So, some of you might not have expected that I'm
making a video this week, but you know
everyone deals with situations in their
own ways. Me? I really like to just keep
going, so that my mind doesn't any time to
slow down and think about things. Also,
I'm not very confrontational. Some people,
they just like hitting things dead on. Me?
I'm a bush beater. Okay? I'll beat right around
that bush I beat around the bush so hard they don't
even know it's a bush anymore.
Speaking of bush beating. Politics!
Oh man. It's been a quite a wild week for
most of us and because it's been a wild
week for politics, I'm coincidentally getting
a lot of messages from people, don't know
if the real not, going "Evan, you live in
the UK, Uh... (roughly) how'd you do it?
How did you leave America?" But, you see, that's
my thing, okay? I'm the American living in London. I
don't want you to be the American living in Lon-
no that's-
that's *my* thing. K? (agressively) DON'T COME FOR MY BRAND, BRO.
No, but in reality people have asked like, why and how
I moved from America to England. "Why
would I leave the greatest country on
Earth?" you might ask. Well let me tell you
a story. So I, like many Americans that
graduated high school, didn't have
any FRICKIN CLUE WHAT HE WANTED TO DO.
Except I kinda did. I wanted to teach math, you
know? I really loved math and I loved
teaching it. I liked giving people the
ability to love it, because in my opinion,
if you don't like math it's because
you've had a bad teacher that hasn't
done a good job teaching one of the
easiest and best subjects, in my opinion.
Ok? You might not like it, but like I said,
you had a bad teacher. If you had me, you
would've loved it. You would've been like "MMM, EVAN,
GIVE ME CHEERIOS WITH EXTRA MATH!" You
know why math students are so skinny? It's cause they "buy no meals"...
(binomials)(lol).
They don't eat-*laughing*
So I, like many Americans, went to university
after high school because I like debt!
I actually didn't get that much debt, I had a lot
of scholarships through New Jersey's Stars
program and I was able to get a lot of
debt removed. Which is pretty good. I got
my math degree and then I realized in the
state of New Jersey you can't just teach
math, you also have to go back and get an
education degree. Which makes sense
because at this point I'm 22 years old, I
have a degree in math, what tells anyone
I can teach it, you know? Maybe I should
learn some teaching techniques. I don't
know how to make a lesson plan I'll just be like,
"Uh... Algebra..."
I don't know. I think I could do a
good job as like a tutor, or maybe like a
professional tutor, but definitely not a
teacher, at this point. So, I don't know
what I'm doing. I don't know if i should
spend more money going back to
university get another degree and also
living with my parents and being stuck there
or do something different. I really
couldn't see myself going back to
university for a job that really
couldn't pay off the debt so I was
definitely in a bit of a bind right
after I graduated
university, but my operations research
professor was like "Evan, you're really good
at operations research. Have you looked
into further maths?" and I was like "No!"
what can I do with that?!" and he said "Only the
best job ever with a very high salary."
and I said "Whoa, you're talking what I
like, hear that money, hear that math.
Cha-ching." Now most students look into their
graduate school about a year or two in
advance. Me? About a month or two in
advance, ok? I had no time to prepare for
this. I didn't know what I was doing, ok?
Like, you graduate and you think "Okay
what next?
(gravelly)...I don't know!" Like "What we do now?" and so
I decided I'm gonna go for this further
maths thing because what else do I have
to lose.
I applied to many universities. Many
being two.
Why? It was so late no universities would
accept any more students except to
Boston University (southern accent) in America or Cass
Business School in London. Now I got
accepted to both for the programs.
Boston's was literally double the price
and double time so... ya know... London was
looking pretty good at this time. So, this
is one of the biggest reasons that I
chose to move to London because for me
it was money, but also it was an
experience that I don't think I ever
would have gotten otherwise. In my
opinion, when I was moving over there, I
was obviously just going to study abroad
for a year or year and a half until I
finished and then I come back, but I'd have
that cool worldly experience so I could tell
people, like "Yes, I've been to Europe." but
the point in my life that I was at
I was working a dead-end job getting
$2.13 an hour serving pizza. And I was also living with my
parents where I had to start paying rent
soon, so i would literally be stuck in
this perpetual poverty in the situation
that I had made for myself because I
know the way out. So why did I choose England
over the greatest country in the
world?
Well, because the greatest country the world's
education was double price and double
the time. I wasn't really feeling that. But also
there are a lot of other reasons. For me,
the UK represented something I could
never do. I was born into a system where
it's, you know, the American Dream! You
always think you're gonna- you're gonna
be up there, and you always see people up
there, but you're still, you know, working
your $2.13 an hour job
serving pizza in Glassboro and you're never gonna
get out of that. You know, paying rent to
your parents and literally stuck in a
system where you will never leave. So for
me, I saw myself going to Boston and then...
I don't know... nothing really coming of
that, whereas when I saw myself going to
England, I saw it as making me a bit more
cultured. International. Being able to
travel more.
I did love travelling a whole
lot, and at that point my life I'd only traveled
to 2 places: California and Florida. I'd got
my first Passport just to go to
university. So, I did a lot of paperwork, I
got accepted to Cass Business School and
I got a Tier 4 visa, allowing me to study in
the UK. From there, I always expected to
go back to the US. I mean, I'm American!
Why would I want to stay in this country
if I could live in (southern accent) America?! I mean, (singing) AMERICAAAA!
In the end, I begin to wonder if I had
chosen Philadelphia, or if I had chosen Boston
as the city that I grew up into an adult
in, would I feel the same way I feel
about London? Because London to me feels
more like a home than my small town ever
did and I think that might be because
everyone lives so close and there's so
many people in London from so many
different walks of life whereas in my
small town it's kind of like an echo
chamber. And also very spread out. You
have to drive at least 10 minutes to get
to a friend's house because, you know,
unless your friends with a cow. (posh voice) "I don't like
to look at this neighborhood. Do not like
it at all. All these cows are "mooooo-ving" in-
*regret*
I don't cow-nt that...as a good...pun?
However every year that went by I made a
different excuse. I was like "I mean, I'll
probably go back to the US, but I'm not
finished here yet, you know? I just- I need a
little bit more time. Need a little more time." So
after I graduated from my degree, I then
got a job off of it, you know. I have that
really nice degree and I got a job that had
nothing to do with it, but still it was
high in math, so they like me there, and
then after that job I got another one and
then another one, and you know what?
Eventually I realized, I don't really
want to leave. I much prefer the UK. So
how can you do what I did? Well... they
don't really want any immigrants in this
country. I mean, I made a video about it. A lot of
people didn't like it, but it's- it's very true
and actually, the loopholes that I used
to come here, they're all closed now.
Theresa May, the current prime minister...
*hateful gurgly hissing noise*
I don't really like her that much. Basically, home is where
you make it. I thought I would be stuck
under my parents household living in
that situation forever, but I made this
huge leap, and I left and I moved to the UK
where I surround myself with new friends
and made my own family here that I love.
But for you, it doesn't have to be that
drastic. I know you might be living in a
situation where you feel like you'll
never escape. Maybe it's a bad family
situation, maybe you really don't like
the way the government is run. The thing
is, and this is my honest opinion, if you move
to a city, or you move to a place full
of lots of new people,
it'll open your mind, and let's say
you're like "Well that's not gonna help!
Right? Well how's it going to help the
government situation?!" Be vocal with your
opinions, but also be educating yourself
constantly about both sides and also,
and this is *REALLY* crucial...
LISTEN!
I feel like the big reason that we had
such a big issue with the last election
was that no one was listening to the
other side. One side was saying "They're
evil! We hate them!" and the other side was saying "No!
*they're* evil and we hate *them*!" and no
one was actually communicating. It was
basically just throwing crap at each
other and then in the end...
I mean, no one's really happy. The
nation's really divided. And that's how
America is right now and it makes me sad
that it's like that. I hope everything
gets better. I mean, I'm happy i live in
the UK! Hooray! I'm safe! But I am going to
LA, tomorrow, so... hope everything works
out there.
(silly voice) Hope I don't die!
No matter where you live or
what your living situation is, I hope you
stay safe and I hope you have a great
Sunday. Thank you very much for watching.
I hope you enjoyed the video.
Thank you very much for all the kind
words on last week's video. I turned off
the internet right after uploaded it and
just kind of sank into a video game to
not think about it, but coming back
online and seeing the amount of support
I got, it was really nice. Thank you lots.
I am going to, you know, do that again.
Gonna go take a break. I hope you guys
have a great rest of the week, and I'll
see you guys next Sunday.
Goodbye.
I don't really know what I wanted to say in this video, I just
wanted to explain why it's not so
important to leave your country just to
be happy. I did, I was very happy...
(quickly) But you don't have to!
(laughing)