£200 of that our final guy, that is. Yes.
Okay. It costs £0.
What?
Hey, Guy, welcome back to the Girl Guy London Channel.
If you're new here, my name is Kalyn.
I'm an American who's lived in the UK for almost ten years.
Except now I'm in America,
and this is my best friend, Emily, in this video, you guy wanted me to get
my friends and family's reactions to to certain facts about the UK or things
about the UK that are different from the US.
So Emily has been to the UK a few times
to visit me, and it's pretty well up on things.
I've come up with some questions that I'm
going to ask, and she is going to react to different things about the UK.
And we're just gonna have a discussion about some of the differences.
Okay.
The first question, do you know how many different nations
make up the UK now I get in trouble for this because I'm
not even sure if you call them nations or country.
I mean, it's countries like, how many different countries make up the UK?
Oh, gosh,
you can do it.
I'm gonna expose my I. Okay.
What's, like the first country that he's been to England.
Okay. What's the next one?
Scotland. Okay.
What's the other one?
That's on the same landmarks that we didn't go to Ireland will.
Well, well, and the fourth one is
Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland.
Wow. My geography skills are coming out.
There you go. Watch out.
But if any of you British people tried to name the American state, I bet you could.
Okay, how much do you think it costs for an ambulance ride in the UK?
Oh, wow. In pounds.
In pounds. Okay,
part of me wants to say, like,
£200. Okay.
£200. Is that our final guy?
That is. Yes.
Okay. It comes £0.
What? Yeah.
Because the NHS, you don't have to pay for an ambulance, right?
I mean, here we just choose your own cars, like you could have your arm chopped off.
We're like, no, we got it. I'll take the Honda.
I because an ambulance thread cost so much here.
Yeah. I think I couldn't even give you
a ballpark because I it's think it's like in the south.
Yeah, just re. I mean, you pay for it,
obviously at some point, but you don't pay per ambulance ride £0.
Well, there you go.
That's actually shock that we used to have lots of American students when I used
to have a different job, who would be, like, the same thing?
I'm not going to the hospital and we're like, why?
And they're like, because I can't afford it.
It's free. It's free.
The point of the NHS. Yeah.
Next question, how much do you think
income, like, the first income tax percentage is?
So there's a certain percentage.
It's like 0% if you make, like under £11,000.
But like the first, once you start earning what percentage of his income tax
numbers I got,
I
guess maybe. I don't know.
The guess is it's okay to pay off
is the first, like, income tax bracket, Dan.
But that stuff goes towards things like, right.
What is income tax here? We're in Florida.
Do you even know or doesn't have income tax of it?
I don't think so. California does.
So what do you pay any?
What do you pay in, like, tax.
We gotsales.
I think something around that.
But then do you keep all
the money that you're bought, like, your employee, your employer guy?
No.
Because some of it comes out in, like, social Security stuff.
Okay. Yeah.
But I don't think Florida has an income, right?
I don't think so. Okay.
So Florida zero K 2020 as the first here I was thinking five.
Okay.
Next question, how many six days do you think you get in the UK?
Oh, gosh,
how many six days do you get?
Do you know?
Well, ours is kind of weird because we kind of combine it with our holiday time.
So we get technically,
three weeks of PTO that we could use when we're sick or if we're going to the UK.
Okay.
But I'm thinking you guys would probably get maybe, like, two weeks of sick time.
Okay. It's basically unlimited,
because if you're sick, then they're not going to make you.
That shocks me.
So it never happens.
The next question is going to be about
paid time off or what they would call annual leads.
But for the most part, if you're ill what they call being sick
because being sick, you're not being sick means in the UK, it means growing up.
I'm always like, I've been sick, and I think they mean
a lot of people will use that to be like, I've thrown up.
Americans don't say we say, like,
sick to me, the same thing as ill, which is what the but yeah, like,
it doesn't take away from your vacation time.
If you're sick, it's crazy.
That's crazy that I know very different from how we got.
You could get the flu and you still have to be cranking up those emails.
Okay.
The next question is, how many vacation days do you think we get in the UK,
like in days?
And it's mandated by the government.
Maybe like,
20 days a year. Good guess.
Closer. So it's 28 days that can include bank
holidays, like, there's eight of them or something.
So they can tell you that you have to, like, take Christmas off.
And that counts towards the 28.
So basically, for most people, works out to four weeks is
four to five weeks. Wow.
That a minimum. A minimum.
That's crazy. We're lucky if we get maybe a week.
Yeah, exactly.
You sang three weeks.
I was like, wow, that's stick that in.
Okay.
Next question, how many days or weeks do
you think a pregnant woman could get a maternity leave in the youth?
Okay.
Maybe I'm just going to say maybe four weeks.
Tire. Really?
Okay. Six weeks.
I times it by, like, 1052 weeks a year. A whole year.
A whole year. It's not all paid, like some of it's paid.
And it depends on if you've been employed
somewhere, like, there's different situations, but it's a full year.
A full year.
How many maternity days are mandated in the US?
Zero days. Yeah.
I think it's one of the only countries in the world that doesn't have, like,
mandated time, like, your employer gets to decide, I need a full year.
What do you think about that?
I think that is shocking.
That is like we're sending for ourselves,
like, good luck trying to take the baby to work, have them become the new Internet.
It's crazy. Yeah.
That's crazy to me. Okay.
Final two.
Jaywalking
legal.
Do you do it legal or illegal in the UK to answer your first question, I do.
I'm happy for myself in the UK, I feel like it is legal there, though.
It is. You won't get in trouble for Jay walking.
And they think it's weird that America
really came across the street where they want.
I think, because we were in London doing
something and everyone just started going like, you know, there's no time to wait.
We got a hustle. But in America, it's very much like you're
looked at, like, that crazy for don't drop and don't do anything.
You're at a crossing.
And it's your turn to go, which is weird.
But I feel like the UK is more of a pedestrian place.
I assume maybe that makes sense.
Where here I if you're in the suburbs, like where we live in Florida,
where we grow up, like, you're not walking anywhere.
That that's very strange. So strange.
Okay. Final question.
This is open ended.
Do you have any idea what an allotment is
gosh
a lot.
Something to do with time in your job. Maybe.
I feel like that's a good guess, but that has nothing to do with really.
So an allotment is basically when they okay.
So you know how in UK garden means yards.
So an allotment is I feel like what we
would call a garden, but they are not in their house.
So think of, like a village. Okay.
They will have a piece of land that's divided up into, like, rectangle.
Yes.
And each one is basically an allotment, or it's basically a garden that you can.
I guess you rent it or you can own it.
But it's not in your backyard.
But it's also it's like if you have
an allotment, you go to this place in the village or
wherever you live to, like, ten to your vegetables.
But it's not in your house.
It's not near your house. I like that.
It's like a little garden away from your home.
Yeah. That's basically kind of charming.
I don't know if you
we like farm, but not.
Yeah, we don't have a lot, man.
I mean, maybe we do in cities, but I've never actually seen one, right?
We didn't grow up in the city,
but even in the suburbs of the UK, they have a law man.
I feel like it's because there's no space for actual gardening and the people's
houses, whereas here you would just have it in your backyard.
But, yeah, an allotment is like a garden away from your home.
The more you know, the more you know.
So, guy, thanks for watching this video.
Some of you were interested
in an American's reactions to certain things, which I feel like we got some good
ones, especially when it comes to vacation time and ambulance costs and all of that.
Thanks for watching. And I'll see you guys next time.