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four things that we love living in the uk americans in uk so um united kingdom shout
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hi i hope you're having a lovely day my day is going great the weather is nice it's a
little cool today having my jacket and so i'm just sitting outside and i'm just enjoying
the weather the birds the whole outdoor experience today it's really good so my name is mac and about
eight months ago my family and i we moved from the united states to the uk my wife and i both
have jobs here our kids are enrolled in school and we're just really settling as british residents
and so we're really enjoying it and i wanted to take a moment to talk about
four things that i really like about living here in great britain and the first thing on that list
is the bread the bread you may have heard that before the bread
that was not expected i'm over here miserable as heck today because it's
just hot and i'm just like oh my gosh and this guy says the bread the bread oh my gosh
i thought he was gonna talk about something else not the bread
you got me right there buddy he got me right there i was not expecting fred i hope i'm hearing
correctly and he really said pray because that really made me laugh um yeah that was amazing but
um yeah the bread okay let's let's keep it moving but the bread and used in the u.s it's not great
it's just it's it's functional i mean you can take it you can put a piece down you can put some
things on it and you put your other piece and it's more of a transport mechanism to get the flavor
and the food from the food into your mouth right the bread itself is a transport mechanism it's not
something that is imparting flavor into the dish or the sandwich or whatever you're eating with or
whatever you're eating right the bread doesn't really add much to it it's just kind of there
not so here with the bread here in the uk my kids really enjoy the bread they really love it
they ate sandwiches with gusto so to speak and so they were just kind of really and have a good time
with with enjoying the bread the flavors are just so good we really appreciate it the next
thing that i really like about being here is still food related and that is going to be the cheese
recently i had an opportunity to get some cheese from the united states and i ate it and i couldn't
even taste it it was so bland it just didn't have any flavor it had no kick no punch nothing to it
to make you be like this is cheese however when we eat cheese here in the uk it's just really good
really flavorful we've really grown to like it we will only buy you know certain brands we really
enjoy those cheeses and we have a good time eating them so the first two things that i really like
about living here are both food related and since we're talking about food i'll go into
throwing a bonus on my little list which is going to be the fish and chips i've done a whole video
where i talk about the fish and chips which is totally new before i lived here of course i've
had fried fish before but not fried cod and so uh the cod and the haddock and some of the other
types of fish that you could get from the the fish shops those are really good so we really you
know enjoy that as well so if we're going to talk about food i have to talk about the fish and chips
that's what i've enjoyed in england hopefully soon i get opportunity to travel up to scotland and i'm
looking forward to trying some of the food some of the the more classic scottish dishes and then i
get opportunity to get to wales i want to try some of that as well but right now it's the english
food and it's also the fish and chips so those are some of the things that i really enjoy but moving
away from the table y'all can let me know in the comment section what fish and chips is because i
don't really know what that is man like what what exactly is the fish and chips like like what is
it like let me know please and uh kind of moving into the car is i actually enjoy driving here once
you kind of get to know the rules of the road you uh you can really appreciate it one quick example
is in the united states when you're driving and you come up to a red light you stop but depending
on the circumstances you can still turn you can go and you don't like that that's weird i'm sorry
i'm outside i'm in nature so there are like birds and i don't know geese making all kinds of noises
in the background and i thought it was a person or something i don't know i didn't know what that was
but i think it's just a bird okay um the nature here is is really cool the place where i live
at here is really nice there there are birds all over the place there are bunnies i've never seen
so many bunny rabbits and i understand now where peter rabbit came from but i've never seen so many
rabbits not so many frogs though i've only seen one frog since i've been here i digress let me get
back on topic and i was talking about driving and i was talking about specifically stopping at a red
light right like that when you stop at a red light depending on the circumstances you can't make a
right turn legally in the u.s here in the uk it's pretty simple when you hit a red light you stop
that's it if it's a red light you stop when they're like bro you know this is one of my
favorite things about driving in america like the red light thingy bro like sometimes you're just
trying to get up out of there man like and it's a big ass like um you look down the street and it's
empty bro like they ain't nothing coming on the street bro and you you just hit that right turn
because you're good right like there are some places in america where there's gonna be a sign
like practically road legally um legally speaking with the road you'll have a sign that says uh
do not turn uh no right turn uh and some of them will tell you that you can make the right turn
if you don't see a sign you can make the right turn but if you do see a sign saying no right turn
you can't make the right turn right because some of the times they are going to put that sign right
there because it gets really busy right there but i really actually do like that that's something
that i really do like because sometimes you're just trying to get up out of there and um you know
not being able to just get up out of there it kind of affects you you know what i'm trying to say so
that's his perspective i like it he doesn't like it but i like it because sometimes like i said you
just want to get up out of there right especially depending on where you live in america sometimes
you just want to get up out of there real quick turns yellow green you can go until that happens
you stop so that's something just just a quick example of the driving and how it's easier here
than in the states you don't have to do that extra thinking about can i turn on this red light is it
allowed in this circumstance nope red light you stop and actually stand with the theme of
driving another thing that i really enjoy about living here is the lack of stress specifically
related to driving and commuting i lived 17 years in the washington dc area and the dmv
which stands for dc virginia maryland and i lived in dc i lived in maryland i lived
in virginia during that period i moved around and but the commute is so horrendous for the
last six years that i lived there i had a 55 mile one-way commute in the morning my job was 55 miles
from home i had to drive up a very long four-lane highway hit the beltway circle around the district
and kind of head out another 30 minutes or so after that so my drive in the morning was about
an hour and 15 to an hour 30 minutes on and uh the overall drive like going and coming was 110 miles
a day and i was losing about three hours a day just on the commute and i did that for six years
so get here living in the uk i live in england here in the midlands my commute is much shorter
much more pleasurable much more enjoyable i don't lose all that time it's not all the stop and go
traffic so i really enjoy that i really appreciate having a better commute and and that improves my
better in overall quality of life and so that would be the last thing that i would say i really
enjoy is that i find the uk to be a very pleasant place to be as far as stress i'm not stressed here
i don't feel the same amount of stress that i felt in the united states it's just not weighing on me
as heavily and i've asked my wife about this and she said the same thing she just doesn't feel as
much stress as we both felt in the united states and so that in itself is worth the reason to move
uh that alone to be able to get away from stress stress kills right and so we don't want that to
happen and uh those are the things that we really enjoy about living here in the uk i personally i
personally agree with everything that he said even the right turn thing i do agree with it
may not seem like i agree with it but i do agree with it um in terms of uh certain uh you know his
points but like i said i prefer to have the right turn because you know sometimes you just want to
get about in there i lived in a busy ass place like bro i can't i can't i can't i can't wait how
wait literally when i walk out there's a highway highway 501 go do your research about highway 501
like literally you connect the dots you get what i'm trying to say it's it's not it's not the best
thing to be you know we're right that location and you gotta wait like let me tell you something
about american stop lights i think i've been at an american stoplight um the longest i've been
at the stoplight in america is like five minutes you don't want to be off on a highway in america
period um but what i gotta say is that i definitely agree with buddy his points were
valid because you know um i do believe that being in america it's really stressful look at what i'm
just talking about in terms of being off uh living off the highway or something like that right
it's really stressful because you're gonna stay at a stop light for five minutes like
literally i'm not lying to you like five minutes right um i don't know what's the longest stop
light duration in america but that one that i'm talking about it's off uh highway 501 and it was
it was eternity eternity i mean you're there for forever right so i personally uh agree with them
it is much more stressful to be in america and i think that europeans in general or africans or uh
asians anyone um you know discrediting race out of this swap that out of here we all the same any one
of them from those countries go to america and um live the life of an american and uh subtract what
they experienced in their different continents i think they would actually understand how stressful
america can be because it's america's it's a really fragile place in terms of uh you know
your growth it's really fragile like you can lose your job easily you can lose your home easily your
health you can die easily due to uh the lack of health care stuff like that so if y'all get what
i'm trying to say he is definitely on spot on with what he's saying and i totally agree with buddy
over here so um we won't be about of here so uh smash that like button and subscribe man he really
made me laugh when you say bread though because i wouldn't expect that but yeah i'm out of here guys