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Europeans, due to their stilted societies, know that, basically the only place where they can earn money is in The United States. For good or for bad as regards how it is here - temporarily - Europe/the UK is a basket case in so many respects.
I’m a European living in America and if I wanted to leave I would. Nobody is forced to move to the states. The survey asked people who don’t live in the states. If they wanted to live in the states so bad, they would have already moved here…
Yeah that's the problem with this kind of survey. He asked if they wanted to live in the US, selected the people that didn't want to, then asked them why. That's a severe selection bias. Next problem is the video is titled "Why do Europeans hate living in America so much?" Well, hold on, that wasn't the question, was it? Is garbage clickbait.
I hope you're having a great time in the states man!. The American experience is great but has been dying under Biden. Any public official who constantly tries to appease all the small sects of weirdos will always fail
The biggest difference between Americans and Europeans is that Europeans want the government to mandate everything and protect them from life, while Americans want the government to leave people alone and stay out of people's way.
In Texas and Florida, the government has control over women's bodies and can throw them in prison for life for seeking an ab*rtion. It also dictates what books children can read and libraries can offer. Recently, Texas has moved forward with a bill to ban adult websites. Florida has banned pro-Palestine organizations from universities. Recently, the US Supreme Court *effectively* illegalized large scale protests in Texas. I've seen no push back from right-wing groups on these gov't intrusions into their personal lives. That's bcz righties love "big govt" when it aligns with their interests. (This is just a short list.)
Their ignorance in blindly following whatever their governments want them to do, certainly never worked out well, as evidenced from their past history.
Anything by Briggs is on my blacklist. Giving false facts that are intended to rile people up. Pro tip: Try your hardest to stay far away from those types of people if you meet them in person.
Of course Briggs trolls with this question. Just another way to stir up negativity and perpetuate stereotypes from those who don't understand things well. There's no set amount of vacation. It's by the employer. My last company gave 45 days. Please consider the quality of healthcare, which Briggs is not, when comparing cost of health insurance.
I;m a European and i would love to live in America, experience a different culture and learn something new. No one is forcing europeans to live anywhere. This is bizarre.
Exactly. They aren't living here. Presumably, they are basing their opinions on what they see in the news, in movies/TV or possibly based on a short vacation they made here. You can't judge the whole country based on any of those because the country is so enormous, diverse and wildly different from state to state and even town to town. 90% of what's seen in the national news is not at all indicative of life in most cities and towns. Far from it! Life in a big city vs a smaller city are like night and day. There's a groove for everyone. You just have to find yours.
Well, you know, maybe those Europeans were traveling (they're always running away from their countries) and they had a layover in an airport in the States. They then seem to have absorbed ALL of what they know about the US from that and that alone.
I think if you asked most Americans, they’d probably say they would hate living in Europe too. I know I would. No guns, no pickup trucks, all of their cars are gay, a lot of the people are snobs, much of their food is bland and tasteless, (depends on the country, obviously, but still) and they haven’t been able to defend themselves without OUR help in well over a hundred years lol. Why the hell would I want to live there? Why would anyone? What do they even do over there? Besides complain about everything? Lol. Some places are nice to visit, but you’d have to be insane, or be born there to ever WANT to live there. I’m glad they believe everything they hear on the news, and don’t want to move here. We have enough immigrants who hate America already as it is!
I have to agree with one of the earlier comments if you don’t want to do any of this, then don’t come here. By the way most of the countries they are talking about are the size of one state we have 50… I love this country, and I am blessed to have been born here.
During the 25 years I spent as a Paramedic in Florida I picked up and transported several hundred patients from Europe and Great Britain from modern first world countries like Britain Germany Sweden etc and many from Canada. Who needed a procedure or treatment that either wasn’t available in their country or they would have to wait so long for they would suffer either a permanent disability or death before very much time went by. I never transported any patients from the USA to an airport to go to another country for treatment
@@LukaDonesnitchThe previous poster wasn't mentioning about elective procedures, but regular ones. Leftists will often compare apples to oranges when they have no argument.
Aiden made a good point about the diversity In the US. When you have people from all around the world living in one country of course there's going to be tension.
Other than some parts of some large urban centers, there's not a whole lot of tension. Over there in Europe, they're importing murderous individuals of a cult intent on literally taking over their countries! Insanity.
Europeans may get p*ss*d at IRS tax forms. I'd get p*ss*d at how much Europeans have to pay in taxes. After filling out the forms,. I end up paying about 13% of my income to the federal government. I suspect most Europeans would be deliriously happy at such a number. I'll spend a few hours a year filling out forms. Incidentally, I get most of my meds from the VA and pay $7 for a month supply, less than it would cost in Britain apparently.
@@DustinHakonson True, but that's a separate issue unrelated to the NHS. And US big pharma does come up with the most miracle drugs using their huge bank accounts.
Europeans pay so much more in taxes for their "free health care". Often more than 50%+ of their incomes. The wait to see a doctor, the quality of care being adverse factors. Many Europeans come to the United States for care. I've never heard of an American running there to get treated, that' for sure! Many Americans have medical insurance through their employment. Jobs are plentiful enough and one of the factors that comes into play when looking for one, is the level of medical coverage that comes along with a prospective job. For those self-employed, or that have jobs without insurance, you can get it privately - much like life insurance, house insurance, auto insurance etc. Believe me, no one is paying out un-Godly sums due to medical procedures or going bankrupt in the process of doing so. Medical costs are certainly stratospheric here due to the health care providers knowing that the mega-rich insurance conglomerates will pay out any amount - however outrageous. One big secret is that if, for whatever reason, a person/family cannot pay, the hospital will either work out a plan for payment stretching out years or just outright let the debt go.
@@geraldvelez597 This. The UK and continent pay obscene taxes for absolutely appalling, shitty, subpar healthcare. We can see a specialist within a week...over there it would be 6 months or more and even many months if private. Contrary to belief, we don't have to pay for ambulance rides and they arrive within 5-20min maximum while there it's 8+ hours to some saying 1-2 days for transport and you aren't even being treated at the emergency department or your A&E which is also a joke. You'll be dead waiting for an ambulance and then the wait time in A&E. That doesn't happen here. I'm a chronic pain sufferer with many additional health problems that span over a dozen different fields and subspecialty fields of medicine for 18+ years which started when I was just a kid at 15 and it became my full-time job going to 600+ doctors and specialists appointments, constant repeated--usually invasive and under anaesthesia--testing, countless ER visits, dozens of hospitalizations, emergency surgeries, and traveling all around the entire (USA) country and went to all the top ranked hospitals (worldwide), some 2-3x like Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic amongst tons of other university research hospitals, to no avail unfortunately but during one trip out to University of Utah Moran Eye Institute, we had a British Uber driver who had family there and drove us from the airport to hotel or from the hotel to the hospital (it was Nov 2015 so it's been a while) and he said and explained how horrific the wait times were for not only the NHS but private hospitals as he needed something done or to see a specialist and the wait time was at least 3 months for private. He said Ameican healthcare was so much better.
Why is it slowing down? "Thanks" to murderer, er Sen. Ted Kennedy, around 1965, it became much more difficult for Europeans to move to America and much easier for people from other continents to move to America.
I don't understand the "lack of public transport". Every city over 100K in population has a bus system. Many also have subways or elevated trains. We do lack a good national rail system though. Amtrak services the major cities.
Do you have access to public transportation that works? If you did have access to a bus or rail transit that would pick you up within a block or two of your home, arrives every 10-15 minutes and would take you pretty directly to where you want to go, I don't think you'd need your mind changed. Indeed, if you lived in a place like Manhattan, transit is so much more convenient than owning your own car that it would likely be hard to convince you to buy one. Most Americans love cars because most Americans live in places where public transit doesn't make sense--the population density is too low and things are too spread out. But for some of us the reality is different. But for urbanites, life is different, whether here or in Europe. It's hard to park and expensive and the lucky among us have transit that is really pretty good (and where it doesn't work for us, Uber usually does).
The vacation time in the USA depends on what career you have, how long you've been there and your seniority. Take my job. When I started, for the first year you get 1 week. 3rd year 2 weeks. and 25 yrs you get 3 weeks. 63 hours of PTO and 12 sick days. I am a programmer engineer at a cabinet shop. But another job in another career will be different.
@@Fezleee I was thinking to myself, was this his way of saying he worked his way to 3 weeks vacation in 25 years? That's terrible. And ten people liked his comment is very telling how most of us don't realize how much time off some countries abroad get. This is shameful.
@@LukaDonesnitch 10 likes is very few actually. Most people accrue a lot more than 3 weeks after 25 years with an organization. I’d say the average after that time is 5-6 weeks of vacation in addition to other leave.
Paid vacation differs from job to job. Some get none or very little. I get 4 wks soon to be bumped to 5 based on yrs of service. There is no government mandated minimum.
Oh on the healthcare side of things. I worked in healthcare. It has become so expensive to have health insurance when Obamacare was enacted. I remember paying $80 a month out of my check and it covered EVERYTHING back in the 90’s. So yeah, it’s ridiculous now. Thanks to Obamacare. However, there are MANY Canadians who come to the US for healthcare. I have been told that it’s so difficult to be seen by a doctor there, that you would 💀waiting to be seen. In the USA… at least the state I live in ( a red state)… you are seen immediately, even if you don’t have insurance. AND if you can’t afford to pay the bill…you can apply for “medical forgiveness “ and you don’t pay a thing. So… as ridiculously expensive as it is, since the passing of Obamacare, we still do have great healthcare. Definitely NOT perfect and I have major issues with big pharma ( which is now a branch of the government really)… yeah.. I don’t want socialized healthcare but we need to go back to when it was affordable for everyone, and include more alternative healthcare options.
much higher. i had the option to work in germany and it wouldve amounted to a 40% pay cut. and thats not even accounting for taxes which are also higher in europe.
Meh, the price of living out weighs the cost of regular salaries, it's not like wages are even keeping up with inflation. Is the middle class even still a thing? Everybody's been saying it's going to vanish for years.
@@LukaDonesnitch I’d say wages in most industries are chasing inflation and just a step or so behind. Most people just grit and bear cost increases, I think. Last time I looked, airlines are flying at pre-pandemic capacity, job growth is strong, and people are driving a lot of new cars, at least where I live.
@@nullakjg767 truth. I recently bit the bullet and accepted a job at a brewery in Germany and I will be making approximately just over 1/3rd of what I make in the US, with the max pay after several years being approximately 2/3rds of what my current not topped out US wages are. To make it worse, I come from a state with no income tax which will make the German tax price tag on the reduced wages even more of a shock. But it was always a dream, so I'll manage by taking cushion money with me.
His numbers about college expense/year are way off: In-state (if you are a resident of the state where college/uni is) tuition and fees at a public college in the US is $10,662/year, while out-of-state students pay an average of $23,630/year. This is almost 75% less than the average cost of a private college, which is $42,162/year(!).
Daz, I'd quit my American job if I got just 4 weeks off. I get 9 (100% paid) if you count holidays. The problem is millenials and GenXers want all that in Year 1 and don't respect seniority.
I cant imagine something worse than NOT owning a car and riding public busses and trains. Absolutely disgusting, and unreliable. I love to drive. I love owning tons of types of vehicles with engines.
Yeah, makes me absolutely suicidal the thought of not paying thousands for auto insurance and gas and just summoning an Uber within minutes to take me wherever I can't walk to in my city.
@@BTinSF you think auto insurance and the price of a car/gas is more expensive than paying for an ultra luxury service? Are u able to think ahead or make a financial choice over a 5 year period? 1 year of uber would cost the same as 10 years of owning a car.
@@chroniccomplainer3792 You are simply wrong. You simply don't understand what living in a dense city is like. I can walk to almost everything: Bank, dry cleaner, groceries, drug stores, many of my doctors, hospital etc etc. If I want to go to a restaurant across town, the Uber ride is generally less than $10. I do that maybe once a week at most (but also I could get there for $1.50 on a bus if I felt like taking a chance on catching some virus).
If you're going to live in a mass city like NY, then trains and Ubers and taxis are your best option to travel bc parking space sucks big time and gridlocks. What can I say?! If you want to drive your fancy vehicles or whatever, then live in the suburbs or outskirts. 🤷♀️🤷♂️
Most Europeans that move here think America should be like their Homeland which makes No sense to why would you come here in the first place if that was True. I hear it all the time from friends of friends
So many "bad" stories are truly "blasted" on MSM & social media to the world & it's what people take in who live abroad. Hell, we hear how some countries are the worst to visit, but people who live there say otherwise. I'm not saying bad things don't happen, but it's 24/7 blasted around the world of how awful it is. I live in a small town in the NE US & I just don't see how horrible it's supposed to be.
Regarding the political climate Briggs is right about the phrase of the week. Seems lately that the media and some in Congress can't mention "threat to democracy" often enough. They're pandering to their base but the large prize block of independent voters like me are wise to their BS. And by the way, we're a constitutional republic. Next, if you think that gun laws are relaxed here, you haven't tried to acquire one (legally). Criminals can't purchase guns at a gun store because they know they'll be denied by the instant background check system. So, they buy them off the street from other criminals or steal them. Guns don't cause violence...people cause violence. There are over 20,000 gun laws in the U.S. at the combined federal, state, and local levels. What's relaxed are the "no bail" requirements for criminals and the bought and paid for district attorneys who won't prosecute them. I could go on and on but you get my drift.
Fundamentally, I think it narrows down to individualism vs. collectivism. They’ve been groomed to act as a group so anyone that deviates from what they perceive as the “norm” is threatening to them.
Just look at Britain, where they have a very very large group there that have already told native Britishers to leave if they don't agree with the takeover of the UK by this group. That's a nightmare - they cannot defend themselves, either.
I'm seventy one years old and I have never had an urge to use public transportation. I have ridden a Greyhound Bus a few times when is was in my early twenties and was in a taxi about twice. My biggest objection against public transportation is being close to the dregs of society. Only losers don't have a car. Europeans, take that how you may.
FYI: Ra cial tension is not always the image the narrator tried to portray, where the POC is being treated wrong. This is something to keep in mind; especially if you are European. This guy thinks he's slick when talking about immigration. He shows someone writing Haiti, then shows it getting stamped "denied" when we all know most people from Haiti are not coming in legally!
We 'couped' Haiti about two months ago. We put the Haitian president on a plane and wouldn't let him return home. I've lost count of the number of times we've toppled their government and thrown their country into chaos and violence. *The 'illegals' are the people in our government who do this. Not the innocent Haitians -- the victims -- who arrive at our border.* We owe all of them humane treatment and a quick path to citizenship.
The US is the only country in the world that faces its racial issues straight on, acknowledges them and has a whole system of laws and policies to counteract the inequities. The world knows about them because we publicize everything related to the issue and people subject to discrimination do not suffer in silence. As usual, we created the DEI movement and are leading it. Given our history of slavery imposed by European colonialism, we set a remarkable example for the world.
I always got paid vacations. After one year I was entitled to 2 weeks and I think after 5 years 3 weeks. I worked for major corporations. You know you have to work hard but I enjoyed every job I had. I’m now retired and very happy I live in USA! Life has been good. Politics is a sore point right now! But as a history/ political science major there’s often been divisions.
Time off is SOOO based on the type of work you do -- white collar office jobs you have PTO that is upped every year -- I had almost 40 days off a year by the time I retired....the problem is while American's have the time to take - THEY DON'T TAKE IT! They get busy and want to get that project done etc...and end up just taking a day here or there.....American's work ethic is work then fun - other countries it's fun then work! That's also why the economy in the US and our military etc. are what they are! It all shows why we are the country that we are!
The notion that health care gets better results in Europe is a myth. If you compare middle and upper middle class "European-Americans" with an economically similar group living in Europe, there's not much difference. As with a number of other of these issues, the problem is access and medical sophistication. America's minorities generally don't know when and how to seek medical care and/or can't get it or can't afford it (if they don't know how to sign up for programs like Medicaid) and that all drags down the population averages.
So why do the European, Canadian (ie. the Premier of Quebec) and especially Arabic rich come to America for procedures? Some futbol stars go to one famous US doctor for joint surgery because they recover in rehab weeks before the less competent European surgeons. Their teams pay for the long trip to Colorado because the players return to the game weeks earlier. Look it up if you hadn't heard that before. My hospital gave me a CT scan same day and apologized for the wait for a radiologist to read it. That wait time was 55 minutes. They apologized for 55 minutes! In Europe your non-emergency CT scan would be days if not weeks after arriving and the exam likely read by the radiologist in Bangalore or Moscow from friends tell me. American healthcare is frightfully expensive, yes, but it remains the gold standard for the world and the rich around the planet speak with their travel and dollars. A Saudi Prince gets cancer....he'll be headed to a US specialist in no time flat.
This. The UK and continent pay obscene taxes for absolutely appalling, shitty, subpar healthcare. We can see a specialist within a week...over there it would be 6 months or more and even many months if private. Contrary to belief, we don't have to pay for ambulance rides and they arrive within 5-20min maximum while there it's 8+ hours to some saying 1-2 days for transport and you aren't even being treated at the emergency department or your A&E which is also a joke. You'll be dead waiting for an ambulance and then the wait time in A&E. That doesn't happen here. I'm a chronic pain sufferer with many additional health problems that span over a dozen different fields and subspecialty fields of medicine for 18+ years which started when I was just a kid at 15 and it became my full-time job going to 600+ doctors and specialists appointments, constant repeated--usually invasive and under anaesthesia--testing, countless ER visits, dozens of hospitalizations, emergency surgeries, and traveling all around the entire (USA) country and went to all the top ranked hospitals (worldwide), some 2-3x like Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic amongst tons of other university research hospitals, to no avail unfortunately but during one trip out to University of Utah Moran Eye Institute, we had a British Uber driver who had family there and drove us from the airport to hotel or from the hotel to the hospital (it was Nov 2015 so it's been a while) and he said and explained how horrific the wait times were for not only the NHS but private hospitals as he needed something done or to see a specialist and the wait time was at least 3 months for private. He said Ameican healthcare was so much better. And Cleveland Clinic where I went 2x is the number 1 heart hospital in the ENTIRE world. It was where a super wealthy Middle Eastern sheik or ruler who came there to be treated...not in the ME or European continent countries.
I think here we get 14 days of paid time off (PTO) on average. Don’t think this includes federal holidays so you can add another 7-8 depending on the company. Many companies shortchange us and don’t provide paid time off unless you are a certain position in the company. Also if your part-time (like than 32-35 hours a week) you don’t get PTO either for most companies.
for pto, alot of places will give you a week at first and sometimes you don't get it until after a year, some place do give you it sooner and some right away
Yea that's usually the norm. But I had a job where they only gave us 2 days after a year & it maxed out at 6 days in 3 years. Now, I work at a hospital and they are very generous with time-off. Our vacation, personal, and sick time are all independent from each other which is really great.
I work in an Amazon fulfillment center doing warehouse work and I have been there for 5 years. I get about 15 days of paid vacation each year which is pretty good. I also get paid personal time off and I can take unpaid time off. When I was in the Army I got 30 days of vacation each year, that is the most I ever got.
His health insurance explanation completely ignored the fact that most Americans have health insurance and are not paying those costs out of their own pocket. The latest statistic is that only 9.6% of American are uninsured.
Vacation time is not a right by law. It is determined by the company's policy. The only legal time off is a 30-min break per 4 hrs worked. So, there are a lot of companies that don't give time off at all.
To be real, what country has developed most of the technology used current day. All developed by our American school system, not necessarily colleges either. Bill Gates, nor Steve Jobs graduated from college.
Every job I’ve ever had has offered health insurance. Currently I get $120 deducted from my bi-weekly paychecks and my company pays the rest. Meds are $7 or $10 for name-brand. I have to pay the first $500 in a year then they cover 80% after getting everything discounted. For dental, it’s free check-up’s for entire family every 5 months then they’ll pay a big portion of important procedures and a bit less if it’s cosmetic stuff. Vision is a free yearly checkup each year and they pay 80% on glasses/contacts. Last time I picked a paid of Tiffany diamond-studded glasses, two different prescriptions in each lens plus an astigmatism, got blue light protection and sun dimming tech and only paid like $200. I’ve never worked somewhere that didn’t offer benefits (health insurance, paid holidays, you accumulate PTO each pay day, and 401(k) matching where they’ll match however much you put into your retirement account (untaxed) up to like 5-6% of your salary. Every single job is different, but you can always get health insurance via the government marketplace if you’re uncovered.
All of these issues really just depends. Vacation time depends on the employer, some employers are very generous & other employers not so much. Crime depends in which city & state you live. Healthcare depends on the city, state, and your employer. Public transportation depends again city and state, the Northeast of U.S is pretty good with public transit.
The average commute in the US is 40 miles. 20 miles on public transportation will take forever, and still might not deliver you to your workplace. Some aren't cut out to be American. It took special people to risk their lives crossing the ocean to get here. Some of that character still exists.
I got 5 weeks paid vacation a year and 13 days of sick time per year with no limit to how much I could carry over from year to year. When I retired I had 16 weeks of vacation and 15 months of sick time on the books that I was compensated for at my then salary. It all depends on the employer.
Time off isn’t federally controlled ( which is a good thing! Less government involvement is always better). So, depending on the size of a company and what they can afford makes a huge difference. Usually, we get two weeks paid time off in a year. We can take unpaid leave if necessary. Whenever I have looked into a job that was hiring, I always asked what were the benefits they offered. Yes we do work a lot. I think it’s just ingrained in American s ( not sure about the younger generations) to be hard workers, that’s not a bad thing BUT I do believe it can be too much sometimes. I know people who love to work… they always strive to work “overtime “ so they can get overtime pay… which is double the hourly wage. I always signed up for all the benefits so that if I had an emergency, I would still have income while not working. Of course I worked for companies who could afford to offer that. A small local barista will not be able to afford that. Some jobs pay for continued education so you can earn more money, and some will even put money toward your kids college tuition. We aren’t a socialist country and that requires more reliance on God, ourselves, and community … which is more what I prefer personally. I don’t want the government in every aspect of my life.
Healthcare in the U.S. is expensive for a number of reasons that are largely self-inflicted, no pun intended. Issues with the third party payer insurance system and lack of price transparency and competition are two of the biggest. Also, US healthcare innovation and development-which is far greater than in other countries-is funded and subsidized more so by US citizens, of course.
I think the important thing to remember is that you have options and A LOT of them. You COULD go to Chiraq, but you could also go to Nashua New Hampshire instead. Hate big cities? Go somewhere like Walnut Grove, Mississippi. Personally, I'm happy here in Alaska. Sure the winters are some of if not the most brutal on the planet, but our landscape and wallet size make up plenty for it.
My partner is prescribed medication to handle her having chronic migraines from missing a quarter sized portion of her brain. It's basically a fancier version of Tylenol but that prescription to refill even with great insurance is $1,000.00. That gives you an idea of the prices in the healthcare system here. It's ridiculous even with deductions.
@@kelseyk530 if that’s the case, it’s because of one of the ingredients in particular. This used to be a very cheap generic medication, but due to the changes regarding prescribing barbiturates, most insurances no longer cover it in part, if at all.
Well, the Europeans that would do well living here are those who take the time to visit and see for themselves as you and others have. Of course, we in the States also have some misconceptions about other countries as well.
Vacation times vary by state and by employer I believe. Where I work in Nevada I accrue vacation every two weeks. You can accrue a total of 120 hours in a year but most employers won't let you use all 120 hours at once. Luckily my employer lets us splurge our vacations. So we can disappear for 3 weeks lol. If you resign or get fired you are paid all of that vacation time. The worst part of working here is, being sick or having family emergencies. Most employers search for any avenue to fire you when sick, pregnant, dealing with death in the family etc... So always maintain contact and provide proof. You are replaceable and american companies make sure you know it.
I have a funny story about the language barrier. I worked in a medical clinic at a local university. The doctor was from India. The patient was from Appalachia. They both spoke English but neither of them could understand the other. They had to have a nurse translate English to English. 😂
OK, regarding the Work-Life (or Paid Time Off) thing, yeah, there's a reason why the US has the largest GDP in the world, and why our jobs pay more as well. Whenever Tipping is brought up in these kinds of videos, the idea of having to pay a waiter a Tip to make up for the mediocre hourly pay the restaurant give them is funny when it's been discovered or exposed that that the median waiter pay in the UK $9/hr. The minimum wage in the US now is heading to $15/hr or even higher in some places. In California they have passed a law making $20/hr the minimum to work at fast food joints. That's literally insane, because we're already at the point where automation is replacing a lot of these jobs. So California is shooting itself in the foot with this one. But with Tipping, often times the waiter will make more money thru tips than they ever could thru a set wage. Hell, just ask Exotic Dancers. They'll make hundreds of dollars per night. That's more than about $50 they'd make otherwise at a set wage. So don't knock the Tipping Culture until you've worked a job that gets tips. Oops, almost forgot my main point about the Work-life balance...yes, a part of it is the GDP, but I could see if you're not getting paid as well as you think you should, you'd want more time off as well. But I'll tell you what, if you get paid well, and love what you for work, you're more than happy to work the long hours or days.
We have zero guaranteed paid vacation days in the U.S. Many companies offer it in one week or two week increments based on length of employment. Work with the company for a year, get a week of paid vacation. 2 years, 2 weeks and so on.
When considering public transportation one has to take into consideration population density. Only the coastal areas of the US have about the same population density as Europe, and that is where you will find the best public transportation in the US. Alaska, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and both Dakota's combined comprise less than 10% of the total population of the US, but they include more than half of the total area of the US. Public transportation is going to be the worst in those States because they lack the population density to make public transportation viable.
I’ve always wanted to visit the UK and hearing about the knife crime coming from a state that has constitutional carry laws. It’s funny to think about if carrying a pocket knife will get me in trouble. 😂. But I couldn’t bring it on the plane anyways so. 🤷🏻♂️
We had German and Swiss in California. I ask why they come to America rather than England to better your English. They said, American English is better to understand, than the England language in England. Plus, they watch a lot of American movies.
Healthcare your healthcare is subsidized by your government, which is great, however, it is bankrupting European countries budgets, and you pay for it by higher cost on a lot of things
The news makes this so much worse than reality.. Im a white guu in Baltimore for 40 years.. Its all coming from media, and the youngest generation, who are still in school
The United States absolutely has many different accents as well as pronunciations that are very different. Examples are a town in Massachusetts spelled Haverhill that’s the correct pronunciation is Haverill and another town in Massachusetts on Nantucket spelled Siasconcet that’s pronounced Sconset and I have lot of family on Paternal Grandmother side that are native born on Nantucket so believe me that is correct
Many hourly workers starting out get 8 hours per month in the majority of government and large employer occupations. That equals two weeks and 1 day. After 5 years, it became 10 hours per month, after 15 years, 12 hours per month, etc. Workaholics would carry over vacation time until they reached the maximum allowed of 350 hours. After that, it’s use or lose.
Trying calling a Mexican or Canadian an American! And last I looked people from Brazil call themselves Brazilians. People from Peru call themselves Peruvians. You get my drift. So if I’m not an American what am I? A United Statser? 😱
Racial tension is not so much that it’s the victimhood mentality being pushed, you’re not doing as well as others well, you’re a victim, because why take personal responsibility for your own actions right
Public transportation? I would guess that most Americans like the independence and convenience of just getting in their own vehicle and motoring to wherever they want to go. Americans spend loads more money (due to our economy and much higher standard of living) than Europeans. How would one navigate piling onto public transportation carrying our so-much-larger purchases? Also, maybe no one noticed, the United States is huge. Most European countries are tiny in comparison. We have a train system that goes across the 3000mile land mass, east to west, as well as the 1500 miles or so, north to south. Work/life balance - productivity of the United States is far far ahead of Europe, where they basically have a lackadaisical attitude to earning money for themselves and their families. They just don't want to work and sweat as many Americans willingly do. As they 'complain' about us Americans always smiling, we often wonder why they always look so miserable. There is no country that offers more freedom and opportunities than the United States. Everyone is fully aware of that. I am always amazed how Europeans always have Americans on their minds. I guess it all boils down to the fact, and with all due respect, as much as Europeans think about America, America doesn't really think about the Europeans at all. It's basically as simple as that. Granted, it certainly does make for an entertaining video, though - that's for sure!
Daz does not want to comment on the vacation, he had nice cushy job while in jersey at least... but normal start up jobs is 2 weeks, if in more white collar job it is 3-4 weeks. each will give more vacation time as the years go on, but that is different for each issue. Aiden, I will say, your thinking is normal for younger voters.. but if your Dad is saying a certain way, you should listen to that until you grow up and things change in Holy Crud!! Ex T just spoke from his trial! I feel the States have so many other countries learning the language over the many years, we have a bland accent of English language.. so it is easier for outsiders who know some English to understand, while in England the accent of English is sao hard..
Daddy's lil boy who has 0 skill in life other than daddy money! Shame on you ! Go to school? No Daddy's money! Shame on you! Can't even try new foods because daddy is a millionaire . Shame on you kid ( not kid he is 25 now... lol)
When I tried to go around a truck driving slower than speed limit the truck tried to ram me . I got out the car at stop light told him what's your problem your not a traffic enforcement . Yes I should have just kept driving to work. He started shouting saying and risk my life 😅 . Yes because I'm tryna crash into your truck . Soon as I heard his silly Carney accent I told him that's your F'n problem you think you own the world go back to were you came from
Depends on where you live really. The USA is just way too big to generalize it, even though many do. If you don’t mind the cold move to the Midwest. It’s safe, great people, affordable, good opportunities. Almost everywhere else has some massive issues right now.
The guy who posted this is clueless on a number of things, OK on others. Politics should be contentious-- and yes, one side can be right, based on logic and evidence--it isn't just a pointless food fight.
Japan is far worse for work-life balance. Far worse. One of the reasons why I didn't apply to teach EFL in that country. In fact. , a lot of EFL teachers who were teaching in Japan left because of the poor work-life balance.
Chile. Chile is a beautiful democratic society. The weather is amazing. The people and the culture are amazing. Ive never been there. I’ve been doing homework tho. Cheers
