Americans React to Average American vs Average British Person - How do They Compare?

[@infidelcastro5129]

The critical difference between UK and US healthcare is that the UK (currently) has a healthcare *system* whereas the US has a healthcare *industry*.

[@itzzaster]

Nhs is dogshit. Try make a doctors appointment gl

[@kevinmcelroy454]

The NHS is a load of bollocks. In the last 5 years they've left a friend of mine to die at 30 years old, another friend of mines daughter has been in pain for years and they told her it was in her head turned out to be a kidney disease and left my Mrs with endometriosis for 4 years telling her it was period pai for the 1st 2 of those years. She may now need a hysterectomy to fix what could have been fixed with a simple procedure if they'd have caught it when they should.

[@Stevelives13]

@@kevinmcelroy454 Cured my dads cancer twice. The alternative certainly wouldn't be better.

[@kevinmcelroy454]

@@Stevelives13 the specialist under the NHS are not the problem so yes the NHS has a good record fighting cancer because it's easily detected and people are generally mindful of cancer. It's the GP's and A&E that are useless and treat you as if you're either a hypochondriac or a junkie. The alternative of the American style health care is not better I agree I just don't think the NHS is something to brag about. There are other European countries that have far better free health care

[@toonyinc4879]

@@kevinmcelroy454 - Sorry for your bad experience on the NHS. They are not perfect. Covid hasn't helped. But, comparing with the US....there is no comparison.

[@kevb044]

You have to remember when they do these "average" wage numbers they're including CEOs etc who earn millions a year, so that greatly skews the "average" numbers. Say you had 100 people. 99 of them earn $24k a year and 1 earns $1m. The average will be $33,760

[@itztehendd]

For context with the University stuff, you only have to pay back your student loans if you earn over X amount and after so long of not earning enough, it will get wiped, it also doesn't affect your credit file for your future

[@Cayles764]

It functions like an income tax.

[@martingriff101]

Just coming to say that

[@Jjjohnwith3js]

Yeah, it's a pretty reasonable system. No stories like the ones you hear from the US about people struggling with student debt. Everybody can get a loan for their tuition, and most people can get the majority of their living expenses covered also. You won't make any repayments until you're earning over £25,000 a year, it does not affect your credit rating, and any unpaid debt is wiped after 30 years. I didn't think twice about taking out those loans for university.

[@Renlloyd630]

Not quite true, they say it doesn't effect your credit status but when you go for a mortgage or to rent they do take it into account, ask my sons they will tell you. And when you go for monthly payments on large items ie cars they ask if you have a student loan. So if it doesn't affect you well they should not ask. Just saying from experience.

[@itztehendd]

@@Renlloyd630 So like i said...it doesn't affect your credit score. Like oweing any money that you don't repay, it shows an unwillingness to repay it which they have to take into account, so it's actually on the point true, it doesn't affect your score or rating what so ever and doesn't even show up on any Transunion/Experian and Equifax credit file.

[@Jbatley1]

In the UK, your boss will actually tell you off for not taking your holiday and try to encourage you to take the nearly 6 weeks a year you get off off to ensure that they don’t have to move it over to the next year or something like that, they always try to make sure that you take your time off provided. Of course you have a decent employer.

[@phileeepaye1641]

I've worked places where they don't let you take your holiday, it's a meaningless law

[@Mitchell4892]

​@@phileeepaye1641 I wouldn't call it meaningless. I have had it happen at my first job when I was a teenager working retail but sadly those sort of working environments love taking advantage of 17 yr olds who don't know how to stand up for themselves. Was the only job that was the case though. My 2nd retail job at my uni town made us take our holiday, and moving onwards from that and starting my first "proper" career I started to notice bosses getting peeved at people not taking holiday. Saw it myself first hand last year, my mother passed about 3 months before our holiday reset for the year and my boss gave me 3 months off to take care of things and get ready. I had booked 2 weeks holiday that got cancelled out with compassionate leave. One of my first conversations with my boss when I got back was "well, you have carried over an extra 2 weeks into this year. So if you fancy taking time off again anytime soon go ahead." Managing people who have crap loads of holiday is difficult, especially in small teams so there is a reason they like people taking holiday as much as possible before it gets too close to the potential of it being carried into the following year. Sorry you've seen the crap side of bad companies, but the law isn't meaningless, those companies taking advantage of people are meaningless.

[@dariusftw3378]

@@phileeepaye1641 bullshit

[@Fox-in-the-north]

Ibuprofen is $300. That's insane. They sell them in supermarkets in the uk for as little as 56 cents for 16

[@helvete983]

My wife has a prescription due to chronic joint pain (in Sweden) it cost us about £5 for 100 ibuprofen. We even have a cap on how much you can spend on seeing a doctor or medication in a year (About £100) then everything is totally free. My wife broke twisted her ankle a couple of years ago, the hospital sold us 2 crutches for £8

[@Fredreegz]

I literally gasped when she said that. That's insane. It makes me so sad to think of how many people have been made to suffer unnecessarily in the US for stuff like this

[@ProMooch]

To comprehend the difference between a Million and a Billion just recognise that a Million seconds is approximately 12 days but a Billion seconds is approximately 32 years 🤯

[@kengrogan3736]

Good to see you guys again. I'm from England (Manchester)and I love you doing the comparison thing...we have more in common than you think. Keep dropping the vids 🎉

[@strengthcoachlondon]

What they left out about university debt is that in the UK you don't have to pay the loan back until you start earning £27660 per year which is $34398. IN America, you pay it back right away, regardless of salary.

[@rachelpenny5165]

I am a UK female who is 5 foot 10 inches in height. I always wanted to be 6 foot but didn't quite reach it. The birth rates are reducing now as couples decide to not have kids. I didn't have to pay back my university loan (I was lucky enough to get a grant at the time in 1991-1994. I also didn't have to pay tuition fees) as I was not earning enough so it eventually got written off. I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1991 so that limited what I could do. There was also disability discrimination about it as well. With regards to vacation time, that is determined by the law and we also have minimum payment laws. When I was 4 years old I was airlifted to the city in a helicopter amd the put in an ambulance to the hospital. This was because I had the measles amd was snowed it. It cost us nothing. Take care and best wishes

[@ElTelT4ELO]

Yes, come on guys, do a DNA test each and see how much Brit and Irish ancestry you've got. Do it, do it, do it! 😊

[@garethfranks4223]

Yes, they need to do a DNA test

[@gutinstinct4067]

Downside would be ,they find out they are related LMAO

[@Simbu.]

that would be fun!

[@marierobinson3935]

I am born and bred English as are all my family,my dna came back as 96% Northen European and 4%Scandinavian😂 wow!!!’😂 its now a joke in my family that im a foriegner😂😂

[@helvete983]

@@marierobinson3935 Ha Ha I call my wife Viking plunder. She did a DNA test and it came back 85% Scandinavian, 10% Eastern European and 5% Irish.

[@sweetieheart321]

Using accrued holiday hours is how we get paid holidays in the UK. Every month you'll earn x amount of time off. The main difference seems to be our employers usually will permit you to access your full entitlement for the year (or part year) even if you haven't worked there for long enough to accrue it.

[@bridiesmith5110]

But if you leave, they will claim the amount back if you have taken too much leave.

[@clivenewman4810]

As a postman in England,I will get 9 weeks holiday in 2022/23.

[@trickygoose2]

On the other hand, if you leave without having used your entitlement for the time you were in the job, you will receive a day's pay for each day not taken.

[@Theartistformallyknownasnog]

I didn't learn to drive until I was 30 years old because it was generally cheaper and easier to walk or get public transport in the UK (where I live at least)

[@vikkitee4686]

Same, I'm 44 and still don't drive. My husband does, I work in the village I live in and use the train to get to towns. I walk 3 miles to our local town regularly. Don't need to drive necessarily in UK

[@phileeepaye1641]

Where I live, before I could drive I used to have to get 3 buses to work and 3 buses back, 2.5 hours each way. With a car it's a 15-20 min drive and costs less in fuel, car maintenance, tax etc than the bus fares. (A taxi was obviously quicker than the buses but much more expensive).

[@nyneeveanya8861]

I don’t know about now but in the 60’s there were buses that ran four times a day between towns. Like if my dentist worked in a large town Lakenheath and I lived in in a small village Feltwell I’d ride the bus to Lakenheath in the morning go to the dentist, do any shopping not available in my villiage then catch the afternoon bus home to Feltwell. They also used to have petrol ration cards per family not per car. Which meant planning all car use and depending on public modes of transportation that even then were a lot better than we have today.

[@DaveBartlett]

"If we didn't have a car, it would take us half a day to walk to the nearest gas station!" and imagine how stupid you'd feel when you'd walked all that time to get there and then said "fill her up!" 😜

[@GnrMilligan]

I so enjoy your videos guys. you seem like such genuinely nice folk!

[@Hairnicks]

We buy a pcket of Ibuprofin for under a pound in the supermarket in UK, have naver paid a penny for hospital treatment, if you are seriously ill and in ICU it's still free including all the follow up care and even dental treatment is subsidsed if you have an NHS dentist. Bloody dog costs us a fortune though, vets are like US hospitals.

[@jeanproctor3663]

YES! Please do both do an Ancestry test! It's so fascinating when you get the results. The cost of things seems totally mind-boggling in the US. How can they justify charging so much for a pain relieving medication that you can buy in shops over here - without a prescription if it's below a certain strength - for literal pence? It's really bonkers isn't it?

[@ItsAlwaysTime4Tea]

I agree, the dna test is fascinating! But I found mine kept changing 😂 before it said I had a hint of Italian and Ethiopian in me and now it’s changed to Swedish, Scottish, Norway and Irish!

[@hesterwright3674]

​@ItsAlwaysTime4Tea mine originally said small amount of native American and ashkenazi jew, now that's disappeared and its mainly British and Irish, a little French and Baverian 🤔

[@ItsAlwaysTime4Tea]

@@hesterwright3674 oh wow!! So weird! Maybe they keep testing it? Maybe down the line I’ll try another brand to see if it’s the same lol

[@Sally4th_]

Love you guys so much! Your style is so refreshing, especially the interactions with the dogs. Btw "Briton" is the usual shorthand for British Person, often shortened to "Brit" :) If you're serious about coming over here to live for a while you need to be aware of the cost of applying for residency and work permits from outside the UK. I have friends from the US who were stunned to be charged several thousand dollars to settle themselves and their families here. It might be cheaper to live here but getting here ain't.

[@oliversherman2414]

I'm from the UK. I feel so bad for Americans having to basically sell everything they have just to go to the hospital. You guys have a lot of stuff to figure out

[@Original-q11]

Well, ya won't like what's coming if the powers that be get their way.

[@oliversherman2414]

@@Original-q11 what do you mean?

[@Original-q11]

@@oliversherman2414 The NHS is being broken up bit by bit, more and more sections being farmed out privately.

[@oliversherman2414]

@@Original-q11 Yeah I know. Doctors and nurses deserve so much more praise than they get by the press

[@finwilliams4550]

​@@Original-q11 What's planned for the end of this decade is far worse and it's worldwide. Most people haven't got a clue who is really in control of all governments and what they have been doing for decades, because they have no idea about the group that are owed all the debt of governments and why that gives them total control over policy making.

[@sj12073]

Wow. We don't realise how lucky we are with our health care system. Its in a bit of a pickle (a mess) 😂 but we are very lucky to be able to walk into a hospital or see a doctor. ❤

[@milkysue5496]

Yeah I haven't been to the doctors in years, but I badly hurt my foot the other day. Went to the GP the same day, had an examination, got told it was bursitis, so just need to rest for a couple weeks and take strong anti-inflammatory. The whole cost of the visit, including 2 weeks worth of pills. £9

[@garyhayes4867]

Thing is what they dont include is the mass population are stuck on 4 hour contracts to make it look like the uk is improving but in reality the general population outside london are poorer than the ones inside london

[@leenobody3249]

Glad you are both back !😀 an ancestry video would be really interesting.

[@ST-LEE]

Woww the last bit about the ibuprofen and the costs at a hospital it ridiculous and how can they charge you to hold your own baby??????? That's just crazy. I would love for you to do a comparison video on the prices of everyday things between the UK and USA. Especially things like going to a doctor or having a fire truck turn up. That would be great

[@alistevens7723]

The wages for the UK that is either for a management position or a couples wages put together..Maternity leave is paid up to 9 months but you can take 12months off but you don't get paid for the 3 months difference. We moan about the NHS but it's crazy what you pay for healthcare..love your channel 😊❤

[@Thurgosh_OG]

That wage is a little under £42k per year, so yes management type roles or as it says, the average of all UK salaries, which means the minimum wage workers, all the way up to millionaires/billionaires together.

[@TrevM0nkey]

not necessarily management roles. It's the average salary so it includes all high salaries, all low and the average of them all. If you look at electricians, plumbers, etc, they're well paid.

[@jamesbrookes8263]

Absolutely love your guys' relationship!! I'm 30 from the UK , your videos are so entertaining love seeing you both laugh together its great. Would love to meet you guys and just talk , get some food on the barbecue haha.

[@paulasargent7363]

Bank holidays can come out of your paid time off. it often depends from company to company. i have had job in 2 places that close on public holidays, one i had to use our holiday allowance and one i didn't. i also worked in a factory when younger which didn't shut for bank holidays and we were expected to work at least 1/2 of them throughout the year (the only day they were shit was Christmas day) but we did get paid Time + time & a half for those hours.

[@wrathcaster2555]

I get 34 days a year off in Scotland and currently I am on an 18 day holiday/Vacation :D

[@giteausuperstar]

The wage comparison is a tough one because of the exchange rate. I can remember when 1 GBP was worth over 2 USD but now it’s only around 1.25 USD which makes a massive difference to that wage comparison

[@stevetaylor7403]

I remember when £1 = $4.

[@MarkBrennan]

@@stevetaylor7403 Yes,my dad always called 5 shillings/25p a dollar.

[@Fallenwings27]

@annaandjt I love you two, English here, showed my 63 year old dad your videos and he is obsessed he loves you guys! Xx

[@smeghead1]

Welcome back both missed you doing videos together

[@stephenhodgson3506]

We have this little quirk in regards to our Public Holiday days; while it is the law that you receive eight paid days your employer doesn't actual have to let you have the actual day off. So for example some companies will insist that you take three of those days at Christmas, so with the two public days we receive at Christmas you get the full week off. With actual paid holidays most companies insist that you take them within one calendar year and that you don't take more than two weeks at one time. However if you chose you could take the last two weeks in December and the first two weeks in the following January thereby giving you a four week paid break. Ideal if you want to go further afield. Because the US has so many billionaires and millionaires it is only logical that the US will have a higher average salary.

[@philiptodd6255]

A packet of ibuprofen is less than £1 in the U.K.

[@oliviathristan2400]

Anna made me laugh with the 6ft as an average thing 😂 all them guys thinking they’re 6ft even when they are well under! I got your joke 💖

[@stevetaylor7403]

Women are poor at gauging lengths. Women think all of us are 6” when we’re not. It’s what we tell them.

[@411russ]

Paid vacation time in the UK is 28 days, these 28 days are supposed to include the 8 days of public holidays, however, depending on what sector of industry you work in depends on whether you are expected to take these days out of your 28 days of entitlement or not, a lot of people in the UK actually get 36 days of paid holiday as public holidays have slipped in under the radar in a lot of companies, so that 5.6 weeks of paid vacation time is actually 7.2 weeks for a large percent of the population.

[@kellylavender7440]

Anna my crazy cat watched this too trying to catching your wire on your headset ! 😂😂😂

[@GazGaryGazza]

177 billionaires in the UK now as the new Times Rich list was announced yesterday and the richest now have £28,000,000,000 whilst inequality within in the UK widens by the second

[@nothanks1239]

Us brits aren't quite as fussed about marriage, tbh. I've been with my fiance for 10 years. We have kids, but still aren't married 😂 We aren't that bothered and it isn't unusual for couples of be together for so long, but unmarried. Also, I remember working a lot of days in a row at my work and my manager took down the rota and changed it to make sure I had days off. Her words were "I want fresh employees working for me, not tired ones. Go rest" 😂 And yes, we can walk everywhere. Me and my man had our own cars. But, when we had kids and left work, i sold my car. I walk everywhere with my kids.

[@FTFLCY]

I think the US's crushing religiousity is probably the cause.

[@daisysunshine1324]

My fella & I have been together 20 years. We both had the young n dumb marriages and decided it’s not important. I only took my driving test in my 30’s because I wanted to change career to being an ODP, so I needed to go to uni 45 mins drive away & a uni appointed hospital 25 ish minutes drive. To go by train I’d have had to go from the end of the met line in Buckinghamshire into London & back out passing where I live to get to Luton & then a bus to both. Taking almost 2 hours. Each way. That Just seemed stupid.

[@robertfarrow5853]

Please ensure you have wills. There are no rights to inheritance outside of marriage. Your partner's next of kin can claim all their possessions,including pursue a custody of kids.

[@nickgrazier3373]

Our students don’t need to pay back until they earn a certain amount after a while the dept is written off!

[@sabre7125]

Love your videos really enjoyable to watch your comparisons🇬🇧

[@michelekirby-xv4sw]

I buy Ibruprofen from chemist or supermarket for less than £1 why the hell is it $300. Love watching your show.

[@tikkatodo]

Cant you buy Ibrufen in the shops ? I pay less than £1 for 16 tablets in tesco.

[@lolocaust4967]

Whats ibrufen?

[@woolyfrog7497]

@@lolocaust4967 Ibuprofen, we usually just call it brufen though.

[@tikkatodo]

@@lolocaust4967 Ibuprofen tablets, we use them for headaches mostly 🤗

[@GTiR23]

@@woolyfrog7497 do we? I call it Ibuprofen, like a normal person.

[@snikich]

Kilos and the metric system makes a lot of sense when you think about it. 1 litre of water weighs 1 kilo. 1 kilo is 1000 grams. 1 litre is 1000 ml. When I see lbs in boxing and such I just tend halve it and subtract 5ish to get an idea of the weight in kgs.

[@andrewgregg2312]

to the point i think anna was making about using leave entitlement on holidays; the UK's legally mandated 5.6 weeks of paid leave per year (28 days for someone who works 5 days a week ) can include public ("bank") holidays of which we normally have 8 per year. (9 this year because of the coronation, 10 last year because of the queen's diamond jubilee and then funeral). so in that sense it's kinda the same; a public holiday does use a day of your entitlement. So the legal minimun is in effect 8 days on fixed dates, plus 20 you can use at your discretion, but it's pretty common for contracts to state "X days plus bank holidays". in my last job it was 25+8, in my current job it started at 25+8 and i gain an additional day for each year served for the first 5... as others have stated i think there's a difference in that in the US there seems to be an expectation that you have to work to accrue your entitlement whereas in the UK it's usual to have access to your full allowance from the start of the year (so i could take the first 2 weeks of january off because i have a number of days to use at any point in the year, rather than having to work just under 10 days to "bank" 1 day of entitlement...)

[@Thurgosh_OG]

That's not how annual leave works. Public/Bank holidays are not part of your annual leave allocation. The legal minimum does not include bank holidays. I got 30 days A/L plus the bank holidays and I wasn't in any kind of fancy job.

[@andrewgregg2312]

@@Thurgosh_OG from the gov website (www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights) "An employer can choose to include bank holidays as part of a worker’s statutory annual leave" like i said, the legal minimum is 28 days including bank holidays, many employers give more... employers

[@cadifan]

Yep, do the ancestry thing. In New Zealand we get 12 paid public holidays plus 4 weeks (20 days) annual leave "A/L" (vacation time) so that's a total of just over 6 weeks per year. And it's illegal to not pay your employees that time and it's illegal to take public holidays off an employees annual leave entitlement. It's also illegal to use an employees A/L when they're sick. Even if they get sick when they're on vacation. Any days that you're sick you get those A/L days back and it comes off your sick leave, you have to inform your employer when that happens. (many people don't actually know this)

[@Gavthelegend]

In Scotland, medication prescribed by the doctor is free of charge. You can also go to the Chemists/Pharmacy, any supermarket or local shop/convenience store in the rest of the uk, and get them or most general medication from pennies to a couple of pound max.

[@davew5583]

Maternity leave in uk in 1 year. Can be adjusted to some before and some after. Paternity leave is different, it’s a couple of weeks.

[@04nimmot]

Wait what ibuprofen $300? I know healthcare is crazy expensive, but if you buy own brand which is the same stuff a pack of ibuprofen is under 50p

[@boontime]

USA Ibuprofen - $300 (£241.21) UK Ibuprofen - £0.45p for 16 ($0.56c). Is the US version covered in a rare Gold leaf or something?

[@michey123]

Keep up the good work !!! I love watching you two . You’re very refreshing and I love your accents - oh and the doggies 😂😊😂

[@michaelhenshall5096]

Anna, just remember the best things come in small packages. Love your work. thank you.

[@Dasyurid]

Anna, metric weights and volumes take a while to get used to when you grew up with Imperial, which being a 50 something Brit I did, but honestly it doesn’t take long living in a metric system before you can look at a block of cheese or something and say it’s going to be a couple of hundred grams, maybe quarter of a kilo. I actually find kilometres harder. I’ve lived in a metric country over 15 years now and I know 100km/h is roughly 60mph and so on, but I struggle to tell you how many kilometres it is between two places without thinking about how far it is in miles and then adding 50% in my head.

[@fieldsofgreen8857]

Or you just ask Alex ha ha!!

[@vikkitee4686]

Maternity leave is usually 6 months full pay, then 6 months at a reduced rate. So up to a year paid for maternity in UK. Unlimited sick days which doesnt affect your 5.6 weeks holiday. We do have high taxes to pay for the NHS, i pay £800 per month in taxes out of my wages but i know ive got free healcare and wont unessarily die

[@jamesthorburn3692]

Great video, I learnt a lot about the USA and found some of it somewhat surprising, keep up the great work!

[@stuartcollins82]

I think this is an interesting angle. Our common language actually disguises how different we are. I think Americans and Brits are as different as Americans, and Germans, for example. The fact we share a common language hides this fact, and we feel we're a lot more similar than we actually are.

[@briantitchener4829]

Nah, there's a lot of English DNA floating about in the U.S. They said as much on the video. It's just not considered cool there to admit to having English ancestry. Look at "Irish" Joe Biden, his paternal ancestry is from Sussex on the south coast of England. Some Bidens still live there.

[@RonSeymour1]

Regarding student debt: You do not have to repay the debt until you start working. Even then, you start paying over a set salary level, something, I believe in excess of £22000 pa. It is then on a sliding scale with the more you earn the more you pay. If you haven't paid the loan after x number of years then it is written off. So, if you earn around the threshold or not too far above it you will probably never repay the loan before it is written off.

[@bgedz9638]

just to add to this as im from the UK, one of my colleges is currently on maternity leave and was offered minimum 1 year unless she decides to come back to work, she's is paid fully for the full amount of time she has off! I'm not sure if that's law or just my workplace though.

[@petersp63]

Lovely TO have you back still want a Charlie and Maggie Channel!

[@OriginalOwner777]

British student loans are set up different to US ones. For one British ones are intrest free until you earn over a set amount. You also do not even have to start paying them back until you earn over £25,000 or 31,060.38 United States Dollars a year and even at that income level you are only expected to pay £58 or $72.06 back a month towards your student debt.

[@FTFLCY]

You can buy Ibuprofen for $1.50 for a pack of 24 in the supermarket here ( with a legal max on two packs per purchase). An epipen costs about $85 (or free on the NHS) in the UK. In the USA, it's $600. Car ownership: the vid fails to mention the scale of public transport in the UK. There's thousands of people who live in cities who don't have a car as they simply don't need one. If they want to travel to the next city, there will be a frequent train service (not to mention coaches). In the US, probably only NYC is the exception to the "must have a car to function" rule that pertains across The States.

[@DaveBartlett]

The maximum purchase of two packs of ibuprofen (or paracetamol or aspirin) is NOT a legal maximum - it's a 'best practice guidance' that most shops choose to follow, but you can get 3 packs for £1, (around $1.24,) in certain poundshops. The legal maximum of each of these drugs in any one over-the-counter purchase is 100 tablets, (200mg ibuprofen tablets, 500mg paracetamol tablets, 300mg aspirin tablets.) Of course, by prescription there is no maximum number prescribed - it's at the discretion of your doctor, and the size of the tablet may also differ.)

[@fletch332001uk]

You pay $300 for Ibuprofen? 😳....that is available in the UK in any corner shop for around £1.50 ($2)....that's messed up

[@VillianousKitty]

Its the price of life saving medication that blows my mind in the US. $100 for insulin, yet in most other countries it costs like $10-15... Thats extortionate

[@AdcrofromTikTok]

Ibuprofen is $300?! You can get it at supermarkets here in the UK for like £1

[@wiganlad2006]

As a Genetic Genealogist, you should 100% do an Ancestry DNA test. I recommend Ancestry, they have the largest DNA database, and I find them to be more accurate compared to other DNA sites such as 23andMe My Heritage etc.

[@ginibelle1416]

Hello Anna and JT, lovely to see you both, much love ♥♥♥

[@wayneprice2737]

American workers work more hours than in the UK hours per week in the UK is 39 roughly.

[@kellyp2665]

WOW I'm 5'8" and wht. 190 and wear a size 10 in womans pants and a 14 in tops and my fat mass is low and muscle mass is high, which weighs more than fat, yet looking at my weight you might think I was chubby/fat and I'm not, I'm actually in really good shape and I'm a 60 year old grnadmother that's had 8 kiddoz!!! This picture of me is only 6 months old with no makeup or filters!!!

[@sarahmoss4224]

Ibruprophen $300!!, what for a box for a month? It's about £10 here to buy for 100 tablets. I'd be stuck in US on about 14 prescriptions a month and they cost me nothing here in UK as I'm epileptic

[@michaelcaffery5038]

Government figures for average income are always higher than people would think. Because the top earners bring the average right up. I don't remember where I heard this, maybe QI, that they tried to find an average Briton and couldn't find one person who matched all the averages.

[@Sasjazz]

Would love to see you both do a DNA test! I did mine & found out I'm more Danish than English which was a total shock!!

[@CW1971]

Do you mind me asking, which one did you do? My daughter wants to do one but we're not sure which is the best for UK/European results

[@SRobinson1485]

Danish is good that's Viking which is well English as they took over ancient briton

[@Sasjazz]

@@CW1971 My Heritage, it's on offer at the moment for £35 I think is said. 😊

[@CW1971]

@@Sasjazz ah right, we looked at that one, it gives a months free trial (not sure what that gives you access to?) but the month starts immediately and you don't get your results back for 6-8 weeks so we weren't sure whether to go for that one or not

[@Sasjazz]

@@SRobinson1485 I live in East Anglia so the Danish part wasn't too much of a surprise it was just a shock that I was more Danish than English. Kinda cool tho!

[@grantmason740]

Scotch Irish?!? Scotch is a drink from Scotland, they meant to say Scots Irish.

[@FoxyLad]

Free health care here in Scotland cheap ibuprofen folk over here pop them like smarties…

[@Thurgosh_OG]

The US population is about 331.9 million, the UK 67.33 million. So the UK has about 20% of the US population but the US has nearly 4000% more landmass than the UK.

[@Stevelives13]

Thats why i'd prefer to live in the U.S.

[@andrewcollin1978]

If you guys ever move to (or visit) Somerset in the UK, give me a shout, I'll show you around.

[@JT-mg2if]

As a brit' I love how things here in the UK are "small". Like, hello?! we.are.on.an.island.

[@IamBATMAN2024]

Every country is on an island if you think about it 😅

[@stevet7695]

@@IamBATMAN2024 ...and I doubt whether you'd refer to stuff in Oz "small".

[@Stevelives13]

Everythings small apart from our population.

[@michellebusby949]

Maternity leave here is up to a year. I think the government statutory maternity maternity pay is 90% of your average weekly pay for 39 weeks. Employers themselves may also have their own maternity leave benefit. For example, with my employer I can have 6 months maternity leave with FULL pay. Between month 6-9 months I can have 80% pay topped up to my salary by the statutory maternity pay. Between months 9 and 12 I no longer receive pay from my salary but will still receive the government maternity pay AND use up any unused annual leave (holiday pay) from the previous or current financial year. I cannot believe mother (or fathers- either one here can now take the mat or pat leave). The other parent is legally entitled to 2 weeks leave after birth of baby as well.

[@gonnaw1n]

I have been watching JT's videos for well over a year now it seems but I have to say, dude you have one gorgeous missus!! Anna is beautiful!

[@chloeebaaker]

In England you don't start paying it back until you earn over 25,000 a year, with it being written off if you don't meet that threshold after 30 years

[@Annikilou]

Very interesting comparisons. I use a conversion factor of 5 where appropriate - 5 Americans to every Brit! So I'm fascinated to see there are more billionaires per capita in UK! What breed is your dog? She is so cute! Any stats on dog and cat ownership?

[@rainie-may7469]

In uk We have 28 days paid holiday once you've accrued the hours, not everywhere gives you holiday hours

[@shelleyphilcox4743]

In the UK we dont have additonal health insurance costs. Its progressive tax, and we support all ourr healthcare and state pension and unemployment benefits throufh progressive taxation on our earnings, with national insurance contributions being capped. Healthcare costs for treatment and medicine in the USA is far higherr than the UK because we have the benefit of negotiating drugs costs at huge volume.

[@michaelzzzzzzzzzzzz]

This thing that always does me with the USA is your working hours and no legal time off, its mental. I for example have 6 weeks off or 30 days, plus 8 Bank Holiday and as I don't work weekends that mean 8 long weekends, plus I have 5 duvet days which means for 5 days a year I can call in and say I'm not coming in today. Plus I get 6 months per sickness pay in full, plus medical care is free, plus I only work 8 to 4 Monday to Thursday and 8 to 3.30 on Friday. What a life

[@ronnietherapper]

how it works in britain i worked for a company in the north east called nissan its a car company lol we had 28 days paid holiday a year however that was accumulated over a period of time it didnt mean we had that by law we also had bank holidays too but most of the time they expected us to work it if we said no they would find us a replacement and get rid of us thats nissan tho i suppose lol.

[@lynette50]

We could walk to a lot of places but public transport is becoming more popular. A lot of our city centres are now banned to transport and pedestrian only areas are becoming more popular

[@stevennicol5754]

Uk employment contracts stae either 28 day plus bank holidays or 28 days including bank holidays so there is a difference

[@CinobiteReacts]

Ibruprofen is $300!!?? Do they not sell it in Walmart or somewhere? If you get it on the NHS it's the standard flat rate for everything of £9.65 ($12) but they wouldn't even do that because you can buy it in Asda (Walmart) for 45p (56cents). I usually get a few boxes every time I go just to stock up the cupboard ..... anyway, I did come down here to say you both should do those "when was the first time you realised America wasn't great" tiktok stich compilations. I think JT might have before but get Anna on it too :)

[@peterbrazier7107]

2.2lbs to the kilo, I am 74 Kg. so I am under the 84 Kg weight for an Englishman. My youngest son's girlfriend had a baby last year, thy had split up (they are back together now), his girlfriend , who works at McDonalds, was of on maternity leave at the time of the split, she tried to resign from the job, they turned her down and gave her another 6 months leave.

[@poshiesymons666]

Uk maternity is usually half a year on full pay and half a year on half pay but depends on the employer and time spent employed.

[@jessgunn6639]

IN IRELAND ADD ON ANOTHER INCH FOR BOTH MEN AND WOMAN, IT1S SHORTER IN ENGLAND DUE TO THE HIGHER ASIAN POP, WHICH TEND TO BE OF A SMALLER STATURE

[@mishkaallen9682]

Uk girl here and our mc Donald meals ain’t been that cheap in years! It’s like £6/£8 a meal now x

[@Stevelives13]

It was for a single big mac.

[@fresky5370]

The UK has fantastic public transport making it accessible to literally get anywhere in the country. America on the other hand.......

[@karen7691]

I and my two best friends are all 5ft 1 but we're all over 50. Don't know who gets those wages? No-one I know. It is what it is. Love you guys! Thank you xx

[@thatcedric]

In the UK you don't have to pay your university debts until you're earning a certain amount. If you never make those wages or get to a certain age before paying back the debt is written off

[@barbarahayden5602]

FYI - a billion is not the same in the US and UK. In official UK statistics, a billion means 1 thousand million or 1,000,000,000. However, historically in the UK, the term billion meant 1 million million or 1,000,000,000,000. In the United States, the term billion is used to refer to 1 thousand million or 1,000,000,000. But I'm not sure whether this is the same in money, even Google got confused.

[@idontlikethiswedbettergo5888]

Maternity leave… the misses was on full pay for the first 6 months then half pay for the next 3 months (she went back to work after 9 months off) and I got 4 weeks paternity leave on full pay too 👍.

[@casperstour]

Ibuprofen $300? We just go to our local supermarket and get them off the shelf for £1 some places even cheaper than that, same with paracetamol or any over the counter other pain killer, things like codeine and more powerful stuff we can just go to the supermarket for but its usually very cheap or free when prescribed to you

[@davidclark3603]

Its very similar in both countries. I live in the UK. I went to New York a while ago for 10 days, and I felt like I had gone home?

[@stevelknievel4183]

German and Irish? You're basically Michael Fassbender!

[@sarahealey1780]

In the UK, you don't have to pay any of your student loans back until you earn over a certain amount it comes out of your pay before you get it so you don't miss what you didn't have, if you are a low income worker or unemployed you don't pay any back

[@themartinebunny]

As a 36 year old Brit who's lived here my whole life, I'd love to know what the everloving frick "Scotch Irish" is? 😂😂

[@cun7us]

I call bs on some of those statistics, especially the wage. Here in the UK, the average salary is about £31K, that equates to about £2,600 per month before tax. I'm sure it's similar in the U.S., the only difference is that there are more millionaires or people in the higher tax bracket per capita, mostly working in the city.