contraction, like "it's" or "don't"! 😄
@@andybaker2456but who would say "he's a Briton"? It would always be "he's a Brit". And two of them would be Brits.
@@andybaker2456you beat me to it but I guess YT comments is the refuge of pedants! 😊
Technically correct, if you see Brit as an abbreviation of Briton.
London is far more walkable than Toronto and there are so many more beautiful parks, garden squares and green space in London (38.4%) vs Toronto 12.7%. Also in Toronto it's so cold in winter it can be painful. A friend of mine in who lives in Toronto and visits the UK and London several times a year refers to London as a Tier 1 city; he doesn't regard Toronto as Tier 1 because it isn't in the same league when it comes to cultural attractions, choices of food, theatres, world class museums, art galleries etc. etc. His take, although I don't disagree!
I'd love to live in London but only after London moved out first.
3:32 Multicultural is not usually referring to people from "all over the EU".
Ironically, London is actually one of the driest cities in UK, and the stereotype about Londoners disliking the small talk mostly applies to people from overseas. Most Brits are quite chatty, and since London is very diverse, small talk depends on who you talk to. Where I come from, people are very closed and distanced, so for me Londoners still seem very talkative in comparison.
Unfortunately, the crime does seem high in here. Higher than back in home.
London is fine but just to visit? I was born in North London but I'm glad I now live in Cambridge. Also expensive but nowhere near as pricey as London. One difference I notice since the seventies, is that London although not spotless, is a lot cleaner than it used to be? Those that live there probably won't notice because it's so gradual?
Worried about what to wear if visiting London, or anywhere else......don't bring an umbrella, just bring a full on wetsuit. It's been pissing down on and off for the last. 6 months😅
PS..... in Britain we have rain interspersed with a glimpse of Sun on the odd occasion 😂
What? For the last 6 months during Winter and Autumn? Reeeally?
@BAL........I could count on the fingers of one hand that we have had rain free days down here in Sussex in the last six months.
It's been long periods of rain, or intermittent showers.
Getting much better now, and warming up nicely!
Where?
London and the south/east is drier than other parts of the UK, and also has less rain than many places in the world. It's buzzing and a great place to visit!
last time I was in London (granted, it was a month or so before the London Olympics, I was on the crew that brought the sailing ship Wylde Swan to the Thames, where it did tours on the Thames during the Olympics, like many other smaller sailing ships), anyhow. That time, it was really hot and I didn't have a drop of rain (I literally burned my feet under the sun (granted, that was mostly because I didn't feel like wearing shoes))
Anyhow, I like the city, it's a beautiful city. A million times better than the totally overrated Paris
I also live in London but I’m born and bread in Sheffield and I would live in Sheffield rather than London. It isn’t as multicultural as London but is has a lot of diversity, people are nicer and I swear a lot less when driving in the north 😂 London is an amazing city but the north is better !!!
Only refrigerate hard boiled eggs
London without tourists wouldn't be the same.
As a lifelong Londoner, my city is the best. You can find food from almost every country on earth. You can hear most languages. People cone here from everywhere.
And the Tube is living history. Every time you travel on the Tube you're using the same underground transport as was used over 100 years ago. And they still make history. TFL is responsible for the global standard of contactless payment.
Our parks are amazing, and there are absolutely LOADS of them.
feel like crime is rising everywhere but in london feels like its been a problem here since like 2016
Obviously I’m not against tourism but if I hate anything about London it’s mass tourism particularly during the Summer months. Overall London is the greatest city on earth despite its many faults and grossly incompetent governance.
I don’t think it's that we're averse to making conversation with strangers on the street, of course we're not. I think that rumour was started by Americans because you do have a habit of wanting to share a lot of very personal information with us on first meeting, which makes us very uncomfortable! Consequently, we'll make every effort to escape the situation as soon as humanly possible. 😆
Old people talk, young people are too busy!
Ryan, please put Brexit out of your mind, unless you want to do a deep-dive into the founding, history, Treaties, Constitution, organisation, politics, scandals of the (a) Common Market, (b) the European Economic Community (EEC), (c) the EU, in which case I strongly advise you to have your mental-health team on stand-by on speed-dial.🙂
The annual rainfall in Indianapolis is 45 inches per year, London 23 inches per year !!! Stop going on about the weather !!!!
Don't worry about it, talking about the weather is often just an icebreaker that leads into more conversation. It's not always just a complaint!
Ryan appreciates people in general saying, " I love ( incert city of resindence ) because it`s the greatest city on earth." But London is not the greatest city on earth.
Did you find a born and bred Londoner?
Don't blame Brecit fir everything. Brevity was a simple decision to leave the EU. It didn't change anything else, least of all London traffic.
London is not full of grumpy miserable people who won’t talk to you. It depends on the person on the day. We all have our moments no matter where you’re from.
What to hate about that there London ? Paying £7.00 for a pint of beer !!
"when a recent edition of Playbeing magazine headlined an article with the words "When you are tired of Ursa Minor Beta you are tired of life", the suicide rate quadrupled overnight.
(from "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" by Douglas Adams)
London is nice to visit but i no longer want to live there. I'm a born and bred Loondoner. Still work there, but now hate the place. It's a Turdtown.
I thought this video was supposed to be about what BRITS like and hate about London. Many of those interviewed weren't British.
Crime is rising, in Germany too. I wonder why. 🤔 Also: the demographics are changing rapidly. That’s what I love. 🙃
LOL that geezer in the hat sounds like he's from East London talking about crime going up? Did he forget the fucking Krays?
I see no honest comments on London in the comments.
If you like big, busy, polluted, littered, unfriendly cities, you'll love London. If you love the English countryside,
you'll hate it.
They should have gone around the rest of the UK and asked those questions not those in London.
The only good thing about London is it's history.
It is far too overcrowded, far too dangerous (mostly due to foreigner criminals being allowed into the UK).
It acts as though it is a separate country to rest of the UK but imposes it's laws on the UK to solve problems that only exist in London and big cities... it hasn't been a British city for a few years and only getting worse.
The taxi and interference in people's lives is down to one simple thing .. Sadiq Khan, the major of London.
Ok racist.
@@helenag.9386Well said!
They may complain about the weather but almost EVERYDAY I can take the dogs for a,walk. We don't have extreme weather - from freezing to boiling hot - it's pretty much mild and pleasant every day.
It‘s interesting that they all love the diversity, wasn’t it London where all those videos of Palestine protests come from in which they destroy half the city and burn the Union Jack? I mean the footage was shocking no matter what side you are on. I‘m also in favour of ending this war but my thoughts were poor London. And this was going on for weeks if you believe the news. I don’t live in the Uk so I can really only rely on that.
About the weather I had about 50/50 chance every time I went but you tend to have more days of light rain compared to a few days of heavy rain like on the continent.
The Us gets less rain than all of Europe, so it’s probably true that there is more rain in London compared to the US.
Main thing is that London is the worst representation of the UK. British countrysides, in my opinion, are the greatest places on earth
They don’t like you driving in Central London you have to pay more do so cause of the environment they trying to create low carbon zones
The irony of a Portugies person feeling like a sardean, lol.
Oscar Wild said if your tird of London your tired of life.
She lives in Shefield of course it seems happier in London.
It rain less in London than Rome, New York, Spain, loads of places.
I love London because its so interesting and amazing food, i don't like, sorry cant think of something i realy don't like. Oh got one idiot tourists that just stop walking right infront of you, so you crash into them. The use of great profanatys at the Americans that do this, does cheer me up.
Samuel Johnson said the quote in 1777. Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright and lived 1754 to 1900
@@michaeldianewynne8414 I wonder if Dr Johnson and Oscar Wilde ever met? 😊
@@michaeldianewynne8414 well im sure Oscar could borrow a great line, he made enough of his own.
American tourists....
5:18, unfortunately this isn’t true for most in the UK. I live in the countryside which you would think is beautiful cottages and cute tractors. maybe it used to be, but it’s not anymore, terrible weather. i’m depressed. most of us are. packed with council houses, road men and chavs and it makes me angry that foreigners have this good view on this country. when you live here, it fucking sucks.
😂😂😂
I love London (apart from the cost of living). Conservatives hate it as its too multicultured for them.
Can hardly wait until the Conservatives are gone.
@@katyroseableAre you saying you want your own people to disappear in favour of whoever else? That sounds cruel, it’s their home too. It’s their home before it is whoever else’s home or not?
@@MrsStrawhatberry
Sorry what? Who are my people?
@@katyroseable Are you playing dumb on purpose or do you truly think different political views make them lesser than you?
@@katyroseable And who are going to replace them? Don't forget the mayor of London is Labour and look how bad it has become under him!
I've been to London many times since the late 1960s my opinion hasn't really changed - it's too big, too many people and far too expensive.
Two of my nephews live there and they love it.. They think I'm weird because I don't love it.
My late father was a Grenadier guard stationed outside Buckingham Palace and The Tower of London..I remember him talking to my mother and she said she had never been to London. His reply, you haven't missed much!.(he met members of the Royal family whilst on duty, and took part in Trooping the Colour),
Wouldn’t want to live in london, I am from up North. A short visit is okay
London is not a nice place to live :)
Lol...
Do you live there?
@@helenag.9386 some time ago...
I live in London and I love it!