"I don't know why I'm looking for a girlfriend, I think I don't have the time" hit differently. Never have I felt so attacked by a statement I 100% agree with
Oxford has essentially no where to build, it was virtually built on a bog (brilliant for protecting your castle in the 1100s but not so great now). For this reason its really difficult to find land to build houses so house prices and subsequently rent are stupidly expensive (a one bed is easily £1000+ a month excl. bills). There is a lot of industry in Oxford (science industry is a biggy but also the MINI plant) so incomes are probably slightly higher than average, but just don’t compare to London, despite property prices being very comparable. Also the university owns a crazy amount of land and buildings in the city (even non-university land/buildings) and almost have a monopoly on the city centre, so retail rents are very expensive, pushing up prices there.
When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. And that one sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that’s what you’re going to get, Son, the strongest castle in these isles.
As someone who’s grown up in Oxford, I’d say anyone who isn’t a student or mad tends to move to one of the many surrounding towns and villages just because the prices are so incredibly high in the city
@@nawarulgafursamin there’s plenty of diverse council estates in the city. Most working class people buy there council houses or move further out and move back when they can afford. Plus there’s loads of connections to London which also drives up prices.
@@nawarulgafursamin the devide in oxford is sadly large but its still a lovely place to live in a bit boring but have a lovely uni all my family has been lucky to get into
I'm from Oxford and a big reason its expensive here is because we are too close to London, then the University and Medical centres and Yes the East side of Oxford has the BMW Mini plant so yes we have a load of industry!
It's also posh. It historically has a larger number of the upper class as it was close to london but they could have large estates. To add to that most building as are listed so they cannot be changed easily which adds to the bottle neck of its problem with affordability. Then it is a university town with large research departments that are ever expanding.
Bollocks ... Reading - High Wycombe - Slough - three examples of towns closer to London that are not as expensive to live in with respect to wages. It's because students push up the price of rents and because Oxford has a caché which attracts Londoners out. People born in the area suffer because of this. Nobody working at the Mini plant can really afford the hike in the house prices due to these reasons. We're the worst place to be born.
I thought it was because Oxford had tight greenbelt and building height regulations (can't be blocking those dreaming spires) so not enough houses are being built.
@@williamnicolson5687 Nope ... Oxford is built between two rivers - you can't build on the floodplains because otherwise they'd flood. Doesn't stop some developers from trying though!
11:33 Everybody in the comments noticing any minor adjustments in sound quality or grade and I have only noticed the arrangement of the background change drastically because I know nothing about video editing.
@11:08 ahhhhhhhhhh. The flash backs.... 🎶The bright lights of the city fueled her longing to create, with the innovative bakers with whom she knew she could relate🎶
Oxford is expensive because lil Timmy's mum and dad buy a house for Timmy going to uni there reducing supply for locals. Plus the green belt surrounding Oxford means new houses can't be built
Antony Jones the "locals" can't really complain, given that the university has been attracting people for centuries, before the ancestors of said "local" decided to move there. The people who complain are the same types who complain about the gentrification of places like Brixton. People who's parents or grandparents bought there in the fifties and sixties and are sitting on modest houses worth a fortune. We can't all expect to live in the area in which we were brought up as there are a finite number of houses possible anywhere. If one couple have two children, who grow up and wish to remain in an area in a property of their own, that's suddenly three separate dwellings that are needed. It's not physically possible to keep building houses in already fully developed areas.
I agree with your observations about feeling unsafe in SF! I also felt quite unsafe staying there. We were in a really expensive, classy hotel....right next to a really deprived area which was really sketchy at night! 😕
9:19 DUDE WHAT-- WHAT- i never in my life thought someone else would reference Relient K let alone some on watch on RUclips haha that’s fucking awesome
The problem with the housing crisis in Ireland is the unwillingness to move west. There is a major rent and housing crisis east and a major depopulation and emigration problem in the west. There is literally houses that would be near free to BUY around the west and yet people choose to stay in hotel rooms.
@@rookieisabelle8384 There is still alot of elitism in Ireland sadly. People from dublin in particular look down on the people in the west, in particular connaught.
2:15 I am assuming what the website means is that people would not buy an expensive dress, and buy a cheaper on instead? Rather than the exact same dress necessarily being cheaper. But I could be wrong.
“Are the Swiss the New Jerseyans of Europe?“ HOW DARE YOU😲 So there are no laws against the Einkaufstourismus, though it is frowned upon by certain people. But the products are way cheaper, you can buy stuff up to 300 CHF without having to pay customs charges AND you can even get your sales taxes back at the border because Switzerland is not part of the EU. This makes it even cheaper because the sales taxes in Germany are a lot higher. This process is called “Mehrwertsteuerrückerstattung”. There is also a whole economy based on the Swiss shoppers with an insane number of supermarkets per capita right across the German border. Of course they were all fucked this year with the closure of the national borders during the lockdown. At the same time, there are Danish Einkaufstouristen at the northern border of Germany doing the same thing, Norwegians going to Sweden and many more. In conclusion, Europeans always journeys where the booze (and other stuff) is cheapest.
We Danes love us some Fleegaard! The promise of Cheap booze and candy and we are there! Not to mention i only live like 1.5 hours from the boarder, so its not even a big deal going down there 😂😂😂 Danes must be siome of the best people at packing, because i see people with their tiny WV UP stacking 100 cases of beer and soda into the trunk and back seat and then the tiny car is almost dying. 😂😂😂 I also buy horse feed in germany because i save about €7-8 a bag and thats a lot when you use 3 bags a month 🤩🤩🤩
Love how you explained the use of clip before intro, I do remember enjoying it when novels do it xDDD 12:22 "Omg she's gonna get murdered by a man next to a piano!!" I'm hooked already.
After the mention of fall out boy at 9:00 being 10/10 I looked up the song you were singing (college kids) and discovered it's awesome... Just spent 30 mins searching to rediscover the moment I found this brilliant song
Thanks for the Ireland shoutout Evan. YESS please make the video on this topic! Y’know once you’ve your song produced, girlfriend found and other vids filmed 👌🏽
You did look comfy in that Hoodie Evan. Where did you buy it from ? Oh by the way can you believe October is almost over cause I can't. Soon it's going to be my 17th birthday that's crazy. As a child i never thought I would get to that age 😂 well time passes 😂
A few years ago I got a job in Oxford. I also happened to be in the process of buying a house. So when I told people at work I'm moving they'd go "Oh so you're moving to Oxford?". Hell no. Commuting by train was over £3000 a year but still way cheaper than living in Oxford. And then as it happened a few years later my company acquired an office in my home town, so now I don't even need to commute (well now I'm working at home, but even before then).
The swiss isnt the only the ones that Goes over the border to tax free shopping we also do that in Denmark, were we go to the german border where we typical buy Beer or candy at these bordershops. We are also making a tunnel fra Zealand to germany so that you Don’t need to take a ferry back and forth.
Norwegians cross over to us in Sweden, 😌 I count that as a win for us altho, can't imagine many are coming over given how shit we've handled the pandemic lmao
Yes, Norwegians near the border go to Sweden to buy cheap alcohol, tobacco, meat and candy, or anything else. We call it "harryhandel". Some Swedish bordertowns completely rely on Norwegians coming to do shopping there.
Life or death question : what are your fresh bread places recommandations in London? Just moved here from France and Paul just isn’t cutting it, and I’d rather starve than eat grocery store bread.
Make your own? I'm from the North so not sure if there are places like cash converters down there... I got a bread maker for a tenner just as lockdown hit...
@@alana2830 As much as I love homemade bread and baguette, it feels like such a hassle to make. But a bread machine, maybe I could consider that. I need to look into it!
@@JD-eo7dr i knowww it’s literally just water flour and yeast, but I don’t have a kneeding machine and I have tiny little noodle arms. Also my oven is fucked. But I agree, it is pretty simple in theory haha
I live in the uk but my dad has to visit San Francisco once on a ‘business’ trip. (He had two meetings over two days but stayed for 5 days!) When he got back he also said that he was really worried the whole time because it felt very unsafe waking down the street.
I would say that house prices are high in Oxford because there is a shortage of building land (thanks to conservation areas and the floodplain). Also, the University owns a lot properties, especially in North Oxford. This means that it's not an open market - there's a shortage of good properties, meaning demand is higher than supply.
A 4 story Primark is DEFINITELY a bragging point, if you're truly British, Primark is one of the best shops we have, I only live near a 2 story Primark, I'd LOVE to live near a 4 story one.
I definitely wouldn't call it one of the best. It's cheap and cheap is good at face value, but the clothes aren't built to last and often rip off copyrighted content, so ehhh
To answer the question as someone from more Annapolis Maryland, we didn't do it that as often as New Jersey, but those who live on the other side of the Chesapeake Bay I'm sure travel over the border to Delaware malls + outlets quite often.
Evan your camera is looking crisp 👌 You might wanna try dipping the audio around 150Hz though because you sound really boomy to me, just a thought! Over-mesh pop filters are super handy but they do tend to deaden quite a bit of the high end, its worth looking into mounting an external one in-front of your mic, you'll get a much cleaner sound.
@@evan yeah, it’s personal preference really. The human voice doesn’t naturally have too much energy around 125Hz so I personally find it sounds a little unnatural when mixing but at the end of the day if it’s the sound you like, go for it! Might be worth compensating with a small even boost around 5k to keep the clarity whilst still retaining that nice bass.
Cambridge... 2nd most expensive the universities own a lot of land here and in since there’s lots of students there’s always someone willing to pay more
A few years back my family was on holiday in Italy. We drove across the border to Switzerland for the day. While there my brother and I asked for ice cream. My mum said, “when we’re back in Italy I’ll buy you two each”. We thought she was kidding but she really wasn’t; she kept her promise and bought us two ice creams each because it was THAT much cheaper than in Switzerland.
Last summer I needed some nail scissors when I was in Switzerland. I went in several pharmacy shops and the cheapest pair were always about £20 once converted. I decided I could live without them.
it's basically because oxford is so old so you're not allowed to change a lot of the buildings. Also there are fewer houses to people so it's really competitive. They build housing estates like around the suburbs now but they're still so expensive because so many people need housing there. It is a uni place but it also gets lots of tourists so prices in shops are very high to benefit from them. I grew up next to Oxford and it's very nice to have now moved away and have everything so much cheaper than I'm used to.
Loving the hoodie and some of the Liverpool rep! I'm kinda really proud of how it's developing recently what with the Comic Con there and the Batman movies. It's really amazing and you should check out the museum at some point!! ❤️
as an oxford local i think the reason why oxford is so expensive to live in is because of historical preservation maybe so less likely to have new builds and therefore competitive system of trying to find places to live there etc (at least in the city centre area) but there are a few builds going on on the outskirts so i dont know how much that will change things.
Here in Switzerland the Canton of Geneva implemented the highest minimum wage in the world at 23CHF per hour. However this is not universal, and in most cantons there is not a minimum wage as wages are often negotiated by representative organizations or by the employee themself.
I’m from Oxford and largely you’re paying for your postcode. Pretty much so you can say you’re from Oxford. Even places like KFC charge slightly more here than other places. It’s also because it’s a rural location with quick links to London, Reading, and Birmingham so it’s supposed to be a desirable places to live. Plus oxford sounds posh we’ve yet to find an accent that doesn’t sound posh when saying “Oxford” so maybe we’re paying for a stuck up name, who knows! P.s we’ve not all had tea with the Queen!
Lol, we have that as well. You can basically live in the outskirts of the post code, but you can still say you live in that post code 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ i have a few friends like that, they would rather pay more to live in a cerrain post cose because its "fancy" than get an aprtment with a toilet that isnt just crammed in what used to be a supply closet. 🤦♀️🤦♀️ people be crazy snobby.
Oxford is so expensive because it's so well connected to London. You can have the rolling countryside AND get into London quickly, so those folks with London jobs can live out of the city, but still maintain a city job. I grew up in a town in Buckinghamshire and it has the exact same issue. It's connected to London via the underground in ZONE 9 (which most Londoners didn't even know there was a zone 9 haha) but with beautiful countryside right on your doorstep. London home owners realised this, sold up and moved out of London but still with London jobs. This drove the prices up MAD and basically no one, including me, could afford to live there or get on the property ladder. So more and more people are pushed to the midlands. I'm *still* with my parents at 28 due to the cost of housing, the impossibility of being single and trying to get a mortgage and being faced with ever increasing bills and rent. It's awful. You're left trying to save for 10 years while chasing living costs and inflation.
Where do you buy the freshly baked bread? Because you do know that the “freshly baked bread” in the supermarket bakery is just baked from frozen loafs?
Its also worth to note..not only is Dublin almost as expensive as living in London but Galway, small city/town on the west coast is almost as expensive as Dublin now... Its ridiculous
Thank you for pointing out that, even in areas with a lot of well off people, there are still plenty of poor people either with very basic jobs or no job. I think some people forget that there us poverty everywhere. There are people living hand to mouth everywhere. There are people working s**t jobs just get by everywhere. There are unemployed people on really low benefits struggling on a daily basis everywhere. Imagine then being one of those people living in an area that is supposedly affluent and having to apply an increased cost of living to their plight
Good grief this just reminded me of Klute in Durham - notoriously grimy (on purpose) student club where you could buy a 'quaddie' - a pint glass half filled with orange juice and double vodka, and a full half pint glass of cranberry and double vodka, intended to be mixed since technically it's illegal to serve a quadruple vodka - for £4.80! That's less than a pint of beer in London. They've had to start using weaker spirits now to avoid losing their licence but 2010 was another era I guess. I think they still play 'That's Amore' as the final song every night though....
I'm from Bristol and I was so happy to see my hometown included. We are one of the biggest cities in the UK and I feel like we're always forgotten by people outside of the city.
love your vids and the new color grading! maybe adding a (negative) vignette might make it look even more cinematic, as i feel like it really ties the vid together completely! if you don't i don't mind i love the vids anyhow, and if you already do, I'm just blind :P
I would love to know more about this Dublin video. I am a Canadian and just don't know that much about the current state of either the U.K. or Ireland. Well.. you know... Beside the U.K. and Brexit
Einkaufstourismus is a common practice in central Europe for example Austrians living in the west e.g., Vienna sometimes will do a day trip to Slovakia or Czechia. Also from what I hear the nordic countries will do something similar always going to the country further south, because it gets cheaper the lower you go.
I live in oxford! It’s important to note that the uni owns a HELL of a lot of the land & so built buildings for the higher-earning academics & wanted to encourage graduates to stay. They wanted to boost the image of the city as an academic, upper-middle class city and so raised the prices of everything to make it inaccessible to the masses. A lot of people do have high-earning jobs yes which allows them to live in ox.There might be more high-paying jobs available, but the actual salaries are the same as other places (with no salary boost like in London). There’s also the fact that it has an easy route to london, there are many high-achieving schools & the uni obviously, the healthcare is innovative (there’s a massive leading research hospital). Quite frankly, the population are willing to pay it so nothing changes. It backfired though because of the disproportionate homeless population etc. and inability for people like me who were born here to stay in oxford, particularly the northerly parts.
My boyfriend is from Oxford and when he gets a chance will bring up how expensive it is down there. And as we're living in Liverpool (I'm a true Scouser), he absolutely loves it here for the nights out, the price of everything here and there's always something going on 😊
Should try Corporation in Sheffield, can get 70p shots before 12 and £3 rainbow pints (triple vodka and mixer any colour of the rainbow) if socialising ever becomes a thing again...
Hey Evan - Want to make some German bread? Vielleicht möchtest du dein Brot-Game noch weiter-upsteppen und mal ein eigenes Brot backen? Hier mein altbewährtes Lieblingsrezept: 300 g spelt flour 200g whole grain flower (spelt) 50g sunflower seeds 50g pumpkin seeds (living the life!) 50g flex seeds 2 tsp. salt 1 back of dry yeast (7g) 400ml water (warm) 1 tbs. honey 1. Honey + Water + yeast = stir and let rest for 10 minutes 2. Put all the other stuff together; add yeast mixture 3. Put in the cold oven with a bowl of water, and turn the oven up to 200°C for 15 minutes (Make an incision at the top after around 10 minutes). After 15 minutes turn down to 180°C and leave in the oven for another 45 minutes. DONE! If you are feeling fancy you can put some milo on top or put oat meals in the baking dish. Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland und vielen Dank für deine wunderbaren Videos!
Hello and Welcome back to a man who's really in love with his hoodie.
Hahahah
@@evan Where's it from? It looks super comfortable :)
But that lighting though... Lol 😄
a surf school in Surfer's Paradise, Aus
"I don't know why I'm looking for a girlfriend, I think I don't have the time" hit differently. Never have I felt so attacked by a statement I 100% agree with
Oxford has essentially no where to build, it was virtually built on a bog (brilliant for protecting your castle in the 1100s but not so great now). For this reason its really difficult to find land to build houses so house prices and subsequently rent are stupidly expensive (a one bed is easily £1000+ a month excl. bills). There is a lot of industry in Oxford (science industry is a biggy but also the MINI plant) so incomes are probably slightly higher than average, but just don’t compare to London, despite property prices being very comparable. Also the university owns a crazy amount of land and buildings in the city (even non-university land/buildings) and almost have a monopoly on the city centre, so retail rents are very expensive, pushing up prices there.
When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. And that one sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that’s what you’re going to get, Son, the strongest castle in these isles.
Wow I have to write an essay on this in a couple weeks for my masters. Thank you for starting me off lol
@@wwgtg12 but I don't want it. I just want to, to, sing...
@@wwgtg12 @Selina_Novella I feel like this is a Monty Python reference I should be getting...
Thank you for the lesson mate
Welcome back to a guy who has the Wurst sausage jokes.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
German sausages are just the wurst
This is irrelevant but I just made roasted pumpkin seeds and I'm proud
Well done :3
@@Eki_________ Oh congratulations !
good job! your doing great
Can I have some plz
@@evan sorry I ate them, they're pretty easy to make and taste good would recommend if you're carving pumpkins this year
Me in Manchester: This title is accurate
Same haha
Ayy Manchester 💚
As someone who’s grown up in Oxford, I’d say anyone who isn’t a student or mad tends to move to one of the many surrounding towns and villages just because the prices are so incredibly high in the city
@@nawarulgafursamin yes the part of oxford i live is soo diverse but central is rich people and people who work in the churches
@@nawarulgafursamin there’s plenty of diverse council estates in the city. Most working class people buy there council houses or move further out and move back when they can afford.
Plus there’s loads of connections to London which also drives up prices.
@@nawarulgafursamin the devide in oxford is sadly large but its still a lovely place to live in a bit boring but have a lovely uni all my family has been lucky to get into
I'm from Oxford and a big reason its expensive here is because we are too close to London, then the University and Medical centres and Yes the East side of Oxford
has the BMW Mini plant so yes we have a load of industry!
It's also posh. It historically has a larger number of the upper class as it was close to london but they could have large estates. To add to that most building as are listed so they cannot be changed easily which adds to the bottle neck of its problem with affordability. Then it is a university town with large research departments that are ever expanding.
Thumbs up so Evan can see
Bollocks ... Reading - High Wycombe - Slough - three examples of towns closer to London that are not as expensive to live in with respect to wages. It's because students push up the price of rents and because Oxford has a caché which attracts Londoners out. People born in the area suffer because of this. Nobody working at the Mini plant can really afford the hike in the house prices due to these reasons. We're the worst place to be born.
I thought it was because Oxford had tight greenbelt and building height regulations (can't be blocking those dreaming spires) so not enough houses are being built.
@@williamnicolson5687 Nope ... Oxford is built between two rivers - you can't build on the floodplains because otherwise they'd flood. Doesn't stop some developers from trying though!
me clicking on this thinking that it was gonna be about how any burnham wouldn’t let us go into tier 3 and wanting more money
Also me 😂
Yep - we're all expecting more political Evan after Tuesday's rant. And we're all here for it.
me too ahaha
Yeah, I thought that too 😂 as much as I like these videos, perhaps not the best title for the current times 😅
that’s EXACTLY what i thought 💀😭😭
Oh my gosh, Evan singing bread by Charlie McDonnell made my heart so happy! I still remember all the words to this day
I had forgotten all about that song until he started singing it. It turns out, I too remember all the lyrics 😂 loved that song!
Same, that gave me so much nostalgia!
bread... BREAD
Oh wow i didnt even realise it was Charlies song but i knew the words!!
11:33 Everybody in the comments noticing any minor adjustments in sound quality or grade and I have only noticed the arrangement of the background change drastically because I know nothing about video editing.
Watched the entire video, you only mentioned Manchester one time, severely disappointed, feeling unrepresented 🤨🤣
I really like the hoody Evan 👍🏻
(That might just be because I love hoodies)
Same hoodies>>> actual thought out outfits
Same
It was nice and comfy :)
I’m legit wearing a hoodie while watching this video
Hoodies are a staple
That hoodie looks amazing on you Evannnnnnnnn
Me being from Manchester clicked so fast on this video
Same
When I started watching I legit thought you were gonna make an ad for a hoodie brand
Lol no it’s not a hoodie brand! I got it as a one off at a surf school in Australia
I love that he is feeling himself so much. Honestly its so cute and just nice to see
@11:08 ahhhhhhhhhh. The flash backs....
🎶The bright lights of the city fueled her longing to create, with the innovative bakers with whom she knew she could relate🎶
Oxford is expensive because lil Timmy's mum and dad buy a house for Timmy going to uni there reducing supply for locals. Plus the green belt surrounding Oxford means new houses can't be built
Antony Jones the "locals" can't really complain, given that the university has been attracting people for centuries, before the ancestors of said "local" decided to move there. The people who complain are the same types who complain about the gentrification of places like Brixton. People who's parents or grandparents bought there in the fifties and sixties and are sitting on modest houses worth a fortune. We can't all expect to live in the area in which we were brought up as there are a finite number of houses possible anywhere. If one couple have two children, who grow up and wish to remain in an area in a property of their own, that's suddenly three separate dwellings that are needed. It's not physically possible to keep building houses in already fully developed areas.
@@spencerwilton5831 Clearly someone has never been to Blackbird Leys or Cowley...
LOVE THE CHARLIEISSOCOOLLIKE SONG! Know that song by heart ^^
Mary. Ms. Clark. That Higg. YES! The necklace scene in Daddy's Little Girl. Boy howdy (Texan bound for Edinburgh) that book got me in my preteens.
I agree with your observations about feeling unsafe in SF! I also felt quite unsafe staying there. We were in a really expensive, classy hotel....right next to a really deprived area which was really sketchy at night! 😕
I really like that blue light on the right. Something really soothing about it.
Aw love seeing you reply to so many comments! Feels like we’re in a cute small community:)
WAHEY
The sound in this is so nice, it tickles my brain
Thanks!
9:19 DUDE WHAT-- WHAT- i never in my life thought someone else would reference Relient K let alone some on watch on RUclips haha that’s fucking awesome
Hello and welcome back to *look at this clean & amazing lighting!*
It is great. And I want that hoody now - it looks comfy.
Evan @ 07:37: "Oi-rose" 😂
Me: Wut?...How?...Why?
Deutsch
The problem with the housing crisis in Ireland is the unwillingness to move west. There is a major rent and housing crisis east and a major depopulation and emigration problem in the west.
There is literally houses that would be near free to BUY around the west and yet people choose to stay in hotel rooms.
I wonder why that is? I don't know much about Ireland unfortunately
@@rookieisabelle8384 There is still alot of elitism in Ireland sadly. People from dublin in particular look down on the people in the west, in particular connaught.
@@seanlegumes8580 that's sad :( I guess the "boonies" are looked down on everywhere:(
1:28 but now it's the reverse, my dad got a grant for college, someone paid _him_ to go to uni!
Yes same my dad literally got given money to go to uni and here I am paying 9k a year
2:15 I am assuming what the website means is that people would not buy an expensive dress, and buy a cheaper on instead? Rather than the exact same dress necessarily being cheaper. But I could be wrong.
“Are the Swiss the New Jerseyans of Europe?“ HOW DARE YOU😲
So there are no laws against the Einkaufstourismus, though it is frowned upon by certain people.
But the products are way cheaper, you can buy stuff up to 300 CHF without having to pay customs charges AND you can even get your sales taxes back at the border because Switzerland is not part of the EU. This makes it even cheaper because the sales taxes in Germany are a lot higher. This process is called “Mehrwertsteuerrückerstattung”.
There is also a whole economy based on the Swiss shoppers with an insane number of supermarkets per capita right across the German border. Of course they were all fucked this year with the closure of the national borders during the lockdown.
At the same time, there are Danish Einkaufstouristen at the northern border of Germany doing the same thing, Norwegians going to Sweden and many more.
In conclusion, Europeans always journeys where the booze (and other stuff) is cheapest.
We Danes love us some Fleegaard! The promise of Cheap booze and candy and we are there! Not to mention i only live like 1.5 hours from the boarder, so its not even a big deal going down there 😂😂😂 Danes must be siome of the best people at packing, because i see people with their tiny WV UP stacking 100 cases of beer and soda into the trunk and back seat and then the tiny car is almost dying. 😂😂😂
I also buy horse feed in germany because i save about €7-8 a bag and thats a lot when you use 3 bags a month 🤩🤩🤩
Liverpool may be a bit cheaper but it's nearly 200 miles from the nearest tube station 😩
it's actually not THAT cheap like he says but it is my fave city in the UK
Love how you explained the use of clip before intro, I do remember enjoying it when novels do it xDDD 12:22 "Omg she's gonna get murdered by a man next to a piano!!" I'm hooked already.
After the mention of fall out boy at 9:00 being 10/10 I looked up the song you were singing (college kids) and discovered it's awesome... Just spent 30 mins searching to rediscover the moment I found this brilliant song
11:07 that literally gave me so much nostalgia. I haven’t heard that song in years!
Evan: I did upload that on my travel channel
Me: WHAT HE HAS A SECOND CHANNEL? Yess ahh I need more Evan content!!
Aww thank you!!
Sameee
@@evan it was a great vid!!
Loved the first answer! We should always want better things for the next generation no matter our own experiences are.
Thanks for the Ireland shoutout Evan. YESS please make the video on this topic!
Y’know once you’ve your song produced, girlfriend found and other vids filmed 👌🏽
I am really really really excited for the Dublin video! Also loving the return of the community videos
I thought there was someone outside, but it's a reflection in the window
I got Hella scared when that happened to me
Wait, bread bins are for keeping fresh bread fresh, I have one and we just keep packaged bread in it (and bagels and pancakes)
Fun bread fact: bread bins don't slow the moulding of bread but instead keep the crust crisper for longer
You did look comfy in that Hoodie Evan. Where did you buy it from ?
Oh by the way can you believe October is almost over cause I can't. Soon it's going to be my 17th birthday that's crazy. As a child i never thought I would get to that age 😂 well time passes 😂
I’ve had it for like 5 years or so! Bought it at a surf school I went to in Surfer’s Paradise Australia cause it was SO SOFT
Man, me too. I turned 19 today and genuinely can't compute how that happened. It's baffling
@@gaildahlas
eyyy happy birthday mate!
@@evan that's nice.
@@gaildahlas happy birthday my friend.
me, living in london: *i know exactly what this is about*
I love your reference to NJ people going to Delaware to buy stuff, I go to Pa all the time to buy clothes and fireworks lmao
As a human from Nottingham I appreciate you trying to include us 😌
A few years ago I got a job in Oxford. I also happened to be in the process of buying a house. So when I told people at work I'm moving they'd go "Oh so you're moving to Oxford?". Hell no. Commuting by train was over £3000 a year but still way cheaper than living in Oxford.
And then as it happened a few years later my company acquired an office in my home town, so now I don't even need to commute (well now I'm working at home, but even before then).
The swiss isnt the only the ones that Goes over the border to tax free shopping we also do that in Denmark, were we go to the german border where we typical buy Beer or candy at these bordershops. We are also making a tunnel fra Zealand to germany so that you Don’t need to take a ferry back and forth.
Swedes also go to Denmark or Germany for the day to buy cheap alcohol!
And Norwegians go to Sweden buying just about everything. We have huge shopping centers not far from the border at several places.
Norwegians cross over to us in Sweden, 😌 I count that as a win for us altho, can't imagine many are coming over given how shit we've handled the pandemic lmao
Yes, Norwegians near the border go to Sweden to buy cheap alcohol, tobacco, meat and candy, or anything else. We call it "harryhandel". Some Swedish bordertowns completely rely on Norwegians coming to do shopping there.
Life or death question : what are your fresh bread places recommandations in London? Just moved here from France and Paul just isn’t cutting it, and I’d rather starve than eat grocery store bread.
@Music Addict i’m willing to invest, I wrote that down thanksfor the suggestion!
Make your own? I'm from the North so not sure if there are places like cash converters down there... I got a bread maker for a tenner just as lockdown hit...
@@alana2830 As much as I love homemade bread and baguette, it feels like such a hassle to make. But a bread machine, maybe I could consider that. I need to look into it!
@@ayellowpapercrown6750 how is Bread a hassle to make its really simple
@@JD-eo7dr i knowww it’s literally just water flour and yeast, but I don’t have a kneeding machine and I have tiny little noodle arms. Also my oven is fucked. But I agree, it is pretty simple in theory haha
I live in the uk but my dad has to visit San Francisco once on a ‘business’ trip. (He had two meetings over two days but stayed for 5 days!) When he got back he also said that he was really worried the whole time because it felt very unsafe waking down the street.
Shout out to Nottingham not once, but twice?! Plus a nod to my future employers ???? It's a good day 🤣🤧
I would say that house prices are high in Oxford because there is a shortage of building land (thanks to conservation areas and the floodplain). Also, the University owns a lot properties, especially in North Oxford. This means that it's not an open market - there's a shortage of good properties, meaning demand is higher than supply.
A 4 story Primark is DEFINITELY a bragging point, if you're truly British, Primark is one of the best shops we have, I only live near a 2 story Primark, I'd LOVE to live near a 4 story one.
I live 30 mins away from 2 primarks, one is a 3 story and the other is 4😆
Primary clothes are rubbish.
I definitely wouldn't call it one of the best. It's cheap and cheap is good at face value, but the clothes aren't built to last and often rip off copyrighted content, so ehhh
I live by a 5 storey one and honestly it’s terrifying to go in
@@letitiakearney2423 I agree, I don’t care how cheap it is, I’d rather have clothes that last for years lol
2:06 wetherspoons prices are higher in some places.
Ya, I freaked out when I found that out the first time
Wetherspoons can be different prices in the same street/area. It was on one of those food consumer shows!
And fast food prices are different in different areas
i’m convinced he knows more about the uk than the actual uk 🇬🇧 🤣🤣
I think you skipped some words there mate
@@Rebster Omggg i missed “MORE” so it was supposed to say “i’m convinced he knows more about the uk than the actual uk.”
imma just edit it
4:32 damn you nailed that accent
Getting great videos in middle of week mate your on a roll 👌 keep on keeping on
Thanks!
To answer the question as someone from more Annapolis Maryland, we didn't do it that as often as New Jersey, but those who live on the other side of the Chesapeake Bay I'm sure travel over the border to Delaware malls + outlets quite often.
I miss the bridge tunnel. Architectural wonder haha
(1:40) Like the _"the youths these days have it so easy"_
Yeah, that's the point.
7:38 ...
I'm sorry.. hundred of WHAT?! oiros
German pronunciation of euro
Evan your camera is looking crisp 👌 You might wanna try dipping the audio around 150Hz though because you sound really boomy to me, just a thought! Over-mesh pop filters are super handy but they do tend to deaden quite a bit of the high end, its worth looking into mounting an external one in-front of your mic, you'll get a much cleaner sound.
I bumped it up around 125 and have it taper off but I could decrease a bit after there but I quite like it
@@evan yeah, it’s personal preference really. The human voice doesn’t naturally have too much energy around 125Hz so I personally find it sounds a little unnatural when mixing but at the end of the day if it’s the sound you like, go for it! Might be worth compensating with a small even boost around 5k to keep the clarity whilst still retaining that nice bass.
I LOVE THE HOODIE and your positivity omg xxx
Cambridge... 2nd most expensive the universities own a lot of land here and in since there’s lots of students there’s always someone willing to pay more
11:05 ok but you didn't have to open up my memory portal like that I completely forgot this song existed
A few years back my family was on holiday in Italy. We drove across the border to Switzerland for the day. While there my brother and I asked for ice cream. My mum said, “when we’re back in Italy I’ll buy you two each”. We thought she was kidding but she really wasn’t; she kept her promise and bought us two ice creams each because it was THAT much cheaper than in Switzerland.
Last summer I needed some nail scissors when I was in Switzerland. I went in several pharmacy shops and the cheapest pair were always about £20 once converted. I decided I could live without them.
it's basically because oxford is so old so you're not allowed to change a lot of the buildings. Also there are fewer houses to people so it's really competitive. They build housing estates like around the suburbs now but they're still so expensive because so many people need housing there. It is a uni place but it also gets lots of tourists so prices in shops are very high to benefit from them.
I grew up next to Oxford and it's very nice to have now moved away and have everything so much cheaper than I'm used to.
Loving the hoodie and some of the Liverpool rep!
I'm kinda really proud of how it's developing recently what with the Comic Con there and the Batman movies. It's really amazing and you should check out the museum at some point!! ❤️
can't wait to go back to Liverpool
11:07 oh my GOD i haven’t thought about the song in YEARS. i was so obsessed with it when i was like 13 :’)
as an oxford local i think the reason why oxford is so expensive to live in is because of historical preservation maybe so less likely to have new builds and therefore competitive system of trying to find places to live there etc (at least in the city centre area) but there are a few builds going on on the outskirts so i dont know how much that will change things.
Here in Switzerland the Canton of Geneva implemented the highest minimum wage in the world at 23CHF per hour. However this is not universal, and in most cantons there is not a minimum wage as wages are often negotiated by representative organizations or by the employee themself.
BREAD! FLORA! Right in the feels, man.
A classic
Okay but a night out in Liverpool can be cheap but minimum is 40 quid, like it just depends where you go
True it's not as cheap as he said I've spent £70 on a night out in Liverpool
11:06 - Wow, that charlieissocoollike reference instantly took me straight back to 2010!
I’m from Oxford and largely you’re paying for your postcode. Pretty much so you can say you’re from Oxford. Even places like KFC charge slightly more here than other places. It’s also because it’s a rural location with quick links to London, Reading, and Birmingham so it’s supposed to be a desirable places to live. Plus oxford sounds posh we’ve yet to find an accent that doesn’t sound posh when saying “Oxford” so maybe we’re paying for a stuck up name, who knows! P.s we’ve not all had tea with the Queen!
Lol, we have that as well. You can basically live in the outskirts of the post code, but you can still say you live in that post code 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ i have a few friends like that, they would rather pay more to live in a cerrain post cose because its "fancy" than get an aprtment with a toilet that isnt just crammed in what used to be a supply closet. 🤦♀️🤦♀️ people be crazy snobby.
@@TKDDLJ09 it’s true! So many people buy just to say they live here and be snobby! Love oxford but it is full of snobs
thanks for the call out. was cool to see.
Oxford is so expensive because it's so well connected to London. You can have the rolling countryside AND get into London quickly, so those folks with London jobs can live out of the city, but still maintain a city job.
I grew up in a town in Buckinghamshire and it has the exact same issue. It's connected to London via the underground in ZONE 9 (which most Londoners didn't even know there was a zone 9 haha) but with beautiful countryside right on your doorstep. London home owners realised this, sold up and moved out of London but still with London jobs. This drove the prices up MAD and basically no one, including me, could afford to live there or get on the property ladder. So more and more people are pushed to the midlands.
I'm *still* with my parents at 28 due to the cost of housing, the impossibility of being single and trying to get a mortgage and being faced with ever increasing bills and rent. It's awful. You're left trying to save for 10 years while chasing living costs and inflation.
Where do you buy the freshly baked bread? Because you do know that the “freshly baked bread” in the supermarket bakery is just baked from frozen loafs?
I love how you randomly burst into songs, this video made my day
Its also worth to note..not only is Dublin almost as expensive as living in London but Galway, small city/town on the west coast is almost as expensive as Dublin now... Its ridiculous
Thank you for pointing out that, even in areas with a lot of well off people, there are still plenty of poor people either with very basic jobs or no job. I think some people forget that there us poverty everywhere. There are people living hand to mouth everywhere. There are people working s**t jobs just get by everywhere. There are unemployed people on really low benefits struggling on a daily basis everywhere. Imagine then being one of those people living in an area that is supposedly affluent and having to apply an increased cost of living to their plight
Hoodie Evan looks swell!..........oh no, I may have slipped back in time briefly 🤭
Good grief this just reminded me of Klute in Durham - notoriously grimy (on purpose) student club where you could buy a 'quaddie' - a pint glass half filled with orange juice and double vodka, and a full half pint glass of cranberry and double vodka, intended to be mixed since technically it's illegal to serve a quadruple vodka - for £4.80! That's less than a pint of beer in London.
They've had to start using weaker spirits now to avoid losing their licence but 2010 was another era I guess. I think they still play 'That's Amore' as the final song every night though....
When you said 'right offended' I was so proud. Such British Evan 😁😁
Evan: Manchester is overused in these studies....
Also Evan: **uses London in that study too**
“when it’s not about london it’s about manchester” well that can’t be right because it’s never not about london lmao
I'm from Bristol and I was so happy to see my hometown included. We are one of the biggest cities in the UK and I feel like we're always forgotten by people outside of the city.
love your vids and the new color grading! maybe adding a (negative) vignette might make it look even more cinematic, as i feel like it really ties the vid together completely! if you don't i don't mind i love the vids anyhow, and if you already do, I'm just blind :P
Hello and welcome back to a man who looks really good in is current lighting settings
I would love to know more about this Dublin video. I am a Canadian and just don't know that much about the current state of either the U.K. or Ireland. Well.. you know... Beside the U.K. and Brexit
Einkaufstourismus is a common practice in central Europe for example Austrians living in the west e.g., Vienna sometimes will do a day trip to Slovakia or Czechia. Also from what I hear the nordic countries will do something similar always going to the country further south, because it gets cheaper the lower you go.
"Justice for wales" ha! funny! but like... please.... 😂
I live in oxford! It’s important to note that the uni owns a HELL of a lot of the land & so built buildings for the higher-earning academics & wanted to encourage graduates to stay. They wanted to boost the image of the city as an academic, upper-middle class city and so raised the prices of everything to make it inaccessible to the masses. A lot of people do have high-earning jobs yes which allows them to live in ox.There might be more high-paying jobs available, but the actual salaries are the same as other places (with no salary boost like in London). There’s also the fact that it has an easy route to london, there are many high-achieving schools & the uni obviously, the healthcare is innovative (there’s a massive leading research hospital). Quite frankly, the population are willing to pay it so nothing changes.
It backfired though because of the disproportionate homeless population etc. and inability for people like me who were born here to stay in oxford, particularly the northerly parts.
FYI If you buy fresh bread from a big supermarket, the bakery section has a machine to slice it for you.
I think the minimum wage in Geneva is around £20/hr so it kinda makes sense everything is so expensive there
My boyfriend is from Oxford and when he gets a chance will bring up how expensive it is down there. And as we're living in Liverpool (I'm a true Scouser), he absolutely loves it here for the nights out, the price of everything here and there's always something going on 😊
The reflection of the light in the window make it look like Evan is sitting in-front of a huge moon
If you buy groceries at a UK grocery store that is big enough to have a bakery in the back, you can ask for them to slice it for you.
Should try Corporation in Sheffield, can get 70p shots before 12 and £3 rainbow pints (triple vodka and mixer any colour of the rainbow) if socialising ever becomes a thing again...
Wow, I really wasn't expecting a charlieissocoollike song. What a throw back!!
Hey Evan - Want to make some German bread? Vielleicht möchtest du dein Brot-Game noch weiter-upsteppen und mal ein eigenes Brot backen? Hier mein altbewährtes Lieblingsrezept:
300 g spelt flour
200g whole grain flower (spelt)
50g sunflower seeds
50g pumpkin seeds (living the life!)
50g flex seeds
2 tsp. salt
1 back of dry yeast (7g)
400ml water (warm)
1 tbs. honey
1. Honey + Water + yeast = stir and let rest for 10 minutes
2. Put all the other stuff together; add yeast mixture
3. Put in the cold oven with a bowl of water, and turn the oven up to 200°C for 15 minutes (Make an incision at the top after around 10 minutes). After 15 minutes turn down to 180°C and leave in the oven for another 45 minutes. DONE!
If you are feeling fancy you can put some milo on top or put oat meals in the baking dish.
Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland und vielen Dank für deine wunderbaren Videos!