10 years in London as an American | Do I want to stay in the UK?
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- Today's my 10-year anniversary of moving to the UK and to London. Find out what I think about it all in this video.
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I'm Jess, I've lived in London for many years, and this channel is a London travel guide for anyone visiting the city that wants to experience it like you live here. Beyond talking about the usual London attractions, myself and my team show you some of the cooler things to do in London, that most travel guides don't mention. Watch our videos and you'll feel like you've got a Londoner friend telling you the best kept secrets in the city.
Jess, I just completed my first ever visit to London in June 2023. Before that trip, I watched dozens of your videos to prepare for my trip, and I wish to thank you and your team for making all those extremely helpful and informative videos about London. I spent 5 wonderful days in London and had one of the best holidays of my life, thanks to your recommendations and advice regarding public transport and places to see, etc. Kudos to you and your team, and keep up the great work! Congratulations on your 10th anniversary in London!👏👏👏👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
Thank you!! glad to hear it!
Ditto all of the above. We did ten days in April. I'd go back tomorrow. The videos were great BEFORE we went. I'm still watching them AFTER.
Just visited London and prepared myself with your videos! It was really valuable, thank you 🙏 Also for sharing your personal story. Congratulations on your anniversary!
Nice! Thanks!
Hi Jess, congratulations on your 10 year anniversary! I'm so glad to hear you and the business are doing well, you deserve the success you are having because you have worked hard and are a fighter. You're a fantastic ambassador for London, really helping those who plan on visiting. I hope you continue to enjoy your time here for many many more years.
Thanks so much!
Happy anniversary!! I just got back from my London trip yesterday and I seriously couldn’t have done it without you and your videos! It helped me out so much! Thank you!!
Glad to hear it! Thanks!
For me your channel was a huge part of me visiting London and loving it. I really do recommend your channel to anyone that is going to visit London. I am so glad that I found your channel and subscribed to it.
thank you!!
I Love the 10th Anniversary of London and thank you, Jess 🇬🇧
Great questions and answers. Congrats on your anniversary Jess.
Thanks so much!
Congratulations on 10 years! I lived in London from '05 to '09 (I did a BA degree as a mature student, ha ha). Sometimes I regret coming back to So Cal, but your videos help me get over my 'homesickness'. Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much!
Congrats Jesse on your 19tr anniversary. Thank you for all your great videos. Great tips for traveling helped me a great deal. I have been watching your videos since 2015 when you had about 15K subscribers. Thank you and congrats again!🙌😍
Awesome thanks so much!! That's a long time ago wow
Congratulations Jess, your success is so deserved. Love your vlogs
Thanks so much!
Invaluable videos for a tourist 🇹🇹, thank you very much. Congratulations on your ten year anniversary.
Well done Jess. Keep working hard and Stay superb!!
Congratulations, Jess! Thec10 years have passed so quickly. Way to hang in there! I really love your channel! ❤
Thanks!
You are an inspiration Jess. I am someone who was born and grew up in this city, but have often taken it for granted. You are doing such a good job of highlighting and advertising our city to the world. So glad your business is going from strength to strength.
I don’t think advertising the city to the World is a plus, the place is already overwhelmed by mass tourism which is very much a two edged sword.
Thank you so much!
London only has a problem with mass tourism in the super touristy areas which is why we are always telling people to AVOID them ! Don't hang around Leicester Square, Camden Market, the London Eye etc and it's much less crowded.
I'm so glad you've stayed! You're amazing! ❤.
Mega congrats on your decade in London, what a success.
Surprised that I've only just noticed your channel as usually I like to catch people at the very start of their journey and follow them step by step! I did this with the Canadian girl who moved to the UK via her 'Adventures & Naps' channel, but I'm subscribed to you now.
Wishing you continued success here and life to just keep getting better. 🙌
Happy 10 year anniversary, Jess!
Thanks!
Congrats!! I love your videos and look forward to more! Plus, all of your new, creative ideas! Thank you for sharing all that you do!
Thank you so much!!
Love, love, love your channel! I have been watching all your videos for the past several months & my girl scout troop is less than 2 weeks away from our visit to the UK. Thanks for all you do to pour into this channel and stay relevant.
Thanks so much, have a lovely time!
Love your videos - glad it has worked out so well
Congratulations on 10 years Jess! We love all your excellent videos, helped us navigate our first London trip in May from outside NYC, and it will not our last! We Love London! Yes, would love to buy you a pint! Good luck on your continued endeavors, we will be along with you on your channel! Best Wishes.
Thank you ! ❤️❤️
Congratulations !! I've been watching your vlogs for like 7 years now! My first trip to London was in 2013 and I keep going back! Your videos are always very helpful! 💕
Amazing :)
I started watching you back in 2018 before my first trip to London. Thank you for giving navigation (especially with food), on my favorite city! Congrats on a memorable decade, Jess!
Thanks so much!
Congrats!!! Very happy for you and your success!!
Thanks so much!
Congrats Jess, been here since 2013 - your tenacity is admirable! Onward and upward!
Yes I remember! Thanks for sticking around, means a lot!
Happy 10 year anniversary of Love and London! I really love your videos. On my last trip to London in March I made new friends on a walking tour you presented in one of your older videos.
Aw that's so nice!
Congratulations on 10 years Jess !
Weather in London is generally better than in Manchester - no shortage of rain up here !
Studied in London years ago, and love any chance to return and continue exploring, and taking more photos
I enjoy your videos immensely - thanks
Well done Jess, you have always been a very inspiring person. Congratulations for the continued success of your company, I hope it grows and grows. Health and happiness to you and yours
Thanks so much!
Another good vlog, Jess. wish you good luck in the future.
Thank you!
Great job Jess! I just returned from a trip to London yesterday with 2 of my adult daughters and we had used two of your travel guides to make plans. We loved everything you suggested and followed many of your travel tips from UA-cam and Instagram posts! Thanks again!
Thank you SO much for your purchases, you help us keep all of our FREE content coming! So glad you had a great time!! :)
Congratulations on the ten year anniversary!
Thanks so much!!
Happy anniversary! 🎉
Thank you!
all the best for you and your next decade Jess! 🙌
Thanks Claudio!
Congratulations on 10 years in London, Jess! It was a great pleasure to run into you on the Tube in April on our 50th anniversary trip. Best wishes to you on your life and business in London!
You too! Thank you!
Wishing you continued success on your channel!
Thanks!
Just got back to the US from my first time trip to London, your videos helped a lot! Can't wait for my next visit.
Nice!
Wish you and your channel more success. You are really an inspiration Jess.
Thank you!
I am just back from my London vacation. What a trip! thank you for all your videos, they were very helpful! You offer great tips and tricks that we used every day! There is so much to visit in London, i am glad we planned our visits and kept some time for exploration. Thank you so much!
Thanks so much!
Happy 10th anniversary. I like to watch your videos. In two weeks it is my first time in London and i have to thank you for your awesome videos. This videos encouraged me to see more of London not just the "normal" sightseeings.
Thanks so much! Be sure to grab our Casual Tourist Guides too if you want to do things off the beaten path and recommended by me: shop.loveandlondon.com/collections/casual-tourist-guides-to-london they will be right up your alley!
Happy 10 year anniversary!
Thanks!
Happy 10th Anniversary !!! Lots more success in the future! Cheers from Canada!!
Thank you!!
Happy 10th Anniversary! ⚘️🍾🥂🎉
Thanks!
Jess great presentation and blog and most importantly lovely to see you settled here in the uk 🇬🇧 ❤ 🎉
Congratulations Jess! I’m in London now for the first time in 5 years. Your videos, newsletter and free guide have helped a lot. In particular, thanks for your tip about the free Sky Garden (awesome) and the Citymapper app (invaluable). I’m looking forward to hearing more about Love and Paris!
10th anniversary‼️ Congratulations 🎉
Thanks!
I just planned my family London vacation watching a bunch of your videos, recommended by a native Londoner. Thanks for doing what you're doing, Jess. I'm a former New Yorker as well and London (where I did live for 6 months while studying/working abroad in college) is the only place I can see myself living if not in the U.S.
Nice!
do u prefer london to the u.s? planning to move to the uk
Congrats!! 🎉🎊🍾
Thanks!
Nice! Congratulations! ❤
Congrats on the 10th Londoner anniversary, Jess! I am currently planning my 3rd visit to London (but it will be my wife's 1st visit) and using lots of your content to do that. I discovered your channel during the pandemic and helped a lot to go through all of that. I kept wondering if I was ever going to use it in practical terms, and, well, we are doing it now. Thanks a lot!
PS - Looking forward to Love and Paris!
Awesome!! ❤️❤️❤️
Happy Anniversary 🎉
Thanks!
I am in London right now. Love your videos and they’ve helped me avoid some bad places and go local places and have an incredible time so far. Thank you. The Garden at 120 was amazing and free. Won’t make to everything but good to leave a few items for next visit. Thank you again.
Grab one of our guides next time! Shop.loveandlondon.com. enjoy the rest of your trip
❤🥳 congratulations to you
so excited you’re back.
I marred moved from Los Angeles to UK back-and-forth from 97 till 2020.
Actually, your videos were great for me. I enjoyed them very much. Keep going.
Thanks!
Congratulations Jess it's a pleasure to have you as a fellow Londoner ❤
Thanks for watching!
Congrats! 🎉🇬🇧 I also arrived in London in July 2013. Mine will be on the 27th :) what a decade this was…
Congrats!
Love your content Jess. Keep up the great videos. London is my favorite city to visit.
Thanks so much!
Well done Jess we’ve been watching you for about 12 months now for our first trip to London this year and now planning to go back in may 2024. Loving your videos keep them up!
So glad you're enjoying them!
Congrats on 10 years Jess and the rest of the team :)
Thanks Louie!
Congratulations on your 10th anniversar! Happy coincidence that I am watching this on my birthday, which is also July 13th. Hope you keep going with the vlogs for a long time to come - many thanks. 😊👍
Happy birthday!
Happy anniversary 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thank you!
Travelling to London in a few weeks thanks for sharing your wisdom and advice to so many
You're so welcome! Be sure to get one of our London itineraries or Casual Tourist Guides, which helps support all of our FREE content! shop.loveandlondon.com/
Hey Jess! Congratulations! Its my first month in London and your videos helped a tonne! Cheers mate ;)
Glad to hear it!
Heading to London the first week of September, due in part to your videos!
Fab! Be sure to grab one of our itineraries or Casual Tourist Guides before you get here! shop.loveandlondon.com/
Great success story! I am coming for the first time to London from Lisbon. I was looking for city information and, thank God, landed on your channel. After viewing a few city videos, this one popped up. I am really impressed by your achievements. Good luck for your future projects!
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ahh amazing and london is great and is a lovely vibe :D and congratulations on the 10 year anniversary :)
Thank you!
@@loveandlondon no problem :)
Found LAL researching a trip for the fam in 2022. Now I’m like a sports fan - rooting for Jess and her team, learning things about entrepreneurship, etc. All the best!
haha thanks so much!
Congratulations Dear Jess!!!🥰😍🤗
Thanks!
You have done a stirling job with your business. You deserve all the success. I wish you all the best of luck
Thanks!
Happy Anniversary Jess 🎉❤😃!! I started watching your videos about a year and a half ago, and loved them! I lived in London the summer after my freshman year in college (years ago 😂), and I would love to go back with my husband. We will definitely use your travel advice when we do!! Thanks so much for all your hard work, and SO flippin excited for Love and Paris 😙🇫🇷🗼!! Cheers 🍻
Thanks so much :)
Your videos are great - so honest and providing true insights into life in London. I'm not surprised you still love London and see it as your long-term home. The whole Brexit thing was not good, but London is still a wonderfully diverse, culturally rich city with an amazing mix of history, stunning architecture - both old and new, endless opportunities, events and places to visit, all alongside a buzzing, lively vibe that is both captivating and invigorating. London is without doubt one of the greatest cities in the world.
Thanks so much!
"The whole Brexit thing was not good"
Certainly NOT if you DON'T want to live in a country whose people are FREE to make their OWN laws, determine their OWN immigation and monetary policy, and chuck out their lawmakers when THEY deem it necessary (I believe it's called DEMOCRACY - not everyone's cup of tea, I know, certainly as far as Remainers are concerned). Of course if you PREFER to have YOUR laws decided for you by unelectable and unsackable BUREAUCRATS, fair enough. I still find that rather odd, however - and wonder why our recent ancestors ever BOTHERED to fight in WW2.! Myself - I'm a proud and grateful EUROPEAN, but hate the EU (even with all its 'benefits') - a post-War project of the Anglo-American Elite (with Germany chosen as the Head Boy) whose (Globalist) agenda involves the slow destruction of the sovereign nation state. Sadly, too many folk still believe in the propaganda, whilst being resolutely ignorant of the background facts - even when only a mouse-click away. Oh, and it's not just about MONEY: there are _other_ things in life that matter RATHER more - IMHO: such as Willing Co-operation between neighbours, as opposed to Unquestionable Compulsion from above.
Congratulations 🍾🥂🥂🎂🌟🌟
Thanks!
Congratulations on 10 years in London, it's clear this has been a journey for you with everything that has happened and now COVID is well behind us, I am pleased you have a successful business. Collaborating with Londoners is a great idea, to get a feel about the cultural side of the City and let outsiders know that Central London is only a small part of this great city. There is tons of stuff to do and explore in different suburbs.
It's also a big sporting hub, with several big Premier League teams playing every week of the season. My team Arsenal is touring the US right now, and I am surprised that there are soo many Arsenal fans out there. Doing something in and around the Emirates Stadium on a matchday would be a winner for your American audience who clearly love our sports.
Congratulations again!
THank you!
Thank you for all your content. It’s been super helpful. I will be there in December. Would love to see you.
Please say hello if you see Jess!
That takes a lot of guts to make a big change like that and honestly, it seems like it's paying off. Takes time to nature something and let it grow into fruition. I love that tenacity and to be honest, if I was in London, I would love to get a chance to get the tour of London! It's been so long since I visited but I think it's about time to make that trip happen. Might be time to consider transitioning from American Healthcare to the NHS instead. Congrats again on the 10 year anniversery!
Oh my gosh, yesterday was my 10 year anniversary of moving to the States! I followed your journey to the UK back then, messaged with you a bit/commented somewhere as I was coming on a K1 and used to live in London.. Crazy how 10 years have gone by!
Oh wow!
I'm so glad you love our city, I wouldn't live anywhere else. Love you videos, as a Londoner its reminds me there is so much more to explore and do. Thanks
Thanks so much!
You are great, thank you!
No one deserves success more than you !
I started watching you after a recommendation in 2022 from “ pilot wife” ( TX ) after asking a London question - I still use mainly your stuff every spring when planning ! I saw sky garden bc if YOUR recommendations! One of my best visits ever.
One way your videos are diff is you’re so concise ! No bunch’s of promos, before I see what I want to .( I visit UK every summer )
Aw thanks so much! Really glad to hear you find it all so helpful :) Since you're a seasoned pro and I imagine you're trying to do more Londoner-loved stuff, make sure you have a look at our Casual Tourist Guides, they're made for travellers like you: shop.loveandlondon.com/collections/casual-tourist-guides-to-london
Congrats on a decade in London. I'll be in London in less than a month. So as Always these videos have been invaluable.
Thanks so much! Be sure to grab one of our itineraries or Casual Tourist Guides if you haven't already ;) shop.loveandlondon.com/
@loveandlondon I have the London 101 guide already and it has been invaluable.
Happy 250K 💂🏻♀️❤
Thank you for your channel. I am originally from London. I miss London and the UK. A great city within a great nation. If you also moved away from London you would also miss your life there. Through your channel I have an added connection to the city. When the time is right I would like to return. An opportunity of living in London can be a valuable experience. I am pleased to see that you have succesfully navigated the bumps in the road, and become stronger and wiser as a result. Keep on motivating yourself to achieve more and inspiring others whose lives you touch. 😊
Thank you!!
Congratulations from a UA-camr from the other side. UA-cam has replaced my TV and I love it. I watched a few of your video's and did already comment on one very extensively. Probably because I love London so much and visited it many many times, so I had to click the first one. (About the Tube). I also saw a part of your 8 year video. And If I compare the beginning of that video with this one, you have done well Jess. And I do not mean financially, but as a human being. I praise you for that and just wanted to say that. You have a new subscriber.
Oh and btw, who knows Brexit will be turned back. I personaly as a Dutchman like to have the UK back.
Congrats on your 10 years here in our great city
Thanks!
Congratulations on ten years, look forward to the next ten :)
Thanks!
Congrats!
Thank you!
Wow your personality is so amazing i really like such people who are lively , smart & inspirational i watch your vlogs regularly .
Thanks!
Fantastic!
You are great. Thank you for all videos. Keep up the good work. Cheers from a finn in Sweden. Coming to london in april to se Loreena McKennitt in concert.(Palladium)❤
Congratulations on your first decade in the UK
Thanks!
I made it to the end, technically we have a date if I'm ever in London, and in a pub, and spot you , and then remember to buy you a pint. Love the channel, well done Jess glad to hear you're staying.
That's definitely not a date. Thanks for watching.
Jess
Happy Anniversary to you 10th year.
Have you seen any EPL games in London?
Congrats on your 10 years in London, that's twice my time in London, 5 years, coming from Paris :) happy to pay you a pint or a coffee around London :D
Even better, grab one of our Casual Tourist Guides! shop.loveandlondon.com/collections/casual-tourist-guides-to-london
Mate, so proud of what you’ve done over the 10 years, been watching your channel for about 5 of ’em & remember how tough it was for you through covid. You’ve smashed it & are now clearly a Londoner. Gobby, ambivalent about Monarchy, ducking hate Brexit & love to travel. Get the vote! ✊🥰👏👏
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Congratulations on 10 years 🎉,here's to the next 10 🥂,would be great to see you do a collaboration with joolzs guides or evan edinger.
Thank you! Yes we want to do more collabs, would love to include more women and people of colour so if you have any suggestions for other creators we're all ears!
Wining it with Ash would be a great collaboration. She has been travelling around the world for a few years now,has gone through a divorce , and is currently learning Spanish and living in Spain.
It's actually really interesting to hear you talk about the accent situation while your staying here and how past a certain age it doesn't change. For example I was born here in the u.k but when I was a very young kid we moved to America for about 2 and a half years. Since children pick up accents super fast that's exactly what happened to me and now even as a 29 year old who's back in the u.k I still always get the "you sound like a yank mate." Or "you have a transatlantic accent." To my ear I think I have a perfectly normal British accent but to everyone else they immediately ask whether I recently came from the u.s. As to your views on the monarchy....it's a dated tradition/system that should faid into the history books. Glad your still enjoying the u.k 🙂
Hey Jess, great video....again. i am visiting london in a couple of weeks and wonder what kind of summer you are having there. Will i need shorts etc. Thanks
It's always changing. Check the forecast or our weather guide in our London Packing Guide! shop.loveandlondon.com/products/london-packing-guide
Now she tells me...seriously, we enjoyed our 30 hour or so trip to London on 4-5 July during our Paris family trip and if we had bumped into you, I would have definitely would have bought you a pint. I guess it will be for the next trip. Congrats on your 10 years in London! Putting my transit photos from London on my Flickr gallery now, only missing Stagecoach for London Buses, London Underground and Uber Boats, then it's all I the ones I took in and around Paris, which would count for about 1,100 of the 3,483 photos I took during those two weeks. Cheers from Montréal, QC!
Haha well the BEST way to support what we do is to buy something from our shop! shop.loveandlondon.com/collections/mini-guides
Can’t wait for the future of L&L. It sounds exciting! Also get both new citizenships, you can never have too many passports!
Thanks!
Accents: I have to fight the urge to copy accents both in Swedish and English (my two primary languages). I would agree that it isn't a case of loosing your accent. I try to avoid doing it because people often think you are mocking them but it's about trying to figure out how the dialect works.
You are the best 🎉❤