American Reacts to Why You Should Move to the UK
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As Americans we don't often hear about what life is like in other countries. Today I am very interested to learn about some of the best reasons why you should consider moving to the UK. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
As a U.K. business owner I can say that my attitude is happy employees equals loyalty and productivity.
A lot of business owners say that, however few make it happen.
Not like I blame you for it. It's just that your thoughts and your management's thoughts might not be in line. If you're really committed to having happy employees, it would be good to see how everyone works once and a while and to speak to some of your staff that you usually wouldn't get an opportunity to speak to.
If you get the time that is.
And also you'd be surprised that sometimes the people you least expect would have some good ideas for improving production or your business overall. So speaking to them might give people an opportunity to be heard. At the very least it will make them feel heard and feel important, which will make them happy.
@@bakersmileyface I totally get all our work experiences are different and we've all worked for arseholes at some point, but I gotta back up @tecteam here. My entire plan for my team is to create a workplace where they can be as successful as possible. Good people are incredibly valuable and will get offers to move for a few % more all the time - if I can give them something better (support, development & a lack of bullshit) then there's much more chance they'll stay with me for longer, and acquire new skills. Everyone wins.
It's easy to think this only works with high-skill employees but many companies have shown that, when done well, it can work for all workers.
You're absolutely right about looking for improvement advice from everyone, I've had skilled frontline employees point out issues and solutions where wastage could be 25% before!
100%
This is rare. Can I send you my CV?
Yeah but, America is a land ruled by greed. You may be the exception but too many employers in America take too much from their employees.
We don't have 'benefits' - we have workers' rights. We, and the rest of the non-US world, have fought hard for every right we have.
100% agreed. Americans have been conditioned to believe human rights are 'nice to haves', not violations of their base human rights as human beings.
Yes..Americans seem to brand any workers' right as "socialism"..which, to them, is a scary and undesirable thing.
If you mention 'workers rights' in the US you are called a communist.
Our current government does not believe this should be the case and the 'Retained EU Law Bill' has been designed to aid in the removal of workers' rights, amongst many others, without parliamentary scrutiny, or even public consultation. The point of the bill was to strip away EU laws that the government deemed 'unnecessary' and these include rights such as paternity/maternity pay, holidays and pay, disability rights and most importantly, health and safety.
Rules may change without warning and many will become automatically untested in court leading to laws being retested to see where new and many existing rules go. And ALL without scrutiny. The executive (government) can ride roughshod over the legislature (Parliament.)
It was this fact that turned me against Brexit, knowing how much secret control it handed to a government. The point was not to provide better rights and regulations to benefit us and beat the EU but to remove them in order to suit the (much) higher ups.
Looks like the unions are going to be busy@@EdgyNumber1
Videos like this make me feel a lot more grateful that I don’t live in the US
Yes and less likely to get shot.
Facts!
agreed mate
Totally agree
💯% as a early teen I thought the USA was all i wanted. Until we got our social study's at school learning all about the other countries. Meanwhile we have our own bleached buffoon who luckily for us has way less power then his orange big brother. So I still believe we are better off, even though the Netherlands isn't a utopia I'm very lucky to be born here. 😊
In the UK you will often find managers coming up to you and say - you have 9 days holiday left so you have to take it (and they give you dates)! They are literally telling you to take a holiday. Also when you leave a job you get paid for the holiday time not taken.
@carlsagan3806 Nope. I just changed jobs and got paid for holidays I hadn't taken!
@carlsagan3806That depends who you work for.
@@alanmoss3603 you only get paid for holidays you haven’t taken if you’ve earned them, I got deducted money from my final pay once because I took too many holiday days in 6 months than I had actually earned or accrued
@carlsagan3806 An employer must pay their employee 'in lieu' for any untaken statutory holiday entitlement they've accrued when they leave. This means the employer pays the employee holiday pay, instead of them taking the holiday.- ACAS
I just don't understand this. Many jobs in the US offer you "flex time" which you can use however you like. It usually accrues by how many hours per pay period you work. Some companies pay you for time not taken if you leave, and some don't. But what I don't get is why you should be forced to take the time off if you don't want to. I don't want the government (or a corporation) micromanaging my life. Most Americans I know want smaller government and want them out of our way. Forcing time off seems like another government interference to me.
What is it with Americans and not thinking the UK has beaches? I've heard this time and time again. We're a freaking collection of ISLANDS for goodness sake!!!!!
Not all our beaches have golden sands- but many of them do!
And she didn't even mention 'free at the point of need' medical care.
Because "beach = hot, sun" and "UK = cold, rain" in the perception, so associating UK with beaches just don't happen.
(I don't say it's true, just it's what people think)
I can't get my head around it either
But likewise not many British people would associate Japan with beaches.
@@capitalb5889 what?! If we think of Japan a beach is not the first thing we think of but it's literally an island... I have never met a single richest person who has ever thought Japan would never have beaches...
@@M24RV_F I think you misunderstood me somewhat. Most people are aware that Japan is an island and therefore, where the land meets the sea, there are likely to be beaches. And while I doubt that you have checked this with every single person you've ever met, or even one of them, I expect this is what they would say.
However, I'm talking about things we associate with a country, not whether they literally exist or not. If Japan was on Pointless, or Family fortunes, I think the chances of "beaches" coming up would be quite low, unlike if it had been Greece, Spain or Thailand.
My wife and I once got stopped by the police because we were walking along the side of the road in San Diego. They struggled to believe we were walking to our destination less than two miles away!!
This happened to the author Ray Bradbury in the 1940s. He then penned the short story “The Pedestrian” & then the novel “Fahrenheit 451” both based on his experience! Enjoy!
Surprised you didnt get thrown on floor hancuffed and chucked in prison
I was shocked when this also happened to me whilst on holiday in USA some years ago.
Happened to me in Jackson Hole with some badged dropkick demanding ID because I was out walking.
Wow. I go out for walks every day. Usually at night. I prefer walking in the dark when there's no people around. I'm often out alone at 3am and 4am. I've never been attacked, or robbed, or stopped by the police. This is in Ireland by the way.
One of the biggest reasons to live in the UK is healthcare, I would literally be dead twice over if I didn’t live in the UK or at least bankrupt through health costs.
Why? Affordable healthcare is global
@@davidz2690 ha ha ha!!! What total abysmal ignorance.
@@davidz2690 Believe it or not, there are people who cannot afford to pay for even the most trivial aspects of healthcare. The NHS is probably the thing we are most proud of, even though it is being run into the ground by the Tories.
@@davidz2690 You win "Tell me you are American, without telling me you are American".
@@thefiestaguy8831 huh?
A couple of years ago, I wanted to see a band that was on tour at the time (Nick Mason of Pink Floyd). I couldn't get tickets to any UK concerts except one in London. Travel to London and a hotel for the night was over £200. So I flew to Amsterdam for the night instead - return flight to Amsterdam, from my local airport, was £34 and a hotel near the gig was £45 bed & breakfast, so it was less than half the price, plus I got a few hours to wander around Amsterdam. Bargain!
Brits literally travel the world on vacation. Common destinations outside of Europe include India, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan and of course even the USA. You can't travel much farther than those from the UK. I lived in California for a while and my wife is from there. The reason why US Americans don't travel much outside of their own country is probably mainly down to the pitiful time they're allowed for their annual vacation.
i think another reason we travel so much is its engrained in us, we ran the world and went everywhere, but now its for its own thing
There’s so much to see in the US too, that’s another reason why Americans don’t travel outside the states when there’s so much diversity in the landscape and scenery. After all, the country alone is larger than the entirety of Europe
The US is multicultural and huge. If you lived in Cali, then you only got a tiny taste of this. In a comment on another video someone said the US only has one language. That's laughable. Almost a third of us speak Spanish. We have no national language, so many are spoken, although English is the most common. In my small town of around 7,000 three languages are spoken. Each state is almost another country. You will find food, festivals, holidays, and traditions different in many of them. My dream is to visit every state, but I'm not young anymore so it probably won't happen. This is much more important to me than running around all over the globe.
Britain is also full of different terrains & full of history
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38 is a lot in the UK, but we do have more than USA; we're legally entitled to 4 weeks (up to 28 days) then generous employers may give more.
Maternity leave is actually better than she described because it's technically called parental leave due to the fact that you can split the time between the mother and father so you're not forced into gender roles with your new baby.
I can't speak for the UK, but in France the legal work week for everybody has been 35 hours for about 20 years. This said, many people work 40 hour weeks but all of the extra hours are given back as compensatory time. My own office worked 36.5 hours a week, and I ended up with 10 weeks of vacation a year by the time I retired. Five weeks vacation is the minimum in France, but many companies have already moved on to 6 weeks, with more time off coming with seniority every year.
That;s not part of the law from anything I have heard. The only thing they have to do is pay slightly more for the overtime for the first 8 hours past 35 (which covers most people) - and even that overtime amount amount has been reduced since it started.
And part time workers in France work on average more hours than the rest of Europe.
@@wyterabitt2149 Yes, but you only get paid for overtime if you want the extra money. If you prefer the compensatory time, that's what you get.
In the UK the amount is determined by your contract. I always had 37.5 hours as my contracted hours. For a period in my 20s I worked over 100 hours per week and made a lot in overtime. Later the working time directive came in that limits work to 48 hours per week, but I always opted out. I wanted the freedom to work longer should I chose to do so. Usually it involved being on call over a weekend, and normally not getting a call.
My full time employment is 37hrs a week
And not forgetting the bank holidays we have
I guess our shared language makes the UK that much more attractive to potential US emigrants, but I think most European countries offer a better environment in which to simply enjoy life and bring up a family - not forgetting Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
I've passed through the States a few times though never lived there - but I'm aware of so many fundamental issues which I'd find "difficult", that I can say with certainty I'm very happy to have not been Born in the USA (apologies to Bruce Springsteen).
Springsteins track is about being born in the USA, brought up to several America and then sent to die and kill other people in Vietnam
Bruce Springsteen's song was critical of the USA.
True - I guess not many realize it.@@MsGbergh
@@DougBrown-h1n I've heard that The Marines considered using The Village People's 'In the Navy!' for a recruiting advert!
They have their perks, but no. The UK has Amazing wirk life balance. Those 5 weeks are our right. A decent company will add more. I get 38 days holding with full pay. That doesn't include statutory sick pay, maternity leave and much more.
In the early sixties and up to the late sixties! when I grew up! My mum and dad took me and my sister, all over Europe and it gave me a chance to appreciate Europe such that I have never forgotten Venice! Even at such a young age it made me love it! We have been ever so lucky to live in the UK and see Europe!
I am a nurse for NHS and am very grateful for the benefits, excellent pension, 41 days holiday, 6 months full sick pay and then 6 months 1/2 pay and 1 year maternity. I think we take it for granted in the UK how good we have it compared to some countries. I can’t imagine having 5-10 days holiday, I get over 8 and still want more 😂!
Are you NHS England? I'm NHS Scotland and I got 33 days annual leave after 10 years service, plus we work the 4 public holidays, and get the day back to take whenever we wish plus it is paid time and a half. Although we have this agenda for change programme in NHS Scotland, they're trying to cut our hours from 37.5 to 36! It's a bloody mess by messing around with the contracted hours 😕. However I read you're a nurse, I'm in pharmacy stores, so maybe contract hours/annual leave will be obviously different.
And you still go on STRIKE
@@derekporter7658 I’ve been with NHS over 10 years so get the additional A/L.
@@williamsimpson5808 ‘I’ have personally never striked however just because I’m happy with the benefits we have, doesn’t mean I think we get paid what we should for years of studying, debt and level of responsibility we have. I however choose to do this as a profession and don’t do it solely for the money because if I did, I would have chose another line of work. All different industries strike, train drivers and their basic pay is way more than a nurse? So what’s your point? The fact you have one, tells me you earn less than I do with less benefits and come across slightly bitter but as this was my choice, your job choice was and is yours? NHS staff among other ‘professions’ had no pay rise for years, nothing! No minimun wage increase and it got to the point where newly qualified nurses were getting a couple of pound more than someone who works at Tesco for example. How is that fair and how does that encourage people to come and do this as a profession? At the end of the day, we work for money. My daughter has just got a job at Sainsbury’s standing at a self service checkout for £12 an hr, she’s 18. A newly qualified nurse is on £15.38, I’m sorry but no one can convince me that that is fair. Nurses, doctors, police also get paid way more in other countries than this country. In the US the average wage for a registered nurse is $82,750, which is nearly £65000, in the UK the average is £35000-£38000. So going back to your original comment, yes we do and are entitled to STRIKE!!!
And yet you lot are always whinging.....oh and striking.
I know it's a touchy subject to a lot of Americans, but I'll mention it anyway - safety. Sure, there's crime anywhere in the world, but your likelihood of being shot in the UK is 1/60th of that in the US. And the police in the UK are helpful and friendly and know that their job is to serve the public. If you're pulled over by the cops you're not in fear of your life.
9am - 5pm (7 hours a day plus 1 hour for lunch) is the norm for most people in the UK, especially those doing office jobs. 28 days paid holiday (5.6 weeks) is the minimum legal entitlement here for anyone working 5 days a week, but many people get more than that. Lots of us also get paid Bank Holiday leave on top - that's not a legal requirement and it can form part of your holiday entitlement, but is potentially an extra 8 days off each year whether paid or unpaid.
I've worked plenty of jobs and have never even heard of anyone having a 1 hour lunch break.
@@seldom_bucketReally ? I ve always had an hour dinner wherever I ve worked
You don't get paid for your lunch hour ofc. Plus these days, 9am - 5:30pm is more usual
My employer has also introduced something they call 'wellbeing' days - two days p.a. - which you can add to your annual leave. It's for if you get stressed out and just want some time to chill. I haven't used them; very often I don't use up my full complement of annual leave by the end of the year (we can carry five days over). I can't recall what what my leave entitlement even is, but it's > 30days.
Some jobs also let you buy holidays. I normally buy an extra 5 a year to cover the school holidays. It gives us enough hoildays between me and my wife so we don't need to use child care.
One added travel benefit from London is Eurostar, a train that takes you under the English Channel to Paris in just over 2 hours. Worth a video reaction all of its own!
I don't think any country on Earth considers being connected to France a benefit!!!!!
(maybe joking . . . . maybe).
An easy gateway to the whole of Europe. I’m British but also a proud European 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸
@@wyterabitt2149😂😂😂😂😂
I have travelled by train from the coast of Mid-Wales to Cologne.
The thing with the Eurostar is it is only really useful if you live in/around London or are travelling from the EU. It's still not necessarily cheaper than a flight and due to train timings into London, it can force you to have to spend a night in London to get the train the next day. This costs more money and wastes a day of your holiday.
Wish the UK operated night trains. 1 or 2 going through the night would make everything so much easier.
Since I live in Portsmouth, the Portsmouth-St Malo ferry is really good and allows me to take a car over.
Unfortunately the prices of these and the Eurotunnel have shot up since Covid.
Also here in the UK we have a minimum wage, so everyone is paid at least about £10.50 an hour, obviously this increases in certain jobs. That is why we don't always tip when we go out for a meal or for a drink as the staff will be paid at least the minimum wage and don't always rely on tips.
I think the states had it but i does it’s different from states
@@G36645 in some states, but not for waitresses 😂
It’s going up in April to £11:44
And you wonder why we all mock your “land of the free”
I tip sometimes
Also you should move to the UK because of the NHS (no getting into debt due to illness or injury).
She didn't mention sick leave. That is unrestricted, though statutory sick pay is only available to employees who earn at least £123 a week, and only lasts for 28 weeks. If you are still unable to work after that perio you may be able to claim state benefits.
She did mention stick leave
What she didn't mention was that if you got sick during your vacation, you are re-credited with the days you are sick.
I'm not sure what you mean by "unrestricted" but I have worked for companies in the UK where you will be reviewed if you exceed certain sick leave levels. And my last company began the process of managing you out of the company if you exceeded three weeks sick leave in a year if it was made up of multiple periods.
They have to go through various reviews and HR steps but if the sick leaves continued without good reason (i.e. no long term underlying condition) people were made redundant. And even if you did have a long term underlying condition they often still invoked the employee health insurance and you left the company with a percentage of your pay paid by an insurance company because you could no longer carry out your duties.
I have also worked for the public sector and their conditions were six months on full pay and six months on half pay.
@@UnknownUser-rb9pd There is no statutory limit on sick leave. It is up to individual employers. But they run the risk of an unfair dismissal claim if they dismiss an employee on inappropriate grounds. Our employment law is complex.
@@missharry5727 Thank you, that makes sense. When you mentioned "unrestricted" I interpreted that as unlimited sick leave.
Due to injuries from some unpleasantness in 1989 I'm no longer able to drive but have had no problem holding down jobs using public transport. I was recently advised to walk at least an hour a day to alleviate my chronic back pain so I've take to walking to work which is just over an hour away on foot. Not only is it quicker than my old two bus journey but as my route takes me through two large parks and a really pleasant tree lined area of large Victorian houses it's actually a pleasure.
Yes the traveling helps us learn about other places, but even people like myself, who have rarely been outside the closest neightbouring countries from where I live, know alot more about the rest of the world than most americans seem to do, because our education systems actually teach us about world history and we frequently get news reports from allover the world on all channels. While in the US it seems like both the education system and the media is extremly US-centric
40+ hours is pretty normal here with 28 days holiday usually including Bank Holidays, so she's on a good package! Let's face it she would have to have a good incentive to move here!
It seems to me like Tyler should get himself a flight booked to the UK .
...and... Once he's here... That's a video or set of videos I'd be interested in seeing exactly how Tyler would cope in visiting the UK... The beaches, rocky, shingle and sandy, plus the enormous wide bays at Weston-Super-Mare, or Portmeirion, Viking Bay (Broadstairs), Morecambe, etc... Seeing Tyler try driving and negotiating roundabouts and driving in the left etc ... Oh so many adventures for him to experience ... I wish he would really consider planning a trip to visit 'us' Brits - asap !! 😊 🏴🏴🏴🇮🇪❤️🇬🇧😊
@@brigidsingleton1596 definitely something to consider for it would lead to plenty of new, entertaining videos. but you can't drive to Europe from U.S. Maybe that's the reason not many get to Europe.
You should also move to UK for: the history- we have castles, historic houses, ruins, sites to see where famous people lived/worked/did things, you can visit movie locations easily (like a tour of the Harry Potter studio or a guided walk around a town/city seeing all the locations where a movie was filmed).
Exactly not forgetting Beamish open air museum
@@karlg9354 there are several open air museums in uk. That kind of comes under “the history”. I couldn’t put everything I just referred to a few things.
@marycarver1542 well most police don’t but there are a small number of special forces (& military at major events) who do.
I was really ill/ needed chemo ill. They told me to take 6 months off work on full pay, I could take another few months on half pay. On my return to work they gave me my full 6 weeks paid leave and insisted I took it, although I chose to take 5 weeks and they gave me an extra weeks pay to make up for the week leave I didn't take.
Wow that's a great company. You must've meant a lot to them 💛
Tyler good video and reaction. A few years ago a friend of ours was staying with his friends in Texas, they lived in a sprawling suburb: he went for his usual early morning walk only to be stopped by a cruising police car and asked 'what he thought he was doing'..... it was only when he opened his mouth and his English accent convinced them he was 'just out for a stroll' that tension eased lol.....he said afterwards he was terrified he would get shot!! (typical British stereotypical view of US police lol)
Second comment I've seen here where the US cops stopped someone for... walking. This is wild to me. What did _they_ think he was doing?!
Full time normally means spending 40 hour a week at work (42.5 for me). But the 1 hour daily lunch breaks aren’t generally counted in this working time as they’re unpaid. Hence “35 hour work weeks”
I finished working full-time in 2007. I worked 38 & half hours a week. 30 days annual leave & 8 bank holidays (national holidays). If I was ill for less than a working week (5 days) I would just phone my boss to keep him updated. After that, I would get a doctor's certificate (sick note). Generally, I always received full pay. I did have pneumonia once and had to take off 6 weeks. I may then have received statutory sick pay which nowadays is £109.40 for 26 weeks but I don't remember. However, I do remember the flowers they sent to me!!!
As stated in a video of Jovies Home: in the states it's the employers, the companies that have more rights than the people working in them. But in Europe (I live in The Netherlands) it's the people who have more rights than the companies, because it's the people who are more important and makeup the workforce of those companies.
I worked 30 yrs on railway maintenance and worked a 35hr week based on 4x10hr days, 4 days off, 4x10hr nights, 4 days off. I then got 28 days paid vacation. Long term sick was 6 months at full pay, then 6 months at 50% pay, then onto state benefits. I would take 14 days off giving me a 30 day period off and I'd vacate in the USA for 21 days .... and still have 14 days off for the rest of the year. Even taking 4 days vacation meant due to 4 on 4 off that I was off for 12 days.
It's great that you've steadily become more humorous as your channel has grown, Tyler. Occasionally, you also succeed at British/Aussie/Canadian-style sarcasm. 😂 Btw, what is a typical, ordinary American these days? Do you carry an AK47 going shopping at Walmart, driving your Dodge RAM with MAGA stickers and a 6ft flag fluttering from the cab, while eating a double Big Mac and a sack of fries, and wearing Levis, high-top sneakers, and a muscle shirt, as you escort eleven kids (named Elmer, Dolly, Eli, Dwayn, Dakota, Tyler Junior, etc) to the orthodontist or to cheerleading practice??😂
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They're American, they're called Lindsey, Marty, Tyler, Martin, Steven, Luke, Jeffrey, Emily, Winnipeg, Bernardo and Hugo.
I’ve worked for a company that had a 30hr week (ie that’s full time).
In my last job The standard was 30 days paid vacation, with the option of buying a further 5 days.
If you don’t book holidays you may get a warning from HR, and if you don’t take heed of the warning you could be sacked for not taking a holiday,
Most people in the UK regularly fly to Europe for weekend breaks, or for our holidays. Having several weeks of paid leave helps us to do this! Until COVID, my wife and I would regularly have three or four holidays in Europe per year.....
I was a train driver. 35 hour 4 day week. Averaged over the timetable. If you worked more hours, you got the overtime. If under, written off.
Oh yeah, we have conditions of service too. No more than 12 hours on duty, minimum 12 hours rest.
So how’s strike life 😁
It's the norm everywhere else that benefits like pension is tied to a percentage of your pay, how many hours you work is completely irrelevant, since there's no such thing as NOT getting pension payments. same goes for just about any benefit, whether it be employee discounts, vacation days etc. This prevents employers exploiting employees like they do in the US by giving almost fulltime and then swindling people out of all the benefits.
I do 28hrs a week, with a minimum of 2hrs voluntary overtime every day (completey my choice).
I get 2 days off a week for 2 weeks, then I get 5 straight days off. No Sunday working.
5 weeks annual paid leave a year.
Long term sick is 6 months full pay, then 3 months half pay.
It's also so much harder to be fired in the UK than it is in the States. There has to be proof of intentional gross misconduct, as opposed to "Your face and views don't fit".
The vacation days are absolutely correct here in UK. We usually get a certain number of days per year that are fully paid, plus we get certain public holidays off too (depending on whether the company is open on the public holiday or not).
Lots of places also offer flextime, where you can work up extra days off from longer hours on top of the contractual days off.
That is not many vacation days, before I retired in 2017, I have 8 weeks of paid vacation, plaid holidays and 110 hours a month for sick leave, plus a few bonus’
If you live in London there the public transport system is at its best, all cities in the Uk have public transport systems but not the tube system . However if you live in the rural areas of Uk then transport is essential as the buses run mostly hourly . A car comes into its own if you want to visit many of the places of interest for example , castle ruins and beaches . It’s normal to have 28 days holiday per year ,and this increases depending upon how many years of employment in the job . As I understand it the holiday allowance is more in certain European countries .
To be fair, as a Brit, I lived in Houston, Texas for 7 years, and I LOVED that I could have a weekend in Florida or Las Vegas, including rental car and hotel for 2 nights, for under $100!
The biggest culture shock I got in the US back on a trip in 2000 was how difficult and slow it was to get across junctions on foot. It took an age, and so I could understand why everyone drove.
Simple it’s the social stigma around walking and taking public transport
When my English cousin lived in Florida, they thought he was crazy walking to work. Even though it was only about 10 minutes away.
You need to check out british beaches - we also have several long distance coastal path walks - also worth looking at 🥰
Happy weekend Tyler.
Yes, if you're going to places like Paris, or Amsterdam, for the weekend (even Scotland) the car won't be much use to you - you need to take the high speed trains through the tunnel under the sea (which resembles flying in an aeroplane at ground level).
Of-course you can also fly to anywhere in about an hour.
I've done it myself for even just the day !!!!
So, there's no limits, when you come over.
I tried to fly to somewhere an hour and a half away in an hour, it didn't work.
Some jobs also offer "flexitime" where you can work extra hours during the week and then take that time off, and often you can vary the actual hours you work if it suits the business. It is usual to limit the number of "flexi" hours to say one or two days a month, and sometimes it is coupled with having to work "core hours" e.g. 10-4
Thanks 🙏! Canadian moving to the uk and applying for jobs I didn’t know what flexitime meant.
@@Phenotypek some companies offer slightly different forms of flexible working. Some may be a bot cut down, so e may be a bit better. Best to check what an individual company's policy is on it (if they offer it - also not to be confused with the legal right to request flexible working if your circumstances require it e.g. if you begin caring for a relative) so you don't get caught out by assuming as I have. Generally though most company forms of flexible working are pretty great.
Hey Tyler hunni the one thing you said about how weird and difficult you would find it to walk around all the time here in the UK, was mirrored by an American friend of my family who came over a year ago now.
We are a family of walkers and we walk everywhere, only using transport over long distances.
And they found it a wee bit tough to keep up at first, so we did plan stops and rest bites for them at cafes and coffee shops on our routes.
But after a week of being here in the UK they were fine with walking 8 to 9 hours a day site seeing, with breaks inbetween of cause.
And on the good side they even carryed the walking up when they went back home to the USA, which in turn has helped their health and lose weight.
But they do get wierd looks and get asked why are you walking to the local shop by stranger's like you said.
Perhaps if you ever come over walking everywhere might have the same effect on you hunni?
He's married so you have to take him and his wife for that pint
37.5 is the standard UK working week. 30 days paid vacation is the norm. You will be essentially forced to take it by your manager if you haven't used it.
Hi Tyler,
I've popped out for coffee (not Starbucks) and I have further info. for you which I forgot earlier.
In Europe, they get more time off than in UK.
The French lunch literally means most businesses closed between about 12 and 2pm, including museums, and tourist places.!!
So, fais attention.!!
Saturday and Sunday opening hours vary a lot from country to country.
But in UK you can get anything you want on a Sunday, (but within slightly reduced hours).
In 2001 we (me and my young daughter) went to Portugal, Spain, Gibraltar and Morocco and in 2015 New Zealand for a month to visit my relatives, and then Gibraltar for a week for a Wedding in 2016. When I was younger we went to Portugal every year. 2008 Egypt for a 10 day trip up the Nile and in 2009 Rome for a week. Also France for a day for shopping every year.
On the subject of public transport, yes, it is great compared to the US, but in many areas (mine included) you really do need a car if you work because the bus services are inadequate and/or unreliable - you would probably get fired if you had to rely on the buses where I live to get you to work (that's assuming the bus route actually goes near to where you work)! But if you are a tourist/visitor or just getting about for leisure, then the public transport is great. London is a completely different world when it comes to public transport; it is absolutely incredible, not to mention crazily cheap compared to the rest of the country.
Hello, I am french. What she said about. UK applies to France , too. It might be even better in France , actually . Unlimited days off when you are sick, a few days off when your children are sick, all that paid. With time, it's even improving, giving more paid days off to fathers, not only to mothers to take care of babies. Also health care system is much better than in USA. Of course, moving to UK for americans would be easier because of the common language.
Just FIVE weeks? In London in the Late 1970s/1980s,I worked for a Government Industry and got 6 weeks plus the "compulsory" week of "sickies" that most employees took. In special circumstances, when I went to the USA/Canada in 1979, they allowed 7 weeks with one week brought forward .. Lunch was one hour but often we had more, positioning our "offshoot" office next to a Pub and we,once a week, had 2 hours in the local Sports Centre, even one lunch, went on a River Boat trip in London. 10-minute morning and afternoon break and, naturally "fiddled" FLEXITIME and got a £350,000 Pension for paying in £8,000 and a generous redundancy in 1989 that could have paid off the mortgage.Halcyon Days😀
Hi Tyler!
Love your work and find it so intriguing watching you learn about the UK and this video in particular seemed to make you “click” with one or two things.
You should check out a town in Scotland called Cumbernauld. It was built in the 1960’s as a “New Town” and was hailed as a massive success while trying to deal with the Glasgow slum overspill problem. As much as the town is dated now, it showcased the fact that its residents could literally walk from one end of the town (10 miles or so) without having to cross any roads along the way. This is now a town of around 55 thousand people still living to those principles.
Check it out 👍🏼
Keep up the good work!
Chris from Cumbernauld, Scotland
Context for what I'm about to say: I walk quite a lot relative to most people on the UK.
I walk on average about 18000 steps a day, my lowest number of active minutes (minutes spent running/swimming/working out/exercise that significantly raises heart rate) last month was 53 per day, with the highest at 175 (a weekend), it surprises me that he wouldn't even walk to the end of the block, sadly its becoming more common to just drive everywhere in the UK too :(
As a UK resident there is a place in the UK you should google.the isles of Scilly....I go once a year .it quiet but so lovely and beautiful..and very few overseas visitors know of it's existence.look it up and see ....
I really hope you get to visit us over here sometime and vlog it. Loving your videos, your reactions have me in fits😂
My friends and I stay at a hotel opposite Graceland and there was a bus every half an hour. You could literally see Graceland out of the front windows. It was a 4 min walk and the Hotel Staff thought we were weird when we walked there.
The last place I worked had 6 months full pay maternity leave and a further 6 months half pay. There was also 6 months full pay paternity pay. Its not usual though.
Hey, I am watching this from Greece, I have lived in Greece for the past 30 years, BUT , England is a wonderful place,, we have the lake District and the southwest Which is where I am from, Devon and Cornwall is really something to see. I do miss the southwestern coastline
I would imagine life almost anywhere would be better than worrying about whether you’re going to get shot just by going about your daily business or going to school. I’m so grateful I live in the UK for so many reasons.
To me England is way too dangerous and aggressive. So to danes the UK is what the US is to brits...
@@ebbhead20 are the Dane’s not dangerous and aggressive, remember the Vikings?
@@LB-my1ej not to the extent that we have teen gangs that rob everyone blind when i lived there in the 90's. And i had to fight with 12 year old boys when i went down to the chippy at 9 in the evening. That was a first to me. And the girl gangs that raped men in London was so out there that it seemed weird as fuck. Had about 15 bad things haooen in the 6 years i stayed there. And had 2 other scandi friends that got knocked down by brits whilst walking around kings cross. We where told by a policeman that ran the Y to be very careful around kings cross after 7 in the evening so not that strange it seems. But there was so many that got fucked up at that time. And not just Scandis. 4 brits from the italia conti school got all their money and credit cards and phones stolen in soho at the time i lived in London. And a Norwegian ballet dancer got knocked unconscious when he wanted to get some cash out. They tool 300 quid from him and ran off.. But he was very flash with the cash and liked flaunting it. So im guessing they saw him coming. Im the only one that stayed for almost a decade without anything but i has dealings with kids that i told to fuck off. But they did have chains as belts and they where 12 or younger so that was a new experience for sure. Had 2 incidents happen where a bunch of 17-19 year olds threw bottles at me. First time in 97 or so at the roundhouse housing estate, then again when on holiday when i stayed at the euro tower in 2009 or so.. They was just like the movie Warriors.. Jumping out from a park and going bonkers.. Never knew posting a letter at 2am could be dangerous. But there you go..
But yeah the UK is so nuts compared to here. No kid would dare to even talk to someone 10 years older in the 90's. If you was 10 and a 25 year old bloke came walking by you wouldn't say anything. Its bodybuilders in cars thats the problem here or Hells Angels. Not kids.. They didn't even get knives here until 2010. No kid would walk about with chains or metal pipes like we got up north all the time. My brother lost 11 phones in one summer so his mum wouldn't get him a new phone for ages in the 90's. Alk that stuff was foreign to me. Its coming up now though. Small kids with attitides. Just took a bit longer. Still not quite as young though. But DK is like a quaint library compared to the streets of England. Manchester had 900 shootings it seemed in the 90's and most inside the Hacienda. We dont really have gunfights in nightclubs here. 😏
@@LB-my1ej Wasn't the UK occupied by vikings for a time? I guess all the violent ones remained in the UK and later migrated to america.
@@ebbhead20weren’t the most violent Vikings Danes?
A couple of things she failed to mention in regards to vacation days is that you get paid vacation days even if you are a part time worker and your entitlement to vacation days starts on the day you start work.
When we visited Walt Disney World a few years ago people thought it strange that we walked from the parking lot to the entrance rather than wait for the tram.
My Mum & Dad were in the states in 1979 he walked to a store near to where they were staying and the police asked him if he was okay. Very odd as we walk a lot.
I live in cornwall. There are over 400 beaches here. Just in Cornwall. And some of them are really wonderful.
And if you happen to like the sea (or The Ocean in _Americanese_ ), Tyler - never forget that _wherever_ you are in the UK, you're never more than 70 miles from the coastline - which is over 11,000 miles long! Just sayin'...😊
Where I work we get 30 days holiday + 8 Bank holidays plus the ability to buy an additional weeks holiday (money stopped from wages in 12 monthly deductions) or sell a weeks holiday back to the company.
I have people in my team at work who have 35 days (7 weeks holiday) plus bank holidays
I've had female colleagues that have a year maternity. Come back for a few weeks, and then back off for a 2nd and even 3rd child😂
Most places are 35-37.5 hours a week, full time. That usually just depends how long your break is. Eight hours is a standard day, but that includes a 30 minute to one hour break.
People seem to forget that more paid time off is actually better for the economy too. The more people have time and money away from work the more they are spending in the local economy, which keeps it moving.
And a more effective work force.
Flights inUK are generally pretty reasonable other than peak holiday times( July Aug) using budget airlines Easy Jet, Ryanair, Whizz Air, My son for last month visited Lithuanian, Switzerland, Poland, weekend breaks all for roughly £35/50
The employment laws around working time, paid holidays, sick leave and parental leave are standard in EU countries too.
Yep that’s why we left so that government can scrap them
Hi buddy, taught for 30 years in a private school in the UK. We had a golf course, grass tennis courts and amazing free food. Not just for lunch but also breakfasts if you came in for an early morning swim. OK, holidays were as follows. 8 weeks in the summer, 3 weeks at Christmas and 3 weeks at Easter. Also got one week every half term, so total of 17 weeks. Not only that, in the summer term the senior students went home on study leave, so many of my lessons were free. We could go home or play golf! One of my friends used the time he wasn't teaching to build a boat - at the school using their equipment.
In the summer we always spent 8 weeks aboard - usually in the far East. Winter holidays we went Skiing. Cheap flights are amazing - went to a jazz concert last summer in Norway - cost $80 return.
when you talk about access to benefits as a "full time" employee, we really have no idea what you are talking about. What benefits do you think an employee needs or wants from their employer in Europe?
Back in 95 my wife and I did a European trip from England through France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, and Belgium all in two weeks, also don't think that we don't use cars because we use them a lot, maybe not as much as Americans but still a lot especially for main weekly shopping and holidays in the UK.
My last job was a truck driver in UK. I worked a 4 day week and had accrued 32 days holidays over the years. That worked out at 2 months paid holiday 😎🥳🤩😁. Oops silly me? I forgot to mention paid sick leave with no threats to sack me✌️👍
35-37.5 hours is normal, 9-5 minus 30, or 60 mins for lunch. The legal minimum for paid holidays is 28 iirc.
Travelling across Europe isn't quite the same as travelling across states in the US, the travel options are far greater and cheaper than interstate travel in the US.
In Canada, I received about the same working hours and vacation days for most of my working life. Sick days were often 1 day per month and can be accumulated in many companies. Maternity leave is also generous for both parents, who can apply for unemployment insurance payments.
There are a lot of places in the UK where you need a car. Its ok if you live in a big town or city or near a train station but so many rural areas have very limited public transport.
5.6 weeks of holiday allowance is mandatory in the UK. 52 weeks of maternity leave is also mandatory, with paternity dependant on certain criteria (length of service etc). In my old job I had 12 weeks holiday but that's pretty extraordinary. An example of travel opportunities, we went to Paris last weekend. We flew out after work on Friday and came back late Sunday.
Something which should be noted though is it's not unusual for Brits to emigrate to Australia and New Zealand because the work/life balance is even better there.
I believe here in the uk you are considered to be working full time if you work at least 32 hours per week, and legal holiday requirement is 5.6 of your work weeks annually (so if you work 5 8-hour days per week you get 28 8-hour days off), but that entitlement can include the bank holidays (public holidays).
While I enjoyed the video, it was informative and entertaining, it also made me a little sad, because I was never able to have that life that she has had. I’m a U.S. American who finally emigrated to another country, but it was only Mexico and due to circumstances I’ve never left the Americas. 😢 don’t get me wrong I love Mexico, I don’t love the USA, that’s a long story, but I’m retired now on a fixed income that is minimal, so jetting off to Europe or Asia is something I’d have to weigh heavily. I wish I’d been born in another country somewhere more progressive and liberal and I know the US isn’t the worst, but it’s far from the best, but life is mostly the luck of the draw and you make the most with what you were dealt. Still I have some of what she talked about in my Mexican home; walkable cities, beautiful and varied landscapes, some ancient ruins, people walk a lot which I’ve always done and there is more so I’m happy. Have a beautiful day every one😊!
Similar to you I retired age87, really lucky born in UK not rich but comfortable in retirement even now still travel across Europe . Travel elsewhere is difficult now due to insurance. Have travelled extensively 7 times States, family in NZ, Aus, Sth Africa, travelled often. Umpteen cruises to Indian Ocean, Africa, Caribbean, I often wonder how retired people in US get on in retirement
@@PhillipDavison-iy2ghI can’t really speak to how people from the US travel or get on in retirement except the few I personally know. Most of my family never left the states if they didn’t serve in the military and I have seen news reports of people who sadly worked until they were almost dead, because they couldn’t afford to retire and maintain their lifestyle. I would be in the same position if I’d stayed in the states, a friend even suggested that I get a part-time job to supplement my income so I could remain in the states, I chose to leave the states instead that was a more attractive option in my mind. I’ve seen very depressing stories of people living in their cars at age 80 and still working part time because they couldn’t afford their apartments. Of course this isn’t everyone, but too many people in the US go through life barely making ends meet, never able to save and working jobs that either don’t pay into social security or they don’t get a pension or they never put much into either plan and this happens a lot more than anyone wants to talk about. So yeah, the land of the free is not so free if you ask me.
@@lizsavage1178 Hi Liz, Thanks for your reply,must be terrible having to work in your old age to have to work, glad everything worked out for you. I every country there are people for whatever reason finding life hard but should not be like that In later life .
@@PhillipDavison-iy2gh true and it’s because most of the wealth is in the hands of a few billionaires, at least in the US, which is supposedly one of the wealthiest countries in history, so consequently you have a lot of people who have very little and the government has little to no safety nets for people in difficult financial situations, also mostly due to greedy billionaires so you end up with homeless people, people who are medically uninsured, people who can’t get healthy food, etc. I could go on forever, but I won’t it’s just depressing. Have a lovely day!
35 hours. 9-5 Monday to Friday with an hour lunch. Some contracts are 37.5 hours (half hour lunch)
Do you know that the US is the only western country that doesn't have all these things.
I've been told on numerous occasions by my boss that I have five days left of my 2023 leave allocation and I have to take it before the end of March...Then the 2024 allocation starts. I have a motorbike so every year I take the ferry or train over to mainland Europe for a two-week trip to all sorts of places.
Americans are always welcome in the UK. Their work ethic is phenomenal ❤
Many people from the UK who do like walking, still have cars. My husband loves hiking, he loves walking to the shops. If it’s within walking distance - my husband will walk. I am less of a Walker, but we do but we do both have a car each. I only usually walk if we go out for walks to nice walking places or around scenic walking paths
We do a lot of walking here in UK. Its strange to think inthe US you wont walk up your own street? Weird.
I think the main reason for someone from the US to choose the UK over other countries in Europe (except Ireland) is the language. Even if you get along just fine in many European countries with English only, I think it's a good idea in most cases to learn the native language of the country you're living in.
Standard or more common is a 40 hour week and 28 days statutory annual leave entitlement. Statutory Maternity Leave is 52 weeks. Statutory Maternity Pay is paid for up to 39 weeks.
My work is 37.5hrs a week, 35 days holiday (vacation) full pay. Full time depending on the company is 35-40hrs per week. Most employers give a minimum of 25 days holiday.
Yes, some people work 37.5 hours a week and there are still some who work 40 hour weeks - especially in the older industries. Most people get around 25 days holiday a year - 38 is definitely over the average
You can take a *train* to Brussels from London in less than 2 hours. Often it is quicker to use the train to travel to France, Belgium, Netherlands, north west Germany etc when you factor in travelling to the airport, as the stations are in the centre of the city typically.
If you work 35 - 40 hours a weeks in the UK, that is generally classed as full-time - the hours you work tend to be based on the industry you work in. We also have the Working Time Regulations which (simplistically) stipulate that your working hours should not exceed and average of 48 hours a week (and this should also take into account any additional hours with other employers that you may do too). Employees can choose to opt out of this stipulation but employers need to comply this regulation unless they have written confirmation that the employee has chosen to opt out
35hr wk is the same as 40hr, one includes lunch, the other doesn't. Statutory holiday in UK is 20 days, plus 8 Bank Holiday days. Lots of companies will offer 25 days as standard (plus the 8 bank holiday days).
There really are some great beaches in the UK. My mum lives about 40 minutes drive from Bournemouth, and when I visited Santa Monica beach on a US road trip, it reminded me a lot of Bournemouth beach on a hot day. We obviously don’t get anywhere near as much hot weather as Southern California, but when we do, we try to make the most of it!
I had to surrender my driving licence for medical reasons at the start of this year. I am really glad I can walk to a local shop, catch a bus to the supermarket or the next town, and get a taxi if I want to go somewhere else.
38h is a fulltime here in Belgium. Minimum amount of vacation days are 20 days, but if woy work 40h a week you get 6 vacation days on top to compensate these extra hours. Some companies even give more (can go up to extremes like 50 days even).
There is also something that some companies do here, but it is not legally obliged: an extra day of holiday per 5 years you work there (think it has an upper limit, but our company does apply it).
My contracted hours are 37.5hrs a week but it can vary depending on who you work for. My benefits are where it is a step up to US. I get 30 days paid vacation plus 8 bank holidays. I also get a 2 week sabbatical after 10 years of service and for every 5 subsequent years after.
It’s the same in Australia. We have laws that protect both employers and employees, maternity leave, parental leave, holiday leave, sick leave, pay rates, superannuation etc.
I think the average leave from work in the UK is about 20 days with 8 Public/Bank Holidays, but it all depends where you work and their conditions of Employment, the lady in your video sounds like she has a very good job, in some jobs you can add a days holiday for how many years you have worked for your employer so 20 basic days holiday then, you get an extra day for every year work up to a certain level set by the employer, so you could end up with 20 basic days holiday and worked your employer for 7 years, which could mean 7 extra days added to your 20 basic leave and then you add the 8 Public/Bank Holiday which could take you up to 34/35 days of leave fully paid, but again it depends who you work for, not everyone gets this kind of entitlement to leave, most get just 20 and 8 Bank Holidays.
20 days is the legal minimum.
In the UK and Europe you generally have a vacation package that gets better with time served. There are a number of local standard historical based days off, Christmas , New Year , Easter etc. These amount to 7/8 per year. Then there are contractual holidays, usually between 20-30 working days off. (5 day weeks ) I always did 'meetings' and some visits whilst on long summer leave, but this just added to the length of my total leave!
Some of the benefits listed are exceptional cases. Most full time workers do 37 hours per week. Holidays typically range from a minimum of maybe 20 days plus public holidays and up.
Flight cost to Europe generally more like £300 to £400 on economy but there are some deals that are cheaper if you book a long time in advance.