This story is from friends I know via online gaming. Heather is from Tennessee, Mark is from The Netherlands, they are now happily married and living near Rotterdam. They had known each other for a few year and she agreed to fly over and finally meet him. He met her at the airport with flowers and chocolates, Belgian chocolates. She was surprisingly quiet on the car ride to his house.
@@HTJB60 No, I don't just mean sweets. Sweets come under confectionery. Confectionery is an umbrella term which includes sweets, chocolate, toffee, shortbread, biscuits, cakes, etc etc. The UK wipes the floor with the US on all of this.
@@waynebucknall4428 it would help waiting times if people learned to cancel appointments they're not going to. Each unwanted appointment is a delayed one for someone else.
@@gilgameshofuruk4060 i had a spine injury, it took 6 months just to see a specialist, I moved to the states with in 2 weeks it going to dr I was in surgery pain free
My youngest son was in school in England from age 5 to age 10. So superior to California schools in every way. It's all about encouraging the children in what they do best. No one does childhood like the British. My son LOVED being at school every day!
Whenever I’ve visited USA, I’ve always found that having to tip everywhere I go very annoying. Sure I do it here in England but my god it was annoying having to do it everywhere. Also the fact that the tax gets added on at the end of total shop. In England, if you add up the price of all your items before going to buy them, that’s all you need to pay. But in USA there is tax to work out on top of that. Very annoying.
You've done it again Amanda. Reminded us Brits what we have and don't realise. Thank you and I'm glad you're enjoying your adoptive country. Nice to have you here
When my wife and I visited Boston, our Hotel charged extra for breakfast. At our first breakfast the waiter said is that all you're eating? well I can't charge you for a full breakfast so I'll just charge you for the continental breakfast each. On the second day he said seriously is that all you're eating well I'll just charge you for one continental breakfast between you. It was still plenty. When we asked for a salad to take away for lunch we got a pizza box full EACH, it looked like the entire contents of somebodies garden! Way too much and virtually tasteless!
Hi Amanda. I have viewed many tube videos by Americans on living in England. May I say that your views and observations are well thought through and we'll articulated. So, thank you for for your video's and I wish you well. Tony.
Hi Keith. Hope i do not disappoint, but I'm an Australian living in Thailand. But with grandparents born in England I inherited their sense of humour. Hence I became a Tottenham Hotspur fan.. All the best. Tony
I lived in the US for a couple of years (I'm Scottish) and was surprised at the amount of religiosity in the US. Churches are big business there, and US politicians are always invoking god. In the UK religion is a curious minority pastime and is very rarely mentioned by politicians.
Not better or worse, but different. I (British) got married in the southern USA; the Americans were shocked that my mother - a woman! - gave the wedding speech from my side of the family.
I watched an American youtuber give his experiences of religion in the UK ,a while ago. He chose to visit as many different churches and places of worship as a member of the congregation during his stay here ,which gave him a very good view of what was usual and accepted. His conclusion was that whilst many more people regularly attend a place of worship in the USA ,those who did so in the UK were genuinely more committed to their faith whilst the Americans often attended because it is the expected thing to do in their community.
It would drive me nuts if I had to keep stopping at a road junction when you can see there is no traffic coming, Give Way is far better. Love these comparisons.
Also, student debt in UK is "good debt"...it has literally zero effect on your future ability to get a loan, like a mortgage for a house. In USA, student debt ruins your credit score
The one you missed was manners. In Britain we are obnoxiously driven to make sure that we chuck a please and thank you into every conversation we ever have. Secondly we are unbeaten at joining a queue even if we don't know what we are queueing for
'Pubs' are a rekatively recent invention in the UK. Inns, however, have very early origins and were used by the Canterbury pilgrims. The English also drank wine long before beer came into fashion. Most of the wine had a very low alcohol content. Some ladies, known as 'ale wives', used to brew ale, which had a very low alcohol content and was considered safer to drink than water unless the water came from a deep well. Anglo-Saxon ladies used to throw cold water over their menfolk if they had been sitting around boozing too much. This caused the men to run outside where they urinated, which was better than wetting themselves as they sat around drinking too much. Instead of the menfolk getting angry they used to laugh at themselves for being such nincompoops. When we study history we discover that it's the women who are really in charge. Women are multi-taskers who can do several things very well at once, whereas men are able to do only one thing well at any given time. History teaches us that women run countries better than men, which is why the USA gets itself into muddles over so many things. Humans are mammals because they grow hair and feed their babies on milk. Study the world of mammals and we soon discover that it is the females who are in charge. The leader of the elephant herd is always a female and it's always a lioness who is in chrge of the lion pride. Elephants have the longest gestation period of any mammal. It is often said that 'a mare and a hare make a twelve month.' This is beause the mare's pregnancy lasts eleven months whereas that of a hare lasts just one month. A sow is pregnant for about 15 weeks. Some mammals, such as seals, practice delayed implanantion, in which the actually pregnancy does not begin until several weeks after sexual intercourse. Some mammal still lay eggs, such as the duck billed platypus and the echidna species, The three main divisions of mammals are: monotremes, marsupials and placental mammals such as humans, whose closest living relative is the bonobo chimp. The definition of a mammal is ' an animal that grows hair and feeds its babies on milk. Humans are members of the animal kingdom. The sex determining chromosomes in mammals are known as 'X and Y chromosomes', whereas birds have W and Z chromosomes, which work the opposite way round to X and Y chromosomes.
@@millomweb mammal /ˈmam(ə)l/ noun a warm-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that is distinguished by the possession of hair or fur, females that secrete milk for the nourishment of the young, and (typically) the birth of live young.
Footpaths. When in small US towns, they often don't have them. SWMBO and I walked from our hotel to a restaurant one evening and there were no footpaths. The waiter asked where we'd parked as he didn't see us arrive in the car park. He was gobsmacked when we explained we'd walked nearly half a mile.
I remember taking a stroll in the early evening in Sacramento, the next moment a police car turned up and asked what I was doing. Apparently, a couple of neighbours in the street thought I was 'suspicious'. Then they heard my accent, they just grinned and told me to take it easy.
I remember once in Florida asking the receptionist of our hotel how to get to a supermarket just down the road. She started to give me instructions on how to drive there. When I said I'd prefer to do it on foot, she looked at me as if I was mad!
I was stopped by the police, when I was on evening walk, near where our holiday apartment was in Florida. Several people had seen me wandering around and thought I looked suspicious. As soon as the policeman heard my accent, he was lovely and said he hoped I enjoyed my walk. He even told me the areas which did have pavements, so I would be safer on my walks.
My partner and I were in a restaurant on the waterfront in Saucelito and were chatting to a local couple and explained that we had walked from our hotel in San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge to the restaurant. They thought we were mad and insisted they drove us back!!
When I was trying to get my BA in Inebriation, many years ago I was averaging about 30/40 pints a week. Then I was sued for abuse by my liver so had to reduce my intake to zero. I have noticed over the last ten years my liver has been happy though I seem to get more ailments than when I was a drinker.
Nearly 92 pints a week! And none of us are doing the drinking, so there's some seriously unhealthy people out there and they have a lot of money to waste too.
@Julia57 just me no nukes where launched in his term of office... however giving them also to a man who can barely strand a sentences together without saying weird shit or stopping entirely is also not a good idea. He'd most likely fire and forget he pressed anything!
The pubs in many area's are more about social gatherings then drinking. I grew up in a large village with 2 pubs and most people in the village went to one or the other. When I was old enough I used to go and have a pint with my grandad and his friends and grandkids I went to school with. Best in winter when a roaring open fire would heat the pub nicely!
Same here, 1 village, 2 pubs. One tended to be where people ate and the older people went, the other also did food but had a pool table and tended to have a younger crowd there.
There’s a small village in Hampshire called Whitchurch, it had (before COVID) 10 or 12 pubs! Also every year they host the Whitchurch pub race, where teams of up to 8 people come up with a themed fancy dress and team name. We were called ‘The Tour De Farce’ one year. 8 guys dressed in full roadie Lycra,while riding tiny kids bikes. The race is very relaxed and fun, you collect money for charity on your way around the village (about a 3 mile loop). You go around every pub in the village & drink a 1/2 or whole pint, plus a few stops as you pass through a residential area. It’s so much fun & usually the end of the day is a total blur. It’s always seemed to be a national pastime going out, getting very hit & missed - bonus points if you can include something extremely funny & or daft at the same time. ✌🏻
I think employee protection against unscrupulous employers in the UK far out weighs anything in the US. Every time I visit friends in the states, a lot of folk blush, when I demonstrate my expertise in unintended use of swear words to enhance the English language . By the way: (Your vocals would work well in voice over work, and suggest you check it out. You have a richness of tone, and a smooth ambient delivery. Great video.)
The big problem we have are agencies who rip off both the employee and the employer. People who work for agencies get zero sick pay and are usually on zero hour contracts.
Quite agree ,sir, now we have big business sitting on NHS boards, and Social Care and the NHS wards are awash with Agency staff, mainly because folk like me have left.....
I would add driving courtesy and manners. Having driven on every continent except South America, I'd say the Brits are the only ones who let people out at junctions, stop for pedestrians, zipper merge and generally wave, smile or thumbs-up to received courtesy. US is not as bad as Russia, but still have lessons to learn.
I live in the UK and don't even drive (because I have epilepsy and am legally not allowed to) and even I wave and show my hand up when I am sat as a passenger if I am sat right next to the driver if another driver is allowing us to pass or something
Yeah, when you visits UK as a tourist and try to stumble your way through a left-turning roundabout for the first time, the brits still polite and wait for the tosser to decide his actions.
When you talk about roundabouts I immediately think of the film, National lampoons European vacation when Chevy chase gets stuck on the one at Westminster bridge. So funny 😆
I’m always fascinated by this type of video. I was surprised you included higher education because I feel we are headed in the wrong direction here in the UK. Tuition fees have increased substantially in recent years. I graduated in 1985 and I got free tuition fees and a maintenance grant that was equivalent to about a quarter of the average salary at the time.
What I fund bizarre is that universities can happily let people get into debt acquiring degrees that have little or no practical use in getting employment, and offer no sort of careers guidance. "Give us money, we'll give you a piece of paper and years of debt. That's it."
@@nuntius1933 The silly buggers. I used to work in a jobcentre, and if I had a pound for every time I asked "What sort of work are you looking for" and got the answer "I've got a degree". When asked what the degree qualified them to do they had no idea and assumed they could just walk into any job as long as it paid well. The graduates may be adults, but basically they've only just left school, so have missed out on three to five years of toughening up in the real world.
@@gilgameshofuruk4060Perhaps they are not being guided well. Universities seem to be primarily businesses now, with fixed costs and investment in housing which need to be covered by an intake of students, who are told that there is an average 'premium' in salary for graduates over non-graduates. That has been generally true but there is wide variation in salaries so it is not guaranteed. The IFS estimates that 44% of student debt of the UK 2021 freshers will not be repaid, which means the IFS is forecasting many will not earn high salaries. Of course, graduates and society can get non-financial benefits from a degree but, sadly, many students are taking on a burden they will never be able to escape. 30 years ago, it was possible to leave school at 18 and enter specific career and training paths, without incurring huge debts.
The education you enjoyed the benefit of wasn't free, it was paid for from the taxation of workers and businesses. The NHS isn't free either, though I think it's probably the best system for providing healthcare to the masses.
I think one thing we do that goes so undervalued is wind energy. We produce 29% of our countries electricity through wind farms. A lot of countries now produce wind but it doesn’t remotely compare to the usage
Renewable energy usage over this summer alone has been over 50% and getting better every year Hopefully we start to harvest the energy in waves more soon. On a side note Amanda your accent is getting a much more english sounding lilt 👍
@@mikeleighton9891 Ha, ha, very good Mike. I wish I'd thought of that. Perhaps I'll get a tat done for them to read that describes why size isn't everything...ahem!
Pubs are disappearing at an alarming rate as supermarkets can undercut them by price, such a shame as pubs are really great social places. At work we are alway taking the piss out of each other, then the swearing starts😀😀🏴🏴
I worked for a while at an MOD workshop and I think you would have been sacked if you didn't put at least one swear word into every sentence! Just joking, but sometimes it felt a bit like that! It was a bit like that when I worked for Royal Mail as well but not quite as extreme!
Drink driving laws also have a big impact, together with the increase in beer strength to 5%, more mid strength beers, permitting two pints would have perhaps mitigated the effect.
Any time that I have visited the UK I can't recall seeing any advertisements for legal services on TV. It's crazy that the 800 numbers and the jingles are dancing in my head as I type this comment. Lol. Great list and a great video as always. Now that the UK is opening up, you should consider doing a video or two on the streets. Keep up the great work!
What about the fact that we don't have the advertising of prescription drugs on TV? You don't find us clamouring for the doctor to give us some dubious potion just because we've seen it promoted in the middle of Coronation Street.
Number 8 drinking. For visitors from the USA. We have proper Imperial pints over here. Our pints are 20 fluid ounces, USA pints are only 16 fluid ounces. So it takes 10 USA pints to make 1 Imperial gallon.
Please try the magic roundabout in Swindon (I believe there are a couple of other similar roundabouts), it's simply a case of getting to where you want to exit, you can go left round the outside and effectually right round the middle, it just works! x
@@frankienew6966 Yeah, I assume you've driven it. I'm not from Swindon but live in the area, the first time I came across the magic roundabout I was a bit intimidated but I got to where I wanted to get, which is the point of it. You've just got to basically aim for where you want to be, it works. x
A great post, Amanda, thank you .... but let's be honest, we're all (in the UK) going to love it when you're being positive about life in the UK, no matter how 'up the creek' we are, sometimes. That said, I really like your insight, views and opinions .... and your delivery ... curious that you never mentioned 'guns', although there's lots on RUclips on the 'US versus UK' on that particular subject. Please contact every UK TV or Radio channel with a 'demo tape' ... the way you 'impart' is sublime (it's a voice and diction thing!) .... it always engages interest in the subject matter.
in Nottingham we've got the trip to Jerusalem pub which opened in 1189 and its not even the oldest UK pub lol so we've had more years of drinking practice
When it comes to roundabouts have a look at the "Magic Roundabout" in Swindon. This is not a joke. I used to live near there and the first time i saw it I couldn't believe it. Like you with the usual British roundabouts you do get used to it.
I think that's more because of a law of averages. America is more like...50 countries...and for all their similarities, there are probably more differences. Only Russia and China, and maybe Canada are really similar in that sense. But Canada is so sparse, while Russia and China are still so totalitarian, that it just doesn't matter how "diverse" they are. . But America's doing its best to become a dictatorship! But sadly, we're half-assing that as much as we half-ass any reasonable form of government system...or even Democracy.
We need pubs, and an NHS. Round-a-bouts are great. We have a few in Texas. You don't sound like anyone I know from Pennsylvania. I thought you might be from the Midwest, or the South.
Generally where I live in England foreigners are buying grade 1 listen buildings that are over 300 years old as the first ever buildings in my town for the old coach drivers and they're burning them down to get payouts for insurance and build new stuff but luckily they were told they had to rebuild them to their original standard!!!
Just to add for Americans reading this. Plan 2 Loan repayment are only repaid on earnings over £524 ($728) a week. Then you pay 9% of the earnings over that amount. So if you earn £600 ($834) a week you will repay 9% of £76 ($105.60). Giving a repayment of £6.84 ($9.50) a week.
In Scotland education is free!! We only have to repay and loans we have taken out but we don’t need to pay for the tuition. (There is a limit to how many years you can study at a higher level- In sure it’s 5 years) We also don’t pay for our prescriptions here! 🏴
Yeah and then you have Sturgeon wanted to end all this. Although I do believe if Scotland become Independent all these benefits should be ended otherwise it is a false Independence. I really don't want you guys to leave our Union as the Scots are apart of it's History however if they want it alone... they need to be alone and everything they need funding should then come from the new Scottish Government and the Scottish taxpayer not the British Government in London.
one thing I miss from when I lived in the US is the sense of theatre about just driving down main st. There are lots of varied places in both countries but somehow the neon lights and fast food outlets on a so called 'strip' is cooler than a string of dull take-aways you find in England (I'm talking about smaller towns for both countries)
I spent 4 months in the US. Loved it since I was a kid. Been an NFL fan for 18 years this year. Love the US history and the ideas it was founded on. I love Britain but nothing beats driving on a sunny day, with the windows down on a interstate that is never ending with the Country music blasting on an American Country radio station playing great tunes driving to a city you only ever see in the movies or a woodland which captures the imagination. Britain is my home and I love it... however for me the US is a very close second. I have wanted to live there my entire life and the only thing now which stops me is my Mom she is alone and I need to be near her for when she gets older and the future wife who doesn't share the same dream as me. I guess Holidays or a Holiday home are in order then 🤣
@@LADYRAEUK Long story Short. I married an English Woman.. we lived in America for 10 years…the 2008 recession hit..Our Family was devastated we had 3 little girls…at the time…We were struggling…it Just made sense. In 2009.. we migrated here…. And in 2017ish I became a Citizen. ❤️🇬🇧🇺🇸🤙🏼
7:20 “portion control” It’s difficult for me to fully agree right now as I’m currently recovering from my Sunday Roast at 6:25 that I started cooking at 11am 🙄🤣
I'm a Yank, and I pray to God I make it there one day, to have one of these Sunday roasts, that I hear so much about. I want a full English breakfast too. It seems a bit weird to have beans for breakfast, but what the hell? When in Rome...
I think your list is great. I lived 20 miles west of Philly for almost 20 years. I would add walking opportunities. Every town and village has pavements. In the US, isolated developments of houses had sidewalks, but they did not connect with other developments or shopping areas. One could not walk to the shops, for example. Also, public footpaths in the countryside. I would also add power security. We don't get power outages on a monthly basis like we had experienced in Pennsylvania, after any and every storm.
I know it might sound really boring but there was one thing I found worked really well while I lived in the US and that’s roadworks. They’re usually done during the night, when there is minimal amount of cars and the police are always present to divert or control the traffic. And all cleared up by the morning. Really efficient. I lived in MA so my experience is just from there.
Having watched quite a few of your videos, it's quite funny and cute how some of the English words (like "Fish and Chips") come out with a British twang to your American accent.
So many have been ruined by turning them into light controlled ones, even worse are those with lights on the roundabout. I do see the logic that went through the minds of the traffic planners but few work as intended.
The problem with roundabouts though is that they only really work if the flow of traffic through them is roughly similar from every direction. Try going through Milton Keynes some time - their roundabouts (and there are many!) can become very irritating at times.
@@corrigenda70 can confirm, normally I would prefer roundabouts but my local town reverted to a traffic light controlled crossroads at one main junction after other traffic easing caused two of the exits to take almost all of the traffic. Blocked the thing for the lesser ones. It’s very much dependant on the situation.
High Amanda love your channel and hour voice is so soothing to the ears 😀 you mentioned that you would put the link to your NHS video but it's not there 😁x
Another great vid Amanda! You covered the main ones that the UK. Others I would add are queuing which we are better and more respectful at. Making tea - no one does it better than us. Our BBC news is way better than anything the US has to offer. Banter - we know how to banter, especially chanting in a crowd and out sing other countries and are far more creative with it. Plus our price tags in shops are accurate and written on the items. Plus Americans in restaurants leave things in confusion with paying 20% tax on their meal while a 20% tip is not automatically added 😂Oh and how US TV production companies are so bad at gauging when a TV show is past its sell by date. No problem of the sort with Brit TV producers 😉 There must be others missed I’m sure!
Spectacular content 💕❤️ Do you live in London? Or go there regularly? I have a pub crawl for USian Anglophiles that I call the “Older Than Your Country crawl”, consisting only of pubs founded before 1776 (there’s a LOT of them, including some that predate the Mayflower)
Thing is we all recycle but then they use energy and not always the most clean energy to recycle what we send. It is either paper or cardboard which is the worst. The amount of energy it takes to recycle some experts question why it's either bothered with anymore.
The English are amateurs in swearing compared to the Irish and Australians. Scots are premier league too Went I've been in America for a while I find I miss crusty bread, vegetables (this is more about dining out than availability) and crisps in sensible size packs One thing I was surprised about was how low general road awareness was with American drivers. I think it comes from easy driving tests and long straight roads. But driving too close was common and people seemed to react late to issues ahead I soon learned not to try to let people onto the highway by slowing down because it just confused them
I’m English and I must agree, I’ve two friends from Scotland and Ireland.. I have never laughed so fucking much when they argue with each other.. priceless 👊🏼
Another great video, Amanda. You are most definitely my favourite American on here and. As I have said before , definitely the one with the easiest and most pleasant voice to listen to, and you come across so lovely, and positive. You'd cheer anyone up, and you put our national self-doubt and criticism to shame! I think you have commented on quite a few more plusses in the past, too? But defo plusses are the ticket price is the price you pay; employee rights (although too often abused); animal welfare, especially in food production; bigger pints! 😜; British, humour, often self-deprecating or brilliantly taking the pee out of the bigots and racists and the like (I loved your reaction to Al Murray...!); the amazing regional diversity; real ale; the quality of (most) TV programmes and less-dominating TV advertising; British electric sockets and plugs; varieties and quality of Cheese; distances and scale are reasonable and modest; very few hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, volcanoes, plagues of locusts or other biblical calamities generally; far fewer guns; just some that jump out immediately! Plusses for the US - US craft beers, and specially all the new hops and aromatic hoppy beers (which many UK craft breweries are emulating); space; epic sweeping landscapes; positivity towards the country (albeit the current massive schism seems to be doing a great job of undermining that); lower electricity voltage means less chance of it killing you; right-turns on red if clear; much wider roads and especially intersections; Amanda Rae 😀; again, a few from my own experience that jump out!
I went to eat at a Claim Jumper recently and the portions were obscene. The piece of cake I ordered for dessert was bigger than a shoe box and could have fed a small African village for a week.
Whenever I travel abroad I love a trip to a supermarket just to see all the different products we don’t have in the UK. What did you notice about the differences in food shopping?
I'm from Canada and have visited the UK many times- one thing I find is that food in a supermarket is a lot cheaper there. 3 quarts of grapefruit juice in a Tescos for a quid? Good luck buying it that cheap here.
Ahem... you forget that in the UK your business sorts out your national income tax as it is deducted automatically from your payroll for you unless you're self-employed. And VAT is automatically added to the price of items on the shelves so what you see on the price tag is what it fully costs VAT included.
Trains…I live in Pensacola Fl and we have no train service…. Off hand the closet may be 50 miles away. I so miss having a railway station in most towns
How have I only just found this Channel, good solid content and your voice is so soothing, keep up the great work and a I hope that you have settled in nicely to life in the UK.
I would add being able to visit the seaside much easier. Wherever you live in the UK I think the furthest from the sea is maybe 120 miles whereas in the US if you live in Pennsylvania it's like well a lot lot further to travel.
I know what you mean. I live 75 mike's from the sea, but feel it's 74.5 miles too far. I can't imagine having to treat it like a major expedition to get to the seaside.
Hi there, I went to America some years ago Boston actually and then up to Cape Cod. And before I win everyone did say about the food but I never noticed any difference between England and United States I also enjoy the driving round Cape Cod in a Chrysler Concorde what is good to hear that you enjoy living here and have done the last 10 years so well done you cheers Phil from Newark
@@ScienceFollowsTheEvidence 16 year olds aren't sent to war. The army at 16 is more of an adult scouts with the addition of guns(my daughter spent 2 years at Harrogate).
@@lyncohn9505 During WWI many 15-17 year olds signed up, if later discovered to be under 18 were withdrawn from the frontline if they had not already been killed. No birth certificates were required to be produced, just a letter from a parent testifying that one was 18 or over, often forged by the kid, just like we did at school excusing us from PE or whatever. Age of Majority was 21 back then and the legal age for buying a drink, 18 was rarely enforced, most pub landlords and police took the view that if one had left school and was in work then it was fine.
G'day Amanda, I'll tell you what. The UK and Australia have so much in common. But it's way hotter here. I just check out your weather and your summer temperature is the same as our winter. Though in saying that I do live in the sub tropics .
What about public transport? Except for some big cities - New York City, Chicago - pubic transport in the US is abysmal. The attitude I've found in the US - "only the po' people take public transport'.
Again - you could look at public transport in England outside major conurbations and conclude it is sparse, unreliable and expensive. We live in a country where it's cheaper to fly between London and Edinburgh or London and Manchester than take out a mortgage for a train ticket. We compare so badly with Germany, France and the nordics.
I agree.... I'm originally from Belgium and if you live in rural places you can get just about everywhere with train and bus... I now have lived in a small city east of Dallas and you can forget about taking the bus here. The nearest bus station is 3 miles away (about 4,5 km) and if you're disabled impossible to get to... In Belgium I could take the bus to Herentals, take the train to Antwerp where I could take the train to Paris for a weekend trip and be in the Gare du Nord in 2 hours. Downtown Dallas is only a 40 min drive by car but no way I can get their with public transportation... You were so right about preserving history. My most favorite class in school was history and I will never forget the school trips to t he few medieval castles and Roman settlements we still have in my native country... No old buildings have been preserved here from when Dallas was founded or the city here which was founded in 1878. Thanks for posting your videos I check them often, even the ones I already watched...
@@daniedee8869 Yes I lived in Wales for 4 years in my teens and everyday words can be picked up after passage of time that back in Yorkshire family and friends really noticed.
Regarding portion sizes, I once worked in a pub in the UK and an American woman came in and ordered a sandwich and then complained that she only got a sandwich, because she was used to being in the states where you get a portion of soup and a portion of fries when you order a sandwich! :D
We have lots of wonderfully pretty and historic places to travel to in Europe, but I must admit, I can see why people in the US holiday in the US. It has everything, great beaches, amazing skiing, beautiful and dramatic landscapes, anything you want to do you can do it in the US. No need to change currency or learn a new language. The only thing missing is the history I guess.
Yep. And we love you guys-unlike the European continent. Come on over and get you some fun, while being adored. It's like something y'all have never experienced, outside of Australia or Canada. Come to the South. You'll be treated like royalty. No SAD here.
America undoubtedly has one of the most amazing landscapes (and people, one might say) in the world, but it's simply the size of it that makes foreigners have to focus on one part of it or another if they're visiting for a two week holiday.
@@2eleven48 it’s certainly a big country. I’ve been several times already, but the size is just a good reason to go there again. So much to see and do, and eat. 😁😋
@@stevenhoskins7850 I've met plenty of Europeans that love the Brits, we are all European! America is an amazing country where nature is concerned, but I did find it really difficult to travel because of a lack of public transport. The people are easy to talk to and I have fond memories of my conversations with Americans.
One you missed, Amanda. Confectionery.
Cadbury's over Hershey's any day of the week.
Yes!! I remember eating chocolate when visiting the States and it’s not a patch on ours.
That is so true 😋
This story is from friends I know via online gaming.
Heather is from Tennessee, Mark is from The Netherlands, they are now happily married and living near Rotterdam.
They had known each other for a few year and she agreed to fly over and finally meet him.
He met her at the airport with flowers and chocolates, Belgian chocolates.
She was surprisingly quiet on the car ride to his house.
Don't you mean, SWEET'S. LOL
@@HTJB60 No, I don't just mean sweets. Sweets come under confectionery. Confectionery is an umbrella term which includes sweets, chocolate, toffee, shortbread, biscuits, cakes, etc etc.
The UK wipes the floor with the US on all of this.
What a lovely appraisal of the UK
As an Englishman it’s quite nice to hear some things we really take for granted in the UK. Lovely stuff 🇬🇧
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I love this lady, she's quite literally perfect. Every good man deserves themselves a lady like this one.
With dimples too.
Love how your accent pops into and out of ours, can tell you'e been here a while!
We all pay in to the nhs and every time it helps someone else, like it did you, it makes me realise how brilliant it is.
I agree 😊
I have the exact feeling in Denmark with our government paid health care and education.
just the waiting times suck
@@waynebucknall4428 it would help waiting times if people learned to cancel appointments they're not going to. Each unwanted appointment is a delayed one for someone else.
@@gilgameshofuruk4060 i had a spine injury, it took 6 months just to see a specialist, I moved to the states with in 2 weeks it going to dr I was in surgery pain free
My youngest son was in school in England from age 5 to age 10. So superior to California schools in every way. It's all about encouraging the children in what they do best. No one does childhood like the British. My son LOVED being at school every day!
That's lovely to hear honestly, it made me smile and I'm glad your son enjoyed school here. 🙂
was on way to work after a half term break a 8yo girl going to school was pulling on her dads hand saying come on dad we are going to be late
I can't see the US Healthcare system changing anytime soon. There are too many people making obscenely large amounts of money from it.
Not to mention that many people actually think it's better because of patriotism so there isn't as big of an outcry for change as it should be.
Whenever I’ve visited USA, I’ve always found that having to tip everywhere I go very annoying. Sure I do it here in England but my god it was annoying having to do it everywhere. Also the fact that the tax gets added on at the end of total shop. In England, if you add up the price of all your items before going to buy them, that’s all you need to pay. But in USA there is tax to work out on top of that. Very annoying.
I agree, the tax thing is annoying now that I'm used to it here.. it makes more sense! lol
@@LADYRAEUK why don’t you change the law and put the price
You've done it again Amanda. Reminded us Brits what we have and don't realise. Thank you and I'm glad you're enjoying your adoptive country. Nice to have you here
Thanks so much! 😊
When my wife and I visited Boston, our Hotel charged extra for breakfast. At our first breakfast the waiter said is that all you're eating? well I can't charge you for a full breakfast so I'll just charge you for the continental breakfast each. On the second day he said seriously is that all you're eating well I'll just charge you for one continental breakfast between you. It was still plenty. When we asked for a salad to take away for lunch we got a pizza box full EACH, it looked like the entire contents of somebodies garden! Way too much and virtually tasteless!
"You [the British] drink like Americans eat." - Reginald D Hunter
@@colingregory7464 I'm thinner than ever. Might be the running, swimming and few miles on a bike occasionally. Or all the Heroin.
Sound an apt analogy!
He's a hilarious comedian, one of the best performing in the UK for me. His Live at the Apollo set was brilliant. 👍
Yes I agree 👍
Hi Amanda. I have viewed many tube videos by Americans on living in England. May I say that your views and observations are well thought through and we'll articulated. So, thank you for for your video's and I wish you well. Tony.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it :) I hope you're well
Is Tony Chapman your dad ,Amanda ?
@@keithwilkins1437 thank you for the compliment.
@@tonychapman1912 Hi Tony .So glad our humour is alive and kicking in UK .I agree with your comments . Keith
Hi Keith. Hope i do not disappoint, but I'm an Australian living in Thailand. But with grandparents born in England I inherited their sense of humour. Hence I became a Tottenham Hotspur fan.. All the best. Tony
I lived in the US for a couple of years (I'm Scottish) and was surprised at the amount of religiosity in the US. Churches are big business there, and US politicians are always invoking god. In the UK religion is a curious minority pastime and is very rarely mentioned by politicians.
Not better or worse, but different. I (British) got married in the southern USA; the Americans were shocked that my mother - a woman! - gave the wedding speech from my side of the family.
Rich G. I wish it were so, here in the States! Some are absolutely fanatical, and usually self-righteous goes along with that.
There are more atheists in the UK. Good thing too.
Religion in the UK is no big deal. And for those who do have a faith, it's a private matter anyway.
I watched an American youtuber give his experiences of religion in the UK ,a while ago.
He chose to visit as many different churches and places of worship as a member of the congregation during his stay here ,which gave him a very good view of what was usual and accepted.
His conclusion was that whilst many more people regularly attend a place of worship in the USA ,those who did so in the UK were genuinely more committed to their faith whilst the Americans often attended because it is the expected thing to do in their community.
It would drive me nuts if I had to keep stopping at a road junction when you can see there is no traffic coming, Give Way is far better. Love these comparisons.
Also, student debt in UK is "good debt"...it has literally zero effect on your future ability to get a loan, like a mortgage for a house. In USA, student debt ruins your credit score
@Hungry Box Wow, that's a bitter pill to swallow.
It not even Debt its a misnomer, Student loans are literally a brought forward lump sum which is taxed off you to pay off when you earn enough
@@JetfireQuasar or u cud do low paid job for 25 years to avoid paying back student debt 🤣since it will be written off
By a huge margin is when someone drops a glass, in the UK everyone will instinctively cheer very loudly!
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Yes, it is the law. 😂
@Daniel Rademeyer sums it up. So true 🤣
Waaaaayyyyyyyyyyy
the entire place erupting into a FUCKING WAHEYYYYYYY
@Daniel Rademeyer don't forget workplace canteens
Pretty much spot on. I've noticed a lot of Americans moving to the UK.
Yeah, but don't tell them to get Passports...We like Amanda but we don't want Florida Man here.
Yeah cheaper, they move because of how it their healthcare costs them.
@@DannyHeywood Spoken like a true Remoaner. How does it feel to lose?
@@warreng675 What if we move there, because we love the place? Hmmm? We do need an NHS, though...and PUBS!
@@stevenhoskins7850 What? I voted to leave the EU?
Oh dearie me. Your voice is just amazing. I’d listen to you talking about anything..
The one you missed was manners. In Britain we are obnoxiously driven to make sure that we chuck a please and thank you into every conversation we ever have. Secondly we are unbeaten at joining a queue even if we don't know what we are queueing for
Brits have lovely manners, but you have nothing on Canadians! :)
It is not manners it is platitudes, there is a big difference.
Except at a pub. The only place there is no queue. He who shouts loudest....
@@MrSigmatico he is actually talking about manners saying please and thank you, platitude a remark or statement, especially one with a moral content.
So true about queuing... Made me laugh...
ONE - PUBS
Many alcoholic drinks improve with age.
We had pubs before the US was invented ! :)
'Pubs' are a rekatively recent invention in the UK. Inns, however, have very early origins and were used by the Canterbury pilgrims. The English also drank wine long before beer came into fashion. Most of the wine had a very low alcohol content. Some ladies, known as 'ale wives', used to brew ale, which had a very low alcohol content and was considered safer to drink than water unless the water came from a deep well. Anglo-Saxon ladies used to throw cold water over their menfolk if they had been sitting around boozing too much. This caused the men to run outside where they urinated, which was better than wetting themselves as they sat around drinking too much. Instead of the menfolk getting angry they used to laugh at themselves for being such nincompoops. When we study history we discover that it's the women who are really in charge. Women are multi-taskers who can do several things very well at once, whereas men are able to do only one thing well at any given time. History teaches us that women run countries better than men, which is why the USA gets itself into muddles over so many things. Humans are mammals because they grow hair and feed their babies on milk. Study the world of mammals and we soon discover that it is the females who are in charge. The leader of the elephant herd is always a female and it's always a lioness who is in chrge of the lion pride. Elephants have the longest gestation period of any mammal. It is often said that 'a mare and a hare make a twelve month.' This is beause the mare's pregnancy lasts eleven months whereas that of a hare lasts just one month. A sow is pregnant for about 15 weeks. Some mammals, such as seals, practice delayed implanantion, in which the actually pregnancy does not begin until several weeks after sexual intercourse. Some mammal still lay eggs, such as the duck billed platypus and the echidna species, The three main divisions of mammals are: monotremes, marsupials and placental mammals such as humans, whose closest living relative is the bonobo chimp. The definition of a mammal is ' an animal that grows hair and feeds its babies on milk. Humans are members of the animal kingdom. The sex determining chromosomes in mammals are known as 'X and Y chromosomes', whereas birds have W and Z chromosomes, which work the opposite way round to X and Y chromosomes.
@@anthonyweedonweedon1426 Mammals have nothing to do with hair. Purely down to breast feeding.
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And the award for most boring reply goes to...
@@millomweb Mammals have everything to do with hair of all kinds including fur. Mammals feed their babies on milk.
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mammal
/ˈmam(ə)l/
noun
a warm-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that is distinguished by the possession of hair or fur, females that secrete milk for the nourishment of the young, and (typically) the birth of live young.
Footpaths. When in small US towns, they often don't have them. SWMBO and I walked from our hotel to a restaurant one evening and there were no footpaths. The waiter asked where we'd parked as he didn't see us arrive in the car park. He was gobsmacked when we explained we'd walked nearly half a mile.
I remember taking a stroll in the early evening in Sacramento, the next moment a police car turned up and asked what I was doing. Apparently, a couple of neighbours in the street thought I was 'suspicious'. Then they heard my accent, they just grinned and told me to take it easy.
there you have it , no walking on footpaths and massive meals . learn something usa
I remember once in Florida asking the receptionist of our hotel how to get to a supermarket just down the road. She started to give me instructions on how to drive there. When I said I'd prefer to do it on foot, she looked at me as if I was mad!
I was stopped by the police, when I was on evening walk, near where our holiday apartment was in Florida. Several people had seen me wandering around and thought I looked suspicious. As soon as the policeman heard my accent, he was lovely and said he hoped I enjoyed my walk. He even told me the areas which did have pavements, so I would be safer on my walks.
My partner and I were in a restaurant on the waterfront in Saucelito and were chatting to a local couple and explained that we had walked from our hotel in San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge to the restaurant. They thought we were mad and insisted they drove us back!!
1100 pints in a year! Hangs head in shame,I must try harder🍻
Me too ✋
I don't drink so someone out there is seriously pissed taking up the slack on my behalf.
When I was trying to get my BA in Inebriation, many years ago I was averaging about 30/40 pints a week. Then I was sued for abuse by my liver so had to reduce my intake to zero. I have noticed over the last ten years my liver has been happy though I seem to get more ailments than when I was a drinker.
Nearly 92 pints a week! And none of us are doing the drinking, so there's some seriously unhealthy people out there and they have a lot of money to waste too.
@@Thurgosh_OG Don't worry - I got yah. I have to make up the percentages in Gin though. Otherwise I am up all night going to the toilet.
I've been in the UK for 20 years and it's definitely yes to everything!
I know it’s a bit late but, welcome!
@Julia57 just me l’m sure Boris has the British nuclear codes, and I you think he isn’t a reality TV star, “Have I got news for you!!”
@@chuckyboy6977 yeh, I recall that one! I also recall how funny I thought his hosting style was! 😄
@@chuckyboy6977 The US holds the codes for the UK nukes too.
@Julia57 just me no nukes where launched in his term of office... however giving them also to a man who can barely strand a sentences together without saying weird shit or stopping entirely is also not a good idea. He'd most likely fire and forget he pressed anything!
The pubs in many area's are more about social gatherings then drinking. I grew up in a large village with 2 pubs and most people in the village went to one or the other. When I was old enough I used to go and have a pint with my grandad and his friends and grandkids I went to school with. Best in winter when a roaring open fire would heat the pub nicely!
Same here, 1 village, 2 pubs. One tended to be where people ate and the older people went, the other also did food but had a pool table and tended to have a younger crowd there.
Been there. done that . great memories,, we were snowed in and spent the night , best of all
1 village 4 pubs 1 posh / weddings ,2 middle of the road types and one with a club and a Indian restaurant and all within 10 mins from home !
Areas does not need an apostrophe.
There’s a small village in Hampshire called Whitchurch, it had (before COVID) 10 or 12 pubs!
Also every year they host the Whitchurch pub race, where teams of up to 8 people come up with a themed fancy dress and team name.
We were called ‘The Tour De Farce’ one year. 8 guys dressed in full roadie Lycra,while riding tiny kids bikes.
The race is very relaxed and fun, you collect money for charity on your way around the village (about a 3 mile loop).
You go around every pub in the village & drink a 1/2 or whole pint, plus a few stops as you pass through a residential area.
It’s so much fun & usually the end of the day is a total blur.
It’s always seemed to be a national pastime going out, getting very hit & missed - bonus points if you can include something extremely funny & or daft at the same time.
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This girl's voice is so soothing. 😍
Thank you 😊
I think employee protection against unscrupulous employers in the UK far out weighs anything in the US. Every time I visit friends in the states, a lot of folk blush, when I demonstrate my expertise in unintended use of swear words to enhance the English language .
By the way: (Your vocals would work well in voice over work, and suggest you check it out. You have a richness of tone, and a smooth ambient delivery. Great video.)
Thank you very much, I appreciate it :)
I,ve been told I have a great face for radio....seriously consider radio work or podcast Amanda..
The big problem we have are agencies who rip off both the employee and the employer. People who work for agencies get zero sick pay and are usually on zero hour contracts.
Quite agree ,sir, now we have big business sitting on NHS boards, and Social Care and the NHS wards are awash with Agency staff, mainly because folk like me have left.....
Love your priorities, 1 pubs, 2 health care.
I'm not sure it was a priority list? Amanda didn't mention that. I think I would put 1. History, 2. NHS and 3. British Humour / Comedy. 😊
Yes they sort of go together, visit the first one and end up in the second one
I would add driving courtesy and manners. Having driven on every continent except South America, I'd say the Brits are the only ones who let people out at junctions, stop for pedestrians, zipper merge and generally wave, smile or thumbs-up to received courtesy. US is not as bad as Russia, but still have lessons to learn.
I live in the UK and don't even drive (because I have epilepsy and am legally not allowed to) and even I wave and show my hand up when I am sat as a passenger if I am sat right next to the driver if another driver is allowing us to pass or something
Respectfully disagree.
Yeah, when you visits UK as a tourist and try to stumble your way through a left-turning roundabout for the first time, the brits still polite and wait for the tosser to decide his actions.
@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 It gives us a chance to persue one of our favourite pastimes: angry muttering about strangers.
@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 Funny.👍
When you talk about roundabouts I immediately think of the film, National lampoons European vacation when Chevy chase gets stuck on the one at Westminster bridge. So funny 😆
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@@LADYRAEUK did you just look at it Amanda? Or have you seen it before. 😊
I’m always fascinated by this type of video. I was surprised you included higher education because I feel we are headed in the wrong direction here in the UK. Tuition fees have increased substantially in recent years. I graduated in 1985 and I got free tuition fees and a maintenance grant that was equivalent to about a quarter of the average salary at the time.
What I fund bizarre is that universities can happily let people get into debt acquiring degrees that have little or no practical use in getting employment, and offer no sort of careers guidance.
"Give us money, we'll give you a piece of paper and years of debt. That's it."
@@nuntius1933 The silly buggers. I used to work in a jobcentre, and if I had a pound for every time I asked "What sort of work are you looking for" and got the answer "I've got a degree".
When asked what the degree qualified them to do they had no idea and assumed they could just walk into any job as long as it paid well.
The graduates may be adults, but basically they've only just left school, so have missed out on three to five years of toughening up in the real world.
@@gilgameshofuruk4060Perhaps they are not being guided well. Universities seem to be primarily businesses now, with fixed costs and investment in housing which need to be covered by an intake of students, who are told that there is an average 'premium' in salary for graduates over non-graduates. That has been generally true but there is wide variation in salaries so it is not guaranteed. The IFS estimates that 44% of student debt of the UK 2021 freshers will not be repaid, which means the IFS is forecasting many will not earn high salaries. Of course, graduates and society can get non-financial benefits from a degree but, sadly, many students are taking on a burden they will never be able to escape. 30 years ago, it was possible to leave school at 18 and enter specific career and training paths, without incurring huge debts.
The education you enjoyed the benefit of wasn't free, it was paid for from the taxation of workers and businesses. The NHS isn't free either, though I think it's probably the best system for providing healthcare to the masses.
also sure the NHS has problems but why do Torys ALWAYS look to the USA for solutions? this is like asking ISIS about religious freedom.
I think one thing we do that goes so undervalued is wind energy. We produce 29% of our countries electricity through wind farms. A lot of countries now produce wind but it doesn’t remotely compare to the usage
And it's still growing at a substantial rate. We are bountifully provided with wind. And a substantial proportion of it is outside Westminster.
Renewable energy usage over this summer alone has been over 50% and getting better every year
Hopefully we start to harvest the energy in waves more soon.
On a side note Amanda your accent is getting a much more english sounding lilt 👍
Should have some in WESTMINSTER, enough hot air flowing to power the whole south east….
Ah thenk yoo. Ahm ‘ere aww week
Yep and scotland itself is fuelled by over 90% of renewable energy.
I could listen to this lady all day. What a delightful voice.
Yes, sad about the tattoos though.
@@corrigenda70 it’s her body, so she can do whatever she likes with it.
Love the tattoos...I always used to say if I am shit in bed at least you have something to read
@@mikeleighton9891 Ha, ha, very good Mike. I wish I'd thought of that. Perhaps I'll get a tat done for them to read that describes why size isn't everything...ahem!
@@mikeleighton9891 😂😂
I think that was pretty fair - except recycling. We may be better than the USA - But compared to the Nordic countries - we are dire.
So better than the US then.............lol
@@joefish41 😊😁
Read the video title mate. She ain’t comparing it to Nordic countries.
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@@zzkano834 Did just that 'mate' - we're still crap at it.
Pubs are disappearing at an alarming rate as supermarkets can undercut them by price, such a shame as pubs are really great social places. At work we are alway taking the piss out of each other, then the swearing starts😀😀🏴🏴
I worked for a while at an MOD workshop and I think you would have been sacked if you didn't put at least one swear word into every sentence! Just joking, but sometimes it felt a bit like that! It was a bit like that when I worked for Royal Mail as well but not quite as extreme!
No smoking in pubs, although excellent, hasn’t helped pubs.
The good pubs thrive though, loads are opening & cafes. The drinking / eating out culture has improved massively IMHO.
Drink driving laws also have a big impact, together with the increase in beer strength to 5%, more mid strength beers, permitting two pints would have perhaps mitigated the effect.
Any time that I have visited the UK I can't recall seeing any advertisements for legal services on TV. It's crazy that the 800 numbers and the jingles are dancing in my head as I type this comment. Lol. Great list and a great video as always.
Now that the UK is opening up, you should consider doing a video or two on the streets.
Keep up the great work!
Thanks so much, I really appreciate it :)
What about the fact that we don't have the advertising of prescription drugs on TV? You don't find us clamouring for the doctor to give us some dubious potion just because we've seen it promoted in the middle of Coronation Street.
I heard it’s illegal everywhere except the US and New Zealand. That may be incorrect though. Certainly illegal here.
From a Yank: You are right about that.
Also, our ad breaks are shorter and less frequent.
And most of us pronounce advertisement correctly.
it amused me to hear side effects include death.. in the advert
I was shocked when i went to Florida and saw prescription drugs being advertised on television
Just look how big your growing as a RUclips channel. When I first subscribed you had just 1000 subscribers. Now look at you !! Keep up the good work.
Thanks so much 😊
Yo I’m in love with her voice I listen to while I sleep 💤 so calm. It’s like I’m listening ASMR
First-time viewer. It's fun to listen to your voice pop into a slight British accent on certain words and phrases.
lol thank you :)
Number 8 drinking. For visitors from the USA. We have proper Imperial pints over here. Our pints are 20 fluid ounces, USA pints are only 16 fluid ounces. So it takes 10 USA pints to make 1 Imperial gallon.
Although a US fluid ounce is 4% bigger than an Imperial one. Not enough to counteract the effect though.
@@stuartmcivor2276 That is something that I didn't know.
@@grahamsmith9541 An Imperial gallon is 9.6 US pints.
I'm happy to inform you the way you say 'what' has been fully anglesised, congratulations!! :)
lol :)
Please try the magic roundabout in Swindon (I believe there are a couple of other similar roundabouts), it's simply a case of getting to where you want to exit, you can go left round the outside and effectually right round the middle, it just works! x
Haha I live in Swindon!
@@frankienew6966 Yeah, I assume you've driven it. I'm not from Swindon but live in the area, the first time I came across the magic roundabout I was a bit intimidated but I got to where I wanted to get, which is the point of it. You've just got to basically aim for where you want to be, it works. x
Been there. Live in cov. The magic roundabout is a challenge to say the least
A great post, Amanda, thank you .... but let's be honest, we're all (in the UK) going to love it when you're being positive about life in the UK, no matter how 'up the creek' we are, sometimes. That said, I really like your insight, views and opinions .... and your delivery ... curious that you never mentioned 'guns', although there's lots on RUclips on the 'US versus UK' on that particular subject. Please contact every UK TV or Radio channel with a 'demo tape' ... the way you 'impart' is sublime (it's a voice and diction thing!) .... it always engages interest in the subject matter.
Thanks very much :)
Pubs first Amanda? 🤔 Cool video thanks 😊
thank you :)
Love watching your video`s because you are straight to the point with a sense of humor. So please keep them up.
🙂Thank you :)
Loved the bit about swearing…! We’re fecking good at it too! 😂
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You should visit York, you will see some really old looking buildings that look really cool
The Shambles ❤️
in Nottingham we've got the trip to Jerusalem pub which opened in 1189 and its not even the oldest UK pub lol so we've had more years of drinking practice
I think the oldest pub is in Winchester, I can't remember what it's called now but I used to go there every week years ago.
@@legobatman8353 the oldest is the old ferry boat in St Ives Cambridgeshire been open since 560 and its in the doomsday book
@@Derby69 ah, OK cool to know.
When it comes to roundabouts have a look at the "Magic Roundabout" in Swindon. This is not a joke. I used to live near there and the first time i saw it I couldn't believe it. Like you with the usual British roundabouts you do get used to it.
Pints are also bigger over here as well
16 ounces to an American pint, 20 to a British one. Likewise, US gallon = 3.8 litres, British = 4.5 litres.
Roundabouts are absolutely brilliant!
Sarcasm, satire, swearing and self deprecation, no other country does it quite like us. Though a close second would be our cousins down under.
I think that's more because of a law of averages. America is more like...50 countries...and for all their similarities, there are probably more differences. Only Russia and China, and maybe Canada are really similar in that sense. But Canada is so sparse, while Russia and China are still so totalitarian, that it just doesn't matter how "diverse" they are.
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But America's doing its best to become a dictatorship! But sadly, we're half-assing that as much as we half-ass any reasonable form of government system...or even Democracy.
I think the Aussies may beat us at sarcasm tbh
@@paulcollyer801 I agree I’m a kiwi and their sarcasm is annoying especially when they talk rugby 🤣🤣
@@judahulu3466, do they even Play??? 😂😂
@@paulcollyer801 👀🤣🤣 NGL they did pretty good against the Boks on the weekend
If you want a big portion on your plate then visit Midway truck stop near Whitchurch, you won't believe the size of the dinner plates 😄
We need pubs, and an NHS. Round-a-bouts are great. We have a few in Texas. You don't sound like anyone I know from Pennsylvania. I thought you might be from the Midwest, or the South.
Generally where I live in England foreigners are buying grade 1 listen buildings that are over 300 years old as the first ever buildings in my town for the old coach drivers and they're burning them down to get payouts for insurance and build new stuff but luckily they were told they had to rebuild them to their original standard!!!
That sounds disgraceful
Student loan lasts for 30 years. Whilst they call it a loan it actually operates more like a tax. It doesn’t matter if you pay it all off or not
Just to add for Americans reading this. Plan 2 Loan repayment are only repaid on earnings over £524 ($728) a week. Then you pay 9% of the earnings over that amount. So if you earn £600 ($834) a week you will repay 9% of £76 ($105.60). Giving a repayment of £6.84 ($9.50) a week.
In Scotland education is free!! We only have to repay and loans we have taken out but we don’t need to pay for the tuition. (There is a limit to how many years you can study at a higher level- In sure it’s 5 years) We also don’t pay for our prescriptions here! 🏴
You’re welcome
Yeah and then you have Sturgeon wanted to end all this. Although I do believe if Scotland become Independent all these benefits should be ended otherwise it is a false Independence. I really don't want you guys to leave our Union as the Scots are apart of it's History however if they want it alone... they need to be alone and everything they need funding should then come from the new Scottish Government and the Scottish taxpayer not the British Government in London.
one thing I miss from when I lived in the US is the sense of theatre about just driving down main st. There are lots of varied places in both countries but somehow the neon lights and fast food outlets on a so called 'strip' is cooler than a string of dull take-aways you find in England (I'm talking about smaller towns for both countries)
I spent 4 months in the US. Loved it since I was a kid. Been an NFL fan for 18 years this year. Love the US history and the ideas it was founded on. I love Britain but nothing beats driving on a sunny day, with the windows down on a interstate that is never ending with the Country music blasting on an American Country radio station playing great tunes driving to a city you only ever see in the movies or a woodland which captures the imagination. Britain is my home and I love it... however for me the US is a very close second. I have wanted to live there my entire life and the only thing now which stops me is my Mom she is alone and I need to be near her for when she gets older and the future wife who doesn't share the same dream as me. I guess Holidays or a Holiday home are in order then 🤣
Amanda…I’m a U.S. Citizen as well. I have lived in London for 12 years. I Fully agree with your perspective.
:) If you don't mind me asking, what brought you over?
@@LADYRAEUK Long story Short. I married an English Woman.. we lived in America for 10 years…the 2008 recession hit..Our Family was devastated we had 3 little girls…at the time…We were struggling…it Just made sense. In 2009.. we migrated here…. And in 2017ish I became a Citizen. ❤️🇬🇧🇺🇸🤙🏼
I’m glad things worked out 😊wish you and yours all the best
America, is a much younger nation, so its still evolving and finding a balance, in all areas, its obvious when u travel there from the UK
i like to think of america is a teenager, the tantrums, the arrogance of some, its a teenager.. ;)
@@Greenwood4727 That's exactly the analogy I use too. The whole "You can't tell me what to do" attitude is another feature.
@@elbubsio4947 pity we cant send them to their rooms to think about what they have done.. and take away their pocket money
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Well done! Nailed it!
(I'm a Brit who lived and worked in the US for 10 years)
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Did you enjoy it?
7:20 “portion control”
It’s difficult for me to fully agree right now as I’m currently recovering from my Sunday Roast at 6:25 that I started cooking at 11am 🙄🤣
I'm a Yank, and I pray to God I make it there one day, to have one of these Sunday roasts, that I hear so much about. I want a full English breakfast too. It seems a bit weird to have beans for breakfast, but what the hell? When in Rome...
EVERYONE knows that portion control only applies to the other six days. 😁
One too many Yorkshire puddings, need a kip 👍
@@stevenhoskins7850 worked in blazing saddles I don’t know about the odour
I think your list is great. I lived 20 miles west of Philly for almost 20 years. I would add walking opportunities. Every town and village has pavements. In the US, isolated developments of houses had sidewalks, but they did not connect with other developments or shopping areas. One could not walk to the shops, for example. Also, public footpaths in the countryside. I would also add power security. We don't get power outages on a monthly basis like we had experienced in Pennsylvania, after any and every storm.
Good points! :)
You think we’re good at swearing, you should hear the australian’s! They have mastered it
Australians does not need an apostrophe either.
Not as good as the Scots.
I think in Germany anyone can swear on TV without censorship
Aussie Man reviews are brilliant. Very similar sense of humour and swearing as the Brits x
Fucken oath mate 😅
I know it might sound really boring but there was one thing I found worked really well while I lived in the US and that’s roadworks. They’re usually done during the night, when there is minimal amount of cars and the police are always present to divert or control the traffic. And all cleared up by the morning. Really efficient. I lived in MA so my experience is just from there.
That's a really good one! :)
Some great observations there. We defo are lucky to live here! x
Depends what area you live in
Having watched quite a few of your videos, it's quite funny and cute how some of the English words (like "Fish and Chips") come out with a British twang to your American accent.
Thank you :)
Four times less fatalities with roundabouts over traffic light intersections. Saves fuel too. Less stressful.
It also helps traffic flow which reduces congestion.
So many have been ruined by turning them into light controlled ones, even worse are those with lights on the roundabout. I do see the logic that went through the minds of the traffic planners but few work as intended.
The problem with roundabouts though is that they only really work if the flow of traffic through them is roughly similar from every direction. Try going through Milton Keynes some time - their roundabouts (and there are many!) can become very irritating at times.
Roundabouts: a self-regulating system, no electricity required, no moving parts, nothing to go wrong. Love 'em.
@@corrigenda70 can confirm, normally I would prefer roundabouts but my local town reverted to a traffic light controlled crossroads at one main junction after other traffic easing caused two of the exits to take almost all of the traffic. Blocked the thing for the lesser ones. It’s very much dependant on the situation.
High Amanda love your channel and hour voice is so soothing to the ears 😀 you mentioned that you would put the link to your NHS video but it's not there 😁x
thanks so much :)
Another great vid Amanda! You covered the main ones that the UK.
Others I would add are queuing which we are better and more respectful at. Making tea - no one does it better than us. Our BBC news is way better than anything the US has to offer. Banter - we know how to banter, especially chanting in a crowd and out sing other countries and are far more creative with it. Plus our price tags in shops are accurate and written on the items. Plus Americans in restaurants leave things in confusion with paying 20% tax on their meal while a 20% tip is not automatically added 😂Oh and how US TV production companies are so bad at gauging when a TV show is past its sell by date. No problem of the sort with Brit TV producers 😉
There must be others missed I’m sure!
They're some good ones!
Looking great Amanda, as always! Guess you got that just about spot-on, very perceptive. My favourite youtube channel, thanks Amanda!
Thanks so much! :) Hope you had a lovely weekend
Yes Amanda it has been boiling and I bet that wasn't an expression you used before you got to blighty.
Oh and don't forget to moan about the weather pretty much constantly...it is the British way!
Lol 😊👍🏻
Spectacular content 💕❤️
Do you live in London? Or go there regularly? I have a pub crawl for USian Anglophiles that I call the “Older Than Your Country crawl”, consisting only of pubs founded before 1776 (there’s a LOT of them, including some that predate the Mayflower)
That is really shocking to hear about the recycling in the US. I recycle about 95% of my rubbish (living in the UK)
Thing is we all recycle but then they use energy and not always the most clean energy to recycle what we send. It is either paper or cardboard which is the worst. The amount of energy it takes to recycle some experts question why it's either bothered with anymore.
I live in the NE and we have traffic circles ( round abouts.). The traffic circles are much more efficient except during the height of rush hour.
We recycle and have twice monthly pick-ups in a huge can as big as the garbage can, NJ has it also.
We have the national trust In the UK 🇬🇧 lots of castles building's and old halls to look round.
you are very lucky.
Stonehenge is thought to be one of the oldest in the world
@@stevenhoskins7850 where do you live
Everything 😉 ps love your voice it's so relaxing and you are stunning
Thank you 😊
The English are amateurs in swearing compared to the Irish and Australians. Scots are premier league too
Went I've been in America for a while I find I miss crusty bread, vegetables (this is more about dining out than availability) and crisps in sensible size packs
One thing I was surprised about was how low general road awareness was with American drivers. I think it comes from easy driving tests and long straight roads. But driving too close was common and people seemed to react late to issues ahead
I soon learned not to try to let people onto the highway by slowing down because it just confused them
Us Scots are masters at swearing lol
I’m English and I must agree, I’ve two friends from Scotland and Ireland.. I have never laughed so fucking much when they argue with each other.. priceless 👊🏼
@@robjennings9143 They sound like really fun friends 😂
great insight. i also love that you can tell your accent is starting to change because you have been here so long :) at points, you sounded English :)
Thank you! 😃
Another great video, Amanda. You are most definitely my favourite American on here and. As I have said before , definitely the one with the easiest and most pleasant voice to listen to, and you come across so lovely, and positive. You'd cheer anyone up, and you put our national self-doubt and criticism to shame!
I think you have commented on quite a few more plusses in the past, too? But defo plusses are the ticket price is the price you pay; employee rights (although too often abused); animal welfare, especially in food production; bigger pints! 😜; British, humour, often self-deprecating or brilliantly taking the pee out of the bigots and racists and the like (I loved your reaction to Al Murray...!); the amazing regional diversity; real ale; the quality of (most) TV programmes and less-dominating TV advertising; British electric sockets and plugs; varieties and quality of Cheese; distances and scale are reasonable and modest; very few hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, volcanoes, plagues of locusts or other biblical calamities generally; far fewer guns; just some that jump out immediately!
Plusses for the US - US craft beers, and specially all the new hops and aromatic hoppy beers (which many UK craft breweries are emulating); space; epic sweeping landscapes; positivity towards the country (albeit the current massive schism seems to be doing a great job of undermining that); lower electricity voltage means less chance of it killing you; right-turns on red if clear; much wider roads and especially intersections; Amanda Rae 😀; again, a few from my own experience that jump out!
Thank you so much for sharing :) You've brought up some great points ! 👍
I went to eat at a Claim Jumper recently and the portions were obscene. The piece of cake I ordered for dessert was bigger than a shoe box and could have fed a small African village for a week.
Whenever I travel abroad I love a trip to a supermarket just to see all the different products we don’t have in the UK. What did you notice about the differences in food shopping?
I'm from Canada and have visited the UK many times- one thing I find is that food in a supermarket is a lot cheaper there. 3 quarts of grapefruit juice in a Tescos for a quid? Good luck buying it that cheap here.
@@lawrencelewis2592 You measure shit in quarts? I'm going to need to see some documentary proof of Canadianness.
@@anderssorenson9998 How aboot this: "Take off, hoser, eh?"
Another great video Amanda!
Thank you :)
Ahem... you forget that in the UK your business sorts out your national income tax as it is deducted automatically from your payroll for you unless you're self-employed.
And VAT is automatically added to the price of items on the shelves so what you see on the price tag is what it fully costs VAT included.
Trains…I live in Pensacola Fl and we have no train service…. Off hand the closet may be 50 miles away. I so miss having a railway station in most towns
Hey... you have a long walk to hang up your clothes. lol
I much prefer flying than travelling by train. If you travelled by train during rush hour in the uk you will know why
Every time you get tongue twisted it makes me laugh too! Thanks for another great video!
Glad you enjoyed it🙂 I hope you're well!
How have I only just found this Channel, good solid content and your voice is so soothing, keep up the great work and a I hope that you have settled in nicely to life in the UK.
Thanks so much, I really appreciate it 😊
I would add being able to visit the seaside much easier. Wherever you live in the UK I think the furthest from the sea is maybe 120 miles whereas in the US if you live in Pennsylvania it's like well a lot lot further to travel.
I know what you mean.
I live 75 mike's from the sea, but feel it's 74.5 miles too far. I can't imagine having to treat it like a major expedition to get to the seaside.
Hi there, I went to America some years ago Boston actually and then up to Cape Cod. And before I win everyone did say about the food but I never noticed any difference between England and United States I also enjoy the driving round Cape Cod in a Chrysler Concorde what is good to hear that you enjoy living here and have done the last 10 years so well done you cheers Phil from Newark
The legal drinking age, if one can die for ones country at 18 why can't one drink at the same age.
Well think of this. You need to be 18 to play Call of Duty, but you can join the real Army at 16.
@@ScienceFollowsTheEvidence 16 year olds aren't sent to war. The army at 16 is more of an adult scouts with the addition of guns(my daughter spent 2 years at Harrogate).
The legal age at which you can buy alcohol is 18, the legal age at which you can drink alcohol in UK is 5
@@ScienceFollowsTheEvidence Not frontline at 16
@@lyncohn9505 During WWI many 15-17 year olds signed up, if later discovered to be under 18 were withdrawn from the frontline if they had not already been killed. No birth certificates were required to be produced, just a letter from a parent testifying that one was 18 or over, often forged by the kid, just like we did at school excusing us from PE or whatever. Age of Majority was 21 back then and the legal age for buying a drink, 18 was rarely enforced, most pub landlords and police took the view that if one had left school and was in work then it was fine.
G'day Amanda,
I'll tell you what.
The UK and Australia have so much in common.
But it's way hotter here.
I just check out your weather and your summer temperature is the same as our winter.
Though in saying that I do live in the sub tropics .
We love our Aussie cousins 😍
You need to watch Daniel Sloss “swearing” it’s soooo good and he’s really funny. Pleeeeeeease
Daniel Sloss, the Kathrine Ryan of Britain…
Your accent is turning slowly into proper British. Subtle but present. Very cute
What about public transport? Except for some big cities - New York City, Chicago - pubic transport in the US is abysmal. The attitude I've found in the US - "only the po' people take public transport'.
Again - you could look at public transport in England outside major conurbations and conclude it is sparse, unreliable and expensive. We live in a country where it's cheaper to fly between London and Edinburgh or London and Manchester than take out a mortgage for a train ticket. We compare so badly with Germany, France and the nordics.
I agree.... I'm originally from Belgium and if you live in rural places you can get just about everywhere with train and bus... I now have lived in a small city east of Dallas and you can forget about taking the bus here. The nearest bus station is 3 miles away (about 4,5 km) and if you're disabled impossible to get to...
In Belgium I could take the bus to Herentals, take the train to Antwerp where I could take the train to Paris for a weekend trip and be in the Gare du Nord in 2 hours.
Downtown Dallas is only a 40 min drive by car but no way I can get their with public transportation...
You were so right about preserving history. My most favorite class in school was history and I will never forget the school trips to t he few medieval castles and Roman settlements we still have in my native country...
No old buildings have been preserved here from when Dallas was founded or the city here which was founded in 1878.
Thanks for posting your videos I check them often, even the ones I already watched...
Your voice is so soothing. You should replace the voice on the sat nav lol. Also very pretty
lol thank you :)
I swear the English accent is coming out more and more every time I see one of your vids 😂
I hope not, she has a great accent.
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Uk-ces- ih- bwl 😂 noticed a few words that are pronounced more British than American we've trained her well 😂
@@daniedee8869 Yes I lived in Wales for 4 years in my teens and everyday words can be picked up after passage of time that back in Yorkshire family and friends really noticed.
@@simonbutterfield4860 Us welshies will soon wear down any accent I think 😂 we elongate a lot of words and it can become a habit very quickly 😂
@@daniedee8869 even turning sentances up at the end like you're asking a question even when you aren't (laughs)
Regarding portion sizes, I once worked in a pub in the UK and an American woman came in and ordered a sandwich and then complained that she only got a sandwich, because she was used to being in the states where you get a portion of soup and a portion of fries when you order a sandwich! :D
We have lots of wonderfully pretty and historic places to travel to in Europe, but I must admit, I can see why people in the US holiday in the US. It has everything, great beaches, amazing skiing, beautiful and dramatic landscapes, anything you want to do you can do it in the US. No need to change currency or learn a new language. The only thing missing is the history I guess.
Yep. And we love you guys-unlike the European continent. Come on over and get you some fun, while being adored. It's like something y'all have never experienced, outside of Australia or Canada. Come to the South. You'll be treated like royalty. No SAD here.
America undoubtedly has one of the most amazing landscapes (and people, one might say) in the world, but it's simply the size of it that makes foreigners have to focus on one part of it or another if they're visiting for a two week holiday.
@@2eleven48 it’s certainly a big country. I’ve been several times already, but the size is just a good reason to go there again. So much to see and do, and eat. 😁😋
Agreed 👍🏻👍🏻
@@stevenhoskins7850 I've met plenty of Europeans that love the Brits, we are all European! America is an amazing country where nature is concerned, but I did find it really difficult to travel because of a lack of public transport. The people are easy to talk to and I have fond memories of my conversations with Americans.
Hi Amanda I enjoy you content you missed out Gun Law thats a biggy. Oh and Daddies Sauce have you tried it ? especially on a Full English.
I haven't tried it before lol