March isn't summer. And, when you are used to upper 90's in the summer, 60 degrees is cool! So, if you are sweating in 60-degree weather I suggest you not come to the south from June - November. It can be really brutal...even for those of us who are used to it!
I am wearing a sweater in 60s degrees Fahrenheit weather living in Texas... I set my thermostat at 80 degrees as I don't feel warm until that temperature...
I once went swimming in the gulf in February. After when I was on the beach going back to my car, a local who'd seen me called me brave. :D I'm from TN so it gets pretty hot here, but that water was perfect as far as I was concerned. :D
January is what we on the Gulf Coast call "Quebecer Season". Floridians will avoid the beach and wear a parka while the Quebecers are on the beach in banana hammocks! 😂
I live in WNY and our summers can be brutally muggy along with upper 80’s and when it’s 60 in March we are in shorts and tshirts. It’s reaching 40 today and I have leggings and a tank top with a zippy on.
Outlet malls are awesome. Regular stuff, designer stuff - it’s usually imperfect, off-season or out-of-date and sizes may be limited, but you never know! Think of it as panning for gold.
Remember they said they were visiting in the early 90s. Inflation hit during the 2020 covid time and prices of almost everything have shot up. Our gas is still pretty cheap but not fast food and grocery store food.
Outlet stores are often brand specific so there is a Nike Store, a Ralph Lauren store, etc. It's usually stuff that didn't sell well or has some minor flaw like a slightly crooked seam or a little bit of glue that came out of the sole onto the outside.
@@suefranklin8177 - I'm with you there. The LAST time I went to Walmart it was a sea of no one and no workers. I got to the self check out and of course it f'd up in the first 3 items. I'm like, "HELP!" No one ever responded, I gave it a full 90 seconds and just walked out with the grocery cart still at the register with perishables in it and all. (this was years before covid) They'll end up being online only if they're not careful. I would much rather pay to go to a better grocery store than deal with that nonsense. The greeter system is the only good thing Walmart ever did.
They do wrap the house for asbestos removal too. Most bug bombs are set off while the owners are out of the house. All doors and windows are closed. At least ours were done that way.
They are oceanside..absolutely cold ocean breeze would make locals cover up.. when I moved to FL at 8 from a Mt in VA in Dec in snow..I ran around barefoot and in shorts in Fl that first winter.. then I acclimated over the coming seasons and got cold right along with them
A lot of British people think the good service is due to tipping. That is a factor, but if they don’t give diners a good experience, they won’t have a job. Managers want repeat business.
The speediness is also factored at our worker culture, where there are people who don't have enough time to relax and enjoy their meal because a short amount of time left before heading to work or heading back to work. Time and speed convenience are very important for working Americans.
60° is warm for Winter, but quite chilly for Summer. In fact, if it's not over 75° during the Summer, then you've just had a Cold Front roll thru. Average Summer Temps for most of America range from about 75° to 100°. And if you live in an area that has average cloud cover, then it tends to stay pretty warm overnight. But in the desert out West, where it's mostly clear during the day, it can get down to about 35-40° at night. But quickly warms back up during the day. So you can go from like 40 at night to over 100 during the day. We went to the Grand Canyon in 1993. It was like an average Summer Day in the Desert when we visited the Canyon. Something like 85-95°, and then when we stayed in Flagstaff overnight, south of the Canyon, it was around 40° when we left the hotel in the morning. But as we drove south to Sedona, AZ (where Sen. John McCain was from) it got right back up to like 80 once the sun got up in the sky.
I was informed by my investment broker that here in the United States, we have more oil in reserve than all of the OPEC countri8es combined! I was surprised because I had never thought about it before.
I'm surprised you didn't know this. You're not paying attention to the political climate. Or you were mislead by the current political group in charge.
Yes, the Tipping Culture has a lot to do about the quality of customer service on restaurants in America. Say what you will about Tipping, but when you know you actually have to work for your pay, rather than being guaranteed a set Minimum that is decent enough, you tend to work a bit harder. Because if you slack off and basically not do your job, the customer is not going to tip you. This is where I think Europe as a whole has gone wrong. Because I've constantly heard from both European folks and Americans that go to European restaurants that the service pretty much sucks almost as if the servers think the customer is actually a burden on their time being at work.
My husband and I had a similar but opposite problem with heat/cold temps. My BFF got married in Massachusetts during a summer. I think the highs were in the low 80sF (27C). Being from the south, we were enjoying the warmth, but not too hot, weather. They had heat warnings on the TV, telling people not to be out in the hot for too long. While wandering around, locals were swooning and sweating. Meanwhile, we were perfectly comfortable. Being from Florida, 60F is cold.
My sister, who is from the Midwest, lived in south Florida for a year or so, a few years back; and while she was there, she acquired a dog, a chihuahua/dachsund mix, that had grown up in Miami Beach and was now several years old. When her circumstances changed and she moved back up (to Fort Wayne, in northern Indiana), she brought the dog with her. It was August at the time, so far so good; but then fall came, and the temperatures started to drop, and the dog started to get pretty freaked out. At one point, he was asking to go outside (to use, as it were, the facilities), and she took him to the door, and he looked out at the snow-covered ground and ran back through the house to the other door, begging to be let out there instead. Imagine his disappointment, when the world outside the front door proved to be the same temperature as the back yard. It took him a couple of years to get properly acclimated to the existence of winter.
Yes being outside in “the south” during summer months, is like walking into a pot of soup! The minute you step out, (especially if indoors in air conditioning, as it nearly always is (assuming that the electric is on), you’re enveloped by a warm/hot, sticky mess of an atmosphere that feels like a heated, hot, wet blanket slapping you right in your face! In moments all your clothing is clinging to you as the sweat runs and drips off of you. Maybe if you’re lucky not every day is quite that bad, but after a few weeks in a row, it feels as if it’s been forever. When you step out the shower, before you can towel dry the water, the perspiration has already taken its place. Not fun, is the best way to describe it in the beginning of summer. By the end of summer “not fun”, has become “soul sucking”. ‘nough said! 😉😀
Beer varies greatly in strength depending on what variety. You can't go by national brands. There are literally hundreds of microbreweries that make, for instance, excellent Imperial Stouts or Double IPAs that will be as high as 8 or 9% ABV or lagers as low as 4%.
2 days of driving is not far at all. My road trips are from the West Coast to the East coast. Takes me a few days but it's great to see things that are different than your usual view.
I can get gas, per gallon, for a $1.50 with my grocery bonus rewards. It's like going back to the mid 1990's. I know the groceries on the more are more expensive than then, but to fill up your tank for $20-25 bucks in the car is crazy. Filling the truck is more of course, but it still is cheap for the bigger tank.
No the UK and Canada don't need fumigation because the termites don't live in those climates as it's too cold. It's only the Southern tier of the U.S. that has a problem with them.
"Micro-breweries" are all the thing, though. No more watery, light beer. Wherever you visit, ask for a local brew. Also, we call higher alcohol content "high gravity" beers. Up to 9% or so.
Gas got up to $7 per gallon in CA and about $6.60 per gallon in WA state last summer. Gas can also be wildly different in price in the same neighborhood depending on the brand of station. Where I live, Shell is about a full dollar more per gallon than Arco. Even when an expensive station is across the street from a less expensive station, they don't lower their price. When I flew to the midwest, gas was almost $3 cheaper per gallon than where I am in the west. Same day. Different state. $3 difference.
SC resident here: there are over 90 golf courses in the Myrtle Beach area. We do have Canadian days in the March time frame since so many come down. It's worth a trip at least once
I the United States, a good rule of thumb for the best deals when shopping, “is get out of the cities”, or certainly at least the big, best known cities”. And places like New York, LA, etc., are probably the very most expensive. (They might have the absolute latest released “bouchée” brands, but you’ll pay through your teeth for it as well.). Do your shopping out in more rural areas for the least expense. You might have a more limited selection, but it usually is still quite varied. And at any rate, if something is a must, it can nearly always be purchased online with very rapid shipping.
No, it isn't because we make gas here. it is only because of the taxes. Canada is a huge oil producer also. The North sea produces tons of oil. Your gov't is shafting you.
Our gas is cheaper because the taxes on gas are lower than in Canada and UK. We also import a lot of gas from trusted nations like Canada and Mexico. I lived on the US-Canada border in the early 1990s and Canadians would flock to our local supermarkets every weekend. Now I reside in Florida and there are Canadians everywhere here. A lot of people from Quebec ride their motorcycles down from Quebec to Florida.
Outlet malls are actually not discount malls. Each name brand store has named items specifically made and priced for that market. The prices in the 90’s were considerably lower than today. Since COVID everything has shot up.
The problem with "gallons" is that in the USA, this unit is the English "wine gallon" (3.785L). Britain replaced this with the Imperial gallon (4.54609L) in 1826, but the USA never adopted the new definitions. So what you might think of as a gallon is 20% more than what we get.
Outlet malls are for last-year's styles (or a couple years back -- whatever isn't going for top dollar at the moment.) So, yes, you can get Nike (Ny-kee, not N-eye-k), and Adidas stuff that came out previously.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is one of the best east coast beach resorts in the USA, & actually hosts a "Can-Am" (Canadian-American) festival every spring, when the Canadian "snow birds" flock to the southeastern USA. We Americans of every ethnic background, economic situation, & political persuasion proudly display our national flag at all times, not necessarily because we love the flag, but because we love "the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty & justice for all." - from our American Pledge of Allegiance. Thanks for your reaction. 🇺🇲
@tracierainey8200 Well seriously, tourists to South Carolina generate approximately $28 billion for the state annually, which benefits all state residents, as the money is used for infrastructure, education, public works, etc. It's always a good idea to have a little extra in the state coffers, & tourism contributes significantly to them.
Around 15 million tourists a year go to Myrtle Beach....One of the longest ocean strands....Couple thousand restaurants, over 100 golf courses......Locals love to drive around in golf carts, especially on the side areas.......It is a very nice area.
@captaingenius-o1c I couldn't agree more, my friend. Myrtle Beach has been my family's "go-to" vacation destination for over a century. Thanks for your reply.
I wish we had the British view of 'driving in gas powered individual vehicles isn't necessarily the best way to get to point B. I know I can't exchange experience with people in the U.K. I will usually drive to Gulf Shores, Alabama, as it is the closest point to the Atlantic Ocean..Gulf of Mexico. 12 driving hours is not that bad..12 hours you don't even need to spend the night at a hotel/motel.
I live in California in wintertime it's usually 70F, in America everyone expects fast service, most retail stores have greeters to encourage customers to come in, the house wrapped up is fumigation, yeah major stores have outlet stars they have brand names start at 50% off, the majority of fast food is cheap because there so many different food so their is competition, we love to fly our flag, and you can get anything you want at Walmart.
If Canadians didn't have insane taxes on gas, ours wd be cheaper, too. The same goes for booze - about 65% of price is tax. Now many gas and convenience stations in Ontario sell beer, cider/mixed drinks and wine.
Outlet Stores ….. Designer Stores ….. Ann Taylor - Joseph Banks - Ralph Lauren - Coach - Kate Spade - Nike - Converse Puma Sketchers - North Face - Vera Bradley - Banana Republic - Armani - Calvin Klein - Crocks - Ughs - H& M - J.C. Crew - Levi’s - Michael kors - North Face - Tommy Hilfiger ……. TO NAME SOME
Chartered buses make frequent stops for picking up and dropping off passengers. There are layovers for meals. There is a restroom on the bus if you absolutely need one. Otherwise wait for the next stop.
Outlet malls are full of designer stores. I don’t think they started out this way but now companies manufacture for the outlet mall. They may have similar designs as high end stores but they’ll use cheaper fabrics, cheaper labor and other methods to keep the prices low compared to their flagship items/stores. Some may sell the real-deal but when they do it is old, out of season or seconds.
Outlet shops. Yes 60 degrees here in California is freezing 75 - 80 is nice, and at 110 you can forget about sweating, you dry out quicker than you sweat. I will say there is a "BIG" difference with the humidity 90 degrees and 80% humidity is miserable. You can get Nike, Adidas, Tommy Hilfiger, Coach, Kate Spade, etc at great prices.
My wife and I live in the Northeast in coastal Connecticut, but we like to take winter vacations in Tucson, Arizona. In 2017, we drove instead of flying. It took us about six days of driving, although we weren't pushing it. And about the same to drive back. It's about 2800 miles because Tucson is only an hour from the Mexican border, so we traveled not only most of the width of the country, but its height as well.
Cross-border shopping largely a thing of the past. So many American (and Cdn) malls are closed due to online shopping/cost of upkeep of malls. Many of these fast food stores (popeyes, wendys, taco bell, etc;) are now in cda.
Outlet Malls are basically malls (usually, but not always, strip malls) that have sister shops of all major brand named stores where they sell slightly damaged, or misprinted merchandise at a heavily discounted price that the regular stores can't sell. It's just a way to offload merchandise at at least some value back to the retailer, but at a huge discount to the customer. We used to go up to my cousin's house in Chicagoland from Southern Illinois (about a 310 mile one-way trip...I just Google Map Measured it out earlier today) and there's a Outlet Mall in one of the towns along the way that we'd always tend to stop at. I wanna say it was in Kent, Indiana. My mother loved to go there.
Outlet malls feature the left overs from stores.. so they are name brands but they didnt have enough for all the stores or only select sizes, off season items, stores going out of business... etc(lots of reasons) so they will sell them to a outlet store for very cheap (pennies on the dollar).. who then turn around and sell it to the public for cheap. Regarding the flag in the early 90s.. remember 911 had just happened.. we were ALL very patriotic at that time... the whole USA came together.
Beer is cheaper in Illinois than states in the South because there's no alcohol tax. Learned that when I first moved to Illinois back in the day. In Tennessee the 12 pack would cost about $14 but in Illinois that same 12 pack would be about $9
Highways, you can drive from southern Florida to northern Ohio in about 18-20 hours straight. The most interesting state to drive through is West Virginia, which is basically driving up a mountain for the first half, and driving down a mountain for the 2nd half....It is 70 plus mph(but traffic tends to go around 80 mph), and a real challenge as a driver....3 hours to drive through West Virginia, but not for the faint of heart. ..
Ok, 60F that's 15.5C. And one US gallon, which is different from an imperial gallon, is 3.5 Liters. 60F is not hot, but is comfortable if you are working outside and it's not raining or windy but if you're used to warmer weather, it will feel very chilly.
There are some rules you are supposed to follow when flying the American Flag. The most important is if you leave the flag up over night it should be lit by lighting. Otherwise it should be lowered at Sunset and raised at Sunrise. Also needs to be kept in good condition. If it gets ragged there are rules about how to properly disposing of it.
I never buy beer in the US that is less than 6 percent, at a minimum. Usually 7 or more. That is because I always buy ales or IPA's, available at virtually any store, even gas stations. As you may surmise, it has been years since I drank a Budweiser, and that was just because I was desperate.
I think it must be mostly in the South, isn’t it? I’ve lived in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Hampshire and I’ve never seen a house wrapped like that. Is it for termites?
@valeriecharboneau308 California, parts of Colorado too. Some people are really disgusting, and you want to make certain your stuff is not infested with their filthy and vermon.
I am almost 46 years old, and have come to terms with the fact that I will never afford to retire in my life... I'm doing my best to find work that satisfies my soul, as I will be sadly working 'til I die, but it's tough to follow your passions anymore.
I love outlet malls, I've been to ones in Delaware, VA, and MD. You will see plenty of stores like Nike,Puma, Adidas, Under Armour, New Balance, Kate Spade, Coach, Gap, etc., all marked down items
Gas prices also vary by state due to the taxes imposed by each state. Here in PA we have fairly high fuel taxes, so gas is more than in our neighbors to the south where it's usually at least 10-25 cents cheaper per gallon.
Outlet malls can have leftover merchandise. Nike and Adidas are staples of outlet malls. Some will also specialize in designer goods like Gucci, Fendi, Burberry, etc. Some stores will have lower quality merchandise specifically made for outlets. Coach is a good example.
5 hour drive and knackered. lol When I moved to FL from NC, it took 8 hours. We had 2 cats in the car with us. My mother wouldn't let me drive because I drove to slow. So, she drove like Richard Petty for 8 hours. I'm not sure how we survived. She really had seen too many movies.... she was trying to drift off the speed of big rigs and stuff.
The cheaper prices you see in gas and other goods as compared to UK are do to the taxes applied. In the Uk your “free” health care is built in to all goods. We all pay taxes but at rates applicable to services.
Beer prices depend on where you are and what you are ordering/buying. As does everything. I am having a beer that is 9% alcohol as I am watching. I got it at my gas station. Since I am so not walking that far.
Remember beer sold in gas stations is often weaker than beer sold in liquor stores. Outlets stores sell stuff that doesn’t pass quality checks most of the time.
When it comes to Brits in Australia, they definitely come across as delicate little flowers. We set our air conditioners at 25 C. If it gets to 20 C out comes the winter coats. Those two in their summer clothes would remind me of what happened to a man I know who got married to a Russian lady. It was winter in Tasmania, they get snow in some areas of that state. Two of her friends decided that it was lovely and warm. So they were walking around in bikinis and being looked at like they were insane. I'm starting another comment.
I can't handle the heat, but it has to be around 30 C for me to start suffering. My grandma immigrated from Finland as a little girl with her family during WWI. I inherited many cool things from her, but handling hot, humid weather isn't one of them. Even with electrolytes, it still wipes me out. I live in The Atherton Tablelands, Far North Queensland, which is up a mountain range behind Cairns. (You pronounce it like cans of drink.) It's always cooler than the coast, Europeans love it. I don't mind visiting the coasr during summer, they have air conditioning pretty much everywhere. But when my dad died, we had to go to Brissie (Brisbane) in summer, and it was at least 40 C. Horrible is an understatement. It grates on our nerves when you mispronounce it as Bris-Bane. If it gives you trouble, just call Brissie with a z sound like the Aussies do.
The founder of Wendy's, Dave Thomas, was one a vice president at KFC. He introduced the boxed meal to the company. Before that the company was known for selling buckets of chicken and sides. He made individual orders an option.
Pest control is much, much *worse* if the houses are all attached to each other, or even sitting too close to each other. When one person fumigates, the vermin survive on the rest of the block and then quickly spread again afterward. With normal houses that have yards in between them, they can't do that, so even if you accidentally bring some home in your luggage after vacation or whatever, once you get rid of them, they're gone. (Err, unless you live so far south that they can survive outdoors year-round; I gather this can be a significant problem e.g. in parts of Florida.) This is why cockroaches are so much more problematic in big cities in North America, than in normal-sized communities. Big cities have a much higher percentage of adjacent housing. If Britain, with all of its row houses and whatnot, doesn't have a problem with such vermin, it's probably one of the benefits of being located on an island; though climate may also be relevant.
March isn't summer. And, when you are used to upper 90's in the summer, 60 degrees is cool! So, if you are sweating in 60-degree weather I suggest you not come to the south from June - November. It can be really brutal...even for those of us who are used to it!
I am wearing a sweater in 60s degrees Fahrenheit weather living in Texas... I set my thermostat at 80 degrees as I don't feel warm until that temperature...
I once went swimming in the gulf in February. After when I was on the beach going back to my car, a local who'd seen me called me brave. :D I'm from TN so it gets pretty hot here, but that water was perfect as far as I was concerned. :D
January is what we on the Gulf Coast call "Quebecer Season". Floridians will avoid the beach and wear a parka while the Quebecers are on the beach in banana hammocks! 😂
Even December
I live in WNY and our summers can be brutally muggy along with upper 80’s and when it’s 60 in March we are in shorts and tshirts. It’s reaching 40 today and I have leggings and a tank top with a zippy on.
Outlet malls are awesome. Regular stuff, designer stuff - it’s usually imperfect, off-season or out-of-date and sizes may be limited, but you never know! Think of it as panning for gold.
Or the items were specifically designed to be sold outlet. Like Gap Factory Outlet.
Remember they said they were visiting in the early 90s. Inflation hit during the 2020 covid time and prices of
almost everything have shot up. Our gas is still pretty cheap but not fast food and grocery store food.
Outlet stores are often brand specific so there is a Nike Store, a Ralph Lauren store, etc. It's usually stuff that didn't sell well or has some minor flaw like a slightly crooked seam or a little bit of glue that came out of the sole onto the outside.
Walmart tends to hire greeters who are older and people with disabilities. It gives a sense of purpose and a great way to socialize.
Good on them... but then they mucked it all up with self service check out.. no thank you.. xo
@@suefranklin8177 - I'm with you there. The LAST time I went to Walmart it was a sea of no one and no workers. I got to the self check out and of course it f'd up in the first 3 items. I'm like, "HELP!" No one ever responded, I gave it a full 90 seconds and just walked out with the grocery cart still at the register with perishables in it and all. (this was years before covid) They'll end up being online only if they're not careful. I would much rather pay to go to a better grocery store than deal with that nonsense. The greeter system is the only good thing Walmart ever did.
No Walmart near me has greeters anymore. They're being eliminated.
They do wrap the house for asbestos removal too. Most bug bombs are set off while the owners are out of the house. All doors and windows are closed. At least ours were done that way.
Most US beer is 5% but craft beer can be 10-15% with ease, depending on the state's limits.
I think you can still get 4% beer. At the gas station. When were beers 3.5 here? Or are they now?
I live in the Pacific NW, where IPA's are king... the ones that I typically order clock in between 6%-9%, but they can get higher as you say
@@RraMakutsi I am genuinely surprised that my small gas station in SW OH has such a big selection of IPAs. This is Miller Lite country.
A 5 1/2 hour trip is just the perfect drive..a comfortable drive to go visit..done it many a 3 day weekend.
60° without sun, and a brisk wind can feel like 45°, no wind and sun, you'll sweat.
They are oceanside..absolutely cold ocean breeze would make locals cover up.. when I moved to FL at 8 from a Mt in VA in Dec in snow..I ran around barefoot and in shorts in Fl that first winter.. then I acclimated over the coming seasons and got cold right along with them
A lot of British people think the good service is due to tipping. That is a factor, but if they don’t give diners a good experience, they won’t have a job. Managers want repeat business.
The speediness is also factored at our worker culture, where there are people who don't have enough time to relax and enjoy their meal because a short amount of time left before heading to work or heading back to work. Time and speed convenience are very important for working Americans.
60° is warm for Winter, but quite chilly for Summer. In fact, if it's not over 75° during the Summer, then you've just had a Cold Front roll thru. Average Summer Temps for most of America range from about 75° to 100°. And if you live in an area that has average cloud cover, then it tends to stay pretty warm overnight. But in the desert out West, where it's mostly clear during the day, it can get down to about 35-40° at night. But quickly warms back up during the day. So you can go from like 40 at night to over 100 during the day. We went to the Grand Canyon in 1993. It was like an average Summer Day in the Desert when we visited the Canyon. Something like 85-95°, and then when we stayed in Flagstaff overnight, south of the Canyon, it was around 40° when we left the hotel in the morning. But as we drove south to Sedona, AZ (where Sen. John McCain was from) it got right back up to like 80 once the sun got up in the sky.
If it's 60° in the late autumn, early winter or just before spring, if you live in the northern Usamerica, we call it Indian summer.
Today I drove from Orlando, FL to Charlotte, NC and the gas price along the way was $2.40 per gallon.
5hours?! Lol! That’s a quick day trip to us, hahahaha!
I was informed by my investment broker that here in the United States, we have more oil in reserve than all of the OPEC countri8es combined! I was surprised because I had never thought about it before.
We produced so much that it became negative
I'm surprised you didn't know this. You're not paying attention to the political climate. Or you were mislead by the current political group in charge.
Yes, the Tipping Culture has a lot to do about the quality of customer service on restaurants in America. Say what you will about Tipping, but when you know you actually have to work for your pay, rather than being guaranteed a set Minimum that is decent enough, you tend to work a bit harder. Because if you slack off and basically not do your job, the customer is not going to tip you. This is where I think Europe as a whole has gone wrong. Because I've constantly heard from both European folks and Americans that go to European restaurants that the service pretty much sucks almost as if the servers think the customer is actually a burden on their time being at work.
My husband and I had a similar but opposite problem with heat/cold temps. My BFF got married in Massachusetts during a summer. I think the highs were in the low 80sF (27C). Being from the south, we were enjoying the warmth, but not too hot, weather. They had heat warnings on the TV, telling people not to be out in the hot for too long. While wandering around, locals were swooning and sweating. Meanwhile, we were perfectly comfortable. Being from Florida, 60F is cold.
My sister, who is from the Midwest, lived in south Florida for a year or so, a few years back; and while she was there, she acquired a dog, a chihuahua/dachsund mix, that had grown up in Miami Beach and was now several years old. When her circumstances changed and she moved back up (to Fort Wayne, in northern Indiana), she brought the dog with her. It was August at the time, so far so good; but then fall came, and the temperatures started to drop, and the dog started to get pretty freaked out. At one point, he was asking to go outside (to use, as it were, the facilities), and she took him to the door, and he looked out at the snow-covered ground and ran back through the house to the other door, begging to be let out there instead. Imagine his disappointment, when the world outside the front door proved to be the same temperature as the back yard. It took him a couple of years to get properly acclimated to the existence of winter.
Nike is pronounced nye-kee.
Two days for sleep stopping for gas and food that's sounds fast
Yes being outside in “the south” during summer months, is like walking into a pot of soup! The minute you step out, (especially if indoors in air conditioning, as it nearly always is (assuming that the electric is on), you’re enveloped by a warm/hot, sticky mess of an atmosphere that feels like a heated, hot, wet blanket slapping you right in your face! In moments all your clothing is clinging to you as the sweat runs and drips off of you. Maybe if you’re lucky not every day is quite that bad, but after a few weeks in a row, it feels as if it’s been forever. When you step out the shower, before you can towel dry the water, the perspiration has already taken its place.
Not fun, is the best way to describe it in the beginning of summer. By the end of summer “not fun”, has become “soul sucking”.
‘nough said! 😉😀
Beer varies greatly in strength depending on what variety. You can't go by national brands. There are literally hundreds of microbreweries that make, for instance, excellent Imperial Stouts or Double IPAs that will be as high as 8 or 9% ABV or lagers as low as 4%.
2 days of driving is not far at all. My road trips are from the West Coast to the East coast. Takes me a few days but it's great to see things that are different than your usual view.
In 1999 right after I graduated college and left to move to Florida, my last fill up in NC cost me $.89.... yes 89 cents per gallon. OH! The days!
I can get gas, per gallon, for a $1.50 with my grocery bonus rewards. It's like going back to the mid 1990's. I know the groceries on the more are more expensive than then, but to fill up your tank for $20-25 bucks in the car is crazy. Filling the truck is more of course, but it still is cheap for the bigger tank.
Mid 90s gas was .95 cents per gallon.
I've done the Canada to Florida drive lots of times. Two hotel stays makes it tolerable.
No the UK and Canada don't need fumigation because the termites don't live in those climates as it's too cold. It's only the Southern tier of the U.S. that has a problem with them.
Wrapping the house in the south termites are common, often for termites because it doesn’t freeze in the South to kill the bugs.
Not just beer and other alcohol in gas stations, we also have a drive-through liquor store in my local area. XD
"Micro-breweries" are all the thing, though. No more watery, light beer. Wherever you visit, ask for a local brew. Also, we call higher alcohol content "high gravity" beers. Up to 9% or so.
Gas got up to $7 per gallon in CA and about $6.60 per gallon in WA state last summer. Gas can also be wildly different in price in the same neighborhood depending on the brand of station. Where I live, Shell is about a full dollar more per gallon than Arco. Even when an expensive station is across the street from a less expensive station, they don't lower their price. When I flew to the midwest, gas was almost $3 cheaper per gallon than where I am in the west. Same day. Different state. $3 difference.
At the outlets they have Addidas and Nike and Coach etc etc! So yeah you can get the bougie stuff there at a discount for sure! 👍🏻
What a lovely couple. I can see most becoming fast friends with travelers like this... Welcome, relax, please enjoy your stay! xo
It's the year-round warm weather that creates the need to fumigate for bugs, very common in the South.
Funny how we think that anything over $4.00 a gallon is expensive. Right now, it’s $2.79 a gallon where I live 😅
Same, here, in Ohio.
$2.44 here in Texas!🤙
Its $4.89 a gallon here.
I worked at North Face and we had buyers from Europe getting 20 of one item, and 20 of another when we had our 60-80% off sales.
SC resident here: there are over 90 golf courses in the Myrtle Beach area. We do have Canadian days in the March time frame since so many come down. It's worth a trip at least once
Most Canadians that I’ve met come to the beaches (Myrtle) for the golf. ⛳️
There are many places in Texas and elsewhere where you can buy a 6 pack, a 12 pk or a case or anything you need....IN A DRIVE THRU convenience store.
I the United States, a good rule of thumb for the best deals when shopping, “is get out of the cities”, or certainly at least the big, best known cities”. And places like New York, LA, etc., are probably the very most expensive. (They might have the absolute latest released “bouchée” brands, but you’ll pay through your teeth for it as well.). Do your shopping out in more rural areas for the least expense. You might have a more limited selection, but it usually is still quite varied. And at any rate, if something is a must, it can nearly always be purchased online with very rapid shipping.
You can get high end designers at an outlet mall. They’ll have minor imperfections and will be 50-60% off. But a tshirt could still be $300.
You need to really know the full price quality because they often are selling lower quality merchandise at outlet stores😮
No, it isn't because we make gas here. it is only because of the taxes. Canada is a huge oil producer also. The North sea produces tons of oil. Your gov't is shafting you.
Our gas is cheaper because the taxes on gas are lower than in Canada and UK. We also import a lot of gas from trusted nations like Canada and Mexico.
I lived on the US-Canada border in the early 1990s and Canadians would flock to our local supermarkets every weekend. Now I reside in Florida and there are Canadians everywhere here. A lot of people from Quebec ride their motorcycles down from Quebec to Florida.
Outlet malls are actually not discount malls. Each name brand store has named items specifically made and priced for that market. The prices in the 90’s were considerably lower than today. Since COVID everything has shot up.
The problem with "gallons" is that in the USA, this unit is the English "wine gallon" (3.785L). Britain replaced this with the Imperial gallon (4.54609L) in 1826, but the USA never adopted the new definitions. So what you might think of as a gallon is 20% more than what we get.
Outlet malls aren't what they used to be. Most designers now make a less expensive, lower quality line for sale in outlet stores.
Outlet malls are for last-year's styles (or a couple years back -- whatever isn't going for top dollar at the moment.) So, yes, you can get Nike (Ny-kee, not N-eye-k), and Adidas stuff that came out previously.
And yet if you want to get Americans angry, raise gas prices.
😂.....That's funny, but very true!
March isn’t summer, and 60°F is about 15.5°C.
With the humidity in SC, it would still be pleasant.
In Toronto 15.5 Celsius is chilly.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is one of the best east coast beach resorts in the USA, & actually hosts a "Can-Am" (Canadian-American) festival every spring, when the Canadian "snow birds" flock to the southeastern USA. We Americans of every ethnic background, economic situation, & political persuasion proudly display our national flag at all times, not necessarily because we love the flag, but because we love "the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty & justice for all." - from our American Pledge of Allegiance. Thanks for your reaction. 🇺🇲
Seriously can yall stay out of South Carolina!
@tracierainey8200 Well seriously, tourists to South Carolina generate approximately $28 billion for the state annually, which benefits all state residents, as the money is used for infrastructure, education, public works, etc. It's always a good idea to have a little extra in the state coffers, & tourism contributes significantly to them.
Around 15 million tourists a year go to Myrtle Beach....One of the longest ocean strands....Couple thousand restaurants, over 100 golf courses......Locals love to drive around in golf carts, especially on the side areas.......It is a very nice area.
@captaingenius-o1c I couldn't agree more, my friend. Myrtle Beach has been my family's "go-to" vacation destination for over a century. Thanks for your reply.
I wish we had the British view of 'driving in gas powered individual vehicles isn't necessarily the best way to get to point B. I know I can't exchange experience with people in the U.K. I will usually drive to Gulf Shores, Alabama, as it is the closest point to the Atlantic Ocean..Gulf of Mexico. 12 driving hours is not that bad..12 hours you don't even need to spend the night at a hotel/motel.
Alcohol content of beer varies widely in America. Up to 17% in some places, that I know of.
March is not Summer in the US. It's still Winter until April.
Spring starts in March.
I live in California in wintertime it's usually 70F, in America everyone expects fast service, most retail stores have greeters to encourage customers to come in, the house wrapped up is fumigation, yeah major stores have outlet stars they have brand names start at 50% off, the majority of fast food is cheap because there so many different food so their is competition,
we love to fly our flag, and you can get anything you want at Walmart.
Phoenix, AZ USA wear jeans & coats in the winter too. We were wearing shorts. LOL 😆🤣😂😹😂😅
If Canadians didn't have insane taxes on gas, ours wd be cheaper, too. The same goes for booze - about 65% of price is tax. Now many gas and convenience stations in Ontario sell beer, cider/mixed drinks and wine.
Gas in California is c. $5.25/gallon. We have different gas here, for emission purposes.
And over $1 per gallon taxes😢
Not sure where you live but I just filled up with premium for 4.25 a gallon in San Diego
This must be for the highest octane
@ Premium is the highest octane
@@joeshmooo5327 I was referring to the $5 gas price.
Outlet Stores ….. Designer Stores ….. Ann Taylor - Joseph Banks - Ralph Lauren - Coach - Kate Spade - Nike - Converse Puma Sketchers - North Face - Vera Bradley - Banana Republic - Armani - Calvin Klein - Crocks - Ughs - H& M - J.C. Crew - Levi’s - Michael kors - North Face - Tommy Hilfiger ……. TO NAME SOME
Chartered buses make frequent stops for picking up and dropping off passengers. There are layovers for meals. There is a restroom on the bus if you absolutely need one. Otherwise wait for the next stop.
Outlet malls are full of designer stores. I don’t think they started out this way but now companies manufacture for the outlet mall. They may have similar designs as high end stores but they’ll use cheaper fabrics, cheaper labor and other methods to keep the prices low compared to their flagship items/stores. Some may sell the real-deal but when they do it is old, out of season or seconds.
March isn't summer
To give us a better understanding of price differences, it would be great if you could do a video comparing items.
You can get everything at an outlet mall...all name brands
From afar, dude looks like Simon Pegg
Kabir, I am 72, and can still remember gas prices in the 60s that were around 17 to 30 CENTS a gallon.....
Outlet shops. Yes 60 degrees here in California is freezing 75 - 80 is nice, and at 110 you can forget about sweating, you dry out quicker than you sweat. I will say there is a "BIG" difference with the humidity 90 degrees and 80% humidity is miserable. You can get Nike, Adidas, Tommy Hilfiger, Coach, Kate Spade, etc at great prices.
My wife and I live in the Northeast in coastal Connecticut, but we like to take winter vacations in Tucson, Arizona. In 2017, we drove instead of flying. It took us about six days of driving, although we weren't pushing it. And about the same to drive back. It's about 2800 miles because Tucson is only an hour from the Mexican border, so we traveled not only most of the width of the country, but its height as well.
Cross-border shopping largely a thing of the past. So many American (and Cdn) malls are closed due to online shopping/cost of upkeep of malls. Many of these fast food stores (popeyes, wendys, taco bell, etc;) are now in cda.
Most restaurants have waiter tests to be hired. I think most require that you can do 11 seconds in the 100 meter dash
Outlet Malls are basically malls (usually, but not always, strip malls) that have sister shops of all major brand named stores where they sell slightly damaged, or misprinted merchandise at a heavily discounted price that the regular stores can't sell. It's just a way to offload merchandise at at least some value back to the retailer, but at a huge discount to the customer. We used to go up to my cousin's house in Chicagoland from Southern Illinois (about a 310 mile one-way trip...I just Google Map Measured it out earlier today) and there's a Outlet Mall in one of the towns along the way that we'd always tend to stop at. I wanna say it was in Kent, Indiana. My mother loved to go there.
Outlet malls feature the left overs from stores.. so they are name brands but they didnt have enough for all the stores or only select sizes, off season items, stores going out of business... etc(lots of reasons) so they will sell them to a outlet store for very cheap (pennies on the dollar).. who then turn around and sell it to the public for cheap. Regarding the flag in the early 90s.. remember 911 had just happened.. we were ALL very patriotic at that time... the whole USA came together.
Beer is cheaper in Illinois than states in the South because there's no alcohol tax. Learned that when I first moved to Illinois back in the day. In Tennessee the 12 pack would cost about $14 but in Illinois that same 12 pack would be about $9
Highways, you can drive from southern Florida to northern Ohio in about 18-20 hours straight. The most interesting state to drive through is West Virginia, which is basically driving up a mountain for the first half, and driving down a mountain for the 2nd half....It is 70 plus mph(but traffic tends to go around 80 mph), and a real challenge as a driver....3 hours to drive through West Virginia, but not for the faint of heart. ..
Ok, 60F that's 15.5C. And one US gallon, which is different from an imperial gallon, is 3.5 Liters. 60F is not hot, but is comfortable if you are working outside and it's not raining or windy but if you're used to warmer weather, it will feel very chilly.
There are some rules you are supposed to follow when flying the American Flag. The most important is if you leave the flag up over night it should be lit by lighting. Otherwise it should be lowered at Sunset and raised at Sunrise. Also needs to be kept in good condition. If it gets ragged there are rules about how to properly disposing of it.
I know not of these rules. Are you current/former military?🤔
We learned these rules in elementary school
Most beer here averages about 4.5%, but it can substantially higher in craft beers.
60F is about 15.5C
I never buy beer in the US that is less than 6 percent, at a minimum. Usually 7 or more. That is because I always buy ales or IPA's, available at virtually any store, even gas stations. As you may surmise, it has been years since I drank a Budweiser, and that was just because I was desperate.
All brands are sold at outlets 25% off to 75% off
March is early Spring!
It's very common in certain parts of the US to "TENT" a house right after you buy it, or require it be done before you buy it.
I think it must be mostly in the South, isn’t it? I’ve lived in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Hampshire and I’ve never seen a house wrapped like that. Is it for termites?
@valeriecharboneau308 California, parts of Colorado too. Some people are really disgusting, and you want to make certain your stuff is not infested with their filthy and vermon.
I am almost 46 years old, and have come to terms with the fact that I will never afford to retire in my life... I'm doing my best to find work that satisfies my soul, as I will be sadly working 'til I die, but it's tough to follow your passions anymore.
Yes you can get designer clothes at the outlet malls.
Some outlet malls have great designer stores.
I love outlet malls, I've been to ones in Delaware, VA, and MD. You will see plenty of stores like Nike,Puma, Adidas, Under Armour, New Balance, Kate Spade, Coach, Gap, etc., all marked down items
NYC is expensive, but if you go upstate NY its more affordable. Of course, this video is based on 1990's prices, so the inflation has gone up.
Gas prices also vary by state due to the taxes imposed by each state. Here in PA we have fairly high fuel taxes, so gas is more than in our neighbors to the south where it's usually at least 10-25 cents cheaper per gallon.
Outlet malls can have leftover merchandise. Nike and Adidas are staples of outlet malls. Some will also specialize in designer goods like Gucci, Fendi, Burberry, etc.
Some stores will have lower quality merchandise specifically made for outlets. Coach is a good example.
Road trips, that's why we love our big cars.
5 hour drive and knackered. lol When I moved to FL from NC, it took 8 hours. We had 2 cats in the car with us. My mother wouldn't let me drive because I drove to slow. So, she drove like Richard Petty for 8 hours. I'm not sure how we survived. She really had seen too many movies.... she was trying to drift off the speed of big rigs and stuff.
The cheaper prices you see in gas and other goods as compared to UK are do to the taxes applied. In the Uk your “free” health care is built in to all goods. We all pay taxes but at rates applicable to services.
Beer prices depend on where you are and what you are ordering/buying. As does everything. I am having a beer that is 9% alcohol as I am watching. I got it at my gas station. Since I am so not walking that far.
Wal-Mart greeters are people who may be older - challenged …… it gives them a paycheck - easier on the body for the elder worker
Remember beer sold in gas stations is often weaker than beer sold in liquor stores. Outlets stores sell stuff that doesn’t pass quality checks most of the time.
American beer doesn’t have one percentage of alcohol. India Pale Ales percentages can get quite high as can some porters.
When it comes to Brits in Australia, they definitely come across as delicate little flowers. We set our air conditioners at 25 C. If it gets to 20 C out comes the winter coats. Those two in their summer clothes would remind me of what happened to a man I know who got married to a Russian lady. It was winter in Tasmania, they get snow in some areas of that state. Two of her friends decided that it was lovely and warm. So they were walking around in bikinis and being looked at like they were insane. I'm starting another comment.
I can't handle the heat, but it has to be around 30 C for me to start suffering. My grandma immigrated from Finland as a little girl with her family during WWI. I inherited many cool things from her, but handling hot, humid weather isn't one of them. Even with electrolytes, it still wipes me out. I live in The Atherton Tablelands, Far North Queensland, which is up a mountain range behind Cairns. (You pronounce it like cans of drink.) It's always cooler than the coast, Europeans love it. I don't mind visiting the coasr during summer, they have air conditioning pretty much everywhere. But when my dad died, we had to go to Brissie (Brisbane) in summer, and it was at least 40 C. Horrible is an understatement. It grates on our nerves when you mispronounce it as Bris-Bane. If it gives you trouble, just call Brissie with a z sound like the Aussies do.
The founder of Wendy's, Dave Thomas, was one a vice president at KFC. He introduced the boxed meal to the company. Before that the company was known for selling buckets of chicken and sides. He made individual orders an option.
Pest control is much, much *worse* if the houses are all attached to each other, or even sitting too close to each other. When one person fumigates, the vermin survive on the rest of the block and then quickly spread again afterward. With normal houses that have yards in between them, they can't do that, so even if you accidentally bring some home in your luggage after vacation or whatever, once you get rid of them, they're gone. (Err, unless you live so far south that they can survive outdoors year-round; I gather this can be a significant problem e.g. in parts of Florida.) This is why cockroaches are so much more problematic in big cities in North America, than in normal-sized communities. Big cities have a much higher percentage of adjacent housing. If Britain, with all of its row houses and whatnot, doesn't have a problem with such vermin, it's probably one of the benefits of being located on an island; though climate may also be relevant.
The price of a US gasoline in Texas today in my town was $2.499... Not $3.999 or $7.999 for a British gas conversion of a liter...
Retirement is bliss.
The price of gas was under $3/gal for a while until recently for some reason (🎺) the prices have been soaring high pretty quickly