Hi everyone! Welcome to a new video!
I am Oscar Alejandro and if you are new to my channel, nice to meet you!
I am Venezuelan and I have a little more than four years as an immigrant here in this country.
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Well, speaking of this chapter that you are about to see...
It is the top 10 of the things we like least about the US.
And, for a long time on this YouTube channel I have been talking about
how cool, how super it means to live in North America.
But, someone gave me the idea of:
"Oscar, what do you think are the things you like least in the United States?"
And before you start criticizing,
and don't be like Rafael Hurtado with this comment that you are seeing
that says: “I don't like to criticize the country that welcomed me
and gave me the opportunities that my country of origin did not give me.
And for those who do not like the system, I recommend you return to your home country"
Friends, don't be like Rafael.
You know that in life nothing is perfect and not everything is rosy in the US,
and if you are one of those who want to come to live in this country
then I recommend that before doing so, and before you make a decision
you see well this video, so that you are really sure to make that decision
By the way, to make this video as credible as possible,
I did a survey through my Instagram stories.
If you don't follow me there you have to do it immediately @oscaralejandro,
it's the account you have to follow immediately.
This was the video I made to them.
“For my next YouTube video I want to know your opinion, you that live here in the US,
what do you like least about this country? What do you like least about his culture?
Or what do you like least about this lifestyle? Leave me your comment here.
I received hundreds of answers and I had to organize them from highest to lowest,
from position number 10 to position number 1 and this was the result.
In this way we started the ranking with position number 10.
Well, in position number 10 it is the category “others”,
it is the multiple answers that did not match,
but I will mention them here because they seemed very interesting.
For example, Jehanpi says: "The worst thing about living in the US is that it is difficult to save”.
Adison says: "You can't go from party to party in the car like in Venezuela.”.
Sevilla Joel says: “I don't like that the products don't have the taxes included”,
which is quite true.
Luis Betancourt says: "Society is very serious with the bullying issue".
That is also true!
Eduardo Alexis says: "I can't pay Uber in cash like in Latin America”.
Although this seems positive to me, I like to pay everything electronically.
“I don't like that they don't let us make investments in certain businesses because we are latin”.
I think this is not true, this is a lie.
Tomi Carrion says: "Many places close early”.
It's true, in some towns in the interior of the United States the party ends at 2 in the morning.
“The drug”.
Well, I think there are drugs everywhere in the world.
“Miami's public transportation". It is true, it stinks a bit.
“I am not from the US but I went and I like everything except the tickets, they all have the same color”.
“I don't like madness with fines, yesterday I was fined $ 350 just for parking badly”.
“And the hurricanes literally almost every year there is one". It is true in Miami this happens a lot.
"You can't park your car on the street for free, going for a walk means an expense".
That's true.
“The bipolar climate”.
“The cost of the rent”.
“You have to buy insurance for everything".
That's true, car insurance, medical insurance, home insurance,
roof insurance, cell phone insurance, insurance for everything, it's true, insurance for everything.
“Pure junk food”.
Well, I think that depends on you.
In the number 9 position, most of you agreed
that the worst thing about the United States is consumerism and I agree
I will explain why this is so.
For example, when you comes from Latin America
where it is so difficult to buy the things that you want, for example, to have a latest model car,
or to buy the last iPhone, the last Samsung which was launched.
And you realize that you can easily get it with a credit,
you go crazy, because you want to have it, for example, in Venezuela I had a Fiat 1 car
but when I knew that I could get a last model Corolla
just by putting a small initial I said "I want to have it”.
In our countries it is difficult to have a credit card,
here they give it to you super easy and this can cause you to go crazy.
So folks, if you want to come to the US, have a little willpower
because everything you want here can have it,
so be careful with the amount of credit and money you owe to the bank at the end of the year.
In the position number 8, how incredible most of you think
that the worst thing about this country is the coldness of the people and I agree with that.
Here people are in their problem, people communicate very little,
people don't visit much, you are not touching the neighbor next door for coffee,
or: "Oh! Give me some sugar"... No, here everyone is in his matter.
But it turns out that you live a very fast life,
because there is a saying that says "time is money”.
Here you work by hour, when you are starting
and you understand that one hour represents money and that you can be making money,
and there are many people who become blind for money
because it is very easy to earn good money in this country.
Then you begin to say: "Why am I going to spend my time visiting the neighbor,
visiting the mother-in-law? If I can be generating money”.
So, it is quite true that here in the US, people are a bit cold.
In the position number 7, you think that the worst of the USA, are the distances.
And certainly this country is huge, it is almost a whole continent, it has the Atlantic Ocean,
on the other side it has the Pacific Ocean, and going from Miami, for example, to the west coast,
to LA, is five and a half hours mounted on a plane,
going to New York is about three and a half hours, that is according to the distance between each state.,
but, for example, here in Florida, I am in Miami, the city is huge,
you can spend a lifetime on a highway driving, and you drive, you drive, you drive...
And this is something negative,
because, for example, since everything costs, since everything is expensive on the gas issue,
on the toll issue, on the issue that if you ride in a car,
the car is spent on miles, you think again and again if you are going to leave or not
because everything is too far away.
For example, going to an area called Kendall here in Miami that is to the south, and even Ventura
that is to the north, on the highway it can be more than an hour without traffic.
You think about it, because if you don't have a car, then the Uber can be very expensive.
In the position number 6 dear friends, we find something quite cliche
of what you think about this country and it is "racism".
Obviously that feels, it is something that is there, but friends here people are careful
to discriminate against another person, either by their color, or by their sexual orientation
or by any other political, religious or other thought,
that you just keep quiet, you say nothing, you are as polite as possible.
And honestly dear friends, I live here in Miami
and I have not felt any kind of racism against anyone.
I do not want to say that this is the case in all parts of the United States,
for example, I feel that there is discrimination with respect to Latinos in some areas of Texas
or above, in the north of the country where there are not so many Latinos.
But this, in my personal experience, I have not lived as something horrible,
I do not think it is a reality, people simply remain calm,
and if they think something ugly of another person because of their race, sex, orientation, political ideology,
they prefer to stay silent,
because they know that by discriminating they can get into a serious problem.
And in the number 5 position, we have that the worst of the US according to you,
and I agree, is immigration.
And well, this is a reality friends, you do not know how difficult it is to obtain a legal status,
either to obtain a visa, or a permanent residence,
which is exactly what all immigrants want.
And well, the Trump administration has really gotten a lot harder
with respect to immigration applications and paperwork,
we have all heard the USCIS issue,
how people who cross the border from Mexico to the US are persecuting
and not only how hard immigration has become
but how expensive it is to get the papers.
I want to confess to you, that for example in my case, I spent $ 5,500 three years ago
to obtain a work visa and, in addition to becoming a permanent resident,
I spent almost $ 6,000 to obtain my Green Card, that is, we are talking about almost $12,000
take out you the account, I am not very good with mathematics
but it is a lot of money friends, to have a legal status in the US.
If you compare it with the price of obtaining a legal status in other countries,
you will realize that the US is one of the most expensive countries in the planet,
which charges to legalize.
So friends think about it very well.
Are you prepared to pay a legal status in this country with the sweat of your forehead?
And in the position number 4 you think that the worst of the US, are taxes.
And this really if you are not informed about it can be a headache.
It turns out that if you work as employees of a company,
and you earn $ 3,000, that is your salary, you will not receive a check of $ 3,000.
The company deducts taxes before paying you
and this can be approximately 30%,
that frustrates you, that hurts you: "My God, what are they doing with my money?"
"Where is all that money going?”
But I want to tell you one thing, this hurts us because in our countries, in Latin America,
we are not accustomed to paying taxes, to deduct taxes from our salary.
Here in the US we have to do it, I invite you to compare how much tax is declared
in countries such as Canada.
Ask how much of taxes you pay in Europe,
you will go crazy, and you will say: "So in the US they don't discount us so much of taxes”.
but for example, in Spain, I understand, I am not an expert in Spain.
There they pay more taxes because, for example, all that money is for the health issue
that is public, which is free, in Canada the same thing also happens.
So what do you prefer?
That you get a lot of money in taxes but have a very good health system?
Or, that in the US, they do not get as many taxes as in other countries
but the health issue can be a headache?
We arrived at position number 3 and all of you agree that the worst of the US,
in this ranking should be the subject of working too much.
Dear friends, this is a reality when we are new to the country
we start working by hour and we get a job that pays us at $ 8 an hour,
$ 9 an hour, $ 10 an hour, which is little money,
and you realize everything you have to pay for rent, in car, in electricity, in partys, in the food...
And you see yourself hanged of all the obligations, of all the bills, as they say here.
I need to have two jobs, I need to have a job in the day, do Uber at night,
and sell my body if necessary because the accounts are drowning me”.
It is a reality, my dear friends, I can't deny it, this is what I experienced
in my first years in the US, but do you know why this happens?
because you don't have a qualified job here
Ask yourself how much a doctor earns, how much a lawyer earns,
how much an engineer earns, how much someone who has a license
to legally practice in this country earns.
ask how much people who work in real estate earn, who sell real estate... You gonna get crazy!
And you will think that all these people are millionaires, but do you know why they earn a lot of money?
Because they studied, of course the subject of study and education is another headache,
because it costs a lot to study in this country.
So if you come to the US and do not have any profession,
you have not validated your career here in the US, believe me that you will have to work hard
and you will not have life, and you will go crazy
because you will not be able to opt for a qualified job.
We arrived at position number 2 and here you all agree
the worst of the US is the weapons issue.
How can it be possible that here in this country
it may be easier to buy a rifle than a medicine?
And this dear friends is unfortunately a reality.
We see how frequently in the news there are massacres, there are shootings, of people, of madmen
who grab a rifle and slaughter children in a school or,
attack against a shopping center,
and you see that news and thinks: “That could be me”.
And I see with concern how none of the politicians,
starting from the president of this country,
they don't seem to mind reducing the weapons issue.
And, for example, in Florida they recently passed a law where it seemed to them
that teachers in the Schools should be armed.
What madness, friends!
But, all this has to do, because in the US national constitution
the founding fathers of the homeland in the 18th century, they thought
that americans should have the constitutional right to defend themselves with weapons themselves.
Of course, at that time there was war, there was a lot of insecurity
and this put it as a constitutional right.
And conservatives who don't want things to change, agree with this.
And we know that, on the weapons issue there are many related businesses
because for many companies it is a profitable business to sell weapons in this country.
This seems terrible to me and is one of the things that I consider to be worse in the US.
And now we reach the number one position, what is the worst of the US?
Friends, incredible but true, is the health system.
It is a headache to get sick in this country, it is a nightmare that something happens to you,
a fracture, an accident... And why? You will be wondering.
“We cannot believe this, they have the best hospitals,
with the best doctors, with the most advanced scientists,
almost all medicines are manufactured and invented by the United States.
Why is the health system the worst?”.
Let's start by saying that the health system is totally private, here there is no public health.
If you go to a hospital they will charge you, what if you don't have health insurance?
Well, they will treat you anyway, but they will give you an account
that you will be paying for the rest of your years as credit,
but you will have money that you will owe to the hospital.
It is not that they will let you die, because no, they will attend you
but the invoice that you will end up owing, if you do not have medical insurance... It is terrible!
And not only that, medical insurance is very expensive, there are some cheaper.
For example, if you have the "ObamaCare",
it's something like: "Well, you have ObamaCare...
But if the fracture, the cut cost you, for example, less than $ 6,000, you have to pay it.
After $ 6,000 it is covered by insurance. What is this? Is a disaster!
And we are going to assume that you pay for expensive medical insurance,
so that it covers most of the diseases and things that happen to you.
Going to the doctor is a disaster because, for example, you want to make an appointment,
then the appointment, when you go to see the calendar they tell you: “We have appointments within a month”.
"Doctor is hurting my belly today”.
They tell you: "No, we can assist you in a month".
and you say: "I don't know, something hurts”.
They will tell you: "Well, you can go to the emergency room"
But, of course, going to emergencies is very expensive.
And this is not the worst, but here as everyone takes care that they demand it,
so the doctor is too careful to diagnose what you have.
"Your belly hurts, so we have to take an exam, come in two weeks”.
"Doctor, my stomach hurts right now”.
They do not dare to give you a diagnosis,
and you can spend weeks and weeks in a medical consultation here
in an exam there, it seems that you do not care.
I have had to go to the clinic several times for anything,
a pain, something strange that I feel, you feel that you are not being treated,
that you are talking to a wall, everything is the issue that the doctor
wants to be sure enough of the diagnosis so that they don't demand it,
because here the demands are horrible, I don't know, everything is so complicated.
You are going to heal, but you are heal in a thousand years,
you are heal with a huge bill that you have to pay.
So it's like... AH!
Really, the times I've got sick
I think of going to Venezuela and being heal there.
The doctors are friendly, they solve you quickly... "That's an allergy”,
they give you medicine and nothing happens, it's terrible, it's a reality... But it's like that!
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