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As a Yank (or septic tank as we're sometimes called 😂) living in the UK, I'm gonna vehemently disagree with your summation of the food profile of this country. Having lived variously in the Middle East, America, Africa, and Western Europe, I can say without hesitation that the UK has the most varied, award-winning, and influential impact on food culture in the world. It boasts the best chefs (both celebrity and genuine), 200 Michelin-starred restaurants (only 9 fewer than the entire US), more diverse ethnic community cuisines (due to the UK's imperial past), extraordinary supermarkets, and even global culinary media phenomena such as The Great British Bake-Off and Masterchef, etc. I could go on but I'll finish by saying that a couple of days eating fish and chips and KFC are not sufficient to draw conclusions 😂...and I know you're open-minded enough to know that. Keep up the great work, my g. ❤
Edit: A bunch of people are swooping down with clichéd notions of British food they got from sitcoms and hearsay and whatnot (same thing as British teeth being bad - which is a myth disproved by the International Dental Journal which ranked the UK at number two in dental health). Some of these naysayers have cited the 70s (when the UK was undergoing a dreadful economic downturn and food creativity was scarce) as proof of their hypothesis. To those people, you may be surprised to learn what foods the Brits actually invented - from the apple pie to lasagne (yes! Invented in the UK in the 13th century) to the sandwich (18th century) to the humble KItKat. Just do a quick internet search before you misjudge this country's many important culinary contributions. Thank you 👍
He really wasn't here long enough to quantify his opinions. From what I saw it was a breakneck tour taking in a few towns & cities and watching the landscapes go by on trains. Perhaps less time in the nightclubs might have been appropriate so that the two of them didn't suffer from brain fog whilst forming said conclusions. 😵💫😬
@@MegaVector2011 Haha true!
Totally agree, thing is this boy as seen in a video had no idea how to use a tin opener and didn’t notice that some cans have a pull ring. Bland went out with food rationing, more Indian Restos than chip shops now.
This boy doesn’t cook.
Indeed, and celebrity chefs like Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver, Mary Berry, Nigella Lawson and I think the Two Fat Ladies are all seen on American tv.
@@MegaVector2011 Come on!!!! Kids gorra partaaayy - and clubbing and nightlife is part of UK culture (and not just to get your d wet) but especially as they can't really drink and go out in the US at this age. Clearly it was a whistlestop tour so its gonna be a taste of a place and OMG I can't imagine doing 7 days and that many places (even when young and with the energy) I've done quick whizzes around places, but over a coupla weeks/months so you could at least breathe, visit a museum, go to a beach, sit and people watch a bit, sleep in after a bender, rush for the train, miss a connection and find a dirty hostel for the night (or go dancing to save on accommodation!) So I think they're pretty brave, if not a little naive to jam in that much. Also yanks are used to long journeys whereas after 3/4/5 hours on a bus in India or Australia or summit I just needed air, stillness and to find my bearings for a least a couple of nights.
I have to say that I've always found it odd that in America diversity equals different skin tones only. If there was a room that had 10 white people in it, all born and lived in different parts of the world, and another room that had 10 people, all with different skin tones, but all born and lived in the same city for their entire lives, I'd definitely consider the former to be the diverse one.
that is such a good point! im British and have lived all over from Japan to the Middle East to Europe etc and I still find such comfort in the extraordinary diversity and importantly the general acceptance of various cultures and communities in the uk. of course there is racism that still rears its ugly head but when I compare my experiences to that in other countries Im pretty impressed with the uk ...we could do better and be better but im a lot happier with British mentality towards tackling negative race issues compared to some intense racist and xenophobic problems endemic in other countries. im white, married to a British Pakistani, darling friends and colleagues who are black British, east and south asian British, Europeans and loads of non British...I grew up in a little town mainly white but massively diverse community wise and then moved to London where we all all integrate in endless various communities ...ive never really looked at skin colour as a sign of diversity but moreover diversity is a mix of people from loads of different backgrounds/religions/cultures ...but isn't it lovely to hear this guy saying he feels more comfortable being in a diverse mix of people because us non Americans view America as having loads of black versus white issues that far exceed our own home grown problems ...
I think you will that most countries in the world have about the same percentage of non ethnic people as the UK.
Between 5% to 10% is the figure I would have expected.
The former means the last one but yeah I get what you mean. It’s only diverse because they think of different races as “other”, but to be fair the UK does that too.
E.g., I have lots of English and Welsh in me but because of my darker skin tone I will always be looked at as other. At least I’m seen as multiracial in the UK and not just an ambiguous ‘black’ though..,
True - I’ve just found less integration and acceptance of different communities in the few places I’ve lived (Japan, Greece, Middle East) - in the UK all our communities largely mix together as friends neighbours and colleagues
I am so glad some else said this! People use the word "diversity," but to quote/paraphrase the character Inigo Montoya from "the Princess Bride," I do not think it means what they think it means.
I must admit hearing an American claim our politics is too divisive had me cracking up laughing, good to see you've mastered irony.
As for the food I can only assume that with your tight schedule you didn't stop anywhere long enough to notice our towns and cities are full of restaurants selling cuisine from every corner of the globe, but you wont find them so much in the tourist hotspots because all the tourists want to try, fish and chips, a Sunday roast and a full English breakfast.
Quite a few of us said your Itinerary was ambitious, when you sight see as you did you go to a lot of places but you don't really experience them.
yea the politic comment was crazy, i am yet to see brexit riots and i am actually yet to experience a brexit related argument
I agree. He needs to spend at least another 2 weeks here on holiday and go to non-touristy places, like where i live, people don't visit, but we have so many restaurants from so many places around the globe how can you possibly get bored?
I love how cute you are about the cons, it’s ok to have cons with everything, you will always be welcome here ❤️🇬🇧
Absolutely spot on with that comment.
I think there's a lot of diversity that you may have missed, since diversity isn't just about colour.
I thought the exact same thing. It's interesting that J sees diversity as colour, because it's really not xx
@@TheKarlaCat that is America altogether though look at movies and TV shows in America they found diverse as just adding a black character
Let’s be honest here, most people in the U.K. would equate diversity with colour…..
@@rufdymond No, not at all. I think most people in the UK think nationality not skin colour when asked about diversity. Interesting thought though, I'm going to ask everyone I see for a few days, let's see what they say...
@@rufdymond Diversity is about culture, not colour - I live in a small, rural British town of 12,000, and we have members of the community that include English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Swedish, German, Romanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Greek, Ukrainian, Australian, Kiwi,Turkish, Lebanese, Jordanian, Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Thai, Filipino, Ugandan, Zimbabwean, South African, Kenyan, Argentine, Colombian, and, due to USAF bases nearby, American people.
My dad came over from the states during WW2, never returned to the USA. Called the UK home
@Nicky L yup,met my mum at a dance and the rest as they say is history
On the diversity of the UK Vs USA, my first point is that yes ethnically speaking (diversity is made up of multiple factors, religion, sexuality, culture/tradition to name a few) The USA has a larger ethnicity spectrum but its so vast you probably don't encounter much cultural diversity, particularly because foreigners are made to feel like they should assimilate to become American. In the UK we share in others diversity, we attend pride, Carribbean carnival and other cultural festivals/marches no matter our religion or sexuality, to show our support for our neighbours. Our way of thinking is that once living here, you're British. We don't want you to give up your cultural heritage we want you to bring it with you, Britain has after all been forged by many diverse cultures over the 1000s of years.
My second point is that comparing UK and USA ethnicity percentages feels wrong, let's not forget White Americans are relatively new (400 years), you're the immigrant ethnicity.
How is sexuality a diversity subject? Anyway, I agree with the guy.
Except for brexit which dug up latent anti continental European prejudice
Just want to say big thank you for the love of our great nation it’s fantastic to see younger Americans wanting to get out of the USA 🇺🇸 and find out what else is out there and big thank you for loving the uk 🇬🇧 enjoy the love of travelling and never be scared to try things once when travelling that’s the fun of living and finding out you like new things enjoy have fun 🙏🍻☕️🇬🇧🇺🇸
And stay in America!!
Re food I got the impression that you and Will were travelling on a strict budget and you also went to very touristy areas. Those two things will have a huge effect on quality and variation of food.
I did it 16 years ago. Best decision I ever made.
Glad you enjoyed your stay. Diversity is not just skin colour though and I would say diversity of thought is far more important than how people look
Are you really implying that we lack diversity of thought in the USA?!! Clearly, clearly we are a more diverse country by any metric. Unbelievable.
@@8ofwands300 Where in the world did I say that the USA lacks diversity!
@@AppleUK2000 sorry if I misunderstood. I'm sensitive to the constant disparagement of American intelligence and thought you were implying a comparison that we may be diverse ethnically, but we lack diversity of thought. Unfortunately, it would be a relief if we could find more common ground in this country. At least concerning basic facts. 😒
He didn't say it was!
liked the way he articulated the cons!! very gentle! I have to flag up the food thing though...there is a massive difference between traditional British cuisine versus what brits actually eat on a weekly basis ...visitors and tourists totally cram in fish and chips, pies, roast dinners, Cornish pasties, scones with cream and jam etc thats cool, its traditional, its got to be done ...but in reality as a brit I genuinely live on sushi, turkish, lebanese, Mexican, carribbean, jamaican and Thai food! and of course MASSIVE amounts of curry as our south asian British communities make the best of the best ...remember, our national dish is actually chicken tikka masala when other traditional brit meals (although nice to eat) are pretty much devoid of spice
I can't agree with you on the food. Having lived in both countries the range and availability of food is good in both countries (especially in big cities). In both countries you can eat food influenced from pretty much any corner of the world. The major difference is quality - the UK's food standards ensure that the quality of our food is consistently much higher.
Who are these people that seem to eat in fucking restraunts every night?? This isn't a fucking movie.
@@philjones45 patrick bateman?
We don’t actually eat British cuisine that often! Small town in Wales 10k people, we have 4 Indian Restaurants, 1 Mexican, 1 Greek, 2 Chinese takeaways, 2 Kebab takeaways. 1 Italian, 1 Pizzeria, 1 pop up Japanese restaurant,plus 2 burger restaurant and 3 fish and chips takeaways, 1 British restaurant- with a very varied menu. Edit - forgot the Thai restaurant.
Who’s we ?
@@ianmcconnell12 . I’d say most people under 60 that have some form of travel experience and post 16 education.
Theres plenty of British & English food dishes that people have lived on over the centuries !! Where I live theres plenty of foreign take aways & restaurants this in turn dilutes the promotion of British food !!! People dont realise the range of British food , some people think British people just eat from take aways & non British !! they them selves need to eat more range of British food ..
@@nigelpilgrim4232 My mother made brawn from pigs heads, we ate hearts, devilled kidneys, tongue, livers, black puddings, we plucked and gutted pheasants, ate rabbits, had all sorts of fish from the harbour, and grew all our own veg, and lots of fruit. I don't do all of that, but quite a lot of it.
What about home cooking? Most people do not eat at restaurants or take aways, that would be an occasional treat for me. Good food is easy to make with good ingredients and the help of Mary Berry or sainted Delia. I hear people on TV saying they can't cook, what they mean is they are too lazy to follow a recipe and source ingredients, it is not difficult. British food has as much variety as you wish.
You’re a very open minded young man, you’ve done something a lot of Americans your age(and more a lot older) you’ve got a passport and crossed the pond ..travel expands the mind and gives you a different POV to what you’ve been brought up with. I hope you visit the U.K. again for your travels and those of us on your channel who watch you and have kinda got to know what sort of person you are you’d be very welcome to live here at any time in your life . Keep up the great vids 👍🏻
Hello you , I have just discovered your channel, living in the UK I was delighted to see my Home Country through the eyes of a visitor.
I note you had a very busy time while you were here.
Thankyou for sharing your experience here.
Admit it, it’s being able to drink alcohol that’s won your heart.
Yeah, and he knows we look after our alcoholics well, too...!
😂
Its Scotland!!!....
@F. A. spot on mate, he will never have to see a Medical bill in his life🤒✌️😆
@F. A. I’m sure that hardly anybody ever gets shot in US.
These things can happen anywhere.
If a persons dangerous then they are dangerous and those kinds of people are here just as much as US
You seem to have the misconception that non-white skin colour equals diversity. You forget that most nations in Europe are historically white. The UK has lots of European populations (and I am a Welsh-speaking Welshman), who may be all white, but will have a lot of diverse cultures.
These type of people don't see the differences in white people
Yes, he's judging by skin colour, when two of our largest non-British ethnic groups are Polish & Irish.
It’s down to context and experience though I think. He’s very young, here for only a week and with some more life experience his list will change. The diversity he speaks of in the US is more obvious. I agree that our European diversity is just as strong but not as obvious.
My Mother is as Welsh as anything, but there has always been a rumour about a Spanish Ancestor during the time of the Armada (when lots of the ships were wrecked on Welsh and Irish shores. We did an Ancestry DNA test and it confirmed it and I have distant relatives in Seville of all places. Those tests are well worth doing
most Americans do they have been taught race is based on colour which is different to rest of the world sees it as nationalities is different races
I'm glad you enjoyed your trip, and it's nice to know you would consider living over here. :)
I will say that food is generally very diverse here in the UK. British food is international food. London is now known to be the most culturally diverse city in the world when it comes to food, with over 140 different types of cuisine.
But it's not just diverse in London. I live in northern England and on my street (which is a long arterial road on the outskirts of town) there's an Asian supermarket, various Polish food shops, an African Caribbean food shop, and numerous takeaways and restaurants: Indian, Turkish, Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Middle Eastern, Italian, American, Mexican, Greek, and possibly a few I'm forgetting. And that's all on one street in a northern railway town.
In regards to social diversity, it can differ to the extreme from one town to the next. Where I live there's a lot of multiculturalism and ethnic diversity. Most of my neighbours are black British-Jamaican, Indian, Pakistani, Asian and Polish. But just 6 miles away in the next town there's very little diversity. It's almost like stepping into the past or entering the Twilight Zone and arriving in the town from "Hot Fuzz". Bit weird really. Although they're both nice towns, just very different for towns so close together.
My deepest sympathies.
The NHS is only 'free' at the point of use. But every worker eligible to pay tax also pays National Insurance towards their healthcare. The NHS is also at breaking point since even before Covid but especially since. Ambulances queue for hours outside hospitals, meaning that there can be long delays in getting an ambulance to attend an emergency.
got the Tories to thank for that
I think he sees diversity in colour, he has disregarded that UK diversity can come from countries such as Poland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil etc none you would notice walking down the street.
An other eastern Europeans plus it also depends what part of the UK you go too. We have many biracial people who may not pass as being a minority
If you don't notice it then it isn't really diversity is it.
I can tell If a person is polish or east European a mile off. They have totally different features than white British.
@@KLGnation it is still diversity due to ethnic origin
@@supersparks9466 Yes, different parts of Europe, Africa, Asia (even different parts of Britain) have their own characteristic appearances. But you have to learn them before you can see them. Americans are typically taught "white skin, black skin" and don't go deeper than that.
The thing you've not yet appreciated about British weather is that other than heatwaves... we get all four seasons in one day! Today is going to be a muggy start to the day, a bit of a breeze at lunch time, and then torrential downpour in the afternoon, and thunderstorms tonight!
I can’t lie though, I’m so excited to see some rain!!
That’s how droughts break, I’m looking forward to it. Incidentally, many farmers in Australia would give their right arm to have British weather, instead of having to survive droughts year after year.
Wait until he experiences January in the UK. Dark at 4pm, freezing, horizontal sleet.
Character forming.
If somebody asked me what I like the most about living in the UK, ironically it would be the weather. I've always enjoyed having the distinct seasons. In fact the current weather although nice, I wouldn't want it for much longer. Especially since it's starting to make our green and pleasant land, less green. In some respect's the views he got are likely not as good as normal, especially during this dry spell we have had.
There are places in the United States that seem quite proud of their changeable weather. "If you don't like New England weather, wait a minute!"
The UK may be predominantly "white", but apart from the Welsh, Scots & Irish, we have a huge number of ethnic groups who have been here for many years and have made a huge contribution to our culture. Walking down the street you wouldn't immediately spot a Pole, a Czech, Ukrainian, Yugoslav, Italian, German, Dutch or French person, or people from any of the Scandinavian countries, but they're all here, some in quite substantial numbers, and by no means all in London.
Very true, we have 10,000 Polish people living here in Reading. A lot of them came here because of the upheaval in Poland at the start of WW2, but there are many newer arrivals too. I know quite a number, through my job and other avenues.
Yes, and we had few problems until the neo r-cists told us we have problems.
Nobody ever comments that Africa is predominantly Black, or China 99.999% Chinese and the list goes on. The U.K. is 87% white and yet people are appalled if every other person on TV isn’t Black… it’s absolutely crazy and just a way to make something out of nothing for people who crave attention
David Jones You don’t count the English as an ethnic group then?
White British people will be a minority by 2066 based on demographic projections only a few years ago.
Thanks for your honesty and openness to new things. Really interesting to hear your thoughts - glad we scored a few points ;-) I hope you make it back and life brings the things you would like... Peace.
A friend of mine was the same age as you when he made the decision to move to the UK and has been here ever since. He always said he would never go back except to visit family and old friends and true to his word, he is still here and has a great wife and children and nice house and a good job and became a British citizen quite early on. When he made the choice to move here, the UK was a whole different place to what it is now, but he said the people were the major selling point, not the beer, the food & not even the weather (pillock). It's a lot different now with travel quite cheap and the ability to just "pop back to the US" if needed. He has got the Lancashire phrases down to a T now, even more than his wife ! He calls the UK home.
Every American that’s Delusional and don’t know fuckall about anything outside there bubble, If they got the chance to go over to Europe ect to explore they would 100% say the same thing that you’re friend said
Wow your friend has a citizenship of england thats cool
With regards to the food, I think that London (and the UK and Europe in general) just have a higher standard of food to the USA. Our ingredients are much more healthy - there are chemicals in a lot of American foods that would never get approved for consumption over here! I do feel that we are more balanced and the food is more natural.
Nah you gotta be trippin dude.
I watch some American foodies, and one guy from New York said that literally all the words greatest chefs and cooks, see America as the pinnacle.
It’s the place that they aspire to since it’s food and range of food is way above anywhere else.
All the worlds best chefs move to America not to U.K.
even people like Gordon Ramsay are mostly in the US they know that food is better there
@@cultfiction3865 what a load of bollocks.. and of course a yank is going to say that.. cos you can’t stand being second best…. You’re the one trippin DUDE.. 😂😂🇬🇧
@@cultfiction3865 I mean, the guy is from NY, so…. Also, Gordon Ramsey went over to the US to improve the standard of food over there. American food is just so unhealthy and served with a side of cholesterol
I agree,
@@jeremiahdreaming2891 No I’m actually English. It’s just that I don’t have any dog in this race and I’m not nationalistic.
I tend to think that any judgement on the quality of food in the UK by people who are excited to see a KFC can be dismissed straight away.
Hahaha! How ridiculously defensive you're being!!! And resorting to a stereotype. I've been alive for 61 years and have never eaten at KFC. This kid is sweet and gentle in his criticism, acknowledging he could be wrong or might change his mind but almost all the comments from Brits are jumping on him. Guess we all will defend our countries, no matter what.
@@8ofwands300 No problem seeing what a good guy he is - if everyone in the world at that age was as bright, considerate and curious then the world would be so much more a better place. I just think he based his opinion on the UK's food on nothing really other than a very rushed, tourist heavy trip of the country and probably a lot of CZcams videos which often have out-dated opinions on the subject. Hopefully he can get to experience some more interesting UK food in the future. It probably was defensive, though defending the UK is becoming very difficult - I am actually ashamed of what the UK has become, so I'm not a crazy flag waver or anything, it was just about wanting to point out an important inconsistency with KFC lovers being in a position to deliver a sweeping judgement like that. It's a bit like him saying that his favourite film is Spice World and then going on to deliver a critique of the British film industry as if that is sufficient qualification. Anyway, hope he does change his mind. I'm sure he will with more travelling and experience, and he has exactly the right mindset to do so.
@@rain_down_ HAHA. Good point. Sorry I was a little defensive too. Everyone loves bashing the USA these days; ; even though the bashing is more than justified, I find myself at times feeling a bit defensive. The UK may be struggling but the USA seems to be teetering, on the brink of ruin. It's a tough time to be an American. We're holding on by a thread. Hopefully we can survive. Cheers! 💗
@@8ofwands300 No problem! A lot of Brits do seem to bash the USA unfortunately, but I'm not one of them as it's given the world so much and continues to do so. Hope you guys pull through, I'm sure you will.
Food in the UK is the worst thing I’ve ever seen and I’ve lived across Europe. Be embarrassed. American food is literally better.
I found the comment about diversity somewhat weird to be honest. The UK is home to a very diverse population, has been for millennia - the Romans settled here, the Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons, the Norman's etc etc and intermingled with the indigenous Britons to produce the modern British people. On top of this there has been migration into the UK from all corners of the globe in more recent centuries. Don't associate skin colour with diversity - my Russian neighbours who live two doors down from me are just as white as I am, but come from a very different culture.
Agree. On my short street everyone is white, but there's Danish, American, South African, Belgian, French, German, Spanish, and of course British.
Of course, this is London, so obviously not the same as everywhere else. My family is from Northern Ireland and there's hardly any immigrants. Even in Belfast, the street my family home is on had not one person who wasn't British (or Irish, depending on persuasion)
I don't agree with you. If you play what he said again about diversity - he DID cover all and acknowledged them in the UK. He just said there wasn't much diversity in the countryside, like America.
When you look at statistics, when migrating to another country people tend to live in the big cities, this is why you don't see much diversity in the countryside. This is not a bad thing. It's just is how it is. I live in Switzerland, most of the foreigners live in cities, such as Zurich, Basel and Geneva as they are cities with the most job opportunitites. Go out into the country side and I don't see many foreigners at all.
@@rosahacketts1668 There is still plenty of diversity in the countryside though, since diversity isn't limited to skin colour.
Your parents and family must be really proud of you. You have good morals and come across certainly educated and have a good command of the verbal English communication.
I'd welcome any people with good morals and education and someone who can contribute to the community and country
I can't second that comment hard enough. Well said...
Yes very well said, I totally agree.
Just like the Europeans that worked here before brexit
And as a bonus, he's not a muslim or black. Hurray! We'll have him.
The UK has world cuisine - you could dine out every week for a year without eating the same food
American food is awful. The dairy and meat is full of hormones and chemicals and most foods contain far too many additives and things that are banned in most other countries.
365 different dishes with chips..... All good. 😋
@@tompiper9276 that's one a day ;)
@@AndyKing1963 🤢😄😅🤣
Please do a feature on uk table manners and the difference in using cutlery by you and people in the UK.you seem to use the knife and fork independently. I found it mesmerising watching you trying to use them effectively
It rains a lot your experience during the heatwave is not our usual climate.
I’m very glad that the UK made a good impression on you. It was so important that you came after all of your reactions to all things British. In my opinion, I would consider coming for about a month next time just to get a better flavour of what life is like and visit the places (including in London) that are off the beaten track for tourists. Thereafter, if you still like it, I’d consider perhaps doing graduate school here and living here for a year or so, then assessing how you feel about it. The old saying of “try before you buy”. All the best to you. Anything we can do to help, you have a community of 60,000 people (congrats on your sub milestone)!
Healthcare in the UK is free at the point of delivery,, so you pay for it when healthy and then don't have to worry about the bill when you're ill and in need of care. It is not free in that we taxpayers fund it.
It is collected from our salaries before we get them, it comes under
National Insurance, and is not a huge amount, Once you reach pensionable age you stop paying NI too. No matter what the health problem, how rare or serious, how short of long, there is NO time limit. Time off for sickness is unlimited, as is time off for having babies, this extends to husbands too should they choose .
Correct. There is a myth that healthcare in the UK is free. Hospitals don't send a bill for your treatment, but everyone who is employed pays a portion of their salary towards healthcare for everyone who needs it.
The other complication is that it’s impossible to see a doctor in the U.K. unless you can wait a couple of weeks for an appointment on video, longer if you dare to want to see one in person. You wait for hours, or overnight, in an ambulance outside a hospital waiting to get a bed, or if you’re lucky they’ll transfer you onto a hospital trolley and park you in a corridor. NHS dental treatment is pretty much non-existent nowadays, etc. Iother words, if you want reliable healthcare, you pay to go private - meaning your pay for private insurance AND you pay taxes from your income (you can’t “opt out” of the NHS tax) to support the black hole that is the NHS.
@@keving331 and if you can afford private then you can afford the N.I. contributions, also if you opted out an got cancer then under a yank style health care you'd lose everything to pay for it and if you're in an accident then it's an NHS ambulance an A&E department that treats you.
@@marycarver1542 common misconception. The NHS is paid for out of general taxation. Not National Insurance. NI pays for pensions, sick pay, maternity pay, and other benefits. I've actually commented before on other reactors' videos TO my fellow Brits about the same thing. And I have taken the info direct from the Government site just to ensure it's correct.
Unfortunately the one thing many Americans against 'nationalised healthcare' blwat about is that they would have to pay more taxes. And doing the research, turns out they wouldn't even pay as much as they are doing now. They actually pay for some form of it through their taxes anyway, I believe. Plus, they pay Federal Taxes, State taxes, sometimes local taxes, it think and they pay taxes on their weekly shop! On top of all that, they pay an enormous amount for healthcare in insurance and because their drugs are not regulated by their Givernment like ours are, they pay huge sums for things like Insulin per month, whereas we do not pay anywhere near that amount (and in some ases, you don't pay at all).
But then, these same people bang in about 'socialism' like it's going to lead to the fall of society. They actually have mo clue what 'socialism' actually means. They obviously don't look in a dictionary, but have been fed a lie for decades about it. So of course, now they believe the lie.
It's sad, really. Plus, 'socialism' pays for their emergency services already and their Welfare.so - um - they already have socialism. They just don't care to recognise it as such.
I'm glad I live in the UK (our horrible politics and politicians aside). We have a beautiful country, with stunning areas, great food (I'm a plant-eater and if I can find diverse and delicious things to eat each and every day, then anyone can!), and very interesting centuries and centuries of history.
Its great that you are open to another country. I left the UK for 4 years and it was one of the best experiences in my life. It would broaden your mind more than you could imagine, but everywhere has good and bad differences. Glad that you are open to this.
Hey Joel, I lived in the US for several years, I can see where you’re coming from with your pro and cons list. Unfortunately you only got to see our little island in small areas, in a very short time. I live in the countryside and yet our little town has Thai, Chinese, Indian, Italian and traditional restaurants, we are known for our love of spicy food.
I agree with some of the diversity issues when you come out of the cities there is less, however the UK is a melting pot for all migration and we have so many citizens from all around the world. Love the channel.
You are very thoughtful and have an impressive ability to consider issues in a balanced and considered way. To have acquired this ability at a young age is impressive and is a very good reflection of your 'smarts' and your personality. All of this is very much to your personal credit Joel, and at the same time a very positive reflection on your parents, your upbringing and your schooling and education. You are a real credit to your parents, your family, teachers and other influential people in your life - I'm sure they are all justifiably very proud of you.
I would also like to mention Will too - he comes over as a similarly thoughtful, sensible and thoroughly decent young guy. In addition you are both insightful, very articulate and you clearly have a great friendship which is always something to treasure. And your little brother Ben is a great kid and full of fun. The way you two bounce off each other is hilarious!
On the subject of food, I live in Yorkshire and within a 20 minute drive (max) there are French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, Indian, Mexican, Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Vietnamese and American restaurants to mention just some of the alternatives. And a lot of those are within a 10 minute drive. I don't think your palate would be deprived too much!
Thanks for all the videos you post which always interesting, enjoyable and fun. I'm pleased that you and Will enjoyed your trip to the UK and hope that you are able to visit again soon. The idea put forward in an earlier comment of maybe coming over to do part of your studying here is an excellent idea I think, for the reasons mentioned in that comment. Spending perhaps a year immersed in a community and daily life would give you a really good insight into life in the UK 🇬🇧
It’s not that impressive, people his age have access to a lot more than you did, it gives them the opportunity to learn long before you did.
Guessing that's Scarborough!?
@@holdtightadele8017 I think it is to be fair
@@Richardssong18 I like Joel's opinion on public transport (PT). many young people are less inclined to drive and own cars these days and this is also true of urban and peri-urban young people in Australia where I am. As a senior PT advocate, this is a good thing for so many reasons.
Yet I was like this as a teen but I was raised in abusive home n school life it isn’t always parents n education that make someone this way. It is sometimes mostly down to the soul.
If you’re even remotely thinking about it, college / university (maybe a graduate course?) time is the time to do it. Getting a visa to work in the UK is HARD, even from America. Coming to the UK as a student is by FAR the easiest way to do it, and give you a chance to see if you enjoy it.
It’s really not that hard
@@Rebornagain101 It really is, unless you have a UK spouse or family member, or a very well-paid / high demand job. Those are the only two real routes available in most circumstance unless you’re a student.
You need to check out Evan Edinger and his trials of becoming a UK resident also Allanah of Naps and Adventures a Canadian expat ... It really is a difficult and expensive endeavour..so many Americans complain about immigrants and then nonchalantly announce they expect it easy for them to become one themselvss...I'm not putting Joel into this category ...
@@lynnhamps7052 Don't know what you mean by "so many Americans complain about immigrants"? We complain about illegal immigrants. You can spot the difference between immigrant and illegal immigrant, right?
It's easy. Just say you hate this country and its people and want to destroy us all, and then the government will give you a free house. Just make sure you're the right religion.
I think a lot of Americans think we eat a fried Breakfast and fish and chips every day except Sunday, where we eat a fried breakfast and a roast. He was here a week and went to tourist places which probably didnt help.
Dude you are luckily still young and the best thing you can ever do is to travel travel travel as much as possible / broaden your horizons , experience new cultures , meet new people from all over the world.
I lived 8 years in the USA and loved practically every minute of my stay ,I learnt so much just by talking to people . not from seeing the TV news etc , you find the real people and their views / how the country ticks , the politics .The main think I learnt about the USA / UK was that the people no matter who I met , there were so many similarities in their opinions that the average Joe in the USA has with Mr Smith in the UK had . Both countries have the same opinions on most issues judging by what the average Joe told me in the USA. Of course you are going to meet some people that you do not get on with, experience people that have different views to yourself , but hey that part of life's learning curve : > )
I always regret not travelling when I was in my teens early 20s , you have the opportunity , go for it dude big time : > )
Highly thoughtful and reasonable analysis (I'm a UK person who's lived in the States). But you wouldn't get bored with the food here, you'd just get better at finding better ranges of food. I honestly wouldn't worry too much about the smoking. You should see Italy, France and Spain!
Hear! hear! Only just returned from France where the people on the next table in a restaurant can be smoking during their meal and their smoke drifts over your table while you are earing. Yuck!
I agree with you that there is a big difference in diversity between the cities and the countryside but one of the differences between the US and the UK is that the diversity in the UK is very diverse. In the US there is historic migration from Europe but in the last 70 years it is mostly African and Hispanic whereas in the UK it is literally everywhere in the world but certainly more European than in the US.
More middle Eastern people coming in these days, legally and illegally.
Spot ON
So true!
The bottom line is that most people coming to live in the UK want the opportunity and infrastructure that the big cities have to offer, rural areas just aren't built to house an influx of sudden populous. We are very accepting of all cultures and walks of life though, probably more so than many other European countries. We are just and island at the end of the day, but we try our best :)
The native population of England, and the Britons before the English, is white. The native population of the Americas is not white. On an interesting note, we have had two mixed race Queens - the wife of Edward the Third and the wife of George the Third. That is a lot earlier in history than any US leader of mixed race.
It's always interesting and revealing to get a balanced and considered opinion. There are always pros and cons of course, and these can vary depending on your experiences. It's obviously really useful to visit a country and to visit various places in that country, as you did. Good one!
I did an exchange programme from Glasgow to Lockhaven PA. Made some friends for life, but it truly made me grow up. Would not have missed it for the world.
No-one can force people with non-British ethnicity to move to the countryside, nor make them interact with ethnic Brits. Many immigrant groups want to live in enclaves, and not to integrate. Some areas are more than 60% non-British. It's a complicated demographic here.
Leicester & Bradford a classic example, personally I think it would be much nicer if ethnicity's were more integrated, rather than having enclaves. The question is, was this there choice or was it manufactured in the 70's.? Complex discussion that I totally admit to not understanding.. :)
@Anon Anon The English are really good at integrating when they live abroad. All those expats in Spain are fluent in Spanish. Oh wait......
So true one has to recognise, "White flight", white people moving away from the from the cities, whenever people from ethnic groups, move in.Traditionally migrant's to a country settled close to the major cities, for work. I've always lived in a multicultural area, but I don't have to travel too far, to discover an area, that has turned into a ghetto. Predominantly Asian or Polish with no respect for the British way of life.
@Anon Anon that's true in most countries imho. You'd have areas where foreigners or expats tend to live. People want to have at least some familiarity, solidarity or community support.
@@sylviasworld9397 but they then disperse. East London was in my childhood dominated by the remnants of the Jewish immigrants coming away from the various pogroms of Europe of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These immigrants established themselves around Middlesex Street, Commercial Street and other places in the area. They lived cheek by jowel with those of the previous incumbents who had not moved on. In turn these were displaced by the incoming Bangladeshi communities displaced from their homelands and settling where the Jewish community had been previously. The Jewish folk had moved out, and now so too are the Bangladeshis.
These first home areas are to be found in all major port cities and over the decades the population movements show how dynamic populations are.
It can be expensive in either direction. I moved to the US 35 years ago and eventually became a citizen before returning to the UK. It wasn't cheap and it isn't cheap coming from the US to the UK. With regard to whether it's a good idea in either direction I'd say if you can do it then do it. Language is not an issue and if you get tired of one place you can always return home. The two countries are very different but strangely similar in many respects. The politics are toxic and a little nuts in both countries because of two party systems and both being predominantly first past the post for the majority of representative elections. The diversity thing is a bit of a red herring because Americans view it as a product of skin colour and British people take a wider view in terms of different cultures from Europe and far beyond. Major cities in both countries are very diverse with London being the most diverse (almost definitely globally). Both countries have very little diversity outside of the main population areas. One major difference is how important religion can be in America. The UK doesn't do God on anything like the same scale and mentioning God in a political setting is mostly a recipe for disaster.
So well said. 👍💜
We can’t ring the church bells on a Sunday anymore because it offends them but they thought they could do their chanting I don’t think so.
Excellently put. It's quite a funny correlation that a lot of the most atheist nations in the world are monarchies (UK, Sweden Denmark, Japan etc), where the monarch is the head of state as well as head of the church. The US Constitution makes it clear that religion doesn't matter, yet it seems to be a much more religious place.
@@lindalue4504 which church and what chanting are you referring too?
@@allycbythesea7937 Here in the UK it's just the Hari Krishna movement in Hertfordshire in the manor house George Harrison got for them, and the damn Jehova's Witnesses that come banging on our doors with babies in prams and the stupid Watchtower pamphlet. They brainwashed my brothers little girl who committed suicide!!
Food - time to try Welsh, Irish, Scottish food! There are food specialities in every county of England. Although I live in Yorkshire now, I have lived in North Wales (different to South Wales) and Scotland and can confirm a wonderful diversity of food and drink there. I'm sure our Irish cousins can add to this ...
I recommend living in all 4 countries here for a while, for a more authentic, rounded experience 💝
If you spent a year here Joel, the list of pros and cons would be very different; as they stand, they're more like first impressions.
Our diversity is not down to skin colour - our population originates world-wide including Europe - and the USA! Food? Sorry, you didn't even scratched the surface! To get a true idea of Britain you need a longer visit to non-tourist cities, towns and villages and meet more of us! Our city is relatively small but has a Eastern European supermarket and stores selling Asian, West Indian and other specialist foods and ingredients, a wide range of international restaurants and takeaways. We have diversity in education, our local college offers courses from different universities so students can study here without the expense of moving and we have specialist technical and engineering colleges. We are surrounded by agriculture, wildlife resources and history which is pre-Roman - and we are home to the oldest Classic horse race in the world, the St. Leger and have one of only 3 official Mansion Houses - a suitable residence for a visiting sovereign - the othe 2 are in London and York. Did I mention that the 2 holders of the world speed records for steam locomotives were built here in my city - and back in the day we mined millions of tons of coal locally! I live in Doncaster, in Yorkshire and we are similar to but different from hundreds of towns and cities in our relatively small island - look us up on Wikipedia and check out our visit Doncaster website - then look at the map of Britain and pick another name and check that out - you cannot, as an intelligent young man, make a judgement on the places visited during a short visit! Time to do some proper research! 😎
👏👏Well said you've said exactly what I want to say
Doncaster is a shithole though.
I was with you until the horse racing.
Love your videos, and your enthusiasm for the UK is so refreshing. You have seen just a tiny part of the country, there's so much more to see and enjoy. I did laugh that you count the weather as a pro though. You've been very lucky to visit in an exceptional summer, but trust me, it is rarely like this 😅
You really should visit in the spring time though which is a beautiful time of the year and visit some more places off the beaten track. Devon, Cornwall, Oxfordshire are my favourite places in the UK. You would love it.
In fact 2022 weather is terrible. The drought is a taste of what's to come. Extreme water shortages, expensive damage to infrastructure, virtual wipe-out of many crops and animal fodder, our "green & pleasant land" looking like the Spanish Meseta. If you now do not accept the reality of climate change - you might as well join the ostriches and bury your head in the sand.
Depends on which part of the UK you live! For a small island our climate is
very diverse from area to area. Down the west coast for instance, it is wet
The east coast is mostly dry , lack of rain year round. North, including
Scotland, lots of snow and cold in Winter etc. this is due to us being
an island in the Atlantic, and our weather comes from whichever way the
wind is blowing! It is seldom extreme, a moderate climate, which is responsible
for our green and lovely countryside. This year is exceptional, and I dont like it much! Dry as a bone, temperatures commonly in the 90s, for many many weeks now.
This happens every few years, and reminds us how much we like our normal climate !
Plenty of stunning countryside in the North pet..🙄🇬🇧
Shropshire is also a beautiful county.
It all depends on what you're studying at university Joel. In the UK we have a shortage of teachers in some subject areas and also shortages in some public services. I work in local government and one area where there are big shortages is in town planning. However, the pros you mention are very true.
We are so close to the rest of Europe that you can visit virtually any other European country within a few hours. Great historical cities such as Paris, Rome, Vienna, Athens, Barcelona, Lisbon, Berlin, Copenhagen, Dublin, Venice, Amsterdam and many more are all within a few hours either by rail, by ferry or by air. You could do what most Brits do in the summer and spend a holiday in the Mediterranean visiting counties like Spain, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Portugal, South of France, Cyprus, Malta and even outside of Europe like Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco even Egypt and Israel. If you like skiing you can visit the Alps or the Pyrenees in winter. And don't forget you won't need to visit these places in a rush over a weekend like you said in your video, because working in the UK you'll get your statutory paid holidays every year - at least 5 weeks.
Diversity - to be honest our cities are very diverse due to the large communities of people living here with origins in the former British Empire, so there are large communities of South Asian people, Afro-Caribbean people, Africans and even the white population has diversity - many people with roots in Ireland and Eastern Europe and Jewish communities in the bigger cities like London, Leeds and Manchester. Yes it might not seem as diverse as the USA but you need to remember that nowhere else on Earth is as diverse as the USA - you are easily the most diverse nation on Earth. But I think you'll find the UK is very diverse compared to most of the other nations.
Brexit - well yes OK it's divisive but even people like me who voted to stay in the E.U now accept the result of the referendum and recognise we just need to pull together and make the best of it.
Weather - well if you were from California or Florida then I might say you wouldn't like British weather, but I think I'm right in assuming you live on the North East Coast area near Washington where your weather is not too dissimilar to here in the UK except I think our winters may be a bit milder.
Glad you liked it so much! I’m from the uk and I have traveled to so many other countries but find nothing come near it! 🙂
Sure, we have some diversity of skin tone but I imagine that most non whites would identify themselves as British, or British born and bred. We try not to compartmentalise people into ethnic groups. African American, Asian American etc. We don’t have African British or Asian British, just British.
I agree, we don’t play identity politics as much and we’re way better off for it.
Exactly, despite those trying to divide us for their own ends, we rub along well with each other for the most part.
@@davidedbrooke9324 exactly bro
Agreed
Agreed. America is so obsessed with race, background and splitting everyone into sub-groups, but that doesn’t happen anywhere near as much here
I think you would love it over here full time espeically if you came on a student visa to a uni or something like that. Already I find your vlogs great because you don't just fall into the trap so many other people do in thinking that the UK is just London. You deliberately took the time to get out and explore a huge amount of the country but there is so much more like you say that is still available.and I doubt you'd ever get bored.
As an exiled Scotsman by birth living in central England and working in London - I found this fascinating. And quite brave. The diversity stats surprised me - I can see how it can come about because we have a very uneven distribution of 'non white' through the country - and also we don't border (or close to) with hispanic communities that want to move north. Our perception (and I'm plump and pink and middle class) is that while the stats are lower, we have less discrimination and inter-racial issues. That is not to say 'No discrimination ...' etc. There is still too much, and I'm spoiled because I work in financial services in London and I'm used to a very multi-cultural environment at work, if not in my dormitory town. The food thing comes from 'uneven distribution' in my view. If you had stayed in London, I think you would not have said that. But you might have commented on how expensive it was.
I suggest that next visit, don't hop around the place doing tourist stuff. I think you have skimmed the UK scene - at least you had some good memories but no Brit would do that tour in that time. Just go to Manchester or Leeds (or Newcastle, even Birmingham) and chill and see more locally. There's lots of countryside, and industrial revolution stuff. And stately homes, paid for by profits from industrial revolution - and slaving. But we don't talk much about that - increasing though.
Love the new set up, it's great, make some great memories there
I'm surprised you didn't mention the work life balance, employee protection, lack of gun ownership or no-go areas in cities. You only mentioned the pros and cons from a tourist perspective, not the pros and cons of living in the UK.
Very true. I think he needs to do a lot more research.
well in his defence he is 19, was on holiday, and went to the Cotswold and Lake district. On my first teenage visit abroad I didn't consider employment rights, just focused on buying rubbish and going out
No go areas do exist in the UK
@@mrg7405Can you provide details?
People also need to spend some time here in December to experience short daylight hours. Coming here in the longer days from April to September might give a lop-sided impression.
Workers rights! 32 paid days off, sick days as needed, a contract so you can’t be fired on a whim, not forced to work late or tons of overtime, etc. The US just want a robot worker who never stops.
Unfortunately workers rights are under attack in the UK right now. Hope it won't get as bad as in the US though.
Thought it was 28 days paid as a minimum, it's then up to employers to offer more as an incentive to apply for jobs
Tell that to people who work for delivery companies etc. Employers try to exploit workers in the UK as much as anywhere else. Ffs even university lecturers are going on strike!
The sick days claim is not that realistic as no employer has to tolerate a worker who if off sick a lot. Even the civil service gets rid of sick workers, they just have to do a bit of paperwork first.
At the moment. Why d'you think the Tories want out of the ECHR? Bye-bye workers' rights: hello fire and re-hire.
I suggest going to more trips to the U.K. before moving for longer. You also you might find you like different cities more or towns and you can spend more time seeing which is your favourite :)
I met my best mate in London who was American when we were 20. He spent most of his life here, moved back to the USA a few years back but realised he didn’t like it and now recently moved to Portugal. We’ve been best mates now for nearly 40 years. The NHS is NOT free, fed up of hearing this. We pay about 14% of our salaries for it and it’s falling apart. I can see them privatising it before long yet they’ll still take our money as well.
Why are you “fed up of hearing” it? To all intents and purposes it IS free because the Americans have to pay a fortune in all kinds of other things, such as insurance, that go hand in hand with actual charges for medical bills and, all in, I think we pay less in tax. But even so, the fact of the matter is we have a system whereby regardless how much or how little you use it, everyone pays the same amount in (unless they’re unemployed, of course). This means that people who are on the breadline have the same access to care/operations/medication as people who are well off (although the latter can obviously fork out for private healthcare if they wish). And even if a person is born with or develops some life threatening condition that requires medication for the rest of their life, it’s at no extra cost to that individual. In America, such a situation would bankrupt a person. That would never happen here, so as far as Americans are concerned, it can definitely be considered “free”, even if it’s technically not free.
@@penname5766 I know they have a different system in the USA and it’s expensive but that’s not what this is about it’s still NOT free here! We pay for it!
Many people like myself who have been on low wages all their lives and cannot afford to even rent a room still need to pay their national insurance for healthcare.
We are still paying a lot of our salaries towards it along with our taxes and other deductions.
Congratulations on 60k.Thank you for your continued excellent content.😀
More to discover and learn for sure. Definitely more culturally diverse than you realise and food options are amazing. Not just about restaurants, but ingredients that are easily available and how many of us cook. Politics is always going to be rough one. I'm thinking next time you visit, you need to do Brighton and also visit the less central parts of London.
1:56 "Personally I really want to visit Europe" Oh Joel sweetheart, you already have visited Europe! The UK is in Europe, and you've been to the UK!
I hope you got to visit the Tower of london when you was here. Our history goes back way beyond the year 1066. Hampton court place is fantastic too..lots to discovery..
Big fan of your content! I was surprised at the food comment. Considering the cities you visited on your trip. Even in smaller towns in where I reside in South Wales we have such a diverse option for cuisine anything from Italian/Mexican/Indian/Thai/Chinese/Lebanese/Mediterranean tapas etc. 😃
Great to hear your views on the UK, and that you enjoyed your stay over here!! .
Congratulations on over 60k
Hi Mate, I am glad you enjoyed it over here. Always nice to see another one of you spread your wings across the pond.
On the subject of diversity, if i may just say, you only mention looking at stats for white/ non white.
What we have here in the UK is a huge level of diversity, people from all over the 'empire' came to the uk and settled. Also while you could say that we have mostly white, the diversity of the people who are white varies. In the factory I work at there are people from all over Europe there. I work with Polish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Czech's, Romanian people just to name a few.
i think it just comes down to how you define diverse :)
Dang thats alot of people from europe you worked with
First thing about moving to Britain - we need to teach you "pinch of salt" :)
Maybe you should watch the videos from Evan Edinger. He is a USA born man who now lives in the UK and has also gained his British Nationality. His videos lists the highs and lows and how difficult it was for him to achieve his goal. It's not an easy journey to move here, but in the mean time, carry on with your College and making great videos :)
Get in a dinghy, it's extremely easy to move here
What video camera (or is it just phone) you use to record your blogs. And what software you use to edit?
When I lived in Newcastle/North East, there were huge Jewish, Indian communities. In Lincolnshire there are Hungarian, Lithuanian, Polish community. I think work comes into it a lot. It depends where in the UK you are. Thank you for visiting our little country and I hope you come back again someday.🤞👍
I would have thought a pro would be no guns.
I'm a bit surprised that you didn't think that Bath was pretty diverse with the International Uni there and all, or did you mean black vs white?
Agree with everything you say, really, except the food (I am a Brit, by the way). It may be different outside the cities, but I have eaten Chinese/Cantonese, Japanese, Indian/Pakistani, Peruvian, Caribbean, Nepalese, French, Italian, Bulgarian, Spanish, Mexican, Vietnamese, Brazilian, Greek, Turkish, Moroccan, Syrian and numerous UK and US cuisines in the UK, and all outside London, too. There is an amazing food culture here, as I'm sure there is in America. I don't think you'd ever get bored of the food! :)
As an american holy shit thats alot of restaraunts you've got in the uk and yes that's true we have restaraunts from all over the world icluding mexican,indian(which i didn't tried it yet but i will soon),peruvian,vietemese market,chinese,korean,japanses,columbian,chilean,and basicly like all over world.
In the UK, the city that might suit you best may be Birmingham, a city I have lived a lot of my life in, and still live near. It is very ethnically diverse, soon to be "minority majority". A vast variety of cuisine.
It is also the youngest city in Europe, having a tremendous vibe, and the arts are strong. The city is surprisingly green, being covered by trees.
It has some historical remains, but you should remember it's a very good centre for all the transport networks. You could get to some major history very quickly. ( And also some very beautiful country. )
The diversity issue argument seems a little narrow minded for me. Go back 20 years ago and id agree with you on it. Since 2004 weve had 7 million settle here from eastern Europe which is close to an added 10% to the total in 20 years! You just have to look at things on a large scale and where Europe is in relation to everyone else to explain it. Now you get to what this large influx of people has caused to the social contract with our government. It has reduced our services and put extreme pressure on our nhs, schools and housing and people saw that their daily lives had become a lot worse which was a large driver of the dreaded B word. For me it was the undemocratic way the whole edifice of the eu that drove my vote. For you imagine that your vote for the president was decided in a back room by unknown people who you never voted for and they only put one candidate forward for the vote! Thats what happened for the current president of the EU and she nearly lost the vote in a one horse race.
As others have said come over and study is the easiest way to move here although if your a doctor or nurse they would waive you through 😪
The way we treat drinking is different to the usa but not perfect, for a country founded on freedom drinking at 21 seems a misnomer as surely you should be free to choose? Over here you tend to respect alcohol a bit more, i allowed my sons to have some from in their teens so it wasnt forbidden fruit as they got older and thy drink responsibly 99% of the time, except when drinking yards of ale at the end of cricket season piss up. That just gets messy
We have the ability to fund the NHS perfectly well, unfortunately people keep voting in a party who are constantly underfunding it. Then people bitch about how it's not functioning properly and blame immigrant moving here 🤣 no. Everyone who voted for the shite government we have now is responsible for how far downhill we've slid in the last decade +.
But it's easier to blame immigrants of course 👍🏻
Your figure of 7 million people from Eastern Europe is incorrect. The Office of National Stastics puts the figure just over 2 million in 2018, very similar to the figures from the 2011 census. You mention the pressure put on public services but don't mention the cuts to public spending on those services that were brought in after 2010.
@@geoffreythomas4145 I think that the ONS is not as commonly believed after some of these statistics were issued, which leaves it open for quotes that seem to match people's own experiences. I did hear a figure of five million applications for residence after Brexit that I checked on Google. This would not include those already married into UK population.
I have spent time in Spain among the large UK immigrant population there. Note that not everyone there plays by all the rules or is who they claim to be.
@@alansmithee8831 yes, there are around 5 million who from the EU who now have settled status to remain in the UK. They were already here having moved here as a result of free movement of people. Anyhow I'll sit back and wait for the sunny uplands
@@alansmithee8831 I you sure that wasn't UK residents applying for the Irish passports they could have by dint of having an Irish grandparent?
The one characteristic of Brits (especially the English) that you've not yet covered/discovered is known over here as 'taking the piss'. It's the ability to laugh at things but especially ourselves.
😂😂😂 the English are amateurs compared to the Scots
So glad you enjoyed tour trip 👍👍
Good views mate, I'm impressed for one so young, well done
You should, would be a great way to explore Europe!
Interesting comments. I live in West London. In my street I think we have at least 50 different nationalities/ethnicities. And as far as cuisine goes, within a two mile radius we have restaurants from at least 20 different nations. I really don't think it would be possible to live in a more diverse place than I do now.
Same, especially in cities there is so much diversity and I love it.
I live in North London and it's the same.
@@mikeantonio3163 I'm pretty sure east and south London are the same too!
You made some good points in both pros and cons... as someone from the UK, if we couldn't look at ourselves honestly and take a bit of criticism we wouldn't be worth much. If you ever decided to move to the UK we'd be lucky to have you.
As regards food, I've just checked the road I live on (in a large town that's not even a city) and there are restaurants and take-aways covering Indian, Lebanese, Italian, Chinese, Turkish, Kurdish, Japanese, Bangladeshi, Nepalese, Thai and Romanian food, along with the standard fish & chips, pizza, fried chicken, burgers, kebabs, sandwiches, coffee shops and pubs. And that doesn't include the various shops that sell food to be cooked at home, so there's plenty of options.
One street in central Bristol has Italian, Persian, Indian, Chinese, Thai, Nigerian, Malaysian,Polish and British restaurants within a quarter of a mile. Your time limited you. There are supermarkets that supply all these ingredients too.
Yes, I live in a town (not a large town) on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall. We have 2 Chinese, 2 Italian, 2 Indian, a Thai and numerous other restaurants/food outlets offering Spanish, Mexican, Greek and of course trad British food - inc 3 fish&chip shops.
Wow i didn't know theres also street food from allover the world
@@stevebrown661wait cornwall has food from all over the world wow i thought cornish people only their own food(cornish food)
Don't forget, everyone in the US is an immigrant from the last 500 years or so. Apart from the indigenous people.
Britain has an indigenous population of its own. Many of the people who have invaded/ immigrated here have been from Europe, so therefore mainly white.
Diversity us not just skin colour.
Majority of darker skinned immigrants have been in the last hundred years or so.
Exactly 👍
Britain has been diverse from Roman times with soldiers from Africa stationed on Hadrians wall and marrying local women and staying here. Black people in Henry 8ths Court as equals. Black barristers in the 18th century etc.
@@peterbrown1012 Oh dear! You have swallowed that nonsense about the black soldiers on Hadrian's Wall etc. The Romans did not recruit soldiers from outside their empire; they would not trust them. And the Roman Empire did not include any countries in sub-saharan Africa.
The majority of darker skinned immigrants have arrived since the 60's.
@@peterbrown1012 But most indigenous Brits in northern Britain don't have any African DNA whatsoever. We have Norwegian and Danish DNA
With a career in Hotels and Hospitality in over 45 years, and having met many American guests, both as Tourists or on Business, who were staying at hotels where I worked, one common comment was heard. That was they fully accepted that their homegrown culinary options bordered on the same old stuff, in every town and city or on the roads and on every day, all pushed out into the streets by the major Corporations but here in the UK, there was so much on offer, food wise, with many ethnic themed food outlets to try.
The UK has so much to offer with cities and major towns possessing restaurants and other eating establishments, offering food from countries all over the world. In my home city, there are over 60 different nations food represented.
Yes, the UK has endured the invasion of the US Giants such as MacD's, Burger King, KFC etc but we've learnt to live with them; in the main, their culinary options are generally regarded as totally unhealthy.
In your whistle-stop trip in the UK, I daresay, you resorted in the main to the Food Chains you know best. Yes, you had a Scottish Breakfast, an Afternoon Tea and Fish and Chips but these were not representative of the mass culinary options that most Brits eat day to day.
Maybe, on a longer UK trip, a bit more internet research into what the UK has brought in terms of culinary influence, personalities and reputation, across the world, wouldn't go amiss.
Good luck and best wishes.
I live in a village in West wales but when I go to the nearest large town I rarely see anyone smoking, maybe the odd one or two but probably less than I have seen whenever in the US. I can only imagine that maybe cities like London have more smokers,
As London has thousands of tourists , I think most smokers would be visitors.
Go to France or Italy for example, and smoking still abounds.
Your experience with our weather was very unique, this was the hottest year ever recorded, our summers only usually last for a couple of weeks and then it goes back to being cold and raining all the time, which I like.
It’s not so much that our summer was different form normal, just that we have had two heatwaves, one lasting 2 days and the other a full week.
But it’s not like we’ve had 3 months of it
Yessssss!
Hopefully I get to meet one of them there CZcamsrs 🥳
The UK will be happy to have you.
Been to UK and US, I must say that UK is somewhat more hospitable. I'd been to Liverpool and London and it looks like they are still more welcoming than when I was in New York and LA.
And true, the UK weather is more bearable than US.
I suppose coming from Singapore, which used to be part of the British colony and we still use the same conventions as the UK (like the traffic, electrical sockets and metric system even British way of spelling to name a few), I [we Singaporeans] feel quite right in to the UK. Not to mention its diverse population as well.
Even the London Tube system is easier to navigate than the highly confusing New York Subway.
I mean this is just my opinion anyway. But I agree with your decision.
Btw, you look good with a goatee.
And it's admirable that you admit you could be impulsive. So yeah. Moving to another country is a big decision. Just take your time and see the world and see where you fit it. You're still young so you have plenty of time consider things.
Whatever you do, I wish you all the best.
I agree! Although us Brits are not as overt and loud as our American cousins, our hospitality is certainly up there. Liverpool, my city, is often voted as being the most friendly city in the world!
I love Singapore. It’s so clean and beautiful. No chewing gum stuck to the pavements (that’s a great law), and very little litter. Even simple things like motorway bridges are beautiful, covered in climbing plants as they are. Ours are just the bare, ugly concrete. There seems to be minimal effort in the UK nowadays to make our environment beautiful. New developments seem to be utilitarian and low-maintenance, with little consideration for aesthetics.
Come on guys. Give yourself more credits. At least, you have rich history that spanned over for centuries. You should be proud of it.
You should definitely consider relocating here for a year or two, maybe directly after your degree
It's quite difficult to make an assessment of country based on a week. I been lucky enough to live and work in couple of European cities. Living abroad is so enriching, it gives you a different perspective on life
Just on a couple issues you raised, based on your trip. You were determined to have an authentic experience, but only visited one city, namely Edinburgh. Bath and York are pretty little day trip towns with universities. Birmingham is authentic, so is Liverpool, Bristoland Newcastle. London is not a tourist trap. It's a major world city. Tourism is Bath's number one industry, that is not the case for London. Most people live in cities. We are every bit as authentic as the Cotswolds, we just don't do afternoon tea.
Had you visited cities you may have left with completely different view on diversity and food. Chicken Tikka Masala is our national dish. You can't visit the UK and not have a curry! Sounds like you need to come back
"It's quite difficult to make an assessment of country based on a week."
A CLASSIC example of British Understatement ( a close cousin of British Irony) !!!
UK has a diversity of cuisines, we are pretty multicultural. Get through University and think about what you really want, we will welcome you with open arms :) Please visit Yorkshire like Leeds etc, they are friendly here :D
I’m really grateful to you for your comment about Yorkshire and Leeds being friendly because my son is about to move up there to go to Uni and I can only hope that he will make more mates there.
Fascinating report. Nothing wrong with your pros & cons. One remark - hope this doesn’t come across as patronising - but you have become very eloquent & insightful. There’s a good head on them there shoulders! 😁
Yesss another uploadddddd , im from the uk and I loved watching the travelling vlog
Come over in mid-winter when it's overcast all day, wet, cold, dark at 4pm, you don't see the sun or blue sky, and it goes on like that for weeks. 😁
On the point about diversity, it depends where you are in the UK. I live in Leicester which is one of the most diverse cities in England. A point an American friend of mine made when he visited Leicester a few years ago, was that we are far more integrated than the populations are in the USA, so you do not get the feeling that you are moving from one ethnic area to another. This morning I went into three shops which were within a hundred yards of each other. One was Afro/Caribbean, the second Turkish and the third was Indian. The Afro/Caribbean shop had an assistant working there who was Romanian, and the Indian shop had a couple of Afro/Caribbean's working there. You spent a lot of your visit in the tourist parts of the UK, where there is not a strong non-ethnic population. Next time look at visiting Leicester, Liverpool, Cardiff, Glasgow, Birmingham, Kingston upon Hull, and Newcastle, all areas which a much larger non-ethnic population.
You are probably right about the greater variety of cuisines in the US, though in most of our major cities we do have a wide variety. In Leicester restaurants that serve over 50 different cuisines, though I admit that at least 10 of them are different types of Indian cuisines.
On the subject of coming to England to live, look at something like the Rhodes scholarships and see if you can get over to do a postgraduate qualification, e.g. your master's. That would give you at least a year here which would enable you to explore more of the UK and also visit mainland Europe. To be honest though, if you are thinking of living outside of the USA, I would probably suggest the Netherlands, but that is a personal choice.
Some very observant thoughts and I really enjoyed following you on your trip. I would say that first impressions can be wrong both your positive and negative views. A longer visit would probably make you view things differently again. Especially around the food having travelled down years to the USA I find the food in the UK much more diverse and having more influences from around the world. When you were here you tried alot of traditional uk food however we have so much more than that. Come back and see us again 🤟