I've seen a large number of Americans on here not realising that we have beaches. I am shocked. Surely just seeing the UK on a map shows it's a whole lot of islands!
I don't know who told you people in the UK shop for a couple of days at a time, and don't do a big monthly or weekly shop... They were either ignorant or lying.
I get 30days plus 20 flex days, which means if I worked slightly longer days I can build the hours up & take a day off. This is on top of 8 days bank holiday leave & weekends. My pay is slightly under the national average but that whole package works for me!
This is going back years ago. But I actually got a return trip to Dubai for £160. I found there was a 'cut price' airline taking people to Istanbul, Turkey for £40, spent a day or so indulging myself there, then got the middle eastern 'cut price' airline (Air Arabia) from Istanbul to the Emirates. That took me to Sharjah, and a couple of miles up the road was Duba, with all the film stars and footballers etc. who pay £500 per night for the smart hotels. I booked myself into a notorious 'knocking shop / pick-up joint' for "£20 a night, and found out it was a four star rated place. For £5 a day I could get onto 'jumairah beach', which is the VIP place where everybody you see is either famous or deliberately keeping themselves 'not famous'! Went back home for the same prices. I could go into a top class Indian restaurant it Dubai, order like crazy, and it was so cheap I could tip like I was some sort of Oligarch.
I feel sorry for the average worker in the US, thats not working, to me, thats slavery. Also, why call it vacation? If you vacate somewhere you leave for good.
That is kind of a large amount of vacation. The legal minimum is more like 28 days. But I once did a lot of overtime for a company that was 'cheapskate', and they kept saying 'oh you can take it as leave instead of paid time'. Come the time I dropped the hammer, and I took off for two months. I spent a month in Yemen studying Arabic, went around Dubai, and you name it.
I shop for a week or two at a time for general items, fresh food a week or so, though milk and bread more often. The fridge and freezer are very useful! There is a walkable local shop with fresh veg, fruit, fish, meat, eggs bread and milk. So normal here. 🇬🇧
Bro, I’m self employed and my contact says: 220 days maximum working days a year. The company bans even for self employed people to work too much. We have to go to vacation. To travel everywhere is cheap. It doesn’t matter where you live actually. Not the UK makes it cheap. You can be anywhere in the EU, travelling is cheap.
Unless you renounce your US Citizenship you will still be expected to fill out your US Tax Returns and PAY US Tax on that income earned in the UK or Europe. Just a word of warning The US Tax Office will make it extremely hard for you to do this, ie Renounce your US Citizenship. One other good thing is in the UK PART of the Tax you pay covers you for MEDICAL TREATMENT at NO COST TO YOU.
Everyone gets paid vacation and sick leave America so mistreats its own people and you just accept it. In Australia its minimum set by government is 20 days annual leave, 10 days sick leave also 7 public holidays plus maternity leave is 20 weeks and also long service so after 10 years you get additional 12 weeks that is pro rata before that. The employer also pays on top of your pay 10% to your superannuation so everyone has some extra money when they retire. Minimum wage is $24 per hour with 1 1/2 on overtime and double time on Sundays.
The MINIMUM amount of PTO in the UK is 28 days which includes 8 Bank Holidays (National Holidays). That works out as 5 weeks and 3 days per year. And that is BY LAW!!! 🙂
38 days is a bit more than usual, perhaps she's including bank/public holidays? However, if you include public holidays, after ten years service I did get over 40 days holiday in total. The UK normally gets 8 days public holiday, Christmas, Easter etc.....All of which fall on a week day or are moved to a weekday if they occur on a weekend. Other countries like Germany get more public holidays than us but............if they fall on a weekend, tough luck!
For most it's sadly only 21 optional working days plus 8 public holidays: if your workplace is still open you may be able to work the holidays and take the time off in lieu at another time, but that depends on where you work. The UK actually has one of the meanest allowances in Europe, the EU minimum which many Continental countries exceed. Britain's actually a bit of a dump on this score, as on others (woeful social provision, underfunded public healthcare, a disastrous housing shortage, stagnating real wages, collapsing local government, crap privatised railway services), the legacy of half a century of "shrinking the state" (which oddly never happened; instead governments just stopped doing anything to make life better for the majority).
Why do Americans think london is the best place to settle. Housing is so much cheaper up north. You could buy a fair size house for the price of a small one bed flat in london. Edinburgh is nearly as expensive they Liverpool if you are looking for a nice City, or one of may others more affordable
The US has a much better Work/Work balance. More paid time off. If you add it up across your three jobs in the US, you have more than you would in the UK.
For Americans who are thinking about moving to the UK there are a few things that some Americans DON’T like: UK houses are smaller, smaller country smaller houses, no AC in houses, town roads are much narrower and many country roads can be only wide enough for 1 car, most shops and stores DON’T open 24hrs even in the big cities. It’s generally a lot cooler/colder than the warm / hot US states, in winter it goes dark at 4:00pm in the afternoon until about 8:00am the next morning. London is expensive to live.
Some things Americans might like about the UK that you might not have thought about: it’s an island so there is lots of coast and beaches to visit, wherever you are you are never more than 80miles from the coast! the UK is very green! Lots of trees and grass. We have definitive seasons : spring summer autumn (fall) and winter, you can go walking in the country / parks / coast without fear of getting shot or attacked by any wild animals. Scotland has the right roam anywhere! We have virtually no dangerous animals or insects! Lots of beautiful national parks such as Snowdonia in Wales, Lake District in England and the Scottish Highlands.
Someone needs to tell that lady
The UK is in Europe.
@ 2.56
NO IT IS NOT!
@captaincorky237 And the earth is flat ?
"The UK is in Europe."
It HAS been since 1066, actually.
It's just that we are no longer GOVERNED by 'Europeans' - but (for good or ill) by Britons!
It seems weird that someone visiting an island would not imagine that it had beaches, cliffs etc. - you know, being surrounded by the sea!
I've seen a large number of Americans on here not realising that we have beaches. I am shocked. Surely just seeing the UK on a map shows it's a whole lot of islands!
It's not unusual to have 25-35 days holiday/vacation time almost anywhere else in the world outside of the USA, certainly not in the developed world.
I don't know who told you people in the UK shop for a couple of days at a time, and don't do a big monthly or weekly shop... They were either ignorant or lying.
Walk 3 miles, I once ran 14 miles for fun on a Sunday with my friend and brother
I get 30days plus 20 flex days, which means if I worked slightly longer days I can build the hours up & take a day off. This is on top of 8 days bank holiday leave & weekends. My pay is slightly under the national average but that whole package works for me!
(9.30) Why do you keep saying "I ain't going to lie" Why would you lie ? Doesn't make sense.
It’s just a saying, chill out 😂 how old are you? 80! 😂
It’s the same as “ngl”. A phrase of American younger people. (And I’m not native speaker…)
I had 6 weeks off for vacation I worked for the NHS Medical Physics and Bioengineering. Thats a year I worked there for a long time.😅😊😅
Loads of people shop for a week. I do. The car goes to M&S, then Sainsburys on the way back.
This is going back years ago. But I actually got a return trip to Dubai for £160. I found there was a 'cut price' airline taking people to Istanbul, Turkey for £40, spent a day or so indulging myself there, then got the middle eastern 'cut price' airline (Air Arabia) from Istanbul to the Emirates. That took me to Sharjah, and a couple of miles up the road was Duba, with all the film stars and footballers etc. who pay £500 per night for the smart hotels. I booked myself into a notorious 'knocking shop / pick-up joint' for "£20 a night, and found out it was a four star rated place. For £5 a day I could get onto 'jumairah beach', which is the VIP place where everybody you see is either famous or deliberately keeping themselves 'not famous'! Went back home for the same prices. I could go into a top class Indian restaurant it Dubai, order like crazy, and it was so cheap I could tip like I was some sort of Oligarch.
I feel sorry for the average worker in the US, thats not working, to me, thats slavery. Also, why call it vacation? If you vacate somewhere you leave for good.
That is kind of a large amount of vacation. The legal minimum is more like 28 days. But I once did a lot of overtime for a company that was 'cheapskate', and they kept saying 'oh you can take it as leave instead of paid time'. Come the time I dropped the hammer, and I took off for two months. I spent a month in Yemen studying Arabic, went around Dubai, and you name it.
Here in Austria we have 5 weeks paid holidays plus 14 public holidays. After 20 years working at the same firm you have 6 weeks paid holidays.
My government job gives 30 days and every 4 months I get 6 days extra a crude holidays 😊
I shop for a week or two at a time for general items, fresh food a week or so, though milk and bread more often. The fridge and freezer are very useful! There is a walkable local shop with fresh veg, fruit, fish, meat, eggs bread and milk. So normal here. 🇬🇧
Sick day's too are payed.
A fit young man like you cannot walk 3 miles!
Bro, I’m self employed and my contact says: 220 days maximum working days a year. The company bans even for self employed people to work too much. We have to go to vacation.
To travel everywhere is cheap. It doesn’t matter where you live actually. Not the UK makes it cheap. You can be anywhere in the EU, travelling is cheap.
Unless you renounce your US Citizenship you will still be expected to fill out your US Tax Returns and PAY US Tax on that income earned in the UK or Europe. Just a word of warning The US Tax Office will make it extremely hard for you to do this, ie Renounce your US Citizenship. One other good thing is in the UK PART of the Tax you pay covers you for MEDICAL TREATMENT at NO COST TO YOU.
Looks weird what are you doing? Whipping moving, nervous 😓 maybe?
Everyone gets paid vacation and sick leave America so mistreats its own people and you just accept it. In Australia its minimum set by government is 20 days annual leave, 10 days sick leave also 7 public holidays plus maternity leave is 20 weeks and also long service so after 10 years you get additional 12 weeks that is pro rata before that. The employer also pays on top of your pay 10% to your superannuation so everyone has some extra money when they retire. Minimum wage is $24 per hour with 1 1/2 on overtime and double time on Sundays.
The MINIMUM amount of PTO in the UK is 28 days which includes 8 Bank Holidays (National Holidays). That works out as 5 weeks and 3 days per year.
And that is BY LAW!!! 🙂
a week in the uk?
that's certainly not long enough, too much to see here.
3 mile walk is nothing, hardly even your 10k steps haha
38 days is a bit more than usual, perhaps she's including bank/public holidays? However, if you include public holidays, after ten years service I did get over 40 days holiday in total. The UK normally gets 8 days public holiday, Christmas, Easter etc.....All of which fall on a week day or are moved to a weekday if they occur on a weekend. Other countries like Germany get more public holidays than us but............if they fall on a weekend, tough luck!
For most it's sadly only 21 optional working days plus 8 public holidays: if your workplace is still open you may be able to work the holidays and take the time off in lieu at another time, but that depends on where you work. The UK actually has one of the meanest allowances in Europe, the EU minimum which many Continental countries exceed.
Britain's actually a bit of a dump on this score, as on others (woeful social provision, underfunded public healthcare, a disastrous housing shortage, stagnating real wages, collapsing local government, crap privatised railway services), the legacy of half a century of "shrinking the state" (which oddly never happened; instead governments just stopped doing anything to make life better for the majority).
Why do Americans think london is the best place to settle. Housing is so much cheaper up north. You could buy a fair size house for the price of a small one bed flat in london. Edinburgh is nearly as expensive they Liverpool if you are looking for a nice City, or one of may others more affordable
Owning a car In the uk is really not expensive at all, what is expensive is the trains in the U.K. are extortionate prices
The US has a much better Work/Work balance. More paid time off. If you add it up across your three jobs in the US, you have more than you would in the UK.
Vacation days are each five days equals a week off work.. So if you have ten working days holiday that's two weeks off work..
Uk is still part Europe.
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We get sick pay too!! Maternity pay Your job is gauranteed for you to go back to and its paid!
For Americans who are thinking about moving to the UK there are a few things that some Americans DON’T like: UK houses are smaller, smaller country smaller houses, no AC in houses, town roads are much narrower and many country roads can be only wide enough for 1 car, most shops and stores DON’T open 24hrs even in the big cities. It’s generally a lot cooler/colder than the warm / hot US states, in winter it goes dark at 4:00pm in the afternoon until about 8:00am the next morning. London is expensive to live.
Some things Americans might like about the UK that you might not have thought about: it’s an island so there is lots of coast and beaches to visit, wherever you are you are never more than 80miles from the coast! the UK is very green! Lots of trees and grass. We have definitive seasons : spring summer autumn (fall) and winter, you can go walking in the country / parks / coast without fear of getting shot or attacked by any wild animals. Scotland has the right roam anywhere! We have virtually no dangerous animals or insects! Lots of beautiful national parks such as Snowdonia in Wales, Lake District in England and the Scottish Highlands.
⚽ This rules
Of course, only an idiot would go to a country on the same latitude as Southern Alaska and expect Florida weather.😅