American Reacts to Average American vs Average British Person

Get ready for a cross-cultural journey as we delve into the differences and similarities between the Average American and the Average British Person! In this video, we'll react to various aspects of British culture, comparing them to their American counterparts.
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[@ichbinschanppi]

Interesting you say about your boss giving you grief for taking time off. In the UK, my boss gave me grief for not taking my time paid holidays and forced me to lol

[@sameebah]

At one point during a major test program, my company's HR department called me to ask if I was being pressured to do extra hours after several weeks of 15+ hours additional working - they seemed surprised when I said we had worked it out amongst our team that as it was school holidays and I was the only single person it made sense that I did the bulk of the extra time. It was good to know they were checking up on things like that.

[@Isleofskye]

@@sameebah I used to get 6 weeks paid holiday a year in a Government Nationalised Industry,in London, nearly 40 years ago,in the 1980's. It soon became apparent that we were "expected" lol to have an extra week off "sick" which is on full pay. Funnily enough, most of us were sick on Monday or Friday. .😀😀Then add fiddled "Flexitime" where we signed each other "in" and "out" which saved several hours a week,a Morning and afternoon Tea Break, and naturally an extended lunch "hour". Sometimes we did only take one hour but an average lunchtime week contained 2/3 Sports ventures and 1/2 Pub trips(nonalcoholic) We had 12 Pubs within 1/2 mile. HAPPY DAYZ

[@amsodoneworkingnow1978]

I had been informed that it was time to use up my annual leave several times before the organisation policy changed to make us take it before the year end of loose it unless manager allowed it to carry over.

[@Isleofskye]

@@amsodoneworkingnow1978 I have heard that many times,my friend.

[@countycricklewood]

Northern Ireland! Not for much longer hopefully! 🇮🇪👍☘️

[@JohnWheller]

The NHS is not perfect but I wouldn't want to swap it for the American system. Last week my partner had a mini blackout which caused him to fall and hit his head badly causing a nasty cut. We went to our local hospital A&E (accident & emergency). Got triaged pretty quickly, had a brain scan, ECG and blood tests. When the results came back he saw a doctor who thoroughly examined him, dressed the wound and then he had a chest x-ray and CT scan to make sure there wasn't a blood clot or any other underlying problem. With all the results in the doctor gave him the all clear. He'll have a call from a doctor tomorrow to discuss the test results and advise whether any further treatment is needed. Yes, when we were working we paid tax for this but I honestly never noticed it.

[@steven54511]

"The NHS is not perfect but I wouldn't want to swap it for the American system." 100% agreed!

[@TheEyez187]

Agreed. In the states, all that lot would have easily run you 4 figures! Glad your partner checked out all good!!

[@forevercomputing]

Knowing you won't be in debt is great

[@Pablosplace]

my dad has had repeated blackouts since May 2021, after his first covid jab.....

[@DarkParagon]

​@@Pablosplace Has your dad got it checked out, and confirmed it was a side effect (with blackouts not being a covid jab side effect, from what I can read), or are you an anti-vaxxer trying to put cause/effect together, to blame the jab? Get your dad to confirm if it a side effect, so it can get confirmed as such via the proper mode of reporting such, or stop spreading misinformation.

[@ashodgkin]

Love your channel. One little criticism on this one though, the word for the people of Scotland is Scots, not Scotch. Scotch is a drink, as in whisky.

[@secretoktober13]

They said “Welch” instead of Welsh too 😂😂😂

[@hesky10]

Scotch is also a tape and egg lol

[@B-A-L]

​@@hesky10And a pie!

[@user-hi8iy8wl6j]

Yep, Scotch refers to products from Scotland eg whisky, beef etc. Scots or Scottish are people from Scotland.

[@stuartward9208]

Sounds like something a Scotch person would say..... 😂

[@daveofyorkshire301]

No Brit knows the floor area of their house, they know the size of the rooms for capet etc, but no-one buys a house based upon floor area... Indirectly it's based on room layout and size, but the total size is irrelevant...

[@jillybrooke29]

Bedroom and kitchen size, people are living together and not marrying

[@PeerAdder]

I must be different then because size definitely matters to me ;) and estate agents (realtors) these days almost always include floor area in the details.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@PeerAdder I'm guessing you're in London, who is catering to foreign residents, including Americans... the the buyer or 4enter is foreign you market based upon what they expect...

[@malcolmhouston7932]

If people think that in the UK we have the smallest houses in Europe, they haven't travelled much.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@malcolmhouston7932 Don't stop there... Who does have the smallest houses?

[@Iskandar64]

I am a manager in the U.K. and today I was advising two of my staff to take their leave allocation, because they would lose some of it, if they had not applied for it by the end of the year. I want my staff to take all their leave allocation for a variety of reasons, and I want a happy team. They will stay longer if they happy, it creates loyalty, and they will pull their fingers out and do the hours when we really need to. It is so obvious to me.

[@LawfullSpook]

Same here a few of my guys tend to forgo their breaks and as much as like the enthusiasm I'd rather them take a break and rest, not only does it boost morale but also productivity. We give all our staff the opportunity to pick their holiday data too but again some like to not use them for whatever reason so I will manually put them on holiday but only when it's getting close to the end of the financial year and they still have yet to take them after being reminded to do so.

[@shirlnmisty]

@@LawfullSpook Im self employed and tend not to take time off , we really are our worst enemy lol

[@LawfullSpook]

@@shirlnmisty yeh same here I have a single day off a week just to do my house work and sometimes I'll take 2 days a week if needed but even if I'm sick I'm going into work, in the last 3 years I've had a week off because of sickness but that's only because the government mandates around COVID lol. The way I see it is if I take time off we lose sales and jobs won't get done, if we lose too many sales the store could shut down and I lose my job completely so I'd rather do the hours and ensure both myself and others have a job.

[@maureen348]

With UK weather you wouldn't want to have a large home to heat.

[@Isleofskye]

I know. It's only going to average 31 Degrees Celsius in THe South this week. 🥶😰

[@ChristineRead-ck1uq]

@@Isleofskye And that isn't as unusual as we keep being told!

[@Isleofskye]

@@ChristineRead-ck1uq Indeed Christine:)

[@malcolmhouston7932]

AC probably costs as much as heating- You might get away without either in the right part of San Francisco - but LA ?

[@DarkParagon]

@@ChristineRead-ck1uq ...Uh... Sure? I don't remember it being THAT hot, growing up. But within our lifetimes we're gonna see it hit 35> degrees constantly, then we can discuss. 😅

[@ASUTASTUD]

Alot of UK companies actually force you to take your time off. If you still have holiday leave left they have and can schedule you the remaining time off before the end of year. I've had it done to me. I actually went into work and my boss told me to go home because am on holiday leave for the next week.

[@colinharbinson8284]

The bastards!!

[@darrenmorgan870]

We don't work as many hours as the Americans because we get treated better by having paid holidays and get to spend more time with the family And to the university cost was free for years but because of people from other countries were taking the piss and instead of asking them to pay for their education it was looked on as not fair and so it was put on every person,

[@Isleofskye]

I used to get 6 weeks paid holiday a year in a Government Nationalised Industry,in London, nearly 40 years ago,in the 1980's. It soon became apparent that we were "expected" lol to have an extra week off "sick" which is on full pay. Funnily enough, most of us were sick on Monday or Friday. .😀😀Then add fiddled "Flexitime" where we signed each other "in" and "out" which saved several hours a week,a Morning and afternoon Tea Break, and naturally an extended lunch "hour". Sometimes we did only take one hour but an average lunchtime week contained 2/3 Sports ventures and 1/2 Pub trips(nonalcoholic) We had 12 Pubs within 1/2 mile. HAPPY DAYZ

[@PeerAdder]

@@darrenmorgan870 no, the change to students funding their own university education came about because of the expansion in the numbers of UK students encouraged to go to university, from about 2% of the 18yo population to approaching 50%. Plus, it isn't a "debt" in the conventional sense. It doesn't affect your credit rating, and the amount you pay back each month depends on what you earn, not what you owe. Better to think of it as a graduate tax. Quoting the UK money expert Martin Lewis: "What you repay each month after university [in the UK, though these precise numbers are specific to students from England] depends solely on what you earn. It's set at 9% of everything earned above £25,000. To emphasise this point, for a graduate who earns, for the sake of easy numbers, £35,000... - Owe £20,000 and you repay £900 a year. - Owe £50,000 and you repay £900 a year. - In fact, let's be ridiculous and say tuition fees have been upped to £1m a year, so you owe £3m+, you still ONLY repay £900 a year. So as you can see, what you owe DOESN'T impact what you repay each month or each year. The only difference it makes is whether you'll clear the borrowing within the 40 years before it wipes. It's predicted that 52% on the new loan system will clear their debt in full within 40 years, and 48% will be paying off their loan for the full 40 years. So unless you're likely to be a mid to high earner AND/OR don't take the full loan AND/OR are lucky enough to have access to large amounts of spare cash, just ignore the amount you 'owe'. Instead, in practice what happens is you effectively pay an extra 9% tax on your income (not including national insurance) for 40 years."

[@grantmason740]

I believe UK companies have a legal requirement to ensure employees take a certain amount of holiday each year. A good employer will regularly check with staff when they intend to take time off, so this can be scheduled against workload and other employee leave requests. One employer I worked for regularly didn't do this and would only concern themselves with such matters at about the 9 month mark of the leave year. Needless to say they got huffy when all their staff needed to use up leave in the remaining 3 months lol.

[@elainecampbell8227]

Who knew? 5 million Americans are half whisky and half Irish!

[@shirl790]

I thought that too x

[@sameebah]

That would make them half whisky, half whiskey.

[@elainecampbell8227]

@@sameebah Steady - we need to hold on to our 12 points for Eurovision!

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Why do US Americans not just say they have Irish heritage? This Scotch-Irish (which was a real name for them going to the the US at one point) thing is just stupid. It's almost as bad as a US American saying they are Scottish, when they really mean their great-great-grandfather came over from Scotland.

[@ChristineRead-ck1uq]

@@Thurgosh_OG The mostly protestant people in NI that the Irish nationalists call 'planters' were mainly from Scotland originally. Perhaps that's where it comes from?

[@shirl790]

You will find a "Scot" in Scotland, 'scotch' (is a whisky) , but i guess its American English

[@Abi-so3zh]

It's American ignorance

[@biegebythesea6775]

@@Abi-so3zh why be rude?

[@Abi-so3zh]

​@@biegebythesea6775I'm not. Ignorance just means a lack of knowledge or information.

[@helenwood8482]

We used to have free college everywhere in the UK. That's how it should be. 5 weeks of holiday a year is fantastic.

[@stephenlee5929]

Agreed on tuition fees. And 5 weeks holiday is a good start point.

[@jillosler9353]

As long as the college work is towards a career and not just becoming a 'permanent student' because they don't want to work!

[@stephenlee5929]

@@jillosler9353 Did that ever really happen?

[@PeerAdder]

Free university for about 2% of the population.

[@clivenewman4810]

​@@stephenlee5929In 2023/24, I will get 9 weeks holiday 🇬🇧

[@Hartchell]

I work for NHS and my paid holiday per year is 8 weeks. I feel like my life is well balanced here in the UK and I travelled a lot. All Doctors visit are free and when I got hospitalised I got in and get out of the hospital with zero bills + I'm paid for my off sickness.. I'm grateful. ❤️

[@Shoomer1988]

The thing about UK student debt is that almost every undergraduate can get a student loan. And you don't have to start paying it back until you reach an earning threshold. Then the amount you pay back is on a sliding scale. This is good news for those with a degree in Media Studies as they will never have to pay it back, McDonald's doesn't pay that well.

[@officechairpotato]

This, but also, the repayments are set extremely low and then people wonder why they never pay it off. The threshold is not really designed to pay off the loan. Voluntarily paying it off is the only way to get rid of it in a timeline manner. But that also boosts your credit rating enormously and will make Banks more likely to loan you money, so it's worth doing anyway. You'll also pay less overall because you're eating into the principal of the debt a lot more rather than just the interest and a small amount of the principal.

[@missharry5727]

If you have not paid off your loan by the time you reach retirement age the balance is written off. And if someone dies before they have paid it off, at whatever age, the debt is cancelled.

[@amsodoneworkingnow1978]

Husband and I paid our students loans off in under ten years of graduation.

[@PeerAdder]

@@officechairpotato NO NO NO, unless you have one of the original loans (you started university between 1990 and 1997, meaning there are very few of these left now) that's completely wrong. For anyone starting university since 1998 your student loans do NOT affect your credit rating, and for most students currently with a student loan paying it off early is NOT a good idea. Unless you are a high earner, you're likely to pay back more that way than if you stick with paying the increased tax rate. What you pay back depends on what you earn, not on what you owe. Please look up Martin Lewis's comprehensive advice on this to get an authoritative view. The figures will change with the new "Plan 5" being introduced from this month (Sept 23) for new English students studying in the UK, and Martin covers this too.

[@PeerAdder]

@@missharry5727 to be clear, in the UK student debt incurred from 1998 up to now will be wiped after 30 years. The new "Plan 5" being introduced from Sept 23 for new English students studying in the UK will extend this to 40 years, and you start paying back when your salary exceeds £25,000 p.a. (previously, this was £27,295 p.a.).

[@HaurakiVet]

The US is one of the few countries in the world without legislated annual leave and sick leave, not to mention parental leave. I have seen this justified as being part of the "freedom" concept, in that individuals are free to negotiate directly with their employer on such matters. I think we can all make an educated guess where the power lies in such negotiations. Healthcare is another issue that needs no further comment.

[@amsodoneworkingnow1978]

New parents mothers can take a full year off on maternity leave for each child and her job is secure by law father's get 6-8 weeks depending on where they live both o full salaries.

[@chrisj4164]

I guess we better not mention the whole 4 day working week thing either 😊

[@HelixDave]

“I’m English, Scottish and Irish but I don’t think I’m Scotch-Irish” might be the most American thing I’ve heard today

[@mattsmith5421]

McDonald's isn't gouging you, every food industry is gouging you. You might want to compare food prices between the US and UK.

[@kaylabradburyliggett]

Also ingredients

[@baylessnow]

Also, the price on the shelf in the UK is the price you pay at the till/checkout. No tax to add on!

[@TheEyez187]

Yeah but their Big Macs are bigger Macs!

[@madmark1957]

Comparting food quality too as a lot of food in the US is pretty poor quality and quite a lot of it contains chemicals it's illegal to use in the UK and Europe.

[@skylined5534]

​@@TheEyez187 'You know what they call a Big Mac in France?"

[@DruncanUK]

Remember, 5.6 weeks of vacation a year is the minimum...an employer is quite free to give you more, if they feel like it! 🤣

[@amsodoneworkingnow1978]

And mine did .

[@DeveloperLeon]

Indeed, I also get my birthday off, and gain an additional day off for every year of service. Plus I have 4 weeks full paid sick leave.

[@karlbmiles]

If your issue is how much time off you get from your employer, you're not going anywhere in that company. That's a critical difference between socialist systems and capitalist systems. The American worker is a capitalist, a company unto himself, to get rich or to languish.

[@DruncanUK]

@@karlbmiles What a bunch of hogwash. European companies are REQUIRED to give you the minimum time off, if they don't, or you don't take them the Company can be in serious trouble and received big fines. Companies cannot judge your abilities on how many hours you work or how brown your nose is. Btw - European countries are Social Democracies, not Socialist. Get your facts straight!

[@bwilson5401]

​@@karlbmilesAnother American that confuses socialism with communism.

[@lindieb5278]

If you really want to be depressed as an American, you need to watch 'America Compared : Why other countries treat their people so much better' It's a sobering watch.

[@Sue474]

Agreed. Every American should watch that.

[@sp4rtavus244]

Its also considered a dirty word in the UK by the Tories and their followers.

[@liamfinch4129]

In America the word socialism is used as an insult. In the rest of the civilised world it means looking after your citizens!

[@malcolmhouston7932]

What a pity that doesn't happen.

[@petergilkes7082]

​@@malcolmhouston7932So the NHS, maternity leave, Social Housing etc don't exist? Hint: they do!

[@karlbmiles]

Somebody has to pay for "looking after your citizens". So your view on socialism depends on whether you're a giver or a taker. Socialism hasn't benefitted me, so I'm for rugged individualism.

[@petergilkes7082]

@@karlbmiles How old are you?

[@karlbmiles]

@@petergilkes7082 I turned 77 last week, thanks for asking. I've had quite a life so far, which is why I'm so wise. I'm a true Baby Boomer. My dad returned from WWII after 3 years in China to have me. I lived in Alaska during the Korean War. I lived in Biloxi Mississippi during the Jim Crow era, and my generation takes credit for the 1964 Civil Rights Act. I graduated from college and went to Business grad school. I was called up for the Viet Nam War. I spent my whole career in the IT industry, working for large corporations like Univac, Ross Perot's Electronic Data Sytems, and Motorola. I've lived 7 years outside the U.S., including Germany, Korea, Argentina, Netherlands and England, and have travelled to over 50 countries for work or vacation. I am single, but I live in a 5,000 sq, ft. house, 5 bathrooms, 2 kitchens and 2 laundry rooms, pool room and dance floor. So when people disagree with me, I just chuckle, because they're not doing things right.

[@Jee123123]

As mentioned below by a few the point about UK's student debt is missing a few good points on it. Basically it's all down to the way it's repaid, which you don't start paying back a single penny until you reach a reasonable threshold. then the amount you pay is 9% of the difference between the amount you earn and the threshold. As this is spread out over the year to when you get your pay (normally monthly pay in UK but some rare places do pay weekly or bi-weekly) the amount you pay is barely noticeable, some people spend more on their daily coffee than they do for their student loan repayment. and is based on the more you earn the more you pay back. It also doesn't appear on any credit score, does not affect mortgages (if you can get one) and it's also written off after 30 years without any penalty to you regardless of how much you've paid back if any. In the UK for most of the workforce is on a thing called PAYE which is a system that is used to collect tax and is done by your employer, with the employee normally never needing to fill out a single tax form, so when you get your payslip you barely notice the amount deducted for student loan repayment as compared to other taxes for the majority it will be smaller.

[@georgecaplin9075]

Nice. Comprehensive and informative. Anyone wanting to learn about the UK is significantly better informed after having read your comment.

[@Jee123123]

@@georgecaplin9075 missed off Scottish students studying in a Scottish university don't pay a tuition fee

[@user-TonyUK]

City to city transport is also availble via public Transport (Trains and Bus)

[@daveofyorkshire301]

Higher education in the UK is often shorter by a year or two, so the cost is actually less, plus the ceiling is a set limit they can't charge more...

[@terry9325]

In England students get interest free loans and don’t have to pay it off until they are in full time employment and earning enough money and it’s only a small percentage of there salary 😊

[@stephenlee5929]

I think you are out of date, I believe the current interest rate on student loans (in UK) is 7.3%.

[@oliversherman2414]

As a Brit, I'll never understand why Americans don't get free or at least affordable healthcare and why they don't get paid vacation

[@madmark1957]

Because the US is run completely by the dollar and there is no percentage in it for the employers or the healthcare companies which are money making businesses. Also the lobbying system in US politics prevents it even being seriously suggested.

[@oliversherman2414]

@@madmark1957 It's a shame that America is so backwards compared to the rest of the world

[@chrisj4164]

Because the American dream is a greedy capitalist society where the rich get richer and the poor get nothing. Kinda how the Tories want the UK to be

[@oliversherman2414]

@@chrisj4164 That's also a reason why I hate the British government. I've hated the Tories ever since they made the disgusting decision to leave the EU

[@chrisj4164]

@@oliversherman2414 yeah, but that was our fault to vote for it. Based off of the lies they fed us of course. They don't want to adopt the European policies that benefit the people. Only what benefits big business, which means rolling back the clock to be more like America

[@terencedavis4141]

Is Scotch-Irish some sort of whisky blend?

[@stephenlee5929]

I think its related to Welch.

[@kumasenlac5504]

Scotch-Irish refers to those in Northern Ireland who are descended from Scots who settled there.

[@terencedavis4141]

@@kumasenlac5504 I was being sarcastic. So many Americans insist on calling Scottish people 'Scotch' instead of Scots. For clarification". Scotch is whisky. Scots are the Scottish people.

[@skylined5534]

​@@stephenlee5929 No no, you're thinking of the Walish people!

[@1414141x]

Ireland used to produce more whisky the Scotland until a large condensing equipment machine was invented in Scotland and this enabled the Scots to produce whiskey in far greater volume than the Irish who still used the old method. This led to Scottish whiskey being far cheaper to produce and as a result the Irish whiskey industry nose dived. It is coming back though.

[@Connnor]

i love how you put it when you said it's not enough time and we should tell people we love them and we should love ourselves cos we are ALL GONNA DIE ... lol so true!

[@heathermyers1283]

Love your deadpan responses. Very funny!!!

[@MrKryss2k]

Our houses are small but so is the country we live in - when an older house sells they will often build 3 houses on the land it occupied (at least where I live).

[@Matthew-bj6ct]

28 paid days off is the legal minimum for a full-time employee in the UK. it's quite common for companies to give an additional 3-8 days per year. Sick days are additional.

[@Isleofskye]

I used to get 6 weeks paid holiday a year in a Government Nationalised Industry,in London, nearly 40 years ago,in the 1980's. It soon became apparent that we were "expected" lol to have an extra week off "sick" which is on full pay. Funnily enough, most of us were sick on Monday or Friday. .😀😀Then add fiddled "Flexitime" where we signed each other "in" and "out" which saved several hours a week,a Morning and afternoon Tea Break, and naturally an extended lunch "hour". Sometimes we did only take one hour but an average lunchtime week contained 2/3 Sports ventures and 1/2 Pub trips(nonalcoholic) We had 12 Pubs within 1/2 mile. HAPPY DAYZ

[@joannerichards5481]

With pay

[@Isleofskye]

@@joannerichards5481 Naturellement, Joanne !

[@jackie6343]

Ive learned more about my country since watching your reactions,keep them coming please 😊

[@robertofraser101]

Thanks enjoyed your casual and fun aproach enjoyed thank you have a g8 weekend

[@johnp8131]

With marriage? They're not all single, it's just more just live together here. Much of this is 'probably' due to many British being far less religious or even atheist? In our last census, for the first time, less than half the population identified as Christian? And that didn't mean we had all become Hindu??? The highest percentage identify as Christian still but "No Religion" is second and is pretty close as of 2021.

[@rattywoof5259]

3:46 - great advice! It's later than you think.

[@emmajayne4894]

Im from the uk. Our student loans are not connected to our credit file so has no bearing on our credit score. Also if its not paid off after a certain time, its written off

[@skylined5534]

Isn't it also based on earnings? Like even if you're in full-time employment post University you don't have to start paying it back if you're under a certain earnings rate?

[@emmajayne4894]

@@skylined5534 yeah it was 9% when I started earning 27k but I think it's around 33k now before you have to pay anything

[@Jamie_D]

Just found your channel thanks to a KZbin suggestion :) got plenty of good lookin content to binge :D

[@marktubeie07]

02:43 😂😂 your humor cracks me up and that's why I sub'd ! Oh and the content is superb also... :)

[@karengray662]

New to your channel. Love your content & agree, so far lol, with all of your comments. Keep going 😊

[@jonathanwesson1590]

What I love about the College bit is that it doesn't say about the english benefit system, which is if you are unemployed you can get certain college courses paid for free, as well as being free for those between the age of 19-23, as they are desirable for employers such as IT courses as well as Maths and English as well as fast track courses to get into University. Which leads me neatly onto them, in America the basic range is $26,027 per year to $55,840 per year whilst in the UK it's £9,250 per year as a fixed rate by the UK government so a lot cheaper there, especially when you add on that UK student loan doesn't need to be paid until you reach an average income of £25K+ per year as an employee, not counting savings and investment., and even then it is a sliding scale depending on how much you earn. Speaking of Universities, In the UK Univesity admitance is not handled via interview it is handled at distance and inpersonally meaning that theoretically no bias can be imposed upon the admitance staff by the prospective student, this also means that Legecy students are not offered admitance unlike the US, this means we in the UK do not require the Positive Descrimination that festered within US educational system which meant that it mattered less weather you were prepared to complete a degree and more what made you different from the norm, IE the average US University applicant is White Middleclass and of the educational standard to pass the course they are aiming for. Not that UK Universities don't have their own problem in that regard, just look at the level of censorship going on currently with books being both peddled and banned depending on what is in Vogue at the moment but I digress. At the end of the day the UK has some points at which it is better than the US whilst the reverse is also true, so a flat comparison is mostly impossible as it is to individual to account for everything so only a median average can be used and that is very rarely representative.

[@anitaherbert1037]

That's why brits travel abroad alot. Our houses are smaller to protect the greenbelts( we do not like ribbon developement or billboards obscuring our views of our countryside). We legally protect our access to our beautiful countryside with our plentiful rights of way across fields through woods etc. We walk more than Americans. We do not to pay back our student loans until we earn over £25,000

[@KeytarArgonian]

And even then the student loan repayments are *TINY* per month.

[@cherryblossom3046]

A few comments: 1. House prices and size - remember that UK land mass is a tiny fraction of USA for 56million people, ergo less land/ person, less house size and hence higher house prices; 2. UK Univ. Tuition fees: N.I., Scotland and Wales receive highest UK GOVT funding because of their levels of need, hence positively subsidising their H E student costs compared to English students. But all UK students receive govt student loans with 30yr post graduation salary-linked repayments and many loan cancellations after this period, + student loans are excluded from credit ratings! 3. The great NHS free at point of use is a flagship health and economic policy fully and happily funded by tax payers. 4. Population descendency of UK and USA, all the way back to AFRICA for all of you/us! Please remember that when you decide to be racist towards another person. Every person in the world is an IMMIGRANT.. just a question of when you/your ancestors arrived where you currently find yourself! Be aware and kind to new arrivals because you too were once a 'new arrival/immigrant'! Blessings all.

[@bencockburn4838]

Our holidays happen regardless of weekends though. We get 2 days off at Christmas, which if it falls on a Saturday means that our holiday days are held over til the Monday and the Tuesday, so we have a 4 day break in that instance.

[@individualmember]

Five and a half weeks off includes public holidays, so we don't usually get to take a 3 or 4 week vacation unless we time it to coincide with, for example, Christmas. Most often we tend to take a two week holiday when we go abroad and also extend our breaks around Christmas and Easter (I haven't worked on the days between Christmas and New Year for a long time).

[@djalice]

I live in London and there is a government building nearby that has this carved into the stone above 'The Health of the people is the highest Law' 😇

[@spig3547]

Weird that the billionares were done as a flat number and not against population, everything else was done against population.

[@bubba842]

Yeah, Britain has 1/6 of the population of the States.

[@GnrMilligan]

One common thing that comes across in all of your content is that you seem to be a genuinely nice person!

[@PeerAdder]

We also don't have "at will" hiring and firing in the UK. All employees have contracts of employment, and while some of these might not be very good, the employer cannot dismiss employees in the United Kingdom for any reason without notice. An employee you decide to terminate is entitled to written notice. The only exception to this rule is if the team member has committed an act of gross misconduct, which includes theft and violence. Employees in the UK are permitted to join one or more trade unions, be part of a trade union their employer doesn’t negotiate with, end their union membership, and make their own choice about whether they want to join a union or not. You cannot treat them differently based on their decision; nor can you dismiss them because they’ve joined (or left) a trade union. You are also not permitted to offer them any form of enticement to leave the union. Employees in the UK are entitled to a variety of statutory benefits, including workplace pensions, holiday entitlements, maternity leave, paternity leave, bank holidays, and redundancy pay (for eligible employees). Employers must deduct National Insurance-a tax that helps pay for things like State Pensions and other public programs-from each employee’s paycheck and contribute towards it.

[@yippee8570]

May I bring to your attention zero hours contracts? These are a way for employers to get around all the things in your first paragraph, unfortunately.

[@skylined5534]

​​@@yippee8570 You'd still have a case for unfair dismissal though if no reason was given. You're still employed by them after all. Edit: Though I forgot to mention I'm confident most employers are cynical enough to know most people haven't got the funds and/or the will for a lengthy legal dispute!

[@millsy1861]

The United Kingdom isn't difficult. It's 4 countries ruled by one king or queen, the United Kingdom, it kind of speaks for itself, really.

[@johnward2488]

Except of course, the King is purely a figurehead and has no powers to rule, that is left to the thieving barstewards in the house of commons and the unelected super rich inbred scum in the house of Lords.... none of which give a crap about UK citizens....

[@julianbarber4708]

Not 'ruled' by a King or Queen.

[@anhondacivic6541]

A prime minister runs the UK, not a monarch

[@davidmellish3295]

​@@anhondacivic6541A prime minister doesn't run the UK it's not the same as a president. The political party in power runs the UK with the prime minister the head of the party. But everything goes through cabinet and the houses of Parliament and the Lords etc. Yes the prime minister is the boss but he doesn't run the County in the same way a President does.

[@anhondacivic6541]

@@davidmellish3295 thank you for the clarification

[@sebdoggydogg4004]

this guy makes such good content !!

[@jason-uk]

New subscriber here love your voice so relaxing and calming loving the content

[@joannestone7866]

You have a soothing voice. Has anyone ever said you sound like Bob Ross! 😂

[@georgecaplin9075]

Anyone else laugh as much as I did when they quoted the Centre for Disease Control’s statistics for marriage?

[@deeboneham2738]

In the UK we get grief if we don’t take all our leave 8:23

[@Lizallinos]

The university fees for the UK seemed a bit off. Tuition fees are a maximum of £9k per annum and a degree course is 3 years, so the max you would owe in tuition would be £27k. This is not paid back until you earn over a certain amount.

[@AnthonyValentine-vm1yc]

A number of companies are trialing a 4 day week. Tests look good so far. They have found productivity increases!

[@chrisj4164]

I've been working a 4 day week for around 12 years now, and every 3 weeks I get 5 days off over a "long weekend" as we call it (Friday to Tuesday, back to work Wednesday) plus 5 weeks paid annual leave. We also accrue paid Lieu days for working bank holidays etc. I also get a year of paid sick leave consists of 6 months full pay, 6 months half pay, which I won't have to pay a dime for my treatment living in my tiny UK home 👍 The USA needs to take a good look at itself and hang it's head in shame

[@TheGarryq]

The original video is over 6 years old. Would love to hear a more up-to-date comparison

[@NathansWargames]

America is still fked.

[@Loki1815]

At the end of a really busy year, whereby I was travelling all over Europe and a couple of places in the States (Chicago, Milwaukee), whilst we were buying state of the art equipment, costing millions, running tests lasting days on end, moving older machinery to make room, getting the logistics sorted, training, both myself and 6 shifts of operators and taking 3 weeks off over the year, my boss kept trying to force me to take off my remaining 3 weeks of annual Holidays. I pointed out that by the time the new machines were up and running and staff are up to scratch, it would probably be October to December and was he sure that he wanted me to take off nearly a month at the end of the year, so I got paid in-lieu instead, so the week before Christmas I got an extra £2000. Which didn't exactly upset me......

[@secretoktober13]

The UK has loads of old property, ie pre 1900, a lot of which is small. I live in a 1760s cottage that only has about 750sq ft.

[@nagillim7915]

Five and a half weeks is the statutory legal minimum paid days off (4 weeks of paid leave plus 8 paid bank holiday days) and is actually considered low by many other European nations. My employer gives us 25 days paid leave plus the 8 bank holiday days for the first 5 years of employment then an additional 5 days leave for sticking around. Then at 20 years they give you the choice of a bonus or adding 5 extra leave daya to your bank. Also, they won't pay you in lieu of leave and they have a maximum you're allowed to carry over to the next year so we're encouraged by the employer themselves to take time off. Having a week off or a long weekend every once in a while is a great way to recharge the batteries and be more productive when you go back to work.

[@kallumlgltd]

Dominos gouges us over here! I believe we're charged the most in the world for one of their pizzas. They're nice but they ain't £20/25 bucks nice (roughly) 😄 😵‍💫

[@skylined5534]

We have one now and then but it it doesn't stop me grumbling about us paying £20/25 for something where the most 'expensive' part is the box it came in 😂

[@kallumlgltd]

@@skylined5534 I literally complain when there is nothing wrong with it just so I can get a discount on the next order, get my money's worth haha!

[@MsSpiralmonkey]

5.6 weeks off is the basic minimum. At my company the basic is 28 days with additional public holidays then extra days for years employed so after 5 years with the company you get 2 extra days and so on until a maximum of 40 days per year. It allows for more travel than many Americans typically manage.

[@Tiki832]

7:04 Should be noted that's the bare minimum required by government legislation. Most employers I've worked for in the UK provide employees quite a bit more than that. In my current job I typically work 27-30 hours a week, and my annual holiday entitlement is around 160 hours.

[@BuckledFrame2187]

9:05 in the uk, our college is free and manditory, we also have universiry which is higher education but is is set at a maximun of 9750 gbp per year for the course which we can get loans for by the government. Its still cheeper than the 70k or so i hear all the time in America

[@stilettoheelslover]

The reason the smaller countries of the UK (Scotland, Wales, NI) get zero or reduced college tuition fees is because they are subsidised by ENGLAND, who get the short-end of the stick in that equation - it's called "The Barnett Formula". Look it up....

[@Jamie_D]

There's a good video where someone talks in detail about what you were saying at around 7:30 but can't remember it right now,if i find it i'll link it.

[@omegasue]

Thank you for this video ….. Just a note: scotch is a drink; a Scot is someone born in Scotland

[@nate9198]

Lol on the Big Mac Index. In April 2024, Big Mac alone in the UK is now £4.89, this is $6.20 roughly.

[@malcolmhouston7932]

I worked for 50 years and never had more than 4 weeks off in the UK. Other than School teacher's, I currently don't know anybody in the UK that has 5.6 weeks holiday a year

[@johnwelton2606]

It is minium 28 days including bank holidays.

[@alastair4839]

Yeah, the house thing is quite annoying!.. when I was in my ~8-10 year as a professional worker, I was sharing a house with my Bro - reasonable size - 4 rooms, small garden. All the Americans at around the same level/age all had houses of their own with large back and front "yards".

[@chazamon960]

in america if you dont have paid time off which i knew of, but how do you go on holiday in those situations? so like, do you just book time off via paying for it, do you just lose your job as your "gone" for set time or do u only get that oppertunity if a company offers time off?

[@John_Lyle]

The reason for the higher prices for McDonalds in US v UK could be the list of ingredients *US:* Ingredients: Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (Canola Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Natural Beef Flavor [Wheat and Milk Derivatives]*, Citric Acid [Preservative]), Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (Maintain Color), Salt. Prepared in Vegetable Oil (Canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil with TBHQ and Citric Acid added to preserve freshness), Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent. CONTAINS: WHEAT AND MILK. *Natural beef flavor contains hydrolyzed wheat and hydrolyzed milk as starting ingredients. *UK:* Ingredients: Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (Sunflower, Rapeseed), Dextrose (only added at beginning of the season). That also possibly explains the health problems suffered by many Americans, some ingredients used in the USA are banned in Europe and the UK.

[@sunnyh2334]

U.K. here, was once sick on my annual leave, got back told the manager and she wouldn’t take the days off as annual leave but as sick leave, so I got the annual leave again! Also student loans in the U.K. are seen as an extra tax once you are working, it doesn’t make sense to pay them off over and above that unless you have an amazing salary, I think once you are 60 it’s written off.

[@shootthelobster]

James Cagney haircut, love it!

[@jamieoakford590]

I Love the United States with 100% of my heart. It is and amazing country with just about everything that we Brit's don't have, that is in nature. You can choose to live or visit, forrests, deserts, lakes, prairies, mountians, etc. Such a vast choice of country and better whether. However, I would much rather be a Brit visiting the US than an American visiting the U.K. I would never give up my British nationality for love or money. Nothing perfect here but in comparison to the U.S. and other countries we have it made. GOD SAVE THE KING.

[@shadowprincess7801]

A little confused by this as the UK does have lakes, forests, heathland, lakes, rock formations, beaches etc. In particular, you need to visit the New Forest on the south coast - it has lakes, forests, heathland, cliffs, beaches, brushland, sand dunes, hills etc. Its beautiful and home to much wildlife including ponies, donkeys, cows, sheep, boar, deer, foxes, birds, insects, squirrels and many rare animals - they roam free so it's lovely to be surrounded in nature.

[@WelshguyinLondon]

Yeah mate what are you on about the UK has all of that just not desert actually we do have a desert but a small one plus who gives a shit about dessert it’s just sand and rocks 😅I would well rather live in the UK I like our weather don’t like the heat so Autumn and winter spot on for me and america used to be a good country now it’s run by fucking idiots who don’t a give a shit about there people and it’s more corrupt than corruption itself also it’s ducking stupidly expensive and the poverty over there is horrendous I’ve just got back from there last month and most places have turned to shiholes not the places you see on TV of course they don’t want that but I have loads of friends over there who want to move here and they say it’s getting worse everyday

[@robbobson5814]

yeah i didnt understand that either .. i have travelled all over the uk and it has some of the most beautifull places in the world@@shadowprincess7801

[@bubba842]

The US may have all them things, but very few people travel anywhere to see them. It's the same as in Canada.

[@jamieoakford590]

Shamefull how we can see lands thousands of miles away and yet not what is on our doorstep. @@bubba842

[@polarisukyc1204]

The student loan thing here in the UK is actually great, pretty much anyone is eligible for a tuition loan which pays for your education, then there is the maintenance loan which depends on you families income (the more you family earns the less you get to encourage you family to chip in, but the low end is still £4422 per year) which also factors in stuff such as estrangement from family, then there is the DSA or disability student allowance which directly provides equipment and software for disabled people or pays for a care worker. As other people have said the student loan here is only paid back when you earning over a certain amount (around £27000/year I think though I could be wrong) and even then it’s a percentage of the difference between your actual income and the limit, even better they write it off after 20 years and it isn’t recognised as debt by pretty much all financial institutions!

[@georgehelyar]

That "5.6 weeks" time off is 20 days PTO +8 bank holidays. You pretty much just get something like 2 weeks off in the summer and 2 weeks off at xmas, and a long Easter weekend. Some places let you build up more the longer you've worked there, but some places try to say you're not a real employee so you get none.

[@skylined5534]

Agency staff and self employed don't get paid holidays and sick pay. But if you work directly for someone you're entitled by law to holiday and sick pay.

[@Judge_Dredd]

Well, prompted me to measure everything in metres, produce square metres (because it's easier), and then finally convert to square feet, you know the proper British Imperial Measure (or Freedom Units = oxymoron). It's a Semi-Detached House, so Ground Floor is ~525sqft, First Floor is ~378sqft, total indoor space ~903sqft However, I do have a Front Garden of ~662sqft, a Side Entry access yard of ~251sqft, and a Rear Garden of ~2900sqft However I do have three sheds in the rear garden, 20ft x 10ft, 8ft x 8ft, and 8ft x 6ft, so this gives me around ~312sqft of covered storage. Plus I have four log stores 2x (8ft x 2ft 5in), 1x (8ft x 2ft), 1x (4ft 8in x 1ft 11in) so a total of ~63 sqft of log storage, or enough space for ~286cuft of logs. This is ~8 cubic metres, or ~2.5 Metric tonnes of logs (~304kg per 1 cubic metre). That's over 5400lbs of logs here.

[@jeromeslost3643]

I’d say the work thing is wrong for the average worker a 40 hour week is classed as full time anything less is part time work, also my current job in the uk we get about 24 - 26 days holiday (paid) and some days will be used for bank holidays/ Christmas so more like 16 days holiday to use as you want

[@delskioffskinov]

Scottish higher education is free as well as prescriptions and health care!

[@kumasenlac5504]

It is, in fact, paid out of taxation.

[@sindento1942]

The rest of the UK taxpayers pay for it.

[@lesley4085]

@@sindento1942😂we pay tax too.

[@JacksonGreenhorn]

01:03 - Re: UK - We are all "...a little confused and trying!" 😀

[@SongBillong]

7:26 In the UK, many bosses will actually give you grief if you DON'T take your time off! Just the other day I got an email from my manager nagging me to book my remaining holiday for the year.

[@machendave]

5.5 weeks off PAID. I live in a semi rural area. I use public transport as I have no car. BTW your voice and behaviour has got my subscription.

[@gemmathefitfoodie]

Working for the London ambulance service I get 5.5 weeks off a year and I get a week off every 8 weeks built into my rota. My friend from Michigan really struggled with the time off when she first arrived here, we helped her get over that lol 😂

[@marycarver1542]

It is offensive in Scotland to say Scotch. Only whisky is "Scotch" ! Everything else is Scottish !

[@cherryblossom3046]

House sizes & prices: UK has a tiny landmass compared to USA; ergo limited land for houses; ergo smaller houses; ergo higher house demand & house higher prices! University Education fees: UK govt massively subsides university fees for students in N. Ireland Scotland & Wales via central government funding; NOT FREE BUT HIGHLY PAID FOR BY CENTRAL UK GOVT (!) has been a bone of contention by English students/parents who have to borrow more on student loans while N.I, WELSH AND SCOTTISH STUDENTS DON'T, while England pays more in central govt taxes due to its higher population and economic output compared to the other 3 UK nations! Student loan conditions are extremely favourable with lowest interest rates, a 30 yr income % repayment period and a write off after that! A very high % of students don't pay back all their loans - I paid off all of mine! So in many cases the UK govt ACTUALLY pays for the majority of UK student loans! My knowledge based on working in education, including university student recruitment for many years!

[@jaybee8547]

For many years, I worked for the London regional (European sales) office for an American hotel group. We spoke to our colleagues in the New York office and hotel staff around the U.S., Caribbean & Mexico daily. Consequently, we established that we got twice as much holiday as all U.S. employees (excluding the top brass). It's also much harder for employers to fire us in the UK, a fact we found out when a company takeover occurred and they tried to close our office. We kept our jobs in London, but 100s of New York office staff did not, because of the UK employee protection laws.🤗

[@malcolmhouston7932]

Don't Brag, We've had a couple of thousand years of wheeling and dealing, the US has only had a couple of hundred plus 😁😁

[@tadsite]

In the UK with student loan, if you dont go on to earn a certain amount the dept is written off after a certain amount of years. Student loan repayments are also laughably small.

[@worthington3637]

Welcome to my altitude, good old 5'11". My wife and I had free college plus a maintenance grant to live on (assessed on parental income). Get a job while at college and you could come out with a profit - less the cost of beer, drugs, books, travel, whatever. Employers got in on it and paid your fees, travel, etc, on top of your salary. So I went back to college again and both times enjoyed myself excessively. One of my kids got a small grant while the other worked her way through college selling mobile phones and as a result has a brilliant job with Apple.

[@PR070G3NV1RUS]

For what it’s worth for those wondering in wales all collage is free unless you want to take up multiple different professions (I was able to get 3 diplomas completely free since they was all under 1 field/profession)

[@lisasimpson4574]

The fact you are trying to figure us Brits out is enough. 😂. Love your channel. Enjoying watching you react to us English

[@stevewallace1387]

Here in the uk I get 5 weeks off in the year plus 2 weeks at Xmas

[@Tipo74]

Most of these stats are quite interesting when you consider the size and population of both countries

[@Thaylien]

Stopping in to this late, because seeing people react is fun. The student debt thing in England is interesting because there’s a caveat to the debt. If you do not get a job earning above a certain threshold after university, your debt is forgiven after ten years. And if you do earn above the threshold, you pay in proportion to the amount over the line, rather than being expected to pay a specific amount.

[@daleA91]

With healthcare there are three points to consider. • Cheap • Fast • Quality You can only pick two. In the UK we have cheap, almost free due to the NHS, and we have quality healthcare, however it takes a long time to get seen. In the US you got Quality being a first world country, and fast, a friend of mine had appendicitis and had surgery within a week, downside is the medical bills.

[@vernongoodey5096]

As a Brit who travels to USA regularly with my 6 weeks paid holiday a year the reason you need a car is you have no national rail system. London to Bristol 20 trains a day. Chicago to say Salt Lake City 1 train a day and you arrive in the middle of the night same in Pittsburg, Omaha etc. You have more regular air flights but how do you get to a out of town airport? By car, or over an hour on the Metro from say Chicago O’hare to Union Station

[@pointoflight2914]

I feel so lucky with my job as I get 33 days off per year excluding public holidays. The normal amount in my profession is 25 days.

[@Nasauniverse001]

Time off work in uk is normally about 4 weeks plus bank holidays.

[@malcolmhouston7932]

Then you have the people pretending to work from home and doing a couple of hours if that.

[@helenamcginty4920]

Working without a break and working long hours is counterproductive. You actually work with less efficiency after a long stretch.

[@markenetube]

Something it did miss is minimum wage. USA is $7.25 per hour, in the UK it is nearly double $13.95. There are a lot more bad;y paid in the USA, and more very well paid which slews the average. Scotch is a drink, not a race. We get 4-5 weeks plus bank holidays 8 in England.

[@dees3179]

What the video didn’t cover though was that we do pay for the NHS via taxation….and waiting lists. Yes it’s better than the system in the USA, but it is not perfect and it is not free. I had cancer a few years ago, in the US that would have bankrupted me, so don’t get me wrong, I’m incredibly grateful, but I also have a lot of side effects to deal with and spend most my life since on various waiting lists for assistance. And in the meantime still trying to work despite all the medical issues.

[@21Dazzler]

I wonder if you take the salary difference and remove the days holiday paid and allocate those 5.6 weeks to the overall salary what the salary difference becomes.

[@billydonaldson6483]

Wages in the U.K. are lower than the US as the employers have to pay holiday pay for the 30+ days annual holiday entitlement, so a portion of wages goes towards that.