CULTURE SHOCK in SCOTLAND | 24 things that surprised me in Edinburgh after moving from Czechia
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 มิ.ย. 2024
- #scotland #movingtoscotland #cultureshock #uk #edinburgh #expat
Please share you experience with moving to a new country in the comments below! I'd love to hear how you dealt with culture shock in Britain or anywhere else!
MORE OF ME:
ETSY STORE! : www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Kakibot
Art Instagram: / kakibot
Everyday life Instagram: / kakiblog
Twitter: / kakibot
FB: / kakibotnet
Tumblr: / kakibot
![ทททททททท #27 [หลุยส์ เค โตมายังไง ณ สระบุรี]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/CaKoYw_Xmtg/mqdefault.jpg)
17 degrees and everyone gets there tops off and some how manage to get sunburnt 😂😂😂 so true.
Welcome to Scotland, we are lucky to have such educated visitors 🏴
In Scotland a famous person can walk around freely with out being mobbed by fans,we just don't care😀
Not true many News articles to.the contrary
Aye your right Belinda 🏴🏴🏴
Complete bollocks. Everyone is on them like a rash getting selfies etc.
This is actually true, I walked past Sean Connery outside the NB Hotel in Edinburgh in 1983, and I did not jump all over him. It's only in Glasgay, that people go crazy over the famous.
@@hanssprungfeld8487 I went to a comedy show at the fringe, was a comedian that I speak to occasionally on social media, they knew I was at the show and gave me a shout out at the end, to say "Hi, you actually exist" at the same time he gave the first minister of Scotland a shout out, they had been sat up the back watching the entire show and there was no fan fare, no big long train of cars and media everywhere for photo ops, no the first minister of Scotland was just in there chilling and laughing same as everyone else and like the comment you replied to said, no one cared.
Don't worry about the pronunciations, even some of us Scots have trouble with the occasional Scottish word pronunciation haha. Kirkcudbright, for example. I've only ever read it, up until last weekend I'd never heard it said out loud. Then my gran goes and says "Kur-coo-bray" and I was like ". . . where?" lmao.
One thing though. GAY-lic = Irish Gaelic, GAH-lic = Scottish Gaelic :)
@Talorc MacAllan Whit? Naecunt said they were the same.
i once heard it its sounded like this "kirkbree"
very surprised the old classic Ecclefechan didn't get a mention
Findochty
I still remember when I moved from Liverpool to Belgium 18 years ago and during my first english class my teacher, who thought she spoke perfectly English, couldn't understand a word of what I said.
I love how many scents we have across Britain. It bamboozles most foreigners 🤣
@@gra-emed3617 Yes, some places do have an odd smell!
I was in the us. Navy many years ago visited glasgow and Edinburgh back in the 80s enjoyed myself in both cities loved the royal mile .hollywood and the castle. The fish and chips. Still have friends that live there. Steve and Avril huston bishop. Wish I could see them again. Friends forever. Steve Coppel USN retired . chillicothe Ohio usa
I found you to be quite likeable! a good honest video, the music is a wee bit to loud but i think you did a good job lass! keep up the good work!
Funniest accent thing I remember with foreigners was I worked at a factory that was 90% polish and Romanian and there was a shitload of interpreters who spoke really good to excellent English but we needed Scottish translators to work with the polish interpreters because they couldn't understand what most of us were saying.. It was like something out of a sketch show.. I think he's speaking Gaelic lol no that's English believe it or not..
I want to move to Scotland from New Zealand. I’m going to finish my nursing degree and do a post grad paper and fingers crossed 🤞🏻
Good luck to you! Great nurses needed & your contribution to Scotland is welcomed ty.
You will be more than welcome here in 🏴 all the best
Well come
The separate tap system comes from a very old but good standard. Hot water was not heated when you needed it, but heated in a tank and stored. This meant that although the water going in was excellent drinking quality, it could be left warm in the tank for a log period and degrade. In addition it was fed from a header tank in the loft, which was often uncovered.
Having separate taps ensured that the water from the cold tap was always excellent drinking quality and also avoided any risk of cross contamination, or back syphoning should the cold water feed temporarily be interrupted.
a lukewarm excuse, pun intended ^^
No. They really did occasionally have dead animals decaying in the hot water tank.
The natural response to "how you doing" is "alright"... there ya go, all sorted.
Personally I always use "aye nae bad yoursel?"
@@stephenfowlie742 naw ye don’t
As an American: 1) It makes me wonder why some Brits are confused by our equivalent “How are you?” greeting.
2) Don’t use “You alright?” as greeting in the U.S. Here we ask if you’re alright because there’s some reason to think that you aren’t. If you just tripped, dropped something, almost got hit etc it’s an expression of concern; otherwise it means you either look unwell, out of sorts or agitated and again they’re concerned or that you’re behaving erratically or inappropriately and they are warning you to stop.
I enjoyed the vlog, it was very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Just came across your channel and as a Czech living in Edinburgh I couldn’t agree more, some of them were really funny 😊 subscribed and looking forward next videos 😊
LOVE your videos! 🤩 they're always so funny and true!
Interesting but the background music unnecessary and very intrusive !
A number of people have said similar things, I'll be working to correct this in future releases to Kat's channel
@@simonmountney That would be much appreciated
Yes, I enjoyed the video but I had to turn the volume way down and just barely hear her because the music was giving me a headache.
i have my own music and is enough that tv edits everything to have non stop talking no break no space like intense advert 24 7
Simon Mountney I actually like the music. What type of music is this and where can I find it. It kind of sounds like indie music.
Another great video! My wife had Indian take out one night when we were there and she said it was the best Indian food she ever had, so I'm sure she would agree on that point!
Have you downloaded the edinburgh bus app on your phone? It tells you how many minutes until a bus arrives at a stop. I get busses every day and it’s always accurate to the minute?
That was wonderful. You have an extremely good grasp of the English language and of what makes Scotland tick, I would even go as far as to say that you are a 'local'. LOL
Thanks so much for this video! We are considering moving to Edinburgh and this is all very helpful 😀
The bus service is really good in Edinburgh, yeah some are late but you can get to anywhere you need
It's overpriced and in general public transport here in Scotland's abysmal
The public transport in Edinburgh is amazing. One of the best in Europe. I don’t know what part of the city you live in but the transport is great here. Also lots of dogs like labs, Scottish terriers etc
Welcome to the world of DOG HYPERBOLE! In Czech Rep there's almost no greyhounds (or, you know, very little so they just kinda blend in), so it was interesting to me to move to a part of the world where the dog racing culture created this 'enhanced greyhound effect'. Kinda how you could hardly say 'Scotland is all redheads!' but still my friends come over and point out what crazy amount of redheaded people they ran into in a day!
The Taptapcap is great. But did you ever visit Zurich, Vienna, Frankfurt, Stuttgart?! The ONE Tramway in E'burg is pathetic. The Buses are lost in traffic.
If you're coming from Prague and not moving to Tokyo or Berlin, public transport will be a letdown for you.
Thank a lot all your vidéos are so great !!!!!!!!!
I really enjoy them a lot !!!!!
Hi, in 6 days we're leaving to Edin, so I started watching your videos (also subscribed recently) to learn some tips and tricks on how to enjoy the trip the most.... and just now I found out you are actually from Czechia. :D Takže jupí! Díky za super videa!
Na jak dlouho? .) vyrazite i nekam do divociny?
Just came across this. If you struggle with the Edinburgh accent, wait until you visit the north east. Our greeting is... Foos yer doos? You should reply.... Ae peckin (ae pronounced 'eye') ;)
I ken fit yer sayin loon
🙂🏴🏴🏴🍺🍺🍺
Glasgow is different aswell in terms of accents so yeah she'll struggle outside Edinburgh 😂😂
By north east do you mean what the BBC calls north east (Aberdeen) or our bit that really is north - i.e .Caithness! We can be as unintelligible as anyone!
@@jb3222 You're right! I'm still 'work in progress' deleting the programming! 🤨😱
Your English is very good coming from another country, I'm Scottish and I have trouble speaking English because, well, they taught us English in the school but outside of school we mostly spoke Scottish dialect and some words we speak in Scotland aren't English so we tend to bounce both together. I hope this makes sense. I live in Nova Scotia Canada now for 46 years and people know right away that I'm Scottish.
Hi, Mr. Wilson, Yankee here. I’m curious, how different is Nova Scotia from Scotland? I have the impression it’s colder, and the accent is different. I’ve heard a TH-camr from Cape Breton, and I’d say her accent is a mixture of interior Canadian and an Irish lilt and way of speaking the word-ending consonants.
Bob I agree it's the Scottish slang rolled into sentences that we understand. The untrained ear doesne underston' I telt ye tae pick yer clathes up aff the flare!
lp
I really liked your video.
I would, however, disagree on the buses. I think they are very well-connected and reliable. You can track them on google maps and it is accurate 97% of the time. They also have a second floor which means you can seat almost every time. They have recently added contactless payment so that is also very convenient. I think a monthly ticket of 59 pounds is really not expensive. Specially when compared to london, where people spend hundreds of pounds.
We in Edinburgh have one of the best bus services in the world
Came down here to write exactly this. You can get on unlimited buses for a day for £4. Pretty cheap in my book and Most services are frequent
I live in Edinburgh, I strongly disagree. The amount of times a first bus hasn’t arrived or a train is delayed to work is absolutely a headache
In comparison to Czech system it is one big chaos
Compared to Czech Republic the transport is very expensive and unreliable- when I lived in Prague 3 years ago I could buy a 3 month transport pass (usable on bus, tram and metro 24/7) for roughly £30. In comparison- a monthly scotrail pass from Bearsden to Glasgow (20 mins max) was £70 for one month- that only includes the train (usually delayed or cancelled) between those stops.
when i first moved up from england to glasgow about 6 years ago, me and my other half were talking about the whole fashion/clothes situation and how nobody really minds whether you're wearing sweat pants, jeans, whatever and we were in a pub at the time. guy on the next table leans over and says "what do you call a scottish guy in a suit?" waits a beat and then says, "the accused" and nearly fell under the table laughing 😂😂
Oh my god 😂😂
It's great to hear your experiences, and how things appear from an outsider point-of-view. Perhaps it is my hearing difficulty, but I found the backing music a bit loud so I couldn't hear what you were saying very clearly. I have enjoyed a few of your videos - keep up the good work!
Hello I’m planning to work there!! Thanks for your vids!!
Hence why as a native Glaswegian I have only been to Edinburgh once. The culture shock is too real.
😂😂😂
"Shackleton's Expedition" vs "Mordor" LOL! So true and so accurate.
The language one is quite interesting, because a lot of the words unique to Scotland come from the Scots language, which has a lot of unique words but also a lot of words that also appear in English, since the two languages developed together.
thank you for the info. regarding #6 formalities, as someone from hk, i can tell you it's a british formality more than a scottish one. :D
Really enjoyed this content.
I'm from Slovakia and for me the only thing on your list, that really means something to me is the outside, i.e the weather - which I honestly couldn't tell you enough how much I love (rain,fog,mist is my heaven), and the winter months deficiency of daylight - that is literaly mojo and mind crushing...I have tried prettymuch every trick in the book, yet the most effective one so far seems to be going away for 1-2 months long holidays in Asia :) ,yeh..that works!
Also a big part of the outside is the outside,lol, the country is a beauty and it is limitless in this regards..having travelled up and down several times, having visited many of the absolutely mesmerising Scottish islands - I can't find words to discribe how beautiful Scotland is and how I wish that I could spend way more time out and about travelling here. And also the Scottish people have their heart in the right palce! I love Scotland!
Oh yeah, the winters can be really soul crushing - but it's a double sided coin, and the long days in the summer are still really cool and exotic to me even after all this time!
How long have you been living in Scotland? .)
Well said George! I'm ayrshire March-Sept is beautiful. No rain, sunny & comfortable. Remaining is Winter. That's like Boston.
I've seen far more Spaniels, Westies and Labradors than I've seen staffies and greyhounds, and I've lived here 28 years, all my life.
Can tell you never grew up in a scheme then 🤣
Staffie are mandatory if you are a chav or ned.
And chihuahuas are very popular in Leith and Stockbridge. Wherever the hip crowd are moving!
There are a lot more cats than dogs in some parts.
Hi, this was fun! 😍 But at least for me, the background music was a bit too loud? It was nice, but a lot of the time I was struggling to hear you properly 🙁
Thanks for the feedback! We'll be more careful next time with the volume levels, I think some of the audio was maybe a bit strong and needed individual adjustment ./ Thanks for watching though!! 💛
I'll do better next time, promise!
@@simonmountney oh maaaaan, sorry Simon 😅
@@Kakibot Really like your content, will definitely be watching 😃 Oh, and totally unrelated, but LOVE your glasses - so cool! 😍
@@scarephin :D It's all good, constructive criticism will keep us improving what we make!
A lot of these I’m used to from growing up in Australia. 🇦🇺 Greetings, relaxed attitude, food, correct side of road, etc. I love 🏴.
Love your vid I am Scottish and would love to learn about eastern European culture. I grew up during the cold war and that was what our European education was based around along with the 2 world wars. I will definitely check out your cultures more thank you for trying to understand ours.
This was a fun, interesting video! Music & hands and all. 😉 You have new glasses ? 🤓 Is that Eilean Donan on your monitor?
Keep doing what you’re doing, it’s great as is.
Aww that's very sweet of you - sometimes I upload a video and then just kinda duck and cover and take the wave of 'well actually' and 'how can you possibly think this' while trying to retain any enthusiasm for making anything -_- but that's just the Tuber life I guess! Also yes, new glasses! I hoard cheap frames .D
I believe it's Kilchurn Castle on Loch Awe
Brilliant. Glad to have people like yourself from other countries here and love your opinions. I really love how happy you were about using bawbag.
The way you said "to give you an example" was local. Brilliant
In Puerto Rico people definitely hug and kiss for hellos (pre-pandemic). Can't wait to visit Scotland 😭
First off - neat glasses.
Visiting Scotland and Edinburgh for the first time from USA in October. Staying in Haymarket neighborhood, can't wait.
You have a slight Scottish tone to your accent, i can hear it!
I'm Scottish and moved from Edinburgh to Prague so interesting and funny to watch this :)
Oh how cool! So what were your unexpected surprises .) ?
@@Kakibot Quite a lot of things. Let's see. The beer is great and cheap but I was confused when I saw people drink a half pint or a full pint of froth (snyt/mliko). That’s weird. Bars are generally quieter with everyone sitting down whereas in Edinburgh people often stand and can be quite noisy. I knew the winter would be super cold but didn’t know the summer would be so hot, it’s great! I didn’t think I would like the food so much but svickova, spanielsky ptacek, gulas, rizek etc are all things I eat all of the time. Skiing? Really? Always being asked if I ski. Didn’t know it was so big here. Transport is waaaaay better like you said! I had never heard of Czech wine particularly Burcak and I love it (in moderation)! I’m sure I can think of loads more but they are main ones
@@briankerr5275 ha, Czech summer, exactly the thing I ran away from! But glad to hear you're enjoying them .) And yay for burčák!!! We always try to go to Prague September time cause I just don't want to miss out ♥️ must be great to have it around for a whole month or so!
The writer Ian Ranking described Edinburgh as the Capital Village.
I love how you have a touch of a Scottish lilt to your accent. You may not notice it.
Oh and the dog thing. No idea where you are living in Edinburgh but there are definitely other breeds of dog. :)
Yeah you're right, there are some OTHER breeds as well! From my perspective staffies and greyhounds are such rare breeds back home that it really caught my eye! .)
Ian Rankin
This was fun! 🙋♀️👍☔
What a great voice 😊 a diva thank youuu
My favourite part of Scottish New Year was always my grandma's Steak Pie
Great content!! US postal service is great too. I do hate the shop hours there. It was hard to get used to.
when you want a nice temperature in your water , put Basin plug in bottom of sink, HALF fill it with HOT water , then add COLD water until required Temperature is reached.
I know it's so simple😀🏴
Its so interesting to hear that you have a Scottish accent too! :P The way you say books makes it very apparent you are now scottish haha
You really think so? I have been told that sometimes it comes out, but I can't really hear it myself! These days I might be getting more of it than ever thanks to all the Scottish Government TV briefings, haha .D
we grew up on moomins and pippi long stocking, we used to get some films made for children from eastern europe and canada on bbc at tea time ... they were cheap to buy in
What about some shopping suggestions , specially for initial time period of settling in... 😀🤓✌🏼
I’m agreed with you about the Indian food, blow my mind the first time I tried, is the best take away ever.
So many thumbs up for your love for indian takeaway!!!! .D
Korma
Veg sasamos
Jalfrezi curry
Are my favourite tops
kudos for the courage Kakibot, keep it up ;)
I know, one does need a lot of courage to deal with the DOUBLE WATER TAPS
Really love your videos. I’m visiting Edinburgh from the US in early May. Could you comment on (or make a video) how to dress in Edinburgh? I’m referring to jeans vs khaki’s, Sneakers (trainers?) vs shoes, tee shirts vs button down or polo. Specifically for going to a pub, casual dining, etc.
The unpredictable weather here means that there's a lot of tolerance when it comes to dressing! The only time I've noticed anything regarding a dress code was a week ago when a pub jokingly said they didn't want people coming in wearing sweatpants .D but again, that was more of a joke than anything else. Any casual place, but also museums and galleries, will be perfectly fine with visitors wearing sneakers and jeans! .)
greetings from Edinburgh (unfortunately your music at the background is too loud).
Hello beautiful country and wonderful people ❤️ happy new year
Hi Kakibot, interesting video from the point of view of a Scot who decades ago lived I Japan and had culture shock twice 😆
Could you name some of the French comedies you spoke of?
I'm off to investigate your Etsy page . . .
Cheerie
I am going to move to Edinburgh from Nottingham. Barely know anyone in the city but I hope this city gives me what I’m looking for. Your videos are really helpful 💕
Glad to hear that! Always hoping these vids will help someone with all the planning and prep .)
It is not possible to imagine Britain without pubs.
Glad you seem to be having fun.
Visit Yorkshire - York (lovely walkable city), Whitby with its Abbey, Harbour and Dracula associations and the steam railway to Pickering, The North York Moors, The Dales, Ripon & nearby Fountains Abbey. Lots to see.
We're planning a big road trip around the North of England this year so many of those are on our list! .)
I'm English and most of my favourite films are European, especially Spanish and my favourite books are Czech but English speakers generally are spoilt because English is now the lingua franca and I'll hear other people say they can't be bothered to watch films with subtitles.
Lol.... I found this very funny. Well done !
Hi. Thanks for your informative video. I was born and grew up in Edinburgh but left after university. I have lived and worked in London, Southern Africa and the USA, and travelled extensively elsewhere. But I think Edinburgh is unique in its gorgeous location, variety of topography and the beauty of its built environment. On food, you do not mention the ubiquitous “chippie”. Not only fish and chips but, at least in my time there, pies, black and white puddings and haggis. These were the main take-out foods. Then first came the cheap and cheerful Chinese takeaways. There was only one Indian restaurant I remember in the city back then, on Lothian Road near where the Sheraton is now, and no Indian or Pakistani population to speak of. The spread of curry houses came with the influx of immigrants from the subcontinent which began in the seventies.
You have the most amazing Cocktail video of Prague!
Thank you! 😃
I'm happy to hear Edinburgh has the chill drivers because we also experienced this across France and it was lovely. When we came back home to the American impatient drivers it might be the thing we miss the most. I looked up the data and it is not only less stressful but much safer with way less traffic deaths and accidents.
We did get quite stressed out especially driving around Massachusetts, the drivers around there did NOT have good vibes 😬
HAHAHAHA as a Brazilian Monty Python fan, anglophile and a fan of Scotland, I salute you! Been thrice to the UK and it was always a pleasure!
It is true that 2nd January is a bank holiday in Scotland but know where else in the UK, we lose one in May, when I lived south of the border (as a Scot) I always took 2nd January as a paid holiday as could work that day lol
Totally agree re shop opening hours, I got used to shops being open until 10pm in China, much more convenient.
The opening hours used to be much the same throughout Scotland. Small shops used also to close for an hour at lunchtime: exactly when that was varied unpredictably. Essentially, only full-time housewives could go shopping for most things, unless it was Saturday morning. Indian (and other) shops forced a sea change, at least in the cities.
When England had its great debate about Sunday opening, it turned out that there was no law forcing Scottish shops to say shut on Sundays: it was just customary.
You don’t need the background music. It’s a bit much. Thanks for a great video though, you get 60%
In Slovenia 2. of January is a holiday day too.
Item 7 : Fashion Choices - Edinburgers are rendered immune to this by the total lunacy of the Fringe...
Edinburgh is not so small, in fact, it is larger than Glasgow in area. Edinburgh is 102 sq miles (264 km2) while Glasgow is 68 sq miles (175 km2). Edinburgh's bus service is regarded as the best in the UK and supplies a 24 hour bus service. There are 56 daytime routes (5am - 11.30pm) and 12 night routes. Most buses run every 15 minutes with some running every 10 minutes so they are very frequent and most run to the timetable times. There is a single flat fare of £1.80 for adults and 90p for children, which is a lot cheaper than many cities in the UK, and a day ticket for unlimited travel at £4.50 for adults £2.50 for children.
All of this is true and Edinburgh certainly shines when compared to a lot of places across the UK, but the point of this video was not to make that comparison, it was to point out how different life in Edinburgh is compared to my original city where a basic fare is 80p and you get to take multiple lines within a given time period. Plus a 4 week ridacard is £60 here and about £18 in Prague and that is a solid difference? That said Edinburgh is so pleasant to walk around that it's nice to save the money and take a walk anyway!
Great video. Reminds me a bit of danish girl Victoria Flamel
Great observation about Edinburgh drivers. Scottish drivers, generally, are pretty polite.
It’s always such a shock when I travel back to Prague and people just honk at each other all the time! even as a pedestrian I find it so stressful 😬
"It's Legal Tender" - with that line you will do perfectly well in Scotland and England ;)
Even as a Scot I knew about Moomintroll, TinTin, Asterix and Pippi Longstocking.,
Will you recommend some of those French comedies and Scandinavian children's books ya wanna recommend? ;) I want to know all the best stuff you like!
I would love to know too! especially the french movies from back in the day
Suns oot taps aff ! Yep we definitely take advantage of our summer day 🤦♀️😂😂❤️❤️❤️🏴🏴🏴
It is very similar to Canada.. I am from Brazil and when we ask "how are you" we really want to know. My dream is to live in Scotland one day☺
Get yourself over, be happy to have you 🏴
It always puzzles me as someone who lives in Scotland, why people from somewhere like Brazil, with the great climate, would want to come to cold, grey, wet Scotland. I mean, I know it's more complicated than that, but still.
@@Thumtwiddler It was only until I moved to France from Scotland that I realised how beautiful our country is, I never saw it before. Now when I go back it takes my breath away.
It’s my dream too 😢
Loved the line about British people wearing pyjamas at the supermarket.
Being Scottish myself, I had a good laugh at this.
Ryan Murray eh piss off
When you mentioned culture shock at the end, you defo sounded Scottish. Starting to become a edinburger lol
Your spot on aboot the taps 😂
Except that single mixer taps are more common now in Scottish homes.
I am surprised that she did not bring up guy Fawkes night at all.
Guy Fawkes was caught trying to blow up the English Parliament. No connection to Scotland, although I know that for some obscure reason, his death is celebrated in Scotland.
Loving your take on things moving here ☺️ although I don’t know if I agree with the c word. I mean I don’t know a girl who likes or uses that word 🤣 but I’m looking forward to it dropping in to your future videos by mistake once you start using it 🤣
.DD honestly I find myself more and more used to it and sometimes it definitely finds its way into casual speech for me, but it's usually just around Simon so I don't have to do any mental mathematics of figuring out who around me will be terribly offended .D
My dad is from check Czech Republic and I'm born in Scotland.
The money is exactly the same north/south of the border,its called the pound sterling. The national bank is the the Bank of England but due to the act of union in 1707 the Scottish banks were still allowed to issue bank notes.
English notes don't have sterling printed on them only Scottish ones do if you had even looked at them properlyand the bank of England was a Scots idea because the Scots already had a banking system and printed money
@@gillmcc5595 bit cheeky just because it doesn't say it on the BoE notes means fuck all as the British unit of currency is called The Pound Sterling. My point was there is absolutely no difference between the the value of the notes despite what bank issues it,even the Northern Irish banks issue notes also in pounds sterling.
MrCmac731 it’s actually so unfair, Scottish notes can’t be used in England but English notes CAN be used in Scotland how does that make sense!?!?
@@innesmacneil if you had seen my 1st reply you would know the answer,it's quite simply really The Bank of England is the national bank of the UK so their notes are/should be accepted everywhere in the UK. Hope this helps..
MrCmac731 that’s why we want independence...
Maybe in Edinburgh they don't care but most people a brief response to let them know you are ok before starting a conversation or not if you are just saying hello in passing
I used to stay in auchendinny😀
I’m a bit bemused by the comment that public transport is unreliable, quite the opposite. Edinburgh has a fantastic bus system and if you buy a day ticket you can travel all day for about £4.50.
I can absolutely imagine it being much worse so I get where you're coming from especially if you're comparing it to cities where it is less reliable - but Prague's public transport is insanely good, so from my perspective it's a bit of a let down here! On the other hand Edinburgh is much more easily 'walkable', so that makes up for it.
Really enjoyed this! Any tips for an interview with a Scottish employer?
I can't say I ever went through this process myself except for some of my student jobs: it's always seemed like the employers were quite easy going, receptive to humour. Not sure if that's more of an Edinburgh-specific thing but you might get some positive signals and interpret that as a good sign where it is in fact mostly politeness .D
@@Kakibot thanks!
Pěkný, ať se ti v Edinbra daří :)
I live on the central belt and I never ever ask anyone how they're doing unless I am genuinely interested, I just say hi.
Thanks 😊
As far as the C word being used a lot, yeah, we do use it quite a lot but it has to be used in the right context ... You would use it in your own social circle but you wouldn't use it with someone you didn't know ... at least most people wouldn't, you do get the occasional scumbag though. It's more of a western Scotland thing though, you'll hear it a lot more in Glasgow and the west coast than you would in places like Edinburgh. I love the Czech Republic, beautiful country ... and us Scots love the beer prices :)
We might not know about the 60's French films but we have Norman Wisdom & George Formby instead :).
And for the Scots Andy Stewart.
Hi, while looking for Edinburgh information I found your video. I am a fellow European, I live in England - Suffolk, and am looking into moving into Scotland, as since I am a Software Engineer, Edinburgh popped up in my searched as a tech hub, so I'm considering. You are a designer right? By any change do you know recruiters I could work with?
Thanks.
Hey Edgar! A move to Edinburgh would be a great choice imho, obviously as long as the job change also supports the higher expenses - but I unfortunately don't have a first hand experience with recruiters. Most of my job opportunities came either through networking or approaching/being approached by people on LinkedIn (yeah yeah we all hate LinkedIn but maybe it's good for something after all, haha).
@@Kakibot Thanks for your answer, I'll look into linkedin.
My experience of public transport in Scotland differs from yours. I use it extensively and generally find it reliable and on-time. Sure, there are disruptions sometimes, but I hill-walk a lot in the Borders and the Highlands and I rely on public transport to start and end walks.... perhaps I'm just lucky!
I’m glad things work out well for you! For me, it’s good when I need to get somewhere “roughly on time” - but if I need to be somewhere precisely, my own feet are the best option! But it really is just a comparison of my experience in a much larger city, where the underground runs so fast and often without any dependence on how good or bad the surface traffic is!