Living in England as an American // First Impressions, Culture Shocks, English Food, etc
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- Living in England as Americans // First Impressions, Culture Shocks, English Food, etc
Living in England vs living in the United States. American reacts to English lifestyle, culture, food, etc.
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Most people don’t live in flats in the UK. The vast majority of people in the UK live in houses.
And for Americans housing standards , the houses in England are the size of a FLAT , is it more clear for you now?
Thanks for your reply James, but it’s not a case of ‘Size’ or ‘being more clear’. Houses tend to have 2 or more floor to them and flats are usually exactly that, ‘Flat’. So, all the living space is on one level. And as I’ve been a UK resident for the past 40 years, I was simply pointing out that the majority of people in the UK live in dwellings with 2 or more floors, i.e. houses, not flats.
Many thanks.
MORE FLATS.
I think I was about 10 before I even saw a block of flats. I don't think there is one within 3 miles of where I live, here in Surrey. I literally don't know anyone who lives in a flat. Very small houses, yes. Flats, no.
And also our houses are not that small they are just right yes everything in the USA is bigger like your fuckings egos and your blood sugar oh and people killed by police
Sweet girl, but she's got to get out of London and see the real Britain.
Agree, she needs to travel to Rochdale,Rotherham, Oldham and East Hull. She would get the shock of her life.
@@fifthof1795 Or, God help her.......Wearside. She'll discover that hell really does exist, and, it's name is Sunderland. The flames of hell would be preferable to the cold damp misery of the Southwick Estate. Where the demons in shell suits torment you by screaming at you in an unintelligible language called Mackem, where the children are feral and look like gargoyles licking a nettle. Stay in London girl, you're safe there.
I live in east hull !! Best thing about it is ferry to rotterdam
@@jagermoose176 I, many years ago used to live in West Hull. I grew up there. I had a few friends who lived in Bransholme and off the Holderness Road. Happy days back then. I reckon its worse now. Much of East Hull was awful. I revisited the Hull back inthe summer of 2018. First time id been back on my own and stayed overnight in thirty five years. The place just looked knackered. Whitefriargate was one long line of charity shops. When I drove off I almost wept, I really did. I loved growing up there back in the 70's and early 80s. eighties. Left for good in Oct 82.
@@fifthof1795 its changed a lot over the years but the hull people i think are still amongst the friendliest. Fruit market and marina look ok now but yeah whitefriargate is run down. Preston rd estate is demolished. I live on southcoates and id still rather live here than west hull. Stay safe mate
Umm .. Most people live in houses and most households have at least 1 car
I guess she thought most people lived they way they do in central London or Manchester but of course outside the big cities it's a very different story.
“The country is so small, it’s very rare for people to have cars” Yeah it’s 874 miles from end to end, try walking it. I don’t think she stepped foot out of central London.
883 miles actually and yeah it's small compared to that 3rd world country (USA)
@@abovethelaw4417 you're still not going to walk that distance
England’s as big as like any 3 American states
London doesn’t represent England at all.
wise words jp
Words to live by
Her points are still true for a lot of the UK tho.
@Michael Shaughnessy Capital* The Capitol is a specific place/building? in the USA. there is no Capitol in the UK.
Most people in England own cars, many families two or even three . That is the reason there is so much congestion. There is barely such a thing as a quiet road anywhere in southern England. London is virtually gridlocked and residents have to pay a congestion charge to drive through it.
Unfortunately you're so right about road congestion. Over the years here in Surrey it's just got worse and worse, the opening of the M25 eased congestion for a few years but now it's worse than ever before.
@@JakeGutteridge That's a sound point Jake.The trouble is there is so much building going on ,that many small towns are expanding at an unprecedented rate and becoming mini-metropolises in their own right. I probably should have said quiet 'major' or 'A' roads.
Did this girl really come to England?
What a delightful young lady. Again she needs to see the whole country.
New York and Paris get more rainfall than London. True Story.
You can include Amsterdam which gets much more rain than London.
Add Tokyo, so much rain.
From memory the UK comes 76th in the world for average rainfall per annum
Less sugary means more tasteful, not less.
there food is so packed with sugar and salt that they are not use to anything else.
There’s more to England than central London.
I wish I had a pal in London
@@riaduckfoot2338 Don’t we all?
@@bjoe385 r u from London
@@riaduckfoot2338 No.
@@bjoe385 sorry just asking cool
Most people do NOT live in flats. Outside of London nearly every household has one or two cars. You need to see England outside of London.
Mmm interesting view of the U.K. lovely young lady but definitely a London centric view of UK. I thoroughly recommend travelling around a bit more.
She was just in London the whole time
You have to understand most of us in England have underwear older than the USA
She obviously never left the centre of London
This girl stayed in London and has gone home still without a clue.
The UK is more than just London, but London isn't inauthentic.
@@JakeGutteridge It's a lot more dense, richer, with a lot more foreigners, defininetly different and its worth getting out and seeing more.
@@JakeGutteridge often capital cities in each country become globalised and gentrified so they don't really give a good reflection of country
Beware of Nigerians sending e-mail.
Lol, i get indian tech guys pretending to be a "Nigerian Prince" call me Lmao
Are you should you've been in England it didn't sound like my England and I've been hear 71 year's. Every one I know as at least one car and unless you only went to city's not so many flats
It’s here, rather than hear... 🤦🏻♂️
It's not illegal to carry a knife, if you have a fair reason. For example going into a pub or club with a 6 inch knife would take some explaining. :-) Pocket knifes are fine, unless you take them out in situations of conflict, then it could become an "offensive weapon".
You think people in London are polite? You should go further north because they’re much better. Yorkshire & Lancashire for example.
Doesn't sound like the UK I've lived in for 60 years. But then again she may be talking about London, which like any capital city is not representative of a country.
'Very rare for people to have car's...that's worthy of a huge lmao right there and i cant fathom how she could possibly have missed them all !
she's probably talking about people in London...I hope.
Yes as an English woman I can understand Welsh, Scottish and Irish and even American.
Having been to the US a number of times I would say British food is better and more tasty!
Disagreed and I've been to many countries.
A lot of people talk about the weather because it’s to keep the conversation going. The elderly might complain about the weather, but that might be because you’re the 1st person they’ve talked to in a week. So please just listen & join in. You probably made them feel less lonely.
lol i wish somebody walks up to me and complains about the weather to me. i dont think ive ever spoken to a human besides my mom in... a month...... and im 23 in china
Most people don’t live in flats outside London
“I bought a pocket knife because I’m out on the streets at night a lot!” 😳 aww bless you 🤣👏
🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻
I've got a knife-pocket but no pocket-knife.
Pocket knives of the "Swiss Army" type are legal to carry in the UK. However the main blade must be 3 inches or less long and non-locking. Carrying any type or size of knife for specific use as a weapon, offensive or defensive, is, however, illegal.
I have habitually carried a Swiss Army knife for at least the last thirty years. I have it in my pocket now, as I write.
@@sirderam1 exactly, I have the same in the boot of my car ....it’s one of those “gosh I wish I had a decent knife on me” sceneries ....🙏
"Because the country is so small it's rare for people to have cars". Oh really? :-)
Rare to have cars? uh? Well maybe rare to have 3 cars in one family like you often get in the U.S. but I don't know anyone who doesn't own a car. I think she might be getting her information from a 1950's guide to the U.K. - lol. Not her fault of course if she is fed inaccurate facts.
@@TheVaughan5 she just clearly hasnt left central london.
95% of people work as Carers ? Not sure who she,s hanging with !
Most people in New York City don’t have cars. The apartments are small and a lot of the people eat out rather than cook. My son has lived in NY off and on for several years.
Land is at a premium in capital cities such as London so as a result property prices are extremely high. You need to travel around the U.K. as London isn’t representative of the country as a whole.
Haha, almost everyone has a car!! But our public transport (which of course we moan about!) is really good so it’s very common to use both car and/or bus/train at any given time!
Actually, about half of us own cars. I have never had one.
If you had just visited areas near London; Essex, Hertfordshire etc, you’d have realised that most people live in houses and every household have at least one or more cars.
I don't know what country she visited, but it wasn't the UK lol.
Come up Yorkshire you think London’s polite you will love us 🤣👌🏻🏴
Yes even Nigel.
I don’t know anyone without a car, and many cars are huge especially like SUV’s
“ its rare for people in the UK to own a car”…
Thats why i spend about 30hrs a week sitting in traffic then 🤔
'so many Africans...I loved it'
I don't even know where to begin with that.
US don’t talk about the weather but have a dedicated Weather channel on a TV ...
Cars are rare ?!?
She's obviously never been driven on the M25 or M6.
If cars are so rare, why is trying to park in my own drive way like playing a game of Tetris with my neighbours cars?
Got the impression this young lady was fairly closeted in the UK. And most people I know have cars
She was part of a church trip. very controlled, very closeted.
I do not drive a car. Prefer taxis.
the wizzard INDEED!!!
@@thewizzard3150 that would explain a lot
You are talking about London not England or even UK!.
If anyone asks “Are you all right?” They don’t want your medical history. It’s a way of saying “Hello.”
I can understand every accent in the UK and Ireland, and so can most of us. Just so you know
Even Glaswegian?
@@eddiewhite7309 thats one of the easiest scottish accents to understand. i personally dont see how anyone struggles to understand any of it. everything is pretty obvious if you actually listen.... but i did work with a scot for 8 years so that may help.
Re comedy: as a Brit, I love Cheers and Friends. Frasier, for me, is one of the wittiest, funniest, and best sitcoms ever made.
Yeah England is not London try visting the dales the lakes the beaches of East Anglia its really not flats and the its scarcasim that you struggled with dont worry all yanks struggle with that one
Have you heard this colloquialism, "thick as mince"?
Jacket potatoes are on the menu of every restaurant or fast food place....erm I think they're pretty rare lol.
Is she one of these people that keep knocking on my door trying to convert me ?
Maybe, not sure but think she is.
Probably. 😞
half the country is living n flats and we don't own cars? lmao h and we are all carers
My thoughts exactly.
Where were you living? I,m guessing London!
Nope
*good sarcasm*
I would like to see England back in their glory days.
Just as long as they dont try to colonize us again.
A religious girl on a church trip from the south west, that's were the desert is. didn't get to far from the london tourist areas.
Talking about the weather is just an introduction, an opening to conversation. ...if you don't respond, then there's no point in conversing any further. .
Excuses me. People can understand Scottish accents.
Such a nice young woman. Love from London 🇬🇧x
Glaswegian and Geordies have to two hardest accents in UK/GB
Only if you're deaf :)
Liverpool 🤣🤣
Hadaway.
@@Hrodn YI WU DE
Howay man! It's a proper canny accent, like!
Who'd of thought it, it rains more in a northern European country, on an island in the Atlantic, than it does in a desert state of the USA. Most people don't live in flats. Its not rare to have a car, maybe in London. Our roads, cars and houses are smaller simply because we don't have the land space of the USA.
We talk about the weather a lot because it can change so many times in a day.
What you need to do is live in England as an English person.....get out of London for a start....there are not many English people in London
Same if you go up to Edinburgh, or the Orkney/Shetland Islands.
@@iamthestig1 I am sorry....I didn't realise I had commented on one of your posts.
_"If you go way up north they're really hard to understand, but English people can't understand them either."_
Heck, if you go far enough north, not even Scottish people can understand them.
It's a shame she did not get out of London.... If you visit the UK again.... Never stay in London....
The British sense of humour has been described as 3 parts ironical and one part kindly. The best definition was given by Robert Mitchum, American actor and Anglophile: bitter cheerfulness. Go to Whitby on the north Yorkshire coast: famous for whaling, Captain Cook, Dracula and Whitby Jet, as in jet black.
Random Brit that stumbled on this video, good people are always welcome in the UK please come again young Lady :)
do you realise what she was doing here??
I would like her to visit more parts of the UK, there are some rough places, of course, but there is a lot of beautiful and friendly places also. Much like America.
Im a good-for-nothing yank about to head to england in the summer or early fall depending on the state of the pandemic. But i’ll be in Warwickshire. I dont think i’ll be visiting London anytime soon. Im probably a rare breed of american who isnt planning on going to London.
Jackets potatoes are not on every menu , where did you eat . Most people do not live in flats , most people are not carers , you need to get out of London, everyone drives outside london . You say you are a Christian and you carry a knife . I sorry but you don't know anything about the uk , london is different than most parts of the uk . I live a town and only 5 % live in flats and 80 % of adults drive. Please get fact write before making TH-cam videos
Has this person even been to the UK?
This video should be retitled to Living in London.
If you stopped saying the word ‘like’ every other word it would be so much better.
Calm down grammer Nazi
England is not just London and also , get your facts right
Have a trip to the lake District,you'd love it 💕🇬🇧
what does it cost to call an ambulance in the USA $2500 nothing in England.
I don't know why they complain about the weather so much...... Then explains why we complain about the weather so much 🤣🤙✌️🇬🇧
I have no idea what part of England you went to but this is so far from what England is really like...
clearly central london, n thats it
You must have been living near London. The only people who live is London are those who are poor enough to live in social housing, or the very very rich.
Once you get away from London, most people live is houses and have cars.
I live in London. I own my home. My parents owned their home. I’m not rich.
@@Brakdayton so how much is your house worth?
@@mrglwatson I have no idea and I don’t care. It’s my home not an investment.
Lol funny everyone drives small cars me with an 05 mustang and a f150
Glad she had a positive experience here. Some of what was said (e.g. most people here don't have cars) is very much big city only and having been to the USA many times I would not say our food is less tasty - maybe less salty but other things like the difference in sense of humour and the British being less outgoing and reserved polite is spot on.
A pocket knife with a folding blade no more than 3 inches (75mm) long can be sold legally to an under 18-year-old and can be carried in public--they are not intended to be carried as weapons. Folding lock knives are not legal
Even Shakespeare goes on about the weather.
Here's a bit of sonnet 34:
"Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
And make me travel forth without my cloak,
To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way...."
And lots of of LOVE American humour!
can't be bothered when they're in London...
you can carry an up to 3 inch knife, which is big enough to do anything sensible
She is so way off in her assessment. 95% of people are NOT carers. Most people DON'T live in flats. 50% of flats ARE NOT council flats. She is sweet but definitely living in a bubble.
that was obvious when she said 'there's a lot of Africans...I loved it'
she's lived a very sheltered life.
This video is a wind up right?? I actually thought you were being serious at first until I got to the parts about houses and cars 🤣🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Awesome
A Christian who carries a knife ? Oh how lovely?!!
My son lives in London but owning a. Car is a real pain and costly in London.
London very expensive so he can going. Miltonkeynes. Bristol,more job and cheap houses.
NO NEED FOR A CAR IN LONDON PRE COVID
I agree with the previous comment. This lady is presumably talking about London or another big city? Outside London many people do live in houses and most do have a car.
Did she really live in England well not the one I live in
You are allowed a pock knight as long as it not over a surton size
There was more rain than in the desert ! No sh€t Sherlock.
There are other jobs in the UK 95%of the people she met are carers amazing
Swiss Army knives - or similar - are allowed , or you want to carry an all purpose utility knife as opposed to a weapon .
Not true as any locking blade is illegal which a Swiss army knife is.
@@thomassayles3699 ve a Swiss army knife and it doesn’t lock. I don’t think i’ve ever seen one that does.
You don,t need to carry a weapon in England
Try Liverpool for openly friendly
What most people live in houses and there are cars everywhere.
Deadpan humour is Really Big in the UK.
They have small cars. Rolls Royce didn't get the memo.
Or Jaguar, don't think Land Rover got it either.
You had a bishop ?? Were you on a religious visit ? 🤔
Mormons.
If you carry a 'pocket knife' the blade has to be less than 3 inches long and no locking blades. IIRC
You where in London I suppose?
The past 30 years the aliens have taken over Great Britain
she's very sweet