@@dwaijer That depend if you can consider a garden shed a house. For me a "real" wooden house is a chalet : sturdy large wall, not paper thin layer of wooden agglomerated that will disappeared when a small wind blow
@@dwaijer and they will keep building them. their logic says its cheaper to rebuild a house after a storm if the house is made cheaply in the first place. i dont really get that logic either but with all these heavy tornados...im not sure a brick house would survive it either. the ligher ones surely but with the amount of heavy tornados id guess the lifetime of the house doesnt get extended to a reasonable degree.
One of the most important factors for safety in the UK is the one no-one seems to mention. That is road safety, by every measure, deaths per miles driven, number of vehicles, distance travelled etc we are one of the safest nations on earth with one of the lowest death tolls on the road, despite having some of the most crowded roads. In the UK the death rate on the roads in 2022 was 2.6 per 100,000 people, in the US it was 13.8 per 100,000, and we have no 'jaywalking', laws
Once one looks at statistics about "duty casualties", difference is around 100 times (per capita). And number of people shot in total difference is more like 500 times. (For referrence - traffic accidents are just 3 times more deadly - not bad considering how many people "has to drive" and how easy is to get license)
@@elmurcis1 Do not compare the statistics of an entire state with just a country from EU, your percentages involve millions, ours is only thousands. Low number or big, if there are chances of having casualties, the system is not right. Think of Murphy's law, what can go wrong will go wrong.
"UK is almost US....." Says someone who hasn't even been there...... No, it is not. The UK is a much better organised society from any point of view. I have visited both countries more than once. In many respects, the US is 20 to 30 years behind. And I don't think that will change for a while.
Sadly, the UK is in as deep a dive into oblivion, as the US is. Our problem is our anti-British Government's and the anti-British Mainstream media (particularly the bbc). If a UK Government was to actually put the indigenous peoples of the UK first, this would be a lot better place.
Yes it is, because of the Piracy Act 1717/18. I wouldn't be surprised that the so called rednecks are related (DNA-wise) to these British hooligans!!! Look, how dumb can you be, to vote for BREXIT! You can even see, that the UK wants to go back to the EU, because they've seen, that the UK becomes backward, like the US. So, for me it's a big YES!
30 years ago I'd say that for electronics and digitalisation Japan was 10 years ahead of Europe and USA 5 years ahead of Europe. I haven't been to either USA or Japan since then, so the rest is based on second hand observations. I think nowadays electronics are mostly the same all over though they do have some cool stuff in Asia that aren't really available elsewhere (unless you import it directly and can read some asian language), but for digitalisation I think Europe (west and north Europe) is mostly ahead of USA now. England has some anachronisms in common with USA (like using the imperial system instead of the metric system for many things, and the only two times I've had a check book was when living in USA and England (USA 30 years ago and England 15 years ago)). Then again there are other European countries with weird anachronisms like Germany still using cash on a regular basis. All in all I think England is more similar to other European countries than to USA, but I also think England in many ways is the country in Europe most similar to USA (though more similar to Canada than USA).
If you get pulled over by a UK cop in normal circumstances i.e. you aren't knowingly being chased - we don't have to assume the police will pull a gun and threaten to or possibly shoot at us.
@@B-A-L pretty much, in my younger days i was pulled over for speeding on motorcycles somewhere between 15 and 20 times and not once ever convicted of it, with the exception of once im only talking about 10-20mph over the speed limit and in a city but generally u pull over with no fuss, be civil and apologise and as long as ur insured, taxed and have a license u will generally get a warning or a producer for the local station if missing one of ur documents
Yea, that's actually a big one! No matter how lucky or healthy you are, we all need medical care at some point in our life. And the impact of not having to worry about going into massive debt if something bad does happen is not to be overlooked.
Exactly. Maybe you need to have lived in London to understand, but north, south, east, and west London are so different that they're virtually four different cities.
Yeah, I guess north London would be the place to expect more crime, even the area around Wembley seemed a bit rougher than where we stayed (South Kensington). I'm unsure if it counts as north but it looked pretty north on the Tube map.
@@tomscorpion6288 South/South East is probably high on Crime figures. Also quite difficult down as far as Croydon. Bits without the Tube can be a bit worrying. I have also lived NSEW of London, though not Croydon. Having said that, I felt safe there.
I was horrified when American women said nobody would go out at night alone. Here, I never worry about that stuff. I once put a coat on over my nightdress to follow an owl through the streets. As for police, I have never been bervous when desling with the police. If they had guns, I would avoid them at sll costs. My father is a retired Chief Indpector. He says the police can not protect the public if the public are afraid of them.
The guns are not a problem. In Netherlands or Germany all cops have guns, but that doesn't make them feared. At an airport(Germany) I even saw some cop with a machine gun walking around (very rare to me) and everyone was fine with that. Not different than with the young female officer at his side. Just asking questions and talking with him.
@helenwood8482 I do voluntary work a couple of days a week. Once the clocks go back I am likely to be walking home after dark. I use a well-used street from the town centre to my home - it has lights, passes by houses and the local college, and is quite busy at home time. It's about half a mile and it never feels unsafe at that time of day.
7:25 small correction about coastal erosion: in some cases it can cause a landslide that can reach the ground in seconds, so erosion itself is slow-mo but can cause a collapse that most definitely is not, and can fall on beach huts and kill anyone in them. I live near the Jurassic coast (south) and around a year or 2 ago we had a massive landslide that luckily didn't kill anyone but did destroy many beach huts that could've had people in them. You are correct about erosion, but the real thing to worry about are landslides :)
1- natural disasters in UK are pretty much bad floods and related issues coming from that 2-I’m sure Knife crime will come up, because it’s a meme, but in reality even knife crime is smaller than the US, even just London knife murder is less than US, considerably…
All that happens during our bad floods is a few carpets get a bit soggy and people go to work in canoes and as for knife crime, well it only happens in certain areas of London with a particular culture and only happens within that particular culture.
@@B-A-L No it can happen anywhere but it is still rarer than the same in US, more death by knife crime, per capita in US than UK, I think its about 3 to 1..
@@B-A-L I can only imagine that you have never been a victim of flooding, particularly if from severe flooding, or you would know and understand the horrid feeling of having precious belongings lost to floodwaters, which usually envelopes drains and sewers, thus contaminating a home's furniture, personal belongings and also vehicles, etc, _not just a few soggy carpets_ . In severely affected flood plains, for example, houses, indeed whole villages can be swamped and lay with sewerage covering entire streets, homes, fields, affecting the very young, the old and infirm, farmer's livestock and feed storage etc. Flooding can lead to illnesses and / or infections, injuries and lives lost... So, "a few soggy carpets"* is _very far_ from the truth, and that* statement is very much lacking in empathy. 😠
Ryan, for some comparison, you can look for example at murder rate of US cities vs European cities. I use murder rate because murder is categorized similarly everywhere. If you go from most populous city to less populous city, you have to go down to 97th most populated US city to finally find a city with murder rate close to London for example, all other 96 have higher murder rate. Kind of crazy…
@@SiGr10614 Maglite is a brand of very tough waterproof torches favoured by "outdoorsy" people, police and security companies . The cases are made of magnesium alloy ( the same as many car wheels ) hence the name.
@@thearmouredpenguin7148 That were favored anyway, they're not nearly as popular with LED torches and rechargeable batteries being so good now. Still popular with security etc. for that intimidation factor of a huge metal object though.
The give away was D cell. My old bicycle uses D cell batteries in its battery pack. That and I have owned a Maglite slim for over a decade. Hi from the NE UK
Ours just said "Cheers, that would be positively delightful of you, old chap. If you could be so kind as to put all the valuables into these sacks, that would be absolutely spiffing. We'd be so awfully grateful."
Look up the recent case of a woman who called the police in the US who called the police about a noise outside. She ended up shot dead by the police for taking a pan of water off the stove.
London police shot a suspect in a taxi...AND the innocent taxi driver who was driving him. The suspect later turned out to be the wrong guy. UK is safe; but London certainly isn't! There, they'll mug you as look at you.
There was more than taking a pan of water of the stove . There was a long interaction before that. Unfortunately , from what I can see, America seems to have a very large mental health crisis (for whatever reason) and it goes undiagnosed or untreated .
Oh yes, that's right ... first he threatened to shoot the old woman in the face. She said she reviled him in the name of Jesus. He drew his weapon. Then she put the pot back, cowered down whkmpering, and THEN he shot her in the face. I watched the video. White cop. Old small black woman who could never have thrown any water on him if she tried. It was absolutely horrifying. @@infin8ee
"America with no guns", and better trained police. In 40 years I've never felt afraid of the police, and I've been arrested on 4 or 5 separate occasions over the years. Only time I was at all manhandled was when 6 officers arrested me after reports of me threatening people with a chainsaw (I should add I didn't threaten anyone), and they still didn't hurt me. They were just being careful.
It is in no way like America but with no guns. America, despite the country's overall wealth, is basically a Third World country in a lot of ways. It performs atrociously in almost every metric used to measure citizens' health, wellbeing, education and happiness, its people are far more religious than those in other developed/Western countries (and this is NOT a good thing), and even the metrics it performs well in (such as average income etc) are falsely inflated by a small % of mega billionaires.
@@wallythewondercorncake8657 No, he is not wrong. Only third world countries elect a felon, rapist, conman to be president. Letting people live on the streets when they loose their homes due to medical debt, letting their teachers having to use their own money on school equipment for the students, to expensive mental health help, police shoot them instead. Schoolchildren are murdered because no one (almost) want better laws on gun use. I can go on and on, but you get the picture. Or you don't, because you are an evangelical maga-ish person. About religion... do some research. Outside of the bible. Check DNA, archeology, secular books of science... Of course there are good Usians who try to change things, but they have their work cut out for them.
@@wallythewondercorncake8657 don't need to be an aetheist to see the borderline cult like behavior that americans show towards their ''flag'' and whatnot, and considering how many religious stories there is from over there...... i'm not surprised OP said what they said
@@wallythewondercorncake8657 The actual textbook definition of third world is: countries that are part of the “third world” are generally characterized by (1) high rates of poverty, (2) economic and/or political instability, and (3) high mortality rates. So the US definitely is 3rd world in category 3, and very close in category 1, just that the level of billionaires at one end tends to mask the overall high rates of poverty. So no, it’s not a 3rd world country, but to say it’s not even close, just shows how poorly informed you are. Plus they were making an indisputable fact about how religious the US is, I didn’t see any superiority complex in the comment. I’d suggest Wally suits your personality well.
Ryan, you don't have to worry about rabies if an animal is hissing or growling at you. II believe that it's quite the opposite. You can get rabies from an animal whose brain has been so affected by the disease that it will calmly walk up to you and bite you, without any warning. And yes, you're basically dead if you don't get treatment quickly. We don't have rabies in Australia, but just about everything else that will kill you, if it bites you, we do have a cure/treatment for.
@@TheRealRedAce The name "bunyip" comes from the Wemba-Wemba language, and the mythical creature creature is often considered a warning to keep children away from dangerous water bodies. There is an antivenom for a taipan bite. Not everyone dies from shark and crocodile bites. A blue-ringed octopus bite is extremely dangerous and requires immediate medical attention. The venom contains a powerful neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin (TTX), which can cause paralysis and respiratory failure. If someone is bitten, it's crucial to seek urgent medical care. Treatment typically involves supportive care, such as supplemental oxygen, intravenous (IV) fluids, and sometimes intubation if breathing becomes difficult. It is not necessarily fatal.
We don't have any large mammals like bison , bear, elk etc so all in, it's pretty safe . There's a lot of people who live in the city and the only scary animal they've encountered are groups of roaming teens.
@@DanDownunda8888 Lol, "Bunyip" was a joke. The others are pretty damn dangerous, though I understand Horses cause the most animal-related fatalities in Australia.
Surely it's obvious that NSEW is North, South etc. London is HUGE so it's important to know which part someone lives in. The person was saying he/she has lived in all of them and felt safe.
Rabies! Viewers from the UK, please correct me if I am wrong (viewing you from Germany), but as far as I know, there really is no rabies in the UK. Because, everybody who wants to enter the UK with pets - be it for vacation or long time - needs to 1) prove that the pets are rabies vaccinated (at least 21 days before moving in) and in case they're not, they have to be vaccinated immediately and stay in quarantine for about 21 days.
In the UK the last case of rabies causing death aquired 'within' the country was more than a century ago, in 1902. But a few people have arrived in the UK 'with' rabies caught abroad...
There was a death from Lissa virus, a form of rabies, a few years ago. The man was a member of a bat preservation group and was bitten while ringing or otherwise checking bats. I expect, but don't know, he had been bitten before doing the same thing before but got unlucky. Apparently the virus is fairly common in bat populations but unless you handle bats the chance of being bitten is pretty well zero.
rabies has been completely eradicated in the uk for years upon years now. all animals are screened coming into the UK (and those who do not have available medical history to prove that they are healthy are quarantined).
There is only 1 colony of bats in the UK which do have rabies but theyre not near populations of humans so if people stay away then you won't get bit of catch rabies.
It's not *A* phenomena. That's like saying you drive "a cars". It's called a phenomenon. Same as bacterium or millennium and the like. Dear USA, please use singulars and plurals correctly.
I hate *ex* cetera and "per say" the most. Followed by nucular. I can live with the general bad grammar some people have; I butcher my own language in casual conversation as well... but when I hear anyone say any of those three, I just can't take them seriously anymore.
I'm a 45 year old Brit. I've only actually known two people who got burgled (US: burglarized). A neighbour a few doors down from me (about 20 years ago) and one of my very elderly aunts-in-law (about 2 years ago). On both occasions the burglars were scared off just by being shouted at. The kind of armed "home invasions" you get in the US are very, very rare.
Lol once some burglars at pur house got scared away by OUR CAT!!! they never gotten actually into our living room because upon opening the door between the hall and the living our cat got probably ecxited to be pet and they went without even taking the wallet that was right there on the table for the taking. 😂 meanwhile, my whole family was just sound asleep. We only knew there had been a break jn because a.couple of purses were gone which they had taken from the hallway..
The guy who had cycles and scooters stolen has to remember, in the U.S. you would only have cars parked outside! And not burglarising because the owner may have a gun? Just means the burglars go in groups, ALL armed when they break in! You seem to be forgetting everyone has guns. What burglar doesn't have a gun?
Our worst disasters are typically floods, which is why storms are the worse events for us as they cause flooding. Heatwaves probably kill the most people, flooding mostly causes property damage rather than death. Scotland actually has regular tiny earthquakes from the fault line in Iceland but they are 99% not able to be felt by humans and never bad enough to cause the tiniest bit of damage
If burglars know that you are unlikely to be armed, they themselves will be unarmed as they know that they will be relatively safe and don't want to go to jail as murderers, It is well known that burglars themselves are scared when bugling with high adrenalin levels and on edge, so if they are armed they tend to panic and fire. Innocent citizens who have called the police in the US have been shot and killed by police who shoot first and ask questions later. Older teenagers only appear to be aggressive, as a teacher of up to 18-year-olds I generally find them reasonable and polite, even in groups. Re: theft, the rate in the UK are only a little higher than in the US and in 2021 was lower than the US - it appears to be a matter of perception and where you live, I've never been the subject of theft or robbery in my 77 years here (I've had some old bangers of cars that I wish had been stolen though!).
It is also some RUclipsrs. There is one I listen to for entertainment [claims to be a journalist but I've discovered he doesn't actually check his facts before repeating lies from other media sources] who is constantly going on about being unsafe in London. He's had his phone stolen twice but goes on as though it only happens in London [it doesn't] and to hear him you'd think he was in danger of being stabbed or robbed on an hourly basis while his comments on pickpockets [an INTERNATIONAL issue but hey, why spoil the story with reality] make it seem as though London is closer to a Victorian hell hole. I suspect most is political [he seriously hates the current mayor, also has a very short memory as previous ones were worse] and he is using it for political gain somehow, that or simply to garner sympathy and more views. But point out that other people DON'T have the same experiences or that pickpockets can be - and are, plenty of videos warning tourists what to look out for - found easily ALL AROUND EUROPE while mobile phone theft of flashy iPhones has been an issue for at least 20 years now. He has thousands of subscribers and he isn't the only one trying to make out that the UK is basically a 3rd world country - plenty are, all because they disagree with the elected government - and how much better they would be if only X party had got into power or the UK had it's very own Donald Trump to crack down on this, that and everything else. Pretty certain people see these and assume they are actually telling the truth when it is THEIR version of the truth [I've family and friends in London/greater London and they don't see things in quite the same despondent, dispiriting, thoroughly depressing light.
Agree about the snot-nosed teens. Funnily enough if you get them on their own or with their family they're usually quite nice! Groups of them wandering around talking into their phones can be intimidating though.
Same everywhere though, I'd be wary of a huge group here in Ireland but on their town they are totally different and civilised. Mind you, a couple of times I've been surprised and the group have been very helpful carrying my shopping for me [I'm disabled] or helping me in a shop. But in numbers they are very off putting unfortunately. But then the same comments are found in books written a 100 years as well so it seems to be a perennial thing.
For added context about Europe, here in Finland, as a 42 yo: ◇ I have never heard a gunshot, never seen/heard anyone I know get robbed/mugged/graped, never heard of anyone's house getting broken into ◇ there are no natural disasters. No earthquakes (that you can feel), no tornados, no hurricanes, no floods (that reach housing), no mudslides, no avalanches, no massive thunderstorms, no draughts, no wildfires (only very minor forest fires) ◇ no poisonous or dangerous animals. The only dangerous animal we have is brown bear, but they are more afraid of humans and stay 10-60km away from any human scent. They are also not aggressive unless you somehow stumble between thrm and their cubs. I don't know of anyone that has been injured by a bear, unless they went living with them (yeah, we have a guy like that here) ◇ Everyone gets free mental and physical health care at point of service, and it is completely free for those with low income ◇ everyone loves the police here, and the police will always come help everyone in the situation, and try to work as a neutral arbiter/defuser of the situation. They have guns, but they basically never use them for anything. Even the few times a year the whole police force is forced to use them, they are used for warning shots, or to debilitate the hostile party, not to kill. Basically, the police doesn't kill or work against you, they are always trying to help, even the one they are coming to arrest ◇ all the roads and infrastructure are in great shape, especially considering how challenging our arctic climate and massive land-area is to them. There are no potholes (didn't even know what they were until I saw them in US videos), no falling bridges, people don't drive under the influence (and if they do, it is extremely serious, you lose your lisence, can face extremely rought consequences and is considered one of the worst things you can do here, and will socially forever be considered almost equivalent to a murdered) ◇ If you can't afford a food or a house, the government will arrange them for you. No one who asks, will no longer be houseless/starve here or be without proper healthcare So yeah, people feel a LOT safer in Europe, especially in some parts of it, than in the US
I have huge respect for the Finnish people!! I feel we connect in many ways! and not just the awesome people, but u guys seems to do most things correct!! like EVEN having a good political system/government! I feel honored to be a neighbor of this fantastic country!! Love! from Norway! you guys is on top of everything and you should be PROUD! if it wasnt for that weird language of yours, you guys would be part of Scandinavia
@@TheRealRedAce We have always had Russia right next to us. We are used to it. Putin does not want to control Europe, he wants the old Soviet Union back.
Knife crime gets talked about a lot in the UK but it's actually less than in the US per capita it just never gets talked about with regards to the US since you also have a lot of shootings.
Knife crime gets talked about a lot in England because it's shown on repeat on Skynews and other Murdoch media. Then you get people like Farage that then make it political. After a couple of weeks England becomes another state of America terrorizing and misbelieving they're being terrorized by immigrants.
Of course we get natural disasters in the UK. One time, some snowflakes fell on a railway track and our entire rail network ground to a halt. And don't even get me started on leaves. I mean, they can be REALLY slippery.
As someone who used to travel into and across London for work I used to dread the chalk boards outside the station with messages about the "wrong type" of snow, leaves and even a cow on the line! 😄
I remember a couple of years ago when we had some flooding in the UK the only newsworthy story that the BBC News could come up with was an old couple who were concerned about the safety of the fish in their garden pond! The news crew took them to the pond and the fish were happily swimming around without a care in the world and the news crew got their moneyshot when the old couple broke down crying with relief! In the meantime the fish were secretly cursing the old gits for putting wire mesh over the pond, obviously to stop cats or birds from a free snack, because it stopped their one chance at freedom!
I lived in Islington and Hackney in London for over twenty years and never felt unsafe, now on the Isle of Wight and feel exactly the same. The UK does have quite bad storms but no-where like a hurricane, but land erosion can occur overnight, where large parts of the cliffs will fall into the sea, taking properties with it..very scary and not at all amusing. But we don't have dangerous animals,, rabies, or even poison ivy or oak. As for the youths, just don't hang around where they do, they grow out of it eventually, just stupid kids..been around for generations. 😊👍🇬🇧
I can't comprehend my car overheating and having to worry about knocking on a random door for a container of water. In America you just assume every yahoo has a gun and will shoot you for trespassing on their property. That just doesn't happen in the UK.
Greater London is described by cardinal directions, so much so the postcodes (zip codes with letters) include the NW E SE W prefixes as a key to where you are. Being north of the river and south of the river are seen as very different places 😂. Hes saying he has lived in allover 😂.
Viruses or contagious illnesses are more of a problem in a small country with many people living close to each other and using public transportation. The US has a lower population density and most people use cars to travel.
@sjl.2297 yeah, but better organised vaccination services. I'm booked in for this winter's flu and Covid vaccinations next week. The doctor contacts us to remind us every year. And of course it's free - do Americans pay for vaccinations?
@@missharry5727 I am English so they were free and friends in other European countries did not pay either. I am currently in Spain and they are also very organised. Do Americans pay? I have no idea.
Yeah but people in the US still go to supermarkets, cultural and sporting events, the office, school, university, etc. Public transport is only one of many opportunities to get within infecting distance of other humans.
Knife crime (machete's even) by (mostly ) teen gangs is a huge huge problem in the UK. police will likely not even show up when you call them for a burglary, unless you are at home during a burglary.
Well, gun-laws are quite liberal in Austria, Czechia and Switzerland... you need to go through background checks and can't have a mental disorder but otherwise, you can buy (modern and old) guns you see in movies, and it's more liberal than the UK. You have to store the guns and bullets separately though. These countries don't really have many gun-related deaths. Greetings from a responsible Austrian gun-owner.
Less homicides but still widely used for self deleting... Thus why if you look at deaths by gunshots per capita, the helvetic conf is on par with the USA.
The UK and Europe in general don't really experience natural disasters, no: - there are no or very few (active) tectonic plate cracks in Europe, so barely any earthquakes; - there are no volcanoes in the UK and on most of mainland Europe; - we are in a region that is unlikely to get hurricanes (no tropics -> no tropical storms), the last big one that caused a lot of damage was in 1953: "de Watersnoodramp" ["the Water Emergency Disaster"]; - we are in a position on Earth that doesn't get many extreme temperatures. So yeah, we don't really get any of the shit you get.
We do have some dangerous volcanoes.. but not many.. specifically in Italy and Iceland with Iceland having actually active volcanoes that while few people actually live near them do cause problems for europe when they have big eruptions (like the big one 15ish years ago that shut down air travel in most of northern europe for a month or 2
@@kmortensen9312, " *most of mainland* Europe" Iceland ≠ mainland Europe One volcano or a few volcanoes in Italy doesn't discredit "most of mainland Europe"
@@Jan_Koopman never said it did i simply pointed it out an while iceland might not be mainland europe its volcanoes are so violent that they cause problems for large parts of mainland europe.. so keep your panties on
Considering an Australian woman in the US was shot and killed by a police officer after she called about a disturbance in an ally at the back of her house.
Young man we do get earthquakes and tornadoes in the UK, it’s just that the strongest earthquake in Britain was a 3 on the scale, and the strongest tornado wouldn’t even get on the scale. We do have some very savage storms, which can cause damage to homes and infrastructure, especially on the coast, and severe flooding inland. We have had some very exceptional micro storms that have caused massive and devastating flooding in some small villages in and around the moors in Cornwall or Devon, which include numerous deaths. But these are very rare and we can go years without an incident, and we do occasionally get severe weather during winter which can cause one or two people who weren’t prepared to get caught out and die.
@@Thurgosh_OG Being pedantic, the Dogger Bank is not inside the UK but is an area under the North Sea, earthquakes on the mainland are normally mild in comparison to those regularly suffered in the USA.
I live in Belfast, and everybody has heard of here. I live in a lovely area, anyway I was wandering home from the wine shop a couple of years back. Now, our police do carry guns, Anyway I was so close to my house. There was a load of cops and they wouldn't let me walk on to my house. So I pointed to my house and explained I was just going there. So a plain clothed guy flashed a badge at me. So I took a detour and got home. Now a load of jogger people weren't allowed out of the park on to the main road. It was a security/ bomb alert I found out later. OK I have been through so many bomb scares back in the 80's, and actual bombs. So what got me is.. if it was so flaming dangerous why were we not evacuated? I was sitting my Mums house and the forensic place got blown up. I guess it's about 4 or 5 miles from my Mums. Well it was loud and the double glazing wobbled. Also I was on my way to uni one morning and met a class mate, so we were walking together, freaking bomb goes of (this is belfast city centre) So we wobble on our feet on a pavement. Then one time when I was living in the city centre, and a bomb goes off just down the road from us, By goodness, I stuck not able to move during those seconds. For the record Northern Ireland is part of the UK, but not Great Britain. So many stories. Belfast is pretty safe and beautiful.
Ehhh, coastal erosion can be a real big problem, specially if the coastline is made of real soft stone like chalk. Life in Germany and some of our Islands have Chalk cliffs. After some bad storms the coastlines can be eroded by around 50 meters. So yes, some people can loose their homes overnight.
Regarding UK teens if you are approaching a group and show fear or even apprehension they will see it. I know one will always say something but if you laugh thats normally it. They hang around shops so you have to react to them twice. I was one once so I have never had a problem. Also trying to ignore them doesn't work. Head up, eye contact and smile.
Hi Ryan, I'm a Brit who's not visited the US. I'd say it's not just no guns, though (to be pedantic, very few guns). It's: Accessible healthcare, free at the point of use. Women have access to reproductive healthcare. Religion is basically a private matter and, in practice, does not play such a big role in politics. More of a social safety net (although recent governments are attacking this) It is not so car-dominated, and living without one is possible. I do.
Our natural disasters a flooding in certain areas prone to it, coastline erosion slowly encroaching on and then claiming houses and we do have tornados but they’re monster sized so usually do little to no damage.
It seems to me that a lot of the people who have had issues with burglary type crime may have moved from the US suburbs to an urban location in the UK. It's not an accurate comparison. Like all cities around the world, UK cities have areas within them that have reasonably high rates of property crime. For example, I think some Americans move into the dodgier parts of London without knowing it. Dodgy areas don't generally look as run down in the UK as they do in the US.
An American, "survivalist", lady bought a remote cottage near me, in rural Suffolk. She put a high fence all round and is fighting the authorities for a gun license and permission to build a nuclear bomb shelter!
Imagine choosing one of the country with the most restriction against gun ownership, and act like a Karen when they don't give you one. She should have went to Switzerland. Plenty of cheap bunkers, and guns.
@@henrybest4057 What Fish said was "Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rang the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way. Well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't!"" What occurred was a storm. A storm with very strong gusts, but still just a storm.
More seriously, as a brit. Yes, some places teenage groups can be intimidating. Also a serious binge drinking problem in many city/town centers at weekends (many cop shows on TV of fights caused by drunkenness). I guess burglary is a problem in specific places but I lived in the rural SE and in several parts of London and never had a problem and don't personally know anyone who has been burgled. Still, I guess it's down to individual experience. Of course, no school shootings/mass shootings here so that's a plus.
I live in a pretty rough area of the uk. There’s large groups of teens in my evening walk that have not a lot to do but just hang around. I’m 45 but if you get yourself into their mindset by remembering you were that age once you can have a little fun, a bit of friendly banter won’t hurt you.
The last UK school shooting was 28 years ago in 1996. Here's a list of the last American school shootings October 17, 2024 - Louisville, Kentucky (1 child injured) October 14, 2024 - Santa Monica, California (2 children died) October 10, 2024 - Coatesville, Pennsylvania (shots fired at school bus) October 5, 2024 - Colorado Springs, Colorado - (1 child injured) That's just the list for October so far. There were 7 in September and 6 in August. There was only 1 in June and none in July because it was summer break. There were 5 in May, 9 in April, 2 in March, 8 in February, and 4 in January. There's just this year. A similar pattern occurs every single month on every single year and this crazy problem goes back decades.
We get floods (a bit more common now than they were), and apart from that the only real danger is being woken up in the middle of the night by a mild quake and then spending an hour or so trying to get the dogs to calm back down.
I remember a couple of years ago when we had some flooding in the UK the only newsworthy story that the BBC News could come up with was an old couple who were concerned about the safety of the fish in their garden pond! The news crew took them to the pond and the fish were happily swimming around without a care in the world and the news crew got their moneyshot when the old couple broke down crying with relief! In the meantime the fish were secretly cursing the old gits for putting wire mesh over the pond, obviously to stop cats or birds from a free snack, because it stopped their one chance at freedom!
We get hurricanes in the uk but about one every 15 years. Very minor earthquake tremors every 10yrs or so. Like you might find your outdoor chairs fall over.
There may be storms with winds as strong as a hurricane but Hurricanes *cannot* form at the latitudes of the UK as they require much higher sea surface temperatures to develop than exist close to the UK.
@@Spiklething US Hurricanes much more sustained than any gust of wind from a storm in Europe. It doesn't help that their houses are literal matchboxes, but the 2 phenomena are pretty different even if they were to match in intensity for a short duration. A storm rarely get up to 200km/h in short burst, with the European highest recorded of 250km/h (Lothar in 1999). US hurricanes can go up to 300km/h (Allen in 1980) winds and it just doesn't stops until it passes or lose momentum.
Why should the police who you called during a robbery have guns when they attend the crime scene. The police will inevitably arrive so long after the call that the would-be thieves have long gone and/or the occupant is either enraged and pissed or already dead as a victim of a crime so the police guns are unnecessary or maybe a further potential threat to the irate occupants as they rage on about how useless the police were.
We do get hurricane-force winds here, ie. force 12, especially in maritime areas. They're not like tropical storms, but when the Atlantic gets boisterous, it doesn't know its own strength. 1987 was a particularly bad storm over the southern half of England; anyone who was in it will have a story to tell. People died.
I have at my back door my brothers old truncheon (he was a copper) and at the frond door I have a marble rolling pin.I have had to use them only once and boy did I pop them the sound was horrendous but good at the same time. 🇬🇧
I was once gifted an old, heavy hip replacement (of all things!) to keep near my door, that would do some serious damage if it ever connected with someone - thankfully though, the only time I've ever felt the need to wave it around as a threat, things went no further! Not only did I scare the mf half to death with it (as he admitted in a later conversation - he hadn't been well at the time), it genuinely confused the shit out of him because of course, why would this crazy woman screaming at him have (what's obviously) a hip replacement to hand like that anyway? < which makes for an excellent point, lol! Just between me and you and the entirety of YT though, I'd have probably just ended up chucking it at him and running away - I'm very glad you had the satisfaction though! :)
Europe have tornadoes but not F5/F4 . We have earthquakes but not destructive and once in few years. We have floods but also every 10 /20 years if the weather is shaitty, we have fores fires if the is year drought , we can have avalanches in mountains. No hurricanes but we can get winds almost like hurricanes but not so destructive that people will die only some property damage also if the weather is shaitty.
gangs of kids depends where you are. where i live, there is none of that but im outside a city. I will say though when i was a kid i had a big group of friends, we would have nothing to do so we would go up town hang out on a corner, you know bored. we were all the nicest most geeky group of kids you would ever meet, but adults crossed the road to avoid us and shops would tell us to move away like we were scum lol. I think the perception of groups of kids being up for a fight and super aggressive just comes from actual gangs on the extreme side which infact are not common in most of the uk
Kids in groups are often loud and energetic, little calmness about them, they like to walk like the tough guys they aren't. If one them greets older people in a old fashioned overpolite way the tension is usually gone right away.
I haven't much experience to fall back on (I've only lived in the UK for most of my 86 years) and i have never met anyone who was burgled or shot or stabbed in GB. I have seen people shot in Cyprus and in NI. The problem with anecdotal stuff that has appeared in this video is that people have been sensitised by sensationalist newspapers who report everything IN LOUD VOICES. In the USA there are 40000 deaths by gunshot each year; in the UK there might be 100 or so. And every one is reported as if the world was coming to an end. Knife crime is a current problem among youth; and not surprisingly, most of those killed and wounded are found to be carrying knives themselves for self-defence. If you or your family happen to be on the end of violence, wherever you live, it is not something you are likely to regard lightly
There have been tornadoes in UK, thelast was December 2023 in Manchester. They usually aren't on the scale of those in the US, but they happen occasionally. One in Edinburgh in September 2022 too, no damage.
Coastal erosion is serious in some parts of the UK. For instance, I wouldn't want to own a house within a few hundreds of yards of the sea in either Holderness (Yorkshire) or east Norfolk. A few big storms can wash away big areas of land. And once you're within tens of yards of the cliff edge, your house can go from OK to uninhabitable in one big storm.
I've lived in "bad neighbourhoods." The guns I saw are pellet guns and a shot gun, which was for clay pigeon shooting. Yes, a group of teenagers can look threatening, but I just walk past them. A couple of months ago, we had a mini tornado, and it torn the roofs of 2 of neighbours off their houses and uprooted a shed. You don't shit (break in) home area.
Yea, flooding is probably the most common cause of death, as far as natural disasters go. We had some pretty devastating ones in recent years in several different countries. During the summer wildfires are a real threat too. Especially on the numerous small, dry Adriatic islands. We do help each other tho'. It is common for emergency and relief services from all over Europe to go help out a country that's in trouble. EU-member countries even send help to non-member countries.
Yes. Last winter during the big floods and heavy rain a town just 7 miles up the road from me was completely flooded, they had to evaluate. Many people lost their homes for good.
@@Kat-mu8wq Sorry to hear that. We had pretty much the most devastating flood in over 30 years in 2023. I went to help with the clean-up in one of the affected towns and it was like being in a post-apocalyptic movie. A fireman had his entire home literally swept away while he was on duty, saving families stranded by the flood.
Hey, Ryan! You repeatedly referenced Charles Dickens' 1838 novel _Oliver Twist_ (which featured Fagin and The Artful Dodger). I realise that you were being humorous, but if any Americans really do form their ideas about the UK from such sources, they should bear in mind that Dickens was writing more than 180 years ago, and often being 'nostalgic' about even earlier times. I daresay the USA was a _little_ different in 1838 to what it is today, and I don't think many British people worry about being scalped by "Red Indians" should they visit America. This was an extreme and isolated example, but one gets the general impression that most Americans have a very outdated image of the UK. We haven't been standing still while the USA was advancing!
In your own country you usually know by the looks of people what kind of to expect. I easily can identify 99% of young men as the harmless kind. In a foreign country that often goes down to 50% just because I don't know the locals that well.
I lived in Cambridge and Birmingham, and spent some time in London. I can’t think of any time that I ever felt unsafe. Even the ‘gangs’ of youth wandering around weren’t at all intimidating if you ignored them.
I live in an area of London that has a reputation for knife crime due to a certain population but because I'm a middle aged white man I feel perfectly safe, even walking to the shops at 2am when I've run out of chocolate!
We had one hurricane known as the great storm of 1987 was a violent extratropical cyclone that occurred on the night of 15-16 October, with hurricane-force winds causing 22 deaths, many of the trees in the south east fell down, whilst we do get the tail end of a lot of Atlantic hurricanes we have never had anything similar since, so nearly forty years ago
Girl Gone London (an American who has lived in England for over ten years) did a video called something like 'do I feel safer in the UK or America' might be worth checking out, she make some interesting points.
I have been in UK for working 20 yrs ago for 4mths. The Hotel I stayd was close to a club area. I don't know how it is now, but back then a lot of drunking guys out of control. Big fights in the night were standard.
We do get the odd earthquake in the UK but they are usually just tremors. And we do get the odd storm and bad winds that bring down trees and cause flooding.
2:20 Yeah, I don't hesitate calling the police here in Denmark just because they are armed and their regular response outfit includes a bulletproof vest and slashproof gloves... They have frequent training in conflict management and go to the shooting range at least every 3 months. And whenever they as much as pull the gun, they have paperwork to do, so that the individual evaluations team can figure out if it was reasonable. Also they never patrol alone unless they're doing traffic duty... if a traffic officer needs to pull his gun at you, you know you effed up 😄 They also all have a pepper spray and some of them a stun-gun. The idea is that all officers on duty must be ready for any situation. That's why they also know advanced first aid. So in case of a major emergency, everyone already on duty can be called. Be it a mentally ill person wrecking havoc or a huge accident... Of course, firefighters and ambulance staff can do many tasks much better, but police is often first to the scene, because they patrol.
I live in Ramsgate in Kent in England, We've had one Earthquake thet I know of that was out at sea, Snow Fall here is almost non existant we have neavy snow fall occasionaly, but usually it is a light flurry, blink and you'd miss it.
Earthquakes do happen in the uk they’re just too small to be felt and no danger, there are however very rare cases of slight shaking being detected. Tornadoes also occur but they’re often too weak and don’t last very long but can still cause a bit of damage
As a Brit who has lived in the US previously.... Walking is such a strange concept to Americans. So many people would stop and ask if I was ok or needed a ride. No...I'm walking to the shop to get something, I don't need help for the 10 minutes this would take...
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We do get storms in the UK but we read the three little pigs and decided bricks seemed best 😂
I have always said the USA never got past chapter two.
@@surfaceten510n same here, they just keep building wooden houses in hurricane areas ....
@@dwaijer That depend if you can consider a garden shed a house. For me a "real" wooden house is a chalet : sturdy large wall, not paper thin layer of wooden agglomerated that will disappeared when a small wind blow
@@dwaijer and they will keep building them. their logic says its cheaper to rebuild a house after a storm if the house is made cheaply in the first place. i dont really get that logic either but with all these heavy tornados...im not sure a brick house would survive it either. the ligher ones surely but with the amount of heavy tornados id guess the lifetime of the house doesnt get extended to a reasonable degree.
England has more hurricanes than any other country in the world.
Thank God the U.K. is nothing like America without the guns.
They prefer the stabby stabbys 🤣
The people are very much like yanks these days and the UK is become more murican, just a far cheaper imitation.
One of the most important factors for safety in the UK is the one no-one seems to mention. That is road safety, by every measure, deaths per miles driven, number of vehicles, distance travelled etc we are one of the safest nations on earth with one of the lowest death tolls on the road, despite having some of the most crowded roads. In the UK the death rate on the roads in 2022 was 2.6 per 100,000 people, in the US it was 13.8 per 100,000, and we have no 'jaywalking', laws
3:07 Honestly, with how often US cops seem to end up shooting the person who called them... It's a legitimate worry IMO.
Once one looks at statistics about "duty casualties", difference is around 100 times (per capita). And number of people shot in total difference is more like 500 times.
(For referrence - traffic accidents are just 3 times more deadly - not bad considering how many people "has to drive" and how easy is to get license)
@@elmurcis1 Do not compare the statistics of an entire state with just a country from EU, your percentages involve millions, ours is only thousands. Low number or big, if there are chances of having casualties, the system is not right. Think of Murphy's law, what can go wrong will go wrong.
@@elmurcis1 What has that got to do with anything I said?
@@razvangheorghe9230 That's not how percentages work.
Usians don't understand "per capita"?
"UK is almost US....." Says someone who hasn't even been there...... No, it is not. The UK is a much better organised society from any point of view. I have visited both countries more than once. In many respects, the US is 20 to 30 years behind. And I don't think that will change for a while.
An 18th century eruption at Laki in Iceland killed people in the UK.
If anything the US will end up 50 - 100yrs behind at the rate that they are going.
Sadly, the UK is in as deep a dive into oblivion, as the US is. Our problem is our anti-British Government's and the anti-British Mainstream media (particularly the bbc). If a UK Government was to actually put the indigenous peoples of the UK first, this would be a lot better place.
Yes it is, because of the Piracy Act 1717/18. I wouldn't be surprised that the so called rednecks are related (DNA-wise) to these British hooligans!!! Look, how dumb can you be, to vote for BREXIT! You can even see, that the UK wants to go back to the EU, because they've seen, that the UK becomes backward, like the US. So, for me it's a big YES!
30 years ago I'd say that for electronics and digitalisation Japan was 10 years ahead of Europe and USA 5 years ahead of Europe. I haven't been to either USA or Japan since then, so the rest is based on second hand observations. I think nowadays electronics are mostly the same all over though they do have some cool stuff in Asia that aren't really available elsewhere (unless you import it directly and can read some asian language), but for digitalisation I think Europe (west and north Europe) is mostly ahead of USA now.
England has some anachronisms in common with USA (like using the imperial system instead of the metric system for many things, and the only two times I've had a check book was when living in USA and England (USA 30 years ago and England 15 years ago)). Then again there are other European countries with weird anachronisms like Germany still using cash on a regular basis. All in all I think England is more similar to other European countries than to USA, but I also think England in many ways is the country in Europe most similar to USA (though more similar to Canada than USA).
If you get pulled over by a UK cop in normal circumstances i.e. you aren't knowingly being chased - we don't have to assume the police will pull a gun and threaten to or possibly shoot at us.
Unless its the London MET. Those neanderthal thugs are capable of anything.
No but they will arrest you now if you are a citizen and show patriotism- they are a disgraceful group of thugs 🇬🇧🏴
If you get pulled over by a UK cop just smile, be polite, say sorry and you'll be alive and kicking and on your way in no time!
@@B-A-L pretty much, in my younger days i was pulled over for speeding on motorcycles somewhere between 15 and 20 times and not once ever convicted of it, with the exception of once im only talking about 10-20mph over the speed limit and in a city but generally u pull over with no fuss, be civil and apologise and as long as ur insured, taxed and have a license u will generally get a warning or a producer for the local station if missing one of ur documents
Same with the gardai but if you aren't taxed or insured then that's a different story [might lose your car as they are cracking down on dodgers]
Safe from guns and safe from the fear of being made bankrupt for the crime of getting sick!
Yes, I'm surprised none of the original posts mentioned it.
Yea, that's actually a big one! No matter how lucky or healthy you are, we all need medical care at some point in our life. And the impact of not having to worry about going into massive debt if something bad does happen is not to be overlooked.
You would be surprised at the sheer amount of guns in the uk
knowing that your holiday allowance is not used for the boss making you work, or for sick time
@@Radiatron18What is your source? I've lived here since probably before you were born and I've never seen a gun!🇬🇧
They DO mean North, South, East and West of London, as in they only lived in London but have lived all over it.
I wonder if they were saying they have lived al over London apart from central.
@@SpyroTek probably as central London is mostly businesses and the very rich
Exactly. Maybe you need to have lived in London to understand, but north, south, east, and west London are so different that they're virtually four different cities.
Yeah, I guess north London would be the place to expect more crime, even the area around Wembley seemed a bit rougher than where we stayed (South Kensington). I'm unsure if it counts as north but it looked pretty north on the Tube map.
@@tomscorpion6288 South/South East is probably high on Crime figures.
Also quite difficult down as far as Croydon.
Bits without the Tube can be a bit worrying.
I have also lived NSEW of London, though not Croydon.
Having said that, I felt safe there.
That is precisely what he's saying. London is divided into, north, south, east and west and he's saying he lived in all of them.
I was horrified when American women said nobody would go out at night alone. Here, I never worry about that stuff. I once put a coat on over my nightdress to follow an owl through the streets.
As for police, I have never been bervous when desling with the police. If they had guns, I would avoid them at sll costs. My father is a retired Chief Indpector. He says the police can not protect the public if the public are afraid of them.
What about American women who go out alone at night mugging people?
Its not the gun you have to fear, its the mindset/training of the police.
@@wolf310ii its especially the combi?
The guns are not a problem. In Netherlands or Germany all cops have guns, but that doesn't make them feared. At an airport(Germany) I even saw some cop with a machine gun walking around (very rare to me) and everyone was fine with that. Not different than with the young female officer at his side. Just asking questions and talking with him.
@helenwood8482 I do voluntary work a couple of days a week. Once the clocks go back I am likely to be walking home after dark. I use a well-used street from the town centre to my home - it has lights, passes by houses and the local college, and is quite busy at home time. It's about half a mile and it never feels unsafe at that time of day.
We do get major disasters. They usually happen every five years or so and are known as “governments”.
We in Belgium every 4 years 😂😂😂
Not just the UK and, not just Belgium but, Europe....still having politicians and "administrators" copying those in the 1930's.... hrmpf... 😨
I mean Belgium is just one massive disaster
@@depressedutchman so true
So true.
7:25 small correction about coastal erosion: in some cases it can cause a landslide that can reach the ground in seconds, so erosion itself is slow-mo but can cause a collapse that most definitely is not, and can fall on beach huts and kill anyone in them. I live near the Jurassic coast (south) and around a year or 2 ago we had a massive landslide that luckily didn't kill anyone but did destroy many beach huts that could've had people in them. You are correct about erosion, but the real thing to worry about are landslides :)
My exact comment. There was a large rockfall at West Bay only this week, yet people still take huge risks.
1- natural disasters in UK are pretty much bad floods and related issues coming from that
2-I’m sure Knife crime will come up, because it’s a meme, but in reality even knife crime is smaller than the US, even just London knife murder is less than US, considerably…
All that happens during our bad floods is a few carpets get a bit soggy and people go to work in canoes and as for knife crime, well it only happens in certain areas of London with a particular culture and only happens within that particular culture.
@@B-A-L No it can happen anywhere but it is still rarer than the same in US, more death by knife crime, per capita in US than UK, I think its about 3 to 1..
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I can only imagine that you have never been a victim of flooding, particularly if from severe flooding, or you would know and understand the horrid feeling of having precious belongings lost to floodwaters, which usually envelopes drains and sewers, thus contaminating a home's furniture, personal belongings and also vehicles, etc, _not just a few soggy carpets_ .
In severely affected flood plains, for example, houses, indeed whole villages can be swamped and lay with sewerage covering entire streets, homes, fields, affecting the very young, the old and infirm, farmer's livestock and feed storage etc.
Flooding can lead to illnesses and / or infections, injuries and lives lost...
So, "a few soggy carpets"* is _very far_ from the truth, and that* statement is very much lacking in empathy. 😠
Ryan, for some comparison, you can look for example at murder rate of US cities vs European cities. I use murder rate because murder is categorized similarly everywhere.
If you go from most populous city to less populous city, you have to go down to 97th most populated US city to finally find a city with murder rate close to London for example, all other 96 have higher murder rate.
Kind of crazy…
brit here, hearing .. 6 D cell maglite... i thought it may have been a small gun hahah!! it's just a torch.
Yes. I thought it was a gun.
@@annedunne4526 strange name for a torch isn't it. Certainly sounds like some sort of firearm.
@@SiGr10614 Maglite is a brand of very tough waterproof torches favoured by "outdoorsy" people, police and security companies . The cases are made of magnesium alloy ( the same as many car wheels ) hence the name.
@@thearmouredpenguin7148 That were favored anyway, they're not nearly as popular with LED torches and rechargeable batteries being so good now. Still popular with security etc. for that intimidation factor of a huge metal object though.
The give away was D cell. My old bicycle uses D cell batteries in its battery pack. That and I have owned a Maglite slim for over a decade. Hi from the NE UK
Our burglars scarpered at a stern " Sorry, can I help you? “
😂
Ours just said "Cheers, that would be positively delightful of you, old chap. If you could be so kind as to put all the valuables into these sacks, that would be absolutely spiffing. We'd be so awfully grateful."
@@TheRealRedAce Ah, sounds like you needed to up your game to an "Excuse me, MAY I help you".
That you said "sorry" to your burglars is peak British ;-)
@@annalangley9877 wrong kind of sorry though,lol
I'm Dutch and I live in a "bad neighbourhood". Never seen or heard a gun.
Same here, and I live in OSS.
Up here in Finland, I've heard more artillery fire than handguns...
Look up the recent case of a woman who called the police in the US who called the police about a noise outside. She ended up shot dead by the police for taking a pan of water off the stove.
...Mcfuckinscuse me?
London police shot a suspect in a taxi...AND the innocent taxi driver who was driving him. The suspect later turned out to be the wrong guy. UK is safe; but London certainly isn't! There, they'll mug you as look at you.
There was more than taking a pan of water of the stove . There was a long interaction before that. Unfortunately , from what I can see, America seems to have a very large mental health crisis (for whatever reason) and it goes undiagnosed or untreated .
Oh yes, that's right ... first he threatened to shoot the old woman in the face. She said she reviled him in the name of Jesus. He drew his weapon. Then she put the pot back, cowered down whkmpering, and THEN he shot her in the face. I watched the video. White cop. Old small black woman who could never have thrown any water on him if she tried. It was absolutely horrifying. @@infin8ee
@@infin8ee But whatever, in the UK, woman, would be unlikely to be shot by the cops, she called for help.
"America with no guns", and better trained police. In 40 years I've never felt afraid of the police, and I've been arrested on 4 or 5 separate occasions over the years. Only time I was at all manhandled was when 6 officers arrested me after reports of me threatening people with a chainsaw (I should add I didn't threaten anyone), and they still didn't hurt me. They were just being careful.
It is in no way like America but with no guns. America, despite the country's overall wealth, is basically a Third World country in a lot of ways. It performs atrociously in almost every metric used to measure citizens' health, wellbeing, education and happiness, its people are far more religious than those in other developed/Western countries (and this is NOT a good thing), and even the metrics it performs well in (such as average income etc) are falsely inflated by a small % of mega billionaires.
Found the "I'm so superior" atheist. Also, it's not even close to being a third world country. You are very poorly informed.
@@wallythewondercorncake8657 No, he is not wrong. Only third world countries elect a felon, rapist, conman to be president. Letting people live on the streets when they loose their homes due to medical debt, letting their teachers having to use their own money on school equipment for the students, to expensive mental health help, police shoot them instead. Schoolchildren are murdered because no one (almost) want better laws on gun use. I can go on and on, but you get the picture. Or you don't, because you are an evangelical maga-ish person. About religion... do some research. Outside of the bible. Check DNA, archeology, secular books of science...
Of course there are good Usians who try to change things, but they have their work cut out for them.
@@wallythewondercorncake8657 don't need to be an aetheist to see the borderline cult like behavior that americans show towards their ''flag'' and whatnot, and considering how many religious stories there is from over there...... i'm not surprised OP said what they said
I would agree on most of your points made; moodymarco.
@@wallythewondercorncake8657 The actual textbook definition of third world is: countries that are part of the “third world” are generally characterized by (1) high rates of poverty, (2) economic and/or political instability, and (3) high mortality rates. So the US definitely is 3rd world in category 3, and very close in category 1, just that the level of billionaires at one end tends to mask the overall high rates of poverty. So no, it’s not a 3rd world country, but to say it’s not even close, just shows how poorly informed you are. Plus they were making an indisputable fact about how religious the US is, I didn’t see any superiority complex in the comment. I’d suggest Wally suits your personality well.
Ryan, you don't have to worry about rabies if an animal is hissing or growling at you. II believe that it's quite the opposite. You can get rabies from an animal whose brain has been so affected by the disease that it will calmly walk up to you and bite you, without any warning. And yes, you're basically dead if you don't get treatment quickly. We don't have rabies in Australia, but just about everything else that will kill you, if it bites you, we do have a cure/treatment for.
Blue ringed octopus? Shark? Crocodile? Taipan? Bunyip? :D
@@TheRealRedAce The name "bunyip" comes from the Wemba-Wemba language, and the mythical creature creature is often considered a warning to keep children away from dangerous water bodies. There is an antivenom for a taipan bite. Not everyone dies from shark and crocodile bites. A blue-ringed octopus bite is extremely dangerous and requires immediate medical attention. The venom contains a powerful neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin (TTX), which can cause paralysis and respiratory failure. If someone is bitten, it's crucial to seek urgent medical care. Treatment typically involves supportive care, such as supplemental oxygen, intravenous (IV) fluids, and sometimes intubation if breathing becomes difficult. It is not necessarily fatal.
We don't have any large mammals like bison , bear, elk etc so all in, it's pretty safe . There's a lot of people who live in the city and the only scary animal they've encountered are groups of roaming teens.
@@DanDownunda8888 Lol, "Bunyip" was a joke. The others are pretty damn dangerous, though I understand Horses cause the most animal-related fatalities in Australia.
Surely it's obvious that NSEW is North, South etc. London is HUGE so it's important to know which part someone lives in. The person was saying he/she has lived in all of them and felt safe.
Rabies! Viewers from the UK, please correct me if I am wrong (viewing you from Germany),
but as far as I know, there really is no rabies in the UK. Because, everybody who wants to enter the UK with pets - be it for vacation or long time - needs to 1) prove that the pets are rabies vaccinated (at least 21 days before moving in) and in case they're not, they have to be vaccinated immediately and stay in quarantine for about 21 days.
In the UK the last case of rabies causing death aquired 'within' the country was more than a century ago, in 1902. But a few people have arrived in the UK 'with' rabies caught abroad...
@@StewedFishProductions I see.. thanks for telling me
There was a death from Lissa virus, a form of rabies, a few years ago. The man was a member of a bat preservation group and was bitten while ringing or otherwise checking bats. I expect, but don't know, he had been bitten before doing the same thing before but got unlucky. Apparently the virus is fairly common in bat populations but unless you handle bats the chance of being bitten is pretty well zero.
rabies has been completely eradicated in the uk for years upon years now. all animals are screened coming into the UK (and those who do not have available medical history to prove that they are healthy are quarantined).
There is only 1 colony of bats in the UK which do have rabies but theyre not near populations of humans so if people stay away then you won't get bit of catch rabies.
It's not *A* phenomena. That's like saying you drive "a cars". It's called a phenomenon. Same as bacterium or millennium and the like. Dear USA, please use singulars and plurals correctly.
I know, right?! This annoys me, too!
I hate *ex* cetera and "per say" the most. Followed by nucular. I can live with the general bad grammar some people have; I butcher my own language in casual conversation as well... but when I hear anyone say any of those three, I just can't take them seriously anymore.
@@Pancake_Nix And expresso! 🙄😂😂😂😂
@@carolmurphy7572 how could I have forgotten expresso?! 😆😂 That one is also right up there for sure.
@@Pancake_Nix, exetra, definitely
But what is the correct pronunciation of per se then?
I'm a 45 year old Brit. I've only actually known two people who got burgled (US: burglarized). A neighbour a few doors down from me (about 20 years ago) and one of my very elderly aunts-in-law (about 2 years ago). On both occasions the burglars were scared off just by being shouted at. The kind of armed "home invasions" you get in the US are very, very rare.
Lol once some burglars at pur house got scared away by OUR CAT!!! they never gotten actually into our living room because upon opening the door between the hall and the living our cat got probably ecxited to be pet and they went without even taking the wallet that was right there on the table for the taking. 😂 meanwhile, my whole family was just sound asleep. We only knew there had been a break jn because a.couple of purses were gone which they had taken from the hallway..
Most only enter anything if they know nobody is there.
The guy who had cycles and scooters stolen has to remember, in the U.S. you would only have cars parked outside! And not burglarising because the owner may have a gun? Just means the burglars go in groups, ALL armed when they break in! You seem to be forgetting everyone has guns. What burglar doesn't have a gun?
A very stupid and a poor one.
Our worst disasters are typically floods, which is why storms are the worse events for us as they cause flooding. Heatwaves probably kill the most people, flooding mostly causes property damage rather than death. Scotland actually has regular tiny earthquakes from the fault line in Iceland but they are 99% not able to be felt by humans and never bad enough to cause the tiniest bit of damage
If burglars know that you are unlikely to be armed, they themselves will be unarmed as they know that they will be relatively safe and don't want to go to jail as murderers, It is well known that burglars themselves are scared when bugling with high adrenalin levels and on edge, so if they are armed they tend to panic and fire. Innocent citizens who have called the police in the US have been shot and killed by police who shoot first and ask questions later. Older teenagers only appear to be aggressive, as a teacher of up to 18-year-olds I generally find them reasonable and polite, even in groups. Re: theft, the rate in the UK are only a little higher than in the US and in 2021 was lower than the US - it appears to be a matter of perception and where you live, I've never been the subject of theft or robbery in my 77 years here (I've had some old bangers of cars that I wish had been stolen though!).
It is also some RUclipsrs. There is one I listen to for entertainment [claims to be a journalist but I've discovered he doesn't actually check his facts before repeating lies from other media sources] who is constantly going on about being unsafe in London. He's had his phone stolen twice but goes on as though it only happens in London [it doesn't] and to hear him you'd think he was in danger of being stabbed or robbed on an hourly basis while his comments on pickpockets [an INTERNATIONAL issue but hey, why spoil the story with reality] make it seem as though London is closer to a Victorian hell hole. I suspect most is political [he seriously hates the current mayor, also has a very short memory as previous ones were worse] and he is using it for political gain somehow, that or simply to garner sympathy and more views. But point out that other people DON'T have the same experiences or that pickpockets can be - and are, plenty of videos warning tourists what to look out for - found easily ALL AROUND EUROPE while mobile phone theft of flashy iPhones has been an issue for at least 20 years now. He has thousands of subscribers and he isn't the only one trying to make out that the UK is basically a 3rd world country - plenty are, all because they disagree with the elected government - and how much better they would be if only X party had got into power or the UK had it's very own Donald Trump to crack down on this, that and everything else. Pretty certain people see these and assume they are actually telling the truth when it is THEIR version of the truth [I've family and friends in London/greater London and they don't see things in quite the same despondent, dispiriting, thoroughly depressing light.
Houses do just fall off cliffs in massive erosion events during coastal storms!
Agree about the snot-nosed teens. Funnily enough if you get them on their own or with their family they're usually quite nice! Groups of them wandering around talking into their phones can be intimidating though.
Same everywhere though, I'd be wary of a huge group here in Ireland but on their town they are totally different and civilised. Mind you, a couple of times I've been surprised and the group have been very helpful carrying my shopping for me [I'm disabled] or helping me in a shop. But in numbers they are very off putting unfortunately. But then the same comments are found in books written a 100 years as well so it seems to be a perennial thing.
I believe the word scarper is Italian for run . In the UK it means to run away from dangerous situations
There's only a moderate probability of the origin being Italian, however, it could be directly from the rhyming slang 'Scapa Flow' ‘go’.
@@Thurgosh_OG English humour.
For added context about Europe, here in Finland, as a 42 yo:
◇ I have never heard a gunshot, never seen/heard anyone I know get robbed/mugged/graped, never heard of anyone's house getting broken into
◇ there are no natural disasters. No earthquakes (that you can feel), no tornados, no hurricanes, no floods (that reach housing), no mudslides, no avalanches, no massive thunderstorms, no draughts, no wildfires (only very minor forest fires)
◇ no poisonous or dangerous animals. The only dangerous animal we have is brown bear, but they are more afraid of humans and stay 10-60km away from any human scent. They are also not aggressive unless you somehow stumble between thrm and their cubs. I don't know of anyone that has been injured by a bear, unless they went living with them (yeah, we have a guy like that here)
◇ Everyone gets free mental and physical health care at point of service, and it is completely free for those with low income
◇ everyone loves the police here, and the police will always come help everyone in the situation, and try to work as a neutral arbiter/defuser of the situation. They have guns, but they basically never use them for anything. Even the few times a year the whole police force is forced to use them, they are used for warning shots, or to debilitate the hostile party, not to kill. Basically, the police doesn't kill or work against you, they are always trying to help, even the one they are coming to arrest
◇ all the roads and infrastructure are in great shape, especially considering how challenging our arctic climate and massive land-area is to them. There are no potholes (didn't even know what they were until I saw them in US videos), no falling bridges, people don't drive under the influence (and if they do, it is extremely serious, you lose your lisence, can face extremely rought consequences and is considered one of the worst things you can do here, and will socially forever be considered almost equivalent to a murdered)
◇ If you can't afford a food or a house, the government will arrange them for you. No one who asks, will no longer be houseless/starve here or be without proper healthcare
So yeah, people feel a LOT safer in Europe, especially in some parts of it, than in the US
.....and you've got Putin right next to you....
I have huge respect for the Finnish people!! I feel we connect in many ways! and not just the awesome people, but u guys seems to do most things correct!! like EVEN having a good political system/government! I feel honored to be a neighbor of this fantastic country!! Love! from Norway! you guys is on top of everything and you should be PROUD! if it wasnt for that weird language of yours, you guys would be part of Scandinavia
@@TheRealRedAce We have always had Russia right next to us. We are used to it. Putin does not want to control Europe, he wants the old Soviet Union back.
@@Songfugel We certainly get floods in Europe.
All of this. Yes.
My dad was a police officer in UK, not sure if he's ever even seen a gun...probably at most a farmers shot gun?
NSEW is indeed the compass points and he's saying he has lived in North London, South London, etc., etc.
Knife crime gets talked about a lot in the UK but it's actually less than in the US per capita it just never gets talked about with regards to the US since you also have a lot of shootings.
Knife crime gets talked about a lot in England because it's shown on repeat on Skynews and other Murdoch media. Then you get people like Farage that then make it political. After a couple of weeks England becomes another state of America terrorizing and misbelieving they're being terrorized by immigrants.
Anyone, even Americans, should feel safer in a country that is not obsessed with guns and violence.
9:02 probably means they've lived all over London; it's a large city where one borough can differ wildly from the next
Of course we get natural disasters in the UK. One time, some snowflakes fell on a railway track and our entire rail network ground to a halt. And don't even get me started on leaves. I mean, they can be REALLY slippery.
This comment is why I love Brits.
As someone who used to travel into and across London for work I used to dread the chalk boards outside the station with messages about the "wrong type" of snow, leaves and even a cow on the line! 😄
I remember a couple of years ago when we had some flooding in the UK the only newsworthy story that the BBC News could come up with was an old couple who were concerned about the safety of the fish in their garden pond! The news crew took them to the pond and the fish were happily swimming around without a care in the world and the news crew got their moneyshot when the old couple broke down crying with relief! In the meantime the fish were secretly cursing the old gits for putting wire mesh over the pond, obviously to stop cats or birds from a free snack, because it stopped their one chance at freedom!
I have lived in the Thames valley and have seen plenty of flooding over the years.
Dutchy here, our railway system gets to a halt in autum when the leaves drop, luckily our winters are not that severe anymore ( knock on wood)
I lived in Islington and Hackney in London for over twenty years and never felt unsafe, now on the Isle of Wight and feel exactly the same.
The UK does have quite bad storms but no-where like a hurricane, but land erosion can occur overnight, where large parts of the cliffs will fall into the sea, taking properties with it..very scary and not at all amusing.
But we don't have dangerous animals,, rabies, or even poison ivy or oak.
As for the youths, just don't hang around where they do, they grow out of it eventually, just stupid kids..been around for generations. 😊👍🇬🇧
Safe here in the UK (falls into patch of giant hogweed).
The death adder snake is dangerous. The only venomous snake in the UK
@@TheRealRedAce oh that stuff is scary, i had a teacher at horticultural school here in austria who is scarred all over from it
Poisonous plants common in the UK - Rhododendron, Crocus, Bluebell, Foxglove, Cuckoo pint, Monkshood, Deadly nightshade, and Poison hemlock.
Mind you, you can get a nasty rash from Stinging Nettles...
I can't comprehend my car overheating and having to worry about knocking on a random door for a container of water. In America you just assume every yahoo has a gun and will shoot you for trespassing on their property. That just doesn't happen in the UK.
Greater London is described by cardinal directions, so much so the postcodes (zip codes with letters) include the NW E SE W prefixes as a key to where you are.
Being north of the river and south of the river are seen as very different places 😂. Hes saying he has lived in allover 😂.
"Now that you're old?". At your age? I'm 51 and still in my early thirties :D
Personally, I've been twenty-four for around forty years now.
Us Generation X, were 30 when we were 10 and still 30 now were in our 50s.
The 90s ended just last year.
Viruses or contagious illnesses are more of a problem in a small country with many people living close to each other and using public transportation. The US has a lower population density and most people use cars to travel.
@sjl.2297 yeah, but better organised vaccination services. I'm booked in for this winter's flu and Covid vaccinations next week. The doctor contacts us to remind us every year. And of course it's free - do Americans pay for vaccinations?
@@missharry5727 I am English so they were free and friends in other European countries did not pay either. I am currently in Spain and they are also very organised. Do Americans pay? I have no idea.
Yeah but people in the US still go to supermarkets, cultural and sporting events, the office, school, university, etc. Public transport is only one of many opportunities to get within infecting distance of other humans.
Knife crime (machete's even) by (mostly ) teen gangs is a huge huge problem in the UK. police will likely not even show up when you call them for a burglary, unless you are at home during a burglary.
Well, gun-laws are quite liberal in Austria, Czechia and Switzerland... you need to go through background checks and can't have a mental disorder but otherwise, you can buy (modern and old) guns you see in movies, and it's more liberal than the UK. You have to store the guns and bullets separately though. These countries don't really have many gun-related deaths. Greetings from a responsible Austrian gun-owner.
Sensible guns law make a huge difference. 👍
@@continental_drift Yup!
Less homicides but still widely used for self deleting...
Thus why if you look at deaths by gunshots per capita, the helvetic conf is on par with the USA.
Exactly. There are around 2.5million legally owned firearms in the UK, so it's not like there are none. They are just well controlled.
Serbia, Switzerland and Cyprus are the top 3 of guns per capita in Europe. It still falls well below US numbers.
The UK and Europe in general don't really experience natural disasters, no:
- there are no or very few (active) tectonic plate cracks in Europe, so barely any earthquakes;
- there are no volcanoes in the UK and on most of mainland Europe;
- we are in a region that is unlikely to get hurricanes (no tropics -> no tropical storms), the last big one that caused a lot of damage was in 1953: "de Watersnoodramp" ["the Water Emergency Disaster"];
- we are in a position on Earth that doesn't get many extreme temperatures.
So yeah, we don't really get any of the shit you get.
We do have some dangerous volcanoes.. but not many.. specifically in Italy and Iceland with Iceland having actually active volcanoes that while few people actually live near them do cause problems for europe when they have big eruptions (like the big one 15ish years ago that shut down air travel in most of northern europe for a month or 2
@@kmortensen9312, " *most of mainland* Europe"
Iceland ≠ mainland Europe
One volcano or a few volcanoes in Italy doesn't discredit "most of mainland Europe"
@@Jan_Koopman never said it did i simply pointed it out an while iceland might not be mainland europe its volcanoes are so violent that they cause problems for large parts of mainland europe.. so keep your panties on
You forgot the huge floods in Germany because of extreme rain? Many people were killed by it here
@@kmortensen9312, fair enough
Considering an Australian woman in the US was shot and killed by a police officer after she called about a disturbance in an ally at the back of her house.
What happened?
Young man we do get earthquakes and tornadoes in the UK, it’s just that the strongest earthquake in Britain was a 3 on the scale, and the strongest tornado wouldn’t even get on the scale. We do have some very savage storms, which can cause damage to homes and infrastructure, especially on the coast, and severe flooding inland. We have had some very exceptional micro storms that have caused massive and devastating flooding in some small villages in and around the moors in Cornwall or Devon, which include numerous deaths. But these are very rare and we can go years without an incident, and we do occasionally get severe weather during winter which can cause one or two people who weren’t prepared to get caught out and die.
The strongest earthquake ever recorded in the United Kingdom was the 1931 Dogger Bank earthquake, which had a magnitude of 6.1 on the Richter scale:
@@Thurgosh_OG Being pedantic, the Dogger Bank is not inside the UK but is an area under the North Sea, earthquakes on the mainland are normally mild in comparison to those regularly suffered in the USA.
If you know Monty Python’s Flying Circus, you’d know the real problem in GB are the old lady gangs…. LOL
Oh no, the Hells Grannies.
The Hells Grannies. A really dangerous mob.
And giant hedgehogs nailing peoples heads to wooden planks.
The fear of water relating to rabies is called hydrophobia. Aquaphobia is a psychological fear of water in general.
I live in Belfast, and everybody has heard of here. I live in a lovely area, anyway I was wandering home from the wine shop a couple of years back. Now, our police do carry guns, Anyway I was so close to my house. There was a load of cops and they wouldn't let me walk on to my house. So I pointed to my house and explained I was just going there. So a plain clothed guy flashed a badge at me. So I took a detour and got home. Now a load of jogger people weren't allowed out of the park on to the main road. It was a security/ bomb alert I found out later. OK I have been through so many bomb scares back in the 80's, and actual bombs. So what got me is.. if it was so flaming dangerous why were we not evacuated?
I was sitting my Mums house and the forensic place got blown up. I guess it's about 4 or 5 miles from my Mums. Well it was loud and the double glazing wobbled. Also I was on my way to uni one morning and met a class mate, so we were walking together, freaking bomb goes of (this is belfast city centre) So we wobble on our feet on a pavement.
Then one time when I was living in the city centre, and a bomb goes off just down the road from us, By goodness, I stuck not able to move during those seconds.
For the record Northern Ireland is part of the UK, but not Great Britain.
So many stories. Belfast is pretty safe and beautiful.
Ehhh, coastal erosion can be a real big problem, specially if the coastline is made of real soft stone like chalk. Life in Germany and some of our Islands have Chalk cliffs. After some bad storms the coastlines can be eroded by around 50 meters. So yes, some people can loose their homes overnight.
Regarding UK teens if you are approaching a group and show fear or even apprehension they will see it. I know one
will always say something but if you laugh thats normally it. They hang around shops so you have to react to them twice.
I was one once so I have never had a problem. Also trying to ignore them doesn't work. Head up, eye contact and smile.
Yes, he is saying north south east and west of London. In other words he has lived in different areas of London
Hi Ryan, I'm a Brit who's not visited the US. I'd say it's not just no guns, though (to be pedantic, very few guns). It's:
Accessible healthcare, free at the point of use.
Women have access to reproductive healthcare.
Religion is basically a private matter and, in practice, does not play such a big role in politics.
More of a social safety net (although recent governments are attacking this)
It is not so car-dominated, and living without one is possible. I do.
Our natural disasters a flooding in certain areas prone to it, coastline erosion slowly encroaching on and then claiming houses and we do have tornados but they’re monster sized so usually do little to no damage.
Between 2019 and2022 in America 178 people who called cops for help were shot.
Exactly.
It seems to me that a lot of the people who have had issues with burglary type crime may have moved from the US suburbs to an urban location in the UK. It's not an accurate comparison.
Like all cities around the world, UK cities have areas within them that have reasonably high rates of property crime.
For example, I think some Americans move into the dodgier parts of London without knowing it. Dodgy areas don't generally look as run down in the UK as they do in the US.
*Hydrophobic not aquaphobic.
An American, "survivalist", lady bought a remote cottage near me, in rural Suffolk. She put a high fence all round and is fighting the authorities for a gun license and permission to build a nuclear bomb shelter!
If nothing else, she's probably providing work for the locals. :)
That lady need a mental detox from the US, and learn to accept the new reality of living without constant fear 😊
she should tell them its a farm ;) farmers are allowed shotguns lol
@@judsdragon Shhh! She doesn't sound like the kind of person that should own a gun in the first place.
Imagine choosing one of the country with the most restriction against gun ownership, and act like a Karen when they don't give you one. She should have went to Switzerland. Plenty of cheap bunkers, and guns.
NSEW means all over London, in every corner basically.
We do get bad hurricanes here. But our houses here in Europe don't just collapse because of a somewhat strong gust of wind.
Nice.
No we get storms here, not hurricanes. A strong gust of wind is not a hurricane. A hurricane is sustained strong winds.
@@rogerkangaroo6118 jo, vi får orkaner. Dust.
Norge er ikke bare østlandet. Hurricanes happen in different parts of the country, dumbass.
@@rogerkangaroo6118 Tell that to Michael Fish.
@@henrybest4057 What Fish said was "Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rang the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way. Well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't!""
What occurred was a storm. A storm with very strong gusts, but still just a storm.
More seriously, as a brit. Yes, some places teenage groups can be intimidating. Also a serious binge drinking problem in many city/town centers at weekends (many cop shows on TV of fights caused by drunkenness). I guess burglary is a problem in specific places but I lived in the rural SE and in several parts of London and never had a problem and don't personally know anyone who has been burgled. Still, I guess it's down to individual experience.
Of course, no school shootings/mass shootings here so that's a plus.
The mini-lads on their bikes creating havoc yet again 😂
no guns on either side means no gunbattle whatsoever.
0:46 No, no it's not
I live in a pretty rough area of the uk. There’s large groups of teens in my evening walk that have not a lot to do but just hang around. I’m 45 but if you get yourself into their mindset by remembering you were that age once you can have a little fun, a bit of friendly banter won’t hurt you.
6 D-Maglite is a 14inch long steel flashlight. You certainly don’t want to be hit or shafted by one of those things.
We have earthquakes and tornadoes.
They are just on a much smaller scale.
The UK had a little tornado about 3 weeks ago.
One also has to consider the size of the country. Tornadoes and waterspouts are very common in Western Europe.
The last UK school shooting was 28 years ago in 1996.
Here's a list of the last American school shootings
October 17, 2024 - Louisville, Kentucky (1 child injured)
October 14, 2024 - Santa Monica, California (2 children died)
October 10, 2024 - Coatesville, Pennsylvania (shots fired at school bus)
October 5, 2024 - Colorado Springs, Colorado - (1 child injured)
That's just the list for October so far. There were 7 in September and 6 in August. There was only 1 in June and none in July because it was summer break. There were 5 in May, 9 in April, 2 in March, 8 in February, and 4 in January. There's just this year. A similar pattern occurs every single month on every single year and this crazy problem goes back decades.
And let’s not forget that after Dunblane our gun laws were made stricter as a result
Theyre mostly fake staged events in america though by the cia to attack the 2nd ammendment
We get floods (a bit more common now than they were), and apart from that the only real danger is being woken up in the middle of the night by a mild quake and then spending an hour or so trying to get the dogs to calm back down.
I remember a couple of years ago when we had some flooding in the UK the only newsworthy story that the BBC News could come up with was an old couple who were concerned about the safety of the fish in their garden pond! The news crew took them to the pond and the fish were happily swimming around without a care in the world and the news crew got their moneyshot when the old couple broke down crying with relief! In the meantime the fish were secretly cursing the old gits for putting wire mesh over the pond, obviously to stop cats or birds from a free snack, because it stopped their one chance at freedom!
We get hurricanes in the uk but about one every 15 years. Very minor earthquake tremors every 10yrs or so. Like you might find your outdoor chairs fall over.
No volcanos either, for natural disasters.
FUN FACT: The ONLY 2 extinct volcano's in the UK are both in Edinburgh, Scotland...
We do get hurricane, there is one in Scotland today ... very infrequent though and not as bad as say the ones in Florida recently, worst one was 1987
No, that is a storm not a hurricane.
There may be storms with winds as strong as a hurricane but Hurricanes *cannot* form at the latitudes of the UK as they require much higher sea surface temperatures to develop than exist close to the UK.
@@Spiklething US Hurricanes much more sustained than any gust of wind from a storm in Europe. It doesn't help that their houses are literal matchboxes, but the 2 phenomena are pretty different even if they were to match in intensity for a short duration. A storm rarely get up to 200km/h in short burst, with the European highest recorded of 250km/h (Lothar in 1999). US hurricanes can go up to 300km/h (Allen in 1980) winds and it just doesn't stops until it passes or lose momentum.
Why should the police who you called during a robbery have guns when they attend the crime scene. The police will inevitably arrive so long after the call that the would-be thieves have long gone and/or the occupant is either enraged and pissed or already dead as a victim of a crime so the police guns are unnecessary or maybe a further potential threat to the irate occupants as they rage on about how useless the police were.
We do get hurricane-force winds here, ie. force 12, especially in maritime areas. They're not like tropical storms, but when the Atlantic gets boisterous, it doesn't know its own strength. 1987 was a particularly bad storm over the southern half of England; anyone who was in it will have a story to tell. People died.
I have at my back door my brothers old truncheon (he was a copper) and at the frond door I have a marble rolling pin.I have had to use them only once and boy did I pop them the sound was horrendous but good at the same time. 🇬🇧
I was once gifted an old, heavy hip replacement (of all things!) to keep near my door, that would do some serious damage if it ever connected with someone - thankfully though, the only time I've ever felt the need to wave it around as a threat, things went no further!
Not only did I scare the mf half to death with it (as he admitted in a later conversation - he hadn't been well at the time), it genuinely confused the shit out of him because of course, why would this crazy woman screaming at him have (what's obviously) a hip replacement to hand like that anyway? < which makes for an excellent point, lol!
Just between me and you and the entirety of YT though, I'd have probably just ended up chucking it at him and running away - I'm very glad you had the satisfaction though! :)
Europe have tornadoes but not F5/F4 . We have earthquakes but not destructive and once in few years. We have floods but also every 10 /20 years if the weather is shaitty, we have fores fires if the is year drought , we can have avalanches in mountains. No hurricanes but we can get winds almost like hurricanes but not so destructive that people will die only some property damage also if the weather is shaitty.
I live in York. We have floods every year - often more than once. And there are worse places in the UK.
floods only every 10/20 years ?
there are/were so many (deadly) floods this year and the past few years all over europe.
@@katii1997 Yes and when was the last flood ?
Hi Ryan, we once had a strong wind back in October 1987 which the survivors still talk about to this day!
gangs of kids depends where you are. where i live, there is none of that but im outside a city. I will say though when i was a kid i had a big group of friends, we would have nothing to do so we would go up town hang out on a corner, you know bored. we were all the nicest most geeky group of kids you would ever meet, but adults crossed the road to avoid us and shops would tell us to move away like we were scum lol. I think the perception of groups of kids being up for a fight and super aggressive just comes from actual gangs on the extreme side which infact are not common in most of the uk
Kids in groups are often loud and energetic, little calmness about them, they like to walk like the tough guys they aren't. If one them greets older people in a old fashioned overpolite way the tension is usually gone right away.
I think Americans overestimate how similar the UK is to the USA but I also think British people underestimate it.
I haven't much experience to fall back on (I've only lived in the UK for most of my 86 years) and i have never met anyone who was burgled or shot or stabbed in GB. I have seen people shot in Cyprus and in NI. The problem with anecdotal stuff that has appeared in this video is that people have been sensitised by sensationalist newspapers who report everything IN LOUD VOICES. In the USA there are 40000 deaths by gunshot each year; in the UK there might be 100 or so. And every one is reported as if the world was coming to an end. Knife crime is a current problem among youth; and not surprisingly, most of those killed and wounded are found to be carrying knives themselves for self-defence. If you or your family happen to be on the end of violence, wherever you live, it is not something you are likely to regard lightly
There have been tornadoes in UK, thelast was December 2023 in Manchester. They usually aren't on the scale of those in the US, but they happen occasionally. One in Edinburgh in September 2022 too, no damage.
Coastal erosion is serious in some parts of the UK. For instance, I wouldn't want to own a house within a few hundreds of yards of the sea in either Holderness (Yorkshire) or east Norfolk. A few big storms can wash away big areas of land. And once you're within tens of yards of the cliff edge, your house can go from OK to uninhabitable in one big storm.
I've lived in "bad neighbourhoods." The guns I saw are pellet guns and a shot gun, which was for clay pigeon shooting. Yes, a group of teenagers can look threatening, but I just walk past them. A couple of months ago, we had a mini tornado, and it torn the roofs of 2 of neighbours off their houses and uprooted a shed. You don't shit (break in) home area.
Yea, flooding is probably the most common cause of death, as far as natural disasters go. We had some pretty devastating ones in recent years in several different countries.
During the summer wildfires are a real threat too. Especially on the numerous small, dry Adriatic islands. We do help each other tho'. It is common for emergency and relief services from all over Europe to go help out a country that's in trouble. EU-member countries even send help to non-member countries.
Yes. Last winter during the big floods and heavy rain a town just 7 miles up the road from me was completely flooded, they had to evaluate. Many people lost their homes for good.
@@Kat-mu8wq Sorry to hear that. We had pretty much the most devastating flood in over 30 years in 2023.
I went to help with the clean-up in one of the affected towns and it was like being in a post-apocalyptic movie.
A fireman had his entire home literally swept away while he was on duty, saving families stranded by the flood.
Hey, Ryan! You repeatedly referenced Charles Dickens' 1838 novel _Oliver Twist_ (which featured Fagin and The Artful Dodger).
I realise that you were being humorous, but if any Americans really do form their ideas about the UK from such sources, they should bear in mind that Dickens was writing more than 180 years ago, and often being 'nostalgic' about even earlier times. I daresay the USA was a _little_ different in 1838 to what it is today, and I don't think many British people worry about being scalped by "Red Indians" should they visit America.
This was an extreme and isolated example, but one gets the general impression that most Americans have a very outdated image of the UK. We haven't been standing still while the USA was advancing!
Not just the UK, people still somehow almost imagine us with horse cart in Paris when you look at Hollywood :D
In your own country you usually know by the looks of people what kind of to expect. I easily can identify 99% of young men as the harmless kind. In a foreign country that often goes down to 50% just because I don't know the locals that well.
I lived in Cambridge and Birmingham, and spent some time in London. I can’t think of any time that I ever felt unsafe. Even the ‘gangs’ of youth wandering around weren’t at all intimidating if you ignored them.
I live in an area of London that has a reputation for knife crime due to a certain population but because I'm a middle aged white man I feel perfectly safe, even walking to the shops at 2am when I've run out of chocolate!
We had one hurricane known as the great storm of 1987 was a violent extratropical cyclone that occurred on the night of 15-16 October, with hurricane-force winds causing 22 deaths, many of the trees in the south east fell down, whilst we do get the tail end of a lot of Atlantic hurricanes we have never had anything similar since, so nearly forty years ago
Girl Gone London (an American who has lived in England for over ten years) did a video called something like 'do I feel safer in the UK or America' might be worth checking out, she make some interesting points.
I have been in UK for working 20 yrs ago for 4mths. The Hotel I stayd was close to a club area. I don't know how it is now, but back then a lot of drunking guys out of control. Big fights in the night were standard.
We do get the odd earthquake in the UK but they are usually just tremors. And we do get the odd storm and bad winds that bring down trees and cause flooding.
2:20 Yeah, I don't hesitate calling the police here in Denmark just because they are armed and their regular response outfit includes a bulletproof vest and slashproof gloves...
They have frequent training in conflict management and go to the shooting range at least every 3 months.
And whenever they as much as pull the gun, they have paperwork to do, so that the individual evaluations team can figure out if it was reasonable.
Also they never patrol alone unless they're doing traffic duty... if a traffic officer needs to pull his gun at you, you know you effed up 😄
They also all have a pepper spray and some of them a stun-gun.
The idea is that all officers on duty must be ready for any situation. That's why they also know advanced first aid.
So in case of a major emergency, everyone already on duty can be called. Be it a mentally ill person wrecking havoc or a huge accident...
Of course, firefighters and ambulance staff can do many tasks much better, but police is often first to the scene, because they patrol.
I live in Ramsgate in Kent in England, We've had one Earthquake thet I know of that was out at sea, Snow Fall here is almost non existant we have neavy snow fall occasionaly, but usually it is a light flurry, blink and you'd miss it.
Another great video Ryan
Earthquakes do happen in the uk they’re just too small to be felt and no danger, there are however very rare cases of slight shaking being detected. Tornadoes also occur but they’re often too weak and don’t last very long but can still cause a bit of damage
As a Brit who has lived in the US previously.... Walking is such a strange concept to Americans. So many people would stop and ask if I was ok or needed a ride. No...I'm walking to the shop to get something, I don't need help for the 10 minutes this would take...
I did once have to evacuate my home due to storm damage, the building had to be demolished.