hey guys welcome back to foreign reacts today we're going to be checking out another
similar video that we've done in the past uh this one's going to be americans living abroad
first time you realize america really messed you up right so um it's a tick tock trend and um we're
actually just reacting into the second series of this particular trend so uh if you guys have any
suggestions a particular video that you would love to see done uh leave those in a comment
section down below and um it shall be done as long as we uh see it and uh yeah it's interesting but
either ways guys have a good uh day and i hope you guys are doing well healthy and everything
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subscribe and uh let's get right into the reaction video guys what is one time that made you realize
that america really messed you up okay i have type 1 diabetes and i lived in costa rica the very
first day that i was there my insulin pump stopped working this was like some weird fluke unrelated
to anything else but i didn't have a doctor yet or really know where to go so i went to a pharmacy
because i needed to get long-acting insulin so i could still treat my disease and when i went to
the pharmacy the insulin was 20 for a vial in the united states i pay 322 dollars for that same vial
nice costa rica so i want to add that i got the insulin over the counter without a prescription
in the united states i have to see my endocrinologist four times a year to
get a prescription for a medication that keeps me alive american currently living
abroad what is one time that made you realize that america really messed you up so i am an
american living in paris i studied in both a french university and an american university
due to my american university i'll be paying off my student loans until i'm 50 maybe even 60.
whereas for my french degree probably a thousand nothing nana because it was free free 99 f-r-e-e
well not completely free but still free
american currently living abroad what is one time that made you realize that america
really messed you up i was living abroad in the uk and i had a job interview and of
course growing up in the us you're conditioned to dress so professional be prepared have your resume
and all these things so i was like that really much and i remember walking into the interview
and they were like oh what you look really snazzy and i was like uh okay that first of
all never heard that before to interview then the secondly they didn't even ask me anything besides
hey kyle would you like a cup of tea and i was like okay never was asked that before
ever in any other job interviews we had a tea and we literally like sat and talked about
all sorts of stuff and personal life their life and we just had a laugh for like that ain't no
interview and right afterwards they're like you're perfect for the job you fit great no
crazy to me and it was really fun experience i wish the u.s would just chill out sometimes
a little bit more american currently no no no no no no no they asked you no questions
about the job they actually nothing just chill drink some some some tea some coffee
have a have a vibe together and that's it no there's some fat no that's focus no
ain't no way i'm gonna be employing somebody and i care more about their personal life rather than
their capability of the job i don't believe that one period broad what is one time that made you
realize that america really messed you up i'm gonna keep this really short and sweet okay
when i knew america messed me up was when i was living in canada and they gave me 12 months paid
to hang out with my kid oh hell no and then just in case you could take 18 months
and they'll still pay for it and your employer has to give you your job back
oh hell i can't be real that can't be real but it is if you're an american
currently living abroad what is one time that made you realize that america really
was when i moved back to america i lived in japan for 15 years the first day i was in japan the
first train i ever wrote on i saw people wearing masks and i asked my then fiance oh my gosh is
there some kind of like epidemic and she said no this is just what we do during cold and flu season
people were mastered protect themselves like oh for 15 years i could buy mass at the convenience
store the grocery store i always had a box on the shelf by my front door so if i was not feeling
very well i'd grab a mask on my way to work no big deal so when i came home and the pandemic started
i thought finally all americans will get the importance of mask surely they won't politicize
that i was wrong eric i'm currently living abroad well you know i i i have a very strong view on
you know the particular mascot where you think i personally i would just look weird but um i
would literally be that guy dressed up and you know my suit and tie and uh have a black mask
over my face and um literally i would do that for the rest of my life like literally without a
pandemic or epidemic or a endemic or islamic or whatever i'm saying doesn't make sense i would
literally do that because i think wearing a mask is a very fruitful thing it um it does a lot of
things for you in terms of personally um when you have a mask the likelihood of you having a
a have to worry about like your breath uh how your face looks there's a lot of things that
gets hidden due to the fact of a mask right uh there are a lot of disadvantages with the mask
i will not lie to you in terms of security reasons but um for the most part it is really beneficial
in terms of uh somebody sneezing somebody coughing a lot of people cough and they don't even you know
no principle no no decency you know so they sneeze at you they you know what i'm talking about they
talking they spit at you i could be talking right now i'm spinning it spitting out a computer or my
ipad my devices right so that's that there are a lot of benefits with it but um it's something
that i actually truly had no issue with what is one time that made you realize that america
really messed you up nine months before i moved to ireland i was there on a vacation and the person
i was with we had a car and we stayed at a golf resort kind of in the middle of nowhere because
it was the off season so it was actually really affordable there was a gated front entrance to the
sculpt resort and there was a small little village on the other side of it and because we were pretty
far back on the property and it was january so the weather was kind of crappy we often would drive if
we needed to run to the store for anything or to a restaurant we became friends with the front gate
attendant because we were in and out all the time so one day we're driving to go to dinner and i
had asked him hey what's the legal limit for like drinking and driving here i wasn't planning to do
anything stupid but i'm also a public health major and knowing that ireland is known for his drinking
culture i was curious so i thought i'd ask the guy looked at me completely dumbfounded he's like what
so i clarified the amount of alcohol you can have in your system and still legally drive
and he says none what is one time that made you realize that america really messed you up i didn't
get it when my grandfather was dying we went to scotland to go and see you know him for one
last time and at one point my grandfather had a prescription that needed picking up
so i pop out of the car run into the pharmacy and i've got my purse on me i don't have very much uh
money with me i just didn't and i went in and i'm just like okay um i'm here to pick up for my
grandfather this is his name and i've got my passport out ready to hand it to them like to
prove that i'm who i say i am like oh yeah yeah how's john doing here you go here's the stuff hey
let him know that if he ever needs help with this you can just call us we'll send it on down to him
i said thank you and then i stood there and they're like why are you still here i was
like but i need to pay and no you don't he's he's old everything's free i never felt more
uncomfortable leaving a building than i did in that day yeah it was awful that was awful if
you're an american currently living abroad what is one time that made you realize that america really
so i've been living in italy for about 11 years now 12 years and i moved here to be with my
husband and in the u.s i got my tubes tied after my third child and decided i didn't want anymore
but he didn't have any so we decided to do ivf and i got pregnant with twins at 13 weeks i lost one
and once i lost that child they considered me a high risk pregnancy and took me off work
from that moment on until three months after she was born and i was paid 100 of my check 100 of my
check and then until she was one i got to come home two hours a day to breastfeed her 100 paid
point captured
what is one time that made you realize that america really messed you up well i was in
grenada for a couple of weeks and every single day between 12 and two it would always close
down everything would just close down and i was just like what is going on and they're like well
we need to go home and have lunch with our family you know just enjoy just relax a little bit and
that was when i realized every other country out here really understands the value of spending time
with your loved ones and just actually taking a break except america american decisions work work
work for labor that's right instead of actually living so don't procrastinate on your happiness
your worth is not in labor it's a luxury do what you want to do and be happy god what is one time
that made you realize that america really messed you up so when we first got here we had to go
straight into quarantine you know two weeks no big deal we thought everything was taken care of well
we got a letter from the electric company while we were in quarantine couldn't understand it it
was all in german we tried to translate it google translate wasn't really doing anything for us we
couldn't understand it so we're like we'll just go in person you know once the two weeks are over
well on the last day of quarantine our power gets shut off and we're like what the [ __ ] like why
so we finally you get a mail about electricity about your
that's pronto you got to get on that come on now pronto if you don't understand it pronto
immediately come on now after a few hours get a hold of somebody who can speak english
and they laugh at us and they were like are you american and we were like yeah and they were like
yeah we don't shut your power off just because you don't pay you have to go through a whole system
before we shut your power off i've never been so embarrassed because we really were like we'll pay
anything like please turn our power back on and they were like yeah we don't shut power off here
what happened then it's good to know i can currently living abroad what is one time that made
you realize that america really messed you up all right so when i lived in france i went to a cafe
with my friend and outside the cafe there were a whole bunch of baby strollers with human babies
inside of the strollers and i was super freaked out and i asked my friend why would anybody leave
their babies outside unattended in their strollers aren't you afraid of something happening to them
and my friend looked at me and said why would you assume that anything would happen to a baby
who would be so horrible to do something to a baby yeah not so in america you're an american
currently living abroad what is one time that made you realize that america really made it so i don't
currently live abroad but i did live in japan from september of 2019 to march of 2020 and the
amount of things i realized while living abroad is astronomical so i live in new york in this very
state to state but generally the average cost for an individual for health insurance is about 500
if you have a family your family plan is going to cost you about a thousand dollars a month
in japan i paid twenty three dollars twenty three dollars a month for health insurance that covered
everything and don't even get me started on the american food industry because it's disgusting
not only could i feed myself for two weeks on 50 bucks but food regulations in japan are so strict
i ate the exact same way i would in america and i still lost 40 pounds 40 pounds give
me an item you bought that you were greatly disappointed in due to poor product description
or false advertising i bought a banana duck i got it off of facebook market oh we don't right
there i don't need to go any further that's some different stuff but yeah she was hella loud man
got messed up bro got me a headache she was very loud but either way um really interested in video
uh if you have any suggestions leave those in the comment section down below i'll be checking out
more of these videos they're pretty interesting but either ways guys i'm out of here peace