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Hello everyone welcome back to the channel I’m office blog D I’m gaina okay the two of us again yes Aiden’s on a sick day yep yeah oh always me I don’t feel well um anyway this is uh how I see the UK as an American abroad culture shock yeah um
We’ve lived in both countries we have we visited both countries many times as visitors as well as as well as people who live there’ve done the whole of the east coast and then and loads Lo more yeah we’ve done loads I’ve never done the West I know you worked in the west
Coast did a little bit on the west coast but nothing uh nothing major I’ve been to Miami is that where she’s from Y and it will be a culture shot going from Miami to Manchester yeah it looked like I saw the first bit on the background there where she’s got the bottom looks
Like Manchester yeah looks like Media city where she’s in sulfa Keys around that area but let’s get into it anyway I don’t know much about this what she’s going to talk about but how I see the UK as an American abroad we can give advice
On this and see if it’s uh see if it lives up to the hyp yeah I’ve been here in the UK for about a month now and since I made a video about why I left the us to come here I wanted to share with you what my experience has been
Like so far being here as a foreigner and especially as a solo female traveler and at the end of this video I’ll tell you why it’s made me sad actually and that’s something that I definitely didn’t Expect Yeah the first thing I noticed when I got here was the weather and it’s either been really good like today or really bad like cold gray rainy being from Florida that’s been something that’s been pretty hard to adjust to it’s it’s something I was expecting for sure but
Uh definitely the first month I was here was basically cold and rainy and so Manchester was really living up to the weather hype but I’m really happy that we’re going into summer and right now it’s sunny and like 65° Fahrenheit so it feels just like winter in Miami where I
Was living before so I’m really happy about that I’ve just been definitely using my heating a lot which I’m hoping isn’t going to be too expensive and I’ve also been using my fireplace is actually quite cozy um but some of the locals were joking with me that they’re
Like if you need the fire now in the springtime then you’re going to be literally in the fire when winter comes and it’s getting dark at 4 p.m. so I’m really enjoying these nice sunny days until 1 p.m. it’s supposed to be sunny here all week so really happy about that
But it’s definitely been an adjustment when I first got here next thing I noticed is how genuinely nice everyone is and so friendly and welcoming you can basically just go up and talk to strangers and they will talk back to you it doesn’t matter if you’re in a grocery
Store or in a taxi or talking to somebody who’s sitting on a park bench everyone is just really happy to have a chat and it’s something that sadly caught me off guard at first but uh people are just having a normal pace of Life they’re not in a hurry and you know
The guy who delivers your food or I had a handyman over at my house and he was talking to me about his daughter and his side hustle as a wedding photographer and it’s just been really refreshing to just be able to talk to people and they always say see you later like you’ll
Instead of by it’s like see you later it’s kind of like in Spanish how they say AO like they never say good that’s a Manchester thing thing and the first thing you do when you have a like a handy man or a worker come over is offer
Them a cup of tea yeah if you don’t they really like or you would say you’re not putting the kettle on he lazy just do the job you’ve come over to do and get on with it bring your own flasket to you man oh no yeah you stand there like it’s
Like bloody Gardener y y y y two hours late and you pay him by the hour yeah get an extra hour out of it buy and it’s like even if you’ll never see that person again they’re like see you later and so now I started saying it too because I really like
And another thing that they do is call you love so I noticed this when I went to buy a bike and the lady was like texting me oh hello love like yeah sure come on over love and now I’ve like noticed it everywhere like I hear people
Saying it in the convenience store and just on the sidewalk and I think that’s really friendly and cute to just call people love or in the coffee shop or something I’ve also noticed this with dating which is something that I think merits its own own separate video but my
Experience so far has been quite positive and a breath of fresh air I’ve noticed that guys here seem genuinely interested in getting to know me and talking to me and like asking you questions versus my experiences a lot in the US consist of like just kind of not
Very engaged text messages or the pressure to move it I would like to know difference because I’ve been watching 9 today fiance and a lot of and it’s it’s Americans with other like cultures yeah so there was one woman from New York and she was 54 years old and she dated so
Many different men in America but not found the right one and she found one in I think like Czechoslovakia or somewhere like that so how can it be so different there’s so many people in America there must be somebody who’s I mean I’ve seen I’ve seen I’ve come across many cultures
Where they where they Collide when they when they get together and they married and you see them and you think I wonder if it’s going to work out for them you know you hope it does cuz they get married and stuff they’re some of them are children but then you sort like see
Where the cultures Collide a little bit and you’re thinking ah that that happens in that culture but it doesn’t happen in that culture so to get them together sometimes you can see someone’s got give yeah it is a bit of excitement something’s got to give a little bit so
Like it’s because I know me personally I know I’d never be able to survive with someone who wasn’t English yeah because they wouldn’t get it they just wouldn’t get what I’m about but yeah I know what you’re saying the you have a very kind of what’s the
Word you say stuff you say stuff that a lot of people would be offended by but because I know that you’re joking it’s just you know sarcasm yeah but it’s uh but I know i’ struggle with another another culture I would 100% but I can see where she’s probably coming there
It’s bit more you know the the welcom inside from a male in the UK might be a bit more softer than the welcom inside of a male in the USA I’m not saying it is I’m just saying it might be yeah you know but I don’t know but it’s uh you
Know each to their own I guess but she’s she’s something over it a bit of a novelty yeah because Al you get quite a lot of Americans around this area especially at the universities yeah um that it’s like when we go to America we’re kind of a novelty in some areas
Because some people don’t see Brits dayto day yeah and you don’t see Americans day to-day so it’s a little bit of a novelty I think one of the things as well is there’s there’s a lot of traditional men so they expect even though the wife works her to do the
Dinner every night and do all the washing and all that sort of stuff and it’s not like that anymore no British men don’t think that I don’t think I do really yeah and I think as American men more so in that their mom raised them that okay the dinner was on the table
Every night so they expect their wife to do it yeah maybe things along very fast or basically just a hookup culture and although I’m sure that that exists here as well I haven’t experienced it yet it’s been quite the opposite I’ve had guys send me like five minute long voice
Memos asking me questions about just all sorts of things and so I I feel like the friendliness of the people has extended from just acquaintances and chitchat into dating and relationships something that caught me really off guard is actually how much it feels like a community here there are
People who’ve been living here their entire lives and many of them in the same nebor neighborhood not even moving to a different side of town and if there’s people that went away for school most of them came back or at least the people that I’ve spoken with here and
I’ve actually been embarrassed a couple times by asking people like oh where are you from and they’re like well what do you mean like what side of town am I from because everyone’s from here and where are you from originally and so Adam’s from here originally yeah and I’m
From a little town called St Helens near live and I think that’s a good sign that people really like living here and also it’s a sign of a strong community and a healthy community and I just feel kind of like a weirdo because I’m from a place that’s so transient from Florida
And from South Florida and many of the people around it’s like you ask them where they’re from as part of small talk and getting to know someone because there’s so many tourists there’s so many people from different countries and there’s so many people that weren’t born
There but they moved there later in life so that’s been something that what was he doing to her in the background there it looks like he was trying to kidnap her till the camp so he saw the camera which one we’re looking in the window in the background here around this area
Here right in the yeah I guess it is the window right yeah and I just feel kind of like a weirdo because I’m from a place that’s so transient from Florida and from South Florida and many of the people around it’s like you ask them where they’re from as part of small talk
And getting to know someone because there’s so many tourists there’s so many people from different countries and there’s so many people that weren’t born there but they move there later in life so that’s been something that really uh surprised me but it was a pleasant surprise so it seems like everyone is
Friends here unless you’re rooting for the wrong football team though that’s true and I haven’t really taken sides yet so I’m going to try to remain neutral uh but another thing I’ve noticed that you can actually see behind me here I’m walking in front of the BBC
Buildings and it looks like a yellow honeycomb and this is one of the things that I have learned while being here is that like their mascot here in Manchester is the bee like a worker bee and from what people have told me it became a symbol of unity after the
Bombings here a few years ago and so you’ll see like bees everywhere you’ll see a bee statue you’ll see bees on straws for your drinks you’ll see um I think three qu of Manchester sponges at the store in the cleaning aisle like there’s bees everywhere and I feel like every city
Should have a mascot one thing that I’ve really liked is being in a foreign country where English is the first language because I always feel a little bit guilty if I don’t know the language I don’t know maybe you feel the same way I do speak Spanish fortunately and so
Whenever I travel to Spanish speaking countries that makes it a lot easier but there’s quite a few countries where I don’t speak the language and so it’s been really nice to be somewhere where everyone speaks English and I don’t feel bad asking for things in English although the accents have been a bit
Difficult in some cases I I would say I mean I understand a lot of people but now and then uh there’s some slang that I don’t know or there’s someone with a much thicker accent and it it can be hard for me to understand but the good
News is that people seem to like American accents and I really like British accents so it works out pretty well but one day I was actually outside on the sidewalk picking up some trash and one of my neighbors walked by and he asked what was I doing and I couldn’t
Understand what he was saying but he was basically asking me if I was trying to feed the horse that lives across the street and he kept saying like house or hos or I I could not tell what he was saying he had to say it like seven times before I was like oh
Horse and so there have been a few miscommunications that way but I have noticed quite a variety of accents around here and so it seems like different neighborhoods and different towns and Villages and other nearby cities people will have a different accent so that’s been pretty interesting
But I’m still happy that we’re all speaking English there’s also quite a bit of slang here which I have been Googling and I learned that grafting means working hard and mad as a bunch of frogs means funny so if you know any other playing words from northern
England then let us know in the comments below it’s also been really nice to live in an actual neighborhood and not in a touristy area or some kind of tourist hot spot and that’s something that I was specifically looking for when I came here but when I actually got here and
Started feeling settled I realized like how often I’ve been in touristy areas whether it was in Portugal or Croatia or Greece and it really hit me when I wanted to send a postcard to my mom for Mother’s Day and I couldn’t find postcards anywhere I was like oh my God
I’m in a place with no postcards and was kind of trying to remember the last time that happened if ever when I was traveling and I asked this guy that was working in a mall and he’s like no I haven’t seen a postcard around here ever
Not at the post office not Ator and so I think that’s a real clue that you’re just in a regular local area also when you get a reaction from people about like whoa American accents because they’re so rare and I literally haven’t heard another person speaking with like
A US accent since I’ve gotten here so it has been nice to be in just a normal area and be able to observe and and participate in the daily normal life uh in a foreign country and I’m really enjoying that you also get a sense of
What the city is actually like and not the whitewashed version of it like there’s some areas that are really nice and that have been gentrified and then there are some areas that aren’t and they’re full of trash on the ground or uh they’re just kind of not the best
Parts of town and a lot of times in tourist areas you only see the nice parts so it has been really refreshing to just be in like a very diverse City with lots of diverse neighborhoods and so about gentrification and stuff like that she’s in Salford which used to be a
Proper old well that used to be the docks area for people who don’t know it used to be the docks area when the Industrial Revolution started and it transfer the the uh the cargo or whatever or the the cotton from the cotton Mills textiles and stuff up and
Down the um the Manchester ship canal which went out into the Irish seed L Liverpool to Manchester sort of thing so we could do our trade but that used to be when that closed down and all that Salford was a proper ship ship you wouldn’t go there yeah no no but now now
It’s it’s beautiful now it’s you see it there that’s exactly where she’s Media city now sua keys and there’s so many places in Manchester now that becoming I actually want to live in sua Keys now it’s one of the places I look at and think let’s get a place there CU it’s
Proper trendy there now yeah and in the suburbs where yeah just life as usual and they’re not like putting on a front or trying to create this little like Disney World Paradise for the tourists I’ve also found myself adopting more British Customs which I find kind of funny and reing like I’ve
Been drinking more tea lately but that’s also because I don’t have a freezer in my house I only have a refrigerator which is something that I never thought to ask about you know like you might ask oh is there a washer and dryer is there a dishwasher but you wouldn’t be like is
There a freezer now I know Europeans don’t like ice that much but come on so yeah I no no more iced coffee for me it’s too cold and I don’t have a freezer so I have been drinking more tea I’ve also become addicted to Crumpet I don’t
Even really know what a crumpet is it kind of looks like an English muffin but it has a different texture I’ve been eating like one or two crumpets a day or SC of washers and dryers I don’t have a dryer and I do really miss that um there
Is a wash dry fold place near my house so I’ll take the towels and sheets there but in general just been hanging stuff out to dry the oldfashioned way something that I thought was going to be worse than it is is is the drinking culture like people told me I would just
See drunk people everywhere and see people growing up on the sidewalks and stuff and I haven’t seen that at all um people have been very very friendly at the bars and clubs and restaurants and I haven’t noticed anyone drunker than in other parts of the world so yeah that’s
Been totally fine uh as I expected the cost of living is definitely lower than it is in the US now London of course is going to be more expensive and and Mainland Europe is definitely less expensive than here but in general like my food Bill cell phone internet things
Like that are a lot cheaper I’ve noticed that something that might cost s or 8 in the US or even $9 is like one or two pounds here so if you get a salad at a grocery store that’s like $9 or $8 it
Would be like 2 lb here maybe 3 lb a bag of tangerine greens or oranges that would be $7 cost one pound here um Serrano ham that cost 7 or 8 cost one or 2 pounds here so you’re really saving a lot of money on groceries and eating out
And stuff but the internet has surprised me because it’s really slow in some places but then it’s like fiber optic fast internet in other areas like when I first moved into my house the internet was like 5 megabits per second which I haven’t seen in at least 10 years
And I didn’t even know they had internet that was that slow anymore they called it Broadband uh but I was able to get a contract with Virgin Media where I now have 500 megabits uh per second but it is pretty expensive it’s about 50 pounds per month and the minimum contract you
Can get here is 18 months like maybe 12 and if you cancel it you do have to pay this like big cancellation fee but in the US like you can even if you have a contract you can pretty much get out of it I feel like so the internet has been
More than I expected we’ll have to see how much the utilities are with all that heating but at least I don’t need air conditioning in the summer so that will be good as I mentioned at the beginning of this video though there is something about being here that has made me feel
Quite sad and it took me a couple weeks before I could really put my finger on it and I think it’s a combination of things like I think it’s the friendliness of the people I think it’s the very healthy pace of life and the community aspect that when it all
Combines together I’ve realized that it makes me feel very nostalgic and like sentimental about my childhood oddly enough like it feels like being here feels like what the US was like 20 or 30 years ago and I don’t know if it’s because like I’ve gotten older and so as
An adult adult you perceive the world differently but I do feel like the US was different especially before the internet and before the toxic media culture that we have today and what makes me sad is that even though there’s debates here and there’s politics and there’s you debates over the economy and
Different points of view and different religions here in the UK I I feel like it’s just a healthier place to live in general and that the narrative is not as damaging or divisive as it is in the US interesting and so even though they have technology here they have internet they
Have tabloids they have like all of those same things there’s something that’s more civil about being here and it makes me wonder if we’ll ever see that again in the US it’s like kind of going back to what it felt like growing up in the US in the ‘ 80s and ’90s when
Things felt more Community oriented the pace of life felt slower like even though I’m sure there was a rat race mentality in the 80s it was like in the town where I grew up in Florida it it was like a small town and yeah things were just more relaxed you knew your
Neighbors you had more connections with the community and it seems like now maybe it’s like that in some of the smaller towns and cities in the US but especially in the bigger cities and places where there’s big Tech hubs or big tourism hubs it feels like it’s very
Hard to really connect with the community people are always coming and going and then there’s this kind of underlying tension about the political situation that is just kind of this hanging over the country and so I guess that’s why I’ve been feeling a bit sad here like almost almost jealous of what people
Have here and and I don’t know if they would see it that way like I don’t know if the locals would see things the same way but I just feel like I wish that we had more of this feeling that I get here in the US but I
Am really glad that I came here and I’m looking forward to sharing with you more of my discoveries as I travel around England and Scotland this summer so make sure those notification Bells are on and if you’re curious about what my first month was like in Portugal compared to
The UK then you can check out that video next I think it was interesting she spoke well and um like when I say she spoke well she spoke very clear and precise and she she explained everything quite well um I think she’s right in what she says a lot of stuff but it
Seems to be when we lived in the USA it was kind of like a rat race she just trying to survive you were hustling every day um every day I’m hustling yeah it’s not like Cat Williams yeah um whereas here you don’t really have to hustle there not it’s not other people
Look out for you here um and it’s one of them where if something happens I always found that in the USA you kind of on your own if something happened yeah whereas in the UK If something happen someone even if I didn’t know them they
Got hang on a minute and they jump to your defense and try to help you in some way not saying it doesn’t happen in the USA because it probably does but we didn’t experience it like that but whereas that’s kind of what I thought she was saying as well a little bit and
I can see what she meant on that little bit um but going back to saying it was like her there there’s a lot of issues over there as well there’s a hell of a lot of issues going on um probably something that she might not be um what
She say she only been there a month yeah but she might not be aware of because it is a deep line issue that’s going on over it um so she might just might not be aware of it and especially if she’s around the s for keys in Manchester you
Don’t really see it no um because not especially in Center or or where she is in s for keys there um but in certain other parts of the town it’s yeah the area where she is is is very kind of vibrant so you can go out any night at
The week and be busy yeah busy it’s a busy area it’s like it’s it’s student s like uh it’s turned into like student and single sort like uh you know single families know couples not not not big families not like where you got you’re not going to live there if you’ve got a
Couple of kids no don’t know it’s it’s definitely for the uh for the singles the young couples and retired people you know things like or students know you’ve got every bit of accommodation that goes with it so what is it from our house about three miles from where we live
Something like that mil two and a half miles but um it’s a uh it’s a great place to be where she is and like I said a lot of the stuff she says friendly that’s us that’s man unions in general and I think you’re going to get that in
The north you don’t get as much in if you’re go in the South no you don’t I don’t think I think the further south you go the less friendly it gets and the further north you go the more friendly it gets people just talk to you they
Don’t you know it’s if you’re on the street and you’re doing something somebody will always say something to you yeah it’s it’s like a neighborly feel I think right across right across the area and you can get that as you know as far across as Liverpool as far
Across as leads and Hall and places like that even further north but um I think she I think she’s she’s she’s she’s grasped the concept quite well of what it’s about I think I wonder what I wonder what she’s doing there is she working there or is she look like she’s
Touring because she’s going she’s being in Greece Portugal Croatia Croatia is nice as well but you look at like I mean so’s Greece and Portugal but you the way she said that is to correct her on the uh it’s mad as a box of frogs isn’t it
Know not a bunch of frogs box of frogs frogs Yeah but that was that was interesting to see that I like see I like to get other people’s perceptions of what your Town’s about what you feel it’s funny because obviously I’ve been like looking at houses and where to live
In the US when we retire watching that and seeing the price of food and all that this makes me think do I really want to go yeah greener on the other side the only thing you’re getting is you know we’ve lived we’ve lived in both and it’s there is two different ways of
Life you know what you can do you can get more land you know but do you want more land you know it’s it’s a lot more responsibility that comes with it but you look at places like when it’s in the Sun and you know s for keys and
Manchester in general when when the Sun’s shining there’s no better place yeah know an hour we’ve had an hour this year so far but anyway I hope you guys enjoyed that don’t forget like And subscribe and we’ll see you on the next one bye cheers
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As an American if I just met someone and they send me a 5 minute voicemail asking me all kinds of questions that would be an IMMEDIATE NO, lol. It's weird, and anyway you should be asking questions in person so you have stuff to talk about when you get together. Otherwise a date will be boring
She doesn't realize that she's still in the honeymoon phase of living in her new city. I'm sure Manchester is a nice place in the better areas just like any other large city. Also, her experience growing up in Florida was probably very different than mine 3000 miles away in Seattle or Denver. She keeps using the term "like in the US" as though there is some common experience that links us all. Bless her heart for focusing on the good and positive aspect of being there. Also it looks like she can afford to live in the nicer part of the city as acknowledged by Daz. She should make another video after 3 years of year round living there. Hopefully she will still love living there. ♣
This woman is Whiny and annoying
Maybe in the past American men expected that "traditional" household, but not anymore. Except for maybe some southerners who still expect that nonsense.
She clearly had a very very different experience in the US from many others. I swear all these people who make videos like this have these very weird thoughts.
something about this chick gives me the impression you'd have to walk on eggshells around her.
Appreciate her honesty, but Miami is simply not like the rest of the U.S. She's talking about missing community in a city that has a large number of transplants. I live here in the Midwest (Chicago area) and there's a very strong sense of community.
She's from Miami and that city has a lot of pushy people. I am a native New Yorker who is the same age as G and who now resides in Florida. What I see here is that the people are nice, but those from Miami are way more focused on themselves instead of others. NYC is the same way. She could have moved to other areas of the US to find people who would be interested in her and who she really is.
As for the over all dating scene in the US, I find that people under 40 tend to prefer texting instead of talking face to face. American men nowadays tend to prefer overseas to find love because many women have become woke and demanding about everything. Guys must earn great money and do everything for the women, while women live free of responsibility. Whether this point of view is correct or not, it doesn't matter. This perception is real.
I lived in Mexico many years ago and dating there, even then, was much easier than in the US due the demanding nature of American women. Women there were happy to show me their hometown and I just had to be respectful toward the women. I did not have jump through hoops and do other tests before any dates. I only needed to ask the women out to dinner and they either said yes or no.
My female friends tell me that American women go overseas for love because they are tired of the frat boy mindset. The women who want a relationship and marriage are the first ones to go overseas.
that girl lived in miami florida which is like living in another country. its heavily populated with cubans and other hispanic cultures from central and south america. miami does not represent the whole of america. i'm from texas and its completely different here.
To me she is annoying!
How dare her trash America…!!!
It sounds to me that she does not like diversity, Florida is a melting pot of Latinos and maybe she hates that…she chose a place that’s very Anglo 😱
Workforce in America is treated like shite. Below the beautiful glowing exterior. It’s great if you’re a foreigner here tho
Women blame all men but really women are just shitty at picking men and everyone knows women don’t hold themselves accountable
I'd give Lawrence Brown more credence in comparing US and UK. He's more fair. Americans like her are just embarrassing; they're the ones who think the US is a third world country with a Gucci belt.
Florida has seen an explosion in both residents and visitors during her lifetime, so I'm not surprised that she's seen a change in "community."
She's comparing living a lifetime in the the US to living just a month in the UK, and believes living in the UK is better, which probably is, but you can't just say life is better and less expensive after only a month in the UK. That's just ridiculous. I wouldn't be surprised if we hear back from her in a few years on how she just had to move back in the US cause she couldn't take it anymore, lol
I recently lived in England for a month. My very good friend is also living and studying there now. From my limited experience and their experience so far, in terms of positives, I will say that, overall, it's more "civil" and people are generally quite polite. They are also have a quite resilient attitude. No worry about gun violence. Overall, they are more environmentally conscious, which is cool. It's nice that there is social safety net of universal healthcare. Banking system is generally more fair over there as well (although some banks ATM machines are surprisingly out of date technologically). And just overall there seems to be a more of a general acceptance of what is required by citizens living in a society together.
On the negatives — while people are very polite and civil, some can be rather "cold" (you can get that here in the U.S. as well, of course, but I personally ran into more of that while I was there). Also, the "Keep Calm and Carry On" and "stiff upper lip" attitude, while commendable in some ways, but not in others. In the way that I find it isn't is when there is a situation that has clearly gotten to a point where it is unacceptable and untenable, and yet there is still the expectation by some for the person to just continue to suck it up and suffer with the problem. My friend has run into that attitude when trying to get reasonable disability accommodations that are not hard or costly to implement, for example. And from my experience and my friend's experience so far, the stereotype that British people are very pessimistic and tend to "enjoy" or just accept misery is relatively accurate. Again, that is just speaking to our experience — not everyone will have the same experience, and of course also our opinions do not apply to every Brit. We have just personally run into it quite a lot in our experience.
Lastly, while the NHS and universal healthcare is great to have, their universal healthcare system has more faults in it than I first realized, and they started to be exposed when I was there and involved with my friend's situation. If you are relatively healthy, develop cancer or some other ailment like that out of nowhere, or need necessary surgery, then overall it's a pretty darn good system. But if you suffer from certain chronic disabilities, there can be difficulties and also extremely long waits to get seen by specialists in the NHS. And if you can't wait or get seen by a specialist, you have to pay out-of-pocket to see a private physician, and each visit can cost $200-350. And some treatments provided through the NHS are extremely minimal, or not provided at all, which means you have to go private and pay out-of-pocket, which in some instances can cost thousands and thousands of dollars a year. And basically, you can't get private insurance in the UK if you have preexisting conditions. In contrast, despite all the glaring and massive problems in the U.S. healthcare system, my friend had insurance through their university, and was able to get most of their treatments (some a few times a week, others once a month, and some every three months) covered by their insurance (they just usually had a small $15-20 copay each visit). Whereas the same treatments in the UK are basically not covered, and cost from $75-100 for some of the regular treatments, and sometimes over $1,000 each for the monthly or quarterly treatments. If my friend were to get the same treatments they received in the US with the same frequency, they could be spending $15,000-$20,000+ out of their own pocket every year.
Loved this!
What is she talking about…English isnt the first language in the US?? I live in San Diego ,big Latino population,but English is always the first language,if they don't speak English thats too damn bad for them…
Chick seems naive.
I'm not saying that people in general or dates aren't nice, it's just that I think everyone is especially nice to a foreigner. It's just a bit of a novelty, something different than the usual people that you see all the time. And comparing Miami to anywhere is just not a fair comparison. The cost of living in Miami is 20% higher than the national average in the US. And why does she seem shocked that every other place she's talked about and where she has lived have been tourist places but Manchester isn't, and she surprised that there are differences
🇺🇸There’s something wrong with that broad.🇺🇸
I had a teacher one time say if you are not happy with yourself in one place you won’t find happiness anywhere for long. I found this to be true. When I moved away from my hometown I made sure to give myself a long look and tried to change a lot about my outlook. Makes a big difference. So sad so many people think things are so much better in other countries. So many Europeans want to come to America and do many Americans want to leave. Humans are never really happy.
I think she would have been better off saying “Manchester has a small town feel”. Because all that stuff she was describing about what made her sad… sounds like she needs to relocate out of the huge city mentality of Miami.
Dont worry GF no one knows what Liam Gallagher is saying 🙂
25 years ago I used to love visiting the UK. London to pieces. I won't go anymore. Londonstan is no longer a place to visit.
She's from Miami. The extreme of just about EVERYTHING you can think of. She'd have the same culture shock if she moved to the Midwest, lol….
How many of those 5 min voicemails from guys are trying to get info on this lil American girl from Miami traveling on her own? And how many guys? Someone needs to get a clue, real quick!!❤
Was that drunk guy sleeping Dave??
This lady is extremely naive about her own country. She doesn't seem particularly bright either.
We live in Florida n it’s great she lived in Miami which tourist n transient place nothing like the rest of Florida. Hi little shitty on the West Coast of Florida. It’s like a nice hometown in the Midwest that we left.
The more I see these videos the more I realize all the cultural similarities between the UK and USA. Some of her culture shock would be the same if she went to different places in the USA. Manchester doesn't represent all of the UK. Manchester looks like like a great destination though.
I'm an expat and lived in Florida for five year and I would say almost everyone I met was not from there. Either from another state or country. It's odd. Yeah on the sad thing..the tea party and Trump realy split the nation its toxic
In general, I hate how people that are either from Miami or lived in Miami think it represents the whole state of Florida. Even big cities like Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, and Tallahassee. To get the real experience of Florida live in the smaller towns/cities.
This woman seems really nice, but…I have to wonder how much traveling she did around her own country before setting out to see the world. A brief stroll through the comments indicates everyone touched on most of the big ones. Here’s a quick rundown in my experience of nearly 40 years traveling my own country:
1. Prices vary wildly, but generally speaking the American prices she’s using are big city prices. Often times you don’t even have to travel that far beyond a big city to see food prices drop rather significantly.
2. She mentions “salad” but shows footage of lettuce. If she’s talking about prepared salads, I will say that I do feel as though fresh produce meals like salads at restaurants are somewhat cheaper in the UK than throughout the U.S. Additionally, my UK experiences have taught me that salads tend to be much fresher and fuller over there than a typical restaurant here throughout the U.S. There are always exceptions on both sides, but I’ll stick to this as a general rule.
America does processed food exceptionally well and extremely cheap here in America compared to other countries. But eating healthy still costs more than it should compared to many other countries. There are clear reasons for this but that’s worth another comment itself.
3. My last trip to the Miami area was about ten years ago. People were nice as heck, there. It had the hustle and bustle of any big city. And the area itself has long been one of the bigger draws of tourism, both local and abroad. But, like much of America, people were very willing and able to start up a conversation.
4. Folks in the UK have always been kind to me, and most definitely seem warm once you start talking. But her observations don’t match mine pre-conversation. I find the British to be much more aloof than folks in America. Again, that’s just when out in public, prior to any conversation. But even in brief public conversations, I find the British to be a bit more…distant, maybe? I don’t know if that’s the right word. Cold might be another word, but that carries with it a bit of a negative connotation that I think is too strong.
5. I think it’s always important when making these observations to keep in mind as many factors as possible. She’s a pretty blond woman with a nice smile and tone of voice. Once she opens her mouth her American accent becomes very clear. It tends to attract people like magnets, both American accents in the UK, and British accents here in the States. And with that comes an inherent understanding that you’ve got a “stranger in a strange land” situation going on. That often brings its own set of questions fueled, usually, by genuine interest.
6. The bigger/more populated a place, the less it’ll feel like one big collective community. HOWEVER, I will say that in many of the larger cities I’ve been to here in the U.S., certain areas/neighborhoods can definitely feel like smaller villages or towns. It’s a bit of a different feel, but still somewhat reminiscent of small town America. Again, that’s purely from a collective community feel. I’ve found that many things, including other “feels”, simply can’t be replicated well in the big cities, and vice versa.
7. I’m not entirely sure I understand her comments about the nice/bad areas of town. That’s a dynamic that exists in literally every place I’ve ever been. Some towns/cities have worse “bad” or “poor” areas than other cities. And some cities definitely do a better job of “hiding” the bad/ugly areas. Maybe the contrast between the “hidden” areas and more desirable areas is more stark in the U.S., and that is what she means? But if that truly bothers her someone please tell her not to go to Haiti or Jamaica. From my travel experience the contrast between tourist areas and everything else is both shocking and soul crushing.
8. There’s no denying the political climate in the U.S. is much worse than it has ever been in 30+ years. Per most adults older than me I speak with, the last time it approached this level was back in the 80’s. And even then it was brought on more by of a consensus of uneasiness with what was happening abroad that felt counterintuitive to the shiny new America Ronald Reagan was pushing. These are sentiments shared with me by Republicans and Democrats alike, for what it’s worth. But even then, you could still have conversations with folks that, while heated, could last awhile face-to-face.
In my own lifetime and experience, specifically since the 2001 attacks, discourse between people outside of social media has gotten progressively worse. People seem less interested in actually listening to others, and more interested in not simply pushing their own agenda, but shutting down the opposing agenda. This seems to closely mirror the behavior of Congress over the years, but I’d argue it’s a learned behavior mostly via social media.
Rigidity has definitely replaced fluidity when it comes to political discussion. Sometimes I wonder if debate teams still exist. It seems like political discussion often reflects those sports shows, where the Shannon Sharpes of the world just sit there and yell at each other but literally nothing of substance gets set, let alone heard.
That’s all I’ll say on politics. But it’s very sad. (It’s also just a generalization; clearly there are folks out there capable of healthy conversation).
9. I give the British, specifically citizens of England, loads of credit. Your weather legitimately sucks. I’ve actually spent ample time in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S., like Seattle, and even that doesn’t come close to English weather. It’s terrible and I’m only being mildly sarcastic when I say it’s one of the major reasons I could never live in England. All my time spent there has taught me to truly appreciate my own midwestern weather.
10. Maybe I’m just way out of touch with today’s dating scene, but what’s this business about men sending her five minute Q&A videos after meeting her? Is that a real, normal thing now? What happened to that being stuff you talk about face-to-face when you actually hang out? Surely I’m misinterpreting things? I feel like that would garner most males total creeper status here in the U.S.
12. I’m male, so I can’t comment on what British males are like when dating. I will say that, again, being an American in England is already going to be enough to make folks naturally inquisitive.
I've been to Liverpool once, Manchester twice, and London 3 times. I LOVE the UK. I would love nothing more than to move there. I've actually looked into it and as far as I can tell, I do qualify for a work visa. I just need the job I'm looking for. The US is nice but give me great looking women with British accents every time.