Try having a conversation with a Glasweigan old man. I can understand the Indians and Pakistanis, Greeks and Poles I work with, no problem. But I was sat with a Glasweigan, a friend of a friend, last year, and nodded through an hours worth of chat without understanding more than a few words. 😅
8:35 As a German, I always found the Brits to be reasonably friendly. However, one then agreed to be my wife, which I now consider unreasonably friendly.
As a Londoner,I lived and worked in Merc City (Stuttgart) for four years from 1999 and loved it. The German people I met and knew were so welcoming. It was also a great hub for travel around Europe. Great country.
@trevorsmith7753 Do you mean the one for the bathroom sink or the one for the last yogurt? No worries, we've got regular diplomatic summit sessions to sort those out.
@hustensaftvernichter3785. Would you care to be more specific, Was she English, Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish? A 'Brit' can be anything from anywhere.We need to know which of us is to take the blame.
She sums up the cultural differences pretty well (I lived in UK/Sweden and briefly in the US). The only thing I would add is that there can be BIG regional differences throughout the US and UK, depending on whether you're in a big city or somewhere more rural.
For sure. Living in rural Britain is a totally different experience to the urban lifestyle. And even then living in other cities in the UK is totally different to living in London. London is just distinctively different to the rest of England. And of course Wales and Scotland are entirely different countries in Britain and N.Ireland exists too since people forget about them poor sods. At the very least rural Britain is much safer and much friendlier. And right to roam means you can walk your dog around the fields with the sheep and the cows and the crops and the ponds and the canals and it's just lovely.
@@carefulconsumer8682No, the Scotsman from Peterhead and the Lancastrian from Wigan would get on famously well together. It's the toff from the 'Home Counties' who neither of them would understand, nor the toff either of them - but it wouldn't matter as neither the Lancastrian or the Scotsman would want to talk to him anyway ...
@@Sine-gl9ly Thanks for your input. I tried top date a girl from Wigan when i was at Wrightington Hosp but I could not understand her because of the accent. My roommate from Birmingham also had no idea what she was saying. Too bad for us since she was so nice.
@@Sine-gl9ly Why would you not want to talk them? I was born in Devon,but live in Surrey. I talk to anybody from anywhere. I have had some very interesting conversations with complete strangers on a bus.
I've lived in one English county, Herefordshire, for fifty years. A friend invited my wife and I for dinner at his house, which was on a hill amid a confusion of narrow leafy lanes in another county, Gloucestershire. It was just fifteen minutes drive away from our house and literally over one hill, then up to the top of the next, from where I'd worked for about ten years. We stopped to ask directions so we didn't take a wrong turn going up the final hill, because it was very steep. The man we asked was about eighty years old and had clearly lived in that parish all his life, judging from his Forest of Dean accent. Although I had been to school in Gloucestershire, his accent was so strong that neither of us could understand a word that old man said. We thanked him politely, and guessed which way to get to my friend's house. At about that time at my work, we took on a cook. She'd lived for thirty years in our village and was married to a local man, but had been raised in The Black Country. Her accent was so strong, and her vocabulary so rich with malapropisms, that I often had to think about what she'd said, as did all our colleagues. She must have thought that we were all a bit stupid. In South Wales, adjacent valleys each had their own distinct accents, both in Welsh and in English. And at family gatherings, my uncles would drop their Hampshire accents to do hilarious impressions of my grandfather's gruff put-downs in his Lancashire accent. Sadly, over the decades, all these beautiful accents have become much weaker, and their quirky dialect words forgotten or fossilised as the names of country lanes or of fields.
I have noticed everything is starting to sound like a neutral London accent which is common in the south east depending on where you go. All major cities have lost their accent and you have to go to the rural areas or the old imperial suburbs to hear the accents. Like in Kent, you have to go to Gravesend or around the Medway area to hear the Estuary accent and in the rural villages to hear the country accent which has similar pronunciations to the west country.
@@hulkhatepunybanner You modern narrative does not stand up to scrutiny: Economist Juliet Shor has calculated that 14th Century peasants could - in some years - get away with working for just 150 days a year. Sundays were strict days of rest, as were "high days and holidays" maintained by the Church. Thus Holy Week was a week off in the run-up to Easter, then Whitsuntide was another, there were 12 days off at Christmastide, a day off for the patron saint of your church, another for that of your country, and another for that of your occupation. Most people rested on Saturdays, too. Weddings involved a week off, and travel was allowed for them. My family living in Dalton and Skelmersdale had their baptisms, weddings and funerals in Ormskirk for centuries. Journeymen (skilled tradesmen) could travel as Freemen (or Burgesses) and be exempt from tolls. Mothering Sunday was a day for going to the Mother Church of the Diocese, you could travel to market, and to Hiring Fairs. Restrictions on travel died out after The Black Death due to labour shortages, and effectively ended 600 years ago. Villages were not a thing until the 13th Century. They were planned settlements for agricultural projects that were expected to take centuries: Thus Whitchurch in Herefordshire was established for fenning a marsh, The Birches for clearing "waste". Land was offered on rent to attract villeins to them. They could buy manumission, but mostly preferred land. And that is at the heart of the stasis of peasants: They stayed for stability of land they could occupy, and for their family support network, not compulsion. Apples never fell far from their trees. Only starvation or conflict would drive them off their land - rarely opportunity.
@@lindsayheyes925 *Yeah. Holiday wasn't the modern road trip to the nearest resort town.* Go back as many centuries as you want, it cost money and lots of time to travel so not everyone did it. Seventeenth century England wasn't 1960s US. The US isn't that old and in short time Appalachians developed an accent that many outsiders couldn't understand. That's 'cause dey couldn't afford to go a-travelin'. _Though I'm happy for you to have learned two lessons: history of the English peasant, and how not to respond in haste._
@@hulkhatepunybanner I have learned neither lesson here. I've studied my family history from primary sources for over 20 years, and took a particular interest along the way in two things: 1. The impact of gravitational trip attraction on personal mobility; 2. Social mobility. The effect of gravitational trip attraction is stronger than any authoritarian attempt to confine people, because it follows an inverse square law - unless you or someone else "burns your boats" to make going back impossible or intolerable. Since the Norman Conquest, upward and downward social mobility in England have always been greater than most people imagine. After about seven generations, the differences between the descendants of the rich and the poor will be negligible - with the exception of for titled nobility. The latter (Dukes and the like) benefit (but may be burdened by) from their title being legally bound to an indivisible estate which is not theirs to trade, belonging to The Crown. Thus the present King is no longer the Duke of Cornwall. Custodianship of the estate - the Duchy of Cornwall - has been transferred to his son, on whose death it will revert to The Crown. Basically, if you ever become a Duke, you will own nothing and you will be happy - or you will own nothing and you will be Harry.
I can do a good Brookside accent even though I SHUNNED ALL EPISODES The Channel 4 programmes of Brookie issued prequels earlier in the day without warning .For this reason only I heard the snippets of speech that over the years meant I heard the words and can copy the accent. I NEVER SAW EVEN ONE EPISODE
I am English too. I currently live in Canada where I have no trouble understanding the accents, although I often cringe at the grammar. I have so much trouble with many US accents, not to mention slang, that I have given up watching US films. I have in the past (tried to) watch US films with Canadians friends and even they have had trouble deciphering a sentence or two no matter how many times we replay them. We usually end up by giving up.
I agree with you it's very important to try and keep an open mind. Unfortunately we have got a lot of people who don't have a particular open mind or who aren't really interested. I am thinking of a lot of right-wing, nationalist governments around Europe at the moment and it's a little bit concerning.
You never know what someone is going through and an offer to help someone or a simple smile or short friendly conversation may brighten their day. I don't think it's a bad thing.
I couldn't disagree more. People like to be left alone. Some random comments can be fun but being stuck on a bus or train with someone trying to force a conversation is very annoying.
I made it an iron cast rule for me to at least "say something nice" to at least 5 people every day. It is actually simple. Starting with complimenting the cashier at the Supermarket on how fast he works.
That made me chuckle. It sounds very false to me (a Brit) but some would consider that a lovely gesture. We Brits are generally not great at receiving compliments and would often be embarrassed, awkward and struggle to respond. There are plenty of other ways of being kind/nice that are less direct.
That's LA. There are plenty of people and places in the USA that are down to earth and people judge you on your character, not what you own, the jewelry you wear, the car you drive, or where you eat.
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Exactly. It was quickly apparent that when she lived in LA, she never traveled in the rest of the United States. Even California has plenty of 'rustic' places to go - like the multiple world famous National Parks that are within a days drive.
I visited the US in 2013. One of the last places on earth, that i would like to live.The trouble with those less pretentious places is that the WHOLE country is brainwashed and they just dont realise it-Sad
Very true: people DO judge you on your character . . . You have to be COOL; you have to think cool, act cool, behave cool, talk cool, exude coolness. This can take on different forms. You can be sophisticated, intellectual, philosophical; and, or witty, a smart-aleck, wiseguy, gossiping and telling and laughing at off-the-wall-jokes and stories; and, or being tough and macho, swearing every other sentence, and really getting into sports and s___. And then there are the karens/darrens, Rednecks, Baptists, Hustlers . . . Only then will others be your friend. If you're just nice and friendly, you will be looked down upon as a childish, immature, naive, a nerd, a wimp. At worst people will bully, cheat, swindle, rip you off, and walk over you. At best, they'll simply ignore and shun you.
There are some common misconceptions/misunderstandings that are not corrected in this video, in fact it is apparent that the interviewee still holds these herself to some extent. For example, Americans speak American English which is now quite different from English in many respects. So, Americans should not be surprised when they are not clearly understood in the UK. Secondly, London is not representative of the UK. It is so different from the rest of the UK that many British people who live outside London consider it to be almost like a foreign country. Finally, in the UK civilians ARE allowed to have guns but there are fairly strict controls.
Yes and also, this lady's frame of reference is that of Los Angeles as being kind of representative of America when it most certainly is not. I lived in the Hollywood Hills for a dozen years and now I'm in the midwest surrounded by farmland and it's two different worlds.
There is no such thing as American English, there is just standard English from England and then different dialects from around the globe. Only the Yanks could have dreamed up the idea of American English, lol.
Probably worth noting that she's also located in Soho which is one of the nicest/wealthiest areas in the entire of London, probably why she isn't worried about stabbings
Not so sure I know my Grandad was born in the city and grew up there , I too was born in the city but grew up in Clerkenwell. So not a huge amount of residents but they are there nonetheless. Just saying , oh and another thing this is where proper Cockneys like myself and some others come from . Not from out in the sticks of tower hamlets , glad i got that off me chest 😉
@@lesmartin8131Surprisingly, Bow Bells were not actually in the City of London proper. The Square Mile has an official population of zero, and every road is a Street. Greater London is a whole different proposition.
There is, ‘The City of London’ and then ‘Greater London’. I believe Greater London is like a Ceremonial County… actually, I am not British so it would probably be easier to look it up 😂! I am getting a bit lost with all the terminology. 😊
She's an Angeleno from a very specific group - well to do, college educated, it an industry dealing with consumption and superficiality. She doesn't represent that massive, very diverse city and the millions of everyday working class people who live there and it's suburbs. She doesn't even represent the majority of California, let alone the USA. Yes, I know she prefaced her interview saying that, but I feel it needs to be repeated.
Agreed. I’ve been to 38 countries, five of which I’ve lived in more than seven years, born abroad, raised abroad, returned to Los Angeles for its cosmopolitan vibe. Where else can you find beaches, mountains, old growth trees and abundant birdlife fifteen minutes from one of the most technologically advanced cities in the world? It’s the multi-ethnic vibe I like the best. It ain’t too white, the music is great, and as long as they’re not making a movie on my street, I’m good. No plastic surgery either.
100% I grew up in USA and have lived overseas for 15 years. I can still see that this woman is not a very good representation of much of the population of USA.
She is a typical brat he detected that "treaty shopping" could get her benefits. Scandinavian countries attract these people like cow dung attracts flees - she will have a rude awakening once facts happen.
I agree with you, she's talking on emotional anecdotal terms of her own personal experience or interpretation. The reality is most people in LA, are pretty down to earth. In fact, I would also argue many of them are very focused on living a healthy lifestyle. Statistics also are not on her side. Far, FAR, more Europeans come to the US than Americans leaving for Europe.
@@evancyclesIncredibly wrong, that butt hurt is really getting to you, a simple cursory examination of US immigrants shows Europeans aren't even in the top 30 of nationalities that go to America, the top 20 are countries worse off, the top ten is simply horrifying, be objective, try and tell the truth, the US is an absolute shit hole.
In the UK civilians ARE allowed to own guns, it's just that you have to have a good reason, be vetted, prove you will store and use it correctly and be subject to insoection of said storage. There is also the fact that most of us don't actually want to own a gun.
Nah man. You just need to make crime illegal, and people will stop doing it. Look at fentanyl, for example. It is illegal. People are forbidden to possess it. Are the streets flooded with fentanyl zombies? Do we have tens of millions of users and addicts? ... W-wait... It's almost as if the problem in the US is not guns, but people...
On of the worst features of the USA is its obsession with guns. It is also notable that the European countries with the worst homicide rates are those with relatively lax gun controls (Germany and Switzerland). No country however is as bad as the USA. The UK has one of the lowest levels of gun violence and suicide, a direct result of the strict gun control laws.
A dumb assed american response. There's an entire world out there and to say we are the best is quite laughable. Now granted we aren't the worst, but I can think of some things where we definitely aren't the best ( our healthcare, infrastructure, how we treat our prisoners and our prisons in general, worker rights, etc )
If she had moved to a different part of the US she would have had a similar experience. I’m from the Midwest and how she described Europe was how I see the us. LA is not typical of the country.
Exactly! She’s one of those Asian immigrant kid brats. Always complaining. Always got something to say. Not realizing her origins or why her family migrated to the states.
I came to US 35 years ago and 4 years later finished my graduate school in Midwest. Then I moved to east cost CT, it took me a couple of years to adjust, feel people are not friendly as in Midwest, 8 years later moved to New Jersey and feel even worse, never really like east coast people.
You probably live in the suburban or urban areas on the East Coast. Try moving further inland/west like Western NY area around Rochester. I have been living around this area in a few places for 35 years and people are generally friendly. East coast urban areas and NJ particularly suck when it comes to friendliness. See where those uncomplimentary labels NJ Boy or Girl come about. Been to the Midwest and I do agree that they are friendly people in general.
The difference between Americans and British is exactly the same as the difference between Brazilians and Portuguese. We both speak the same language and yet Brazilians often do not understand Portuguese while we understand Brazilian Portuguese. As for cultural differences, they are exactly the same as the differences between Americans and British. In terms of conclusion, Brazilians are like Americans and Portuguese are like the British.
Not entirely true. Brazilians are mostly natives who just happened to speak Portuguese as a lingua franca. Americans are mostly Europeans who speak English as a lingua franca.
So interesting listening to her describing the differences at a personal scale. It actually reflects the policies made at the top levels of each of the country she mentioned. It shows. Hope she's happy wherever she decides to stay
Grass is always greener on the other side. I am sure there are Swedish people who can’t stand their own country…as with British, German, French, etc…happy for her that she found a country that suit her best. As for obnoxious sports fans…every country has their fair share of ‘hooligans’
Shouting the name of your country and supporting your team is just being Excited. But when the fans start to Assault the opposite teams supporters, that is really Hooliganism.
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I live >36y in Australia which is better than any in EU but I think that Yugoslavia was the best/friendliest social system, before destroyed by exploitive West :(
I've met quite a few Americans over the years who no longer live in the US and they have all said, that when they go back even just for a holiday they feel that fellow Americans are entitled, obnoxious and have this self centred belief that they are the best in the world. I once asked why did they think Americans behave like this and the answer was; we grow up being told that we're the best and when you're told that every day growing you believe it. One American lad said, there is a belief by many Americans that everyone else in the world wants to be like the US.
But statistically those are the ones that clearly preferred living elsewhere so you would more likely get that response, what if you talked to the ones that choose to live in America? Well, all I know is that there is over a million European immigrants to the USA each year, so far more people coming to the USA than leaving.
I have always lived in the US. Of course, there are obnoxious people, but most people I know are very kind and helpful. I know there are great things about the USA, but bad things too. I've no doubt every country has things to be proud of and things to be sad about. Most people just want a decent life and for their loved ones to be healthy and happy. I want that for everyone, too.
Americans telling her to go back to her own country. Do they know that they stole that land from the First Nations of North America and make them live on land they call reservations. They tried to wipe the indigenous peoples out . WTF
I don't like non-White Americans. I'm from Europe and I just don't like their attitude. The Whites built the US. The other lower races should be more respectful.
@@evancycles Have you looked at the breakdown of those entering the US? Most are coming from less developed countries so of course they want to move. Far fewer come from Europe and Australasia. I’ve lived in Europe, Australia and the Middle East and while I’ve not lived in the US long term I have been travelling there on a regular basis for 30 years. Having visited a dozen States over three decades I think I’ve seen enough of the place to know it would be the bottom of my list of places to live. Why? For the reasons outlined by the OP in this thread and the video. Of course there are some very fine people but the majority really do think they are head and shoulders above the rest of the world when in fact by many metrics they are not. I wouldn’t trade my American friends for anything but I would never be their neighbour.
@@propertyguru22 I live in KL and I really do not have an answer to this question, I just got used to it after about 3 days, and now It doesn't bother me anymore. Also, the amount of malls with air-conditioning helps!
listening to this I was thinking just go to a different state. Like North Carolina has beaches, the Appalachian trail, a slower life where people will say hello to you on the street. It's a much calmer life and it still has everything you need from shopping, sports, restaurants. Just get out of LA.
She's comparing the various British accents. ... Like America doesn't have different accents. Boston, Texas, Chicago/MidWest, NY/NJ, So Cal, or just Southern.. She reminds me of a girl I knew who moved to Florida from NYC and went on and on how much better Florida is because of the listing all these topics like ease of driving to malls, and restaurants etc.. I said that's because you never left NYC before. The whole country is like that if you have a car. 💩
My impression is that decades back the Swedes were very civilised people indeed, and Sweden was a very safe place to live. Then mass immigration happened, and now it has been transformed, with gang-fights in cities, no-go areas too, Stockholm ‘rape capital of the world’ etc. But nobody will admit it, or else it is frowned upon to speak openly about it?
@@Frankabagnale33 you have to live here a few decades to see the schisms and paradoxes in society . most that upload videos about Sweden see the surface of it all .
LA is not just Beverly Hills rich people or Skid Row homeless or South LA hood/ghetto. The vast majority of LA is good old plain suburban lifestyle. Most people in social media and youtube tend to always go to the extremes. The original poster is obviously biased and implying LA is like the Kardashians. Literally, only rich people or bored upper middle class people (like lawyers and doctors) act like that. The whole materialism and plastic surgery is not LA that’s a small segment. The vast majority also are not homeless which is perpetuated in many videos. I literally never see a homeless unless I go into deep downtown areas. Then the ghettos where you see gangs are also mostly in South LA. Not to sound racist, but those are usually poor black/Latino neighborhoods.
the issue is and maybe this is just the west coast, a lot of the big citys are where you can get the jobs. Trying to get a job in a college town which are usually the nicer parts of the west coast is actually really difficult. All the big citys on the west coast have the same sort of problems. Maybe it is a west coast problem. Where the good alternatives of the medium citys dont have jobs, but it is like that. Its either grinding low quality of life in the big city, or you can try and be a realtor in luxury college towns, its really kind of a fucked economy out here. Somehow i think the rest of the US isnt that much better, but maybe you know more then just the west coast.
@@jaydel3don't lie on the homelessness I don't live in LA but I live in California and they are all over the place. A visit la la to and it's not much better and it's not just skid row
I was taught by a Portuguese engineer in the northern English city of Newcastle. When he first moved over, he "thought" he had basic English but he couldn't understand what anyone was saying to him because Geordies have a thick accent. After about a month of learning by doing he still couldn't speak to Geordies but he'd picked up the Geordie accent so when he called his mother she couldn't understand him either lol. For about 8 months no one understood a word he said regardless of language. Eventually, he learned Geordie English and his mother learned how to translate Portuguese Geordie.
As a 28 year old Indian working in corporate, i can totally relate to the part where you have mentioned about the nervous breakdown you had due to exploitation in corporates. This is too much in India, Japan, and now i know in US work culture also. I wish the lady my best with her new business.
@@Arltratlo .... pretty much the same in New Zealand. If people looked at me sideways when I left work at 5pm, I would continue to leave the building. My work contract specified my work hours, and I surely didn't want to break it by staying into the evening..... I saw that staying behind thing as butt kissing, and it didn't actually mean that you achieved more.
Yea UK and Europe has a much better work life balance and worker's rights. Most good jobs in the UK now start you on 30-35 leave days a year for 37-40 hour weeks, 28 is the minimum including public holidays. I think I'd go crazy working in the US.
Gen X here. My online business did well and I had an excellent team so I started my dream in being nomadic at 2010. I've lived in many countries and started seeing the world from different lenses. It did not take long to realize that the grass was greener on the other side. There's no perfect country but there may be one for you. I realized just how sick the people in america can be. Mental illness (negative, scarcity and fear based mindsets), entitlement, arrogant and ignorant to global affair and foreign culture let alone anything beyond my neighborhood and I found myself reflecting some of these. My travels gave me that mirror and I shifted massively with this newfound awareness. It used to be only 11% of americans held passports. Today, it's 43%.
The sheer number of people commenting "but that's in that state. We're perfect HERE" in the USA is astounding, but sadly unsurprising. The brainwashing goes deep.
I think that people that are blowing the uk are pretty brainwashed, that’s coming from a British person who’s been to America. The uk is comparatively poor and suffers from a multitude of issues, some of which are the same as what America is suffering with, and some of its very own, there aren’t many issues that you get in the USA that aren’t also issues in the UK. Americans earn more. They have better healthcare. Driving is cheaper. Their houses are usually larger for cheaper. They have cheaper energy. They have way more wilderness. They have a massive country with far more opportunity and career potential. Only downsides are Some areas are dangerous due to gun crime (exaggerated by media though). Extreme weather in parts but rarer than is portrayed. Less safety nets. Worse public transport. Problems it shares with Europe Mass immigration Consumerism General trashy behaviour
Apart from the gun crime and the safety net issues the uk is definitely worse off than the USA. The safety nets we do have here are very basic as well, the NHS is NOT a world class service. Council housing in the UK is NOT easy to get. Wages in the UK are LOW. Cost of living is HIGH. General crime in the UK is HIGH. Public transport is EXPENSIVE and UNRELIABLE. Just to name a few things lol.
I'm a Brit and I once lived in America (IBM, Rochester, MN). I casually mentioned to my US Boss (From Waco, Texas) that I thought the Minnesota roads were generally terrible. It was like he just froze in shock and disbelief for 10 seconds. He then responded with, "You mean you have better roads than here?". I said we did, and that countries like Germany & France have roads that are as good as racetracks. I still don't think he believes it. He was clearly raised to believe the US had the very best of everything. (I didn't dare mention that my Ford Taurus handled like an overloaded Oil-Tanker). Oh yeah ... and what's with all the Stars & Stripes flags on the porch? Who are they for? Your neighbour (who also has a Stars & Stripes flag out)? I don't get it with all the flags.
Sweeping generalizations about America and Americans. I am sure the outdoors is wonderful in Sweden but it's also available in the US to anyone who wants it.
She said the most important thing at the end, "I'm happy" because she's not having to work 18 hours a day and feels safer. I visit London a lot and I always find it clean and well cared for. All big cities can have problems, but I feel safe in London and it has a great vibe. She has done well to set up her salon in Fitzrovia which is a good area. Asian people will feel very at home in London - it's very culturally diverse and Asian people are very polite which British people really love.
Many Parisian French in their 20s or early 30s love London over Paris. As a Brit it is great to have the input we have gained from the former Empire, now Commonwealth of Equals. The UK has benefitted greatly from immigration BUT the current Mass Illegal Immigration is not welcome. Without "Immigrants" 70% of UK Universities would CLOSE!
@@faithlesshound5621 I live in the UK and part of the Cantonese speaking population but unless the shop is clearly cratering to the Chinese population, most people would start their interactions in English and move over to Cantonese if it's clear that both parties can speak it.
I like her honesty. Appreciation for moving from US to Sweden then to our lovely city (to some degree 😂) London, and comparing versus living in LA and San Fran etc. London is a big city, and yes there is crime in any city and we are not immune naturally. Knife crime is a huge issue, and this is still an ongoing issue that needs to be dealt with. Unlike the US, where gun crime is a HUGE problem, and it’s easy to feel unsafe due to this🙁. When you feel you don’t belong somewhere anymore, you move. I’m born and raised in London, family is from the Caribbean. However, having travelled now 5X times to Kuala Lumpur (recently spent more 3x), I feel so at home there than here in London now. I hope to make that leap over to Malaysia, as I don’t feel like U.K. is home for me anymore. London will always be home, but the feeling is no longer the same as it was. The govt has screwed us over royally, and it’s not the people in this city or country that makes me dislike it, it’s just political part that does.
Is the illegal immigration a part of what you feel the government has done to screw its people over? It seems like the government isn’t putting its people first. I could be wrong! I am just curious as I love British history, and it would be interesting to hear from an actual Brits perspective as opposed to the news. I hope your dream to live in Malaysia comes true! Sounds lovely.
When you say knife violence is a huge prob in London, like what do you mean? Cause you said like the US's gun problem, but I wouldn't consider our gun problem to be that bad, and I am pro gun restrictions. I'm not just pro gun, I don't think most people (99%) "NEED" an automatic rifle. So I'm not a gun nut, and I don't think we have a major gun problem. So I'm wondering how much of a thing makes it a problem. Are there multiple stabbings a day in London? There would be multiple shootings in our huge cities, Los Angeles, New York, etc, but in most of the country we don't have gun violence every day.
All countries have pros and cons and I've lived in all 3 like this lady (UK, Denmark, USA). It's a wash on the normal pros and cons list but lets be honest - the weather and darkness is crap in the UK and Scandinavia. The USA in a sunshine area wrecks the other two - full sunshine from April to October where I am in the USA - its like being on vacation at home, I'm sure people in Spain feel the same. That alone makes it the winner for me as I like the outdoors. As for safety - yeah your typical UK town is a lot safer than say, east St Louis - but go to some normal OK town in a good area of the USA and it's got zero crime; actually safer. The USA is a big country and the comparison should be to the whole of Europe and not just one country in Europe.
I would hate to have constant sunshine for months on end. Because of our British climate, we have the most wonderful countryside and you're never far from a river, lake or the sea. Our seasons make the year so much more interesting and we know that even if it rains for days, it will get better. The other advantage we have is the long summer evenings.
So true. I dislike the heat but love it being light from 4 am to 10 pm. I love spring and autumn and a winter walk followed by a cosy evening in, is lovely.
I'm a person who is, I think, pathologically over-stimulated, and I long to live in a place with "dreary" weather, so that bit wouldn't be a negative for me. If I could afford to move, I'd go to the Pacific Northwest. The glaring sun, migrane-inducing melting color, and excessive heat (above 70⁰ farenheit is overheating) are depressing for me, but winter is delightfully soothing and invigorating. The stark skeleton silhouettes of hibernating trees bring me a kind of joyful ecstasy and are a welcome relief my eyes. Obviously, though, even a cold lover like myself has limits. I wouldn't like to live in an arctic zone. I only comment this to show that climate preference isn't universal, though my own preference may not be in the majority.
I was born in the south, lived on long island as a child. Came back to virginia every summer to my grans parents where my parents grew up. Finally my parents split up and we moved back to Virginia. My favorite place on earth in between the Blue Ridge Mts. and the Appalachian Mts. And I have been just about everywhere in the US.
Its not that Americans are necessarily friendlier. They as a whole are more outspoken. I am a Canadian. I remember a trip in the Caribbean, where I wanted to be clear of the taxi service and prices before hiring. I invited an American couple to join us, sharing the cab, going to the same place. I must have sounded too firm. The couple remarked that I could be a New Yorker. I felt puzzled. I now think I was insulted...?
I wouldn't say insult. They were remarking how brash you probably sounded. Idk if brash is a good one. Just outspoken, no filter, volume on 11, and a lot of confidence. Wow. They're "Yankees" to us. What if you're their Yankee? I'm kiddin. That's one reason I enjoy the internet. I'm from GA, and my Southern accent sounds like a Squidbilly. On here, I could be speaking like Sir Christopher Lee and no one can hear differently. Nah, really I don't care but not one of the Yankee tourists headed to FLA could understand me so they booted me. Buzzards...
@@blue2mato312so do Americans have to change and be like everyone else in the world. Why not give Americans the same respect as other countries when I serving their country? Appreciating diversity is important, is it not?
I’m an American. I’m glad this woman is happy living in her new country. There are Americans who move to other countries & foreigners who move to America. California is not like the rest of the U.S. so all she can talk about is HER experience in California. America is huge & very diverse! I’m sorry she didn’t have good friends in L.A. I’ve lived in the Midwest, the north east & the South & have had great & dependable friends. Americans may seem entitled to people in other countries but customer service is very important to American businesses. Poor customer service can hurt or kill an American business. And a lot of workers care about providing good customer service. I didn’t always hear that America is the greatest country in the world while growing up. My teachers were very critical of the U.S. & I didn’t always agree with them. America is far from perfect but based on things I’ve heard about other countries from Americans who have travelled abroad & from people who come here from other countries, I do think there are many good & positive things about America & Americans. And based on other reasons I do think we are a great country. But I always figured people from other countries thought their countries were great too. Some of the greatest supporters of America that I’ve met are those who move here from other countries.
Brit here. Ive been going to many different parts of the US for decades, for business, tourism and sport. I like the US and have always enjoyed my visits. Nowhere is perfect.
I can second this, as someone who lives in California. California does NOT even remotely represent the majority of the rest of the nation. They have their own little insulated culture in Cali.
when you see signs in restaurants 'our servers rely on your tips' (this business can't be arsed to pay our staff a wage they can live on, so you should help us pay them as well)
It's all about the culture of the country. One way or the other, the wait staff gets paid or they'll find other employment. But is it included in the price of the food or does the customer pay the server directly? TIP is actually an acronym - To Insure Promptness. And to get that desired effect, in the USA it's standard for the customer to pay the server directly. It's the server's incentive to get the customer's order to the kitchen quickly, and when the food is ready to get it delivered to the customers table promptly. And good servers can make considerably more than minimum wage, despite the paltry base pay from the employer. On the other hand, poor servers who pay attention to anything except the customer, simply aren't going to last very long. I imagine the problem for foreigners is the shock of discovering the price of a meal is more than the listed prices in the menu + tax, that there is this additional item to be paid separately.
i am American. I grew up up in Santa Monica, California. I have also lived in Japan and Belgium. Now I live in Missouri. What you experienced in Los Angeles is not what its like in other places of the USA. I prefer Missouri to California, and I now know that LA is NOT the USA even though people in LA think of themselves as superior to everywhere else in the USA. When I travelled thru Asia and Europe I did my best to conform to local customs. I speak 3 languages, English, Spanish and French, and they appreciated in Wallonia, Belgium and France that I could speak their language, and I never had a bad experience. I didn't have to learn Flemish Dutch or any Scandinavian languages, because in those places they all spoke English as well as me. As for patriotism, remember this absolute fact: The American taxpayer is protecting the Pacific and Europe from "Near Peer Threats," We don't ask for thanks, but it would be nice. The Belgians love America.... even more than some Americans love America. The USA saved the Belgians from hunger and famine during WWI and sacrificed to defeat Hitler during WWII.
To a degree the role of the leviathan is important as a peacekeeping force. However, the US creates a lot of war in the world. Much of the current situation in Ukraine is due to the US, for example.
@@txdmsk oh.... and the Russians had nothing to do with that? What we could do is withdraw all American forces and see what the PRC, N Korea, Russia, and Iran do in response.... to validate if the US creates... or stops.... war in the world. Do you think we would then be a better, more peaceful world free of tyrants? That being said, I'm not an advocate for the USA spending $ billions in US taxpayer money to prop up a corrupt Ukrainian regime because of the Biden family's corrupt relationship with Ukraine.
@@txdmsk How so? Russia was always going to try and rebuild the Soviet Union, and they're going to do it by force. Back when the Soviet Union was formed, the US wasn't even involved in international affairs.
People are quick to forget the good deeds you do for them, this is the reason we shouldn't do good deeds for anyone. We need to go back to isolationism, and if these people want to leave, then that's great. California itself is a different country, the only State you need to enter through a checkpoint.
@@mattycakes1161 I don't know if Russia trying to rebuild the SU was or is a given. The current war with Ukraine was heavily influenced by the US trying to establish their puppet government multiple times in Ukraine. The US's expansion of NATO eastwards. The US's foreign policy towards Russia, and so on.
Excellent video, thanks for posting. 'America is perhaps not the greatest country in the world'. Patriotism aside I think there are plenty of people in the rest of the world who do not remotely consider that America is the greatest country in the world. An interesting place to visit for many but that's about it.
Before the year 2000, many would have a good view on the US and see it in a good light, but over the last two decades and especially over the last decade, a lot more people see the US in a negative light and don't really find the country appealing. Personally, I think it's the internet, it's highlighting the problems far more which in many cases were there before, but thanks to the net, it's far easier to compare to other countries around the world on the differences, and even thought the US is a modern country, it's got elements of a first, second and third world country all rolled into one, which creates a lot of problems and division among its citizens. Europeans on the other hand, especially in the EU have it really easy, and I get the sense that a lot of them don't realise how good and easy they've got it compared to most of the world and even compared to the US, because Europeans really love to complain about everything, maybe that's why they have it good because it keeps governments in check, but that complaining makes it seem like the grass is greener on the other side, live a few years on the other side and you get to see that it's not what it's all cracked up to be. I even have a friend who lived in Australia for 7 years, he moved back to Europe because he said the quality of life, the pace of life is better, and the irony is, Australia is a modern country with a high quality of living, in fact, Europeans countries dominant the top 10 when it comes to quality of life with I think Australia and Canada being in the top 10, the US and even the UK have been slipping down the table. At the end of the day, I think it all boils down to having balance, work-life balance, strong safety net as well as strong social programs, safe place to live and so on, but I think where Europe has the advantage is geographies, it's very easier to move around, travel and all that, whereas other countries like Australia, they are nice places to live but are geographically isolated whereas Europe allows much easier access to many of the interesting parts of the world, not to mention that just in Europe allow, it could take you a lifetime just to explore the richness it offers. Europeans, especially in the EU don't realise how good they've got it.
@@paul1979uk2000 Europe has really declined in the last 20 years with cost of living increasing, crime increasing lack of self governance due to Brussels having different agenda than the people and the they have no accountability to the people. Especially in the last 3 years costs have greatly increased and decent jobs have declined. 30,000,000 who do not speak the languages and have exploded crime and assaults have really taken its toll on quality of life and home budgets. Supporting the mass migration and the billions given away to Ukraine while industries are collapsing and leaving and exploding commodity prices. It is not that rosy in most of Europe and the worst leaders in the world have managed to capture top political positions.
@@stanspb763Given away to Ukraine? Ukraine is fighting off the Russian horde not requiring one NATO soldier to die. The money spent in Ukraine is a bargain; the return on investment is way better than money spent on defense in the NATO countries.
Have you forgotten that all EU member states vote on Europe-wide laws? If it gets passed, the majority of the EU voted for it. And maybe if the US and middle East stopped having proxy wars and focused on mitigating climate change immigration wouldn't be such an issue.
I'm an American. I lived abroad in Brazil for several years. It amazes me that for all it's size and influence is how misunderstood America is. Frankly I think her thoughts were full of generalizations and stereotypes. There is so much diversity in this country you an spend a lifetime traveling and experiencing it all. People are people the world over. In Brazil there were really nice people and some really unpleasant people. Just like everywhere else.
That's what I thought. It's like she wants to justify her move abroad to herself so she is putting down things she chose to do in the USA. Don't work overtime, go to your friends birthday. Don't buy the designer bag, and go hiking and don't be so concerned with your appearance. Then it's more like Sweden. Lol.
I enjoy traveling and have been all over Europe and have family living in Italy, Scotland, Asia.. I love visiting them, but also love coming home to the US. I live in the Midwest in a midsized city and enjoy our four seasons and the outdoors.
As a Brit, I stayed in New York last year for six days. It's unlike the experiences you've experienced but I found myself having to divert from my British accent to a more posh English, if that makes sense? Otherwise no New Yorker I spoke to would've understood me. The only culture shock was how tall the buildings were and how huge the pizzas were. Other than that there wasn't much of a culture shock. In the 90's in the U.K. I was exposed to more Americanisms, especially New York.
" a more posh English "..?!?! No ! You mean clearly enunciated English NOT the dreadful incomprehensible dialect that is now promoted by the BBC. eg.. Yorkshire / Manc / Geordie etc . ?? Bring back RP. !!
the Queen's English is preferred, yes. your culture shock would come filling up your gas tank in Nevada or Wyoming and seeing someone say hello to you with a Smith & Wesson 9mm on their belt.
There is no perfect country in the world, it is about your perception. Every country has good and bad. I have been traveling to 54 countries and 47 States, every time I came back from other countries , I appreciate more about living in USA especially the conveniences, the friendliness, the number one is the customer service!
every time i left the USA, i took a deep breath and been happy i survived again... i dont have the same feeling after leaving every other country i went! i got only 8 states and 32 countries under my belt! but i barley travel!
hahaha your silly gun culture, your lack of free universal healthcare and education, you spend $700 billion a year on stupid wars all over the world, your $30 trillion in debt your current politics is a joke bla bla bla US is one of the worst countries in the developed world lol
No rat race without rats. Too many turned up to cash in on the early Nirvana and made it the HELL it is today. Nice in zones though, that are swiftly being legislated out of existence.....Sad............
@@evancycles or you just get the care you get. Not everyone is living life with the objective of living as long as possible. When you have a far better quality of life, it is okay if you don't go as long.
As a South African, we also tip in the service industries, but we aren't arrogant and berate service industry workers if their service is bad. We just won't go to that place again...passive aggressive LOL
Most of us aren't arrogant and don't berate service workers here, either. You only hear about them because it's so out of the ordinary. Being normal is not news worthy.
Work to live, not live to work, that's the European way. Here in the UK you have to take your leave, in the US, it seems you're encouraged not to take it, which causes burn out and stress and medical bills which cause more stress
As a Brit working in the US for a while I was appalled at the lack of holidays and the expectation that I would work overtime for free, but met some great people and had no real problems understanding difference as we've had a fantastic music and cultural back and forth over the years. I did start saying aloominum and tommaytoes as people were confused in those days about brit talk. When I got back to UK after some years my previous work buddies thought it was hilarious that i used terms like 'parking lot' and other simple stuff. Live and learn! :-)
@@panchopistola8298 We have British Citizenship which qualifies people for a British Passport, we are not subjects as you seem to think. 4 weeks off is pretty crappy, most Brits get 30 to 35 days off, plus 10 bank holidays and a Christmas break too. Average working week is also only 37.5 hours, plus we dont have to pledge allegiance to some bloody flag every day like your school children.
@@panchopistola8298Just before I retired I was getting six weeks annual leave plus 9 public holidays - and BTW the monarch has ZERO executive power - we're UK citizens (our passports say so) and like you (you got the system from us) we have a democratically elected, two chamber government.
As an American living in japan, I understand where this lady is coming from and I can relate in many ways. Yes, I agree with her. I was brought up thinking America was the greatest country and we're the best at everything.Well, when I came and moved to Japan, things were different; especially my knowledge of US politics. I once went to a pub, where I and some people (from different countries) were talking about the US. When I told them my view of US politics, some were laughing in my face. I really wasn't insulted; rather, curious how they came up with their own opinions. I later researched them, especially what the US media wasn't telling their audience. So, since then, I stopped relying on US media for political news. Japan is a country that grows on you where there is something to appreciate every year or sooner. For me, it was healthier food, universal healthcare, exercise without dishing out lots of money for gyms, etc. Thank you for your video!
I was in the U.S. Army in the '80s and '90s. I traveled all over the world and spent most of my time in areas of those countries not geared towards tourism. With little exception, I found wonderful people everywhere. The one commonality of those people was a desire for the freedoms Americans take for granted. Freedom of speech, the right to protect yourself and a court system not controlled by some local officials, were major issues for most of them.
That's true of much of the World, but not Europe. Almost all European countries come well above the US in world rankings of personal freedom, democracy and rule of law.
@@charlesunderwood6334 Then say something people don't like in those countries and you'll find your personal freedom ends there. If you can be jailed for disagreeing with someone, then you're not free.
"If you are not putting people first, if you are not committed to common prosperity, if you are not helping others develop, but rather exploiting others, your system is based on exploitation, slavery , oppression ... then can we call USA democratic?" Josef Gregory Mahoney, professor of Politics and International Relations
I’m going to say what many have said. Her experience in LA is not most of the US. I couldn’t relate to what she was saying about loving in the US at all and I’m in the US. It’s a huge country. Also I’ve spent time in the Uk and never had a problem understanding anyone so far.
She is right. She is only 1 person with her opinion. Good for her. She should have spent more time visiting other parts of the USA. America is a young country compared to Europe.
It’s ironic when people say Americans don’t travel and are clueless about cultures and people different from their own, and the very same people who criticize Americas, haven’t even travelled to all of the US states and end up making sweeping generalizations that are based on presuppositions. The US is big and is ranked number 3 for the world’s largest population. Each State has its own unique culture and traditions. You can actually experience some culture shock moving from one state to another!
A perfect way to show the difference. If I move to one of these places in America where all the neighbours come to welcome you. There's no where to go but down. If you don't talk to some but become friend with others. = friction The UK, if I move in to a new place, the neighbours don't go out of their way to get to know you, so the only way is up and no friction with thise you don't get to know so well
There is no typical LA person, except maybe a type portrayed in movies. In the vast populace of coastal So. California exists communities of people with every life style and value in the world. Our only commmonality is high housing costs.
Like Silbi I am an American who's moved abroad. For me it was when I was 35 at the end of the 1990s with a move to Asia with the idea to spend two years there and then move home but that move never happened and I don't think it ever will. Since then I have spent the majority of my life in Asia with a couple of years in the UK. At the moment I am here in London but I will return to Asia at the end of this month. Listening to Silbi speak it reminds me of my own experiences. Now going on 27 years abroad I can not imagine ever living in the US ever again.
I saw a recent study that looked at American and British accents over the last few years, especially over the pandemic. They found that because people were stuck at home watching so much RUclips, our accents had begun to merge and American parents were noticing their kids pronouncing words the way British people do, and vice versa. I'm 41, as a kid before social media became a thing, the America accent was so different, now it's just the same as a slightly different regional accent.
I'm from France, I've been in the US for 35 years, I don't know anybody who had plastic surgery and most Americans I know are very relaxed and I'm on the East Coast. Oh yeah, the Swedes are so friendly and outgoing, right!
No- this lady is not lovely. She is a grown-up and being part of something - that is the least on her mind She is the typical "freeloader" living on her family and "best friends".
Come to western ny if you love mountains, tree filled landscapes, pastoral farms and gorgeous lakes, streams and rivers. NYC is about 500 miles from here. People are laid back. Its not like California
Yup .... from Western NY area and think that even though it is not the best, it still definitely ranks as one of the best areas to live in the country! :)
I wish here as a Brit that we would adopt more of the American spirit of patriotism. It is truly wonderful to behold, to have a country that values its rich history rather than constantly devaluing it.
They are forced to be 17:47 patriotic to stop them rising up again like the confederate soldiers did . It’s only the flag and the anthem holding them together. The kids in school have to swear allegiance every day. The Americans don’t like each other. They are so divided and it’s getting worse. One percent of the people have 90 percent of the wealth. They are called billionaires. Similar to the Oligarchs in Russia. They have brainwashed the masses to believe that socialism is evil too hold on to their wealth. It’s really sad . They are brainwashed to believe that they are living in best country in the world. Most of them are really uneducated.
She was in an industry in a part of Los Angeles that is 80% of people that migrated from everywhere else in the world that’s not the real LA. California is 4 times the size of England so many other places within and outside of Los Angeles. She’s another example of someone that got chewed up and spit out by the demand of La so she was looking for a contrast not a better option in general just a better option for her.
I'm British and have lived and travelled in both countries. The US may have faults but it is STILL the Greatest in most respects.. !! The US is a continent NOT a little country you can travel through in 6 hours.?!?
Theres more people live in the uk than canada and australia COMBINED (canada is larger than the usa landwise)California isnt 4 the size of england,theres far more people,towns and cities in the uk...It isnt an empty field. (theres more world heritage sites in the uk then the whole n american continant by the way)
I love my country, but certainly believe that there are other countries I might love more, especially if I were raised there. This view is only reinforced the more I travel. The US has it's bad points, and I prefer to think that pointing them out should be viewed as an opportunity to think constructively about how to improve.
As someone who grew up in Southern California (but then work can travel around the world), I have to add that so many things depend on who you spend time with, who your friends are, who your family is, where you work, etc. In my world, hiking is a big deal. You should bring pie or homemade cookies to a new neighbor and tell them you are there for information or help. My friends and I were not interested in lots of money or flashy toys. If we said we were coming to a friend's birthday party, we showed up! I'm just saying that I think a lot of these things are more specific to where you live inside your specific country, and how you are living your life PERSONALLY. Also, the more Americans travel and work abroad-- which has generally become easier (despite covid), the easier it becomes to find your tribe. And the less important your physical birthplace is to the way YOU live & work. So-- of course-- maybe don't blame the place you came from for your bad behavior or less-loyal attitudes toward friends, hyper-patriotism, etc. (My mother & my husband are German, and they are WAY more conceited -- about Germans being superior to Americans! -- than Americans i talk to, re: America being superior to anybody. 🤣🤪 So-- again-- maybe you are choosing better circles, better hobbies, & better habits when you finally leave the cocoon of your home country and set foot in a brand new space. One of the most brilliant things about traveling and working abroad!!! Good for you!
Sweden and Swedes are considered to be distant and formal in comparison to, for example, southern European peoples. Visit there and you'll see what to be laid-back and relaxed means.
I had an American girlfriend many years ago. I visted her in the US and it was fine, it was the US, no biggie for me. But she then came to stay with me in the UK for a while and when she went back it took her ages to adjust. It really messed with her head that maybe America wasn't all that.
Interesting video. LA has a high profile but represents only a tiny percent of America. Rural America is where it's at. I now live in a town in Florida that's so small it doesn't have any administrators at all (unincorporated county), but is only an hour from a couple big cities. I have the best of both worlds: friendly neighbors, little traffic and room to breathe while still within a fairly short drive of shopping, beaches and big-city cultural and entertainment venues. In NH I lived in a similar location. Places like this exist all over America.
Thank you!! I know, right?! People from other countries seem to ignore that the US is a big country that has a lot of diverse scenery and people and places. Your town sounds lovely! Perfect balance.
Sweden has a remarkably high amount of SAs reported annually. About 204 per 100k. Part can be attributed to the country's "legal definition" of what constitutes an SA. But part of the SA stats being so high can be attributed to migration. That is a risk women should be aware of before moving to any country.
@@BeanMacdui what assumption? The stats of S.A. the legal definition change of S.A., or immigrants S.A. of women in Sweden (47.7% of all offenders were born outside of Sweden)
Apologies, I wasn’t clear with my comment. I was trying to say that people assume other countries are safe but it’s not always an accurate belief. For instance, your stats on sa’s in Sweden. I also read an article a few months back saying that Sweden has rising gang and gun violence. I don’t know if things have improved, but the article stated that Sweden has the second highest gun crime deaths in Europe. Anyways, I hope I didn’t offend, I certainly don’t mean to!
0:56 Typical of the *_traveler's blues_* : one assimilates traits of other cultures and can *no longer fit* into one's culture of origin, which is sometimes *psychologically very difficult* , especially if one comes across people steeped in certainty. *There is no coming back* to culturally limited environment.
@@stuartcollins82 no I’m being deadly serious the more north of Watford you go the IQ lowers. It doesn’t normalise again until you hit Scotland, which has much better education.
It’s kind of hilarious to see people treat urban coastal cities as if that’s all there is to the US. There are huge swaths of the US that prioritize family and nature - they are just places you would view as beneath you and would never consider visiting.
Just some advice from a Swede to people moving to Sweden who often move to Stockholm and get treated in a way that's not okay: if you move to Sweden, don't move to villages and don't move to our capital. From what I've seen, people have a better experience moving to our other cities. I'm from Malmo for example, we are so diverse here that one of our mottos is "If you have seen Malmö, you have seen the world." I wouldn't want to live anywhere else in Sweden - anyone fits in here, even a weird person like me 😊
I was just about to write that. United States is so much more diverse. There is no way LA or San Fran is what the rest of the United States is all about. Alaska for example. People are laid back. Everyone minds their own business. No one trying to out do each other. I believe she just got tired of liberal communist comufornia.
@@vadimilchuk5029 That so-called 'liberal' communist comufornia is poised to go from the 5th largest economy in the world larger than both the UK and France, upto the 4th largest surpassing India, [maybe 2025] a country with 36 times the population. Where do people get this shit ? Get over your ignorant partisanship.
Seems more about her own personal growth & development than comparison of US to other countries. Discovering "nature" in Sweden after growing up in an urban setting & majoring in MARKETING isn't a *failing* of the US at all.
When my wife and I (New Zealanders) visited Britain in May 2019, we travelled on a bus with a whole bunch of very nice Americans, many of whom were jealous that we lived in New Zealand, and wished they could swap leaders with us.
@@wulfsorenson8859 That's what had New Zealanders voting her back in again at the end of 2020. We had had 25 covid deaths out of a population of 5,000,000 people. We were back to almost normal after two or three months of lockdown, we were free when the rest of the world was under all sorts of restrictions and seeing hundreds or even thousands of deaths per million. Jacinda Ardern was the freedom queen. 😛😝😜
LA and NYC aren't traditional America, you won't even find that many Americans there anymore, they're like London. Those places are full of people living there on visas and many living there illegally. So, of course you won't get an American experience in those places. I don't know how she didn't experience diverse cultures in those cities as you can go down each street and see different shops with products from those nations and speak different languages on each street. You take a train with people from every country in the world and hear hundreds of languages being spoken. There isn't another place as diverse as New York City. The US has forests to, you don't have to go across the world to find a forest, in fact, we have places where nobody lives and you can stay out there as long as you want or as long as your survival skills allow.
I have lived in several countries outside of the USA. It made me appreciate the USA a lot more. It's more chaotic, competitive and cruel, but there is no country as innovative or productive.
@@Artist1974CH China's a lot of things, but innovative is not one of them. The USA leads the world in technological and scientific innovation by a large margin. China just copies.
China has become the leader in innovation in most fields and no country is as productive. One visit will shock westerners how modern and advanced it is.
Being in a productive and innovative country is not much use if you have no access to healthcare, welfare, stuck in a menial job with no way out. Imagine how much talent is lost in the chaos.
II live in Scandinavia, next door to Sweden. The contractors were very very busy that year. Due to the economic crisis, the government supported all contractors indirectly by allowing all home owners financial support to improve buildings (green policy). I had all my windows replaced that year. It is difficult to get a contractor to make precise promises about a deadline when they are highly in demand :)
I see that the interviewer mentioned stabbing in London, I guess that these have made international news, but on the other hand the vast number of stabbing incidents are not random, they are mostly gang or drug related. It is incredibly unlikely that a normal everyday person would be attacked or even hurt, unlike in the US where shootings are often random in cinemas, clubs, churches, supermarkets or even and often schools, for goodness’s sake etc. You are much less likely to be caught up in such random acts of violence in London as an exam moderator, checking school project marking to help and advise teachers on their marking levels, I used to travel to London areas such as Greenwich, Brixton and Whitechapel areas which have a bad reputation, but I interacted with the local teens on the street during lunch breaks, telling the odd slightly rude jokes and treating them with the respect they deserve, and I could walk among them and the locals without feeling any fear or animosity. The same goes for when I travel to another poor reputational city such as Birmingham, I love it. I have rarely in my felt fear walking alone day or night.
Yes, one large state in a pool of 50, is hardly knowing America. You couldn't fully know CA living there your entire life, it's a large state itself with many different types of people and places.
You said that in English or American, www British invention also so was mass production, devision of labour, the television, and the whole Industrial Revolution. So no it was not just the USA
@@reebud Not ignorance or arrogance, just a fact. The iOS or android platform that you are using right now is American buddy. Wake up!!! Your daily life routinely depends on USA creation and invention. The only Superpower that exists, Period!!!!
I’m a Brit in England. Many years ago an American tourist came up to me in Knightsbridge and he said “Where’s the closest subway, boy?” So I sent him to one over a mile away when he was less than two hundred yards away from the Knightsbridge Tube Station.
Nothing wrong with feeling national pride anywhere. I don't know what school here in the U.S. she is referring to, she makes it sound like they were feeding her propaganda in the form that everywhere else sucks but America is wonderful, I don't know. I've traveled extensively around the world with shipmates and solo and the feeling was mutual for all of us in that we missed home and practically fell to our knees to kiss the ground. I've seen and met a lot of wonderful people and many countries and I'm richer for it. The U.S. is a young country that is the world's greatest social experiment still in development.
Strange that she says she couldn't understand Brits. She must have been in Newcastle. There are so many British TV shows and movies in the States. I loved English accents even as a child watching old movies on TV. However, it's the Scottish who are nearly impossible to understand and I've traveled all over the UK many times.
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As a Brit i have NEVER had a problem with understanding any UK accent or US, Australian or any other english speaking person.
Cool story bro.
@@ZenAndPsychedelicHealingCenterGlad you liked it boss
Try having a conversation with a Glasweigan old man. I can understand the Indians and Pakistanis, Greeks and Poles I work with, no problem. But I was sat with a Glasweigan, a friend of a friend, last year, and nodded through an hours worth of chat without understanding more than a few words. 😅
neither, after all it is all English.
I can't believe that.
8:35
As a German, I always found the Brits to be reasonably friendly.
However, one then agreed to be my wife, which I now consider unreasonably friendly.
Seems too many Germans have got a good sense of humour..... Bang goes another British joke resource!
As a Londoner,I lived and worked in Merc City (Stuttgart) for four years from 1999 and loved it.
The German people I met and knew were so welcoming.
It was also a great hub for travel around Europe.
Great country.
@trevorsmith7753 Do you mean the one for the bathroom sink or the one for the last yogurt? No worries, we've got regular diplomatic summit sessions to sort those out.
@hustensaftvernichter3785. Would you care to be more specific, Was she English, Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish? A 'Brit' can be anything from anywhere.We need to know which of us is to take the blame.
@@dropperknot The Welsh. Definitely the Welsh.
She sums up the cultural differences pretty well (I lived in UK/Sweden and briefly in the US). The only thing I would add is that there can be BIG regional differences throughout the US and UK, depending on whether you're in a big city or somewhere more rural.
For sure. Living in rural Britain is a totally different experience to the urban lifestyle. And even then living in other cities in the UK is totally different to living in London. London is just distinctively different to the rest of England. And of course Wales and Scotland are entirely different countries in Britain and N.Ireland exists too since people forget about them poor sods.
At the very least rural Britain is much safer and much friendlier. And right to roam means you can walk your dog around the fields with the sheep and the cows and the crops and the ponds and the canals and it's just lovely.
Exactly. I bet a Scot from Petershead, for example, would have a hard time understanding someone from Wigan, England.
@@carefulconsumer8682No, the Scotsman from Peterhead and the Lancastrian from Wigan would get on famously well together. It's the toff from the 'Home Counties' who neither of them would understand, nor the toff either of them - but it wouldn't matter as neither the Lancastrian or the Scotsman would want to talk to him anyway ...
@@Sine-gl9ly Thanks for your input. I tried top date a girl from Wigan when i was at Wrightington Hosp but I could not understand her because of the accent. My roommate from Birmingham also had no idea what she was saying. Too bad for us since she was so nice.
@@Sine-gl9ly Why would you not want to talk them? I was born in Devon,but live in Surrey. I talk to anybody from anywhere. I have had some very interesting conversations with complete strangers on a bus.
I've lived in one English county, Herefordshire, for fifty years. A friend invited my wife and I for dinner at his house, which was on a hill amid a confusion of narrow leafy lanes in another county, Gloucestershire. It was just fifteen minutes drive away from our house and literally over one hill, then up to the top of the next, from where I'd worked for about ten years.
We stopped to ask directions so we didn't take a wrong turn going up the final hill, because it was very steep. The man we asked was about eighty years old and had clearly lived in that parish all his life, judging from his Forest of Dean accent. Although I had been to school in Gloucestershire, his accent was so strong that neither of us could understand a word that old man said. We thanked him politely, and guessed which way to get to my friend's house.
At about that time at my work, we took on a cook. She'd lived for thirty years in our village and was married to a local man, but had been raised in The Black Country. Her accent was so strong, and her vocabulary so rich with malapropisms, that I often had to think about what she'd said, as did all our colleagues. She must have thought that we were all a bit stupid.
In South Wales, adjacent valleys each had their own distinct accents, both in Welsh and in English. And at family gatherings, my uncles would drop their Hampshire accents to do hilarious impressions of my grandfather's gruff put-downs in his Lancashire accent.
Sadly, over the decades, all these beautiful accents have become much weaker, and their quirky dialect words forgotten or fossilised as the names of country lanes or of fields.
I have noticed everything is starting to sound like a neutral London accent which is common in the south east depending on where you go. All major cities have lost their accent and you have to go to the rural areas or the old imperial suburbs to hear the accents. Like in Kent, you have to go to Gravesend or around the Medway area to hear the Estuary accent and in the rural villages to hear the country accent which has similar pronunciations to the west country.
@@hulkhatepunybanner You modern narrative does not stand up to scrutiny:
Economist Juliet Shor has calculated that 14th Century peasants could - in some years - get away with working for just 150 days a year. Sundays were strict days of rest, as were "high days and holidays" maintained by the Church. Thus Holy Week was a week off in the run-up to Easter, then Whitsuntide was another, there were 12 days off at Christmastide, a day off for the patron saint of your church, another for that of your country, and another for that of your occupation. Most people rested on Saturdays, too.
Weddings involved a week off, and travel was allowed for them. My family living in Dalton and Skelmersdale had their baptisms, weddings and funerals in Ormskirk for centuries. Journeymen (skilled tradesmen) could travel as Freemen (or Burgesses) and be exempt from tolls. Mothering Sunday was a day for going to the Mother Church of the Diocese, you could travel to market, and to Hiring Fairs. Restrictions on travel died out after The Black Death due to labour shortages, and effectively ended 600 years ago.
Villages were not a thing until the 13th Century. They were planned settlements for agricultural projects that were expected to take centuries: Thus Whitchurch in Herefordshire was established for fenning a marsh, The Birches for clearing "waste". Land was offered on rent to attract villeins to them. They could buy manumission, but mostly preferred land. And that is at the heart of the stasis of peasants:
They stayed for stability of land they could occupy, and for their family support network, not compulsion. Apples never fell far from their trees. Only starvation or conflict would drive them off their land - rarely opportunity.
@@lindsayheyes925 *Yeah. Holiday wasn't the modern road trip to the nearest resort town.* Go back as many centuries as you want, it cost money and lots of time to travel so not everyone did it. Seventeenth century England wasn't 1960s US. The US isn't that old and in short time Appalachians developed an accent that many outsiders couldn't understand. That's 'cause dey couldn't afford to go a-travelin'. _Though I'm happy for you to have learned two lessons: history of the English peasant, and how not to respond in haste._
@@hulkhatepunybanner I have learned neither lesson here. I've studied my family history from primary sources for over 20 years, and took a particular interest along the way in two things:
1. The impact of gravitational trip attraction on personal mobility;
2. Social mobility.
The effect of gravitational trip attraction is stronger than any authoritarian attempt to confine people, because it follows an inverse square law - unless you or someone else "burns your boats" to make going back impossible or intolerable.
Since the Norman Conquest, upward and downward social mobility in England have always been greater than most people imagine. After about seven generations, the differences between the descendants of the rich and the poor will be negligible - with the exception of for titled nobility.
The latter (Dukes and the like) benefit (but may be burdened by) from their title being legally bound to an indivisible estate which is not theirs to trade, belonging to The Crown. Thus the present King is no longer the Duke of Cornwall. Custodianship of the estate - the Duchy of Cornwall - has been transferred to his son, on whose death it will revert to The Crown. Basically, if you ever become a Duke, you will own nothing and you will be happy - or you will own nothing and you will be Harry.
@@lindsayheyes925 *You didn't learn how to be concise either.*
I'm English and i don't always understand some British accents.
I can do a good Brookside accent even though I SHUNNED ALL EPISODES The Channel 4 programmes of Brookie issued prequels earlier in the day without warning .For this reason only I heard the snippets of speech that over the years meant I heard the words and can copy the accent. I NEVER SAW EVEN ONE EPISODE
bruh really ?
Neither do the Brits. Go and talk to a taxi driver in London.
@@BernhardSchwarz-xs8kpNo... The people from London are easy to understand. It's more like people from the north of England are hard to understand
I am English too. I currently live in Canada where I have no trouble understanding the accents, although I often cringe at the grammar. I have so much trouble with many US accents, not to mention slang, that I have given up watching US films. I have in the past (tried to) watch US films with Canadians friends and even they have had trouble deciphering a sentence or two no matter how many times we replay them. We usually end up by giving up.
If you can't criticise your country you'll never move forward..
I agree with you it's very important to try and keep an open mind.
Unfortunately we have got a lot of people who don't have a particular open mind or who aren't really interested.
I am thinking of a lot of right-wing, nationalist governments around Europe at the moment and it's a little bit concerning.
True and not one county is perfect we have all problems some
More than the rest and never cal you the greatest country because is pathetic
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@@alapaticornell4391 I live here (expat). Getting out asap.
You never know what someone is going through and an offer to help someone or a simple smile or short friendly conversation may brighten their day. I don't think it's a bad thing.
I couldn't disagree more. People like to be left alone. Some random comments can be fun but being stuck on a bus or train with someone trying to force a conversation is very annoying.
I made it an iron cast rule for me to at least "say something nice" to at least 5 people every day. It is actually simple. Starting with complimenting the cashier at the Supermarket on how fast he works.
That made me chuckle. It sounds very false to me (a Brit) but some would consider that a lovely gesture. We Brits are generally not great at receiving compliments and would often be embarrassed, awkward and struggle to respond. There are plenty of other ways of being kind/nice that are less direct.
@leec6707 What are the other ways to be nice you speak of?
@@leec6707I love talking to people but you have to know how to pick up the vibe if it’s right to talk.
That's LA. There are plenty of people and places in the USA that are down to earth and people judge you on your character, not what you own, the jewelry you wear, the car you drive, or where you eat.
yes it matters where you are in the USA. Not all Americans are like LA.
Not All of England is Like the Home-Counties, or London; and/Or the Major Cities dotted up-North;
there R; 'Rouge-Necks' where I'd uses to work!...They assume the entire Universe Should Speak;......English....(And do everything the way they Instruct!)
I'd like to see the "Special Forces" in the U.K. Make the Head of State of a Superpower like Xi Jinping utter a Single Syllable of English when he puts his Foot on
"Kingie"; Charles III's Head......(Very near and Up and Coming Future!)
The Days of Windsor Popularity is certainly over!......Read: "Spare" with the 'Duke of Sussex.'
The word "Spare" Certainly Applies to all the Upper-Crusts in the U.K. It's all that Inbreeding.....(Not too conducive to High-IQs and Balanced Mental Health.....)
Remember the:-
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The Onus and Center of the World in Shifting away from the West and China is definitely claiming the Seat of MARS; once again!
See Architecture like the following:-
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Harbin Opera House
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Exactly. It was quickly apparent that when she lived in LA, she never traveled in the rest of the United States. Even California has plenty of 'rustic' places to go - like the multiple world famous National Parks that are within a days drive.
I visited the US in 2013. One of the last places on earth, that i would like to live.The trouble with those less pretentious places is that the WHOLE country is brainwashed and they just dont realise it-Sad
Very true: people DO judge you on your character . . . You have to be COOL; you have to think cool, act cool, behave cool, talk cool, exude coolness. This can take on different forms. You can be sophisticated, intellectual, philosophical; and, or witty, a smart-aleck, wiseguy, gossiping and telling and laughing at off-the-wall-jokes and stories; and, or being tough and macho, swearing every other sentence, and really getting into sports and s___. And then there are the karens/darrens, Rednecks, Baptists, Hustlers . . .
Only then will others be your friend. If you're just nice and friendly, you will be looked down upon as a childish, immature, naive, a nerd, a wimp. At worst people will bully, cheat, swindle, rip you off, and walk over you. At best, they'll simply ignore and shun you.
There are some common misconceptions/misunderstandings that are not corrected in this video, in fact it is apparent that the interviewee still holds these herself to some extent. For example, Americans speak American English which is now quite different from English in many respects. So, Americans should not be surprised when they are not clearly understood in the UK. Secondly, London is not representative of the UK. It is so different from the rest of the UK that many British people who live outside London consider it to be almost like a foreign country. Finally, in the UK civilians ARE allowed to have guns but there are fairly strict controls.
Yes and also, this lady's frame of reference is that of Los Angeles as being kind of representative of America when it most certainly is not. I lived in the Hollywood Hills for a dozen years and now I'm in the midwest surrounded by farmland and it's two different worlds.
@@dggydddy59 She did mention that she compares London with Los Angeles. NOT the whole America.
There is no such thing as American English, there is just standard English from England and then different dialects from around the globe. Only the Yanks could have dreamed up the idea of American English, lol.
Probably worth noting that she's also located in Soho which is one of the nicest/wealthiest areas in the entire of London, probably why she isn't worried about stabbings
Insert MEME of Michael Scott from the Office slamming his hands on the desk saying, "THANK YOU!!!".
Point of info: the City of London is the Square Mile, the financial district. It's not a residential area.
Not so sure I know my Grandad was born in the city and grew up there , I too was born in the city but grew up in Clerkenwell. So not a huge amount of residents but they are there nonetheless. Just saying , oh and another thing this is where proper Cockneys like myself and some others come from . Not from out in the sticks of tower hamlets , glad i got that off me chest 😉
You can live there too, despite that.
@@lesmartin8131Surprisingly, Bow Bells were not actually in the City of London proper. The Square Mile has an official population of zero, and every road is a Street. Greater London is a whole different proposition.
The phrase "city of London" has 2 meanings!
luv, London x
There is, ‘The City of London’ and then ‘Greater London’. I believe Greater London is like a Ceremonial County… actually, I am not British so it would probably be easier to look it up 😂! I am getting a bit lost with all the terminology. 😊
She's an Angeleno from a very specific group - well to do, college educated, it an industry dealing with consumption and superficiality. She doesn't represent that massive, very diverse city and the millions of everyday working class people who live there and it's suburbs. She doesn't even represent the majority of California, let alone the USA. Yes, I know she prefaced her interview saying that, but I feel it needs to be repeated.
Agreed. I’ve been to 38 countries, five of which I’ve lived in more than seven years, born abroad, raised abroad, returned to Los Angeles for its cosmopolitan vibe. Where else can you find beaches, mountains, old growth trees and abundant birdlife fifteen minutes from one of the most technologically advanced cities in the world? It’s the multi-ethnic vibe I like the best. It ain’t too white, the music is great, and as long as they’re not making a movie on my street, I’m good. No plastic surgery either.
100%
I grew up in USA and have lived overseas for 15 years. I can still see that this woman is not a very good representation of much of the population of USA.
She is a typical brat he detected that "treaty shopping" could get her benefits.
Scandinavian countries attract these people like cow dung attracts flees - she will have a rude awakening once facts happen.
I agree with you, she's talking on emotional anecdotal terms of her own personal experience or interpretation. The reality is most people in LA, are pretty down to earth. In fact, I would also argue many of them are very focused on living a healthy lifestyle. Statistics also are not on her side. Far, FAR, more Europeans come to the US than Americans leaving for Europe.
@@evancyclesIncredibly wrong, that butt hurt is really getting to you, a simple cursory examination of US immigrants shows Europeans aren't even in the top 30 of nationalities that go to America, the top 20 are countries worse off, the top ten is simply horrifying, be objective, try and tell the truth, the US is an absolute shit hole.
In the UK civilians ARE allowed to own guns, it's just that you have to have a good reason, be vetted, prove you will store and use it correctly and be subject to insoection of said storage.
There is also the fact that most of us don't actually want to own a gun.
Same as in California. She never been to other states, or even outside LA.
Nah man. You just need to make crime illegal, and people will stop doing it. Look at fentanyl, for example. It is illegal. People are forbidden to possess it. Are the streets flooded with fentanyl zombies? Do we have tens of millions of users and addicts? ... W-wait... It's almost as if the problem in the US is not guns, but people...
Laws regarding firearms in the UK are vert strict and you need a certificate that has to be approved by the Police
That's only shot guns. Hand guns, rifles and automatic weapons are banned.
On of the worst features of the USA is its obsession with guns. It is also notable that the European countries with the worst homicide rates are those with relatively lax gun controls (Germany and Switzerland). No country however is as bad as the USA. The UK has one of the lowest levels of gun violence and suicide, a direct result of the strict gun control laws.
Im American and now living in the UK for the last 12yrs. Best thing i ever did !, and have no intention of ever moving back.
Thank you - stay where you are.
A dumb assed american response. There's an entire world out there and to say we are the best is quite laughable. Now granted we aren't the worst, but I can think of some things where we definitely aren't the best ( our healthcare, infrastructure, how we treat our prisoners and our prisons in general, worker rights, etc )
Welcome. You made the right decision. I like going to the States on holiday but would never want to live there.
good stay there TRAITOR
well done
If she had moved to a different part of the US she would have had a similar experience. I’m from the Midwest and how she described Europe was how I see the us. LA is not typical of the country.
And London is not England, Paris is not France etc.
Exactly! She’s one of those Asian immigrant kid brats. Always complaining. Always got something to say. Not realizing her origins or why her family migrated to the states.
I came to US 35 years ago and 4 years later finished my graduate school in Midwest. Then I moved to east cost CT, it took me a couple of years to adjust, feel people are not friendly as in Midwest, 8 years later moved to New Jersey and feel even worse, never really like east coast people.
You probably live in the suburban or urban areas on the East Coast. Try moving further inland/west like Western NY area around Rochester. I have been living around this area in a few places for 35 years and people are
generally friendly. East coast urban areas and NJ particularly suck when it comes to friendliness. See where those uncomplimentary labels NJ Boy or Girl come about. Been to the Midwest and I do agree that they are friendly people in general.
@@davidz7858 same here east coast is classist, more so than Europe which massively changed post ww2 to prevent fascists resurgence.
The difference between Americans and British is exactly the same as the difference between Brazilians and Portuguese. We both speak the same language and yet Brazilians often do not understand Portuguese while we understand Brazilian Portuguese. As for cultural differences, they are exactly the same as the differences between Americans and British. In terms of conclusion, Brazilians are like Americans and Portuguese are like the British.
Dude, noooo, im not like U.S. american, dont curse me with that hahhahahahah... just kiding I understood your point
Brazilians are like Americans? If I remember, Brazil is in America and so Brazilians are Americans. Just like Portuguese and Brits are Europeans?
It is often said of the US and the UK that they are two countries separated by a common language!
Not entirely true. Brazilians are mostly natives who just happened to speak Portuguese as a lingua franca. Americans are mostly Europeans who speak English as a lingua franca.
@@freedumb_3.0 Incorrect. It's a very mixed nation and the US is also
So interesting listening to her describing the differences at a personal scale. It actually reflects the policies made at the top levels of each of the country she mentioned. It shows. Hope she's happy wherever she decides to stay
Grass is always greener on the other side. I am sure there are Swedish people who can’t stand their own country…as with British, German, French, etc…happy for her that she found a country that suit her best. As for obnoxious sports fans…every country has their fair share of ‘hooligans’
They've softened in recent years, but English hooligans were once the best in the world for mindless, yobbish, drunken behaviour abroad.
Shouting the name of your country and supporting your team is just being Excited. But when the fans start to Assault the opposite teams supporters, that is really Hooliganism.
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I live >36y in Australia which is better than any in EU but I think that Yugoslavia was the best/friendliest social system, before destroyed by exploitive West :(
I've met quite a few Americans over the years who no longer live in the US and they have all said, that when they go back even just for a holiday they feel that fellow Americans are entitled, obnoxious and have this self centred belief that they are the best in the world. I once asked why did they think Americans behave like this and the answer was; we grow up being told that we're the best and when you're told that every day growing you believe it. One American lad said, there is a belief by many Americans that everyone else in the world wants to be like the US.
But statistically those are the ones that clearly preferred living elsewhere so you would more likely get that response, what if you talked to the ones that choose to live in America? Well, all I know is that there is over a million European immigrants to the USA each year, so far more people coming to the USA than leaving.
I have always lived in the US. Of course, there are obnoxious people, but most people I know are very kind and helpful.
I know there are great things about the USA, but bad things too. I've no doubt every country has things to be proud of and things to be sad about. Most people just want a decent life and for their loved ones to be healthy and happy. I want that for everyone, too.
Americans telling her to go back to her own country. Do they know that they stole that land from the First Nations of North America and make them live on land they call reservations. They tried to wipe the indigenous peoples out . WTF
I don't like non-White Americans. I'm from Europe and I just don't like their attitude. The Whites built the US. The other lower races should be more respectful.
@@evancycles Have you looked at the breakdown of those entering the US? Most are coming from less developed countries so of course they want to move. Far fewer come from Europe and Australasia. I’ve lived in Europe, Australia and the Middle East and while I’ve not lived in the US long term I have been travelling there on a regular basis for 30 years. Having visited a dozen States over three decades I think I’ve seen enough of the place to know it would be the bottom of my list of places to live.
Why? For the reasons outlined by the OP in this thread and the video. Of course there are some very fine people but the majority really do think they are head and shoulders above the rest of the world when in fact by many metrics they are not.
I wouldn’t trade my American friends for anything but I would never be their neighbour.
We are all nice, all horrible all friendly or unfriendly in every country .People are people.
@@muldfoxFr it used to be good though.
Agreed
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I just a typical grumpy old Englishman 😠
True
I moved from Wiltshire to Shropshire when I was about 11 and the only people I understood for 18 months were the teachers, so, I can relate!
Same
😂😂 I'm not surprised I live in Shropshire and know loads of people from Wiltshire and can't understand what they're on about 😂😂😂😂
You lot are a bunch of re ta rds.
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@@bencarter2334 waazat ? 🙂
I left Germany and now live in Malaysia, I do not regret it, it was the best move I made!
How did you adjust to the heat and humidity? Which part of Malaysia do you live in?
Seems like you were infected with that tropical cordyceps fungus that took over your brain.
@@propertyguru22 I live in KL and I really do not have an answer to this question, I just got used to it after about 3 days, and now It doesn't bother me anymore. Also, the amount of malls with air-conditioning helps!
Good for retirement, unless you're Jewish.
You already said that from another account. Why?
listening to this I was thinking just go to a different state. Like North Carolina has beaches, the Appalachian trail, a slower life where people will say hello to you on the street. It's a much calmer life and it still has everything you need from shopping, sports, restaurants. Just get out of LA.
Yea, I think that's a LA problem lol
Hush… don’t tell anyone the secret to the American South.
She's comparing the various British accents. ... Like America doesn't have different accents. Boston, Texas, Chicago/MidWest, NY/NJ, So Cal, or just Southern.. She reminds me of a girl I knew who moved to Florida from NYC and went on and on how much better Florida is because of the listing all these topics like ease of driving to malls, and restaurants etc.. I said that's because you never left NYC before. The whole country is like that if you have a car. 💩
@@klabkebash exactly!
@@klabkebash and then you go to other countries where many cities are even better even if you Don't have a car.
true swedes are less superficial but make no mistake its a shitstorm here too
My impression is that decades back the Swedes were very civilised people indeed, and Sweden was a very safe place to live.
Then mass immigration happened, and now it has been transformed, with gang-fights in cities, no-go areas too, Stockholm ‘rape capital of the world’ etc.
But nobody will admit it, or else it is frowned upon to speak openly about it?
In what way?
@@Frankabagnale33 you have to live here a few decades to see the schisms and paradoxes in society . most that upload videos about Sweden see the surface of it all .
Sweden became the US of Europe. The big cities are a cesspool of crime and trash quality immigrants, basically.
@@borisnegrarosa9113 That depends upon what you refer to as a flaw.
To be fair your view of America was already scewed to begin with. 99% of America is nothing like LA.
Regardless, it's always good to travel outside of your own region and country. The more perspective you have, the better understanding you have.
Most British people will say the same thing about people who've lived in or traveled to London
LA is not just Beverly Hills rich people or Skid Row homeless or South LA hood/ghetto. The vast majority of LA is good old plain suburban lifestyle. Most people in social media and youtube tend to always go to the extremes. The original poster is obviously biased and implying LA is like the Kardashians. Literally, only rich people or bored upper middle class people (like lawyers and doctors) act like that. The whole materialism and plastic surgery is not LA that’s a small segment. The vast majority also are not homeless which is perpetuated in many videos. I literally never see a homeless unless I go into deep downtown areas. Then the ghettos where you see gangs are also mostly in South LA. Not to sound racist, but those are usually poor black/Latino neighborhoods.
the issue is and maybe this is just the west coast, a lot of the big citys are where you can get the jobs. Trying to get a job in a college town which are usually the nicer parts of the west coast is actually really difficult. All the big citys on the west coast have the same sort of problems. Maybe it is a west coast problem. Where the good alternatives of the medium citys dont have jobs, but it is like that. Its either grinding low quality of life in the big city, or you can try and be a realtor in luxury college towns, its really kind of a fucked economy out here. Somehow i think the rest of the US isnt that much better, but maybe you know more then just the west coast.
@@jaydel3don't lie on the homelessness I don't live in LA but I live in California and they are all over the place. A visit la la to and it's not much better and it's not just skid row
I was taught by a Portuguese engineer in the northern English city of Newcastle. When he first moved over, he "thought" he had basic English but he couldn't understand what anyone was saying to him because Geordies have a thick accent. After about a month of learning by doing he still couldn't speak to Geordies but he'd picked up the Geordie accent so when he called his mother she couldn't understand him either lol. For about 8 months no one understood a word he said regardless of language. Eventually, he learned Geordie English and his mother learned how to translate Portuguese Geordie.
Portuguese Geordie 😂
As a 28 year old Indian working in corporate, i can totally relate to the part where you have mentioned about the nervous breakdown you had due to exploitation in corporates. This is too much in India, Japan, and now i know in US work culture also. I wish the lady my best with her new business.
i am sure, she loves to work in Europe now!
like i do...
40hrs a week and 30 days paid vacation each year and if i am sick, i am sick!
well, not if you are self-employed, as she is ....@@Arltratlo
@@Arltratlo .... pretty much the same in New Zealand. If people looked at me sideways when I left work at 5pm, I would continue to leave the building. My work contract specified my work hours, and I surely didn't want to break it by staying into the evening..... I saw that staying behind thing as butt kissing, and it didn't actually mean that you achieved more.
Yea UK and Europe has a much better work life balance and worker's rights. Most good jobs in the UK now start you on 30-35 leave days a year for 37-40 hour weeks, 28 is the minimum including public holidays. I think I'd go crazy working in the US.
Gen X here. My online business did well and I had an excellent team so I started my dream in being nomadic at 2010. I've lived in many countries and started seeing the world from different lenses. It did not take long to realize that the grass was greener on the other side. There's no perfect country but there may be one for you.
I realized just how sick the people in america can be. Mental illness (negative, scarcity and fear based mindsets), entitlement, arrogant and ignorant to global affair and foreign culture let alone anything beyond my neighborhood and I found myself reflecting some of these. My travels gave me that mirror and I shifted massively with this newfound awareness.
It used to be only 11% of americans held passports. Today, it's 43%.
The sheer number of people commenting "but that's in that state. We're perfect HERE" in the USA is astounding, but sadly unsurprising. The brainwashing goes deep.
I think that people that are blowing the uk are pretty brainwashed, that’s coming from a British person who’s been to America. The uk is comparatively poor and suffers from a multitude of issues, some of which are the same as what America is suffering with, and some of its very own, there aren’t many issues that you get in the USA that aren’t also issues in the UK.
Americans earn more.
They have better healthcare.
Driving is cheaper.
Their houses are usually larger for cheaper.
They have cheaper energy.
They have way more wilderness.
They have a massive country with far more opportunity and career potential.
Only downsides are
Some areas are dangerous due to gun crime (exaggerated by media though).
Extreme weather in parts but rarer than is portrayed.
Less safety nets.
Worse public transport.
Problems it shares with Europe
Mass immigration
Consumerism
General trashy behaviour
Apart from the gun crime and the safety net issues the uk is definitely worse off than the USA. The safety nets we do have here are very basic as well, the NHS is NOT a world class service. Council housing in the UK is NOT easy to get. Wages in the UK are LOW. Cost of living is HIGH. General crime in the UK is HIGH. Public transport is EXPENSIVE and UNRELIABLE.
Just to name a few things lol.
I'm a Brit and I once lived in America (IBM, Rochester, MN). I casually mentioned to my US Boss (From Waco, Texas) that I thought the Minnesota roads were generally terrible.
It was like he just froze in shock and disbelief for 10 seconds. He then responded with, "You mean you have better roads than here?". I said we did, and that countries like Germany & France have roads that are as good as racetracks.
I still don't think he believes it. He was clearly raised to believe the US had the very best of everything. (I didn't dare mention that my Ford Taurus handled like an overloaded Oil-Tanker).
Oh yeah ... and what's with all the Stars & Stripes flags on the porch? Who are they for? Your neighbour (who also has a Stars & Stripes flag out)? I don't get it with all the flags.
I’m American, and agree - the flag thing - flags all the time - is weird.
Sweeping generalizations about America and Americans. I am sure the outdoors is wonderful in Sweden but it's also available in the US to anyone who wants it.
She said the most important thing at the end, "I'm happy" because she's not having to work 18 hours a day and feels safer. I visit London a lot and I always find it clean and well cared for. All big cities can have problems, but I feel safe in London and it has a great vibe. She has done well to set up her salon in Fitzrovia which is a good area. Asian people will feel very at home in London - it's very culturally diverse and Asian people are very polite which British people really love.
East Asian (i.e. Chinese) people in the UK may expect her to speak Cantonese, though.
Many Parisian French in their 20s or early 30s love London over Paris. As a Brit it is great to have the input we have gained from the former Empire, now Commonwealth of Equals. The UK has benefitted greatly from immigration BUT the current Mass Illegal Immigration is not welcome. Without "Immigrants" 70% of UK Universities would CLOSE!
@@faithlesshound5621 I live in the UK and part of the Cantonese speaking population but unless the shop is clearly cratering to the Chinese population, most people would start their interactions in English and move over to Cantonese if it's clear that both parties can speak it.
I like her honesty. Appreciation for moving from US to Sweden then to our lovely city (to some degree 😂) London, and comparing versus living in LA and San Fran etc.
London is a big city, and yes there is crime in any city and we are not immune naturally.
Knife crime is a huge issue, and this is still an ongoing issue that needs to be dealt with. Unlike the US, where gun crime is a HUGE problem, and it’s easy to feel unsafe due to this🙁.
When you feel you don’t belong somewhere anymore, you move.
I’m born and raised in London, family is from the Caribbean. However, having travelled now 5X times to Kuala Lumpur (recently spent more 3x), I feel so at home there than here in London now.
I hope to make that leap over to Malaysia, as I don’t feel like U.K. is home for me anymore.
London will always be home, but the feeling is no longer the same as it was.
The govt has screwed us over royally, and it’s not the people in this city or country that makes me dislike it, it’s just political part that does.
Is the illegal immigration a part of what you feel the government has done to screw its people over? It seems like the government isn’t putting its people first. I could be wrong!
I am just curious as I love British history, and it would be interesting to hear from an actual Brits perspective as opposed to the news.
I hope your dream to live in Malaysia comes true! Sounds lovely.
When you say knife violence is a huge prob in London, like what do you mean? Cause you said like the US's gun problem, but I wouldn't consider our gun problem to be that bad, and I am pro gun restrictions. I'm not just pro gun, I don't think most people (99%) "NEED" an automatic rifle. So I'm not a gun nut, and I don't think we have a major gun problem. So I'm wondering how much of a thing makes it a problem. Are there multiple stabbings a day in London? There would be multiple shootings in our huge cities, Los Angeles, New York, etc, but in most of the country we don't have gun violence every day.
All countries have pros and cons and I've lived in all 3 like this lady (UK, Denmark, USA). It's a wash on the normal pros and cons list but lets be honest - the weather and darkness is crap in the UK and Scandinavia. The USA in a sunshine area wrecks the other two - full sunshine from April to October where I am in the USA - its like being on vacation at home, I'm sure people in Spain feel the same. That alone makes it the winner for me as I like the outdoors. As for safety - yeah your typical UK town is a lot safer than say, east St Louis - but go to some normal OK town in a good area of the USA and it's got zero crime; actually safer. The USA is a big country and the comparison should be to the whole of Europe and not just one country in Europe.
I would hate to have constant sunshine for months on end. Because of our British climate, we have the most wonderful countryside and you're never far from a river, lake or the sea. Our seasons make the year so much more interesting and we know that even if it rains for days, it will get better. The other advantage we have is the long summer evenings.
Biggest complaint that YANKS have about San Diego is the LACK of seasons, it just doesn't change. Europeans like the Sun BUT also the Seasons.
So true. I dislike the heat but love it being light from 4 am to 10 pm. I love spring and autumn and a winter walk followed by a cosy evening in, is lovely.
Not even rural US is nearly as safe as Europe. The crime rate between the US and the EU is just worlds apart.
I'm a person who is, I think, pathologically over-stimulated, and I long to live in a place with "dreary" weather, so that bit wouldn't be a negative for me. If I could afford to move, I'd go to the Pacific Northwest. The glaring sun, migrane-inducing melting color, and excessive heat (above 70⁰ farenheit is overheating) are depressing for me, but winter is delightfully soothing and invigorating. The stark skeleton silhouettes of hibernating trees bring me a kind of joyful ecstasy and are a welcome relief my eyes. Obviously, though, even a cold lover like myself has limits. I wouldn't like to live in an arctic zone. I only comment this to show that climate preference isn't universal, though my own preference may not be in the majority.
I was born in the south, lived on long island as a child. Came back to virginia every summer to my grans parents where my parents grew up. Finally my parents split up and we moved back to Virginia. My favorite place on earth in between the Blue Ridge Mts. and the Appalachian Mts. And I have been just about everywhere in the US.
Its not that Americans are necessarily friendlier. They as a whole are more outspoken. I am a Canadian. I remember a trip in the Caribbean, where I wanted to be clear of the taxi service and prices before hiring. I invited an American couple to join us, sharing the cab, going to the same place. I must have sounded too firm. The couple remarked that I could be a New Yorker. I felt puzzled. I now think I was insulted...?
I wouldn't say insult. They were remarking how brash you probably sounded. Idk if brash is a good one. Just outspoken, no filter, volume on 11, and a lot of confidence. Wow. They're "Yankees" to us. What if you're their Yankee? I'm kiddin. That's one reason I enjoy the internet. I'm from GA, and my Southern accent sounds like a Squidbilly. On here, I could be speaking like Sir Christopher Lee and no one can hear differently. Nah, really I don't care but not one of the Yankee tourists headed to FLA could understand me so they booted me. Buzzards...
What is deemed 'patriotic' in the US often seems more 'nationalist' to the rest of the world.
It really does. But they live in their own bubble and most of them seem clueless about it.
@@blue2mato312so do Americans have to change and be like everyone else in the world. Why not give Americans the same respect as other countries when I serving their country? Appreciating diversity is important, is it not?
U just jealous.
I’m an American. I’m glad this woman is happy living in her new country. There are Americans who move to other countries & foreigners who move to America. California is not like the rest of the U.S. so all she can talk about is HER experience in California. America is huge & very diverse! I’m sorry she didn’t have good friends in L.A. I’ve lived in the Midwest, the north east & the South & have had great & dependable friends. Americans may seem entitled to people in other countries but customer service is very important to American businesses. Poor customer service can hurt or kill an American business. And a lot of workers care about providing good customer service. I didn’t always hear that America is the greatest country in the world while growing up. My teachers were very critical of the U.S. & I didn’t always agree with them. America is far from perfect but based on things I’ve heard about other countries from Americans who have travelled abroad & from people who come here from other countries, I do think there are many good & positive things about America & Americans. And based on other reasons I do think we are a great country. But I always figured people from other countries thought their countries were great too. Some of the greatest supporters of America that I’ve met are those who move here from other countries.
Just don't get ill!
Brit here. Ive been going to many different parts of the US for decades, for business, tourism and sport. I like the US and have always enjoyed my visits. Nowhere is perfect.
@@admiralbenbow5083I agree with you that no place is perfect. I’ve always wanted to visit England & hope I get to someday.
I can second this, as someone who lives in California. California does NOT even remotely represent the majority of the rest of the nation. They have their own little insulated culture in Cali.
Skip the tip and you'll realize very quickly what the "customer service" really is about!
when you see signs in restaurants 'our servers rely on your tips' (this business can't be arsed to pay our staff a wage they can live on, so you should help us pay them as well)
Servers in the USA can't be expected to live on three dollars an hour.
Naw, Customer service in the USA tends to be better in many industries that don't involve tipping or commission.
It's all about the culture of the country. One way or the other, the wait staff gets paid or they'll find other employment. But is it included in the price of the food or does the customer pay the server directly? TIP is actually an acronym - To Insure Promptness. And to get that desired effect, in the USA it's standard for the customer to pay the server directly. It's the server's incentive to get the customer's order to the kitchen quickly, and when the food is ready to get it delivered to the customers table promptly. And good servers can make considerably more than minimum wage, despite the paltry base pay from the employer. On the other hand, poor servers who pay attention to anything except the customer, simply aren't going to last very long.
I imagine the problem for foreigners is the shock of discovering the price of a meal is more than the listed prices in the menu + tax, that there is this additional item to be paid separately.
Idk, subjective. I hate it, leave me alone and let me eat and converse with my dinner mates in peace.
Fair assessment as a brit whose spent time in America and Sweden. As a quite intorverted person, i love the Swedish reserve.
i am American. I grew up up in Santa Monica, California. I have also lived in Japan and Belgium. Now I live in Missouri. What you experienced in Los Angeles is not what its like in other places of the USA. I prefer Missouri to California, and I now know that LA is NOT the USA even though people in LA think of themselves as superior to everywhere else in the USA. When I travelled thru Asia and Europe I did my best to conform to local customs. I speak 3 languages, English, Spanish and French, and they appreciated in Wallonia, Belgium and France that I could speak their language, and I never had a bad experience. I didn't have to learn Flemish Dutch or any Scandinavian languages, because in those places they all spoke English as well as me. As for patriotism, remember this absolute fact: The American taxpayer is protecting the Pacific and Europe from "Near Peer Threats," We don't ask for thanks, but it would be nice. The Belgians love America.... even more than some Americans love America. The USA saved the Belgians from hunger and famine during WWI and sacrificed to defeat Hitler during WWII.
To a degree the role of the leviathan is important as a peacekeeping force.
However, the US creates a lot of war in the world. Much of the current situation in Ukraine is due to the US, for example.
@@txdmsk oh.... and the Russians had nothing to do with that? What we could do is withdraw all American forces and see what the PRC, N Korea, Russia, and Iran do in response.... to validate if the US creates... or stops.... war in the world. Do you think we would then be a better, more peaceful world free of tyrants?
That being said, I'm not an advocate for the USA spending $ billions in US taxpayer money to prop up a corrupt Ukrainian regime because of the Biden family's corrupt relationship with Ukraine.
@@txdmsk How so? Russia was always going to try and rebuild the Soviet Union, and they're going to do it by force. Back when the Soviet Union was formed, the US wasn't even involved in international affairs.
People are quick to forget the good deeds you do for them, this is the reason we shouldn't do good deeds for anyone. We need to go back to isolationism, and if these people want to leave, then that's great. California itself is a different country, the only State you need to enter through a checkpoint.
@@mattycakes1161
I don't know if Russia trying to rebuild the SU was or is a given.
The current war with Ukraine was heavily influenced by the US trying to establish their puppet government multiple times in Ukraine. The US's expansion of NATO eastwards. The US's foreign policy towards Russia, and so on.
Excellent video, thanks for posting. 'America is perhaps not the greatest country in the world'. Patriotism aside I think there are plenty of people in the rest of the world who do not remotely consider that America is the greatest country in the world. An interesting place to visit for many but that's about it.
Before the year 2000, many would have a good view on the US and see it in a good light, but over the last two decades and especially over the last decade, a lot more people see the US in a negative light and don't really find the country appealing.
Personally, I think it's the internet, it's highlighting the problems far more which in many cases were there before, but thanks to the net, it's far easier to compare to other countries around the world on the differences, and even thought the US is a modern country, it's got elements of a first, second and third world country all rolled into one, which creates a lot of problems and division among its citizens.
Europeans on the other hand, especially in the EU have it really easy, and I get the sense that a lot of them don't realise how good and easy they've got it compared to most of the world and even compared to the US, because Europeans really love to complain about everything, maybe that's why they have it good because it keeps governments in check, but that complaining makes it seem like the grass is greener on the other side, live a few years on the other side and you get to see that it's not what it's all cracked up to be.
I even have a friend who lived in Australia for 7 years, he moved back to Europe because he said the quality of life, the pace of life is better, and the irony is, Australia is a modern country with a high quality of living, in fact, Europeans countries dominant the top 10 when it comes to quality of life with I think Australia and Canada being in the top 10, the US and even the UK have been slipping down the table.
At the end of the day, I think it all boils down to having balance, work-life balance, strong safety net as well as strong social programs, safe place to live and so on, but I think where Europe has the advantage is geographies, it's very easier to move around, travel and all that, whereas other countries like Australia, they are nice places to live but are geographically isolated whereas Europe allows much easier access to many of the interesting parts of the world, not to mention that just in Europe allow, it could take you a lifetime just to explore the richness it offers.
Europeans, especially in the EU don't realise how good they've got it.
@@paul1979uk2000 Europe has really declined in the last 20 years with cost of living increasing, crime increasing lack of self governance due to Brussels having different agenda than the people and the they have no accountability to the people. Especially in the last 3 years costs have greatly increased and decent jobs have declined. 30,000,000 who do not speak the languages and have exploded crime and assaults have really taken its toll on quality of life and home budgets. Supporting the mass migration and the billions given away to Ukraine while industries are collapsing and leaving and exploding commodity prices. It is not that rosy in most of Europe and the worst leaders in the world have managed to capture top political positions.
@@stanspb763Given away to Ukraine? Ukraine is fighting off the Russian horde not requiring one NATO soldier to die. The money spent in Ukraine is a bargain; the return on investment is way better than money spent on defense in the NATO countries.
Have you forgotten that all EU member states vote on Europe-wide laws? If it gets passed, the majority of the EU voted for it.
And maybe if the US and middle East stopped having proxy wars and focused on mitigating climate change immigration wouldn't be such an issue.
I'm an American. I lived abroad in Brazil for several years. It amazes me that for all it's size and influence is how misunderstood America is. Frankly I think her thoughts were full of generalizations and stereotypes. There is so much diversity in this country you an spend a lifetime traveling and experiencing it all. People are people the world over. In Brazil there were really nice people and some really unpleasant people. Just like everywhere else.
There is only so much diversity of fucking stupid one can stomach though.
That's what I thought. It's like she wants to justify her move abroad to herself so she is putting down things she chose to do in the USA. Don't work overtime, go to your friends birthday. Don't buy the designer bag, and go hiking and don't be so concerned with your appearance. Then it's more like Sweden. Lol.
I have been thinking about Brazil or Argentina possibly. How is life there?
Great journalism... So we've apparently learnt that some people like some places over others. Who'd have thought it?
I enjoy traveling and have been all over Europe and have family living in Italy, Scotland, Asia.. I love visiting them, but also love coming home to the US. I live in the Midwest in a midsized city and enjoy our four seasons and the outdoors.
Everything she is saying is so true
As a Brit, I stayed in New York last year for six days. It's unlike the experiences you've experienced but I found myself having to divert from my British accent to a more posh English, if that makes sense? Otherwise no New Yorker I spoke to would've understood me. The only culture shock was how tall the buildings were and how huge the pizzas were. Other than that there wasn't much of a culture shock. In the 90's in the U.K. I was exposed to more Americanisms, especially New York.
" a more posh English "..?!?!
No ! You mean clearly enunciated
English NOT the dreadful incomprehensible dialect that is
now promoted by the BBC.
eg.. Yorkshire / Manc / Geordie etc . ?? Bring back RP. !!
@@2msvalkyrie529geordie pre dates RP you utter boring southern snob
the Queen's English is preferred, yes. your culture shock would come filling up your gas tank in Nevada or Wyoming and seeing someone say hello to you with a Smith & Wesson 9mm on their belt.
There is no perfect country in the world, it is about your perception. Every country has good and bad. I have been traveling to 54 countries and 47 States, every time I came back from other countries , I appreciate more about living in USA especially the conveniences, the friendliness, the number one is the customer service!
every time i left the USA, i took a deep breath and been happy i survived again...
i dont have the same feeling after leaving every other country i went!
i got only 8 states and 32 countries under my belt!
but i barley travel!
What's so special about the toilets in the USA? Have I been missing something?
hahaha your silly gun culture, your lack of free universal healthcare and education, you spend $700 billion a year on stupid wars all over the world, your $30 trillion in debt your current politics is a joke bla bla bla US is one of the worst countries in the developed world lol
USA is only great if you have high disposable income ... and white ...
I'm an American living in Italy - in the USA everyone is in a rat race chasing after the next buck.
EXACTLY
No rat race without rats. Too many turned up to cash in on the early Nirvana and made it the HELL it is today. Nice in zones though, that are swiftly being legislated out of existence.....Sad............
Some cultures are about excessive consumerism. Others are about life first, work secondary.
Well when you get real sick in Italy, good chance you may be coming back to the USA.
@@evancycles or you just get the care you get. Not everyone is living life with the objective of living as long as possible. When you have a far better quality of life, it is okay if you don't go as long.
Максим, поздравляю с успехом канала! Света с твёрдыми шампунями, были знакомы в Сингапуре 💪
As a South African, we also tip in the service industries, but we aren't arrogant and berate service industry workers if their service is bad. We just won't go to that place again...passive aggressive LOL
Most of us aren't arrogant and don't berate service workers here, either. You only hear about them because it's so out of the ordinary. Being normal is not news worthy.
I agree with everything this wonderful lady says. Double it for living in Spain! Can not say I miss the States at all!
Work to live, not live to work, that's the European way.
Here in the UK you have to take your leave, in the US, it seems you're encouraged not to take it, which causes burn out and stress and medical bills which cause more stress
As a Brit working in the US for a while I was appalled at the lack of holidays and the expectation that I would work overtime for free, but met some great people and had no real problems understanding difference as we've had a fantastic music and cultural back and forth over the years. I did start saying aloominum and tommaytoes as people were confused in those days about brit talk. When I got back to UK after some years my previous work buddies thought it was hilarious that i used terms like 'parking lot' and other simple stuff. Live and learn! :-)
Lol 🤣 I take 4 weeks off a year . You all are subjects not citizens so … whatever
@@panchopistola8298 We have British Citizenship which qualifies people for a British Passport, we are not subjects as you seem to think. 4 weeks off is pretty crappy, most Brits get 30 to 35 days off, plus 10 bank holidays and a Christmas break too. Average working week is also only 37.5 hours, plus we dont have to pledge allegiance to some bloody flag every day like your school children.
You work to live because America finances most military protection in Europe. You will see that it will end very soon as America gets weaker
@@panchopistola8298Just before I retired I was getting six weeks annual leave plus 9 public holidays - and BTW the monarch has ZERO executive power - we're UK citizens (our passports say so) and like you (you got the system from us) we have a democratically elected, two chamber government.
I really enjoyed your perspective very interesting and I wish you the best of luck with your new business.
As an American living in japan, I understand where this lady is coming from and I can relate in many ways. Yes, I agree with her. I was brought up thinking America was the greatest country and we're the best at everything.Well, when I came and moved to Japan, things were different; especially my knowledge of US politics. I once went to a pub, where I and some people (from different countries) were talking about the US. When I told them my view of US politics, some were laughing in my face. I really wasn't insulted; rather, curious how they came up with their own opinions. I later researched them, especially what the US media wasn't telling their audience. So, since then, I stopped relying on US media for political news. Japan is a country that grows on you where there is something to appreciate every year or sooner. For me, it was healthier food, universal healthcare, exercise without dishing out lots of money for gyms, etc. Thank you for your video!
I was in the U.S. Army in the '80s and '90s. I traveled all over the world and spent most of my time in areas of those countries not geared towards tourism. With little exception, I found wonderful people everywhere. The one commonality of those people was a desire for the freedoms Americans take for granted. Freedom of speech, the right to protect yourself and a court system not controlled by some local officials, were major issues for most of them.
America's not that great for 'freedoms' it's 17th in the Freedom Index well behind a lot of European countries.
That's true of much of the World, but not Europe. Almost all European countries come well above the US in world rankings of personal freedom, democracy and rule of law.
Still, only the United States has freedom of speech in it's constitution.
Sad to read you need to protect yourself in the USA.
@@charlesunderwood6334 Then say something people don't like in those countries and you'll find your personal freedom ends there. If you can be jailed for disagreeing with someone, then you're not free.
"If you are not putting people first, if you are not committed to common prosperity, if you are not helping others develop, but rather exploiting others, your system is based on exploitation, slavery , oppression ... then can we call USA democratic?" Josef Gregory Mahoney, professor of Politics and International Relations
I’m going to say what many have said. Her experience in LA is not most of the US. I couldn’t relate to what she was saying about loving in the US at all and I’m in the US. It’s a huge country. Also I’ve spent time in the Uk and never had a problem understanding anyone so far.
She is right. She is only 1 person with her opinion. Good for her. She should have spent more time visiting other parts of the USA. America is a young country compared to Europe.
It’s ironic when people say Americans don’t travel and are clueless about cultures and people different from their own, and the very same people who criticize Americas, haven’t even travelled to all of the US states and end up making sweeping generalizations that are based on presuppositions.
The US is big and is ranked number 3 for the world’s largest population. Each State has its own unique culture and traditions. You can actually experience some culture shock moving from one state to another!
Max, do you get any incentives from the Singapore government or any related entities for promoting Singapore?
A perfect way to show the difference.
If I move to one of these places in America where all the neighbours come to welcome you. There's no where to go but down. If you don't talk to some but become friend with others. = friction
The UK, if I move in to a new place, the neighbours don't go out of their way to get to know you, so the only way is up and no friction with thise you don't get to know so well
There is no typical LA person, except maybe a type portrayed in movies. In the vast populace of coastal So. California exists communities of people with every life style and value in the world. Our only commmonality is high housing costs.
Facts.
Like Silbi I am an American who's moved abroad. For me it was when I was 35 at the end of the 1990s with a move to Asia with the idea to spend two years there and then move home but that move never happened and I don't think it ever will. Since then I have spent the majority of my life in Asia with a couple of years in the UK. At the moment I am here in London but I will return to Asia at the end of this month. Listening to Silbi speak it reminds me of my own experiences. Now going on 27 years abroad I can not imagine ever living in the US ever again.
Big whoop, you do you.
I’m moving overseas soon, and suspect I won’t miss living in the US; I’ll only miss my friends.
I saw a recent study that looked at American and British accents over the last few years, especially over the pandemic. They found that because people were stuck at home watching so much RUclips, our accents had begun to merge and American parents were noticing their kids pronouncing words the way British people do, and vice versa.
I'm 41, as a kid before social media became a thing, the America accent was so different, now it's just the same as a slightly different regional accent.
Because you guys absorb so much American media. Gotta change that.
Silbi, you describe the cultural differences so well. Really enjoed this interview.
I'm from France, I've been in the US for 35 years, I don't know anybody who had plastic surgery and most Americans I know are very relaxed and I'm on the East Coast. Oh yeah, the Swedes are so friendly and outgoing, right!
a very poor fake story by a patholgical liar
@@papalaz4444244from what I understand swedes are not outgoing
@@sirsaltytampon4379sarcasm
If you mean "outgoing" as in going out to the woods to avoid other people, then yes, we're very outgoing!
This is her , not anyone else . She is projecting.
After living in the US for ten years, I came back talking about "my purse" and "the elevator" .... So, I fully understand! What a lovely lady .....
No- this lady is not lovely. She is a grown-up and being part of something - that is the least on her mind She is the typical "freeloader" living on her family and "best friends".
The advert in the middle contradicted the whole video.
Come to western ny if you love mountains, tree filled landscapes, pastoral farms and gorgeous lakes, streams and rivers. NYC is about 500 miles from here. People are laid back. Its not like California
Yup .... from Western NY area and think that even though it is not the best, it still definitely ranks as one of the best areas to live in the country! :)
I wish here as a Brit that we would adopt more of the American spirit of patriotism. It is truly wonderful to behold, to have a country that values its rich history rather than constantly devaluing it.
dumber a nation more patriotic it is. always. so be careful what you wish for.
They are forced to be 17:47 patriotic to stop them rising up again like the confederate soldiers did .
It’s only the flag and the anthem holding them together. The kids in school have to swear allegiance every day. The Americans don’t like each other. They are so divided and it’s getting worse.
One percent of the people have 90 percent of the wealth. They are called billionaires.
Similar to the Oligarchs in Russia.
They have brainwashed the masses to believe that socialism is evil too hold on to their wealth.
It’s really sad .
They are brainwashed to believe that they are living in best country in the world. Most of them are really uneducated.
She was in an industry in a part of Los Angeles that is 80% of people that migrated from everywhere else in the world that’s not the real LA. California is 4 times the size of England so many other places within and outside of Los Angeles. She’s another example of someone that got chewed up and spit out by the demand of La so she was looking for a contrast not a better option in general just a better option for her.
I'm British and have lived and travelled in both countries.
The US may have faults but it is STILL the Greatest in most respects.. !! The US is a continent
NOT a little country you can travel
through in 6 hours.?!?
America is migration personified, baring the native tribes people the rest came from various parts of Europe spanning two hundred years!
Theres more people live in the uk than canada and australia COMBINED (canada is larger than the usa landwise)California isnt 4 the size of england,theres far more people,towns and cities in the uk...It isnt an empty field. (theres more world heritage sites in the uk then the whole n american continant by the way)
Wow be careful! Your bias is showing. I have travelled through America. You can keep it!
@@rickcullarn1347nobody wants you here
I love my country, but certainly believe that there are other countries I might love more, especially if I were raised there. This view is only reinforced the more I travel. The US has it's bad points, and I prefer to think that pointing them out should be viewed as an opportunity to think constructively about how to improve.
As someone who grew up in Southern California (but then work can travel around the world), I have to add that so many things depend on who you spend time with, who your friends are, who your family is, where you work, etc.
In my world, hiking is a big deal. You should bring pie or homemade cookies to a new neighbor and tell them you are there for information or help. My friends and I were not interested in lots of money or flashy toys. If we said we were coming to a friend's birthday party, we showed up!
I'm just saying that I think a lot of these things are more specific to where you live inside your specific country, and how you are living your life PERSONALLY.
Also, the more Americans travel and work abroad-- which has generally become easier (despite covid), the easier it becomes to find your tribe. And the less important your physical birthplace is to the way YOU live & work.
So-- of course-- maybe don't blame the place you came from for your bad behavior or less-loyal attitudes toward friends, hyper-patriotism, etc.
(My mother & my husband are German, and they are WAY more conceited -- about Germans being superior to Americans! -- than Americans i talk to, re: America being superior to anybody. 🤣🤪
So-- again-- maybe you are choosing better circles, better hobbies, & better habits when you finally leave the cocoon of your home country and set foot in a brand new space. One of the most brilliant things about traveling and working abroad!!!
Good for you!
Sweden and Swedes are considered to be distant and formal in comparison to, for example, southern European peoples. Visit there and you'll see what to be laid-back and relaxed means.
Being from LA, is a big minus. The rest of the USA actually hate California in particular.
Oh, I did not know that.
I had an American girlfriend many years ago. I visted her in the US and it was fine, it was the US, no biggie for me. But she then came to stay with me in the UK for a while and when she went back it took her ages to adjust. It really messed with her head that maybe America wasn't all that.
Really? When I went to the UK I couldn't wait to go back to the US.
It’s only money, but Americans see everything in terms of money.
Our god and our reason to be…sad as hell.
Interesting video. LA has a high profile but represents only a tiny percent of America. Rural America is where it's at. I now live in a town in Florida that's so small it doesn't have any administrators at all (unincorporated county), but is only an hour from a couple big cities. I have the best of both worlds: friendly neighbors, little traffic and room to breathe while still within a fairly short drive of shopping, beaches and big-city cultural and entertainment venues. In NH I lived in a similar location. Places like this exist all over America.
Thank you!! I know, right?! People from other countries seem to ignore that the US is a big country that has a lot of diverse scenery and people and places. Your town sounds lovely! Perfect balance.
Sweden has a remarkably high amount of SAs reported annually. About 204 per 100k. Part can be attributed to the country's "legal definition" of what constitutes an SA. But part of the SA stats being so high can be attributed to migration. That is a risk women should be aware of before moving to any country.
This!! I think people make assumptions about other countries that are not always accurate.
@@BeanMacdui what assumption? The stats of S.A. the legal definition change of S.A., or immigrants S.A. of women in Sweden (47.7% of all offenders were born outside of Sweden)
Apologies, I wasn’t clear with my comment. I was trying to say that people assume other countries are safe but it’s not always an accurate belief. For instance, your stats on sa’s in Sweden. I also read an article a few months back saying that Sweden has rising gang and gun violence. I don’t know if things have improved, but the article stated that Sweden has the second highest gun crime deaths in Europe.
Anyways, I hope I didn’t offend, I certainly don’t mean to!
@@TheAirwkyps. Those statistics are appalling. I hope this gets addressed as soon as possible.
0:56 Typical of the *_traveler's blues_* : one assimilates traits of other cultures and can *no longer fit* into one's culture of origin, which is sometimes *psychologically very difficult* , especially if one comes across people steeped in certainty. *There is no coming back* to culturally limited environment.
Remember folks, she has a very London/South East perspective of the UK. It would be like asking a Brit living in New York what Americans were like.
TRUE.👍
Yes but London is where all the intelligent, cultured and smart people are. That’s why she had a good impression.
@@danh5637 I smell bait, naughty naughty.
@@stuartcollins82 no I’m being deadly serious the more north of Watford you go the IQ lowers. It doesn’t normalise again until you hit Scotland, which has much better education.
@@danh5637Not anymore, unfortunately.
It’s kind of hilarious to see people treat urban coastal cities as if that’s all there is to the US. There are huge swaths of the US that prioritize family and nature - they are just places you would view as beneath you and would never consider visiting.
Wish you all the success and happiness in life.
Just some advice from a Swede to people moving to Sweden who often move to Stockholm and get treated in a way that's not okay: if you move to Sweden, don't move to villages and don't move to our capital. From what I've seen, people have a better experience moving to our other cities. I'm from Malmo for example, we are so diverse here that one of our mottos is "If you have seen Malmö, you have seen the world." I wouldn't want to live anywhere else in Sweden - anyone fits in here, even a weird person like me 😊
Please, using LA and San Fran as examples is ridiculous.
Yeah... Californicators aren't good examples of Americans ...
In California... everything they tell you pretty much is a lie
I was just about to write that. United States is so much more diverse. There is no way LA or San Fran is what the rest of the United States is all about. Alaska for example. People are laid back. Everyone minds their own business. No one trying to out do each other. I believe she just got tired of liberal communist comufornia.
So true. New York city and LA are not all there is to the US. Not all Americans are the same. Which is true of any country, any people.
@@vadimilchuk5029 That so-called 'liberal' communist comufornia is poised to go from the 5th largest economy in the world larger than both the UK and France, upto the 4th largest surpassing India, [maybe 2025] a country with 36 times the population. Where do people get this shit ? Get over your ignorant partisanship.
.................do you guys live in either city?
Yes, and Swedish people who have moved to the US share your opposite view.
Pig's arse
Seems more about her own personal growth & development than comparison of US to other countries.
Discovering "nature" in Sweden after growing up in an urban setting & majoring in MARKETING isn't a *failing* of the US at all.
No " nature " in America ?!?!
Oregon ? Wyoming ? Washington state . ? California.? 😳😳
Damn right...we're loud and proud.
When my wife and I (New Zealanders) visited Britain in May 2019, we travelled on a bus with a whole bunch of very nice Americans, many of whom were jealous that we lived in New Zealand, and wished they could swap leaders with us.
I doubt most Americans would think the same way now. Arden was the lockdown Queen 🤣🤣🤣
@@wulfsorenson8859 That's what had New Zealanders voting her back in again at the end of 2020. We had had 25 covid deaths out of a population of 5,000,000 people. We were back to almost normal after two or three months of lockdown, we were free when the rest of the world was under all sorts of restrictions and seeing hundreds or even thousands of deaths per million. Jacinda Ardern was the freedom queen. 😛😝😜
LA and NYC aren't traditional America, you won't even find that many Americans there anymore, they're like London. Those places are full of people living there on visas and many living there illegally. So, of course you won't get an American experience in those places. I don't know how she didn't experience diverse cultures in those cities as you can go down each street and see different shops with products from those nations and speak different languages on each street. You take a train with people from every country in the world and hear hundreds of languages being spoken. There isn't another place as diverse as New York City. The US has forests to, you don't have to go across the world to find a forest, in fact, we have places where nobody lives and you can stay out there as long as you want or as long as your survival skills allow.
Don‘t take it so personal. It wasn‘t meant that way.
Not sure I’d want to live in the UK right now.
I have lived in several countries outside of the USA. It made me appreciate the USA a lot more. It's more chaotic, competitive and cruel, but there is no country as innovative or productive.
@@Artist1974CH China's a lot of things, but innovative is not one of them. The USA leads the world in technological and scientific innovation by a large margin. China just copies.
China has become the leader in innovation in most fields and no country is as productive. One visit will shock westerners how modern and advanced it is.
Being in a productive and innovative country is not much use if you have no access to healthcare, welfare, stuck in a menial job with no way out. Imagine how much talent is lost in the chaos.
Exactly ! 👍 🇬🇧 !
When it comes to wars, you guys are surely productive.
II live in Scandinavia, next door to Sweden. The contractors were very very busy that year. Due to the economic crisis, the government supported all contractors indirectly by allowing all home owners financial support to improve buildings (green policy). I had all my windows replaced that year. It is difficult to get a contractor to make precise promises about a deadline when they are highly in demand :)
What a lovely lady ❤
I see that the interviewer mentioned stabbing in London, I guess that these have made international news, but on the other hand the vast number of stabbing incidents are not random, they are mostly gang or drug related. It is incredibly unlikely that a normal everyday person would be attacked or even hurt, unlike in the US where shootings are often random in cinemas, clubs, churches, supermarkets or even and often schools, for goodness’s sake etc. You are much less likely to be caught up in such random acts of violence in London as an exam moderator, checking school project marking to help and advise teachers on their marking levels, I used to travel to London areas such as Greenwich, Brixton and Whitechapel areas which have a bad reputation, but I interacted with the local teens on the street during lunch breaks, telling the odd slightly rude jokes and treating them with the respect they deserve, and I could walk among them and the locals without feeling any fear or animosity. The same goes for when I travel to another poor reputational city such as Birmingham, I love it. I have rarely in my felt fear walking alone day or night.
I heard she say America is, then say she lived in California, the L.A. area and San Francisco. That's California. That's not America!
Yes, one large state in a pool of 50, is hardly knowing America. You couldn't fully know CA living there your entire life, it's a large state itself with many different types of people and places.
The fact that you are actually watching and getting this information from RUclips right now is what makes America the greatest country in the world.
Dream on...
You said that in English or American, www British invention also so was mass production, devision of labour, the television, and the whole Industrial Revolution. So no it was not just the USA
what an ignorant thing to say
@@reebud Not ignorance or arrogance, just a fact. The iOS or android platform that you are using right now is American buddy. Wake up!!! Your daily life routinely depends on USA creation and invention. The only Superpower that exists, Period!!!!
RUclips is censored.
I’m a Brit in England. Many years ago an American tourist came up to me in Knightsbridge and he said “Where’s the closest subway, boy?” So I sent him to one over a mile away when he was less than two hundred yards away from the Knightsbridge Tube Station.
So mean haha
Nothing wrong with feeling national pride anywhere. I don't know what school here in the U.S. she is referring to, she makes it sound like they were feeding her propaganda in the form that everywhere else sucks but America is wonderful, I don't know. I've traveled extensively around the world with shipmates and solo and the feeling was mutual for all of us in that we missed home and practically fell to our knees to kiss the ground. I've seen and met a lot of wonderful people and many countries and I'm richer for it. The U.S. is a young country that is the world's greatest social experiment still in development.
Strange that she says she couldn't understand Brits. She must have been in Newcastle. There are so many British TV shows and movies in the States. I loved English accents even as a child watching old movies on TV. However, it's the Scottish who are nearly impossible to understand and I've traveled all over the UK many times.