If you want old buildings York is your place, many old historic pubs, churches, a castle, and surrounded by a roman wall. Not forgetting the beautiful river Ouse and the racecourse.
It is most refreshing to see Americans like yourself taking an interest in the UK like this and it is much appreciated. We are not a bad bunch really. And this lockdown situation has taught me a lot too about The UK and even my own county of Suffolk. So many amazing places to experience. Thank you again
You'd like Cardiff capitol of Wales with a Castle in the middle of the city (full of your Wales people) if you didn't mind living outside Cardiff houses are cheaper in the valleys ;) and you can be in Cardiff in 10-15mins on the train and the night life is great. The Wye valley is very nice also. England is small and has a lot of Castles (the majority are ruins) but your never far away from a castle/old buildings you could cram in loads. Bee die when they sting you so they don't sting unless you REALLY annoy them if one lands on you gently move him don't panic.
I live right next to the peak national park, it is bloomin lovely out there, obviously all cities have a roughness to them, but the people are mostly harmless I think. The north gets a bit neglected politically, but it really isn't as grim as people say it is, and taking advantage of the beautiful countryside is a must if you come to visit.
I live on the Norfolk broads, a fantastic 200 mile inland water way. Churches, country estates, pubs, great beer, wildlife, beaches and big skies! Beautiful. A few years ago I did a train journey for work to Bristol.... I got talking to an American mother and daughter who were on a 2 week UK tour. Leaving London , They were visiting Wales, Liverpool, Scotland , Yorkshire, Nottingham and Cambridge etc... It was really interesting talking to them. Being inspired by books they have read.
If you come to UK and go to a supermarket dont be surprised if the eggs aren't refridgerated. We keep the protective layer on the egg without washing it off. Keeps the shelf life better.
Love the channel dude, in all honesty you should come to Somerset in the uk. It’s quieter, plenty of open countryside, scenic landmarks to visit and less morons. Stay safe during these mental times JT.
@bobs ya'uncle did I say everyone else was morons? No, just that there are less. Dont be so quick to assume a bias, if it makes you feel better there are morons here too...... Just fewer of them. 🤣
Chelmsford is a very nice place He mentioned Colchester where you will find a Norman castle. Colchester also has a lot of Roman artifacts as it was one of the earliest towns in England.
Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland, (not far from the town of Alnwick which has its own castle) is set among the golden sand dunes on the coast; not many bees there
Im so surprised Robin Hoods Bay was not mentioned. To buy your daily newspaper it's just left in a box and you are trusted to pay for it with a coin machine next to it, also its near whitby what is famous for where dracula supposed to be buried and it has a huge tourist attraction, draculas Castle. Robin hoods Bay is north Yorkshire and it has just the upmost beautiful scenery
Happy Easter 🐣 side note your other vid about quitting your job good for u 👏🏾 positive vibes & good energy only & we’re all here to support u from across the pond 🇬🇧👊🏽
I grew up in a farming area in Devon on the edge of Dartmoor. I live in SW Hampshire now. But to me Dartmoor is still home. As I can't drive (have MS) so living there would be difficult as you need to be able to drive.
Northumberland in the North East of England. Loads of castles including Alnwick and Chillingham. Beautiful coastline and countryside. Plus only a hour away from Scotland and not far from Newcastle.
I'd highly recommend the lake district its the most visited place behind London. Highest mountain and biggest lake in England. How it isn't on here is crazy. You'd love it check it out
I live about 5 miles away from Winchester in a town called Romsey.....it's loads better even if it hasn't got the big shops as it's only a 10 minute drive to Southampton or Winchester if you need them. Have to say that house prices are not cheap though round these areas....start saving
Where I live was just voted the best place to live in London - if you visited Teddington high street, it’s not that impressive - but there is some beautiful river walks of the Thames around, and some stunning parks too like Richmond Park and Bushy Park. Also, Richmondshire is beautiful! I visited there a couple of years back and the town itself is very old and picturesque ❤️
Ok as a resident of the city York I will say that yes is beautifully historic as well as moderately early modern and one of the things you got to do if you ever visit this in my biased opinion great City is the cat trail.
Very nice but such expensive places to live. I was born and bred in St Alban's. It is wonderful. So full of history from Roman ruins to streets the Wars of the Roses were fought down. Quaint Tudor buildings and streets and tons of pubs. But the cost of housing, wow!
York is beautiful. When I showed my friend around York in 2019 on her first ever trip to England, we really liked York and we didn’t even get to all York has to offer.
I was born in Winchester and grew up in a small village called longparish that's near by I absolutely love Winchester. If you want to move somewhere move there.
NOTE: The closer you are to London, the more expensive things are (including tax I think) I think that goes for most countries but still. Also I recommend a town first then a city to live in. Oh and please try to go to a town or city that isn’t the top ones. Remember; London isn’t the UK. Same as Washington isn’t the USA. I can travel all round Washington, but I haven’t traveled all round America.
on the being able to travel and see the uk in a month honestly you could probably have a good tripp and see pleanty of atrations in two weeks but a month you would be able to enjoy it more. A straight run from kentin the south east pf england to glassgow scotland you can easly do on 1 tank of fuel normally averaging at about £60 about $83
i live in sheffield but i really wanna move to york to do an animal care course and generally just bc it seems nice so seeing this was like aghhh lemme go already but i can’t afford it
I use to live in york fantastic place I have lived in many places in the uk york is my number 1 place currently living in inverness due to work but this is also a nice place lots to see in the Scottish highlands also there a lot of castles up here too
I live close to Chelmsford, and I do go there for work sometimes, and its avery nice place. Its very green, and quite a few parks. However its starting to be just slightly over developed, so there are a lot of families moving in with only one park in walking distance. So its not al great.
Well I live in Keinton Mandeville. An utterly mesmeric wee village just outside Glastonbury..............need I say more! You're both welcome anytime. Big hugs from Ye Olde Somerset. Cider anyone? 🇬🇧🏴🏳️🌈💖
I spent 30 years in Richmondshire (richmundsheer) and not one of those photos tell you what it looks like. Richmond is a cobbled marketplace with a castle looking over it. I grew up in a village in Richmondshire but was about 4 miles away from Richmond. You're not seeing the best images for places on this. Also Bedale (Bee dale) is in hambleton which is next door to Richmond and the photos on here don't do it justice.
Happy Easter JT lad.... I live in York brother.... it’s a cracking place.... and has minimum 6 castle requirement... if you make it here. Come find me x
There are so many great places to live in the UK, Scotland, Wales or England all have great places. Personally I prefer country life to big cities. I live in a village of some 2,200 people called Market Lavington, Roman and Anglo Saxon in origin, not far from Stonehenge, in fact you can walk to it, about 3 hr walk. We have a great pub, the Green Dragon. Surrounded by nature. It's great.
You should look into Nottinghamshire us snots have quite the history I live in Newark a small town we have our own castle and lots of castles around us. Charles the 1st surrendered in our town during the Civil War
One thing I never see mentioned in these type of videos is the fishing culture, you will be pleased to know over here it's vibrant and very popular. We don't have bass unfortunately but there are plenty of other fish you can lure fish for if that's your thing. Our big fish scene is carp, catfish and pike. We have a very different attitude to carp over here than you do in the states, in fact carp are easily the most common fishing quarry in all of Europe with something like 70%-80% of anglers fishing exclusively for them. We have a default catch and release culture, it is classed as poaching if you do not release the fish back onto the water and you will be prosecuted if caught, on top of that it would make you a twat, our lakes and rivers are not stocked with catching for the table in mind. The two exceptions to that are salmon and trout, these can be caught for the table but in a limited number depending on the water you're fishing, it would be best to find out what the rules are before fishing there. Every single body of water in the UK is owned by the environment agency, even private lakes. As such you have to buy a license to fish, this is cheap though and for a single rod is about £35 per year, a visitor can get a week license for about £8. You would then need to pay to fish whatever water you're interested in, even most stretches of river are owned by some angling club or another. Again though it's cheap for the most part and you can usually pay for a day, £5 wouldn't be far out of the ball park. In my town the local angling body controls about 13 lakes and all of the river that runs through here, it's £4 per day to fish (£6 for 2 rods, £8 for 3) but a year long license is only £24 and you can fish as much as you like with it. The fishing is fantastic over here, you should try it out when you visit!
Those houses are unaffordable mate you got no chance. Some of these areas refuse to sell to foreigners, or people whom they don’t like. Not to mention after you manage to buy one of these homes the tax is huge for living in an beautiful village. Your better living in a nearby area then travelling to where u need I’d say York or the Yorkshire area then most places in the uk to visits aren’t that far away
I can’t believe they didn’t show the High Street, cathedral or just the old architecture of Winchester. It’s one of the oldest cities in the uk! (Very expensive to live though). Also the West Country is just stunningly beautiful, so genuinely can’t understand some of the ‘top places’ that made it into this video! I’ve seen a video of the ‘top 10 places to visit’ and that’s rubbish too! There are so many fantastic places here. We have hundreds of castles, cathedrals, coastlines etc. There must be a better ‘places to visit’ video out there!
'shire' is pronounced like the narrator said. Derbyshire is pronounced Darbyshire. Check out the sites on US Gov sites for jobs in UK working on US military bases scattered across the country. This will get you your work permit and you will continue to pay in your social security. There are even jobs at Burger King on base.
I live in cambridge. It's a lovely historical city with plenty of nice pubs, museums, theatres etc and has the best university in the world. We're also a labour majority city, thank god. (sorry to get political)
I lived in Chelmsford for a few years when I was in college, its nice for the older generation in there 30's or 40's but for the teenagers and 20's it's shit because where its so small it's impossible to not get dragged into the gang conflicts. Nice to look at though, but the winters there are cold as fuck lol. Different when your born in London, I suppose all the buildings trap the heat
Hampshire and the South Downs is idyllic. Not only do you have stunning countryside, superb amenities but also miles and miles of seashore. It has the beast climate and many more hours of sun than elsewhere in the UK. If you get bored with Hampshire then you’ll be bored with life. 😎
Almost smashed my phone in when that guy kept pronouncing Derbyshire wrong. And he didn't mention all the caverns! You can't visit Derbyshire without walking through a wet tunnel of rock.
@@karlpilkington2203 I'm actually on the edge of Greater Manchester but just a few train stops away. So weird how within 15 minutes it's all beautiful fields and rock faces.
❤❤❤Brighton ❤❤❤, we've got the lot, the coast, the countryside, the city with it's cafes, bars and nightlife,and only 60 miles from London....wouldn't live anywhere else.
@@susangarvey9415 I do like Brighton, but I couldn't ever afford to live there. I used to date a woman from there and she paid something crazy like £600-£700 a month in rent for a room in a shared house.
@@chilli-iceolive-abode2447 I live in a council flat lol on the outskirts of Brighton, so my rent is fairly cheap. To be honest I don't really go into Brighton itself alot, especially during the last year, but it has some of the best countryside and coast around, I do like to go and sit by the pier or go into town itself to have a look around the lanes or sit by the pavilion and it has great bus services to get around. The people here are cool too, but I agree with you, private rents and house prices are extortionate.
@@susangarvey9415 ah yes if you can get council housing that would be amazing tbf! It is a nice place I always enjoy it when I'm there lots of chilled out people and nice places. I moved from the south of England to Wales a couple of years ago and now I'm used to cheap cheap rent. It is beautiful here as well, but a lot of the people are sadly a bit closed minded and stuck in their ways. Literally like the opposite of Brighton!
@@chilli-iceolive-abode2447 funny enough I lived in Wales (Port Talbot) in the late 70s, loved it there. Hahaha, you do have to be pretty broadminded in live in Brighton, but coming from London I suppose I'd pretty much seen it all anyway.
I was thinking that myself. 10 best places to live in the UK according to an american who's probably never visited and can't pronounce half the place names... okay then!
JT, I'm disappointed in the video, not even a mention of Cornwall or the south west or what about the Wales country, how did it go with the job? Keep up the videos 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸
Cornwall is the best looking out of the whole country but i think employment rates could be worse but if things like that good then deserves top spot on the list
I agree jimrodda, how can they ignore Bigbury bay and Burgh Island, a pint of cider at the Pilchard and an overnight in Agatha Christies old home and Dartmoor, then the forgotten City of the U.K, Plymouth where Frances Drake, captain cook, Charles Darwin, sir Francis Chichester, and of course, the Pilgrims set sail in the Mayflower, you can even have a pint of beer or cider in the oldest pub in Plymouth and the last pub the Pilgrims drank in, you can also make your own gin! You can visit the new museum the 'box' and see the actual sled and skis that captain Scott used on his fatefull journey to everest you can walk along the pier that Lawrence of Arabia flew and landed his sea planes. We have forts rather than castles but not much difference, next door is Cornwall, loads of castles, especially Tintagel where king Arthur's castle is snuggled into the cliffs. Or, grab your surf board and grab some waves at Newquay the Surf capital of England! Cornwall is another country really, with It's own Language and chilled vibe nowhere in Cornwall is more than 50 miles from the sea.
I though “how ruuuuude! 😱🙄😡” was offended on behalf of all the people from Belfast! The narrator needs to replace “least attractive” with “not as most visited as other cities...” and Derrbishire?no, DAR bish uh
Yeah, it's a bit ambiguous. He definitely says 'least attractive', but he may mean that people avoid it because of its recent history. To people who grew up in the UK from the late 60s onwards, Belfast=trouble. It's probably ill-deserved now but reputations linger.
You should check out a RUclips channel called "All The Stations". It's basically a british couple visiting all 2,563 train station in Great Britain. It took them 14 weeks and 6 days. You don't have to be a railway geek to enjoy their vlog and the documentary. I highly recommend giving it a goo. And on a side note. Derbyshire is pronounced "darbyshur". The ending -shire is always pronounced "-shur".
As a Yorkie I definitely recommend a trip to York. We have 2000 years worth of history in 1 square mile, including a roman tower, a Norman castle, and medieval city walls. Also, as a side note, any place ending with "shire" can be pronounced either as "sheer or as "cher (like the singer). Either are acceptable, but only non-natives and Hobbits pronounce it as "shy-er". :)
I love y'all! Happy Easter! #SpreadLove
Happy Easter from Wales 🏴🇺🇸
Happy Easter!
i want you to do a ghost hunt, we brits love ghost hunts
Happy Easter! JT much love bro from your Wales people 🏴
A Happy Easter to you and yours from the Midlands in the UK, JT. You definitely need to visit our little isle. :)
Anyone else cracking up at the way the way they say "Derbyshire" 🤣🤣🤣
yeah me - and I've never heard of Richmondshire
It's pronounced DARBYSHIRE.
well it is a bit confusing for the e to be pronounced as an a, but yeah.
@@marcN19 Erm.. No it isn't. Who told you that?
Yes they know so much about the uk and their advice is sound
I'm sorry, I couldn't with "Durbyshire", it sounded so weird X'D
Its actually Derbyshire nit Durbyshire
Pronunciation of Rutland changed from "have I been saying it wrong?" to "that's how Google and I say it".
Pronounced more like darbyshire but spelt Derbyshire
Hey I'm from Derbyshire, 1 of the best places in the uk to live imo
@@karlpilkington2203 Can Confirm
If you want old buildings York is your place, many old historic pubs, churches, a castle, and surrounded by a roman wall. Not forgetting the beautiful river Ouse and the racecourse.
I think he would love the Jorvik Viking Museum. Really old school down there! Chester is quite nice as well.
100% agree - but I am biased being from Yorkshire living in York :)
@@devilvidel86 I'm biased too, living in Beverley, another amazing town
Chester also has a Roman wall around it and is next to the Welsh border. That's why the Romans built the place, to keep an eye on the North Welsh.
Ah a fellow Bevlonian 😁 we have a beautiful town. JT wouldn't be disappointed if he visited
It is most refreshing to see Americans like yourself taking an interest in the UK like this and it is much appreciated. We are not a bad bunch really. And this lockdown situation has taught me a lot too about The UK and even my own county of Suffolk. So many amazing places to experience. Thank you again
You'd like Cardiff capitol of Wales with a Castle in the middle of the city (full of your Wales people) if you didn't mind living outside Cardiff houses are cheaper in the valleys ;) and you can be in Cardiff in 10-15mins on the train and the night life is great. The Wye valley is very nice also. England is small and has a lot of Castles (the majority are ruins) but your never far away from a castle/old buildings you could cram in loads. Bee die when they sting you so they don't sting unless you REALLY annoy them if one lands on you gently move him don't panic.
I live right next to the peak national park, it is bloomin lovely out there, obviously all cities have a roughness to them, but the people are mostly harmless I think. The north gets a bit neglected politically, but it really isn't as grim as people say it is, and taking advantage of the beautiful countryside is a must if you come to visit.
I live on the Norfolk broads, a fantastic 200 mile inland water way. Churches, country estates, pubs, great beer, wildlife, beaches and big skies! Beautiful.
A few years ago I did a train journey for work to Bristol.... I got talking to an American mother and daughter who were on a 2 week UK tour. Leaving London , They were visiting Wales, Liverpool, Scotland , Yorkshire, Nottingham and Cambridge etc... It was really interesting talking to them. Being inspired by books they have read.
yep, Norfolk and Suffolk are quiet and beautiful .
If you come to UK and go to a supermarket dont be surprised if the eggs aren't refridgerated. We keep the protective layer on the egg without washing it off. Keeps the shelf life better.
Love the channel dude, in all honesty you should come to Somerset in the uk. It’s quieter, plenty of open countryside, scenic landmarks to visit and less morons. Stay safe during these mental times JT.
Yeah the south west is a really nice place to be. I'm from Devon so near buy. 😎👍
Weston-super-mare was the closes beach to me as a kid. (Grew up in yate)
@bobs ya'uncle did I say everyone else was morons? No, just that there are less. Dont be so quick to assume a bias, if it makes you feel better there are morons here too......
Just fewer of them. 🤣
@@ajakuk1 western ftw. My sis lived there for a while and loved it. Weymouth is my closest beach.
@@wildadventure5101 Devon also ftw. Been there for local holidays, bloody lovely!!
Chelmsford is a very nice place
He mentioned Colchester where you will find a Norman castle. Colchester also has a lot of Roman artifacts as it was one of the earliest towns in England.
Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland, (not far from the town of Alnwick which has its own castle) is set among the golden sand dunes on the coast; not many bees there
Im so surprised Robin Hoods Bay was not mentioned.
To buy your daily newspaper it's just left in a box and you are trusted to pay for it with a coin machine next to it, also its near whitby what is famous for where dracula supposed to be buried and it has a huge tourist attraction, draculas Castle.
Robin hoods Bay is north Yorkshire and it has just the upmost beautiful scenery
Happy Easter 🐣 side note your other vid about quitting your job good for u 👏🏾 positive vibes & good energy only & we’re all here to support u from across the pond 🇬🇧👊🏽
Happy Easter🙏 Thank you so much for the support 💜💛
"Dam!" made me laugh out loud. You should definitely come here. Your sense of humour is just like ours.
You are always welcome to come my American Cousin, lots more to see!
Devon, Cornwall, Highlands of Scotland, my top three
I live in North Devon.👍🏻
I grew up in a farming area in Devon on the edge of Dartmoor. I live in SW Hampshire now. But to me Dartmoor is still home. As I can't drive (have MS) so living there would be difficult as you need to be able to drive.
If you want Castles, check out Northumbria, we have loads of castles along the coast all within driving distance to each other 😊
Lived in Winchester for a few years and can confirm it's top of my list of places to settle down with a family 👌🏼
Have lived in St albans for 9 years now. It's a great city to live in and bring children up.
In the north of England we pronounce Shire as Shur so Lancashire would be said as Lancashur.
Scarborough is where you want to be. STUNNING.
And Whitby! :)
@@jeanproctor3663 I went to Whitby today... smashing place haha
No Brid is where it’s at.
Yes mate
All of Yorkshire coast is beautiful :)
I have lived in Mevagissey, Winchester and now Portsmouth. All great places.
Northumberland in the North East of England. Loads of castles including Alnwick and Chillingham. Beautiful coastline and countryside. Plus only a hour away from Scotland and not far from Newcastle.
I'd highly recommend the lake district its the most visited place behind London. Highest mountain and biggest lake in England. How it isn't on here is crazy. You'd love it check it out
I live about 5 miles away from Winchester in a town called Romsey.....it's loads better even if it hasn't got the big shops as it's only a 10 minute drive to Southampton or Winchester if you need them. Have to say that house prices are not cheap though round these areas....start saving
I have family in Romsey! Your assessment of it is 100% correct!
Where I live was just voted the best place to live in London - if you visited Teddington high street, it’s not that impressive - but there is some beautiful river walks of the Thames around, and some stunning parks too like Richmond Park and Bushy Park. Also, Richmondshire is beautiful! I visited there a couple of years back and the town itself is very old and picturesque ❤️
Ok as a resident of the city York I will say that yes is beautifully historic as well as moderately early modern and one of the things you got to do if you ever visit this in my biased opinion great City is the cat trail.
Very nice but such expensive places to live. I was born and bred in St Alban's. It is wonderful. So full of history from Roman ruins to streets the Wars of the Roses were fought down. Quaint Tudor buildings and streets and tons of pubs. But the cost of housing, wow!
Glad to see my hometown of Chelmsford got onto the list.
York is beautiful. When I showed my friend around York in 2019 on her first ever trip to England, we really liked York and we didn’t even get to all York has to offer.
I was born in Winchester and grew up in a small village called longparish that's near by I absolutely love Winchester. If you want to move somewhere move there.
Hahaha der..be..shur is hilarious, it's Darby-sher... and I fully agree, I adore living here...it is one of the most beautiful places in the world.
NOTE:
The closer you are to London, the more expensive things are (including tax I think)
I think that goes for most countries but still.
Also I recommend a town first then a city to live in. Oh and please try to go to a town or city that isn’t the top ones. Remember; London isn’t the UK. Same as Washington isn’t the USA. I can travel all round Washington, but I haven’t traveled all round America.
Where I live (The Sussex coast) we have the highest amount of average sunshine per year. 🌞
You're one of my new fav RUclips channels. Clearly a genuinely nice guy. Come visit Wales.
on the being able to travel and see the uk in a month honestly you could probably have a good tripp and see pleanty of atrations in two weeks but a month you would be able to enjoy it more. A straight run from kentin the south east pf england to glassgow scotland you can easly do on 1 tank of fuel normally averaging at about £60 about $83
i live in sheffield but i really wanna move to york to do an animal care course and generally just bc it seems nice so seeing this was like aghhh lemme go already but i can’t afford it
I love how al the pictures and videos were taken on that one sunny day of the year in UK XD
I live in the derbyshire dales our town is known as the gateway to the peak district and it really is heaven on earth here
I use to live in york fantastic place I have lived in many places in the uk york is my number 1 place currently living in inverness due to work but this is also a nice place lots to see in the Scottish highlands also there a lot of castles up here too
I live close to Chelmsford, and I do go there for work sometimes, and its avery nice place. Its very green, and quite a few parks.
However its starting to be just slightly over developed, so there are a lot of families moving in with only one park in walking distance. So its not al great.
Well I live in Keinton Mandeville. An utterly mesmeric wee village just outside Glastonbury..............need I say more! You're both welcome anytime. Big hugs from Ye Olde Somerset. Cider anyone? 🇬🇧🏴🏳️🌈💖
35K!!! Congratulations! 🎆🎇🧨✨🎉
I spent 30 years in Richmondshire (richmundsheer) and not one of those photos tell you what it looks like. Richmond is a cobbled marketplace with a castle looking over it. I grew up in a village in Richmondshire but was about 4 miles away from Richmond. You're not seeing the best images for places on this. Also Bedale (Bee dale) is in hambleton which is next door to Richmond and the photos on here don't do it justice.
Happy Easter JT lad.... I live in York brother.... it’s a cracking place.... and has minimum 6 castle requirement... if you make it here. Come find me x
Number 10 Chelmsford is where I live nearest castles are Colchester or sible hedingham both about 10 miles away
There are so many great places to live in the UK, Scotland, Wales or England all have great places. Personally I prefer country life to big cities. I live in a village of some 2,200 people called Market Lavington, Roman and Anglo Saxon in origin, not far from Stonehenge, in fact you can walk to it, about 3 hr walk. We have a great pub, the Green Dragon. Surrounded by nature. It's great.
York, Durham, Lake District. All beautiful.
The well dressing in Derbyshire would have been in the village of Tissington
Born in Winchester, now live in York. Both amazing places 👍
York is my university city and fabulous. Roman, Viking, Medieval, Victorian - wonderful
I live pretty close to Chelmsford like 5 mins away and a lot of what they said was facts but it’s also quite rough in some parts
Random I live in Colchester up the road from Chelmsford!!! We have a big arse Castle right in town !! 😍
You should look into Nottinghamshire us snots have quite the history I live in Newark a small town we have our own castle and lots of castles around us. Charles the 1st surrendered in our town during the Civil War
One thing I never see mentioned in these type of videos is the fishing culture, you will be pleased to know over here it's vibrant and very popular. We don't have bass unfortunately but there are plenty of other fish you can lure fish for if that's your thing. Our big fish scene is carp, catfish and pike. We have a very different attitude to carp over here than you do in the states, in fact carp are easily the most common fishing quarry in all of Europe with something like 70%-80% of anglers fishing exclusively for them.
We have a default catch and release culture, it is classed as poaching if you do not release the fish back onto the water and you will be prosecuted if caught, on top of that it would make you a twat, our lakes and rivers are not stocked with catching for the table in mind. The two exceptions to that are salmon and trout, these can be caught for the table but in a limited number depending on the water you're fishing, it would be best to find out what the rules are before fishing there.
Every single body of water in the UK is owned by the environment agency, even private lakes. As such you have to buy a license to fish, this is cheap though and for a single rod is about £35 per year, a visitor can get a week license for about £8. You would then need to pay to fish whatever water you're interested in, even most stretches of river are owned by some angling club or another. Again though it's cheap for the most part and you can usually pay for a day, £5 wouldn't be far out of the ball park. In my town the local angling body controls about 13 lakes and all of the river that runs through here, it's £4 per day to fish (£6 for 2 rods, £8 for 3) but a year long license is only £24 and you can fish as much as you like with it.
The fishing is fantastic over here, you should try it out when you visit!
Those houses are unaffordable mate you got no chance. Some of these areas refuse to sell to foreigners, or people whom they don’t like. Not to mention after you manage to buy one of these homes the tax is huge for living in an beautiful village. Your better living in a nearby area then travelling to where u need I’d say York or the Yorkshire area then most places in the uk to visits aren’t that far away
When I pronounce my county Yorkshire the last letters are pretty much missing. It is more of a Yorksh or Yorksha than shire.
Wales is lovely it's beautiful and green in the hills and mountains . Then your never far from a beach 🍦🌊🏊🏈
The Yorkshire Dales is the best place. you have to look at some videos x
I noticed that the great places to live in the U.K. are the most expensive places to live.
Where I live in Manchester houses are half the price.
Coventry didn't even get a mention!
City of 'Culture' 2021, WTH!!?
I can’t believe they didn’t show the High Street, cathedral or just the old architecture of Winchester. It’s one of the oldest cities in the uk! (Very expensive to live though).
Also the West Country is just stunningly beautiful, so genuinely can’t understand some of the ‘top places’ that made it into this video!
I’ve seen a video of the ‘top 10 places to visit’ and that’s rubbish too! There are so many fantastic places here. We have hundreds of castles, cathedrals, coastlines etc. There must be a better ‘places to visit’ video out there!
Lots of love JT. Come stay over, dude....road trip...just sayin. I bike, you take the 4x4!!!
York is amazing! My favourite city break location
Orkney? Yea, if you do not mind being on an island hundreds of miles from the nearest big city.
'shire' is pronounced like the narrator said. Derbyshire is pronounced Darbyshire. Check out the sites on US Gov sites for jobs in UK working on US military bases scattered across the country. This will get you your work permit and you will continue to pay in your social security. There are even jobs at Burger King on base.
I live in cambridge. It's a lovely historical city with plenty of nice pubs, museums, theatres etc and has the best university in the world. We're also a labour majority city, thank god. (sorry to get political)
8:09 - someone correct me, but im sure that image for Belfast is bath city centre?
Nice Belfast, is definitely great rn
*sweats*
Isle of Wight is beautiful too... :)
👏👏👏👏My favourite place in the whole world- beautiful
I lived in Chelmsford for a few years when I was in college, its nice for the older generation in there 30's or 40's but for the teenagers and 20's it's shit because where its so small it's impossible to not get dragged into the gang conflicts. Nice to look at though, but the winters there are cold as fuck lol. Different when your born in London, I suppose all the buildings trap the heat
was expecting to see the Isle of wight
Love from Chelmsford 💕
I’m from Derbyshire and would recommend especially away from the cities 👏🏻
Hampshire and the South Downs is idyllic. Not only do you have stunning countryside, superb amenities but also miles and miles of seashore. It has the beast climate and many more hours of sun than elsewhere in the UK. If you get bored with Hampshire then you’ll be bored with life. 😎
The PO Box videos are reactions still - you reacting to us ❤️
I live in the oldest recorded town in the UK Colchester and we have a castle
Saint Albans? I think you will find it’s Sn’albans
No mention of Wiltshire? Shocking! 😂😂 beautiful county, don't miss it JT.
I’m English and I’ve never heard of some of these places 🤣🤣 they look nice though
Winchester is my home, or just outside it. It is ye olde English, and very pretty
Just remember that it's cheaper to live in the north than to live in the south.shire is sheer or sher.
jt love your vids. you reached england i’m from hull. easily best place to live here
Northumberland if you want wall to wall castles and stunning scenery.
Couldnt agree more!
Northumberland is my favourite place in the uk, especially Bamburgh.
Absolutely
I live in Northumberland and you're right, it's sublime!
You'll need to win the lottery to live in a lot of these places.
Almost smashed my phone in when that guy kept pronouncing Derbyshire wrong. And he didn't mention all the caverns! You can't visit Derbyshire without walking through a wet tunnel of rock.
It's amazing right, where abouts in Derbyshire are u from if u don't mind me asking.
Do you mean DArbyshuh lol?
Blue John mines 😎
@wendy kelly They do show Derwent dam though, which is right above Ladybower 😎
@@karlpilkington2203 I'm actually on the edge of Greater Manchester but just a few train stops away. So weird how within 15 minutes it's all beautiful fields and rock faces.
I love how a metric of the quality of a UK destination is the number of pubs per 10,000 people.
Quite right too 😂
@@Tdoesteaching I bet that number inaccurate if count all pubs been forced to shut cuz of lockdown.
Im in England , UK loll
Best places to live and best places to visit are two very different things!
❤❤❤Brighton ❤❤❤, we've got the lot, the coast, the countryside, the city with it's cafes, bars and nightlife,and only 60 miles from London....wouldn't live anywhere else.
@@susangarvey9415 I do like Brighton, but I couldn't ever afford to live there. I used to date a woman from there and she paid something crazy like £600-£700 a month in rent for a room in a shared house.
@@chilli-iceolive-abode2447 I live in a council flat lol on the outskirts of Brighton, so my rent is fairly cheap. To be honest I don't really go into Brighton itself alot, especially during the last year, but it has some of the best countryside and coast around, I do like to go and sit by the pier or go into town itself to have a look around the lanes or sit by the pavilion and it has great bus services to get around. The people here are cool too, but I agree with you, private rents and house prices are extortionate.
@@susangarvey9415 ah yes if you can get council housing that would be amazing tbf!
It is a nice place I always enjoy it when I'm there lots of chilled out people and nice places.
I moved from the south of England to Wales a couple of years ago and now I'm used to cheap cheap rent.
It is beautiful here as well, but a lot of the people are sadly a bit closed minded and stuck in their ways. Literally like the opposite of Brighton!
@@chilli-iceolive-abode2447 funny enough I lived in Wales (Port Talbot) in the late 70s, loved it there. Hahaha, you do have to be pretty broadminded in live in Brighton, but coming from London I suppose I'd pretty much seen it all anyway.
Hope one day you and your girlfriend visit the U.K. you would be more than welcome
I suspect they`ll not be short of places to stay either.
I can’t wait to get over there and experience the UK first hand! 🙏
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If all 35k subscribers donated 50p to a crowd funder they’d have £17,500. More than enough for flights and accommodation. Let’s make it happen!
@@MagicKillerClub ill go with that 👍
I love how the commentator in the video didn't bother to check out the pronunciations of the place names.
DDeerbishur. NO. darbeeshear.. lol.
Like Llanfair (can't say the middle bit) tisiliogogogch!
They also got Bedale wrong in Yorkshire, its said like bee dale
@@sejbomb "Anglia Rooskin University". It's 'russkin', and It's easy to check.
I was thinking that myself. 10 best places to live in the UK according to an american who's probably never visited and can't pronounce half the place names... okay then!
JT, I'm disappointed in the video, not even a mention of Cornwall or the south west or what about the Wales country, how did it go with the job? Keep up the videos 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸
Cornwall is the best looking out of the whole country but i think employment rates could be worse but if things like that good then deserves top spot on the list
I agree jimrodda, how can they ignore Bigbury bay and Burgh Island, a pint of cider at the Pilchard and an overnight in Agatha Christies old home and Dartmoor, then the forgotten City of the U.K, Plymouth where Frances Drake, captain cook, Charles Darwin, sir Francis Chichester, and of course, the Pilgrims set sail in the Mayflower, you can even have a pint of beer or cider in the oldest pub in Plymouth and the last pub the Pilgrims drank in, you can also make your own gin! You can visit the new museum the 'box' and see the actual sled and skis that captain Scott used on his fatefull journey to everest you can walk along the pier that Lawrence of Arabia flew and landed his sea planes. We have forts rather than castles but not much difference, next door is Cornwall, loads of castles, especially Tintagel where king Arthur's castle is snuggled into the cliffs. Or, grab your surf board and grab some waves at Newquay the Surf capital of England! Cornwall is another country really, with It's own Language and chilled vibe nowhere in Cornwall is more than 50 miles from the sea.
Yep agree. I’m just outside Bath on the edge of the Cotswolds and we have some lovely chocolate box villages here.
@@klaygiles2988 here in Cornwall, there are not many job opportunities and cost of living is super high.
@@s.club.juniors this is true but the beaches are amazing
Durbyshire!? It's pronounced DAR-B-SHEAR. Fantastic place though. Went there for a week on holiday, great memories. Lot's of old mines to explore.
Shuh, not Shear :)
Not shear or shire, it's sher but I suppose it depends on where you come from.
I cringed every single time the narrator said Derbyshire the American way. Oof.
Or if you're a Geordie, Darby-sha. (With the 'a,' cut off short.)
If yu from Derbyshire yu talk like me lol
Never understood why Americans see Yorkshire or Lancashire and say shire like a shire-horse but then they see New Hampshire and pronounce it correctly
Maybe they think we're all Hobbits?
I've never noticed that before!
They still haven't mastered the human language. The common meme for it is;
British English (traditional)
American English (simplified)
An excellent point for shire!
Yes this is so true 🤣🤣
7:42 Did it say Belfast is one of the *least attractive* cities? Did I hear that right? I keep replaying and I don't get it.
I think the video means that it's the least attractive as in it doesn't attract a lot of international tourists compared to other cities within the UK
I though “how ruuuuude! 😱🙄😡” was offended on behalf of all the people from Belfast! The narrator needs to replace “least attractive” with “not as most visited as other cities...” and Derrbishire?no, DAR bish uh
Yeah, it's a bit ambiguous. He definitely says 'least attractive', but he may mean that people avoid it because of its recent history. To people who grew up in the UK from the late 60s onwards, Belfast=trouble. It's probably ill-deserved now but reputations linger.
@@felicitydavies3227 No, he said the least attractive place to live and work in.
I'm from Belfast. He said least attractive. He's right! The surrounding countryside is beautiful though and the craic in the city is great.
'If I don't have at least six castles within driving distance, I don't wanna.'
North Wales it is then! I think you'd like it there.
We have half a dozen on the Wales/Hereford borders too :)
As a "Wales people" I approve this message
My favourite place in the world
@@dandelionmel cymru am byth❤
@@sheepsky my heart is in Caernarfon
You're rarely far from a castle in the UK.
Ikr
I think there's like 5 castles near me or something 😂
Not forgetting a pub! Lol!
You should check out a RUclips channel called "All The Stations". It's basically a british couple visiting all 2,563 train station in Great Britain. It took them 14 weeks and 6 days. You don't have to be a railway geek to enjoy their vlog and the documentary. I highly recommend giving it a goo.
And on a side note. Derbyshire is pronounced "darbyshur". The ending -shire is always pronounced "-shur".
As a Yorkie I definitely recommend a trip to York. We have 2000 years worth of history in 1 square mile, including a roman tower, a Norman castle, and medieval city walls.
Also, as a side note, any place ending with "shire" can be pronounced either as "sheer or as "cher (like the singer). Either are acceptable, but only non-natives and Hobbits pronounce it as "shy-er". :)
I can’t wait for lockdown to finish so I can have a nice weekend in York!
You also have big viking history
The Jorvik Viking center also worth a visit
Yeah, I'd go with York out of all of these. Sooooo beautiful!
Lincolnshire nice and close to Yorkshire makes it a great place to see England.
You need a network of your followers all around the UK who can put you up
Hear, hear!
Agreed
I’d do that and I live 8 miles from wales!!!
I agree! Would be fun and cheaper too!