American Reacts 10 Reasons Why The UK is The Best Country in the World 

I felt that with all my heart. I grew up in Sri Lanka, but the very first time I visited the UK, I felt I had come home. And I am so glad I moved here - I've been in England now for 17 years, and having visited as much of the UK as possible in that time, this is the right place for me.

I am so proud to be BRITISH ❤

Those tiny old churches in the middle of villages surrounded by green fields and hills are absolutely everywhere in the U.K., so you’ll be in your element if you visit.

If you want to live in a safe country with a temperate climate full of beautiful landscapes and places to explore you can't go wrong coming here

There are actually 73 countries with higher annual rainfall than the UK, its just that ours is little and often rather than having a rainy season. We can go weeks without rain at times and our summers can be very bright and dry. We get very long sun hours in summer (5.30am till 10pm in places!) but small and light showers are a fairly common occurrence. Its not torrential downpours all the time like the stereotype would imply.

I spent 30 years in the USA and became a citizen. I have chosen to retire in the UK for many reasons independent of my origins as I've been all over the globe in my working career. The weather is variable but never extreme. Gorgeous places are close and the beaches never far away. I walk my dog daily in various "country or coastal walks. My Hip replacement coat me £0.00 and was awesome, but I had to wait in line for it. Cost of living (salaries are lower here also!) is much lower so my US$ goes further. On balance, this is as close to paradise (outside big cities) as you can get. Now, for an American - you would have to undergo major lifestyle issues - smaller cars narrow, often 1-lane roads, smaller houses etc. but the struggles are part of the charm. The pace of life is very different so don't come here expecting it to be a mini-USA it's not. You must merge to enjoy!

We don’t have a “Central Park” in London, we have loads of huge parks and then hundreds and hundreds of smaller green spaces. It’s one of the greenest cities in the world. We also have some very, very large parks a bit outside of the centre in Greater London. Most of them used to be royal hunting grounds and to this day, some of them have herds of roaming wild deer.

OK, so this is gonna be another long one from me! You're correct in your assumption that was an old passport at the start there. Our new passports (since leaving the EU) are a dark blue colour, and obviously don't contain the European Union name. We'll be having a new passport update in coming months/years, with a change to the internal wording to reflect there now being a King instead of a Queen. The islands you mention are mostly part of countries within the UK, and therefore belong to the UK. The Shetland Islands are part of Scotland; as are the Hebrides and the Orkney Islands. The Isle of Man (between England and Northern Ireland on the maps there) is a self-governing British Crown Dependency (as are Jersey and Guernsey which are located in the Channel Islands), and a bit of an interesting situation. It is not part of the United Kingdom itself, however it is part of the wider "British Isles" (the overall collection of islands in the area, including Great Britain, Ireland, etc), but the UK government are responsible for its defence and foreign affairs. That clock tower is what most people know as Big Ben, however its actual name is the Elizabeth Tower. The name "Big Ben" refers to the bell found within the tower, rather than the tower itself. As for the weather.... It does rain a fair amount, but its not like we suffer from rain 365 days of the year! We've been getting increasingly hot weather during our summers, with highs this year reaching 40C (104F) in some places! How I usually explain the British weather to Americans is: "Imagine Seattle was a country" - we share a lot of similar weather with the PNW! 10. Accents - We can usually find a completely different accent within a 20-30 minute drive. I'm from "The Midlands" in the UK, and there's a huge variety just within a 30 minute drive of my house! You have to remember that the UK is tiny compared to the US - imagine scaling the US down to the size of Alabama, but still keeping the variety of accents you guys have, and you're about there! 9. Scenery - Obviously, not everywhere in the UK is *that* beautiful, but we have such a wide variety of beautiful areas! If you want to check out some stunning landscapes within the UK/Ireland, look at the Lake District, The Jurassic Coast, The Yorkshire Dales, The Scottish Lochs, The Giant's Causeway, The Cotswolds.... 8. Different Countries - Its definitely a sibling rivalry! We have our issues with each other, but its mostly just gentle ribbing, with some exceptions! 7. London - One thing I will say, is that London isn't representative of the UK as a whole. A lot of people, when they come over here to visit, just visit London. And whilst London is a great place to explore as a tourist, you wont get the full UK experience! Its very much an international city! Sports - definitely Rugby, Football (Soccer), Cricket, Cheese Rolling.... OK, that last one is definitely more of a niche, jokey suggestion, but you can check out a video (CHEESE ROLLING COMPILATION 2018HD - BESTOP) to discover the hilarity that is the Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling! 6. Safety/Climate/Wildlife - The fact we have basically no deadly animals in the UK always seems to be one of the most shocking discoveries to our friends across the pond! We have one venomous snake that's native to the UK, but bites are not common enough to consider it that deadly! We're more likely to get charged by a bull in a field whilst out walking, that encounter anything deadly! As I mentioned above, we're a very similar climate to the PNW. 5. NHS - As someone with a chronic illness, and many surgeries under my belt, the NHS has saved my life more times than I can count. I don't have a video recommendation to hand, to answer your question on how much in taxes does the NHS cost each of us, but if you do find a video explaining it, just remember that whilst our tax costs could seem high to you, we *don't* pay out $100s each month in health insurance on top of that. Everything is all included within those taxes. One video that might be of interest to you, but isn't specifically about the NHS, but rather taxes in general, is (How Does UK Tax Work? | Income Tax Explained | PAYE - Joe Georgekutty), maybe not for a reaction, but for just personal information. Dental is a little different. It's not specifically included in the "free healthcare" (free at point of use, paid for by taxes) system of the NHS, neither is opticians/glasses etc. With Dental, we have both NHS and Private available, but even NHS treatment still costs, its just heavily subsidised. People under a certain age, or with certain health conditions, or on certain benefits, still get free Dental and eyecare, but for everyone else there is a subsidised cost. 4. Education - yeah, he pretty much covered everything on this one, not much to add other than Oxford and Cambridge are very heavily rooted in tradition, and whilst they are the most recognisable names, I wouldn't call them the "be all and end all" of university education in the UK. 3. Castles/Ruins - honestly, the ruins are everywhere, and there's large stately homes and castles set up as tourist attractions and landmarks throughout the UK. Edinburgh Castle is a fun visit if you ever find yourself up in Scotland! 2/1. Not much to say on either of those really! Stonehenge is in Salisbury, Wiltshire - the South of England. Its about a 2-3 hour train ride from London, if I remember rightly. One thing to note, with regards to your comment about how people feel like they're home, when they visit the places their ancestors lived.... Most British people find it extremely weird when Americans say "Oh, I'm Irish/Scottish/etc", when what they actually mean is "my great-great-great-great-grandfather was Irish/Scottish/etc". I know its a very typically American way to refer to oneself, but if you don't want weird looks if you eventually do come over to visit, I'd stick with "I have Irish/Scottish/etc ancestry" 😂 Another fantastic video!

Even in my family we had so many accents. Mum was Welsh, her dad was Scottish. My dad was Cornish, his dad was from Bristol. Ive been brought up in southern England. My brother lives in Devon and has a strong Devon accent. Back in the day when we all got together, it was accent chaos!!

For such a small country the UK has achieved so much throughout its history!

There is no hatred I'm English and all the Irish Welsh and Scottish people that I have met have been lovely people

its not just countries and a few borders that separate our accents; it's literally city to city, sometimes even town to town within a single city. for example, i live in birmingham, i can drive 20-30 minutes away from my front door to a place called walsall, and everyone will sound completely different to me; with their own unique words for greetings, departures, and even insults. a simple "you alright? how you doing?" in birmingham, will translate in walsall to "yam orloit duck? ow' yam doing?" lol.

The point is, no matter how much we pay in taxes for the NHS, no one here goes bankrupt to pay medical bills. Ever.

The only dangerous animal I've come across was a crazy Seagull divebombing me for my Chips (fries) 🤣and yes, so many Accents , I've changed my accent so many times through out my life time, this was because I moved around alot when I was younger.

Britain was voted the most beautiful island in the world by the travel magazine Lonely Planet, for what it's worth.

Another stereotype, it does not rain every other day in the UK. It rains about the same as it does on mainland Europe. Most eastern states in the USA get more rainfall. In fact, we just went through the most intense heatwave in a long time. My garden went from lush green to almost dead brown :( Although, thankfully it seems to be recovering now, and we've started to get a bit more rainfall thank goodness. In fairness I live in the south east where it tends to get a bit hotter and drier, but I think its still applicable

That's not Big Ben, that's The Elizabeth Tower. Big Ben is the name of the bell inside, not the tower itself

Thing is if we didn’t have that amount of rain we wouldn’t have the countryside we have

13:12 That's Hyde Park, located near the Natural History Museum. Kensington Palace is located within the park. It's roughly 1.8 x 0.8 miles in size. There are plenty of parks like this around London, but Hyde Park is probably the most iconic.

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It rains LESS in London than it does in New York! We are no. 17 in countries in the world for rain ! Because the UK is an Island, in the Atlantic, we are subject to weather from all directions. Eastern England for instance is very dry and sunny in the summer, The South has mild weather but the West, where most of the rain comes in, is wet, as is the North of England. It is a blessing that we have the rain we do, the country is beautiful as a result of what we do get !

What sport you described sounds like Croquet. Three most traditionally popular field sports are - Football (Soccer), Rugby & Cricket

you should visit Norfolk. lots of nature reserves, very old buildings, churches, cathedrals and castles.

I was 8 when my folks left the UK for South Africa and although it was a great country to grow up in and the people are great, I never really felt at home there. I only got the opportunity to come back to the UK at the end of last year once I'd reached retirement (60 at the company I worked for) in South Africa. Now I feel like I'm home. I'm loving the cooler weather, as well as being able to walk on my own or with my dogs and still feel safe doing so. I can't wait to wander round old graveyards too. There are also a few stone circles that I want to explore. So... growing up outside of this beautiful country, I'm learning some things along with you. Great videos. 😊 I was devastated when the Queen died and I'm not ashamed to say that I cried all the way through her funeral. May she RIP. My mom also told me when we were watching the funeral, that her uncle used to be a Coldstream Guard so I'd like to find out more about my family tree/history, which will be easier to do now that I'm here.

The commonwealth has grown because a couple of old French colonies asked to join, nobody objected and they met the requirements, so we have 56 nations now.

London has an estimated 3000 parks or green areas. Some are huge.

Interesting fact about the UK…no matter where you are in the UK you are never more than 70 miles from the coast! That’s how small we are!!!

I have to say proud to be British 🇬🇧

The Republic of Ireland was neutral during WW2 but 'neutral on the allies side' There were some men who gave up their Irish nationality so they could fight for the British against Nazi Germany. After the war they couldn't get their pension on retirement because they were no longer Irish citizens. But they did it anyway........ The Irish are wonderful people and have a sense of humour you wouldn't believe.

This guy understates the amount of accents and dialects in the uk in the video, its more like you can go 5-10 miles in the uk and get a different accents, england alone has 29 dialects of english which is the country with the most dialects of english in the world and thats not including accents which is a different thing than dialects.

I have watched a few of your videos and enjoy your enthusiasm and your quest to understand your roots. The U.K. is indeed a wonderful country in which to live, it’s not perfect but the which country is. Although England is the most densely populated area in Europe there is still wonderful countryside to explore. One way to explore is via public footpaths. These are ancient paths, away from main roads, across farms, hills through tiny villages . It’s a great way to appreciate the rural country, no cars, just walkers, doves, the odd horse riders, sheep and cattle in the field. You will discover prehistoric barrows( burial ground), Roman remains, Norman ruins, tiny hamlets and church with a glorious stain glass window, ancient grave stone watched over by a 4000 year old Yew Tree. It gives you a sense of total freedom I have not found elsewhere. There are many long distance routes such as The Pennine Way, The Thames Path etc. but also thousands of miles of paths joining village to village all far from the madding crowd.

In the UK we pay about 26% of our earnings in tax but that is only if you earn over 12k a year, low income don't pay tax, in the US when you include all the services we get for our tax it would work out at 46% of your salary, so our nhs is far more affordable than yours. It astounds me that you pay for medical in your tax then through insurance then pay copays and also pay for for your medical procedures and then extortionate prices for medication. In the UK any medication perscription costs £9.35 that's it, if you are unemployed, elderly, under 18 or in full time education your medication is free, if your have a condition that is considered terminal ie Diabetes because you die without insulin again all medication is free.

Stonehenge is in the County of Wiltshire, Southwest England

The little island in the middle is the Isle of Man. The Isle of Man is a self-governing Crown Dependency, like the Channel Islands (near France and occupied by the Germans during WW2). The Isle of Man has been ruled by all sorts of different countries and kings. It was taken over by the King of Northumbria in the 900s. It’s been invaded by Vikings and sold by the King of Norway to the King of Scotland. It’s flitted between Scotland and England for a while before finally becoming under the lordship of England in around 1400. But it’s always had it’s own Parliament - the Tynwald - and the UK is only responsible for its defence, now. It’s also famous for having its own language, Manx, and Manx cats (no tail) and the castle, landscape and the TT motorbike races on the island’s normal roads. Lots of riders have been killed in these TT races. King Charles is the lord of the Isle of Man, technically. Well worth a visit - get there by plane or ferry. The Hebrides and Orkneys are Scottish and part of the UK. There are hundreds of Scottish islands. Many have been inhabited for thousands of years. Indeed you can visit the homes of inhabitants from five thousand or more years ago in Skara Brae in the Orkneys. The seas were the motorways of this time and there was a plentiful supply of fish and seafood. Their homes have built in kitchens, cupboards and beds, all made of flat stone slabs. There’s also the Scilly Isles - south of Cornwall - small, warm, lovely, few cars, no traffic, Mediterranean plants and flowers. The Duke of Cambridge and family go there for holidays. All tourists go to London but your eyes will really be opened by the Highlands and Islands and any of the islands off the UK. Lindisfarne - ancient monastery - there’s hundreds of islands!

The islands surrounding Scotland, like the Outer Hebrides, Orkney, Shetland, Barra, Islay etc. are all part of the country of Scotland. Scotland is one of the countries that make up the 4 in the UK. There are other islands which are part of the country of England, such as The Isle of Wight and also there are some off the country of Wales, such as Anglesey. Also with regard to rain, it does rain a fair amount, but probably a lot less than people think (if that makes sense!).

I love the UK, I'm a truck driver. I'm one of 5% of the population that gets to see the UK on a daily basis, like the USA, there are real rough and ready places and just as many beautiful places.

Your central park was designed and a larger copy of the park in birkenhead near Liverpool

With the NHS, the tax is taken direct from our wages before we even see it - rough average is about £200 a month BUT the NHS covers everyone, employed, unemployed, retired, disabled and everyone inbetween. Its a percentage of your wages, so the more you earn, you will pay more. But considering it covers everyone for pretty much anything, we are happy to pay it. No single person in the UK will ever have to pay a bill for their health care, even someone who has never been able to work or pay into it. Dental is included but is the only thing where there will be (a very small and capped) charge, children and elderly get it totally free though.

Most of the little islands surrounding Britain are Scottish and each one is more beautiful than the next, my favourites are Skye and Islay( where I have family) where they make fabulous Whiskey from the peat on the land.Yes as I said before in a comment you can actually go from village to village and the accent and dialect is different. It’s wonderful.

The design for Central Park was based on the design of Birkenhead Park near Liverpool. Birkenhead Park was the worlds first publicly funded civic park.

The accent thing is true. When we moved to Worcestershire, we lived in south Worcestershire and the accent was entirely different- ENTIRELY- to northern Worcestershire. We live in Lincolnshire right now. The Lincoln accent is different to the fenn accent and we are an hour from the cities of Hull, Leicester and Nottingham and all of them have entirely different accents. London is full of big parks. They used to be Royal hunting grounds back in the day.

I expect someone has mentioned this before but the furthest distance you can go from the sea in the UK is 70 miles. Football (Soccer), Rugby, Tennis and Cricket are some of the biggest sports here but we have hundreds of others and we have invented most of them but my Favourite is Formula 1. Stonehenge is in the county of Wiltshire and is roughly halfway between the cities of Salisbury and Bath ( Its actually closer to Salisbury, but if you look for these two cities on a map it will be easier to find).

It's definitely true that the accents vary hugely within a small area. Remember that it's around 12 hours to drive from the south west of England into Scotland so logic sictates that if there are many different accents (and there are) they must be within close proximity to each other. I don't think it's comparable to America in that way. They say the accent changes every 12 miles. I can't say that's definitely true, and as an American you probably wouldn't notice such subtle differences, but I'd say that doesn't sound particularly incorrect.

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We don't know if it rains a lot because we grew up in this climate. We are used to whatever comes. We are islands and the weather changes often.

Here is my list of 10 that you might also like to consider. 1. Getting out and about using the most accurate maps in the world courtesy of the Ordnance Survey. 2. Beside the usual fire and rescue services, if you venture out to sea there is the Royal National Lifeboat Institution which operates 24/7 around our coasts. 3. Britain is small, which is why it is possible to travel from one end to the other and back in a day to watch you favourite Premier League team (if you can get a ticket). 4. Green space. Publicly accessible green space. In London, aside from the Royal Parks in the centre, further out there is Hampstead Heath, Richmond Park, Wimbledon Common and Greenwich Park, to mention a few. 5. Public footpaths. These run throughout the land, over private property, and are well sign-posted. 6. History, say no more, it's all around you. 7. Museums...for just about anything you can imagine. 8. Public transport. Often over stretched, but there are buses, trains and taxis to get you to pretty much anywhere. 9. National Parks and military training grounds. Fantastic unspoilt areas for walking on the wild side. Just check for the red flags when live firing takes place. 10. Charity shops, are in every high street and offer a huge variety of donated clothes and artefacts for knock-down prices. Enjoy.

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Stonehenge is on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire; in the south of England about 85 miles southwest of London. They should have also mentioned that we have pretty good public transport; you can get anywhere by train, bus, tram, plane, etc!

I'm sure you'll adore the UK. Even I haven't travelled far in my own country. Furthest up I've been is York. The most spectacular city!! Only go to London if you've got plenty of money...so expensive!!

Dental stuff is covered by the NHS if you're under 18, disabled, poor, or old. Even when things are not covered fully they're MASSIVELY cheaper compared to the USA. For example a root canal in the UK costs about £300 at most, I believe. Prescription medication is also cheaper in the UK. It's either completely free if you're long term ill, low income, or in Scotland, or is £9 if you do have to pay for it for whatever reason. That compared to the hundreds or even thousands people have to pay in the US for medications even after their insurance is wild!

Big Ben is the name of the bell in the tower, The tower is called The Elizabeth Tower as it as renamed to honour her late majesty Queen Elizabeth II but was originally simply called The Clock Tower. As for deadly animals the most dangerous wild animal here is the Adder which is a snake that is poisonous but is not usually fatal to a healthy adult. Stonehenge is near Salisbury in Wiltshire.

London is jam packed with parks. What you were seeing was 3 different ones, Green, St James and Hyde.

We in invented most sports, including "America's pastime", football/soccer, Rugby Union & Rugby League which are similar, and Cricket are the main big sports, plenty of others which you can play indoor like darts, snooker.

The way zoning and green belt building laws work we don’t have the urban sprawl in the same way you get in the US , you’re never far from the countryside - combined with the ancient rights of access we have we can walk through pretty much all of it including through private property

That Park was Hyde Park but it is not the only Park in London. There are many parks, from huge to tiny. It's a very green city

I live on the North Wales coast in the rain shadow of a large mountain range called Snowdonia, so even though Snowdonia gets very high rainfall being mountainous, we get slightly less rain than the UK average, I also camp a lot up in the mountains and have seen the odd Adder, which is our only venomous snake, there's about 100 Adder bites reported each year but dying from one is extremely rare and there hasn't been one death reported in the last 20 years, but there are 4 deaths from cow attack each year!

In Britain, people's accent changes every 15 miles.

The 13.5 ton hour bell is named Big Ben. The tower was named The Elizabeth Tower in about 2011. But many people refer to the whole thing as Big Ben. Accents in the UK change from town to town. Take a look at the Cotswolds; villages frozen in time from the 1700s. Britain does have the Adder, a snake whose poison can kill you but the chance of meeting one is about zero.

14:17 Took me a moment to realise you're confusing Cricket with Croquet! I was like "Mallet? Surely you'd say it's a bat like in baseball. Hard ball, check, but a horseshoe for the wicket... oh wait he means croquet!" 🤣

england and the uk was a patchwork quilt of different tribes originally each with their own cultures and accent, over time we melded together the cultures merged as one mostly but the accents remain the same as they was we have a love-hate of each other but we stand together if threatened like any family

That's Elizabeth Tower big Ben is the bell inside bud 😉

You're damn right, the UK is, was and always will be the Greatest Country In The World!!!!

As accents go. I live in a town called St Helens. It is around 7 miles from Wigan, 11 miles from Liverpool and 18 miles from Manchester and we all have our own accents. That is how much accents vary from town to town. I love all our accents.

Re London Parks: There are, in fact, 3000 'parks' in London - of varying sizes. But the 'best' ones tend to be the Royal Parks - including Hyde Park, Richmond and Greenwich Parks, St James etc etc. Quite beautiful - especially if you love animals !

It's really not as rainy as people think, we are a small island surrounded by various currents and weather systems so weather is never the same from hour to hour.

Big Ben is actually the name of the Great Bell in the tower, which strikes the hours. The clock tower was renamed the Elizabeth Tower to commemorated the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012.

NHS dentistry is subsidised, there are 3 bands of treatment ( this is for England, the rest of the U.K. I believe has different arrangements) Band 1 initial check up , treatment plan, x-ray & clean £23.80 this is usually scheduled every six months Band 2 , includes everything in band 1 plus fillings, root canal and extractions £65.20 Band 3 includes everything in 1&2 plus crowns, dentures and bridges.£282.80 Also prescriptions are £9.35 each in England or you can purchase a year long exemption for £108.10 which covers limitless prescriptions ( free for all in Scotland) Over 60’s get free prescriptions and those with long term chronic life threatening conditions. However dentistry carried out in NHS hospitals is free Under 18’s and under 19’s in full education receive free treatment Also if you are pregnant and up to a year after giving birth On low income or some benefits

London has 5 royal parks and many large open heaths, commons and several areas of ancient woodlands as well as hundreds of smaller parks and green spaces

I remember moving from my home town in the Midlands, when I was 11 to our new house, 15 minutes away and getting picked on mercilessly at my new school because I had a very different accent. Even neighbouring counties like Warwickshire and Leicestershire, where I previously and now live, have very different accents and they're 15/20 minutes away. Its wild how different accents are when you're only a few miles away!

In the UK you can cross a river and the accents can change.

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@14.28 what you're describing there sounds like Croquet where you use a mallet to hit the balls through the hoops. Cricket is where a bowler throws a ball at a series of wickets and the batter has to hit the ball to deflect it and then run. So in a way it's kinda sorta like baseball, but also different in a way

Lots of people think London is UK all over but if you leave London and go in any direction you will be surprised at how beautiful our little island is.

May I suggest you try a channel called 'Let's Walk' He does walking tours of British villages/towns and cities giving the history of the place and important buildings that are there . Some are narrated, others have closed captions. They are very interesting and extremely informative. Hope you enjoy them.

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.

London doesnt have a "Central Park", large green parks cover the whole city.

Well, that's the most hilarious description of Cricket I've ever heard, I lost it at Mallet 😂 I live in rural South Wales but born and bred in York, North Yorkshire so from a Welsh point of view I would say Rugby is the most popular sport. Being in rural S. Wales means I have superb views, lovely fresh air and 6 castles within a 10 mile radius of me and we have a hosepipe ban on at the moment because of not enough rainfall since March. Wouldn't live anywhere else.

I live just north west of Aberdeen in North East Scotland. We're lucky to have some fantastic countryside on our doorstep and we're very close to the coast too. I'm a big fan of castles and I love visiting them, although I get a few complaints from my kids (and husband) if I drag them along, 😆. Craigievar is a very striking pink castle about a half hour drive away. It's said to have inspired Walt Disney's Cinderella Castle. South of Aberdeen is Dunottar which is in ruins but still imposing, set out into the North Sea on a rocky peninsula. The Shetland Islands are part of Scotland. I've never been there but have been to the closer Orkney Islands. If you want to find stone circles, you can take your pick up there! Where I live now, the Doric dialect of Scots is spoken. I grew up familiar with Lowland Scots (or Lallans) and when I move 40 miles away to Aberdeen for college I couldn't understand what people were saying to me. My husband is English and a security person at his work used to speak to him before every shift at work and he just nodded and smiled as he had no idea what they were saying.

I'm totally on the same page with you there with regard to old cemeteries... I love walking around them and looking at the really old tombstones. I feel at peace when I'm doing that. 😌

Big Ben is the name of the bell in the clock tower, but is accepted as the name of the tower itself

There are a few islands around the UK most are, fully part of UK. Some like the one in the Irish Sea are Crown Dependency. They are self governing, but dependant on aspects like security. The one in the Irish Sea is the Isle of Man, an interesting place that is famous for the TT racing. The deadly animal in the UK is human. As you talk about weather, well so do we, it is so variable. Our obsession with weather goes so far back in time, you could almost say Stonehenge is a tribute to it. As an island we have been subject to vagaries but infrequently extremes.

Yes dental care is included. It's not from our taxes, it's from a tax called National insurance NI and i believe its the same amount for all here as even students pay it as it covers GP, ambulance dental and hospital

Big Ben, actually refers to the bell/hammer within the clock tower.

You would love Lancashire England then. Full of scenic views, old buildings, forests, streams, villages etc. The Lake District England is beautiful too. Yes, it does rain alot here but I love the rain 😊😊😊

Fantastic... Like your reactions... Just to clarify, you keep referring to Tower bridge as London bridge. You do have a London bridge in the USA at Lake Havasu City, Arizona which was purchased by an American (Robert P. McCulloch) from the City of London. He thought he was buying the impressive Tower bridge!

There isn't just 1 large park in Central London, there are dozens. Btw, Central Park was largely modelled on an English park. :)

I agree with you. Been to London 3 times and love it there. Walking around there is like walking thru a history book. So much history, pageantry and tradition. We only think that things are old here in the USA. Over there, buildings are hundreds and hundreds of years old. Keep up the good work. Don H Ocala Fl

You would be VERY welcome here Steve, to visit AND live!.

When I went for a job interview I was asked about my accent, would people understand me. I just said I would change my accent. The job was in a town about 8 miles from my home.

You should check out Snowdonia, Tenby & Aberystwyth in Wales.😎👌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

What you referred to as Big Ben is not what you think. What you saw was the "Great Clock Tower" renamed the Elizebeth Tower, You then have the great clock within in the tower. Big Ben is the great Bell, that you hear chiming

The Shetland Islands are part of Scotland and Big Ben is the bell inside the tower, not the tower itself - and not the clock.

When it comes to diversity and multiple cultures, you'll mostly see that in very large areas, such as the big cities. For example, London, Birmingham, Manchester. Of course that's not to say that you wont find all different folk up and down the country, but I think if you were to look at statistics and population data, it would mostly be in large cities and towns. Really enjoying your channel, man. Especially because you seem to have a genuine interest and you read comments, etc etc. There's so much cool stuff out there for you to check out, too. Have a good one bro

I'm loving watching your reactions to the UK. As for the NHS, you're right to question dentisty. In theory, it's part of the NHS, but the reality is that it's only subsidised a bit by the NHS - if you need dental work you're gonna pay, and private dental insurance is more necessary than ever if you want to be assured of dental care. The NHS has long waiting lists for a lot of care in general. In an emergency sitaution though, you have no worries about getting free care. Overall I would buy private health care cover in this country if I could afford it, to cover non-emergency needs.

Nice to hear-you'd be welcome! Like most places, there are down sides too, expensive housing for one but then after a few visits to the pub it all that seems to disappear!

Nice view of Oban near the end of the video.

Just as the USA States have different accents so does each County in the UK

-The most popular sport in the UK, and indeed, the entire world, outside of the USA, is football, or as you'd call it, Soccer -Yea, there's no natural predators to human beings living in the UK, the most dangerous animal you might see is a an angry hedgehog which will run away from you lmao. We do have Adders, but I've never seen one before, and they likely hide. I'm not sure exactly where their range or preferred habitat is, however. -The truth is, almost every single first world country on the planet uses universal healthcare. Americans, with a private healthcare industry, still end up paying more in taxes to healthcare than any other nation, too. ON TOP of paying the insurance companies!. -Paying tax is also a seperate industry in itself in America, so here, you pay tax when you get paid. Automatically.

Hi, new to your vids, this is the first one 🙂 I've just Googled it, and the UK is apparently roughly the same size as Alabama, so I suppose it's easy to see why you don't have to go far to hear a different accent. Edit - just seen this explained in the hugely helpful and comprehensive comment further down by RhiLou32 🙂

It’s 82 today and that is HOT for us here! And in the winter, if London gets an inch of snow, very rare, nobody can drive in it!