And they have more school shootings, than there's days in a year As of April 30, a total of 256 people have been killed and 625 people have been wounded in 172 shootings. 😳😨
I was born in the US but I moved with my Dutch parents to the Netherlands when I was one year old. Because I was born in the US I was automatically a US citizen. In 2013 (?) the Dutch gouverment signed the FATCA and all of a sudden I had to file taxes in the US, while I am a Dutch citizen, living and working and paying taxes in the Netherlands. If you don't comply, banks will refuse you services. I renounced my American citizenship because of it.
As a European, I don't see the political parties in the US as very different. Which makes it even scarier: what kind of society gets so worked up over slightly different shades of right wing?
Exactly, it just looks like you are either stuck with an extreme, or extreme. Pick one. Whenever somebody asks if you are a republican or a democrat, they just both look so freaking same, apart from. One side is pro guns, the other hates guns. How can anyone have constructive debates on that basis? All it takes is one person shouting his "opinions" and thats it, the conversation is over
Not to mention that apparently the only persons suitable to be a president are geriatric old men that should have been pensioned away a long time ago. Biden is clear But if you really listen and look to Trump, you see the same thing. Come on USA you can do better than the Biden/Trump clown act..
I completely agree. In the USA the left does not exist, nor has it ever existed, but a large part of the population sees socialism and communism even in the soup. Democrats define themselves as the left, when any European considers them to be center-right.
Crime is not a perception… there are statistics, and the US (for a first world country) have a high rate. But also, the crimes are so strange… the old man who shot a Uber driver because he thought she was an accomplice of a scam… Children who disappear and 2 months after the parents say they don’t know where they are… An armed woman who entered the wrong apartment and shot the legitimate resident… Dead bodies found in strange places….
I mean, its both. stats and perception. that's why certain populists only show abbreviated statistics without further explanation. (that said, I would not want to move to the US either)
There's plenty of gun violence in Europe, but not so much that regular people feel the need to own guns for protection. Moving to a country where regular people feel that need would be a big shift.
@@jattikuukunen there really isnt plenty of gun violence. There was 32 deaths in the uk total by guns last year. compared to over 20,000 in the usa and thats just 'intentional' gun homicide. Also homicides in generally are orders of magnitude higher in the usa. London for example has 1.2 murders per 100,000 people. The eu average is about 2 per 100,000 people. In the usa there is over 65 cities with murder rates higher than 12 per 100,000 (google that for the list) with over 20 cities having murder rates higher than 60 per 100,000 people. Theres also car death statistics which are similarly elevated in the usa compared to europe.
@@WookieWarriorz 32 is plenty imo. It's enough in the sense that people get desensitized for the news about it, i.e. it's not a shock when something happens.
my thought exactly - It is not a given that ppl from Poland was taught English as the first foreign languge. It might be what is happening today, but I have communicated with ppl from Poland in German cos they didn't know English (in Denmark) and neither of us knew each others language xD
I returned to Europe (the Netherlands) early with our son and leaving my then husband to finish his expat experience on his own. Why: we lived in some gated community with crazy unwritten rules. I like to do some gardening, people thought I was mad or broke or both for gardening myself. My son couldn’t ride his bike, it was suicidal to go cycling. I couldn’t let my son go to the park on his own (just at the end of our street) because my friendly neighbor warned me someone might call CPS. I suddenly had to arrange and plan the social life of my son. Apparently I had to drive him everywhere. I couldn’t forget some groceries because it took me an hour to drive to the nearest store. My son hated it, being used to cycle to school, friends, sports and parks on his own without his mother in tow. Soccer being ‘a girly sport’ and him hating American football. I didn’t experienced any crime in the neighborhood but I did experience the fear. Some houses had tighter security than Fort Knox. The constant flow of news about ‘attempted’ school shootings and the like. The day my son came home with the announcement his jacket wasn’t allowed anymore because it would set the metal detector at school off, was the day I booked a flight back home.
Ye i cant imagine living there, spending 2 weeks just for beautiful views is ok but no more. Personally havent been in US but from stories of my friends that go there pretty often, one thing they all say is being scared of everything, walking in NYC or LA is like horror, they were always afraid of someone doing bad shit to them, they also just had feeling that someone was watching them and from what i read with americans its kinda true. One friend lived 2 month in pretty safe area with hugeass backyard yet almost noone was going outside, especially when it was dark
Depends on where. We live in a town that my kids can bike wherever with their friends and school. We have great transportation and ex-pats love it here. I don’t know what town you are talking about but gated communities are evil.
@@brombeerhund they were living in a gated community, gated communities often have their own rules for living in them(much like Homeowners Associations), their experiences there are not anywhere near a reflection of what its like living in the entire rest of the country outside of that one community. I can say this confidently as I have lived here for almost 30 years and have not run into any of the issues reported in the post except our news stations being REALLY messed up.
People are very annoyed when you make some mistakes writing a 2nd or 3rd language. But I just hate on those people and tell them that English is for me a 3rd language. Never get a response back 😂 So I guess they only speak one
For for me. i started learning english some 8 years ago by fx by UA-cams. Now can write about almost everything, but is american, UK and also verbal english. I give those people of Yours back fx as: This is no comment or worse. I mean: Im a kind of kind of proud and show people in a age of 63 can start up almost from nothing. I wish You well.
My written English is frequently better than their and when I make a mistake they don’t think that I’m a foreigner because the rest of my comment is good… That’s why they dare to offend me…
I ask them how good their Swedish/Italian/German is and if theyd rather have the conversation in any of those languages. They never do... For some reason 🤣
Im from Spain, 43 Years old, a year ago i had a very hard heart surgery, if i lived in USA... Guys you must change your healthcare system, that must be a priority.
To fix the health care system, you'd have to fix *and outlaw* corruption, since the US is one of the few (supposedly) 1st world countries that allow it in form of lobbyism and bribery. For that you have to fix the *entire* political system that consists of a grand total of two right-wing parties that somehow *still* manage to polarize the population. Not only did that system allow for lots of gun violence and systemic racism with unequal education, white suburbs (which resulted in several housing crises, as well as abysmal starting conditions for widespread affordable public transport) but also an economic lockdown whenever congress failed to compromise on a new financial household plan instead of keeping the old one running for the time being. It sounds so dystopian that the green card stuff doesn't even register as a problem to me. After all, why would I complain about a locked door if I have no wish, reason or need to enter the room behind it anyways?
@@timogeerties3487 Although I agree with you on the problems, you fail to see the main cause. We, the voters, are the cause, it is the population that does the polarisation. We all have a view what the world should look like and fail to listen to others anymore. The answer is always somewhere in the middle. Don't blame the politicians they do what the voters want and that is what they get, both sides are to blame equally. Until people start to understand this, nothing will change.
@@buddy1155 the politicians don't do what the voters want. They do what the rich want, which only sometimes really coincides with what the voters voted for. The rich pay off the powerful and the powerful make the wishes of the rich happen. When Trump tried to garner more voters 2016 after several consecutive school shootings and tried to stricten the gun laws, the NRA told him "if you wanna run presidential campaign with our money you better step back." There are statistics out there that compare that the voices and votes of the masses aren't taken into account, yet the rich hardly ever have to deal with laws passed against them. Take NAZI Germany, North Korea, China or Russia for example: your democracy is just one party away from active despotism and your living standards reflect that.
I'm an American living in Thailand. I was stung on the finger by a scorpion. In the cowboy movies the guy is dead in 30 seconds. So, I was pretty scared and it HURT like HELL. So, I had my sister in law drive me to the emergency room of a local hospital. All the way there I was wondering how much money it was going to cost, maybe well over a thousand dollars. Got to the hospital and asked for morphine. They looked at me like I was a weirdo. The doctor asked if I was allergic to bee stings and I said no. The lady doctor took my hand and patted it and said it should stop hurting in about 6 hours. They gave me an antihistamine tablet and 6 Tylenol. It cost me about 72 cents. Actually, my finger was sore clean into the next day.
Well here's one for you from an American I know here in Denmark. He was a southerner, born and bread. And he was big time into republican politics and guns before he moved here. He was flabbergasted and horrified that he couldn't "flaunt" his guns on the street like he could in the US and that the political climate was much more fluid and crisscrossing the the entire spectrum in everyday politics. To the point of almost fleeing back to the US in horror. Now he has been here for some 6 or 7 years, and he doesn't own a gun at all and can't even find a reason for having one other than sport. And he is horrified by the antics of the republicans in the US. He was a declared racist in the US, but now work so closely with all kinds of foreigners to Denmark, all of whom are as dedicated and helpful as he ever saw it in the US that he can't even explain to himself how he could be so racist back home. He still visits family in the US each year, but he never stays longer than a fortnight, because he is going ape if he can't get "back home" to Denmark at that point. Oh. And a little editing. Because there are so many cultural things that defer from American culture in little, but still clear manners, he is still finding Denmark to be a bit odd from time to time, but he is by now a Danish citizen and claims that he will never go back to the US permanently. And he tells me that there are clubs for American "expats" here, and opinions vary across the board between members, but one thing they seem to be able to agree on is that, compared to Denmark and other European countries, the US is very much starting to look like a third world country when you disregard the industrial might it has. And learning that this is becoming a normal way of thinking for American expats is perhaps the most damning statement, coupled with the fact that both Denmark and the rest of Europe is seeing an increasing number of Americans moving over here, and the numbers are increasing each year.
Thing is, not all scorpions are lethal 😂 Some of them not more so than a wasp. Of course it's not easy to know which ones are dangerous unless you are a scorpion expert.
@@runenummedal6957 Living here in Thailand I get stung by all kinds of wasps and bees, but that Chinese swimming scorpion was something else. There wasn't any swelling. It just HURT like hell.
When I was living in America, I received a sales call from a Texan. After a few sentences, he said, "You have an accent, ma'am," and I replied, "Sure, I'm from Germany, but what's your excuse?" We both laughed.
@@LeperMessiah2 It's true. We're tought the British way of writing English and also the pronunciation. You know, writing colour instead of color, defence instead of defense, lift instead of elevator, and so on. I use the British English spell check instead of the American English one. But the weird thing is that my pronunciation is more American than British because I've always watched more American films and listened American music. So my English is an odd mix of the two 😂. Only thing I don't really like about American English is that they use so much abreviations that it's sometimes hard to understand what they're saying. You used "rn" and it took me a moment to figure out what you meant with that. It's often like trying to read some coded message guessing what all the abreviations mean.
@@j3mixa I actually needed to learn about abreviations on British race forums and channels😂 I learned Queens English in school since I'm Norwegian. My initial comment is based on the fact he kind of disrespects the American English by saying we learn English. Maybe I'm nitpicking but things like that annoys me.
Im old, but yes we where tolde to use English, and not American english. This Washington in Denmark 30+ years ago. And the reason for that, was that we absorbed American english, from TV series and movies.
Why pick on the Polish guy, how does the narrator spell colour, favour, centre, labour, metre etc...?? Crime is not a perception, check the facts and figures....😂 Great reaction, Charlie... keep up the good work. You would be welcomed and fit in, most places, overseas mate......🥳
I was born and raised in Illinois. I left for Australia 17 years ago. If the USA were the only standing land mass left on the planet, I'd live on my boat. There is nothing that could drag me back to that dumpster fire.
I am german, been to the US several times for holiday (last time in 2015) and i have absolutely no desire to visit the US ever again, let alone living there!! Edit: i wrote this comment before he talked about the dialects. I can only laugh about this guy, thinking dialects are so "strong" in some areas that we don't understand 😅. I never had trouble in the US anywhere (travelled all over the country) to understand people. Been to scotland many times (i LOVE scotland) and THERE i had once or twice the problem of understanding different dialects 😂
The dialect thing is a proper laugh. These people don't understand that we can totally have trouble understanding people three villages away, especially if there is a geographic boundary in between like a thick forest, a ridge or a river. A radius of 20km or so is the limit, further than that and I need people to speak the generalized language instead of local dialects. I have been to Germany and it's not quite as bad as the Netherlands where I'm from, but I mean it's still very much varied. And then there's Switzerland. They say they speak German there, but fuck me (forgive my French).
@@alfonsstekebrugge8049 i grew up in a german village. We even had different dialects in that village. On the one end we used different words for some things: for example the german word for bike is Fahrrad and that word was spoken in a different dialect depending what end of the village you grew up😅
@@alfonsstekebrugge8049 Haha yeah I had to laugh to, my native language is Swiss German. We have 26 cantons of which 21 speak at least partly Swiss German and each and every single one has their own dialect of Swiss German. They call Texan a strong dialect XD I have absolutely no problem understanding Southern US, Aussie, South African English, the hardest thing is indeed Scottish but even then I understand most of it.
I find that USAmericans have far more difficulties understanding English spoken with a non-USAmerican accent (especially a strong regional accent), than do any other native speakers. The rest of us can all understand each other pretty well, despite our disparate geographical, ethnic and cultural backgrounds, with a few 'sorry, what was that?' comments, usually to Glaswegians, Geordies, and some West Indians, from the rest of us, whatever hemisphere or continent we be from. However, the fact that _non_ -native speakers can _also_ understand various accents and dialects of English, more easily than can many USAmericans, tells me ... well, I'm not sure what it tells me, except that it's something not very flattering about USAmericans!
@@Sine-gl9ly I had the same impression. Like how can it be that I as a non-native speaker understand that some words are British/Aussie/whatever and they have never heard of them? Aubergine, Coriander, whatnot. They should know this better than me not the other way around. I understand eggplant and cilantro too.
Apart from the tax forms to file every year there is the issue of tax added to items purchased in stores . The ENTIRE rest of the world includes taxes in the displayed price tag.
i would ask them for the Real price - every time i may bee- would purchase anything- cup of coffe- etc. so they had to calc aaaaaa lot of times.. makes sense t to that kind of herasment
In Poland, most working people never visit the tax office, never send or receive paper documents from the tax office. Employers submit information on income and tax to the tax office in electronic form. They pay taxes the same way. At the end of the year, each employer provides its employees with a paper statement of income and taxes paid for the ended year. The employee's annual tax settlement is performed automatically by the tax office. Every person can log in to their personal account on the tax administration website and check whether the settlement prepared for them is correct and whether it includes all sources of income and tax reliefs - they can check whether the numbers in the system coincide with those on paper documents received from employers. . If the tax office omitted some tax reliefs or an additional source of income (for example from work abroad) - a person can add this data to the system and correct the annual tax settlement. If everything is fine, a person can accept such a settlement and even do nothing with it - then it will be automatically considered accepted. Of course, if someone is an "old school" person, they can send a paper annual tax settlement by traditional mail or take it to the tax office, but fewer and fewer people do that.
The English being taught at most european schools is the standard Oxford English. It has nothing to do with Hollywood really, more people may be able to understand the american culture and certain specific words because of it, but that's about it.
Man, you are the few US people who understand how difficult is to other countries to learn english, like with the Poland man🎉, I have seen the other channel and yes he has mistakes with spanish words 😅 the irony!!! Something really diferent when an european tries to learn spanish are not judged by misspell Greetings from northern México 🎉 🇲🇽
My dads currently in UK hospital 2 weeks now, has had CT/MRS scans, ECG, multiple blood tests, drips medication, well fed, and more - all free on NHS. No payment card necessary!
As a German, I find it frightening how easy it is to get a firearm in some American states. You have to be 18. That's basically enough. But you have to be 21 to drink beer? That just doesn't make sense. The fact that basically anyone can carry a gun would scare me way too much. Especially as a mother...
@@CQUILPATRON40You are changing the topic. I take that as an admission that you have no valid reply. ( KKK is a terrorist organization and they get to demonstrate for 'whatever' ...)
In Belgium we have to learn 3 languages at school (french, Dutch and English) and you can learn another one like spanish or german as an optional course
"It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe in it," - George Carlin, probably the only positive thing across the Atlantic in the last 70-80 years.
Have a thumbs up for the comment about the Polish guy around @13:45 - Polish is one of THE most difficult languages in the world. So I'd say as soon as the dude who made the original video can speak Polish as good as that guy he earned the right to make fun of him for misspelling "never".
@@teoleno4019 No it does not. Both languages are very much different, starting with Polish using the Latin alphabet and Russian using Cyrillic. Even if it were similar, how would it make the language easier? Finish is actually very much related to Hungarian..
I've seen the meme where an American asks why do the British speak English and not a European language? The English Language mugged all the other Languages in a dark alleyway and took what it wanted. There are English speakers who would make nas many or more spelling mistakes than the Pole did.
A close colleague is married to an American, and every time they have to fly over and visit her family, he goes into a minor depression. What makes it worse is that after a decade of living in the UK, his wife also dreads it now too. If you’re American, and you don’t even want to visit your family anymore, that must say something.
Honestly, when I found out that in America you pay for basically everything for medical treatment, I was shocked. It's crazy to me. I've never had to pay for anything more than medicine in my life, and that's still only for some medicine because some of it is free when it's prescribed by a doctor. I had gallbladder surgery at 18 and paid nothing thanks to the health insurance that everyone here has. The idea that treating an illness basically ruins you financially is insane to me.
I'm from the UK, the Scottish part of it. There if you're a permanent resident, your tuition is completely FREE. You just have to see to your digs and your books etc. But no payment for tuition.
In regards to the tax system, here in Finland, each year the governement esitimates how much you are going to make during that year and set your tax percentage based on that estimate. Then, taxes are automatically deducted from your salary, and at the beginning of the following year, usually around february, march, april you get a pre-filled tax-return form for you to check and if you don't make any adjustments, whatever it says on there is the ammount you will either get back as a tax return if you've earned less than the estimate, or what you will have to pay in additional taxes if you've earned more. You can however make adjustments if you've had any incomes not included in the form, or if you've had any deductable costs such as travel to and from work, for which if you use a car you have to justify why you are unable to use public transport. Other deductables are prescription medicine, general healthcare costs (yes this is a deductable, even though it's already subsidized by the governement) and so on
I should probably add that you are able to adjust the estimate at any time during the year, if you for example geta new, higher paying job, or you get a raise or anything like that, you can adjust the estimate and get a new tax percentage set accordingly for the rest of the year
Regarding Taxes: They are taken automatically and everything is described in your pay slip there is literally nothing additional you have to do. The only people who deal with taxes are people with private businesses and additional incomes and even then it is so simple and easy.
True! My husband has some additional income, so once a year i take half an hour to file our taxes for last year. Most of the time is gone by logging in and out the security systems😅. Netherlands!
I make mistakes writing in English all the time. I'm from Finland, so English really is not my first or second language. On top of English I can also communicate in Spanish, Swedish, Japanese and a bit in Italian, Korean and Chinese. Most times when I write in English, I use Reverso Grammar check, 'cos I can't take the "you can't even write English" comments. In my work, I use English more than Finnish.
@@cadeeja. I like to be spell checked - i have a tendency to put words together that is not words in English - to me each other should be one word (cos it is in my native language) so having small pushes the right direction helps my skills - I'm not perfect but I take it as feed back to get better, and when I'm not in the mood, I can simply ignore it as I know it was ment to help me, not belittle me (and thats how i take it too when it actually is someone trying to be a wise ass - that way I'm going on with my day less annoyed =) - so on behalf of me - Thank you =D
@@annacarlsson1280 We have a term we use to make fun of people who act like jerks over small grammar or spelling errors, but thanks to how youtube hides comments one of the words in it could get my comment auto-hidden so I can't actually share it.
For what it's worth, I am extremely jealous of all the clever and talented people all around the world who can speak more than one language. I'm in Australia and although I have been a tourist in many parts of the world over the years it's sad to admit that english is my only language..... God, I hope I haven't made any spelling mistakes in this comment.
Also his keyboard could have double typed a letter. With my old one there were plenty of times that a letter didn't get put in a word or got typed twice. If I'm typing in a hurry and don't bother to spell check, because it's just a dumb internet comment, such things tend to happen from time to time.
I used to work in software development for offshore finance (trust/fund admin). Every step of the client onboarding process and reporting process has "Are they are US citizen?". Like checked everywhere, specifically. Only country singled out. That is because a US citizen has to file with the IRS, regardless of where they live and has poor reciprocal agreements with other countries tax systems; making the IRS hound foreign businesses for extra information. The next reason is that whilst the US created the reporting system FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act), the rest of the world created a more multipurpose and extensible one called CRS (Common Reporting Standard). If any country cares about foreign holdings for tax purposes, which most do, they all use CRS, except the US who use FATCA. So when all these reports have to be generated, US citizens have to be singled out and ran through a separate process, even if they need to be run through CRS as well because they are also a tax resident of another country. The US basically doesn't give a shit about how anyone else operates and does their own thing, but then demands foreign countries comply with their system without reciprocation of supporting the outside world for their citizens living/investing in the US. So many places all over world, not just Asia, will consider a US citizen a higher risk or flat out reject them. Easier to have Chinese or Russian investors than US investors.
I have an acquaintance here in Austria, who studied in the US and then stayed there. She got a great job at a university with decent income for her age, a fantastic health care plan and really good job security. I assume she had more than average vacation time also, since she came to Europe every year to visit family. After a few years she was burned out though. She had a 40 hour per week job, but worked 60 - 80 hours, which was simply expected of her. So eventually she came back to Austria, which wasn't easy at all. Her income took a hit and what not. But now she works 40 hours, gets extra payment for overtime, has state guaranteed health care for free or close to free, has several weeks of vacation, unlimited sick days and so on and so forth.
He’s wrong about the UK having the same tuition fees. Education is devolved in the UK so each country England, Scotland,Wales and Northern Ireland have their own education system. In Scotland, university tuition is free if you live in Scotland
They get "incredibly lucky" in the stock market when they and their family members "coincidentally" purchase stock in companies that are about to get lucrative government contracts repeatedly.
Don’t forget about the “campaign contributions”, which are just more bribes and corruption. Whenever I read/hear about the obscene amounts of money they raise on a regular basis for these “voluntary donations” I have to wonder what they do with the multi-millions of dollars that aren’t spent.
We have a "mantra" in France : If you want to keep or have friends, don't talk about Politic, Religion or Money, so it's a real reason why we don't want to live in USA because You like talking about thing that are "tabou" in our culture. It's not the only one, but it's important.
I find it really funny when people that can't read/speak one Polish word tell me my English is bad. You say chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie and we will talk.
As a European, I would put everything from this video (except the language barrier) on my list. Some additional ones: 1) The horrible legal system where overworked public defenders who have more cases yearly then there are days in the year try to defend you while a random group of people with no required legal background, most (if not all) of who don't even want to be there, decide on the fate of your life. And all of it happening in a country with a big prison-industrial complex, high gun ownership and a propensity for the population to sue anyone for anything they can get away with 2) High amount of sugar in most foods/drinks 3) So much time lost during the day on commute 4) Horrible driving by a huge number of people, a certain amount of Europeans driving on a 2-lane road make less congestion than the same number of Americans in 6 lanes 5) Complete lack of interest by the main ruling parties for any type of socialist-type reform and black-white absolutist thinking (socialism = evil) 6) Extremely dumb zoning laws that have more space allocated to parking than it is for housing, and in general prioritizing politics/status quo/capitalism over any type of benefits/happiness for citizens As for the taxes, in my country you get a letter with an amount that is owed or to be repaid to your account. If it's owed you get a barcode so you can pay, if it's to be repaid to you because you overpaid or got tax returns it automatically gets on your bank account in a matter of days. You can file a complaint if you don't agree with the content, but you don't have to do any action to confirm, if you don't file a complaint it's assumed you agree so in 99.99% of cases you just get a letter and don't need to do anything (except possible pay any extra amount you need which takes 2 seconds with the barcode and mobile banking). And the safety part is *definitely* not just false perception, I live in one of the safest countries in the world (top 10) as related to violent crime. I never feel unsafe, can walk basically anywhere at 3 am and don't have to fear accidentally entering on someones private property and getting shot.
One seemingly insignificant thing that would put me off from living in the US is a lack of bread culture. Different varieties of fresh bread are hard to come by in many places, and the one they do get apparently tastes like cake due to having so much sugar in it. I've heard that last one from multiple sources.
It's like a cult over there and totally nuts !! Weirdly though nearly ALL his supporters are conservative Christians... hmmmm 🤔 ! Which shows you just how TRULY messed up they ALL are !!
I dont know how many times I've heard the phrase "Becoming an adult is realizing I dont want to move to the US". With the context of how much American/American influenced media we watch on tv/movies and as children/teenagers in the 80s - early 2000s, the US seemed somewhat golden even though its apparent flaws (and at war) because of the bombardment of "the American dream" that one can make it/become a millionaire or a Hollywood actor or that fast food is a status symbol. But then you grow up and realise that you dont have to live in fear to that extent in europe, your quite glad for your social saftey net, your government is not a world police and spend your tax money on military or the rich and the wealthy(although this exist here too), and our government WANT TO support unions, provide healthcare and schools.
I hear you! As a 10-year-old my biggest dream was to go to L.A or New York, and live there. This however changed in my late teens and these days you could not pay me to even set foot in The U.S.A; Europe is not perfect, but compared to The U.S.A it is really good!
Englishman here. To break it down it would seem America is more about the dollar than it's own people. I used to enjoy going to America but havibeen back in over 10 years. As it is I don't think I'll see it again. All the best to are brothers across the pond x
As a Pole, I can say that learning foreign languages in public schools is not at the highest level, and not everyone can afford to go to a private language school. Not everyone feels the need to improve their English - for many, communication level is enough. Poles also do not want to speak a foreign language because they are simply ashamed of making a mistake, and if you do not actively use the language, it is difficult to improve it.
Adding to it, that English is a 3rd language for many Poles. In the schools I went to, German came earlier. I was learning German language from 2nd grade of elementary school and English only came in for the middle school. I sometimes get confused and write spelling for a German word instead of English and the other way around.
Im not sure, but if you are ensured in Europe, doesnt it go on that one? I think you can fill out a form about that before traveling. Im not 100% sure about how it works tho.
I think that highlights the bit Americans just don't get. We don't think of you as a 1st world country anymore. 1st world countries don't bankrupt their own citizens for getting ill. 1st world countries don't elect r*pists to the presidency or their supreme court. Your food is full of sugar, preservatives, artifical flavourings to replace the natural ones you lose if you grow vegetables to the size of footballs to make a few bucks extra profit. It's also two to three times the cost of tasty, fresh, locally grown food in other countries. Your bread is closer to cake than bread with an average of 7 grams of sugar per loaf and enough preservatives to keep it edible for several weeks in the fridge. There are tons of videos on YT of americans who emigrated to other countries who get sick for the first week every time they go home to visit family because the american food upsets their stomachs. They actually have to reacclimatize to eating sh*t again. In most countries you can't turn on the tap in the kitchen sink and ignite the water. We prefer non flammable water that humans can actually drink. Of course in Flint, MI they discovered that lead in the water makes an excellent fire suppressant although it's considered better to not put the methane in the water in the first place and save the lead for painting kids toys with. To conclude on a positive note though, I'm glad you no longer work for an organisation where the official hobby is shooting black men in the back for running away threateningly. I think I'd find it tiresome trying to make quota every month.
And there is something else why I wouldn't move to the USA even if I were paid: How pets/animals are treated. It starts small: Dog owners are allowed to inflict pain to train their dog (prong, e-collar,...). Dogs may be kept in a crate for hours daily. Gun owners shooting their "useless" pet - instead of training it properly or rehoming it. (It's not only this Kristy-person.) What gave me a trauma (yes, truelly) are your non-laws in so-called "predator zones", where injuring (like running over with snow mobile), torturing (for any amount of time), killing in any way (and preferably slowly) of certain animals is done AND celebrated in public. (If you don't know: Look up #codyroberts. Or - don't. But he is only 1 of thousands.)
As a European I will give you the 5 main reasons why I hated living in the US. 1. As pointed out the public transportation there sucks, and I really do think public transportation is a better mode of transportation when you have a lot of people going through a space. 2. Everything in the US seem to be about money, you have billboards everywhere, phone sales, door to door sales, advertisements and everything seem so loud and obnoxious as if the United States is one big commercial. 3. The education system in the US is very expensive and not free like over here, it does not promote very much learning as so much seem to be about homework and checking of covering this and that topic, rather than having discussion, thinking and more individual responsibility in learning subject for the betterment of society. When you see how poor Americans tend to be in History, Geography, Science, Philosophy, Ethics, Sociology and often even Politics, Math and the Economy it really feels like the US needs to sort out their priorities. 4. There is too much difference between the rich and poor in the US. A 50% middle class in the US compared to a Nordic European middle class of about 80% makes a big difference and makes you feel that the US has a lot of injustice and really don't care about the less fortunate in society, and to see that on a daily basis eventually gets to you. The fact the US fund military and space programs more than education and health care for others, says something about American priorities and in my opinion and I think the opinion of many Europeans, this is very poor priorities. 5. The high crime rate, political corruption, CIA which spy on you and lie to you, and a police force which treat innocent people they are supposed to protect like criminals and their enemy, is really inexcusable. And who beside Americans think it is a good idea for everyone to go around having a gun? These 5 things are so bad alone, that I could of the top of my head mention more than 30 countries I would rather live in than the US, unless I was one of the few millionaires or billionaires over there. I am glad to be out of the US and honestly don't miss it one bit. The nature in the US is beautiful but beside that I am not sure what there is to miss about being over there. I would take living in Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Australia, New Zealand even Canada and the UK over living in the US any day. I am not saying this because there isn't good things about the US and I do not love and appreciate many Americans I have known. But honestly when you see how things should be, and how things could be, or the standard of what things are in other places. I can't see how you can be happy about living in the US unless you are rich. There is too many lies in the US and accepted pathetic standards, it is too much. If I was from Africa, Asia or South America I may appreciate the US more. But I am not, and I honestly think the world would be better of without the US, as much as I could say the same about Russia, India and China. Sorry American's not to hurt your feelings, but it is not a benefit to anyone to hide the truth. The world is a tough place to live in, and we need to raise the standard and that is not going to happen by telling the Super-powers what they want to hear because they can't handle the truth. For then there would be no purpose of free speech!
Living in the US hits its peak during college, then it's completely down hill to a boring work-homelife. And by the way, the US healthcare system is absolutely criminal.
Don't know if you know, but this could be interesting to you and your family: The Dutch American Friendship Treaty, also known as a DAFT visa, is an agreement that allows US entrepreneurs and investors to obtain a Dutch residence permit if they make an investment of at least €4,500. This residence permit is valid for two years, and you can apply for a permanent residency permit after five years. Don't worry, the money stays yours. So, if your good with computers, teaching or whatever your skills are, come to the Netherlands and start a one man army as a ZZP'er.
I'm a gay guy, so HIV is very much in my mind. A friend of mine on the drugs a few years ago had them increased 1000%. Yet in the UK, we've ditched a lot of branded drugs for generic drugs. His insurance went through the roof. The NHS would have had him sorted in a few hours.
Crazy thing about US politics is that in my country we have a far-right party and an actual communist party and they're less in each other's throats than the two differently flavored right-wing parties US has. That's what makes it seem unhinged. People are so divided based on talking points while 0.1% of the population keeps extracting as much money as they can before the boat sinks.
In USA there have so far been 225 mass shootings in 2024 with 380 people killed and 800+ wounded. In my whole life (70+ years) there has been one mass shooting in Denmark with 3 people killed and 4 wounded
The whole country of Denmark is like one county in US. Much smaller than even New York City. So comparing raw numbers is pointless. By far, most of those "mass shootings" are gang or domestic violence. This idea that you are likely to get mowed down as a tourist or regular citizen by some crazed shooter is absurd. I'm in my mid 50s and have traveled to about 80% of the US states. Never once even seen a gun drawn in public, let alone seen anybody shot. I feel no need to own a gun. I am middle class and live in one of the largest cities in the US and feel no need to own a gun.
@@norwegianblue2017 If we look at the population, USA 335 million, Denmark 6 million, Denmark should have had 4 mass shootings this year alone, but we had one in 70+ years.
@@wncjan Okay, can I choose an affluent part of the US that is mostly white/Asian for comparison? Not that it matters, the fertility rate in Denmark is so low, that it will cease to exist as a culture, sad to say. Your loss in native population is killing you off far faster than any gun deaths.
I'm French, and I live in Paris. Why I'd NEVER move to the USA is because: - Paris is a beautiful, interesting (there is more here than the Louvres Museum ...), vibrant and walkable city: I don't and have never had a car, and I'm not living like a recluse. I need to live in a beautiful and engaging environment, with all the facilities that a (true) city offers: shops, stores, cafés, (real) restaurants (not junk food joints on the side of horrible stroads with a parking lot to rest my eyes on while I chew on some lame "food"); - What's called "food" in the USA is abominable garbage; - Some books are banned in the US; the last ones in Europe to burn books were the Nazis !!! - A political debate on TV here is a political debate! No politician attacks their opponents on personal or physical traits; - Bigotry and MONEY reign in the US minds ... and politics: - The almighty $$$ cult! Money is placed before any human value, even in healthcare, .... and the US' prison system and, most offensive to me is that "In God we trust" is being printed on $$$ bills!!! - Abortion right still being an issue in the USA, whilst France has just enshrined it in its Constitution (though it'd been legal since 1975). - The US citizens' obsession with A/C, electric appliances as needless as clothes dryers, ... and contempt for the environment/climate issues, ... - Etc. I've only been once to the USA, to visit NYC. Although I enjoyed it and found the city very interesting, and was happily surprised that it wasn't as oppresive as I'd feared, I wouldn't live there or anywhere else in the USA for all the gold in the world!
I am German and I think we are pretty „anericanized“ After wwll but I agree with everything you wrote. Especially the Food Part. McDonald’s and co is more garbage that real food.
@@vdp1626 FYI: In French, spelling mistakes in proper nouns are not considered as "mistakes". Now, what's your opinion about the substance of my comment?
My girlfriend wants to go to the US, work as a life guard with some exchange student work program company. And I, I am actually scared. Knowing that for a year she would be in America, it feels like she is leaving to Afghanistan, but not just USA. From my point of view its a really dangerous place, even for their own people let alone foreigners.
Afghanistan? Isn't that what some Western European countries are turning into with the immigrants? See? I can make an exaggerated comment too without even having visited Europe.
The USA was second last to stop systemic politicised racism. South Africa being the last. In the USA EVERYTHING is colour coded even now, they aren't Americans they're black-americans they aren't women they're black-women. The same is true of the other ethnicities. If you keep defining yourself by your differences you'll never overcome and normalise those differences.
I saw a TikTok creator (Black American Woman =) who was on vacation in Norway explaining that she for the first time was met as an American only, not black, not woman, just American. No extra surveillance in shops, no fear of walking alone, being greeted with the same energy as anyone else was new to her - it was kinda eye-opening into the world she came from.
In the 90s and most of the 00s there was a push to try and do away with all of that, but political activists quickly redefined it so that ignoring the color of someone's skin was suddenly problematic.
@@TainDK the weird thing is that in the 90s and 00s we had a pretty large societal push and campaign to stop "seeing color", but political activists pretty quickly jumped in and redefined things so that not caring about the color of someone's skin was problematic.
American race tensions forced the Swedish language to adapt because our word for black people was too close to their problematic one. They also cancelled a liquorice flavoured ice cream.
@@TainDK I find it hard to believe a country so deluded as to believe it's a paragon of freedom and virtue still has such obvious an self imposed racial tensions. Both sides have built that wall and neither will allow it to be dismantled... They're fighting battles that ended generations ago and can't get past their history.
Thing about Education costs in England, is that student loans are significantly better as you only need to start paying off the balance when you earn over £25k per annum. Even then the costs are relatively minor in terms of payment per month. And in Scotland there is the Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS). They pay the fees for higher education, in my case my degree cost £1280 for the first two years, then £1860 for the last two years.
I think if you read Animal Farm, you'll see repeating phrases a lot. Also, I do believe that during WWII, a German leader said that if you tell people a lie often enough, they will believe it.
@@Anonymos321 I have so much hate for that dude. Its insane how much. Hitler was obv worse, but Göbbels just discust me in a different way. Literall propaganda minister. Who the hell wants that position if you are not totally sick in the head?
In the Netherlands your employee withholds taxes every month automatically, so no worries there. On top of that you fill out your tax form once every year (or check rather, the IRS has most of it filled out for you). Usually you do this before may the first. It's a pretty simple process. If in doubt you can always hire an accountant to fill out the form for you. That might cost a little, but it could be beneficial (they know more about the rules and taxes than you). Within a few months you'll receive a letter from the 'Belastingdienst' with the final balance: zero, you pay or get a refund.
Same in Denmark, you go on the taxpage online and check if its ok. Mine always is missing driving as we Can take that of the tax. Its on purpose i do that so i always gets money back 😂😂 we also get the money in May so its a easy Way to safe a bit of ekstra money for the summer 😂😂😂
Same in USA. Payroll withholdings. Every year, or payrate change, you fill out a form with your employer what exemptions you chose to take, if qualified, and they deduct taxes from your paycheck and they send the money to your federal, state, local taxation departments. Once a year, you are obligated to reconcile what is owed from what was paid in. Most people get about $1,500 back in a tax refund. Lie about whT you qualified for, and the IRS will come for the money, with interest and fines. Cheaters get punished. Also, employers pay a matching amount for the employees investment in Doxial Security for retirement and possible disability compensation, survivors benefits, children of the now deceased employee. Employers also match the employee funding for medical insurance for retired or disabled employees. Europeans, and many Americans, have been lied to about how the system works. I was a business owner, a corporation, so I was my own employee. I paid for the same insurance for me and my employees. There was a small out of pocket expense for family coverage. He US divorce rate makes insurance for dependents a legal morass as to the primary parent in insurance benefits. So, different amounts for different situations.
In the UK Taxes and National Insurance [NI pays for our national health service], are deducted before you get your pay check. The only people that file their own taxes are self employed and companies.
I've visited the U.S. twice (New England, then California and Arizona), and most of the people I met there were really nice and friendly. So, I loved the experience as a tourist both times, but there's no way I'd ever live there. My main reasons: the faulty healthcare system, the lack of work/life balance, gun violence, the excessive influence of religion,... and more recently, Trumpism.
I am European. I was offered a place to study in a Californian Uni and rejected it as I didnt s see myself studying in US. I had visited California 2 years back and the car rental guy extended the map of L.A and told me. Listen, do not this and this exit under any circunstances. Compton and littlewood. I didnt understand the reason and did not ask. The thing is one day toward san diego y saw the exit he mentioned and thought, ok, i will take the exit and see what he meant. I took the exit and havent gone the ramp down y drove through the main road and zas. Small houses with from gardens full of matress, a car, and garbage or similar. Not even a car in the street and couldnt believe my eyes I had entered a paralell universe. It was a fucking mess, no one would look after any property and thought itwasnt such a great effort. After a while, i get a car behind me which overtakes me and renains paralell to my car. I say, hello and they repply...who are you? Javier, I am a spaniard tourist and think I have taken the wrong exit. I would like to get to San Diego.... Go back to the exit, opossite take the ramp towards the mitorway. Thank yoy. Can I turn over here.? And they laughed..No one would complain. Well, i wasnt exoecting this. I assune us was all just line santa barbara, beberly hills and similar, just like in the movies, happy silly american confort in a street full of trees But the exit road was like entering in a war zone, hie can it get so neglected i would think, it doesnt take that hard to clean exterior, and etc... Why there was no living creature in the whole street? And the musscle car with 3 black men with film alike complements? I asked somebody and answered me that it wasnt part if civilization, it was a mo keys park. Monkeys? Ahh. But i dindnt see any life. Tvey stay indoors...ahh I was told the biggest part of la was middle working class neighborhoods, then the rich and very rich areas in the hills but all the valley was working people... I realized the streets were ok but i couldnt find trees anywhere. Houses and houses with decent garden quite functional. Well, I had never been in a place like compton and thought about us showing through media only posh neighborhoods, middle or working ones were fine but hardly choosen for films or la tourist campain, even if it takes the most of land. Well, many many year after i can not recall having gone through such a neglected street. So....Us and fireignes are given a vision if the city and livi g areas thar not refket reality. So tv and media convince people, that average living conditions are ideal and us american dream was the norn. You see, us politics manipulates citizen minds perception on real conditions but only show lyxurious as average which is disgusting. The mental brainwashed image of average is repkaced by beberly so if you end up living avetage ( quite likely), you will blame solely to yourself for not been able to reach an standard level and downgrading to working. The fake anerican dream is no comment. The idea behind is to make you aware that you might not have the skills to become a winner and become an standard american.
the EU is about a flock of sheep trying to protect as many as they can. The US is about lone wolves trying to feed on as many sheep as they can. That's why the EU is trying to regulate wolves, and the US is trying to prevent sheep from forming flocks. But yes, sometimes the flock needs a protection dog to keep away other predators. And thats the only reason for the flock to keep up good relations with some wolves.
In Portugal, a small country in Southern Europe, we fill the annual IRS online in 5 minutes. If people can't do it and prefer to go to an accountant, the price is around 20€. Catch up, USA! And totally agree with your comments regarding speaking a second language, that was very ignorant of him!
So time to move. Pack up the family and set off on a new adventure. You like the Netherlands and Germany anyway, so off you go to the Dutch border. You can learn Dutch there and americangirlreacts can learn German. That way you both get something out of it. And since the Dutch speak English better than some Germans (it's in the old word family), it's certainly more helpful as long as you haven't mastered the languages yet. But wherever you go, you'll be better off than in the US. best regards from germany
It's almost impossible for Americans to move to Europe and settle down here. We Europeans we don't need educated people from America or Eastern Asia, what we need is illiteral trouble makers from Africa and Middle East. At least that's the message I get from our recent politics.
In my country, the state takes 16.5% of the monthly salary from each employee for health care. This is paid by the employer, but if I lived in the USA, I would get everything in my account. Therefore, health insurance is free only for the unemployed, pensioners and children who use it without paying, while most pensioners were paid while working. As for all payments to the state - state institutions take their share from each salary and I receive a net salary on my account. Once a year, I receive a decision from the IRS, according to which I can see whether I have overpaid (they return the difference to my account) or whether I still have to pay a part with the money order they send me. This is possible because with each salary payment, employers send an analysis of the distribution of tax benefits for that month, so everything is recorded on a monthly level.
I loved that u deffended the polishs guys spelling. Because the polish grammer is soooo different then english grammer. So chances are he speaks english way better then he spells it❤
Problem is that the OG video guy jumped into some bizarre conclusion that ONE GUY having some misspelling issues is equal to the whole education system. Like, what the hell was even that comment xD It's as if I asked an average american or japanese where Switzerland is and if they couldn't point it, I would assume "oh, so your education system is a piece of trash". It's just ONE person. Statistically, chances are the same misspelling will be a thing for a native english speakers as well because most people don't care how they write on the internet.
I spent one vacation month in USA and I had a terrible experience. I took more than a week to get to buy a new pair of flip-flops to me because I was a pedestrian there. I don't know how to drive a car and I had no car.
I was in Toronto for about 10 days and throwing up every day because my stomach could not process the food, everything was so expensive and no quality..PS to that list of reasons I would like to add the cost of living and homelessness.. All the best from Croatia..
I just spend a month in Toronto with my friends (all of us are from Ukraine) and the food there was... just normal. But we were avoiding trashy US fast food chains (the only exception was local Tim Horton's, but it wasn't that horrible either) and were buying groceries at supermarkets instead and sometimes visiting places with Greek, Korean cuisine etc. The food from supermarkets was too expensive though, I agree with that, but there were plenty of quality products, fresh veggies and seafood and so on.
The UK doesn't have a split between private and public colleges, so providing an average and stating that costs are comparable is unfair. Although the English university costs are high, they all cost the same and they aren't drastically different in terms of educaition - we don't have cheap local colleges and expensive elite colleges. This means that to attend the best Universities in the UK (e.g. Oxford or Cambridge) it costs $11700, compared to $57000 for Harvard, $60000 for Caltech.
Unfortunately Briggs is not very reliable as a source of information. Still his videos are funny, as he doesn't seem to know how much of an ass he's making of himself.
13:28 That is completely true and thank you for pointing it out. Learning another language and communicating in it through writing is challenging. Few misspelled words are completely acceptable and judging whole country's education system because of that is not appropriate
I ik speak 4 languases...but boy..make a mistake and they will tell you... And "they" only speak their native language... Next time I will alsjeblieft them..to speak my language...because theirs is so difficult for me...See how that goes..😂😂
Yes really true we the other countries make an effort to learn english they US people don't even botter 😮 and the diference we are aware how difficult is to learn another language and don't get upset if they misspell 🎉 Greetings from northern México BTW 🎉❤🇲🇽
Hey Charlie, I think you might have missed the point about the guy from Poland: The Polish guy probably said "I will neeeeeeeeever go to the US", to stress the fact :). Not about the guy not knowing how to spell never.
The number one on this list was "Gun Violence"... When in reality it should've been "Road Traffic Deaths"... It was stated here about "Gun Violence"... "That you might go out for a Pint and not return home"... The U.S. actually has a real problem with DUI's too... (Drunk Driving)... "The number of deadly drunk-driving crashes rose again in 2021, killing 13,384 people. About 31% of all fatal crashes in 2021 involved drunk drivers"... Police arrested more than 443,000 people on suspicion of DUI in 2021, which was the most recent year for available data... Only simple assault and drug-related charges were more common crimes than DUI in 2021... Nationally, DUI accounts for about one in 10 arrests, which is much higher in some states. In Pennsylvania, about 25 percent of all arrests in 2021 were for drunk or intoxicated driving... And that figure of 25%... Is just the people that were caught by law enforcement... The amount of those drivers who weren't actually pulled over for a DUI... Must be much higher than that... As cops won't be able to catch every single drunk or impaired driver out there on the roads... It seems like a DUI conviction in the U.S... Is treated almost like normality... In 2022, about 20% of drivers reported driving drunk at least once, and 10% said they did it often. I've watched episodes of Judge Judy for many years now... And it seemed almost like every defendant is asked the same question... "When was the last time you were arrested... And for what?"... And the answer always seemed to be for a DUI... Then the follow up question from Judge Judy would always be... "Was this your first arrest and conviction for DUI?"... And unsurprisingly the answer would come back... "No Ma'am... I've had my licence suspended on three previous occasions for DUI your honor... And because America has such a poor public transportation system... People are more likely to risk driving themselves back home from a bar... The other option they could always take... Would be to arrange for a friend or family member to pick them up after their night out... Or to call for a Taxi or an Uber to take them home afterwards... But even if those options aren't available to them... Why not drive to the nearest local convenience store... And buy yourself a case of beers to consume and enjoy safely at home... It's not exactly rocket science guys... Don't ever drive intoxicated... It's as simple as that... Because if you severely injure or kill an innocent person while driving drunk... You'll be going to Prison for many years... It's just not worth the risk.
In Portugal, at least, the taxes are collected from your paycheck monthly. You have tax retension in a specific percentage, according to what you earn, and the only thing we need to do, at the end of the year, is to validate what we payed and validate our expenses for the return declaration, in the government web-portal. It is a pretty simple process that takes about 30 min.
If you happen to get the wrong person in the immigration office or that person just doesn't feel like it that day they can just say no to the documentation, regardless of the legality of it the immigration office won't be punished for it.
A colleague of mine (UK) is from the Netherlands and her English is amazing. She's in her late 20s/early 30s, but I genuinely thought that she was from the US when I met her. She's been speaking English for years, obviously, but there's no inflection or accent in her voice that would make you think she was anything but American
About gun violence and being "fine" outside of major cities: Have you heard about the young woman, who died in the backseat of a car for driving up the wrong driveway? A couple of young people were looking for the house of a friend in the countryside, noticed they had the wrong address, didn't even get out, turned the car around and drove away. That's when the couple, who lived there and watched them from their window, decided, that was suspicious behaviour and shot after them, killing the girl sitting in the back.
Its not the perception. I lived in the US and I felt much more insecure than in Europe. So its not because of media, its a general feeling and also the fact people anyone can have a gun hidden is terrying.
Doing your taxes in Sweden takes less than than a minute, not joking, not exaggerating. You log into the app, use youre BankID to confirm your identity, and hit approve. Its very rarely incorrect, in 41 years old and every single year Ive gotten money _back_ cuz the government rather over tax you and pay you back than risk putting you in debt. If you have a company your taxes may be more complicated and actually need a looking over, but thats what accountants are for.
Es curioso, aún recuerdo como en los años 80 aquí en España todos admirábamos y deseábamos vivir como los norteamericanos. El american way of life era casi una religión. Y ahora tengo la sensación de que el sueño americano se parece más a una pesadilla americana.
European here. My bank does not allow me to trade stocks through them because I also have an American citizenship. The reason is they do not want to go through the IRS paperwork. All banks where I live explicitly ask you if you have an American citizenship.
I was a fighter for nearly 30 years. Only 20 of those years were actually by choice. Now I'm unable to work because my body is wrecked and I'm too poor to do what I need to be healthy. I'll probably just end up dying young like a lot of other guys my age. Yay America. x_x
A part from Johnny Somali Japan have zero racial tension, a lot of countries only have one race in it. the whole melding pot is very exclusive to US. and a few other places.
@@Tommysimonsen uhhm you're wildly mistaken there man.. Mixed ethnic Japanese experience racial tension all the time regardless wether they are white or black mixed. So the same goes for black and wite Japanese... Every country around the world has racial tension since the introduction of racial castes.
I’m Polish and I had in public schools: English, French and Portuguese. I also speak German. The problem is you forget languages if there’s no means to use them, so the dude should chill a little bit. Not to mention some people are dyslexic and I myself have trouble typing the right letters on effing iPhone. There can be many reasons for misspelling.
i have a german bachelor of mechanical engineering and paid ~250€ per semester. And that was the cost of my public transportation ticket for that time, not the tuition. to be fair, i had to apply for that position and was lucky enough to get accepted.
@@olivierdelatouche9453 Im from Surinam. Speak fluent Dutch, Surinamese, German, French, Spanish, Slavic, Greek and English. Also, we have lots of different dialect and accent. Fries, Brabants, Randstads, Vlaanders, Wallonies... I know you Amerirats only speak 1 language, sadly for u
@laptopbread it was a wild guess because i know a lot of morrocans who live in the netherlands, and so they speak deutsch, morrocan, french and Spanish
@@olivierdelatouche9453 Netherlands is multicultiral. But theres more Surinamese people living here then Morrocans. Since Surinam is a Dutch Colony in South America. So stupid to assume everyone is Morrocan.
I am from Europe, the murder rate in the US is 800% higher than in my country, so it is not perception.
And they have more school shootings, than there's days in a year
As of April 30, a total of 256 people have been killed and 625 people have been wounded in 172 shootings. 😳😨
Because of a certain demographic.
@@bethg.5611 I looked for the numbers and the "Whites" are number one in mass shootings, so...?
@@bethg.5611nah. There’s black people in Europe too lol
@@bethg.5611 Or you know...the number of guns floating around.
I was born in the US but I moved with my Dutch parents to the Netherlands when I was one year old. Because I was born in the US I was automatically a US citizen. In 2013 (?) the Dutch gouverment signed the FATCA and all of a sudden I had to file taxes in the US, while I am a Dutch citizen, living and working and paying taxes in the Netherlands. If you don't comply, banks will refuse you services. I renounced my American citizenship because of it.
A lot of Americans that move to Europe do the same.
I have dual citizenship Swiss and US. I’m now also getting rid of my US citizenship.
Good for all of you, the US doesn't deserve you. Welcome to being 100% European 👍❤ 🙋♀️🇬🇧🤗
As a European, I don't see the political parties in the US as very different. Which makes it even scarier: what kind of society gets so worked up over slightly different shades of right wing?
Exactly, it just looks like you are either stuck with an extreme, or extreme. Pick one.
Whenever somebody asks if you are a republican or a democrat, they just both look so freaking same, apart from. One side is pro guns, the other hates guns. How can anyone have constructive debates on that basis? All it takes is one person shouting his "opinions" and thats it, the conversation is over
Not to mention that apparently the only persons suitable to be a president are geriatric old men that should have been pensioned away a long time ago.
Biden is clear
But if you really listen and look to Trump, you see the same thing.
Come on USA you can do better than the Biden/Trump clown act..
Usa Right wing in Europe is extreme right wing . Usa left wing is centre right as far as european politics are concerned
Exactly. They have a two-party system with two parties that are almost identical.
I completely agree. In the USA the left does not exist, nor has it ever existed, but a large part of the population sees socialism and communism even in the soup. Democrats define themselves as the left, when any European considers them to be center-right.
Crime is not a perception… there are statistics, and the US (for a first world country) have a high rate. But also, the crimes are so strange… the old man who shot a Uber driver because he thought she was an accomplice of a scam… Children who disappear and 2 months after the parents say they don’t know where they are… An armed woman who entered the wrong apartment and shot the legitimate resident… Dead bodies found in strange places….
I mean, its both. stats and perception. that's why certain populists only show abbreviated statistics without further explanation. (that said, I would not want to move to the US either)
There's plenty of gun violence in Europe, but not so much that regular people feel the need to own guns for protection. Moving to a country where regular people feel that need would be a big shift.
First word nation my foot, it's a 3rd world nation in disguise and even many 3rd world nations take better care of their citizens, and that's a fact.
@@jattikuukunen there really isnt plenty of gun violence. There was 32 deaths in the uk total by guns last year. compared to over 20,000 in the usa and thats just 'intentional' gun homicide. Also homicides in generally are orders of magnitude higher in the usa. London for example has 1.2 murders per 100,000 people. The eu average is about 2 per 100,000 people. In the usa there is over 65 cities with murder rates higher than 12 per 100,000 (google that for the list) with over 20 cities having murder rates higher than 60 per 100,000 people. Theres also car death statistics which are similarly elevated in the usa compared to europe.
@@WookieWarriorz 32 is plenty imo. It's enough in the sense that people get desensitized for the news about it, i.e. it's not a shock when something happens.
The polish guy is probably speaking english as his third or fourth language, LOL
my thought exactly - It is not a given that ppl from Poland was taught English as the first foreign languge. It might be what is happening today, but I have communicated with ppl from Poland in German cos they didn't know English (in Denmark) and neither of us knew each others language xD
@@TainDK There are often 2 foreign languages at school. Usually it is English and German. And many older people remember something from Russian.
I returned to Europe (the Netherlands) early with our son and leaving my then husband to finish his expat experience on his own. Why: we lived in some gated community with crazy unwritten rules. I like to do some gardening, people thought I was mad or broke or both for gardening myself. My son couldn’t ride his bike, it was suicidal to go cycling. I couldn’t let my son go to the park on his own (just at the end of our street) because my friendly neighbor warned me someone might call CPS. I suddenly had to arrange and plan the social life of my son. Apparently I had to drive him everywhere. I couldn’t forget some groceries because it took me an hour to drive to the nearest store. My son hated it, being used to cycle to school, friends, sports and parks on his own without his mother in tow. Soccer being ‘a girly sport’ and him hating American football. I didn’t experienced any crime in the neighborhood but I did experience the fear. Some houses had tighter security than Fort Knox. The constant flow of news about ‘attempted’ school shootings and the like. The day my son came home with the announcement his jacket wasn’t allowed anymore because it would set the metal detector at school off, was the day I booked a flight back home.
Ye i cant imagine living there, spending 2 weeks just for beautiful views is ok but no more. Personally havent been in US but from stories of my friends that go there pretty often, one thing they all say is being scared of everything, walking in NYC or LA is like horror, they were always afraid of someone doing bad shit to them, they also just had feeling that someone was watching them and from what i read with americans its kinda true. One friend lived 2 month in pretty safe area with hugeass backyard yet almost noone was going outside, especially when it was dark
Depends on where. We live in a town that my kids can bike wherever with their friends and school. We have great transportation and ex-pats love it here. I don’t know what town you are talking about but gated communities are evil.
Wise choice
Sounds like a prison to me. So much for Land of freedom. No thanks.
@@brombeerhund they were living in a gated community, gated communities often have their own rules for living in them(much like Homeowners Associations), their experiences there are not anywhere near a reflection of what its like living in the entire rest of the country outside of that one community. I can say this confidently as I have lived here for almost 30 years and have not run into any of the issues reported in the post except our news stations being REALLY messed up.
People are very annoyed when you make some mistakes writing a 2nd or 3rd language. But I just hate on those people and tell them that English is for me a 3rd language. Never get a response back 😂 So I guess they only speak one
For for me. i started learning english some 8 years ago by fx by UA-cams.
Now can write about almost everything, but is american, UK and also verbal english.
I give those people of Yours back fx as: This is no comment or worse. I mean: Im a kind of kind of proud and show people in a age of 63 can start up almost from nothing.
I wish You well.
My written English is frequently better than their and when I make a mistake they don’t think that I’m a foreigner because the rest of my comment is good… That’s why they dare to offend me…
You can go to England to learn English as well. And English is my third language, not perfect at all 😅. Probably some mistakes, but I dont care 😁.
I ask them how good their Swedish/Italian/German is and if theyd rather have the conversation in any of those languages.
They never do... For some reason 🤣
@@F1rstWorldNomaD Yeah I think I am gonna do that also with Dutch and German. Thanks for the tip 😃
Im from Spain, 43 Years old, a year ago i had a very hard heart surgery, if i lived in USA...
Guys you must change your healthcare system, that must be a priority.
In the US you would have gotten a heart attack when you received the bill.
To fix the health care system, you'd have to fix *and outlaw* corruption, since the US is one of the few (supposedly) 1st world countries that allow it in form of lobbyism and bribery. For that you have to fix the *entire* political system that consists of a grand total of two right-wing parties that somehow *still* manage to polarize the population. Not only did that system allow for lots of gun violence and systemic racism with unequal education, white suburbs (which resulted in several housing crises, as well as abysmal starting conditions for widespread affordable public transport) but also an economic lockdown whenever congress failed to compromise on a new financial household plan instead of keeping the old one running for the time being. It sounds so dystopian that the green card stuff doesn't even register as a problem to me. After all, why would I complain about a locked door if I have no wish, reason or need to enter the room behind it anyways?
@@timogeerties3487 Although I agree with you on the problems, you fail to see the main cause. We, the voters, are the cause, it is the population that does the polarisation. We all have a view what the world should look like and fail to listen to others anymore. The answer is always somewhere in the middle.
Don't blame the politicians they do what the voters want and that is what they get, both sides are to blame equally.
Until people start to understand this, nothing will change.
@@buddy1155 the politicians don't do what the voters want. They do what the rich want, which only sometimes really coincides with what the voters voted for. The rich pay off the powerful and the powerful make the wishes of the rich happen. When Trump tried to garner more voters 2016 after several consecutive school shootings and tried to stricten the gun laws, the NRA told him "if you wanna run presidential campaign with our money you better step back." There are statistics out there that compare that the voices and votes of the masses aren't taken into account, yet the rich hardly ever have to deal with laws passed against them. Take NAZI Germany, North Korea, China or Russia for example: your democracy is just one party away from active despotism and your living standards reflect that.
US would be ok if you had billions in the bank, without it i aint moving my ass from EU
I'm an American living in Thailand. I was stung on the finger by a scorpion. In the cowboy movies the guy is dead in 30 seconds. So, I was pretty scared and it HURT like HELL. So, I had my sister in law drive me to the emergency room of a local hospital. All the way there I was wondering how much money it was going to cost, maybe well over a thousand dollars. Got to the hospital and asked for morphine. They looked at me like I was a weirdo. The doctor asked if I was allergic to bee stings and I said no. The lady doctor took my hand and patted it and said it should stop hurting in about 6 hours. They gave me an antihistamine tablet and 6 Tylenol. It cost me about 72 cents. Actually, my finger was sore clean into the next day.
@DanteAngeli Ha ha ....That's right.
Well here's one for you from an American I know here in Denmark. He was a southerner, born and bread. And he was big time into republican politics and guns before he moved here. He was flabbergasted and horrified that he couldn't "flaunt" his guns on the street like he could in the US and that the political climate was much more fluid and crisscrossing the the entire spectrum in everyday politics. To the point of almost fleeing back to the US in horror.
Now he has been here for some 6 or 7 years, and he doesn't own a gun at all and can't even find a reason for having one other than sport. And he is horrified by the antics of the republicans in the US. He was a declared racist in the US, but now work so closely with all kinds of foreigners to Denmark, all of whom are as dedicated and helpful as he ever saw it in the US that he can't even explain to himself how he could be so racist back home.
He still visits family in the US each year, but he never stays longer than a fortnight, because he is going ape if he can't get "back home" to Denmark at that point.
Oh. And a little editing. Because there are so many cultural things that defer from American culture in little, but still clear manners, he is still finding Denmark to be a bit odd from time to time, but he is by now a Danish citizen and claims that he will never go back to the US permanently. And he tells me that there are clubs for American "expats" here, and opinions vary across the board between members, but one thing they seem to be able to agree on is that, compared to Denmark and other European countries, the US is very much starting to look like a third world country when you disregard the industrial might it has. And learning that this is becoming a normal way of thinking for American expats is perhaps the most damning statement, coupled with the fact that both Denmark and the rest of Europe is seeing an increasing number of Americans moving over here, and the numbers are increasing each year.
Thing is, not all scorpions are lethal 😂 Some of them not more so than a wasp. Of course it's not easy to know which ones are dangerous unless you are a scorpion expert.
@@runenummedal6957 Living here in Thailand I get stung by all kinds of wasps and bees, but that Chinese swimming scorpion was something else. There wasn't any swelling. It just HURT like hell.
I hope you've learned a life lesson concerning the hazards of petting scorpions...
I married an American woman and people assumed I did it for a green card. But I did it for love. BTW. she is still here in the Netherlands.
Don't get the slave card?
Go to Uni and marry the Govt.
O, so wrong, don't you know that you should always marry someone for the money ?
@@peet4921 With the dimensions 70/40/70 ..... 70 years old, 40 degrees fever, 70 million in the bank. ;)
Why green card? Netherlands is better to life then America
When I was living in America, I received a sales call from a Texan. After a few sentences, he said, "You have an accent, ma'am," and I replied, "Sure, I'm from Germany, but what's your excuse?" We both laughed.
Love that story.
@@somewherestuckinl.a.3239I’m sure she knows.
Like how any European country also has severals accents to.
Don't forget that in Europe we learn English and not American English.
Are you serious rn? I mean you probably are since you bring it up.
@@LeperMessiah2 It's true. We're tought the British way of writing English and also the pronunciation. You know, writing colour instead of color, defence instead of defense, lift instead of elevator, and so on. I use the British English spell check instead of the American English one. But the weird thing is that my pronunciation is more American than British because I've always watched more American films and listened American music. So my English is an odd mix of the two 😂.
Only thing I don't really like about American English is that they use so much abreviations that it's sometimes hard to understand what they're saying. You used "rn" and it took me a moment to figure out what you meant with that. It's often like trying to read some coded message guessing what all the abreviations mean.
At school we indeed learn English, but we learn about 80% from American movies.
@@j3mixa I actually needed to learn about abreviations on British race forums and channels😂 I learned Queens English in school since I'm Norwegian. My initial comment is based on the fact he kind of disrespects the American English by saying we learn English. Maybe I'm nitpicking but things like that annoys me.
Im old, but yes we where tolde to use English, and not American english. This Washington in Denmark 30+ years ago. And the reason for that, was that we absorbed American english, from TV series and movies.
Why pick on the Polish guy, how does the narrator spell colour, favour, centre, labour, metre etc...?? Crime is not a perception, check the facts and figures....😂 Great reaction, Charlie... keep up the good work. You would be welcomed and fit in, most places, overseas mate......🥳
I think it was just a joke but not well communicated.
I was born and raised in Illinois. I left for Australia 17 years ago. If the USA were the only standing land mass left on the planet, I'd live on my boat. There is nothing that could drag me back to that dumpster fire.
I am german, been to the US several times for holiday (last time in 2015) and i have absolutely no desire to visit the US ever again, let alone living there!!
Edit: i wrote this comment before he talked about the dialects. I can only laugh about this guy, thinking dialects are so "strong" in some areas that we don't understand 😅. I never had trouble in the US anywhere (travelled all over the country) to understand people. Been to scotland many times (i LOVE scotland) and THERE i had once or twice the problem of understanding different dialects 😂
The dialect thing is a proper laugh. These people don't understand that we can totally have trouble understanding people three villages away, especially if there is a geographic boundary in between like a thick forest, a ridge or a river. A radius of 20km or so is the limit, further than that and I need people to speak the generalized language instead of local dialects. I have been to Germany and it's not quite as bad as the Netherlands where I'm from, but I mean it's still very much varied. And then there's Switzerland. They say they speak German there, but fuck me (forgive my French).
@@alfonsstekebrugge8049 i grew up in a german village. We even had different dialects in that village. On the one end we used different words for some things: for example the german word for bike is Fahrrad and that word was spoken in a different dialect depending what end of the village you grew up😅
@@alfonsstekebrugge8049 Haha yeah I had to laugh to, my native language is Swiss German. We have 26 cantons of which 21 speak at least partly Swiss German and each and every single one has their own dialect of Swiss German.
They call Texan a strong dialect XD I have absolutely no problem understanding Southern US, Aussie, South African English, the hardest thing is indeed Scottish but even then I understand most of it.
I find that USAmericans have far more difficulties understanding English spoken with a non-USAmerican accent (especially a strong regional accent), than do any other native speakers.
The rest of us can all understand each other pretty well, despite our disparate geographical, ethnic and cultural backgrounds, with a few 'sorry, what was that?' comments, usually to Glaswegians, Geordies, and some West Indians, from the rest of us, whatever hemisphere or continent we be from.
However, the fact that _non_ -native speakers can _also_ understand various accents and dialects of English, more easily than can many USAmericans, tells me ... well, I'm not sure what it tells me, except that it's something not very flattering about USAmericans!
@@Sine-gl9ly I had the same impression. Like how can it be that I as a non-native speaker understand that some words are British/Aussie/whatever and they have never heard of them? Aubergine, Coriander, whatnot.
They should know this better than me not the other way around.
I understand eggplant and cilantro too.
Apart from the tax forms to file every year there is the issue of tax added to items purchased in stores . The ENTIRE rest of the world includes taxes in the displayed price tag.
Yes you a right!
First it's very annoying
Second it is stupid too.
People will buy more if they know the exact price of a item!
i would ask them for the Real price - every time i may bee- would purchase anything-
cup of coffe- etc.
so they had to calc aaaaaa lot of times..
makes sense t to that kind of herasment
It's really convenient to have your employer deduct the taxes from your paycheck and send them to the taxman for you.
Not all of them do include taxes in the price.
Canada has this backwards system too…
In Poland, most working people never visit the tax office, never send or receive paper documents from the tax office.
Employers submit information on income and tax to the tax office in electronic form. They pay taxes the same way.
At the end of the year, each employer provides its employees with a paper statement of income and taxes paid for the ended year.
The employee's annual tax settlement is performed automatically by the tax office.
Every person can log in to their personal account on the tax administration website and check whether the settlement prepared for them is correct and whether it includes all sources of income and tax reliefs - they can check whether the numbers in the system coincide with those on paper documents received from employers. .
If the tax office omitted some tax reliefs or an additional source of income (for example from work abroad) - a person can add this data to the system and correct the annual tax settlement. If everything is fine, a person can accept such a settlement and even do nothing with it - then it will be automatically considered accepted.
Of course, if someone is an "old school" person, they can send a paper annual tax settlement by traditional mail or take it to the tax office, but fewer and fewer people do that.
The same here in Spain.
@@sergioagra3846 I think it's the same in like 90% of the countries, that's governments work not the regular people.
The English being taught at most european schools is the standard Oxford English. It has nothing to do with Hollywood really, more people may be able to understand the american culture and certain specific words because of it, but that's about it.
Americans think that the Americans invented the language English and that American English is the real English. 🤣
Man, you are the few US people who understand how difficult is to other countries to learn english, like with the Poland man🎉, I have seen the other channel and yes he has mistakes with spanish words 😅 the irony!!!
Something really diferent when an european tries to learn spanish are not judged by misspell
Greetings from northern México 🎉 🇲🇽
My dads currently in UK hospital 2 weeks now, has had CT/MRS scans, ECG, multiple blood tests, drips medication, well fed, and more - all free on NHS. No payment card necessary!
You are welcome...
Running hospitals like businesses, is just crule
As a German, I find it frightening how easy it is to get a firearm in some American states. You have to be 18. That's basically enough. But you have to be 21 to drink beer? That just doesn't make sense. The fact that basically anyone can carry a gun would scare me way too much. Especially as a mother...
But you let a terrorist parade for the kalifat ? This is pure Terror for me !
Could be that they took care of the probleme with people using there guns while drunk, by not allowing drinking until 21 😂
It’s Not like that these days!
There was a vid where a kid bought a firearm just like whatever xD Its freakin scary!!
@@CQUILPATRON40You are changing the topic. I take that as an admission that you have no valid reply. ( KKK is a terrorist organization and they get to demonstrate for 'whatever' ...)
In Belgium we have to learn 3 languages at school (french, Dutch and English) and you can learn another one like spanish or german as an optional course
"It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe in it," - George Carlin, probably the only positive thing across the Atlantic in the last 70-80 years.
Have a thumbs up for the comment about the Polish guy around @13:45 - Polish is one of THE most difficult languages in the world. So I'd say as soon as the dude who made the original video can speak Polish as good as that guy he earned the right to make fun of him for misspelling "never".
Polish sounds a lot like Russian. Finnish is way harder.
@@teoleno4019 No it does not. Both languages are very much different, starting with Polish using the Latin alphabet and Russian using Cyrillic. Even if it were similar, how would it make the language easier? Finish is actually very much related to Hungarian..
I've seen the meme where an American asks why do the British speak English and not a European language?
The English Language mugged all the other Languages in a dark alleyway and took what it wanted.
There are English speakers who would make nas many or more spelling mistakes than the Pole did.
Forcing you to pay taxes when living and working abroad is just another way to force you to stay in the USA and not consider looking outwards.
Does this mean that you could get double taxed?
@@fairybeliever4479 not just that you could, you will get double taxed.
A close colleague is married to an American, and every time they have to fly over and visit her family, he goes into a minor depression. What makes it worse is that after a decade of living in the UK, his wife also dreads it now too.
If you’re American, and you don’t even want to visit your family anymore, that must say something.
Guns, healthcare, religious extremists, food quality.
At last someone brings up the food! What they deem as “restaurants” over there would be nothing more than fast food joints elsewhere
And opinionated uneducated masses.
No we dont speak Hollywood english we speak British English, or more exact Oxford English is tought in schools.
Honestly, when I found out that in America you pay for basically everything for medical treatment, I was shocked. It's crazy to me. I've never had to pay for anything more than medicine in my life, and that's still only for some medicine because some of it is free when it's prescribed by a doctor. I had gallbladder surgery at 18 and paid nothing thanks to the health insurance that everyone here has. The idea that treating an illness basically ruins you financially is insane to me.
I'm from the UK, the Scottish part of it. There if you're a permanent resident, your tuition is completely FREE. You just have to see to your digs and your books etc. But no payment for tuition.
In regards to the tax system, here in Finland, each year the governement esitimates how much you are going to make during that year and set your tax percentage based on that estimate. Then, taxes are automatically deducted from your salary, and at the beginning of the following year, usually around february, march, april you get a pre-filled tax-return form for you to check and if you don't make any adjustments, whatever it says on there is the ammount you will either get back as a tax return if you've earned less than the estimate, or what you will have to pay in additional taxes if you've earned more.
You can however make adjustments if you've had any incomes not included in the form, or if you've had any deductable costs such as travel to and from work, for which if you use a car you have to justify why you are unable to use public transport. Other deductables are prescription medicine, general healthcare costs (yes this is a deductable, even though it's already subsidized by the governement) and so on
I should probably add that you are able to adjust the estimate at any time during the year, if you for example geta new, higher paying job, or you get a raise or anything like that, you can adjust the estimate and get a new tax percentage set accordingly for the rest of the year
Regarding Taxes: They are taken automatically and everything is described in your pay slip there is literally nothing additional you have to do. The only people who deal with taxes are people with private businesses and additional incomes and even then it is so simple and easy.
True! My husband has some additional income, so once a year i take half an hour to file our taxes for last year. Most of the time is gone by logging in and out the security systems😅. Netherlands!
@@almanoor-bakker5964 Same in Bulgaria :D It is no more than 30 min and you could do it online.
I make mistakes writing in English all the time. I'm from Finland, so English really is not my first or second language. On top of English I can also communicate in Spanish, Swedish, Japanese and a bit in Italian, Korean and Chinese.
Most times when I write in English, I use Reverso Grammar check, 'cos I can't take the "you can't even write English" comments.
In my work, I use English more than Finnish.
I know what you mean!! I almost always sheck what I write xD People seam to like to jump down throaths if a sentence is just a lil wrong
@@annacarlsson1280 Not to belittle, but to help: check and seem :)
@@cadeeja. I like to be spell checked - i have a tendency to put words together that is not words in English - to me each other should be one word (cos it is in my native language) so having small pushes the right direction helps my skills - I'm not perfect but I take it as feed back to get better, and when I'm not in the mood, I can simply ignore it as I know it was ment to help me, not belittle me (and thats how i take it too when it actually is someone trying to be a wise ass - that way I'm going on with my day less annoyed =) - so on behalf of me - Thank you =D
@@annacarlsson1280 We have a term we use to make fun of people who act like jerks over small grammar or spelling errors, but thanks to how youtube hides comments one of the words in it could get my comment auto-hidden so I can't actually share it.
For what it's worth, I am extremely jealous of all the clever and talented people all around the world who can speak more than one language. I'm in Australia and although I have been a tourist in many parts of the world over the years it's sad to admit that english is my only language..... God, I hope I haven't made any spelling mistakes in this comment.
You're exactly right about the Polish guy, tell him! 👍🏻✌🏼
Also his keyboard could have double typed a letter. With my old one there were plenty of times that a letter didn't get put in a word or got typed twice. If I'm typing in a hurry and don't bother to spell check, because it's just a dumb internet comment, such things tend to happen from time to time.
I used to work in software development for offshore finance (trust/fund admin).
Every step of the client onboarding process and reporting process has "Are they are US citizen?". Like checked everywhere, specifically. Only country singled out.
That is because a US citizen has to file with the IRS, regardless of where they live and has poor reciprocal agreements with other countries tax systems; making the IRS hound foreign businesses for extra information. The next reason is that whilst the US created the reporting system FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act), the rest of the world created a more multipurpose and extensible one called CRS (Common Reporting Standard). If any country cares about foreign holdings for tax purposes, which most do, they all use CRS, except the US who use FATCA. So when all these reports have to be generated, US citizens have to be singled out and ran through a separate process, even if they need to be run through CRS as well because they are also a tax resident of another country.
The US basically doesn't give a shit about how anyone else operates and does their own thing, but then demands foreign countries comply with their system without reciprocation of supporting the outside world for their citizens living/investing in the US. So many places all over world, not just Asia, will consider a US citizen a higher risk or flat out reject them. Easier to have Chinese or Russian investors than US investors.
I have an acquaintance here in Austria, who studied in the US and then stayed there. She got a great job at a university with decent income for her age, a fantastic health care plan and really good job security. I assume she had more than average vacation time also, since she came to Europe every year to visit family. After a few years she was burned out though. She had a 40 hour per week job, but worked 60 - 80 hours, which was simply expected of her. So eventually she came back to Austria, which wasn't easy at all. Her income took a hit and what not. But now she works 40 hours, gets extra payment for overtime, has state guaranteed health care for free or close to free, has several weeks of vacation, unlimited sick days and so on and so forth.
So glad i live in denmark , only had to work 11 hours last week because i have earnt many free hours last year
He’s wrong about the UK having the same tuition fees. Education is devolved in the UK so each country England, Scotland,Wales and Northern Ireland have their own education system. In Scotland, university tuition is free if you live in Scotland
Fortunately funded by the English tax payer.
Fact check yourself.
@@colinharbinson5510 Who got their money from Scottish Oil... Try again?
I really love how respectful you are! Keep doing the good work!
Why are politicians in the US multi millionaires?
They get "incredibly lucky" in the stock market when they and their family members "coincidentally" purchase stock in companies that are about to get lucrative government contracts repeatedly.
It's not just in the US. It's actually ALL POLITICIANS EVERYWHERE. It's simply because they're all crooks..... harsh I know, but true.
Insider trading and passing laws that benefit the companies that they invested in.
Don’t forget about the “campaign contributions”, which are just more bribes and corruption. Whenever I read/hear about the obscene amounts of money they raise on a regular basis for these “voluntary donations” I have to wonder what they do with the multi-millions of dollars that aren’t spent.
And why are there family dynasties of politicians? That always seemed such blatant nepotism to me, which is basically “soft corruption”.
We have a "mantra" in France : If you want to keep or have friends, don't talk about Politic, Religion or Money, so it's a real reason why we don't want to live in USA because You like talking about thing that are "tabou" in our culture. It's not the only one, but it's important.
I find it really funny when people that can't read/speak one Polish word tell me my English is bad. You say chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie and we will talk.
As a European, I would put everything from this video (except the language barrier) on my list.
Some additional ones:
1) The horrible legal system where overworked public defenders who have more cases yearly then there are days in the year try to defend you while a random group of people with no required legal background, most (if not all) of who don't even want to be there, decide on the fate of your life. And all of it happening in a country with a big prison-industrial complex, high gun ownership and a propensity for the population to sue anyone for anything they can get away with
2) High amount of sugar in most foods/drinks
3) So much time lost during the day on commute
4) Horrible driving by a huge number of people, a certain amount of Europeans driving on a 2-lane road make less congestion than the same number of Americans in 6 lanes
5) Complete lack of interest by the main ruling parties for any type of socialist-type reform and black-white absolutist thinking (socialism = evil)
6) Extremely dumb zoning laws that have more space allocated to parking than it is for housing, and in general prioritizing politics/status quo/capitalism over any type of benefits/happiness for citizens
As for the taxes, in my country you get a letter with an amount that is owed or to be repaid to your account. If it's owed you get a barcode so you can pay, if it's to be repaid to you because you overpaid or got tax returns it automatically gets on your bank account in a matter of days. You can file a complaint if you don't agree with the content, but you don't have to do any action to confirm, if you don't file a complaint it's assumed you agree so in 99.99% of cases you just get a letter and don't need to do anything (except possible pay any extra amount you need which takes 2 seconds with the barcode and mobile banking).
And the safety part is *definitely* not just false perception, I live in one of the safest countries in the world (top 10) as related to violent crime. I never feel unsafe, can walk basically anywhere at 3 am and don't have to fear accidentally entering on someones private property and getting shot.
One seemingly insignificant thing that would put me off from living in the US is a lack of bread culture. Different varieties of fresh bread are hard to come by in many places, and the one they do get apparently tastes like cake due to having so much sugar in it. I've heard that last one from multiple sources.
I don't and never have lived in the USA .. But I find it a joke that US citizens would vote in a conman as president ...
The US is so so screwed up.
It's like a cult over there and totally nuts !! Weirdly though nearly ALL his supporters are conservative Christians... hmmmm 🤔 ! Which shows you just how TRULY messed up they ALL are !!
Wrote someone about Trump and my comment got immediately cancelled !! 😂
I dont know how many times I've heard the phrase "Becoming an adult is realizing I dont want to move to the US".
With the context of how much American/American influenced media we watch on tv/movies and as children/teenagers in the 80s - early 2000s, the US seemed somewhat golden even though its apparent flaws (and at war) because of the bombardment of "the American dream" that one can make it/become a millionaire or a Hollywood actor or that fast food is a status symbol.
But then you grow up and realise that you dont have to live in fear to that extent in europe, your quite glad for your social saftey net, your government is not a world police and spend your tax money on military or the rich and the wealthy(although this exist here too), and our government WANT TO support unions, provide healthcare and schools.
I hear you! As a 10-year-old my biggest dream was to go to L.A or New York, and live there. This however changed in my late teens and these days you could not pay me to even set foot in The U.S.A; Europe is not perfect, but compared to The U.S.A it is really good!
Englishman here. To break it down it would seem America is more about the dollar than it's own people. I used to enjoy going to America but havibeen back in over 10 years. As it is I don't think I'll see it again. All the best to are brothers across the pond x
As a Pole, I can say that learning foreign languages in public schools is not at the highest level, and not everyone can afford to go to a private language school. Not everyone feels the need to improve their English - for many, communication level is enough. Poles also do not want to speak a foreign language because they are simply ashamed of making a mistake, and if you do not actively use the language, it is difficult to improve it.
Adding to it, that English is a 3rd language for many Poles. In the schools I went to, German came earlier. I was learning German language from 2nd grade of elementary school and English only came in for the middle school. I sometimes get confused and write spelling for a German word instead of English and the other way around.
I don't want to go to the US, not because I'm afraid of being shot, but because of the cost of healing a gunshot wound :D
Im not sure, but if you are ensured in Europe, doesnt it go on that one? I think you can fill out a form about that before traveling. Im not 100% sure about how it works tho.
Yes,Europe has a overall good public transportation unless you live in the countryside then it suck and you need a car.
As a former cop, it is a daily event. The murder rate is insane for a first world country, and embarrassing
I think that highlights the bit Americans just don't get. We don't think of you as a 1st world country anymore. 1st world countries don't bankrupt their own citizens for getting ill. 1st world countries don't elect r*pists to the presidency or their supreme court. Your food is full of sugar, preservatives, artifical flavourings to replace the natural ones you lose if you grow vegetables to the size of footballs to make a few bucks extra profit. It's also two to three times the cost of tasty, fresh, locally grown food in other countries. Your bread is closer to cake than bread with an average of 7 grams of sugar per loaf and enough preservatives to keep it edible for several weeks in the fridge. There are tons of videos on YT of americans who emigrated to other countries who get sick for the first week every time they go home to visit family because the american food upsets their stomachs. They actually have to reacclimatize to eating sh*t again. In most countries you can't turn on the tap in the kitchen sink and ignite the water. We prefer non flammable water that humans can actually drink. Of course in Flint, MI they discovered that lead in the water makes an excellent fire suppressant although it's considered better to not put the methane in the water in the first place and save the lead for painting kids toys with. To conclude on a positive note though, I'm glad you no longer work for an organisation where the official hobby is shooting black men in the back for running away threateningly. I think I'd find it tiresome trying to make quota every month.
And there is something else why I wouldn't move to the USA even if I were paid: How pets/animals are treated.
It starts small: Dog owners are allowed to inflict pain to train their dog (prong, e-collar,...). Dogs may be kept in a crate for hours daily.
Gun owners shooting their "useless" pet - instead of training it properly or rehoming it. (It's not only this Kristy-person.)
What gave me a trauma (yes, truelly) are your non-laws in so-called "predator zones", where injuring (like running over with snow mobile), torturing (for any amount of time), killing in any way (and preferably slowly) of certain animals is done AND celebrated in public. (If you don't know: Look up #codyroberts. Or - don't. But he is only 1 of thousands.)
As a European I will give you the 5 main reasons why I hated living in the US.
1. As pointed out the public transportation there sucks, and I really do think public transportation is a better mode of transportation when you have a lot of people going through a space.
2. Everything in the US seem to be about money, you have billboards everywhere, phone sales, door to door sales, advertisements and everything seem so loud and obnoxious as if the United States is one big commercial.
3. The education system in the US is very expensive and not free like over here, it does not promote very much learning as so much seem to be about homework and checking of covering this and that topic, rather than having discussion, thinking and more individual responsibility in learning subject for the betterment of society. When you see how poor Americans tend to be in History, Geography, Science, Philosophy, Ethics, Sociology and often even Politics, Math and the Economy it really feels like the US needs to sort out their priorities.
4. There is too much difference between the rich and poor in the US. A 50% middle class in the US compared to a Nordic European middle class of about 80% makes a big difference and makes you feel that the US has a lot of injustice and really don't care about the less fortunate in society, and to see that on a daily basis eventually gets to you. The fact the US fund military and space programs more than education and health care for others, says something about American priorities and in my opinion and I think the opinion of many Europeans, this is very poor priorities.
5. The high crime rate, political corruption, CIA which spy on you and lie to you, and a police force which treat innocent people they are supposed to protect like criminals and their enemy, is really inexcusable. And who beside Americans think it is a good idea for everyone to go around having a gun?
These 5 things are so bad alone, that I could of the top of my head mention more than 30 countries I would rather live in than the US, unless I was one of the few millionaires or billionaires over there. I am glad to be out of the US and honestly don't miss it one bit. The nature in the US is beautiful but beside that I am not sure what there is to miss about being over there.
I would take living in Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Australia, New Zealand even Canada and the UK over living in the US any day. I am not saying this because there isn't good things about the US and I do not love and appreciate many Americans I have known. But honestly when you see how things should be, and how things could be, or the standard of what things are in other places. I can't see how you can be happy about living in the US unless you are rich. There is too many lies in the US and accepted pathetic standards, it is too much. If I was from Africa, Asia or South America I may appreciate the US more. But I am not, and I honestly think the world would be better of without the US, as much as I could say the same about Russia, India and China.
Sorry American's not to hurt your feelings, but it is not a benefit to anyone to hide the truth. The world is a tough place to live in, and we need to raise the standard and that is not going to happen by telling the Super-powers what they want to hear because they can't handle the truth. For then there would be no purpose of free speech!
Living in the US hits its peak during college, then it's completely down hill to a boring work-homelife. And by the way, the US healthcare system is absolutely criminal.
Don't know if you know, but this could be interesting to you and your family: The Dutch American Friendship Treaty, also known as a DAFT visa, is an agreement that allows US entrepreneurs and investors to obtain a Dutch residence permit if they make an investment of at least €4,500. This residence permit is valid for two years, and you can apply for a permanent residency permit after five years. Don't worry, the money stays yours. So, if your good with computers, teaching or whatever your skills are, come to the Netherlands and start a one man army as a ZZP'er.
I'm a gay guy, so HIV is very much in my mind. A friend of mine on the drugs a few years ago had them increased 1000%. Yet in the UK, we've ditched a lot of branded drugs for generic drugs. His insurance went through the roof. The NHS would have had him sorted in a few hours.
Crazy thing about US politics is that in my country we have a far-right party and an actual communist party and they're less in each other's throats than the two differently flavored right-wing parties US has. That's what makes it seem unhinged. People are so divided based on talking points while 0.1% of the population keeps extracting as much money as they can before the boat sinks.
In USA there have so far been 225 mass shootings in 2024 with 380 people killed and 800+ wounded. In my whole life (70+ years) there has been one mass shooting in Denmark with 3 people killed and 4 wounded
The whole country of Denmark is like one county in US. Much smaller than even New York City. So comparing raw numbers is pointless. By far, most of those "mass shootings" are gang or domestic violence. This idea that you are likely to get mowed down as a tourist or regular citizen by some crazed shooter is absurd. I'm in my mid 50s and have traveled to about 80% of the US states. Never once even seen a gun drawn in public, let alone seen anybody shot. I feel no need to own a gun. I am middle class and live in one of the largest cities in the US and feel no need to own a gun.
@@norwegianblue2017 If we look at the population, USA 335 million, Denmark 6 million, Denmark should have had 4 mass shootings this year alone, but we had one in 70+ years.
@@wncjan Okay, can I choose an affluent part of the US that is mostly white/Asian for comparison? Not that it matters, the fertility rate in Denmark is so low, that it will cease to exist as a culture, sad to say. Your loss in native population is killing you off far faster than any gun deaths.
I'm French, and I live in Paris.
Why I'd NEVER move to the USA is because:
- Paris is a beautiful, interesting (there is more here than the Louvres Museum ...), vibrant and walkable city: I don't and have never had a car, and I'm not living like a recluse. I need to live in a beautiful and engaging environment, with all the facilities that a (true) city offers: shops, stores, cafés, (real) restaurants (not junk food joints on the side of horrible stroads with a parking lot to rest my eyes on while I chew on some lame "food");
- What's called "food" in the USA is abominable garbage;
- Some books are banned in the US; the last ones in Europe to burn books were the Nazis !!!
- A political debate on TV here is a political debate! No politician attacks their opponents on personal or physical traits;
- Bigotry and MONEY reign in the US minds ... and politics:
- The almighty $$$ cult! Money is placed before any human value, even in healthcare, .... and the US' prison system and, most offensive to me is that "In God we trust" is being printed on $$$ bills!!!
- Abortion right still being an issue in the USA, whilst France has just enshrined it in its Constitution (though it'd been legal since 1975).
- The US citizens' obsession with A/C, electric appliances as needless as clothes dryers, ... and contempt for the environment/climate issues, ...
- Etc.
I've only been once to the USA, to visit NYC. Although I enjoyed it and found the city very interesting, and was happily surprised that it wasn't as oppresive as I'd feared, I wouldn't live there or anywhere else in the USA for all the gold in the world!
I am German and I think we are pretty „anericanized“ After wwll but I agree with everything you wrote. Especially the Food Part. McDonald’s and co is more garbage that real food.
So if you're French, you should, really, know how to spell le Louvre.
@@vdp1626 Typing mistakes, do you know?
@micade2518 No, I don't. Whether desktop or device, you get something called spellcheck.
@@vdp1626 FYI: In French, spelling mistakes in proper nouns are not considered as "mistakes".
Now, what's your opinion about the substance of my comment?
My girlfriend wants to go to the US, work as a life guard with some exchange student work program company. And I, I am actually scared. Knowing that for a year she would be in America, it feels like she is leaving to Afghanistan, but not just USA. From my point of view its a really dangerous place, even for their own people let alone foreigners.
Afghanistan? Isn't that what some Western European countries are turning into with the immigrants? See? I can make an exaggerated comment too without even having visited Europe.
@@jayc1139 The Afgan immigrants come to Europe for a better life, the same as US citizens come to Europe for the same better life.
The USA was second last to stop systemic politicised racism. South Africa being the last.
In the USA EVERYTHING is colour coded even now, they aren't Americans they're black-americans they aren't women they're black-women. The same is true of the other ethnicities. If you keep defining yourself by your differences you'll never overcome and normalise those differences.
I saw a TikTok creator (Black American Woman =) who was on vacation in Norway explaining that she for the first time was met as an American only, not black, not woman, just American. No extra surveillance in shops, no fear of walking alone, being greeted with the same energy as anyone else was new to her - it was kinda eye-opening into the world she came from.
In the 90s and most of the 00s there was a push to try and do away with all of that, but political activists quickly redefined it so that ignoring the color of someone's skin was suddenly problematic.
@@TainDK the weird thing is that in the 90s and 00s we had a pretty large societal push and campaign to stop "seeing color", but political activists pretty quickly jumped in and redefined things so that not caring about the color of someone's skin was problematic.
American race tensions forced the Swedish language to adapt because our word for black people was too close to their problematic one. They also cancelled a liquorice flavoured ice cream.
@@TainDK I find it hard to believe a country so deluded as to believe it's a paragon of freedom and virtue still has such obvious an self imposed racial tensions. Both sides have built that wall and neither will allow it to be dismantled...
They're fighting battles that ended generations ago and can't get past their history.
Thing about Education costs in England, is that student loans are significantly better as you only need to start paying off the balance when you earn over £25k per annum. Even then the costs are relatively minor in terms of payment per month. And in Scotland there is the Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS). They pay the fees for higher education, in my case my degree cost £1280 for the first two years, then £1860 for the last two years.
I think if you read Animal Farm, you'll see repeating phrases a lot. Also, I do believe that during WWII, a German leader said that if you tell people a lie often enough, they will believe it.
I would argue, thats how WWII really started.
I think it was Göbbels
@Anonymos321 Yes, that's who it was. I could only remember his name start with a G.
@@Anonymos321 I have so much hate for that dude. Its insane how much. Hitler was obv worse, but Göbbels just discust me in a different way. Literall propaganda minister. Who the hell wants that position if you are not totally sick in the head?
The funny thing is that it was actually an American who said it, Walter Ch. Langer, in 1943.
bravo to you for speaking up for the polish guy! i was thinking the same thing, and was going to comment on it,
In the Netherlands your employee withholds taxes every month automatically, so no worries there. On top of that you fill out your tax form once every year (or check rather, the IRS has most of it filled out for you). Usually you do this before may the first. It's a pretty simple process. If in doubt you can always hire an accountant to fill out the form for you. That might cost a little, but it could be beneficial (they know more about the rules and taxes than you). Within a few months you'll receive a letter from the 'Belastingdienst' with the final balance: zero, you pay or get a refund.
Same in Denmark, you go on the taxpage online and check if its ok. Mine always is missing driving as we Can take that of the tax. Its on purpose i do that so i always gets money back 😂😂 we also get the money in May so its a easy Way to safe a bit of ekstra money for the summer 😂😂😂
Same in USA. Payroll withholdings. Every year, or payrate change, you fill out a form with your employer what exemptions you chose to take, if qualified, and they deduct taxes from your paycheck and they send the money to your federal, state, local taxation departments. Once a year, you are obligated to reconcile what is owed from what was paid in. Most people get about $1,500 back in a tax refund.
Lie about whT you qualified for, and the IRS will come for the money, with interest and fines. Cheaters get punished.
Also, employers pay a matching amount for the employees investment in Doxial Security for retirement and possible disability compensation, survivors benefits, children of the now deceased employee. Employers also match the employee funding for medical insurance for retired or disabled employees.
Europeans, and many Americans, have been lied to about how the system works.
I was a business owner, a corporation, so I was my own employee. I paid for the same insurance for me and my employees. There was a small out of pocket expense for family coverage. He US divorce rate makes insurance for dependents a legal morass as to the primary parent in insurance benefits. So, different amounts for different situations.
In the UK Taxes and National Insurance [NI pays for our national health service], are deducted before you get your pay check. The only people that file their own taxes are self employed and companies.
I've visited the U.S. twice (New England, then California and Arizona), and most of the people I met there were really nice and friendly. So, I loved the experience as a tourist both times, but there's no way I'd ever live there. My main reasons: the faulty healthcare system, the lack of work/life balance, gun violence, the excessive influence of religion,... and more recently, Trumpism.
What, exactly, do you not like about Trump's actual policies? Just curious.
So you didn't go to Alabama wearing an "I'm an atheist" T shirt then? You just dipped a toe in the water.
I am European. I was offered a place to study in a Californian Uni and rejected it as I didnt s see myself studying in US.
I had visited California 2 years back and the car rental guy extended the map of L.A and told me. Listen, do not this and this exit under any circunstances.
Compton and littlewood.
I didnt understand the reason and did not ask.
The thing is one day toward san diego y saw the exit he mentioned and thought, ok, i will take the exit and see what he meant.
I took the exit and havent gone the ramp down y drove through the main road and zas.
Small houses with from gardens full of matress, a car, and garbage or similar.
Not even a car in the street and couldnt believe my eyes I had entered a paralell universe.
It was a fucking mess, no one would look after any property and thought itwasnt such a great effort.
After a while, i get a car behind me which overtakes me and renains paralell to my car.
I say, hello and they repply...who are you? Javier, I am a spaniard tourist and think I have taken the wrong exit. I would like to get to San Diego....
Go back to the exit, opossite take the ramp towards the mitorway.
Thank yoy. Can I turn over here.? And they laughed..No one would complain.
Well, i wasnt exoecting this. I assune us was all just line santa barbara, beberly hills and similar, just like in the movies, happy silly american confort in a street full of trees
But the exit road was like entering in a war zone, hie can it get so neglected i would think, it doesnt take that hard to clean exterior, and etc...
Why there was no living creature in the whole street?
And the musscle car with 3 black men with film alike complements?
I asked somebody and answered me that it wasnt part if civilization, it was a mo keys park. Monkeys? Ahh. But i dindnt see any life. Tvey stay indoors...ahh
I was told the biggest part of la was middle working class neighborhoods, then the rich and very rich areas in the hills but all the valley was working people...
I realized the streets were ok but i couldnt find trees anywhere. Houses and houses with decent garden quite functional.
Well, I had never been in a place like compton and thought about us showing through media only posh neighborhoods, middle or working ones were fine but hardly choosen for films or la tourist campain, even if it takes the most of land.
Well, many many year after i can not recall having gone through such a neglected street. So....Us and fireignes are given a vision if the city and livi g areas thar not refket reality. So tv and media convince people, that average living conditions are ideal and us american dream was the norn.
You see, us politics manipulates citizen minds perception on real conditions but only show lyxurious as average which is disgusting.
The mental brainwashed image of average is repkaced by beberly so if you end up living avetage ( quite likely), you will blame solely to yourself for not been able to reach an standard level and downgrading to working.
The fake anerican dream is no comment.
The idea behind is to make you aware that you might not have the skills to become a winner and become an standard american.
the EU is about a flock of sheep trying to protect as many as they can. The US is about lone wolves trying to feed on as many sheep as they can. That's why the EU is trying to regulate wolves, and the US is trying to prevent sheep from forming flocks. But yes, sometimes the flock needs a protection dog to keep away other predators. And thats the only reason for the flock to keep up good relations with some wolves.
In Portugal, a small country in Southern Europe, we fill the annual IRS online in 5 minutes. If people can't do it and prefer to go to an accountant, the price is around 20€. Catch up, USA! And totally agree with your comments regarding speaking a second language, that was very ignorant of him!
So time to move. Pack up the family and set off on a new adventure. You like the Netherlands and Germany anyway, so off you go to the Dutch border. You can learn Dutch there and americangirlreacts can learn German. That way you both get something out of it. And since the Dutch speak English better than some Germans (it's in the old word family), it's certainly more helpful as long as you haven't mastered the languages yet. But wherever you go, you'll be better off than in the US.
best regards from germany
It's almost impossible for Americans to move to Europe and settle down here. We Europeans we don't need educated people from America or Eastern Asia, what we need is illiteral trouble makers from Africa and Middle East. At least that's the message I get from our recent politics.
In my country, the state takes 16.5% of the monthly salary from each employee for health care. This is paid by the employer, but if I lived in the USA, I would get everything in my account. Therefore, health insurance is free only for the unemployed, pensioners and children who use it without paying, while most pensioners were paid while working. As for all payments to the state - state institutions take their share from each salary and I receive a net salary on my account. Once a year, I receive a decision from the IRS, according to which I can see whether I have overpaid (they return the difference to my account) or whether I still have to pay a part with the money order they send me. This is possible because with each salary payment, employers send an analysis of the distribution of tax benefits for that month, so everything is recorded on a monthly level.
I loved that u deffended the polishs guys spelling. Because the polish grammer is soooo different then english grammer. So chances are he speaks english way better then he spells it❤
Problem is that the OG video guy jumped into some bizarre conclusion that ONE GUY having some misspelling issues is equal to the whole education system. Like, what the hell was even that comment xD
It's as if I asked an average american or japanese where Switzerland is and if they couldn't point it, I would assume "oh, so your education system is a piece of trash". It's just ONE person. Statistically, chances are the same misspelling will be a thing for a native english speakers as well because most people don't care how they write on the internet.
I spent one vacation month in USA and I had a terrible experience. I took more than a week to get to buy a new pair of flip-flops to me because I was a pedestrian there. I don't know how to drive a car and I had no car.
I was in Toronto for about 10 days and throwing up every day because my stomach could not process the food, everything was so expensive and no quality..PS to that list of reasons I would like to add the cost of living and homelessness.. All the best from Croatia..
Kaj je hrana tako grozna tamo? Sto ste jeli?
@@Outmind01 KFC, McDonalds, Taco bell, Wendy's, Harveys etc..Actually Harvey,s is not bad..
I just spend a month in Toronto with my friends (all of us are from Ukraine) and the food there was... just normal. But we were avoiding trashy US fast food chains (the only exception was local Tim Horton's, but it wasn't that horrible either) and were buying groceries at supermarkets instead and sometimes visiting places with Greek, Korean cuisine etc. The food from supermarkets was too expensive though, I agree with that, but there were plenty of quality products, fresh veggies and seafood and so on.
In Poland, english is usually third language after germany. Like here in Finland, we study swedish and after that comes english.
And in Sweden we study English and then we can choose German, French or Spanish.
The UK doesn't have a split between private and public colleges, so providing an average and stating that costs are comparable is unfair. Although the English university costs are high, they all cost the same and they aren't drastically different in terms of educaition - we don't have cheap local colleges and expensive elite colleges. This means that to attend the best Universities in the UK (e.g. Oxford or Cambridge) it costs $11700, compared to $57000 for Harvard, $60000 for Caltech.
Unfortunately Briggs is not very reliable as a source of information. Still his videos are funny, as he doesn't seem to know how much of an ass he's making of himself.
13:28 That is completely true and thank you for pointing it out. Learning another language and communicating in it through writing is challenging. Few misspelled words are completely acceptable and judging whole country's education system because of that is not appropriate
I ik speak 4 languases...but boy..make a mistake and they will tell you... And "they" only speak their native language...
Next time I will alsjeblieft them..to speak my language...because theirs is so difficult for me...See how that goes..😂😂
Yes really true we the other countries make an effort to learn english they US people don't even botter 😮 and the diference we are aware how difficult is to learn another language and don't get upset if they misspell 🎉
Greetings from northern México BTW 🎉❤🇲🇽
In Switzerland, if you don't need medical assistance for a fiscal year, your health insurance will reimburse you a part of your insurance cost!
Hey Charlie, I think you might have missed the point about the guy from Poland: The Polish guy probably said "I will neeeeeeeeever go to the US", to stress the fact :). Not about the guy not knowing how to spell never.
Well, thats what i do if i cant remember how to spell a word :( Just add extra letters to make it seem intentional. Hahhaha
The number one on this list was "Gun Violence"... When in reality it should've been "Road Traffic Deaths"... It was stated here about "Gun Violence"... "That you might go out for a Pint and not return home"... The U.S. actually has a real problem with DUI's too... (Drunk Driving)... "The number of deadly drunk-driving crashes rose again in 2021, killing 13,384 people. About 31% of all fatal crashes in 2021 involved drunk drivers"... Police arrested more than 443,000 people on suspicion of DUI in 2021, which was the most recent year for available data... Only simple assault and drug-related charges were more common crimes than DUI in 2021... Nationally, DUI accounts for about one in 10 arrests, which is much higher in some states. In Pennsylvania, about 25 percent of all arrests in 2021 were for drunk or intoxicated driving... And that figure of 25%... Is just the people that were caught by law enforcement... The amount of those drivers who weren't actually pulled over for a DUI... Must be much higher than that... As cops won't be able to catch every single drunk or impaired driver out there on the roads... It seems like a DUI conviction in the U.S... Is treated almost like normality... In 2022, about 20% of drivers reported driving drunk at least once, and 10% said they did it often.
I've watched episodes of Judge Judy for many years now... And it seemed almost like every defendant is asked the same question... "When was the last time you were arrested... And for what?"... And the answer always seemed to be for a DUI... Then the follow up question from Judge Judy would always be... "Was this your first arrest and conviction for DUI?"... And unsurprisingly the answer would come back... "No Ma'am... I've had my licence suspended on three previous occasions for DUI your honor... And because America has such a poor public transportation system... People are more likely to risk driving themselves back home from a bar... The other option they could always take... Would be to arrange for a friend or family member to pick them up after their night out... Or to call for a Taxi or an Uber to take them home afterwards... But even if those options aren't available to them... Why not drive to the nearest local convenience store... And buy yourself a case of beers to consume and enjoy safely at home... It's not exactly rocket science guys... Don't ever drive intoxicated... It's as simple as that... Because if you severely injure or kill an innocent person while driving drunk... You'll be going to Prison for many years... It's just not worth the risk.
In Portugal, at least, the taxes are collected from your paycheck monthly. You have tax retension in a specific percentage, according to what you earn, and the only thing we need to do, at the end of the year, is to validate what we payed and validate our expenses for the return declaration, in the government web-portal. It is a pretty simple process that takes about 30 min.
If you happen to get the wrong person in the immigration office or that person just doesn't feel like it that day they can just say no to the documentation, regardless of the legality of it the immigration office won't be punished for it.
A colleague of mine (UK) is from the Netherlands and her English is amazing. She's in her late 20s/early 30s, but I genuinely thought that she was from the US when I met her. She's been speaking English for years, obviously, but there's no inflection or accent in her voice that would make you think she was anything but American
About gun violence and being "fine" outside of major cities:
Have you heard about the young woman, who died in the backseat of a car for driving up the wrong driveway?
A couple of young people were looking for the house of a friend in the countryside, noticed they had the wrong address, didn't even get out, turned the car around and drove away. That's when the couple, who lived there and watched them from their window, decided, that was suspicious behaviour and shot after them, killing the girl sitting in the back.
Its not the perception. I lived in the US and I felt much more insecure than in Europe. So its not because of media, its a general feeling and also the fact people anyone can have a gun hidden is terrying.
Doing your taxes in Sweden takes less than than a minute, not joking, not exaggerating.
You log into the app, use youre BankID to confirm your identity, and hit approve.
Its very rarely incorrect, in 41 years old and every single year Ive gotten money _back_ cuz the government rather over tax you and pay you back than risk putting you in debt.
If you have a company your taxes may be more complicated and actually need a looking over, but thats what accountants are for.
In Finland you don't need to do even that if there's nothing to change.
in Europe we don't have a special 'tax day', because here every day is tax day XD
Es curioso, aún recuerdo como en los años 80 aquí en España todos admirábamos y deseábamos vivir como los norteamericanos. El american way of life era casi una religión. Y ahora tengo la sensación de que el sueño americano se parece más a una pesadilla americana.
European here. My bank does not allow me to trade stocks through them because I also have an American citizenship. The reason is they do not want to go through the IRS paperwork. All banks where I live explicitly ask you if you have an American citizenship.
Gunviolance not een hourly event he said. ... In 2023, 42,967 people died in the United States from gun related injuries. That is 4.9 an hour
I was a fighter for nearly 30 years. Only 20 of those years were actually by choice. Now I'm unable to work because my body is wrecked and I'm too poor to do what I need to be healthy. I'll probably just end up dying young like a lot of other guys my age. Yay America. x_x
"All nations have racial tension" absolute BS.
A part from Johnny Somali Japan have zero racial tension, a lot of countries only have one race in it.
the whole melding pot is very exclusive to US. and a few other places.
@@Tommysimonsen uhhm you're wildly mistaken there man.. Mixed ethnic Japanese experience racial tension all the time regardless wether they are white or black mixed. So the same goes for black and wite Japanese... Every country around the world has racial tension since the introduction of racial castes.
@@Elatenl Why would you want foreigners in your country in the first place? F off, you can visit and go home.
@@Tommysimonsen As much as I love Japan for many reasons, you couldn't be more wrong about this.
You’re right, Japan and Mongolia do not have racial issues because they don’t allow immigration.
I’m Polish and I had in public schools: English, French and Portuguese. I also speak German. The problem is you forget languages if there’s no means to use them, so the dude should chill a little bit. Not to mention some people are dyslexic and I myself have trouble typing the right letters on effing iPhone. There can be many reasons for misspelling.
i have a german bachelor of mechanical engineering and paid ~250€ per semester. And that was the cost of my public transportation ticket for that time, not the tuition.
to be fair, i had to apply for that position and was lucky enough to get accepted.
As a Dutch resident, i speak 8 languages.
Morrocan deutsch english french spanish german and ...?
@@olivierdelatouche9453 Morrocan? what u yapping about.
@@olivierdelatouche9453 Im from Surinam. Speak fluent Dutch, Surinamese, German, French, Spanish, Slavic, Greek and English.
Also, we have lots of different dialect and accent.
Fries, Brabants, Randstads, Vlaanders, Wallonies...
I know you Amerirats only speak 1 language, sadly for u
@laptopbread it was a wild guess because i know a lot of morrocans who live in the netherlands, and so they speak deutsch, morrocan, french and Spanish
@@olivierdelatouche9453 Netherlands is multicultiral. But theres more Surinamese people living here then Morrocans. Since Surinam is a Dutch Colony in South America.
So stupid to assume everyone is Morrocan.
Canadians do too, not to mention if your a international student with dorm your talking like 40k a year last I checked and that was a decade ago