Things I HATE About Living in the US
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Description: America has some great things, but it also has some really annoying ones as well. And this video is just about that, all the things that annoyed me in the US. From the weather, to identity politics & the culture war all the way to car centric culture, here's my almost uncensored take.
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Hej, Janoš, gdje si kupio ovi majcu sa zastavom Armenije i Nagorno Karabaha, tražim ju svugdje?
you talking about not wanting to shovel snow is a huge skill issue ngl
So basically... your education got shafted Bigger than gayman in prison... that sucks, did you compensate at least? Read stuff that wasn't "deemed good" and learn stuff that wasn't in curriculum ?
I love in South Dakota I can verify it's all true
how many countries does this man live in
Things I hate about living in the Hungarian province of USA is the correct title
Fastest commenter in central Europe
@LivingIronicallyinEurope well I see the notification and I just have to watch the video, from the greatest youtuber in the world
😂 He's right that it's the only place even remotely affordable.
I thought Romania stole it
Exactly
America is so eclectic that you can simultaneously love it and yet see it at as nightmarish wasteland depending on where what and why you deal with that day
This happens multiple times while doing my 2 mile bike commute across the city LOL
There are maybe 2 states that are tolerable, the rest of the country is a messed up hellhole. Actually, pretty much all of it, cuz of NSA, fluoride in water, and incessant chemtrailing.
Fr
It is an entire continent (excluding the northern syrupmen and Mexico)
Fair enough.
As a statesian, I agree. I love my country in the sense I grew up in it but I hate various things anout like its healthcare and its politicians. Not to mention how its own military has ways to mess with its own members and those outside of it besides having its own industrial complex.
Hello Yanoș, this is your CIA handler. Please go ahead and make that part two.
Hahaha!! 😅
creaming
Wake up from your depression nap
So does the culture wars stuff you see from the obvious side in the US remind you of Eastern European/Soviet propaganda you have heard or seen before?
This man is perfectly happy and does not want to kill himself. And I don't want to kill myself either ✊️
Why were you late for PT today? The director wants to know why your phone is off too.
"Living ironically in europe"
lives in usa
I did not expected this kind of betrayal
He LIVED in the US.
He was born in US I think
I was actually confused if he was american ir european
He said (in this video) that he's lived in the USA for 4 years, he studied there. From 15 to 18 years old.
He said he lived in the US for 9 years and moved to europe (he didn't say where specifically) at the age of 18 @@Jay-pq7nf
Let me tell you this, if any person could earn in the Balkans even half of what you earn in US and keep the same prices, the Balkans would be Paradise on earth.
Hahahaha paradise lol
But that will never happen because the Balkans are populated by backwards cultures.
@@angelcabeza6464Can't read that well, can you ?
Half?! There are milions of people who earn not just half but even more...also safety in balkans are way better than in the US...Also don't mention that in US to not pay for edu is illegal, free healthcare is illegal but is legal to keep a gun into your pocket...gta...p
@@iliriacum666And many, many, many more millions earn a lot less. So what is your point ?
1:39 I’m from Chicago; this is the appropriate amount of anger towards snow
Ah yes, the Polish state of Szikagu!
I’m from Wisconsin and I agree if you live in the Midwest long enough you will start to hate the snow with a passion
@@aregularperson7573it’s always amazing how much you guys get. I live in the south and people freak out about a couple inches of snow around here
Im surprised you survived Chicago long enough to type this comment
@@aregularperson7573 As someone who was born and raised in Milwaukee, I love the snow. I love shoveling, love the snowball fights, love the exercise. The Great Lakes region is awesome. Also, we have the best cheeseburgers here. I've traveled to many warmer places like Belize and central Japan but none compare to here.
One thing that pisses me off about America and pretty similar in Canada is that teen spaces have been killed, and boomers and gen x say that teens nowadays are addicted to their phones. No we just want something to do.
Yeah, people are really judgemental.
Like watching YT on your phone?
Yeah there are literally teen curfews where I live tf am I supposed to do
Hot Take: It's both. While a case can be made for other factors, it's pretty much undeniable at this point that screen addiction is pulling public interest away from other recreational activities.
As a 20 year old, it’s our generations fault. Malls are dying because we don’t go as often as our parents did
Midwest is just the Balkans of the United States, Hungary is Florida honestly with how much unbelievable bs stunt ive witnessed.
i see people say this a lot, makes me want to visit the Balkans even more. I'm from Ohio and I've seen (i assume as a joke i don't understand) that Ohio is the Bosnia of the states Lol
@@Bucky2Timesa day doesn't go by that the city of Dayton, Ohio isn't mentioned on Bosnian TV.
“Hungary is Florida” - have you missed that Hungarian winters are crap and there’s no beach?
“Balkans are the Midwest” ??? More like the USA Southeast. Germany would be the Midwest.
Florida man... sounds better than Hungarian man...
And also 1 lake, no sea
No florida is definitly poland.
cause you guys have the florida man in Europe we have the polish guy
The car centrism thing was the worst thing about moving to the US for me as a kid. Growing up in a German city, you could just meet your friends whenever, wherever. You could take the public transport if you had to. But moving to a US city, I was shocked about the fact that almost no public transport outside the city centers existed. I had a buddy of mine who lived an hour away by foot from my house in the suburbs. It was faster to walk/bike to his house than to take the bus, which would have taken me almost 2 and a half hours. Going to the mall or even Wal-Mart by your accord was almost like a highlight, if you could get your parents to drive you there. Otherwise, you would have to make do with the kids in your neighborhood. If you liked them that is. And there is only so many rounds of Football, Basketball or Baseball you can play, before you eventually get bored and tired of it.
US has had a chronic case of Urban sprawl, meaning that public transportation has expanded and improved, so it’s not quite the same experience. There’s also the fact that you can just take a car over to your friends house or meet up with them at a city center. More and more Europeans are starting to move to Suburbs too, so it gets annoying in general
This is why I made friends with the nerds and we played Yugioh and Bakugan. Those games were always interesting.
I feel you. Literally f**k that culture war stuff. I'm an engineering student in europe and thanks to all the diversity policies the uni basically imported the worst shit from the U.S. and implemented this annoying cringy courses as mandatory where they take a huge particular emphasis on "having a strong identification with your own cultural heritage and being proud of it". I'm originated from South Korea so I had to bullshit all the way around how do I identify myself as a Korean, I mean, f**k off. I don't care. I've landed here just because I wanted to escape that cyberpunk dystopian shithole and work as a tech immigrant. Jesus christ the urge to push propaganda these days.
Uni Courses that make you have a strong identification with your country seems like more a nationalist thing than a diversity thing no?
My words might have been oddly formulated but those stay there to promote intercultural awareness and students gaining a sense of critical standpoint to assimilationism, which I think it just doesn't fit to the european tradition of higher education especially at research unis. I'd love to see it abolished.
@@goose9515the difference is rhat ir you are white, you are not allowed to feel proud of your heritage, FUCK America, I dont feel proud of living in a shit hole as Mexico is
@@goose9515 There are fine lines that people often fail. A fair amount of the time they tread really close to nationalism without realizing it. A smaller portion promote nationalism and are proud of it. Diversity is best when it comes about naturally and it not forced. Constantly trying to make people aware of differences has only back fired.
This absolutely true. Often the self-proclaimed liberals don't really realize what they are doing is sometimes just heavily concerned with demonizing and censoring one's autonomy and ability to freely think. This could be aligned with being a liberal in U.S. sense but for a broader and even historical term of liberalism they simply collide each other. It's just another collectivism yet camouflaged as "something necessarily needed for a society to progress".
Sorry you went through that bullshit as a student. I'm whiter than snow and my wife is Spaniard, so when my daughter had to write an introduction essay the teacher was actaully pissed off my daughter described "only her whiteness" instead of talking about growing up in mexico
My wife's family is from Northern Spain, so she's more of a French woman with the wrong accent
Her family lived in Ecuador because of the civil war in Spain
My daughter has never even left the state in which she lives in because we are poor
Man mama and abolita absolutely tore thay school a new asshole because if you have never seen a Spaniard accidentally get called a Colonia, woah boy it's fucking bad
I've never seen a teacher fired before lol
lol! That is something.
Wait wait wait, where in Northern Spain? I'm from Northern Spain and we are definitely NOT "French with the wrong accent", mind you. France and Spain were already completely distinct nations many many centuries before the USA even existed, our paths diverged something like 1500 years ago. So please if you respect her family get this crazy "French with wrong accent" idea out of your mind
You're butt hurt on this strangers wife's behalf. Grow the fuck up. It's not your chair not your problem. Sounds like it's a joke she's made before.
Based race-mixer
@@osasunaitor This. I'm from a town in Spain close to the Pyrenees, one hour drive from France, and people here has nothing french. Those are two very different national identities.
I'm swedish and i completely understand that bullshit called snow
I'm Brazilian, and have never seen that bullshit in my whole life.
Damn, seem so alien for me, that like half of human population never saw a single snowflake.@@eduardomarques91
@@eduardomarques91you love it for a day and then you want it to disappear again
@@areon400 Some other things in the tropics that might seem alien to you is the sun making 90º shades on trees and the Moon appearing upside down.
@@eduardomarques91 what do you mean the moon is upside down here lol i need to google that
As an American currently in Hungary, I agree with every point made in this video. It’s a culture shock seeing how chill it is here in comparison to the Homeland.
Isn't Hungary like the poorest country in Europe
@@Lockflyno
@@Lockfly Living in it feels like one. But not yet.
@@LockflyNo. Not even the poorest in the EU. But give it some time. Another Orbán term or two and it will be.
@@Lockfly Yes, keep away, don't bother checking.
1 - has a character in a german outfit with a STEROTYPICALY japanese artstyle
2 - lives in romania
3 - born in america
4 - loves europe
mr worldwide.
Just like Mario. 😏
I took a job working for a US company after years working in Canada, assuming it would largely be the same, and a month in I got written up for "insubordination" for questioning my manager.
And like I'm an *engineer* paid very well, and management treated me like a McDonalds worker trying to steal some fries, it was insane.
I just like to imagine you cussing the teachers out in Serbian after that
5:25 My family left Soviet occupied Lithuanian when I was 8 and i got the same thing from my teachers. To make matters worse, this was the 1980s, the height of Rambo and Red Dawn and I was already getting bullied by kids for being "Russian" even though Lithuanians dislike Russians.
Were you called Russian spy too? I left communist Romania around the same time for the USA and kids would call me commie spy just because Romania was next to the USSR. It was also funny that when I said I'm from Romania the kids thought this was in Africa and the teacher had to show them on the map.
Just for you to see how much brainwashing and hatred towards Russia is propagandized in the west.
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Well I have a true story for you guys that happened before I was born, my mom came to the states from Lithuania in 2000 and my mother work in New Hampshire and then she decided to travel to Florida . Her and her friends stayed in mutual friend house. He was very nice and helpful. Showed around and was friend. Just until the last day( before they were suppose to fly back Lithuania) then my friend and her friend went out and then they came back found a place completely empty. The guy robbed them. Stole all their things and money ( it was a big amount at the time) That’s how my mom stayed in Unites States.
broooo that's fucking insulting, literally the first thing I learned about the Baltic states is "Russophobia is a way of life here and it is extremely well-deserved"
What I don't like about America is just how car-centric the life is over there. You can't walk to the supermarket but hop into your car and drive to it. And if you have kids that want to play outside, good luck. Best you can do is send them to the back yard
fr fr! I sometimes wish it wasn't so car centric because I don't have my driver's license
It's a total money trap. Cars are like mobile phones in the US: you MUST own one to exist at the average annual cost of $11,000.... This is among many money traps that exist here. What I hate about this country is that it seems like everything is a scam or unnecessary reality (from healthcare to education, to the tax code and filing requirements to the horrific food system) that just bleeds and bleeds it's citizens while making them unhealthy... Unless you're wealthy... then it's fukin awesome...
Can't drive, get off the road. There is nothing wrong with cars, its just most people are r3tarded.
I understand why people have this perspective, but personally I really prefer living in a car driving society rather than a bus riding one. I’d rather drive a car and take the inconveniences that come with it, rather than have to take a bus and deal with those inconvenience.
@ichwilhelmvonhohenzo5962 Are you hearing yourself? People have cars in Europe, we just have the choice to not use them...
Our cities are walkable and don't require you to drive but you STILL CAN, how slow in the head do you have to be to think a 5 minute walk to the shops is worse than a 20 minute drive??
Bro, I'm from Brazil, the work culture in Brazil is nearly identical to the US, if not identical to the US, that's one of the reasons I wanted to get the hell out of this place. It's hard to put a smile in your face when you don't want to, specially when you are bullied by your superiors to work more hours than you should and do something even if there is nothing to do LOL
I feel like the car problem is also similar here in brazil
without mentioning that the minimum salary wage is 50% lower than the us haha
As a brazilian that hasn't worked yet, i can confirm it
@@random_the_man to an extent, but at least where I live, I think it's more because public transport is shit instead of having to walk for 40 minutes to go anywhere
é foda mesmo
The snow anger is very much valid. I once lived in a place that absolutely never snowed so when I first moved to Wisconsin for college for my first year I loved the snow and was excited to play in it. But now I am in my 3rd year of college and every time I see snow I consider drinking and driving. I wish I stayed in my home country.
Snow is one of those things that is exciting and enchanting... for about an entire week. Then you can't wait to get rid of it.
I am surprised you did not talk about how the customer had to pay waiters with the tipping toxic culture instead of you know... the actual company they are working for.
You would be the one paying it anyway
@@hansmohammed5486yeah, but it would eliminate this awkward interaction, at least. + Eliminate uncertainty of wages for waiters
Tipping is a nice thing to do, but it must be emphasized that it is completely optional and the waiters are not entitled to it whatsoever.
Most servers would make far less without the tipping system. It turns what would be a job with unlivable wages into one people can do for the long haul
@@AModernRogue The problem comes from their bosses lowering the actual income they agreed upon and that with the tips will actually achieve their minimun waged they agreed.
The Tipping is fine it is just the toxic way USA and their companies use it to not paying their minimun wage.
I know this because my brother was looking for a job in USA as someone who got a scholarship but wanted to make some cash.
Bro coudn't wait until he turned 18 to leave US for Serbia immediately 💀
It's so easy to make videos to slam the US, would love to see a video about what you liked there. Szép napot!
I remember a man making a video how the USA is blessed
People complained about it so he made how America sucks and ranted a little on the US hate train
What are you going on about? He slams different places for our entertainment. If you think it is too easy then don't watch it FFS.
@@innocento.1552 What! I thought these were documentaries!
The point of the comment is more that this is an easy one. Low hanging fruit.
It's hard to make video about qualities of US.
You make positive video about US -> it gets immediately compared to Europe and "loses".
I don't want to be unfair towards Americans, but there aren't many interesting things in US except nature.
It just feels like "worse Europe" to me.
@@walkelftexasranger There's the freedom.
I lived in the Netherlands for a few years and compare it to the US, anyone who has trouble thinking of the things that are better in the US is someone who doesn't care about those benefits but they are there. Free speech is something I value tremendously which in Europe it is frankly not given the restrictions on things like publishing, laws on slander/libel (I'm more familiar with the UK than Europe on this part), etc. Guns is another obvious one which I don't care about though it is nice to know I can buy one if I so choose. Starting and running a business is also easier not just because of access to loans but just culturally. I also happen to prefer the culture of being ambitious and having that drive you to work hard rather than the concept of a "work/life balance" which dominates Europe (as an example, if you ask a European what their dreams are those dreams tend to be very achievable, no one wants to be an astronaut or a president or anything where most likely they will fail).
Probably the biggest advantage of the US is the capacity to carve out a little niche for yourself. There isn't really an equivalent to the Amish in Europe, even though the Amish came from Europe, because in Europe there are so many forces that push you to homogenize with the rest of society even if you don't want to. There are steep limits to how you can choose to educate your children, home schooling is virtually non-existent, and while Europe does have "communes" their ability to control their own function is very limited compared to the US. Even something as basic as language differs, in the US with NO official language you are not required to speak or learn English whereas most countries in Europe will tell you otherwise.
Personally, I think this is all a moot point given that a system should be judged based on how sustainable it is and while the US is not sustainable, Europe is fading away and the people there seem to be in full on denial as to why that is whereas in the US there is a debate which circles the truth.
As an American the Architecture issue is my biggest gripe. Charlotte NC once was the home to amazing Art Deco which they slowly replaced with bland modernism. That being said I still love it here for all different reasons
Art Deco is America's east coast style and it shall be returned to it!
As someone who lives in the Great Lakes region I can confirm THE WEATHER SUCKS Especially in Winter
Me in rural eastern Europe: I still have to walk 40 minutes to the nearest grocery store and like 1h to school, car "dependency"
or 20-30 min to the bus station, take the bus for like 2 hours (1,5 h if you're lucky and the bus is ok and almost no traffic) just to get to the city where you fill up 2-4 big bags in a hurry, go back to the bus station which is quite hard to do with like 4 bags (or 2 if you have a big trolley), fight the mob to get a dusty seat. don't forget to have enough cash for the ride but not too much because the driver doesn't have enough change.
Me in rural western europe: school bus picks me up from my village
@@davidz2690 Same here in the US (until university when you have to arrange your own transportation, by either living on campus in walking distance, or commuting to university)
The thing about America is not just the walking distance. It's the absence of walkways, too. You are simply not supposed to walk anywhere by design.
I live in the Austrian alps. The weather is pretty schizophrenic here. The last two weeks we’ve had snow, rain, sunshine changing almost daily.
after watching some videos online about the Tirol Raiders, i can say i want to vacation in Tirol so bad, truly a magical place, the rural parts look like something out of a fairy tale
If you think the US Midwest is bad when it comes to snow, just wait until you see Hokkaido, Tohoku and Hokuriku Japan. Literal walls of snow.
I've heard parts of upstate New York (Buffalo, Syracuse) can also get walls of snow fairly often.
@@honeycomblord9384Yes, I have been their too, it is very bad, but not as bad as North Japan, it is probably 70% as bad.
Hungarian living in Tōhoku here, I just love the snow so much here, so different compared to Europe. The powder snow is amazing! Also look up Zaō Snow Monsters (frozen trees)
@@linuxman7777yeah Sapporo, Hakodate get valleys of snow. At that point just hibernate til spring !
@@honeycomblord9384buffalo and watertown are the bad ones, cuse is pretty bad but not like them
“I don’t know Roman, it’s the same as other places but only louder.” Niko Bellic
“Walking 30 minutes”
Laughs in Rural American.
as a rural american person the dependency on personal vehicles with no way to walk along the road without getting splattered is the most infuriating thing about where i'm from
Yes car centric design is a massive issue in america in general but... you live in a rural area, im confused as to why you think any other rural area is different, its not, even in a massively well connected country like France or the UK, RURAL areas are still often times 30 minutes at least away from the nearest large connecting train, and absolutely not walkable beyond going to the often tiny and dilapitated local cafes/convenience stores. This is just a case of you seeing things through a lense of negativity by assuming the issues you face are uniquely awful
I feel dumb as shit walking around anywhere but a city. Like if everyone driving looks at you and wonders “why the fuck is that idiot walking)
Buses that come every twenty minutes? In the USA? Consider yourself lucky! The buses in my city are usually every hour.
I thank God I was born in America every day. But I agree that the extreme political nonsense and car centric culture is pretty annoying to me too.
Also, hot take but I'm really annoyed by the fact that unhealthy lifestyle choices are socially acceptable here.
The car stuff isn't that bad,depends on the city honestly but the political bs is absolutely terrible
@@Dragoncam13 get a bike man
@@neringalukoseviciute1787 who the hell is biking almost an hour to the next actual city when living in a rural area?
@@Dragoncam13 Only one hour? that's crazy. Most places in US is like way more on a bike.
@@Dragoncam13 I like in Bay Area(by San Francisco) and it has one of the best public transit systems in the US behind NYC and maybe DC, and it still sucks because of the suburban areas. Most places in the US I've lived in like Chicago, Atlanta, and Dallas have completely useless public transit systems because everyone has a car, especially Dallas, because you would need a car to get to the nearest bus stop (20 min drive away, imagine trying to walk 1 hour to get out of your suburb). Car centric culture is the worst, especially if you're an immigrant or a foreign tourist and you can't just get a car.
As an American all of your complaints are valid and they do lead to many shenanigans
Ive lived all over the US and the worst places always coincide with high population density. Living in the USA is best (for me) when you are in a small community working as a skilled laborer or technician and you embody independence and resilience.
When I lived in a city where I didnt need a car, my grocery store was 5 min walking distance, and my commute was a 10 min bike ride I was depressed and hated life.
When I lived in a literal cabin fending off wolves, hunting for sustenance, and driving several hours for work I was in constant euphoria.
I have a happy medium in a farming community now with my family.
About work culture, in south America you will have the American culture with the European salary (actually smaller) but you can get the picture
Which European salary? It ranges from like 0.25x to 1.5x of the avg. US salary depending on the country...
@@rap1df1r3 the eastern european one
@@rap1df1r3 the 0.25% if you are lucky. The average salary for a Macdonald s employee is around 350 Usd per month
@@danielbruceagra9022lol
I am a Brit who spent 3 years living in French Canada. The hardest thing I found by far was having to rely on a car and not being able to walk into town- I found this pretty depressing. Likewise the GIANT souless megastores (walmart/costco etc) felt like something out of some dystopian corporate nightmare... I'm also going to add people often thought I was Serbian because of my pronounciation of Québec French...
Livening in the USA or Canada is basically playing cyberpunk 2077 in real life
Where did you live? I've never seen a Costco or Walmart in Québec (or anywhere else, for that matter).
@@juliansmith4295 bizarre you say that, they are everywhere. search Walmart / Costco + town name on Google maps if you don't believe me. I lived in Montreal (Longueuil + Verdun) as well as in Sherbrooke.
J'sais pas dans quelle ville t'habites, mais à Québec il y a des Walmart et un Costco.
@@juliansmith4295 There are loads. Walmart in particular is everywhere.
As an American, so many of these grievances are so ingrained in my everyday life that I forget to hate them lol. Every once in a while I'll take a step back and think "it doesn't have to be like this," envy some other place, then get back to my everyday life and forget about it.
You ever heard a mf say “I love Indiana”?
A friend of mine who makes $40k a year has a job offer to move there and make $100k. He is seriously struggling with the decision. That's how much Indiana sucks!
Indycar fans.
I have....while looking in the mirror.
DON'T COME HERE PLEASE.
Yes actually
In Massachusetts, there is a large Balkan population specifically living in my town. Overall, you are a lot more empathic to the problems we have here, and unlike a lot of youtubers, you actually listed the reasons with due respect and good humor while mentioning a lot of cool things we have. And yeah, our culture war is extremely toxic especially when an anchorman decided your culture is enemy of the year then people start thinking you're an acceptable target. Being ethnically Armenian on my mother's side and my mom being from Lebanon and her mom being from Syria, I always had to watch my back when I was growing up in case some classmate or teacher thinks it's ok to target me. I still do to this day. Oh, and what I mean when my town has a large Balkan population, we have a lot of Albanian, Croatian, Greek, Serbian, and Turkish people in town. Much respect!
Politics are banned in schools of Romania 6:50
I'm going to guess it's because Romania had state propaganda in the classroom in their communist days. I think until recently most of the free world used to agree that preaching politics in the classroom was a bad practice.
I don't think that's the right choice either. The basis of a functioning democracy is that the people know enough to gowern themselves. So politics should definetly be taught. (Or else yuo get the extremists shown here.)
@@LV-nb9cs you still learn civics since 3 rd grade
@@LV-nb9cs and you can get politics from tv all day
You don't get it. It's probably the same as in Hungary. It's illegal for a teacher to talk about their personal political views, as it should be.
That's why the US is fucked.
US citizens don't even know they are not a democracy but a republic 🤣
It became an indoctrination center.
i live in south michigan, where we just got ~60 degrees a few days ago, late february. but ive been to the UP where the weather is hardly temperate in the warmest of summers, and combined with the much warmer balkans, i understand your pain.
4:00 gives me flashbacks of "yOu ShOulD woRk iN tHe ClUj IT iNdUsTrY".
I pretty much agree with everything. I went to college on the coast of Lake Erie and I liked the snow. Without it, winter is dark, cold, and gray with a cloud that stretches over you for weeks.
Nailed it dude, good video. Part 2 would be fun. Love from N.C.
IDK how it is in other parts of europe, but in spain, working face out to the public is still a living hell. Poor salaries and the most unhinged and self entitled people you can encounter every day. It drains your life.
I'm from Kerala in Southwest India and I grew up in the UAE. I think I wouldn't mind living in Minnesota or something.
4:00 damn dude u good?
No
@@LivingIronicallyinEurope :(
Well if CZcams doesn't work out.. there is always Finance. Oh God, I worked in Finance, you will not fit in and you will hate it. You have a personality.
Average Balkan dad
1.97 meters tall, PTSD from the wars, slightly racist and nationalistic, yells at his kids a lot but loves them deep down in his heart, worked his ass off in the forest as a child, smokes and drinks raki regularly
@@LivingIronicallyinEurope Best of luck and as small amount of stress as possible (bots, copyright claims ....)
As a romanian who wants to move in US someday Id love to see what you loved about it , and if u recommend any state to move in
Edit: Thanks for the people commenting, any comment is useful information and I appreciate you for giving it
Dont do it!!! Save yourself
Washington state is very nice with lots of good jobs, but it is expensive.
I love North Carolina and we are growing very fast and have a very diverse geography and the people are nice. The barrier islands look cool until you realize you spent a fuck ton of money on a sand bar which gets decimated by hurricanes every couple years and the ripe tides on the beaches are a death trap. Now we just use South Carolina's beaches while we mock them for their poor roads.
There is a wide range of history here from Native burial mounds, slave plantations and Battleship North Carolina. Blackbeard and the first airplane flight is also pretty cool. We also have the Biltmore mansion (rich guy builds a semi modern castle with an indoor swimming pool).
The forests are nice till they get eaten by the wave of kudzu. The Appalachians is one of the oldest mountain ranges on earth which makes it very short. At one point someone had the idea to flood a civil war battlefield and make a lake. Mean while in Eden North Carolina someone duped mountains of radioactive coal ash on the minorities. Speaking of radiation the government dropped 2 nukes here by accident, they didn't go off so it was pretty funny.
@@TheMarshallCraft And commies and crazy laws... In other words, it sucks donkey balls...
Whatever you do... do not and I repeat do not move to New Jersey. Avoid it at all costs if you want to keep both your sanity and your wallet intact.
Everywhere else is pretty fine tho. Especially the Northwest.
It does not snow where I live in Africa, and a friend of mine visited Sweden in winter. On his return, he said to me: "Jonathan. You know how snow seems so great? Well, it actually fucking SUCKS. It's COLD. It's WET. And it weighs a metric SHIT ton. Be GRATEFUL we don't get that shit here!".
I think landing in Europe to a blizzard while wearing African summer attire, and trudging a kilometre through ankle deep snow in flip flops, shorts, and a T shirt, may have traumatised him.
as a pakistani born here in the US, i essentially share most of if not all of the same grievances after about 19 years of living. car-centricism can get pretty damn bad (especially in suburban california and the ann arbor area of MI where i used to live), but after doing small stints in NYC and San Francisco, walkable cities are definitely doable here. and yeah work culture is hella toxic, let alone the practice of tipping; regardless, its still ok living here when you dont gotta worry about online/social policy crises and whatnot
Central Ohio, our winters are more or less mild. We had like three days of winter this year versus weeks just 3 hours north in northern Ohio/Cleveland area.
As an Albanian living in the Northeast, one thing I miss is the warm Mediterranean climate, which is not unpredictable and doesn't include much snow.
Hello Albanian from Northeast, coming from an Albanian from the First Coast. You'll definitely get the Mediterranean temperature in Florida
The bit about teachers forcing their politics on kids is funny to me since I got it in the other direction. I realize the difference since it was a private, religious school rather than a state one but a) It's not like I had any choice to be there and b) still sucks being 12 and having your Karen math teacher go on an autistic rant at the top of the day because the state went for a pro-choice candidate in the election the night before
Maybe it's justified to be upset when baby-murderers are elected...
Northern California weather really is elite. It's amazingly mild in the winter. But I can also go the snowiest place in the lower 48 in an hour if I desire. And the summer is hot but never humid, unless you go to the ocean where you'll need a sweatshirt even in summer a lot of the time. Only downside is the fires to be honest. And I live in the one region of California that barely has any natural disasters. Floods are the only real danger in this area. Don't get me wrong, plenty wrong in this area. But weather wise and being in close proximity to diverse biomes, it's pretty ideal.
I would love a video about what you liked about living in the US, because I know that despite their issues, the US still have a ton of great things.
I like snow. It sequesters humidity and puts on the ground and you get that "crisp winter air" that American refer to. Americans talk about high humidity as something you get in hot weather, or being worse when it's hot, but what I HATE, living in a Gulf Stream country is the soggy winters. In Ireland you get snow once a year, for two days, in January. I find it refreshing.
The winters in the Great Lakes are much more mild than they used to be. When I was younger we kept a shovel inside the house to dig our way out in case there was a huge snow storm. Now there’s 1-2 weeks with snow
An American teacher refusing to teach American national literature is borderline incomprehensible to anyone from any other country in the world
dawg, waiting 20 minutes for the bus is nothing. In Australia It used to take me an hour and a half to commute to work via public transport, and my work at the time was within my own city council area. People would drive there from outside the city in the same amount of time.
3:54 As someone who does indeed have some quite extreme political beliefs, no, you are quite justified here. I can see how disruptive the at can be towards your everyday life.
Hungarian here who moved to lapland inside Finland. I understand your pain about snow.
My favorite memory of living in a very snowy area of the u.s (New England)was when I was driving up to Vermont to get to university, using speech to text with my mom so I could still look at the road. I was driving up during a blizzard (because I’m a genius). I was nervous about the weather and my mom texted me something about being careful, and something like “don’t worry honey you’ll be fine” and literally the next second I drove by a flipped upside down totaled police cruiser, followed by some dudes car hydroplaning on the slush and smashing into the highway rail. Got to school fine tho and McDonald’s was still open.
This video just makes me appreciate that I live in a Wyoming Town and not a City. Except for the Wyoming Winds, those can make cars into temporary Mary Poppins if it feels like it.
yeah our government is really fucking good at distracting us with bullshit, meanwhile many points in this vid is very fixable if we could focus and force our local governments to cooperate.
Many of us Americans share these points, including me. Visiting Germany really helped me both appreciate some things we have, and hate what we have to deal with.
The weather part sounds like that old audio clip Mujo in Canada when he curses the snow that falls every day
Here in kansas we have both intense cold and intense heat. In the same year of 2022 I saw it reach 110F with it feeling like around 115F and in that same year it dropped into 15F with it feeling like 5F.
in that same year i saw someone cook an egg on their car and two cars sliding down a hill narrowly missing parked cars in driveways while walking home from work...
Never saw cars sliding down hill like that back when i lived in Virginia, the weather in Virginia is pretty mild if you can live with the occasional hurricane.
On the next live, visit the whole ferentari neighborhood in Bucharest.
If there’s one problem about this country, it’s that all presidential candidates are old enough to be my grandparents and have probably been to that one island which had a lot of kids in it
After having lived in an old historic town that was actually very walkable in the US for ~5 years that car dependence really has become like my one never ending gripe about this country, it gets really frustrating
As an American who can’t drive, the over reliance on cars is horrible. Public transport is either non existent in rural areas or dangerous/seedy in large cities.
As someone who lives in Illinois, a former mcdonalds worker, a current walmart worker and high school student, I completely agree with you. Cant wait to get out of here
As a French living in the state of Florida, it's cool to understand a lot of Spanish and Arabic due to all the migration.
being French, understanding lot of Arabic shouldn't be an issue, or?
I have no time being in France nor have I been there yet, but me and Muslim people here get along, I know their history and the recent terrorist attacks but why should I care @@whiskeysk
@@KingBob42O so how are you French if you never been in France? I must have misunderstood, apologies.
My French ancestors migrated to Quebec, Canada after ww1 then some ended up in the state of Michigan, Alpena to be exact.@@whiskeysk
@@KingBob42O thats not french..... you have french ancestry.
I live in The Great Lakes region I’m currently in Michigan’s lower peninsula and ngl it was 60 degrees yesterday and now it’s snowing I love it here
Thankfully I live in Australia because I couldn’t handle the snow and I hate cold weather. Also in my city there’s plenty of public transport with trains, trams, buses and a couple of ferries.
It won't get as many views, but the things you liked about the US would be interesting. Great video BTW!
Disclaimer: yes the vast majority of areas in the United States is dependent on cars. That is due to the fact that politicians and developers knew that they could make more money off of doing this. Ironically enough though, the “solutions” always involve giving more money and power, to the same people that made the car dependent style.
My area is car dependent cause people originally had to ride to the city proper on horseback before everyone owned cars,a large problem is alot of people refused to give up their farmland for city development and cause of that many cities simply didn't
@@Dragoncam13 what area what that be? Just curious.
@@alexhulsebos5401 A rural area in South Western Louisiana that's a 10 minute car ride from the city proper and another nearby city,and 20 minutes away from the nearest "major" city which is Lafayette,Louisiana. Took me about 35-40 minutes just to walk to my uncle's house who lived the next street over
@@Dragoncam13 definitely putting the far, in the phrase “far out.” At least on the bright side, at least there’s (I’d imagine at least) less worry about dealing with potentially obnoxious neighbors. 🤷🏻♂️
@alexhulsebos5401 there used to be a bunch of sex crimes (youd be suprised how much is incestual) and then getting covered up since the regions are much more morally corrupt than the average city
You forgot about option 4 of transportation… the bicycle. Not practical at all times of the year or in certain states, but the combo of biking and throwing your bike on a bus is super efficient. You always avoid the problem of drinking and driving. I mean it’s still dangerous if you’re TOO drunk and you can get a DWI, but it’s a better alternate to getting behind the wheel.
Great Lakes winters as a kid were great, I had plenty of free time to shovel snow and play with it, I couldn’t drive anyway so I never had to worry about rolling into a ditch, getting snow days off, it was fuckin awesome, and then I moved out as an adult so I didn’t even need to put up with any of the cons
'merica!!! 🦅🦅🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
1:17 That's hilarious, because just watching your videos I always thought you kinda had the same spirit/vibe as us up here.
I was surprised that you were that angry about snow, but I realised you are from Balkans and I'm from Poland, literally we had -18°C this winter and when I was kid I went to school in snow tunnels hahahah (snow was 100 cm high, so we needed tunnels)
As someone from Houston seeing so much of my city as b-footage was surreal. Despite being the 4th largest city in the US it basically gets 0 screen time compared to any others on the list.
Please do a what you like about America. You are the rare person who can do both an entertaining hatchet job, and a glowing review. There is no faulting your analysis. Due to affordability, your comment, you would probably end up in the Midwest is probably accurate, though the deep south is cheapest.
One of the things I love about rural California where I live is that most areas just ignored the States zoning interference since the first World War, so even most newly constructed suburbs tend to have at least a corner store in the area. I mean it has highly inflated prices and it's run but H1 B1 visa holders who don't wash their hands, but I'd rather fight traffic to go to a real grocery store anyways
Hopefully you can find somewhere not shitty in the great lakes region but having been their before, I doubt it 💅
Mate your depth of meme video historian content is unmatched. Your videos are some of the best on YoutTube recently. Keep pushin!!!!
2:36 as a “Great” lakes region survivor since birth yea cars just go sliding and ever since 2020 and COVID they’ve essentially been giving out drivers license like hotcakes for nothing and all these new drivers don’t know what to do when they slide… once you see the break lights it’s joever lmao
The intro was fire, especially with the RDR2 house building theme🤣🤣
3:49 I think you're upset about the wrong part of the weather, Midwestern summers fucking suck... Every states in that area is the worst when it comes to allergies acting up. For me specifically my throat acts up and makes it really difficult for me to swallow. I would gladly freeze to death if it means I can drink water without the a searing pain in my throat.
i moved from urban sprawl to a walkable area on the opposite coast and sometimes i half-jokingly forget where i am. i almost went an entire year without seeing one of those single family suburbs, only being reminded of them when i flew back to my home state to visit.
As an person ironically living in Asia, I am a proud citizen of USA (That USA is actually a 'barangay' in our town in the Philippines)
The Culture War stuff got waaaaay worse after 2016. I understand why it's annoying, but you have to understand how unbelievably politically polarized we are right now
Dude understood well that americans needed the snow to be measured in big macs 😂
I am so so glad Croatian immigrants moved to San Pedro, California. The weather for all of February has been mild and balmy, with some rain.
@LivingIronicallyinEurope could you make a video about religion in europe vs usa ?
As someone who doesn't live in the USA, one thing I like about living is that I don't live in the USA.
Things I hate about this country 1.politicians
2. Far left Liberals 3.far right conservatives 4. Our education system 5. California 6.Enviromental extremes 7.Dumb protestors 8.The distance to go anywhere
As someone who lives in a tropical climate in the pacific, I just know I couldn't handle the snow! The cars slipping is so terrifying!
I just have to deal with humidity, a lot of rain and always checking my home for mould haha lucky I still have never had a mould issue yet 😅😂 but I'll take all those issues over snow shovelling and slipping on roads
As someone from michigan, i absolutely despise the weather. Snow sucks, and the weather makes no sense. The other day it was 75 and sunny, next day it was 25 and snowy. What the heck