Greek here, I lived in England from 2009-2012 for work and I have to say I love this country and it's culture traditions but most of all it's people they are the kindest and most loyal friends I've ever got I'm truly grateful for this experience and one more thing no one beats the English witty humour!!!
I lived in Greece for 3 years and my family and I absolutely loved the country and the Greek way of life. So much so that I consider it my second home.
I love Greece and the Greek people. My very first holiday abroad was to Greece back in 1993 and I just fell in love with the country and everyone was so helpful and friendly. I've been back since and I always have a lovely holiday. I always support Greece in sporting events, if England isn't playing of course.
I have a lot of Greek friends and they are brilliant people. I'm quite olive skinned and some of my friends parents are convinced I have Greek heritage lol
This is why I love visiting England too. I've had so many great conversations with people in pubs or even waiting for a bus or on trains and especially when I ask questions in museums. There's a genuine pleasure in knowing things, discussing things, and being mentally alive.
Our American-born daughter accepted a job in London 2+ years ago (arriving just before Covid). At 40, her move to London was the fulfillment of her dream since she visited there on a school trip at age 18. Having grown up in the suburbs of Phoenix, AZ, she (and her husband) welcomed the difference in weather and fully embraced big-city living and British culture. They’ve eagerly taken great advantage of the availability of the arts, history and diversity of London and the UK. They live in Bayswater. They have the requisite Union Jack sofa pillow and a proper photo of Her Majesty in the hall.They love everything about their new life. Even the challenges. We spent most of December ‘21 with them. Had a wonderful time in a fascinating city.
Pleased to hear what you say about my home. Means even more hearing it from an Arizonan, now my US experience is limited only 7 weeks going from Kentucky up to Chicago and then Rt66 both ways in a little British open top classic sports car. Lots of nice people and lovely places seen, but Arizona would be the place to live if I had to move.
@@johnnywarnerperfectroad66 Here’s an update: We’ve been back to London twice since my original post (Sept. ‘22 & Dec. 23). The “kids” have since moved to Greenwich, so we been able to experience that lovely part of the city with them. During the recent trip we went to York for a couple of days. LOVED IT! Also, they’ve just returned to London today after spending 2+ weeks with us in San Diego, Calif.. Northern Arizona is quite nice, especially this time of year. The Phoenix area, on the other hand, has already reached daytime highs above 80F/30C and will reach into the 90s and 100+ within the next month. Happy to hear you’ve enjoyed your time here. Cheers.
Having served in hot dry places you don't realise just how calming and relaxing the colour Green is, on landing at an RAF base there was very light rain ( drizzle) l sat down on the runway and revelled in it.
2 year tour of NI pretty much puts you off rain...cuss it does not do light drizzle it does 45degree angled heavy rain in your face no matter which direction your looking.
Sorry for not replying for a year lol I live in uk for 30 yrs now,love living here ,upset my parents because I won’t go back home o ye come from BELGIUM but BRITISH true and true ,love fishing as a hobby and met really good friends and yes I love our ROYAL FAMILY thx uk for letting me live here God bless
You are definitely one of us 😊 I like visiting Belgium, always a lovely break away, but I feel privileged to have been born here, faults and all, the best of all worlds I think Enjoy your fishing 🤗 🙋♀️🤪
I’m American and I can remember the first time in the UK. I felt so calm and it was so pretty. There is something interesting around every corner. I’m excited to be visiting very soon.
@@serenityinside1 I agree with you entirely - it’s definitely not done to ‘big up‘ the UK amongst the chattering classes! Orwell noted, and wrote, about this tendency 80 years ago. See our disgraceful Brussels Broadcasting Corporation for an example. Pay no attention to the highly politicized comments of IIWII above. Anybody starting their comment with a sweeping statement like ‘That’s total nonsense’ is a bit suspect. And it seems in the last election he must have been wanting Corbyn for PM, Marxist revolutionary McDonnell for Chancellor and numbskull Abbott for Home Secretary. That would have worked out well…
@@serenityinside1lol… the only downside is actually the far right and conservatives in the Uk, lack of public spending on nhs, education and general infrastructure it Uk is still a brilliant country mainly because of people’s humour and willing to help one another out, especially if you visit Birmingham.. I was blown away how nice people are there, funny, helpful, friendly etc, a very nice cool cosmopolitan city too… 🇬🇧
As an English Aussie... I get this .. Britain is brilliant at being.. brilliant.. discovering all sorts... humour, music, liberty, science.. still land of hope and glory (even when 2-1 down in the 2023 Ashes!)...
Loved this! I agree with all of these things and I cannot wait to move to London from Melbourne! I love Christmas and find you can’t have a ‘traditional’ Christmas here because it’s so so warm!
You're such a lovely and deep person, I almost got a crush on you!! Joking aside, everything you're saying about England resonates with me ❤ I've been living in London for 5 years, and I will always be in love with the country's values of intellect, diversity, art and sense of humour. Many thanks to you for this video! 🌻
Have you tried New Zealand? I was born in England and spent most of my life there, the son of an English mother and New Zealand father. My father, who lived in England for over 30 years, loved the humour. although he was a very funny man in his own right. I could talk all day but I am a lonely old man with two dead wives, one English and one New Zealand, and now live in Twizel in the South Island surrounded bu rivers, lakes and beautiful views. I take me little dog for a walk every day, rain or shine, sometimes snow. Believe it or not I also like Australia.
Hi Yvette, yes my family and i would have you. You are very welcome in the UK and England. I moved to London and the South East and ive always been treated well, and accepted. Great channel and great outlook on British life, keep it up, its a great channel!
Great to hear you enjoy living in the uk Yvette. You are very welcome. We Brits like to criticise our country but overall we are lucky to live here. Loved your analysis.
So pleased to see how much you've absorbed and enjoy living here in the UK. Your appreciation is appreciated - great you feel at home here, and you're most welcome here Yvette 😃 x
Wow. Watching this makes me so proud of my country. Funny how you can take things for granted. I always wondered how Christmas would be in Aus. I'd miss it if I lived somewhere hot in December.
I see what you mean about intellectualism. I’m moving to the UK from Sydney in less than three weeks, and it’ll be nice not to be labelled “born in the wrong decade” for my old school taste in music, film etc. I’m still savouring my last weeks of an Australian Summer though!
You are great to listen to & watch Yvette & you’ll always be an asset to the country. We may seem to be blasé about all the fantastic architecture & history that surrounds us but as you age you become far more appreciative of the good fortune we have here. We talk about Earth being the ‘Goldilocks Planet’ & I believe Europe to be a subset of that. It’s pretty much the perfect Continent. I always enjoy your videos so thank you 🙏🏽 Best wishes 🌸🌺☘️🙂
That was a wonderful and very insightful video. Thank you for appreciating our country in ways that we sometimes take too much for granted. And you are more than welcome here Yvette. Hope you stay here and perhaps in due course, give your 'offspring' the opportunity to enjoy and appreciate all the things you have mentioned and value. You would certainly have plenty to show them.
Your videos have improved. I've been watching since you first started and they're less frenetic than they were at first (dare I say you seemed nervous initially?) This one is insightful and thoughtful. It even made me think, and I've lived here all my life! So well done and welcome. Thank you for liking us.
perhaps a doctor might be in order, ms Bean. do'nt worry about what other people "may " think..f/all to do with thee or me.. just enjoy ya "3 score and 10", love.
The rest of the world doesn't necessarily hate you , it's more a case of them hating how the English either consciously or subconsciously think they're superior to the rest of us. The Empire is over and now you're no better or worse than the rest of us.
Not sure where you are getting the "rest of the world hates us" from. Governments may dislike other governments, but the people usually behave differently. It depends very much on how you interact with them. Example - in France one year, driving a rented French car, a Brit asked me to move so he could get his car out. But not in a normal way, oh no, he was the most condescending prick, talking down to me because he thought I was French. All I wanted to do was yell "Va t'faire encu**** rosbif" but there were families around lol.
@@Skraeling1000 Well I lived in England for over 20 years then emigrated. So I do know the English and how they think. I've travelled quite extensively too and I am only expressing my opinion, which is based on my experience.
@@philipmccarthy6175 Sounds more like you have a bit of an inferiority complex rather than the English thinking that they are superior to everyone else. They don't.
Canadian humour is close to British humour and we love political humour as well --lots of political farce on TV and radio. And we do talk about the weather a lot too!
You are a lovely girl,I am a brit living in Australia I think Australia is young it doesn't such a vast history as Europe and it is so far away from everything isolated I miss the uk and am glad you are enjoying it, much love from australia
Is it worth the trade off? I’m contemplating a move to Australia (Melbourne or Sydney or anywhere along the east coast) from London and I’m still torn as lots of Brits seem to regret the move and return to the UK even years later… It’s all relative of course and one should always follow their gut and take the leap yet it’s such a huuuge leap 😂. I’m keen to know
@@danrgn5078 Sorry, I know it is 2 years later, but there are thousands of Brits that move to Australia and never look back. They love the weather, the people and how laid back it is. Sure, there are some that don't like it, Australia isn't for everyone. If you enjoy the outdoors, the laid back life style, warm weather year round then this is the place for you. The distance is not great if you like to travel, especially if you want to get back to Europe regularly, but there are plenty of countries in the region, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, etc. But also consider the West Coast, especially if you like a quieter lifestyle and fantastic beaches, there is also plenty of places to visit, if you like the outdoors.
Yvette sounds like you are in your dream film. Hopefully it never ends. Jealous you can travel so close to so many amazing places. Heck it takes hours just to get out of my home state of Texas by car. Planes definitely rule, but 15 or more hours wow! I once flew from LAX to DFW and the guy next to me was from Sydney. He looked exhausted as he just had I forget how long a flight to LA. Closest I know personally about the long flights from Australia.
Ok Ok that's far too much praise we can't cope ! Whenever I come home or see you tube stuff esp about the states I know I'm so lucky to be born in Europe and live in Scotland even if I don't always appreciate the weather. You're clearly very happy here , enjoy.
What other country has four different seasons in one day! 🤣🤗 l don't always appreciate our weather especially when it rains and I'm caught in it but I still love England ❤🏴
Yvette, you are more than welcome in the UK, Despite the fact I am British and live in Denmark, It's good to see someone with a sensible and realistic view of the UK. I do miss the "banter", Danes are very direct in their speech and don't understand when I josh with them.
Canadians, Kiwis an Aussies are always welcome here. For several reasons, but one of those reasons lies sadly in France and Belgium. Never ever let us Brits forget out debt ! Keep making the vids, constructive criticism I hope, try and slow down your delivery.
Indeed in matter , and definitely focus in cutting out the “ faffing” as she said herself! Brats don't care for blathering and wittering , that’s what yanks do , get to the freaking point !!! Otherwise... she’s beautiful 😊
Good on you girl..We don't mind nurds here and you have renewed my faith in this country as being the best in the world for everything..We moan from time to time about things, but it's good to be reminded that we are actually very lucky to live here. I'm a New Zealander and sometimes hanker to go back, but after your words I see that perhaps that might be the wrong thing to do..Corrugated iron is what you were thinking about. That's one thing I loved was the sound of the rain on the tin roofs in NZ, which is the only thing I miss here in the UK..
I formed a friendship with a teacher, who lived in the UK for some time, but has returned to NZ some 24 years ago. I did ask him as to why he liked living in the UK, which said he loved it here. He said because it had history, plus was near Europe with all the cultural things that go with it, which NZ lacked.
“Most comedians went to Cambridge?” Yes, there is the “Footlights” tradition, but comedians come from all walks of life; middle class or working class. London actually has less rainfall per year than Paris, Milan and Sydney. We probably get more overcast, damp days, but usually our rain falls relatively lightly, rather than as a deluge.
On staying near Brisbane it rained heavily for 24 hours continuously, straight down, big lumps of water, even the birds came into cover with us, the ground just sucked up the water like a sponge leaving few puddles on tarmac.
I was taken aback towards the end of your video. Many of your friends are from Preston? I have spent most of my life in and around Preston and I find this extraordinary but also very nice. I lived in Soho for a while, many years ago, and nobody would admit to having heard of it. You are lovely and just what London needs.
You stay here with us, your one of us now hearing how you feel about us Brits is warming, I lived in Aberystwyth for 24 years and then moved back home to Manchester. You must watch Cannon and Ball ( Northern comedians, sadly Bobby has passed but his humour lives on) Watch a clip called "Down the Pub" Feel free to invade my ears I'm a good listener x
Interesting list. I also prefer British countryside in general over Australian, for pretty much the same reasons you mention (I left Australia 20 years ago). Still love to see some of the big Australian vistas, but to live somewhere where the countryside is so beautiful and accessible is a bonus. The travel side is another bit of agreement although New Zealand is only three hours from Sydney, making it the closest foreign land to visit - and no, it's not the same as Australia, as it has totally different landscape, architecture and cultural vibe. But yeah, one country compared to the huge variety we have here in Europe. Australian celebrities and science... hmmm, I can think of one, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. He's been a staple on JJJ since last century. That said, it is just radio and not one of the main stations... but he is awesome (I still listen to him via podcasts)... Weather, well, I live in Manchester. Some days I miss the sunshine of Sydney, but I forget the horrid heat. I'd be happy with London weather, it really is better than Manchester's.
Just found this video, I love the mix of Aussie sense of fun and your obvious assimilation into UK life. So glad you are happy, I lived in Australia for a while, in Sydney and on the Central Coast, I enjoyed it, a great experience, especially the ferry to Manly, but I really missed the green, the seasons, and CHRISTMAS! (To say nothing of proper chocolate!). You have just about explained why I came back home, (no offence to Oz, but you'll get it). I actually cried on the coach from Heathrow when passing through the New Forest! 🙄 Still love my visits to Oz ❤ 🤗🙋♀️
I am Welsh, as a nation thank you for the mention, I live in south west Wales google Barafendle bay and Cardigan bay I live in the middle. You are very passionate when you talk, keep it up.
You are definitely welcome. You put yourself out there - perhaps something very Australian - but the Brits do love an Australian, despite what you might read.
There are a lot of exceptionally talented Australians in the UK that greatly enhance our opera, ballet, and scientific disciplines. People like Steven McRae at the Royal Ballet; if you want to see an example of Australian genius then take a look at the TH-cam clip of McRae and Cuthbertson in the Royal Ballet's Madhatter's Tea Party.
I think we are the most historically obsessed country in the world I live in a tiny little area of south England where just down the road in each direction is full of history so I live in between Portsmouth and Southampton so Portsmouth home of Charles dickens , Royal Navy and lots of royal history , Southampton you’ve got titanic and in the middle you got a little village called titchfield which is where Shakespeare wrote mid summer nights dream and where king Henry the 6th or 7th got married and pretty much next to my house use to be the resting house of the kings wives and other royal relatives and just this 15 square mile area of the country we hold on to a lot of history and tradition
Really enjoy your vids - so natural and insightful. Trust me, there's plenty of folks in UK who will talk us down too! As for your OCD (you mentioned it on another vid) you just seem normal to me :-)
Your rising inflections/ upward intonations are definitely fading, which makes me feel a lot more relaxed listening to your videos 😂 Australia has given us some great folk over the years - John Pilger, Clive James and Barry Humphries to name a few ( although I think all three of them moved to the UK).
Here's a bit of fun history for you: corrugated iron was invented by accident when a sheet of metal fell into the rolling mill making rails for the London & North Western Railway at Crewe Works. - you can't turn anywhere in these islands without stumbling over history! PS: you might not find us all so friendly if you weren't young and blonde!
Fry and Laurie, Qi (Sandy Toksvig, Stephen Fry ), Have I Got News For You, Only Connect, Mastermind, not sure how many of these would get made in the US (not sure about anywhere else)
@@Isleofskye have you seen the film Idiocracy ? It is a little bit tilted, the elite seem to be trying to keep the masses down rather than the films everybody getting less bright
Hi Yvette, you are a smart lady and I for one am happy that you enjoy being in the UK. This video is the first of yours that I’ve seen. Excuse me while I polish my knob…I love that you like shiny things….(sorry, English smutty humour.) You are a favourite eye candy of mine now. Your partner is amazingly fortunate and I’m sure he is aware of that. Enjoyed this video, now I shall watch some others to catch up on your video history. Take care, Jeff
Definitely stay. We love Australians here in the UK. You are our 'upside down' cousins, and we appreciate your efforts during both world wars. We definitely appreciate those who appreciate us. So many kind words, thank you and welcome, especially someone as nice looking as you, dare I say. 😘😉😊
I have to agree with you on the Welsh, I get that in holiday places It pays to be nice, but they definitely go that little bit further, I travel across Europe a lot, but if I don't get a week on the Welsh Coast around Barmouth I really feel a bit homesick, last time I went the people at the B&B I was staying at phoned me beforehand to get a rough Idea of what time I would be arriving, when they realised I was coming by train they just came and picked me up from the station.
I’ve had that from B+B owners in other parts of Uk, also “ warm and friendly welsh” in the north can certainly be a contradiction, as indeed very north Scotland!
Yip I live in WA, just about to head into Summer or Fire Season, they moan when it's 17c as it's cold.. 38c on Christmas day it's still weird, beige fields
A wonderful video and you are a delight to watch, I went to school school in Australia, I really love both countries and I just find although the populations have their slight differences there is far more that connects us and we are just so similar in so many ways. As for your last question, it goes without saying of course you are welcome here.
I love Australia but Christmas is just not Christmas there. It’s really quite depressing. We had exactly what you described, seafood on Christmas Day, in blistering heat, constantly batting flies away our faces, but weirdly people sending cards with snowy scenes and log fires and singing Christmas carols. I don’t think British people are necessarily smarter but our culture and climate has always lent itself to spending time indoors reading, whereas the Aussies have all that sun, sea and sand to enjoy. Aussie mates would look at me like an alien if I said I was stopping in to read my Kindle.
And why should you leave if you like it stay it's nice to have nice people from around the globe we are only a small nation with a big heart in the main it's always nice to visit home that's natural but here it's compact and easy to get around there's good and bad everywhere but I find this is the safest place to live with all it's problems keep up the excellent work take care and enjoy
The last figures i heard about Aussies in uk was there was 15000 over stayers so they like it here too most welcome as are kiwis and Canadians All so Americans enjoyed vidio
Yes I think we do appreciate intelligent people, conversations and discussions. So when you think you are up to it we will be happy for you to join in! Just kidding! Great you love and appreciate all we have to offer and of course we are more than happy to have you choose our country as home!
You don't really have to have letters after your name, or be an an intellectual to gain the admiration of the people of the U.K Yevette. Check out Fred Dibnah admired not just for his bravery, (a Steeplejack), but he probably knew more about the practicalities of the Industrial Revolution that most college proffesors of his era. Patrick Moore was an amature astronomer that hosted the Sky At Nigfht T.V program for umpteen years. What Parick did not know about Astronomy was just not worth knowing.Just to name but two. But you are right we do admire clever people.
Thanks for an interesting video it strange to hear someone’s view who is not originally from here. I wonder what did you think it would be like before you came. I wonder what the stereotypes were of the U.K. and how much lived up to that and how much didn’t.? Xx
Well Australia gave us Germaine Greer, Clive James, Robert Hughes and Barry Humphries and I am pleased about that - although no one recently I can think of.
I completely agree about more commercialism not being the answer to decarbonisation. I am an engineer and it upsets me that decarbonisation is presented in a negative way, there are lots of aspects of Net Zero that create the opportunity for people to live in a cleaner, more prosperous and more enjoyable environment, quite irrespective of any reduction in carbon emissions.
Re: Brains and culture. One of our best living physicists is Dr Brian Cox who is a University of Manchester Professor. He also worked at CERN in Switzerland on the "Large Hadron Collider". Before being a university professor/genius he was a keyboard playing popstar! This is him playing (or pretending to play I am not sure as often Top of the Pops was faked/mimed) one of his group's hits: th-cam.com/video/4uSMCtmG__o/w-d-xo.html He definitely performed at their live gigs. When he was a professor, they did a reunion tour in 2012 which he took part in (he is on the keyboard and really playing here) : th-cam.com/video/gWwmNtozQKE/w-d-xo.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cox_(physicist)
I am a Stephen and therefore of course an intellectual powerhouse and genius. Maybe I don't quite reach the Stephen Hawking level, my book would be "a brief history of closing time" but that's close enough.
Please don’t dismiss all Americans based solely upon what you’ve seen in the media, social platforms, etc. We DO support, and hold in highest regard, Dr Fauci. Our country is horribly divided due to the machinations of the last administration. The chasm continues to widen thanks to congressional members who seem to have had lobotomies. Unless there is another tragedy of the scale of 9/11 GOD FORBID! I don’t see our country coming fully together ever again. My point, and I do have one 😊 please don’t colour all of us with the same brush.
Well... the Democrats created Trump. If it wasn't for woke anglophobia obsessing about ridiculous things then we'd have our eyes on the [proper] issues vis-a-vis China, reinforcement of our liberties and focusing on wealth creation and our futures. Instead, 72 genders, race, rainbows, sex, cancellation, false history etc seems to be far more important. It is deeply depressing. The US needs to tell the truth about its history and the UK need to do the same and stop people constantly lying to themselves and the world. We can all be proud of our history on aggregate - the rest of the world cannot say the same.
I would love to visit AU , I like the look of the gold coast and the beaches n all that but not sure if I can handle the huge spiders there. Taking a shower for me in AU would be an experince, I would be searching around the bathroom for an hour first.
Barry Humphries said fundamentally the same thing about the UK. He left Melbourne for London to escape what he saw as Oz anti-intellectualism and disdain for the Arts. We're not entirely free of the tall poppy syndrome here of course. I grew up in rural Scotland where "clever" could be a pejorative term and you would be mocked for standing out from the crowd in any way.
Greek here, I lived in England from 2009-2012 for work and I have to say I love this country and it's culture traditions but most of all it's people they are the kindest and most loyal friends I've ever got I'm truly grateful for this experience and one more thing no one beats the English witty humour!!!
Ah thanks! We love you Greeks too ❤️
Zakynthos is pretty fekkin awesome too.
Kinda reminds of Western Australia in the early 70's !
I lived in Greece for 3 years and my family and I absolutely loved the country and the Greek way of life. So much so that I consider it my second home.
I love Greece and the Greek people. My very first holiday abroad was to Greece back in 1993 and I just fell in love with the country and everyone was so helpful and friendly. I've been back since and I always have a lovely holiday. I always support Greece in sporting events, if England isn't playing of course.
I have a lot of Greek friends and they are brilliant people. I'm quite olive skinned and some of my friends parents are convinced I have Greek heritage lol
This is why I love visiting England too. I've had so many great conversations with people in pubs or even waiting for a bus or on trains and especially when I ask questions in museums. There's a genuine pleasure in knowing things, discussing things, and being mentally alive.
Our American-born daughter accepted a job in London 2+ years ago (arriving just before Covid). At 40, her move to London was the fulfillment of her dream since she visited there on a school trip at age 18. Having grown up in the suburbs of Phoenix, AZ, she (and her husband) welcomed the difference in weather and fully embraced big-city living and British culture. They’ve eagerly taken great advantage of the availability of the arts, history and diversity of London and the UK. They live in Bayswater. They have the requisite Union Jack sofa pillow and a proper photo of Her Majesty in the hall.They love everything about their new life. Even the challenges. We spent most of December ‘21 with them. Had a wonderful time in a fascinating city.
Bayswater?? That's a expensive place to live
Bayswater is a nice place to live..
I'm glad that they like it here 🙂
Pleased to hear what you say about my home. Means even more hearing it from an Arizonan, now my US experience is limited only 7 weeks going from Kentucky up to Chicago and then Rt66 both ways in a little British open top classic sports car. Lots of nice people and lovely places seen, but Arizona would be the place to live if I had to move.
@@johnnywarnerperfectroad66 Here’s an update: We’ve been back to London twice since my original post (Sept. ‘22 & Dec. 23). The “kids” have since moved to Greenwich, so we been able to experience that lovely part of the city with them. During the recent trip we went to York for a couple of days. LOVED IT!
Also, they’ve just returned to London today after spending 2+ weeks with us in San Diego, Calif..
Northern Arizona is quite nice, especially this time of year. The Phoenix area, on the other hand, has already reached daytime highs above 80F/30C and will reach into the 90s and 100+ within the next month. Happy to hear you’ve enjoyed your time here. Cheers.
Its nice when someone reminds us how fortunate we are to live in the UK, as we who were born here often forget
Having served in hot dry places you don't realise just how calming and relaxing the colour Green is, on landing at an RAF base there was very light rain ( drizzle) l sat down on the runway and revelled in it.
THAT'S the reason industrial machines are generally painted green and the reason Green cars are unlucky !
2 year tour of NI pretty much puts you off rain...cuss it does not do light drizzle it does 45degree angled heavy rain in your face no matter which direction your looking.
So true!
Yes David I served three years and four months in Libya. I know what you mean about green fields and trees.
Mmmm!!! If you're used to brown grass, you get sick and tired of continuous green.
We're all wired according to where we originated
Sorry for not replying for a year lol I live in uk for 30 yrs now,love living here ,upset my parents because I won’t go back home o ye come from BELGIUM but BRITISH true and true ,love fishing as a hobby and met really good friends and yes I love our ROYAL FAMILY thx uk for letting me live here God bless
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You are definitely one of us 😊
I like visiting Belgium, always a lovely break away, but I feel privileged to have been born here, faults and all, the best of all worlds I think
Enjoy your fishing 🤗 🙋♀️🤪
I’m American and I can remember the first time in the UK. I felt so calm and it was so pretty. There is something interesting around every corner. I’m excited to be visiting very soon.
It's nice to hear someone being positive about the country, I think we can be too harsh on ourselves sometimes
Well after years of liberals / Labour MP’s bashing us , what do you expect? It’s nit done to ‘ big up ‘ the UK with the chattering classes!
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I agree with you entirely - it’s definitely not done to ‘big up‘ the UK amongst the chattering classes! Orwell noted, and wrote, about this tendency 80 years ago.
See our disgraceful Brussels Broadcasting Corporation for an example.
Pay no attention to the highly politicized comments of IIWII above. Anybody starting their comment with a sweeping statement like ‘That’s total nonsense’ is a bit suspect.
And it seems in the last election he must have been wanting Corbyn for PM, Marxist revolutionary McDonnell for Chancellor and numbskull Abbott for Home Secretary.
That would have worked out well…
@@serenityinside1lol… the only downside is actually the far right and conservatives in the Uk, lack of public spending on nhs, education and general infrastructure it Uk is still a brilliant country mainly because of people’s humour and willing to help one another out, especially if you visit Birmingham.. I was blown away how nice people are there, funny, helpful, friendly etc, a very nice cool cosmopolitan city too… 🇬🇧
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The main thing wrong with the U.K. is the far left, the eco rabble and the liberal luvvies.
As an English Aussie... I get this .. Britain is brilliant at being.. brilliant.. discovering all sorts... humour, music, liberty, science.. still land of hope and glory (even when 2-1 down in the 2023 Ashes!)...
My parents were stationed with the RAF at woomera in the 1960's and the thing my mum always missed was the green landscape of home in the UK
I think its true that Brits appreciate intelligence and enjoy deeper conversations 👍 And in answer to whether you're welcome here, of course!
Great to see an Australian who isn't banging on about how wonderful Australia is and then spending most of their life in England / London ...
Second that 👍
Loved this! I agree with all of these things and I cannot wait to move to London from Melbourne! I love Christmas and find you can’t have a ‘traditional’ Christmas here because it’s so so warm!
“Corrugated” is the word you were looking for, in describing the “wavy tin” roofs on Aussie farm buildings
You're such a lovely and deep person, I almost got a crush on you!! Joking aside, everything you're saying about England resonates with me ❤ I've been living in London for 5 years, and I will always be in love with the country's values of intellect, diversity, art and sense of humour. Many thanks to you for this video! 🌻
Have you tried New Zealand? I was born in England and spent most of my life there, the son of an English mother and New Zealand father. My father, who lived in England for over 30 years, loved the humour. although he was a very funny man in his own right. I could talk all day but I am a lonely old man with two dead wives, one English and one New Zealand, and now live in Twizel in the South Island surrounded bu rivers, lakes and beautiful views. I take me little dog for a walk every day, rain or shine, sometimes snow. Believe it or not I also like Australia.
Hi Yvette, yes my family and i would have you. You are very welcome in the UK and England. I moved to London and the South East and ive always been treated well, and accepted. Great channel and great outlook on British life, keep it up, its a great channel!
Great to hear you enjoy living in the uk Yvette. You are very welcome. We Brits like to criticise our country but overall we are lucky to live here. Loved your analysis.
good for you Yvettes, so glad you happy and settled and hope you stay and get your british passport live a long life here
So pleased to see how much you've absorbed and enjoy living here in the UK. Your appreciation is appreciated - great you feel at home here, and you're most welcome here Yvette 😃 x
what about if she was from Port Moresby, and grunted a "gutteral pidgeon" in your general direction , mr Batchelor ?
Wow. Watching this makes me so proud of my country. Funny how you can take things for granted. I always wondered how Christmas would be in Aus. I'd miss it if I lived somewhere hot in December.
Thanks for being nice about us we need all the support we can get
Thank you for being you! You are the sort of human being that we need more of. You are very, very welcome here! Lots of love and best wishes.
I see what you mean about intellectualism. I’m moving to the UK from Sydney in less than three weeks, and it’ll be nice not to be labelled “born in the wrong decade” for my old school taste in music, film etc. I’m still savouring my last weeks of an Australian Summer though!
Hi I'm from the UK and it's nice to get perspectives of other people. There's a lot of very good things about the UK. Thanks for your shiny optimism.
You are great to listen to & watch Yvette & you’ll always be an asset to the country. We may seem to be blasé about all the fantastic architecture & history that surrounds us but as you age you become far more appreciative of the good fortune we have here. We talk about Earth being the ‘Goldilocks Planet’ & I believe Europe to be a subset of that. It’s pretty much the perfect Continent. I always enjoy your videos so thank you 🙏🏽 Best wishes 🌸🌺☘️🙂
That was a wonderful and very insightful video. Thank you for appreciating our country in ways that we sometimes take too much for granted. And you are more than welcome here Yvette. Hope you stay here and perhaps in due course, give your 'offspring' the opportunity to enjoy and appreciate all the things you have mentioned and value. You would certainly have plenty to show them.
Your videos have improved. I've been watching since you first started and they're less frenetic than they were at first (dare I say you seemed nervous initially?) This one is insightful and thoughtful. It even made me think, and I've lived here all my life! So well done and welcome. Thank you for liking us.
Stay forever please, most of the rest of the world hates us, it's heart warming to hear you speak so fondly of us.
perhaps a doctor might be in order, ms Bean. do'nt worry about what other people "may " think..f/all to do with thee or me.. just enjoy ya "3 score and 10", love.
The rest of the world doesn't necessarily hate you , it's more a case of them hating how the English either consciously or subconsciously think they're superior to the rest of us. The Empire is over and now you're no better or worse than the rest of us.
Not sure where you are getting the "rest of the world hates us" from. Governments may dislike other governments, but the people usually behave differently. It depends very much on how you interact with them. Example - in France one year, driving a rented French car, a Brit asked me to move so he could get his car out. But not in a normal way, oh no, he was the most condescending prick, talking down to me because he thought I was French. All I wanted to do was yell "Va t'faire encu**** rosbif" but there were families around lol.
@@Skraeling1000 Well I lived in England for over 20 years then emigrated. So I do know the English and how they think. I've travelled quite extensively too and I am only expressing my opinion, which is based on my experience.
@@philipmccarthy6175 Sounds more like you have a bit of an inferiority complex rather than the English thinking that they are superior to everyone else. They don't.
Canadian humour is close to British humour and we love political humour as well --lots of political farce on TV and radio. And we do talk about the weather a lot too!
She is Yvette, not Alana. 😀
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Easy on the “ it’s the same country nearly” schtick. We don’t have ear sand extraction, or club seal pups to make fur coats for the rich .
It’s your British heritage shining through
You are a lovely girl,I am a brit living in Australia I think Australia is young it doesn't such a vast history as Europe and it is so far away from everything isolated I miss the uk and am glad you are enjoying it, much love from australia
Is it worth the trade off? I’m contemplating a move to Australia (Melbourne or Sydney or anywhere along the east coast) from London and I’m still torn as lots of Brits seem to regret the move and return to the UK even years later… It’s all relative of course and one should always follow their gut and take the leap yet it’s such a huuuge leap 😂. I’m keen to know
@@danrgn5078 Sorry, I know it is 2 years later, but there are thousands of Brits that move to Australia and never look back. They love the weather, the people and how laid back it is. Sure, there are some that don't like it, Australia isn't for everyone. If you enjoy the outdoors, the laid back life style, warm weather year round then this is the place for you. The distance is not great if you like to travel, especially if you want to get back to Europe regularly, but there are plenty of countries in the region, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, etc. But also consider the West Coast, especially if you like a quieter lifestyle and fantastic beaches, there is also plenty of places to visit, if you like the outdoors.
Yvette sounds like you are in your dream film. Hopefully it never ends. Jealous you can travel so close to so many amazing places. Heck it takes hours just to get out of my home state of Texas by car. Planes definitely rule, but 15 or more hours wow! I once flew from LAX to DFW and the guy next to me was from Sydney. He looked exhausted as he just had I forget how long a flight to LA. Closest I know personally about the long flights from Australia.
Ok Ok that's far too much praise we can't cope ! Whenever I come home or see you tube stuff esp about the states I know I'm so lucky to be born in Europe and live in Scotland even if I don't always appreciate the weather. You're clearly very happy here , enjoy.
What other country has four different seasons in one day! 🤣🤗 l don't always appreciate our weather especially when it rains and I'm caught in it but I still love England ❤🏴
Yvette, you are more than welcome in the UK, Despite the fact I am British and live in Denmark, It's good to see someone with a sensible and realistic view of the UK. I do miss the "banter", Danes are very direct in their speech and don't understand when I josh with them.
Canadians, Kiwis an Aussies are always welcome here. For several reasons, but one of those reasons lies sadly in France and Belgium. Never ever let us Brits forget out debt ! Keep making the vids, constructive criticism I hope, try and slow down your delivery.
Indeed in matter , and definitely focus in cutting out the “ faffing” as she said herself! Brats don't care for blathering and wittering , that’s what yanks do , get to the freaking point !!!
Otherwise... she’s beautiful 😊
Good on you girl..We don't mind nurds here and you have renewed my faith in this country as being the best in the world for everything..We moan from time to time about things, but it's good to be reminded that we are actually very lucky to live here. I'm a New Zealander and sometimes hanker to go back, but after your words I see that perhaps that might be the wrong thing to do..Corrugated iron is what you were thinking about. That's one thing I loved was the sound of the rain on the tin roofs in NZ, which is the only thing I miss here in the UK..
Nerds*
I formed a friendship with a teacher, who lived in the UK for some time, but has returned to NZ some 24 years ago. I did ask him as to why he liked living in the UK, which said he loved it here. He said because it had history, plus was near Europe with all the cultural things that go with it, which NZ lacked.
“Most comedians went to Cambridge?” Yes, there is the “Footlights” tradition, but comedians come from all walks of life; middle class or working class.
London actually has less rainfall per year than Paris, Milan and Sydney. We probably get more overcast, damp days, but usually our rain falls relatively lightly, rather than as a deluge.
On staying near Brisbane it rained heavily for 24 hours continuously, straight down, big lumps of water, even the birds came into cover with us, the ground just sucked up the water like a sponge leaving few puddles on tarmac.
I was taken aback towards the end of your video. Many of your friends are from Preston? I have spent most of my life in and around Preston and I find this extraordinary but also very nice. I lived in Soho for a while, many years ago, and nobody would admit to having heard of it. You are lovely and just what London needs.
You stay here with us, your one of us now hearing how you feel about us Brits is warming, I lived in Aberystwyth for 24 years and then moved back home to Manchester. You must watch Cannon and Ball ( Northern comedians, sadly Bobby has passed but his humour lives on)
Watch a clip called "Down the Pub"
Feel free to invade my ears I'm a good listener x
So interesting. Thank you for sharing.
As a Brit I love our weather… yeah it rains and it can be cold but I just like that we don’t have the extremes 🥰
Interesting list. I also prefer British countryside in general over Australian, for pretty much the same reasons you mention (I left Australia 20 years ago). Still love to see some of the big Australian vistas, but to live somewhere where the countryside is so beautiful and accessible is a bonus. The travel side is another bit of agreement although New Zealand is only three hours from Sydney, making it the closest foreign land to visit - and no, it's not the same as Australia, as it has totally different landscape, architecture and cultural vibe. But yeah, one country compared to the huge variety we have here in Europe. Australian celebrities and science... hmmm, I can think of one, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. He's been a staple on JJJ since last century. That said, it is just radio and not one of the main stations... but he is awesome (I still listen to him via podcasts)... Weather, well, I live in Manchester. Some days I miss the sunshine of Sydney, but I forget the horrid heat. I'd be happy with London weather, it really is better than Manchester's.
I think she means that NZ is similar culturally to Australia.
Trouble is London weather is a lot more expensive than Manchester weather.
My daughter just discovered that it costs the same amount to fly from Venice to Paris as it does to use the M4-Westlink tollway in Sydney.
Just found this video, I love the mix of Aussie sense of fun and your obvious assimilation into UK life.
So glad you are happy, I lived in Australia for a while, in Sydney and on the Central Coast, I enjoyed it, a great experience, especially the ferry to Manly, but I really missed the green, the seasons, and CHRISTMAS! (To say nothing of proper chocolate!). You have just about explained why I came back home, (no offence to Oz, but you'll get it). I actually cried on the coach from Heathrow when passing through the New Forest! 🙄
Still love my visits to Oz ❤ 🤗🙋♀️
Stay in the UK your very welcome 😊
And I'm a northener from Cumbria,home of the lake district.
I am Welsh, as a nation thank you for the mention, I live in south west Wales google Barafendle bay and Cardigan bay I live in the middle. You are very passionate when you talk, keep it up.
You are definitely welcome. You put yourself out there - perhaps something very Australian - but the Brits do love an Australian, despite what you might read.
does that include "Abbo's", Guy face ?
Speak for yourself- I’d say plenty aren’t keen !
Well I know I enjoy you being here 🥰
There are a lot of exceptionally talented Australians in the UK that greatly enhance our opera, ballet, and scientific disciplines. People like Steven McRae at the Royal Ballet; if you want to see an example of Australian genius then take a look at the TH-cam clip of McRae and Cuthbertson in the Royal Ballet's Madhatter's Tea Party.
White castle and Ragland castle in Monmouth Monmouth, you'd defiantly love them.
Yvette your more than welcome here .Love your videos .
You just fancy her.
@@fionagregory9376 She's well fit for sure!
Your an Anglo Aussie so I think you should get your British citizenship you’d be an asset to the country 👍
Thank you for reminding us of what we have ... least we forget.
As a Welsh expat living in Australia I can honestly say I miss a UK Christmas
If I ever want to get the Aussie vibe I just head for Earls Court bars.
If I ever want to get the Aussie vibe I just drink crap beer.
20 years to late mate, no Aussies in Earl’s Court anymore.
@@walkslad Sorry to hear that. Back in the sixties, we all headed there to get a job working on the bar, and partying at the down under club.
I think we are the most historically obsessed country in the world I live in a tiny little area of south England where just down the road in each direction is full of history so I live in between Portsmouth and Southampton so Portsmouth home of Charles dickens , Royal Navy and lots of royal history , Southampton you’ve got titanic and in the middle you got a little village called titchfield which is where Shakespeare wrote mid summer nights dream and where king Henry the 6th or 7th got married and pretty much next to my house use to be the resting house of the kings wives and other royal relatives and just this 15 square mile area of the country we hold on to a lot of history and tradition
Really enjoy your vids - so natural and insightful. Trust me, there's plenty of folks in UK who will talk us down too! As for your OCD (you mentioned it on another vid) you just seem normal to me :-)
You're sounding more and more English, your Australian accent is going fast .
Your rising inflections/ upward intonations are definitely fading, which makes me feel a lot more relaxed listening to your videos 😂
Australia has given us some great folk over the years - John Pilger, Clive James and Barry Humphries to name a few ( although I think all three of them moved to the UK).
@@timelord5920 There's a lot of Australian and NZ here in the UK.. They just fit right in anyway. We are family after all.
@@timelord5920 oh dear, the buffoonery on here is legendary. YES YOU.
Here's a bit of fun history for you: corrugated iron was invented by accident when a sheet of metal fell into the rolling mill making rails for the London & North Western Railway at Crewe Works. - you can't turn anywhere in these islands without stumbling over history! PS: you might not find us all so friendly if you weren't young and blonde!
..... and stunning .
Fry and Laurie, Qi (Sandy Toksvig, Stephen Fry ), Have I Got News For You, Only Connect, Mastermind, not sure how many of these would get made in the US (not sure about anywhere else)
I think Americans might be University Challenged... :)
@@Isleofskye have you seen the film Idiocracy ? It is a little bit tilted, the elite seem to be trying to keep the masses down rather than the films everybody getting less bright
Have you watched Spitting Image? If not watch one, they are on TH-cam.
Hi Yvette, you are a smart lady and I for one am happy that you enjoy being in the UK. This video is the first of yours that I’ve seen. Excuse me while I polish my knob…I love that you like shiny things….(sorry, English smutty humour.) You are a favourite eye candy of mine now. Your partner is amazingly fortunate and I’m sure he is aware of that. Enjoyed this video, now I shall watch some others to catch up on your video history. Take care, Jeff
Definitely stay. We love Australians here in the UK. You are our 'upside down' cousins, and we appreciate your efforts during both world wars. We definitely appreciate those who appreciate us. So many kind words, thank you and welcome, especially someone as nice looking as you, dare I say. 😘😉😊
I have to agree with you on the Welsh, I get that in holiday places It pays to be nice, but they definitely go that little bit further, I travel across Europe a lot, but if I don't get a week on the Welsh Coast around Barmouth I really feel a bit homesick, last time I went the people at the B&B I was staying at phoned me beforehand to get a rough Idea of what time I would be arriving, when they realised I was coming by train they just came and picked me up from the station.
I’ve had that from B+B owners in other parts of Uk, also “ warm and friendly welsh” in the north can certainly be a contradiction, as indeed very north Scotland!
I moved here 11year ago from Australia and can't live in Australia now.
Welcome Harry. I hope you love it here and stay, we’re not a bad lot really. xx
@@loopyloo788 I absolutely love United Kingdom . Beautiful country
Yip I live in WA, just about to head into Summer or Fire Season, they moan when it's 17c as it's cold.. 38c on Christmas day it's still weird, beige fields
Is that Fire Hazard Level sign still on the corner of Welshpool Road and Hale Road ?
A wonderful video and you are a delight to watch, I went to school school in Australia, I really love both countries and I just find although the populations have their slight differences there is far more that connects us and we are just so similar in so many ways. As for your last question, it goes without saying of course you are welcome here.
hi from a brit in America. I miss British culture and humour.
Merry Christmas Yvette ⛄️ 🎄
I love Australia but Christmas is just not Christmas there. It’s really quite depressing. We had exactly what you described, seafood on Christmas Day, in blistering heat, constantly batting flies away our faces, but weirdly people sending cards with snowy scenes and log fires and singing Christmas carols.
I don’t think British people are necessarily smarter but our culture and climate has always lent itself to spending time indoors reading, whereas the Aussies have all that sun, sea and sand to enjoy. Aussie mates would look at me like an alien if I said I was stopping in to read my Kindle.
And why should you leave if you like it stay it's nice to have nice people from around the globe we are only a small nation with a big heart in the main it's always nice to visit home that's natural but here it's compact and easy to get around there's good and bad everywhere but I find this is the safest place to live with all it's problems keep up the excellent work take care and enjoy
Plenty of Castles as you say. The reason, we have been knocking lumps off each other for centuries!
I suppose the Christmas song i dreaming of a white Christmas dose not have the same ring in Australia .
The last figures i heard about Aussies in uk was there was 15000 over stayers so they like it here too most welcome as are kiwis and Canadians All so Americans enjoyed vidio
Yes I think we do appreciate intelligent people, conversations and discussions. So when you think you are up to it we will be happy for you to join in! Just kidding! Great you love and appreciate all we have to offer and of course we are more than happy to have you choose our country as home!
You don't really have to have letters after your name, or be an an intellectual to gain the admiration of the people of the U.K Yevette. Check out Fred Dibnah admired not just for his bravery, (a Steeplejack), but he probably knew more about the practicalities of the Industrial Revolution that most college proffesors of his era. Patrick Moore was an amature astronomer that hosted the Sky At Nigfht T.V program for umpteen years. What Parick did not know about Astronomy was just not worth knowing.Just to name but two. But you are right we do admire clever people.
Thanks for an interesting video it strange to hear someone’s view who is not originally from here. I wonder what did you think it would be like before you came. I wonder what the stereotypes were of the U.K. and how much lived up to that and how much didn’t.? Xx
Welcome to the UK 🇬🇧 loving your posts 📫
The UK does not have a climate, as with very similar Japan, we have weather!
We're lucky that we do have properly defined Seasons it's something we take for granted.
Well Australia gave us Germaine Greer, Clive James, Robert Hughes and Barry Humphries and I am pleased about that - although no one recently I can think of.
I completely agree about more commercialism not being the answer to decarbonisation. I am an engineer and it upsets me that decarbonisation is presented in a negative way, there are lots of aspects of Net Zero that create the opportunity for people to live in a cleaner, more prosperous and more enjoyable environment, quite irrespective of any reduction in carbon emissions.
Nice Video.Glad you enjoy our Country. At times we moan about it, but deep down the know its not a bad place to live.
As far as I'm concerned you can stay here as long as you want
We love you just stay and become British you know it makes sense🙂
Re: Brains and culture. One of our best living physicists is Dr Brian Cox who is a University of Manchester Professor. He also worked at CERN in Switzerland on the "Large Hadron Collider". Before being a university professor/genius he was a keyboard playing popstar! This is him playing (or pretending to play I am not sure as often Top of the Pops was faked/mimed) one of his group's hits: th-cam.com/video/4uSMCtmG__o/w-d-xo.html
He definitely performed at their live gigs. When he was a professor, they did a reunion tour in 2012 which he took part in (he is on the keyboard and really playing here) : th-cam.com/video/gWwmNtozQKE/w-d-xo.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cox_(physicist)
Brian Cox does my head in. He’s such a drip, his voice is annoying and his programmes are so dumbed down they insult my intelligence. 🤮
Now I finally know what the Coldplay song is about, Australian farming! Because It was all...
Great vid, made me smile :)
I am a Stephen and therefore of course an intellectual powerhouse and genius. Maybe I don't quite reach the Stephen Hawking level, my book would be "a brief history of closing time" but that's close enough.
Maybe I should do a joke on gravity to show my intellect but I don't know any.
steven gang unite
@@stevegray1308 Without gravity the whole world would just be up in the air........just saying.....sorry.
@@johnwoodgate8125 we wouldn't care, we would be dead extremely quickly when the atmosphere went.
Clive James, Barry Humphries, Germaine Greer - three very intelligent (and funny) Aussies off the top of my head.
All of them spend a lot of time in the UK
Lisa MC Cune ❤ great Aussie actress
October is our big fastival Durga Puja and we are very happy
I would of said you sound British, but do i detect a weak Aussie or New Zealand accent?
Please don’t dismiss all Americans based solely upon what you’ve seen in the media, social platforms, etc. We DO support, and hold in highest regard, Dr Fauci. Our country is horribly divided due to the machinations of the last administration. The chasm continues to widen thanks to congressional members who seem to have had lobotomies. Unless there is another tragedy of the scale of 9/11 GOD FORBID! I don’t see our country coming fully together ever again. My point, and I do have one 😊 please don’t colour all of us with the same brush.
The divisiveness over relatively small differences is a deliberate distraction from what matters most, I think.
Well... the Democrats created Trump. If it wasn't for woke anglophobia obsessing about ridiculous things then we'd have our eyes on the [proper] issues vis-a-vis China, reinforcement of our liberties and focusing on wealth creation and our futures. Instead, 72 genders, race, rainbows, sex, cancellation, false history etc seems to be far more important. It is deeply depressing. The US needs to tell the truth about its history and the UK need to do the same and stop people constantly lying to themselves and the world. We can all be proud of our history on aggregate - the rest of the world cannot say the same.
You make a very good and valid point Kimberly. Nice one.
I would love to visit AU , I like the look of the gold coast and the beaches n all that but not sure if I can handle the huge spiders there. Taking a shower for me in AU would be an experince, I would be searching around the bathroom for an hour first.
Barry Humphries said fundamentally the same thing about the UK. He left Melbourne for London to escape what he saw as Oz anti-intellectualism and disdain for the Arts. We're not entirely free of the tall poppy syndrome here of course. I grew up in rural Scotland where "clever" could be a pejorative term and you would be mocked for standing out from the crowd in any way.
Please try Al Murray Oxford Uni educated and absolutely hilarious as the Pub Landlord.
Now I’m with my family
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