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As an American I only have access to American things. Today I am very interested in learning about the amazing things that British people have that we wish we had here in the United States. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
We have the safest plugs the world, unless you stand on them, worse than standing on Lego.
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I don't know why anyone would need to stand on an upturned plug here in the UK. The switch on the sockets can be turned off to avoid having to remove the plugs, to prevent the constant trickle of non-stop electricity running through to connected devices...saving overheating and wastage. The only time my Tablet and phone chargers are unplugged is when / if I need/ choose to take them with me for hospital stays...having my phone with me, enables the use of its 'hotspot' to connect my Tablet to the internet, making hospital stays less dull or boring! (Thank goodness for this ability!) 🤔🏴😏🇬🇧❤️🙂🖖
I am 70+ and I have NEVER stood on a plug
@@brigidsingleton1596 Exactly. In my home there are no plugs on the floor. Only what is in use is switched on. Anything not in use still has the plug in the socket but switched off. Maybe I'm just fortunate to have plenty of sockets as I still have a couple of sockets free.
@@MarlynMeehan Same here. I don't even know anyone who has ever stood on a plug.
If a Briton builds a house, he expects it to stand for at least 250 years.
The block I live in I think was 1895 🤷🏻♀️ x
Not so much with modern new builds by the big building firms, most will have significant issues by about 80 years.
Yep lol, although old houses all the way for me
Ive just moved fro Kent, right on the English Channel to mid Wales. My house in Kent was built in 1560...my farmhouse here in the Welsh hills 1643. Very common. Theyre listed which means any work you want to do has a) be Heritage checked to ensure ig goes with the timeframe of the housd and b) done by listed builders who ensure the tools of the time etc are used. My farmhouse isnt as noisy at night as my other house...that ond had alot of wooden wainscotting...it creaked and made eerie noises settljng at night plus there were usuallly mice behind there.😅😅😅 couldnever live in a modern house. But theyre all ancient where i live. 😊
I dought today's new builds will be standing in 100yrs let alone 200 ....
The difference between slaves and corporate employees is that you're not allowed to starve your slaves.
Another thing Americans want: stricter food rules (what can/cannot go into food)
Yeah American processed foods can be a bit of a failed science experiment. Oven cleaner and plaster of Paris as texture and flavor enhancers. Unlisted but legal up to 16% rat in processed meats. The list goes on
@@billmilligan1705 that why I don't eat meat
I just ate an American "candy" bar that my friends sent in a package, I laughed while reading the ingredients. Its full of artificial flavours and corn syrup. Then across the bottom of the list was "CONTAINS GENETICALLY ALTERED INGREDIENT". no idea what ingredient but at least it warns you up front. 🤣🤣😘👌
High fructose corn syrup and fried chicken... = Heart disease and diabetes x
In Canada on every item of food is listed everything in said food
One of my daughters is currently on Maternity Leave, her daughter was born at the beginning of January and she doesn’t have to go back to work until December, most of it paid, maybe not full pay for all of it, but paid!
Plus free prescriptions for mum also. For i think 2 yrs. During pregnancy then for a year afterwards if working. My daughter took a year. Full pay for most of it then I think 70% after.
It's shared parental leave - 12 months between both parents.
Plus the NHS, not going into debt for having a kid,
Irony here is , had the US not fought a war against the British Monarchy, they would have had these rights. As do most countries in the current Commonwealth...
America cutting off its nose to spite its face again!
the irony that they celebrate their independance from one of the greatest empires the world has seen (from a cartography point and inventions) America today without the 1772 founding would be a hell of a better place ....... no guns, better education, better healthcare ... the list would go on but they'll still gun celebrate their ridiculous business country that doesnt care about it's civilians
And they still owe us for that bloody tea!
As we do in Europe, especially EU countries.
@@annedunne4526 you mean the EU countries that are governed by unelected officials in Brussels?
Footpaths means there are soooo many public footpaths even sometimes through private land in uk. You could walk from Cornwall to Scotland on a walking holiday in uk. If you buy a wood or plot of land in uk that has a public foot path on it (could just be a dirt path) you MUST keep it open and you must maintain it.
The footpaths were there before the land was owned. Stonehenge was built beside one.
You don't even need a footpath for walking in Scotland, as long as you are not harming crops or sheep etc or going into someones garden etc you can walk anywhere. You can even camp there too. Except the Wild camping in Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park is subject to certain restrictions, particularly in the area surrounding the loch. Doesn't stop you walking anywhere through the area though.
@@neuralwarp yes I know that. I was just explaining that even no those paths are fully public and must stay that way.
Holiday is not a benefit here, it's a right. America needs stronger unions. Limited sick leave is ridiculous.
Back in the day myself and another girl in my school got pregnant aged 15. She married the father, a US military man (we were close to a US base). They moved to America and I was envious. I still was deep down until I started watching videos like this and learned how much better life is in the UK. I have started walking for health and feel so thankful to be living in one of the oldest towns in the country so I get to see a slice of history every time I go walking.
I'd add not having to do annual tax returns if you're in a regular job where it's all done automatically for you.
US: a tax system so complicated you have to employ an accountant to complete your tax returns, supported by a lobbying body for the accountancy industry which lobbies against simplifying the tax system.
For most people 28 days holiday is not just a month... It's 39 days because if you work a 9 to 5 Monday to Friday and you took all your days off in one block then you'd end up with 39 days off as you don't need to take the Saturday and Sunday off as you are not working those days. That's approaching three 2 week holidays per year.
Yes, 28 working days are 5 weeks and 3 days at work.
Except 8 of those days are spread throughout the year. Still much better than the US
@@matthewryan4844as most statutory holidays are taken on a Monday just add 4 days of your variable to any of those Mondays and you do that for upto five statutory days off and there's your five weeks plus three statutory days you've got left, probably 25/26 Dec to Jan 1st, just take 5 days self certified sick leave (you'll need them if you've guzzled a lot of booze) and hey presto more holiday than work.
Is there anywhere giving only 28 days - generally it's 25 days annual leave on top of bank holidays - so at least 33 days.
A lot of places add days for length of service and seniority. By the time I retired, I was up to 43 days, plus 1 extra day per month "retirement leave" in the final year.
Travelling around New England stunned to find that most beaches are privately owned. No paddling or snoozing on their beaches....
Whereas 'old’ England (and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland), private beaches are very few and far between.
@@ClovisSpearhead I can't remember see a private beach in the uk
28 days is 5 weeks 3 days not a month
Wow! I mean occasional private beaches,sure. But had no idea that most of their beaches were!!! I love within 15 mins drive of 6 beaches, some are within walking distance. My dogs love free running on them all. We're so lucky here in Britain I guess!!!!
@@geoffpriestley7310 Between High and Low tide that is Crown property, so no such thing as PRIVATE beaches in the UK.
tyler, we dont have such a thing as a health care card, or need to show anything, we all have a unique NHS number, but you just tell name and date of birth and they find your records, our records, for the most part, are country wide, no matter where you go, they can access your full medical history, whether doctors, hospital, primary care, just name date of birth
I was given an NHS card with my nino on it when I left school in 1980 size of a bank card but lost it after a year!
@@geoffbeattie3160 we used to get that back then when it was all paper, or you changed doctors, it was to say where you registered, i am like you not had one since 1980, when we moved from bicester, to the north
Maternity Leave in the UK is commonly up to a year- but you don't get paid for all of that time, just that your job legally has to be open for you to return.
'Footpaths' refers to public rights of way across countryside, rather than sidewalks- although we have those everywhere too.
Yes- higher voltage results in things charging or functioning more quickly. You can boil a litre of water in an electric kettle in 2 minutes.
We have fast boil kettles and can boil water in 2minutes due to the higher voltage, anything electrical from the US will blow as soon as it’s plugged in
The issue is not voltage, it is power, voltage x current. My UK kettle is pretty fast, and consumes 2.5kW. Some US homes have a circuit which can deliver that, in the kitchen. When I lived in the US I had a kettle that worked fine.
Just saying ...
Best Wishes. ☮
The freedom to go to large public events/palces, without the fear that there's a possibility of getting caught up in a mass shoooting. Freedom from the fear of being shot by a police officer because you weren't quick enough to comply with his hollered instructions.
i keep reading comments about how you all have more freedom than every one else so what are you bitching about?
@@user-ne1kp8yo8n Who's bitching? Just adding a couple of options that the rest of the world have that the US doesn't.
@@Sorarse 🤣
We do not have a free health care system. We pay national insurance while we are working and that pay for any medical expenses.
Not only does our National Insurance go towards our NHS healthcare it also contributes to the healthcare of thousands of illegal immigrants who have never contributed and arguably probably never will.
Yes, but it's much cheaper and they key point is, it's free at the point of service, so nobody is going bankrupt over NHS payments
@@shaunw9270only if they are permanent residents, but that's not the bulk of the cost, and it's still so much cheaper than in the US
@@elfishmoss1457 You're wrong ! I suggest you pay more attention to the news. There's even non British citizens of the EU flying in and out for "free" treatment at our expense and every illegal immigrant fresh from the dinghy are being treated at our expense.
@@shaunw9270it's still way cheaper, and they do have to be 'ordinarily resident'
We also have the right to roam across many footpaths across the countryside even if it crosses private property, it’s not trespassing if you stay on the path! We have over 140,000 miles of public footpaths in the UK, which we can walk without fear of getting shot!
I never knew that we had that many miles of public footpath, that is astounding
Foot paths refers to Public right of way across Private land.
They're not all on private land, there are a lot of footpaths on common ground and wild places.
Or the private land is on both sides of the footpath. If you have property on both sides of a public street you do not own the street,
VAT (value added tax). When we go to any store, such as the grocery store, the tax is already included in the price for any product. If it says on the shelf it's £1.50 for a bottle of coke, then that's how much you pay at checkout :)
British chocolate uses whole milk, American chocolate uses evapourated milk.
And they add buteric acid in the USA to make it taste disgusting
We can run a 3KW toaster, kettle, hoover, kitchen appliance off ANY outlet...
We get 28 days holiday leave and then ten bank holidays as well.
In England there are 8 bank holidays per year. In Scotland 9, and only Northern Ireland has 10 bank holidays.
Best Wishes. ☮
I get 34 days plus public holidays 😊
I get 3 months summer holidays, a week at Halloween, 2 weeks at Christmas a week in February, 2 weeks at Easter, all the bank Holidays and 3 discretionary days. Post primary school in Ireland. (All payed)
In Canada we have Universal Healthcare which is paid through our Income Taxes every year. Every Province gives a Healthcard to there citizens living in that province which has the name of the province and Healthcare on it with numbers and 2 letters.
I currently don't own a car and unless its raining , I prefer to walk from my suburb into the city centre, about 5 miles each way, rather than wait for and travel on a bus. That's just my preference but it's totally possible unlike in the majority of American cities , or so American work colleagues have told me.
the closest grocery store is 15 miles away from my house
Bless, I've got a chemist, fish and chip shop, 3 convenience grocery stores, off license, hairdresser, post office literally at the top of my road.
The dentist, rail station and bus stop are all walking distance, as is mcdonalds, kentucky chicken and 3 supermarkets.
3 times a week there is a local market.
I lived in America for 10 years and loved it, but one of the things I now appreciate is not having to get in my car every time I leave the house.
Tyler as per normal you can't remember doing a video recently on electrical wiring and plugs and the voltage here in the UK.That was only 3 weeks ago the memory of a gold fish.Tyler did you know that America designate more land to parking spaces than they do for housing.
@@beverleyringe7014
Lol... He's not so good at acting as we all recognise his habits of "oh no, I didn't know that!" ...and his "What wait what !" routine is getting old and tired! 🤔😏🇺🇸😐 ...🏴🙂❤️🇬🇧🖖
And yet you still watch just to moan, lol
@@keefsmiff constructive criticism
@davidmalarkey1302 well if I may criticise too I would say he has 40 odd thousand followers and doesn't need nor read nor care about your criticism , you pay his wages anyway , why don't you make a rival channel if you are so great at this type of thing , I would watch , just saying..
@@keefsmiff
Any critique I imply is tongue in cheek as I could not create anything like this - or other - content via video!! I'm aged, and ignorant re tech and am only learning but by but as I go with my daughter's (sometimes impatient) 'instruction' as to how the Tablet performs, in order that I might derive some enjoyment through it's function. If my comment spurred you to believe I think I could do better, than mea culpa, I obviously gave the wrong impression. I am not 'back-pedalling' to try to save face, I _literally_ do mean I realise
I (too often, apparently) put 't'cart before t'horse'! My apologies. 🤔😐🏴🥺🇬🇧🖖
UK maternity leave can be UP TO 52 weeks. The first 26 weeks is called ORDINARY MATERNITY LEAVE and the last 26 weeks is called ADDITINAL MATERNITY LEAVE. Statuary Maternity Pay is paid for up to 39 weeks at 90% of your AVERAGE earnings before tax, for the first 6 weeks. Then you get 33 weeks at either £184.03/$227.63 or 90% of your average earnings, which ever is less.
My daughter's partner got 2 weeks paternity leave when she had a baby. Some companies offer more than the statuary time off.
28 days is the MINIMUM. You can add on Bank Holidays to that as well, so you could get over 32 days a year. I am 68 and work part time , 12 hours a week, and I am still eligible for these holidays...by law.
American chocolate is proven to taste like VOMIT to non Americans. They do something to the milk that makes it taste weird.
FOOTPATHS means the right to walk in the countryside on footpaths/trails without the fear of a landowner shooting you for being on their property. In Scotland we have the RIGHT TO ROAM.
UK electric power points & plugs allow for more powerful tools, like drills, washing machines, heaters & kettles that heat faster. You can also have several power tools etc on at the same time. Footpaths also covers thousands of miles of walking trails all over the country, even across private land. In the UK not many places are far from amenities, like shops, pubs, schools & access to public transport, so you can walk to most places you might need. Only a few suburban residential areas are removed far enough from towns that you need a car, but this is becoming more common as developments moved further out. In Britain 'sick pay' by one's employer can last for a long time, though it may not be full pay, & may reduce over time, but if this happens there are Government benefits to help you out. You may be sick for an almost unlimited time if you are likely in the end able to resume work. One does not need to take sick days to add to your holidays, these or not related. Workers are allowed mandatory holidays plus Bank Holidays, in addition to any sick days taken. If you work a Bank Holiday you will get double pay for the hours worked & a day off to make up for the holiday missed.
An employer also has to give a months notice at least if they want you to leave. If you are being fired for misconduct or something at first you must get a verbal warning, later a written warning listing the problem, if this doesn't improve then a final written note is issued telling when you must leave, again at a months notice. Similarly an employee should give addequate notice of intent to leave an employment, or they may loose some severance pay.
in 2022 both me and my wife took 6 weeks off work (paid) to do a road trip around the USA. It was funny when people hears our accents and would ask what we thought of the places we were at and some would say that having a week or two is not enough to see the area fully... Then we would say we were here for 6 weeks and the look of shock was quite funny.. But it was also nice how many would offer condolences as we were there around the time the Queen had died. That year we had 10 weeks of paid holiday, but to be 100% honest my wife was lucky her employer let her carry over holiday time she had not used during the covid period when we were not able to go away due to lockdowns. I was able to move work around and make sure work was done and give me the time to take 6 weeks off.
Can’t you order your grocery shopping on line and have it delivered to your home ? We can do this.
Here in the US, but it is only for the elder and disabled and you can't be no more than 5 miles from the grocery store.
@@marydavis5234I live on a canal boat and I move continuously around the country on my boat. But I can order groceries online and have them delivered to my boat, I just need to say which bridge the delivery driver needs to go to.
I've known some get it delivered to their pitch on a camp site.
@@marydavis5234what does Amazon Prime not include free grocery deliveries in the US. It's typically about £3 for delivery if you need to pay for the store to most parts of the UK mainland and may be free for orders over a certain point.
@@GuardOfGaia 'the big green tent, Glastonbury' :)
Yes in UK companies with mothers on maternity leave must offer a statutory 39 weeks. However some companies offer up to a year. My sister in law too a year for her first birth. However mothers will of get paid 90% pay for the first 6 weeks and then it will lower after that.
I think sadly in the US you have had a fear of socialism which makes you fear having taxes spent on providing a safety net for the less well off, in the UK our having an option to vote for a Labour Party has led to mainstream politics competing for the floating voters and so we had unions traditionally fighting for better work conditions, sick pay, a national health service, paid leave, maternity leave, some job protections to prevent employers exploiting the workers. State pensions, all retained should a conservative government get in due to a fear of losing the next election if they were to remove those safeguards. We have some public housing, benefits for unemployment and the disabled. I am amazed that Americans haven’t demanded at least basic rights of paid leave, rights of appeal against unfair dismissal from your jobs, and basic free health care.
Your comment is probably the best one I've ever seen responding to Tyler, and I always skim some. 👍👍 The *only* thing I feel might be misleading is the phrase "mainstream politics competing for the floating voters". I believe I understand what you mean, but "floating voters" doesn't seem to be the right phrase in the context of those policies and resulting services.
Once the Labour party became mainstream in the UK, and living and working conditions for the majority of working people improved, then it's difficult for any party to reverse those improvements and win elections. The voters who determine that aren't floating. The majority of those 'average working people' are deliberately voting to preserve those social benefits. "Floating voters" have no strong political affiliation, and can be swayed by policy claims for the 'current election'. That feels slightly different.
You are correct that 'average working people' in the USA have been 'brainwashed' to associate 'Socialism' with something inherently bad. The failure of the USSR to provide a good standard of living provided excellent ammunition for US politicians. The fact that the USSR was a dictatorship, and not a form of 'European democratic socialism, which has been successful, is largely 'brushed under the carpet' and ignored by US politics and media.
Part of the genius of the US constitution and political system is they were designed to keep enough power in the hands of the wealthy (and business), that social change can be resisted, even when it would actually improve the conditions for the 'average working people', and _save money._ The way the political system and economy in the US works isn't accidental. It was designed in from the start, and has institutions, like the Supreme Court, who can actively protect the status quo.
Best Wishes. ☮
In the UK it is accepted that people have a life outside of work. It seems in the USA workers are seen as no more than living machines, with companies keeping unproductive down time to a minimum, and when the machine stops working, you dump it. The NHS is paid for from National Insurance Contributions, which as the name suggests, works like an insurance policy that includes everyone. One thing I found disturbing was that American people involved in accidents have died after declining to get into an ambulance because they can't afford the bill. Having to decide whether to risk death or bankruptcy when you get sick is so wrong.
Adding to NHS depending on your medical condition you might also get free prescriptions for said condition. E.g. I have epilepsy & a thyroid condition so I have free prescriptions.
My Crohn's medication is several thousands per month that I don't have to pay a penny for.
@@MostlyPennyCat that’s good? Where do you live (uk or USA). I just heard that not as many people are entitled to free prescriptions in USA. Not everyone is in UK but a lot more conditions are in UK than USA.
@@EmilyCheetham
UK.
Thankfully!
Remember when staying at The Algonquin Hotel on 44th street in New York we returned from Canal Street little Italy after Lunch and the doorman couldn’t believe that we had walked there and back , his comment was jeez …you English are nuts 😂
pfftt.. who needs paid holidays when we have our "freedumb" 😂😂😂
Hey Tyler, I wish your video’s were longer, but checkout the differences between American Plant Nurseries and British Garden Centres…..we offer a lot more like cafes, clothes, kids play centres etc.
One of the biggest destination Garden Centres in England is “Bents Garden Centre” this place will blow your mind! 💯🔥
Tyler doesn't read the comments.
@@damonx6109 well that’s disappointing
28 days holiday is a minimum lots of employers give more and it increases the longer you are employed. Most people I know get about 5 or 6 weeks plus bank holidays
I almost laughed at "When you go to the toilet, do you actually feel like no one can see you?" :D Yes, that's generally how toilets are.
The one exception I remember was junior school. The cubicles had saloon type doors and adults would have been able to see over the top of them.
A worker is not expected to find cover for their role if they are going to be out of the office if they are sick, have an emergency etc. In the Uk, the manager is expected to make sure there is cover for staff absences. In USA, why does a manager do?
I live in Sweden, and we also get those things, that the British get. The details might be slightly different, but in principle the same. We get 18mths parental leave, that both parents share. Whilst it is possible decide who takes how much, each parent has to take at least 3 months.
We also get 30 days vacation (6 weeks) with an additional 8-10 public holidays and an occasional bonus day that is not officially a vacation, but everyone takes anyway due to local or national custom, or in some cases company custom.
Oh and yes Universal Healthcare, with a small copayment, which is limited to around $120 for a year, hit that limit and the next 12months is free. We also have the same system for medicines as well. It is called High Cost Protection.
I worked for the Goverment and always got 5 weeks holiday not counting Public Holidays! All paid!
I worked at a firm that was contracted by local government. I got 5 weeks, plus Bank Holidays, a week at Christmas cos the building was closed. After 6 years, I got an extra week, and after 7 years I got another week!
I don't know why I'm answering, because Tyler never reads the comments, but YES. We pay for the NHS out of our taxes and treatment is free at point of delivery.
You do just turn up get the treatment. No forms to sign, (unless it's to say that you understand that the treatment you're about to receive could potentially kill you), and you don't get billed for it. I had a heart attack 10 years ago and had to have a bypass, with a mechanical valve now in situ. I was in hospital for 2 weeks. Cost was never an issue, either to me, my family, or the staff at the hospital. I've had lots of follow up treatment and have a kind of review each year, and still no cost, other than what I pay in tax. I have to have around 10 different drugs a day for various things, but all I have to pay for my prescriptions is just a little over £10.00 per month, for 10 months of the year, and that covers ALL prescriptions, even if I have to have a course of antibiotics, or if I have to have something from the dentist.
3 main things are... A history , National health service and a sense of humour 😂
Higher electricity voltage means we can use any electrical product, anywhere in the home at any time and not think about overloading the system.
Ancient footpaths throughout England, used for thousands of years are kept open for all the public to use - even if, later, people bought the land they were on. The new owner has to maintain that footpath. Scotland has a similar law called 'The right to roam'.
In the UK an electric kettle boils a pint of water in 90 seconds.
As a Scotsman, I get 25 working days and 8 statuatory days (public holidays) per year. A decent amount but I know people who get more.
In the US, vacation and holiday pay is based on what company you work for not the Government, I retired in 2017, I got 10 weeks of vacation time, all holidays were fully paid, healthcare insurance was $499.00 a month and I paid $8.00 a month and the company I worked for paid the rest, a retirement fund[ 4O1K] which the company matched my amount I put into it, 2 years of maternity leave, both short and long term disability leave etcc.
Tyler, minimum 28 days is correct although most people I know get a LOT more than that. I personally get 8 weeks a 4 days paid annual leave per year and we are encouraged by management to take it.
Footpaths mean paths across the country; across moorland, farms, woods etc. There are pavements everywhere too, which is what I think Americans call sidewalk, at the side of the road, which you can walk on. So yes, we can walk everywhere in cities, towns etc. but footpaths are not pavements. Also I recently watched a video by an American who was surprised to see stiles and gates on a country walk someone had filmed in England, and didn't know what they were! I think it's very interesting.....
So because we tend to work 5 days over 7 in the uk, 30 days annual leave amounts to 6 weeks, then we have 8 days public holidays on top.
Not just expected around Towns and Cities, we have the concept of Public Rights of Way across Private Farmland/Property, which the Landowner has to maintain for the Public Benefit, by Law. In fact there's a Public Right to Roam across Private Land if it's uncultivated.
The right to roam. Me and my dog certainly take advantage of this right 😊
When watching Toy Story 2 and Al moans about "driving all the way to work" before driving his car right across the road, I thought "isn't he lazy?"
I didn't realise how normal it is to drive such a short distance.
I worked for a US company in the UK. I had 31 days holiday a year plus 8 Bank holidays. On Fridays we only had to work until mid-day
Poets day. Piss off early, tomorrow's Saturday.
Items on Amazon Prime here in the UK have next day delivery. In fact some items have same day delivery.
In Canada 🇨🇦 you get 1 year Maternity leave and Paternity Leave which goes for straight couples and same sex couples and you get 90% pay of your paycheck which is paid for by Employment Insurance you apply for. Both parents can take off the same time. One of the parents can take an extra 6 months off for Maternity leave and Paternity leave at 80% pay.
Before I retired I used to get 28 days plus 8 days statutory holiday such as Christmas, New Year’s Day, May Day and Easter etc.
Perhaps I only had 28 days paid holiday when I started working. It's really on the low side. We also get paid in vacation time or money for overtime. So I usually took a two month vacation in the summer and a couple of weeks off in the fall and spring (Sweden)
Basics electrics Europe - 220v at 13 amps = 220x13 = 2860 watts (3000 watts) , USA is 110v and 16 amps 110x16 = 1800 watts. So the standard electric in Europe (and most of the world) has 1200 watts more power. So you don't need 220V special sockets for cookers, ovens. Also it allows things like vacuum cleaners, kettles to work. Most kettles are 2000 watts. Higher voltage also means small cables when wiring a house lighting circuit or other things.
I live in Scotland and I get 5 weeks holiday and 11 days public holidays.
Electricity - why we can use electric kettles and US citizens prefer boiling water on the stove (because with US voltage an electric kettle takes an age to boil).
The issue is not voltage, it is power, voltage x current. MY kettle is prety fast, and uses 2.5kW. Some US homes have a circuit which can deliver that in the kitchen. When I lived in the US I had a kettle that worked fine.
Just saying ...
Best Wishes. ☮
Yes my friend had a year's maternity leave. That is normal and expected. Some of it is on full pay. Some of the university lecturers where I worked, got 30 days paid leave. Again this was perfectly normal and I got 25 days after 5 years service. Combine this with statutory holidays such as a long weekend at Easter, a week off at Christmas given by the employer without impacting on annual leave, two long weekends in May. All of which made for a decent work/life balance. The USA's way of continuous working until retirement, it seems to me, before you can have a life is crazy to me!
footpaths- In america you drive everywhere, lots of roads lots of parking, europe your a 5 min walk from everything i havent owned a car in 30 years
Calling a toilet a bathroom or restroom, and the strange habit of one letter words, n-word f-word etc.
Keep ignoring those haters man, its great
CAR FREE: I live on the edge of a small town, and I don't drive. It's a 2 minute walk to my nearest bus stop, (which is a shelter). The buses are every twenty minutes from 06.20 in the morning to 11.20 in the evening, and this rout takes me into the town centre, past my sister's place, through Beeston, (the next town), past the front door of The Queens Medical Centre hospital, and on into Nottingham City Centre. Takes about an hour. Or there's a 10 minute walk down to the main road for a bus to Derby City Centre, (I live roughly half way between 2 cities). At the moment, all bus fares are subsidised by the Government, so ANY journey only costs £2.00, whether you're just going 1 stop, or travelling 12 miles or more.
The Greater Nottingham area has it's own bus network, as well as a tram network, as well as trains that go to several major cities, including London.
If you drive, finding somewhere to park can be a major problem, car parks are rarely free. Traffic can be a major problem, you may have to pay a congestion charge to use certain roads, and you have to pay a work place parking charge to park at work. Not to mention petrol(Gas), and the general expense of running a car. It often works out cheaper not to have a car. Where I live, cars are a useful luxury, not a necessity.
You're lucky. My sister lives only a 20 minute drive away, but because there is no direct bus I would have to go into Cambridge and then back out again, and the journey would take me 1hr30 (or longer if the first bus was late). Suffice to say, I drive.
Going into a store and the price you see is the price you pay..
As UK postal worker, in 2024/25 I will get 9 weeks holiday.
Our chocolate used to taste great (Cadbury's) but then an American company bought it and changed the recipe, presumably to make it cheaper (more profit) and now it tastes shite.
I worked for a finance house in London in the mid 80s and it came with the equivalent of six working weeks’ holiday paid of course plus of course all the usual public holidays. It was a contract term that all staff HAD to take at least one period of at least two weeks together in any one year or face a disciplinary interview! This was partly for security but also for health and welfare reasons. Imagine losing your job for not going on holiday… strangely it never happened to anyone in the three happy years I worked there 😂
Hi there, uk electrician here, so yeah "proper electricity" basically in the US you get around 120V from an outlet in the UK you get around 240V, power (watts) is voltage x current so a higher voltage means less amps for a given load, this means lower gauge wire and the best example I can think of is the electric kettle, in the US they are rare and very slow, most uk homes have 3kW fast ones that boil 1.5L water in around 2 min, in the UK that kettle uses around 13A, in the US it would use around 26A much more than your outlets provide. You can also plug in things like a washing machine, heater or iron all at once without tripping the breaker. Basically think of it as every outlet being those 220V ones you have for big driers, AC units etc.
Footpaths = hiking trails, there is a network of footpaths say between one village and another which are required to be accessible even if it cuts through a field or orchard or even by a garden of a house
There are many people who don't pay taxes but they still get to use the NHS. So, for them, it is free!
I'm not a great walker now, but as a teenager I wouldn't think twice of walking 10 to 15 miles and would do so 2 to 3 times a week if not more. If I wanted to walk to work (7.5 miles), 90% of it would have a path/sidewalk even on a country road.
In the Uk there are 8 public holidays, included are Christma, boxing days and new years day. If you need to work these then you are either given alternative days or payed for them at overtime rates. Then there is the statuary (legal) number of holiday days, plus what the company provides. I had 26 days at retirement. All of these were FULLY paid.
I (male) had 1 month paid paternity leave for the birth for both of my children, PLUS what the company permitted, they also allowed me to split that month over 3 months.
Can't see this happening in the US.
As for everthing else, see the other comments.
About electricity in the UK, I can plug my welder, into any home socket or extension, vacuum cleaners, heaters and power tools can be more powerful
In Texas it all depends where you live, whether you get any amount of maternity leave. In Fort Worth & Dallas the lucky women can get 6 weeks paid leave.
28 days is nothing, my wife gets 45 days paid leave here in the UK as a Full-Time Employee, and never works Weekends
In the UK we have a mere 8 bank holidays, however the minimum holiday year is 20 days plus bank holidays = 28. The annual leave entitlement increases on years of service or pay grade up to some 35 days plus bank holidays unless, like me, you are a contractor 🙂. All holiday pay is rolled into your daily rate but US citizens don't holiday & we Brits love the Med. That's why I married a Cypriot 🤣
Saw someone mention sick leave below. Same as above. You don't get paid sick leave until you have worked for the company for 3 months but a government scheme will pay some money if sick for more than a week in that period. After that, well, depending on the employer, you will get paid full pay, blaahh, as above. Again, as a contractor, you get FA!
In Canada 🇨🇦 we have strict employment laws. The labour act and employment standards act states that Employers must pay 4% vacation pay to there employees from the start they are hired and they get 14 days of vacation pay after 1 year with the company to 4 years.
5 years to 9 years with your Employer you get 6% vacation pay plus 21 days paid vacation.
10 years to 14 years with your Employer you get 8% vacation pay and 28 paid vacation days.
15 years to 19 years you get 10% vacation pay and 35 paid vacation days.
20 years and up with your Employer you get 12% vacation pay and you get 42 paid vacation days.
Vacation time is only the days you work not your days off. You fill out a vacation request form and write down the days your taking as vacation from the time you start to the last day. The B slot you fill in all days you work. Then you sign it and hand it in to your supervisor.
You have already reacted to everything in this video several times.
Many other people have said this several times , why not try to think of something original to winge about, you are guilty of the same thing as him, not easy is it 🤔
I get 35 days annual leave, plus Bank Holidays in the UK. We are not allowed to be contacted or work as we're meant to refresh ourselves.
I get 28 days leave, plus all national Bank Holidays. Also work flexi time so can build days up by working extra hrs in advance.
You can have 9 months paid maternity then 3 months unpaid maternity leave. We also still get our holidays while on maternity
going on the average of 5 working days a week, 28 days is 5.6 weeks, its ok, but i prefer more, LOL.
Footpaths i think is refering to the Public access walkways that go through fields, forests and the open spaces, alot of our farmland has public right of way that goes through the middle of a field cause people used to walk that way when there was no cars or roads, and so it just exists. Comes from the long history of the UK compared to the US' 250 years.
There are a 140,000 miles of public footpaths in England and Wales. Some are in towns and villages but many are in the countryside. They follow ancient routes and cross private land farmers fields and woodland etc The owners of the land are aware of these paths when purchasing the property and of their duty to keep paths in good conditions. It is illegal to block these paths, farmers must even leave the footpath unplanted. Entry to fields is via a style or a kissing gate.
We call an ambulance for someone if it looks remotely needed at no cost. Only if it could be serious ie broken bones or lacerations, suspected hear attack, stroke or concussion.
I would have thought number 1 should be a political system that actually works to better the people who actually voted them in and not for the benefit of the corporations who paid for their campaigns. Our system is not perfect by any means but the fundermental things mentioned in this discussion would be possible if the government system was not a two party one. In the US, lobbyist on behalf of corporations have way to much power so the employment laws are never going to change in favour of the employee. Also the food standards will never change as the people have no say but the big business food and drinks agency does. We got the basic rights we have because the people fought for them and we still have to fight sometimes to keep them. A prime example was Walmart buying the UK supermarket chain ASDA. They slowly tried to bring in American style working rules and found opposition at every turn. I believe they eventually had enough and sold out to another company.
We also get holiday pay each and every year.
When I retired I was on 31 days "vacation" plus 8 public holidays! All paid!
In my old job (UK) i got 1 half months+ of paid holiday a year. The first year you get the basic 4 weeks. After the first year ends, we got an extra week and every year after that you do, you get an extra day. The type of hours you work i.e full/part time adds extra hours to those holidays as well so in the end i got nearly 7 weeks holiday full pay every year.
I think the footpaths are for the sub urban areas. I've seen videos of American's talking about area's where you live and it has no footpaths, you either walk on the grass or on the road.
28 day holiday is working days so that’s almost 6 weeks including weekends.
You do have castles, in Disneyland.
I’m an nhs worker i get over 8 weeks annual leave a year
It depends what job you've got in Britain for maternity leave. Minimum wage most people leave as its not worth working when you can receive benefits but people on high paid job can take up too a couple of years. Especially if they are respected in whatever work field
28 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays. And as a long service award I get an additional 5 days. 41 days in total.
If you get a PO Box we’ll send you proper British chocolate
You should come live in the Uk Tyler proud of our healthcare service saving lives without demanding insurance. If u have a job your tax & national insurance sorted out automatically with your wage.
As well as 28 days paid holiday. We also get 11 Bank Holidays eg Xmas
It does count, just tested 1 litre cold tap (potable water) to kettle boiling, as we have both Mains Gas (Methane) Kettle (whistle) 230v AC Electric Start, and a 3,000 Watt 230v AC Electric Kettle, the Electric Kettle boiled the water 3 minutes and 30 seconds before the Gas Kettle, and no I'd never boil 1 litre of water in our 900 Watt 230v AC Microwave, as that is dangerous.
Incidentally we have both a Gas Kettle (Propane) 12v DC Electric Start, Electric Kettle (800 Watt), and a 750 Watt 230v AC Microwave in the Caravan (RV/Trailer), and the gas is quicker as the Electric Kettle is less than a third of the power of the one used at home. Note that the reduced power in the Caravan is due to sometimes being restricted to a 6A 230v AC Supply at a Caravan Park/Site.
Why would you have huge gaps in your public toilets ??? Single rooms are better and quite common in the UK, but even the row of cubicles have full doors on them. I have 7 weeks fully paid annual leave each year (holiday leave) as I’ve worked for 27 years. I started with 4 weeks and it’s gone up every 5 years since. I can carry unused leave over as well. I also had 3 months fully paid maternity leave 22 years ago and 6 months 18 years ago. I took extra at half pay plus statutory maternity pay from the government which equated to roughly my monthly salary….
Footpaths in this article are across private land in the countryside. You may own the land BUT there are ancient rights of way across that land and you have to respect them. Walkers WILL walk/hike across the land respecting your property and your animals and you can’t stop them.