The view on America after living abroad (UK)
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00:00 INTRO
00:24 The biggest revelation
03:31 How British see Americans
06:11 British English for an American
08:21 Differences between Americans and British
10:27 Being Asian in the UK vs the US
11:33 Things Silbi miss about America
13:34 Safety comparison
16:03 The main reason to move from the US
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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.
Don't mention the war or do silly walks.
@@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.
I visited New York from Ireland and expected something special. I got there and thought "Is this it?" They thought the below average pizza was 'awesome' as were the restaurants. The only thing that impressed me was the height of the buildings but I could've been in any UK city centre. Americans need to travel and not believe their own hype.
And that's how you know which ones are the tourists in NYC. They all walk with their heads bent backward adoring the tall buildings.
Completely agree...
@@BernhardSchwarz-xs8kp not sure I'd say 'adoring' tbh. I kept thinking that the ladders from a fire engine only go up 6 storeys so I wouldn't like to be any higher.
So I went to Dublin and thought "is this it?" That stinking spike in front of the GPO is a big dumb looking travesty, The RoI should be thankful to the UK & USA for its freedom in spite of its neutrality... because Ireland doesn't pay for its own defense. The old enemy UK does.
You need to visit more than one state/city in America before making such sweeping generalizations. If you had gone just 60 minutes in any direction you would have seen places that are 180 degrees the opposite of New York City (if that is where you went).
Or if you had just gone to Brooklyn or the Bronx or Queens (5 to 10 minutes from Manhattan) across the river to New Jersey you would have been exposed to drastically different perspectives, food, sights, etc.
Peace.
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.
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.....)
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 😂😂😂😂
i'm Canadian and lived in Europe for 4 years and traveled extensively. I returned to Canada back in the mid seventies and don't want to live anywhere else. The only thing that has really deteriorated for me is the medical care in Ontario. You just can't get quick medical appointments or even find a doctor sometimes.
And Justin Trudaeu has turned the country into a woke paradise?
Don't blame "The country Canad" - blame the stooges who so-called "govern" in Canada.
about getting a doctors appointment for routine things (in New Zealand) it takes a few days if you call them and make an appointment.... it will be the following week. Anything more urgent you go down to the Emergency Room / Accident and Emergency at your nearest hospital. You will be triaged and seen in order of medical seriousness.
(Not because you are loud or insistent)..... so that can be a long wait also. But at least you do get seen and treated. NZ is way short of Medical Doctors and Nurses and is trying to recruit them from overseas. But the other countries all have the same problem.
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.
I have an american friend and what really blew my mind was their upbringing of the belief that they're the only "free" country. It was taught in schools at a very young age, by elders, hollywood etc.
If you mean 1st and 2nd amendment, he's correct.
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.
The USA is garbage.
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.
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.
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 :(
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! :-)
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?
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.
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.
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
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
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
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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.
She’s right. Americans often say let’s hang out but don’t mean it.
Can confirm
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
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.
@@Frankabagnale33 I'm from Sweden too and can acknowledge what OP is saying. Sweden has loads of flaws, believe me. That's why I emigrated.
She has made the right decision ... the US is declining faster than anybody can think
how ? USD is still the world reserve currency , the coolest tech like AI in the US still leading the world
I am afraid your wish will not be granted.
You'll read people claim that to be the case in the UK and continental Europe as well. My question is whether people who say that are quietly happy to make that claim.
Speaking about the Empire, such as the USA, history (His-story) is written by the Conqueror.. "Slavery, Genocide, Colonialism and Colonization" are all evil things done and benefited by evildoers. 😔🤷
For honest truths, pls read the supremely informative and insightful, multi-pages comment by 'Lonely Alaskan' at, "Complete History Of Indigenous America Before Colonialism": ruclips.net/video/z9SMN59vsGY/видео.htmlsi=QZ4aX9jmUdrbRoYL , (which by the way, got pushed down below 200 other comments lately).
Speaking about the Empire, such as the USA, history (His-story) is written by the Conqueror.. "Slavery, Genocide, Colonialism and Colonization" are all evil things done and benefited by evildoers. 😔🤷
For honest truths, pls read the supremely informative and insightful, multi-pages comment by 'Lonely Alaskan' at, "Complete History Of Indigenous America Before Colonialism/Chronicle", on RUclips, (which by the way, got pushed down below 200 other comments lately).
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%.
I went to live and work in USA for few years. I noted that in US people have an erroneous belief that they are the greatest country and society in the world. Explaining to them was not easy but bring them to realize that other countries and esp Europe is not only much more advanced , civil and beautiful than US was an interesting exercise. Materialism to the exclusion of all else is the hallmark of America and this goes with superficial loud and brash attitudes and less sympathetic to those who could not keep pace .
Point of info: the City of London is the Square Mile, the financial district. It's not a residential area.
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.
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.
This isn't a unique experience. Lots of first and second generation immigrants come here and settle in a large city. They then live in an isolated community where they keep speaking their native language and never integrate, so they feel alienated in other parts of the country and then try to find themselves in another country. You'll notice she still has a Chinese accent in a lot of her words despite growing up in the United States, that isn't normal for Americans with immigrant parents in most parts of the United States. If you never try to integrate into your new country, then you're never going to fit in and you're always going to feel alienated.
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.
A good world citizen she is. Very humble and honest. Nice lady.
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Humility doesn’t put one down inorder to lift oneself up.
Your view - not mine.
Unless you know how pays for her "traveling" and bashing a country in which she is really just a guest like all immigrants - she is simply a freeloader and arrogant selfish individual to whom the ultimate in life is traveling and enjoying life.
A dog grooming salon in Fitzrovia 'humble'? are you kidding? That's an expensive upper class part of London, love.
@@Minnie--ru2ew If you're not capable of criticism and have never moved your arse to another country to live there, you'd better stay out of this. Arrogance and ignorance rule the USA
very nice lady 🙂 I've lived in US for 13 years now (in Miami, Seattle, Portland) and Vancouver (Canada) She should not blame herself so much for not being a good friend in early 20-s, because it's the way labor market is set up in US, people are employed and being fired "at will" in one day, there are almost no unions here, it's a money-centered country and society, that's why it was so successful in capitalism, that's why there are so many great companies and startups were build over here - because money and success are #1 value, not people, people in Europe make less money at the same jobs but they are protected better (that's why there are so many homeless and mentally ill people in US and not so many in Europe). So it's a choice - want to make more money and build a great career - go to US, but it comes with sacrifices... And a note about LA people (the same goes for NY, Miami people) - yes, she is right, but majority of population in other parts of US are very simple-dressed, care a lot about family time and nature - because what else you can do in boring suburban USA?😅 Europe is definitely so much better at social life, medical care, easy, quick and cheap travel to many countries around, great beautiful centers of the cities, where you can walk, socialize, without stepping over needles and looking over shoulder because you not feeling safe... not mentioning gun violence, Pharma lobby... Americans deserve better government I think, it's not doing good lately...
The speaker is just like a frog jumping out from one well right into an other.
American system is based on the natural laws of survival. It is all on yourself and for yourself...Forget about the social safet network... Survival o the fittest.
The US does worse than Western Europe not only on soft measures like happiness and well-being, but also on hard outcomes like murder rate, life expectancy and even maternal and infant mortality. These are not the diseases of affluence. It's because the US is so polarised. There are more very rich and also more very poor people. The rich act as if they believe they NEED to have a high level of poverty, which they disguise by blaming the poor for their fate.
The newspapers make us THINK that London and the UK as a whole have high levels of knife violence, but the figures show that more Americans are killed with knives. It's just overshadowed by the greater number of shooting deaths. There are more motor vehicle accidents and deaths on the roads too.
Hmm... we should send our homeless to Europe...
@@bullwinkle60 They'd almost certainly be treated better. Over here, most people are less self-centred, and a bit more focused on social co-responsibility. Maybe in the American Bible the bit about "thou shall love thy neighbour as thyself" is optional.
What for heaven's sake is "British English"??? Oh you mean English English or even actual "English", as opposed to its derivatives!!!
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British English as Official Language enable Indians to Communicate across regions on Daily basis,yet UK & Indian English are quite Different😂😂
Hollywood and the internet has made American English the regular English.
When the _perception_ is everyone around you are go go go & focused on status, trying to keep up is human nature.
Many end up frazzled, deep in debt, let friendships slide & unhappy.
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.
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!
You must be affluent enough to travel. Most Americans can't. In other countries there is an effort to work together to solve social problems. In America, the solution is to become so individually wealthy that the problems don't bother you and that is just what you have said.
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 ...
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.
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?
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.
I left Germany and Canada for a better life in Malaysia, best move I did!
Try China. We love China. Excellent infrastructure and great security. Great food vibrant society as if you are in the 22nd Century 😅
Hi, would be nice to have a Vlog on it. Why do you find Malaysia better then other options?
@@vincenttay2812 China's going downhill FAST.
@@vincenttay2812I’m sure that’s where her family came from. And yet no mention of it. 😂
Good for you. Who forced you to live in Germany or Canada and what did you try to gain by moving there?
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.
*Wow. Imagine how that came to be: poor people forced to remain in their isolated villages either by poverty or aristocracy.* They hardly ever got to meet someone who didn't look or sound like them or marry someone who wasn't a second or third cousin. Accents change all of the time, it means people are expanding their world.
@@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'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.
I am a Chinese from mainland China now living in Australia. I don't like US's politics (stared so many wars), but I must say to some extent I identify with the work ethic the most American hold (similiar to Chinese), which encourages hard working and is valued as part of foundamental moral standard. This does not mean I myself am or I think everybody should work like a workholic. Just because in Australia, some people are laid back too much. But to be honest, I am confused by myself, don't really know which I like more. For example, I don't like American movies in gegeral, for me it is all about winner or loser. Instead I like French movies more, because the are about human, ordinary people. But in working place, at least fir now I still prefer people work efficient within 8 hours during the day and get job done as possible as they can.
Everywhere I've worked in Australia the style is laid back, because they don't make a big deal about anything, but they work hard and don't mess around so they can leave at a reasonable time and have a life outside of work doing their surfing/art projects/sport etc. Also, I love French and other European films for the exact reasons you say 🙂
@@LM-fn6qbYou cannot learn unless you have leisure time.
i hope u r enjoying the democratic freedom you don't get back home lol and when u go to a restaurant at least the use fresh oil.... not from the gutter hahaha China is horrible under Xi Jinping, he is destroying the country democrasy and relations with the west while stealing western tech and spying on everybody and his silly ideas in the South China sea, and Hong Kong and whats happenig to the Uyghurs. China = horrible. Australia better country to live... well done
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.
America is the Greatest Country in the World - but, only if you remain in America!
it's greatest for the Rich
it IS the greatest country in the world……….for the 1%.
WHO SAYS-USA IS THe GREATESt COUNTRY, which provided nothing for it,s citizensbut wars and wasting money on istahell
We get on alright with the Russians,but you lot have to stick your noses in dontcha.@@bayoudude622
it reminds me of north korea. they get told all this stuff too
I guess she is a Jeopardy fan, she ends every sentence in the form of a question!
How do us Brits regard our cousins? My grandmother, a nurse, knew GIs in two world wars ... "Oversexed, overpaid and over here"!!. Reginald D Hunter scored a hit for the New World with his observation "You British drink like us Americans eat"!! Funny the Scottish accent got a mention. Rab.C.Nesbitt is one of the greatest comedy programmes ever .... even if most English need subtitles!!
Two nations, separated by a common language"
Rab C Nesbitt, Scotland Cultural Attaché to the UN.
There's no such thing as "the" Scottish accent, there are several different accents sounding nothing like each other.
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.
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.
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 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.
"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 don't understand how we are told this woman was American, grew up in America and apparently had her "eyes opened" when she left and lived overseas - yet she does not speak with any native American accent, she seems to have an Asian or even South American accent. So what is her real background?
Hey hey Max, saw few of your wise white hair liao 😅. Thanks for sharing all these interesting interviews...
i went to many times to the USA...
the amount of uneducated people i met there would scare you...
even the ones who called themself educated...been limited in their horizon..
the number of uneducated people ...
NOT
the amount of uneducated people
Amount refers to weight
Number is countable
Learn Correct grammatical legal English
Undertake an extensive reading program to educate yourself to a higher degree
same in europe ha
@@hoppinghobbit9797 sure, but most of them dont speak English at home,
because everyone can learn English
you dont need to be very smart for that!
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.
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.
The "Pledge of Allegiance" has a lot to answer for. I had to say it, as a child, and it took me years of living in Europe, to jettison it.
I’m Norwegian and those kids that went for an exchange year in the US were so shocked by this pledge as well as by the general education. Except my sisters friend because she didn’t make it back, she got killed by a drunk driver in the US.
It’s a very authoritarian thing to do, I don’t think any other democracies has anything similar.
@@blue2mato312 Oh no, that's so terrible. R.I.P. your sister's friend. 🙏😥
@@blue2mato312 Yes, it's mind-numbing brain-washing, actually.
@@fox39forever Thank you that’s very kind ♥️ It’s a long time ago but she was a lovely girl.
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".
Stabbings are 10x more likely in the US...the UK had a blip in no news days to say there were stabbings but now its all forgotten about again ...
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 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.
Big magnet for UK is Free Health care. Iv'e seen a couple of Yanks on YT, who have moved to UK because they are Diabetic, insulin costs a fortune in US, free here. One Yank even moved again up to Scotland (From England), as you also get Free Prescriptions in Scotland.
She lived in a high cost US city. Where you have to hustle to afford living in the city. She would have had a different outlook if she lived in rural America, maybe the suburb of a lower tier city. There are also stages of life. In her 20's she was in the accumulation phase. Where you're trying to build wealth and find a spouse. In her 30's she might be married and move to the suburbs, to a lower cost area, to a slower pace of life?
American, who lived in Europe for two years. I chanced upon this hit piece so took a look but found it amounted to a cheap shot, similar to other YT fare. Go please yourself wherever you wish to live.
If she thinks UK has different accents. I feel Bad she never visited America. Completely different cultures outside LA lol
She is American
@@lucylane7397 --- She's from California. That's another ball of wax altogether.
Think I miss the point, there are at least 27 regional accents and estimated another 40+ sub regional accents in the UK and Ireland , all of which could fit into a state like Texas about 9 times .
I think that was her point, she could drive 5 miles and not have a clue what people are saying .
There are many cultures and ways of living inside of LA. There is no one LA experience.
@@evancycles Tent city is an LA experience
I have traveled all over the world to fantastic countries and enjoyed myself immensely. The USA is also a fantastic country, and it also has a lot of problems, but then so does every other country. The greatest thing about Americans is the quality and strength of their character. With 350 million people, you will also find some monsters. I do not feel a great need to compare countries. I just enjoy them.
Interesting points of view, thanks for sharing.
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.
I'm English, live in Scotland, lived and worked in France for a decade, moved to CA for another decade.
In the US, people did ask me something on the lines if 'How does it feel to be here?'
Well, Californians are a bit like the French. They think they are the centre of the world.
The point is, the French are right.
Which confused people. (Edinburgh isn't bad, either)
Yes, but California is just ONE of 50…I would NEVER live in LA for exactly what she described…but she hasn’t even seen how different other states are….
@@raevjShe haven't even seen how different California is.
Edinburgh, France? mmm, gotta check that one out. Do they produce good wine?
I agree with everything this wonderful lady says. Double it for living in Spain! Can not say I miss the States at all!
It depends what you're looking for in a country. If you want to be looked after by the state then Europe is for you, but trying to start a business will make you crazy. America has unlimited opportunity for people with drive and determination, but the country will not look after you. You're on your own to sink or swim according to what you're made of. Nothing is guaranteed.
Experiencing life as an American abroad is definitely eye-opening. It changed my life. But the US is still the best country in the world.
British English? How about plain English, as in the language of England :).
Traditional English or real English.
I call the one from England, English. And I call the one here in the states, American. Like that song “We speak no Americano”
I'm from the US. I always call English from England English and English from the UK British. I call English from my country American English
@@danielcavesripfuture9866 interesting
@@danielcavesripfuture9866 Good for you :). I always refer to American English as American. Either way, American English originates back to the early days of the Pilgrim Fathers and beyond who left England to avoid religious persecution back in the late 1600's. What is known as 'The Fall' in the US is an early English expression for what we now call Autumn. New York (originally New Amsterdam), Boston, Plymouth, Washington etc are all named after places in the UK. But hey, shhh, don't tell anyone :)....
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.
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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.
Europeans want to live, whereas Americans want to succeed. I just love the superhuman levels of enthusiasm in the US. Nothing there seems certain, but everything seems possible. Whenever I visit I feel my limitations begin to melt away. I start to say to myself, "anyone can be average, but what's the best I can be?". America seems to bring that out in me. And yes, I'd rather buy the latest techno gadget, or experience the latest in Asian fusion cuisine than go picking mushrooms.
It's no accident Hollywood, Nasa and Silicon are all American, or that someone like Elon Musk who could have gone anywhere, chose the US.
... Silicon Valley that should have been... though thinking about it silicone, I guess is as American as apple pie, as anyone visiting Miami or LA will attest...
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.
It’s only money, but Americans see everything in terms of money.
Haha! The Scottish accents and Scots(the language) are tricky, aren't they? Having been in Scotland for a year and a half, I still sometimes struggle to understand what the kids are saying when I work in schools.
Fair assessment as a brit whose spent time in America and Sweden. As a quite intorverted person, i love the Swedish reserve.
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
I moved to the US in 2012 from the UK. I'd advise people against it, it's not a great country and it's a bad mentality as well prices being ridiculously expensive for a worst or more antiquated service than in Europe. A simple example is for internet access I have to have a business account in the US to use a VPN for work so $250+ a month for a service that has less features and is less reliable, in comparison to paying £28 a month in the UK for a more feature rich service that's more reliable. Same applies to other services.
If it was a choice I'd move back to the UK.
Totally. At home we would pay around $80 a month for a cellphone plan for 1 month. Same plan overseas costs us $18 a month. Don't even get me started on internet.
What is deemed 'patriotic' in the US often seems more 'nationalist' to the rest of the world.
North Americans are brainwashed with fake patriotic BS
so they live in a kind of Goldfish bowl
It really does. But they live in their own bubble and most of them seem clueless about it.
I had no idea this kind of America from which she has happily escaped existed except as a side note in a B movie. If you "hang out" with spoiled, entitled people I guess that's what you know. I never have and I'm perfectly happy living in America. Is it the best place in the world? I have no idea, but I do know that in America, if you want to live in a good place for you it's not that hard to find here. There is no "one" America, there's thousands.
Not many people who have grown up in the US have experienced other cultures but those who do, generally see some real advantages about living elsewhere. The US is in steep decline but few Americans know there are options once they are trapped in the credit system and really have no more options. It is a very divided country where anyone suspecting that another person is not believing identically as they do, is suddenly the enemy. It is very polarized with at least a 1000 factions where every one of them hates the other 999. When in public one has to self censor every world to reduce the rich of angering them until you find out what faction they believe in and the stranger aligns speech to agree with them. Americans live under incredible stress with debt and fear of crashing if someone in the family gets sick or a job is lost so everything can crash when so few have savings and so many services that are free elsewhere is very expensive in the US. It is very difficult now to start a family unless wealthy where as before about 1970 is was a normal and doable goal. The median price for a normal delivery of a baby now with a single stay in the hospital is $40,000 for a natural process. Doctors until recently when there was a lot of backlash prices increase to compensate for a doctor not being able to schedule 10-15 deliveries a day by insisting on turning a normal delivery into a caesarian section. But in every where, services that are free in other countries are debt items in the US. Any type of medication is 10 to 1000 times more expensive than anywhere else in the world. Very few countries do not have universal health care except the US. Education is extremely expensive and burdens the student with decades of debt that reduces marriage rates so birth rates in intact 2 adult couples is lower than almost any other country since housing, needing a car for each adult due to almost no public transportation, and the average number of bills a couple will have every month even with a very modest life style averages around 100 3-7 times more than any other developed country. The lack of culture is something no one can deny, is a problem making life in the US less rewarding. One in 10,000 Americans have ever seen a real opera or Ballet performance which are only for wealthy since two tickets can easily cost $1600 for a mid-grade performance and where moved to, every night I have a choice between many options for less than $20 with better cast, sets, orchestra and theater.
Ask anyone who lived outside the US for a while for the difference. They were safer, lived better on far less, had governments that did not constantly lie to them, had little or no debt, better food quality, free or very low cost medical and dental care, had access to safe streets, parks and low cost of housing, and with few exceptions if living in a city has excellent low cost public transportation.
I have spent time in 92 countries and have only visited my native USA(California) 5 times for 1-2 weeks each and have been shocked by the rapid decline in civil conversation, safety, economic security, and explosion of crime and homelessness..People are angry and divided. It is not like that elsewhere.
@@stanspb763 I agree with you that America is unkind to the young and it is unfortunate that the problems you have enumerated are not a priority in the minds of those who could do something about them, but for most people living in the US, running away to the "verdant pastures of idyllic Europe" is not an option .But if you think about those people who could initiate changes in housing and healthcare and economic opportunity, I think that you'll find that the very ones who seem to most cherish the very political divides according to perceived social needs over practical survival needs, you'll find that there is a clear path to survival. Educate the political leadership and the pampered wealthy into understanding that things need to change and they are the sole reason things don't change. But you can't do this if you run away. If both sides would stop worrying about pronouns over making life for everyone more livable then maybe politicians could do some good for a change, but you runaways don't seem to care about the problems as long as you don't have to do anything about them.
Definitely better in quality of life to be an employee in Sweden than in BOTH the United States and Singapore. Especially due to Strong labour Unions. 💪🏼👍🏼
An American being interviewed by a foreigner based in Singapore, so don’t bring USA and Singapore together into a comparison with Sweden.
Why not?
Socialism is a perfect system-- for those who are lazy and unmotivated and have been inculcated with an "entitlement mentality", that is...
Sweden, like all of the EU isn't competitive in emmerging tech, because they are overregulated. In That, even though Brexit was a bad decision on most vectors for Britain, the only one that has been a benefit, is that the regulation has made them the 3rd most attractive nation for emerging tech in the world and far superior to any nation in Europe.They literally have 20 new unicorns in companies in emerging tech and also have 3 times the Investment of Germany and twice that of France in AI, laser, cyber and digitisation
*Sweden, like all other EU countries needs to find a successful way around this issue, which has been a problem for about 50 years slowly growing more debilitating. The U.K.''s problem wil be whether it can hold on to any successful of the start-ups, once they achieve success
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Not true that “Sweden isn’t competitive on emerging tech”.
Their Swedish build Gotland class non-nuclear submarine are among the MOST advanced in the world.
In 2005, Submarine Gotland managed to penetrate the defensive measures of Carrier Strike Group 7 UNDETECTED and snap several pictures of USS Ronald Reagan during the December pre-deployment Joint Task Force Exercise 06-2 (JTFEX 06-2) in the Pacific Ocean (probably in the California Operating Areas), EFFECTIVELY “SINKING” the American aircraft carrier in the exercise.
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 think the main difference between Europeans and Americans is simply that Europeans work to live while Americans live to work.
The difference is clear when comparing things like vacation in America and Europe.
Americans also have a pretty weird understanding of free healthcare. Most Americans consider European countries as being socialist countries without even having a clue about what socialism really is.
In America, Americans pay tax to the IRS. Some of the tax money is then given to profit making insurance companies that then provide healthcare insurance to Americans but they also charge Americans again in most cases so the healthcare in America is usually much more expensive than it is in Europe.
Americans grow up being taught weird things that have nothing to do with facts but that's America.
In many ways America is the most developed country in the world but in other ways, America is literally 3rd world. This is perplexing to most Europeans.
When Europeans meet Americans and find out the Americans pretty much know nothing about the world outside America, this is the time when Europeans just look perplexed.
Max, do you get any incentives from the Singapore government or any related entities for promoting Singapore?
I grew up in Europe so I never understood the reason some US citizens thinks it's the best place in the world. We are friendly but on a superficial level.
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!
This is difficult to listen to with the constant "uptalk". This is just unpleasant to listen to.
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.
London landlords have a terrible reputation when it comes to ripping off tenants and (no disrespect to you) will almost certainly be a foreigner.
So very happy for her. Happy she moved out of the U.S., that is. By all means, if it's not for you, stay away.
Stop being brainwashed and get a passport and see for yourself
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Don't confuse loud with patriotic. Loud is just loud and realy quite ugly.
What I am hearing is a woman who finally grew up and switched her priorities. Some people mature and other people need to have a life changing event, like moving to a different country, to find their place in life. I hope she stays in Europe and keeps learning about herself.
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.
I liked your comment.🙂For social experiments try a south pacific prison colony, even younger than America, Australia, which, thanks to its peculiar history of petty criminals who didn't want to be there but ended up with their own land, and political prisoners who influenced a new nation with their egalitarianism, is now quite a lovely place to live, at least from my perspective. I know what you mean by wanting to kiss the ground. When I arrived in Sydney airport after a long trek through eastern Russia and Mongolia, the smell of the wattle blossom and frangipani even close to the airport made me almost weepy. Home is home however lovely other places are.
There are plenty good kind , generous folks is LA
I agree but it makes my head spin just how selfish a lot of people here are.
But they never turn up on time and a bit passive aggressive