What Is It Really Like Living In London? | Americans React | Loners
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Hello, once again, Loners. In this video, we looked at street interviews from people who. are living and visiting London to give an honest and raw perspective about life in London. Please leave your opinions and comments below! Also, head over and subscribe to our vlog channel for more personal content. Thank you all :) - Розваги
Fun fact when people say it rains a lot in London.... New York City has roughly double the amount of rain on average in a year .
For us Europeans outside the UK, we use London in the same way you north Americans use New York city. We go there for weekend breaks, to the musicals, concerts , theatres, shopping and drink and dine. With kids we do the museums and they get to see and maybe buy the newest stuff that's popular for them before we have them where we live. When i was in my late teens and early twenties and could travel to London on my own, i wanted to live there. Now that i`m in my 40`s i don´t want to live there because it is to big, busy and expensive, but love taking a few day`s trip there. London has over 9 million people living in the city, and then there are all of us other europeans and even north americans coming there for a long weekend all year round. It can get pretty hectic, but with all big cities, they always have new happening areas outside the tourist hot spots. I recommend checking these places out and not just doing the typical tourist things.
London born and bred - it's true, there is so much to do here and the activities are so varied, rock venues, museums, beautiful parks, huge graveyards to explore, art galleries, pubs, huge variations of cafes, or just exploring the ancient back streets! Lived and worked in LA for a year (Ocean Park Blvd) and had a great time but the culture was lacking diversity! I wouldn.t swap overcast London for the furnace that is The Valley!
Same here! I lived in LA for 18 months, Atlanta and NYC - London is just better. (If it wasn't grey for 5 months of the year - No one would even question that statement!)
Mrs Doubtfire had a SCOTTISH ACCENT, not London 😂
Years ago when in New York Educating Rita had just been released. On the way out of the cinema over heard some Americans saying "love the cockney accent"" Could not resist saying Oh that's a "Scouse accent". They are probably still standing outside trying to figure it out.
Hi Guys,
London's warming up..high 70s today..going into the high 80's next week. Not good on some deep tube lines that have no air con...probably hot 90f on them!!
BTW You opening statement about your grandad still being full of spunk is a funny ones to Brits as Spunk is slang for man 'juice'! 😯
London is expensive for British people.
Weather changes throughout the same day ! I have had 70 wonderfully stimulating and safe years in London(29 years just 2 miles from Central London and then 11 miles further out from 1983, so 41 years in Outer London). My Diary tells me that since 17 years old that I have been out socially or walking 16,500 (approximately) without incident including 6,500 Sporting occasions. To be born in peacetime and after the effects of the war like the Rationing of food and living iin London in The 1960s when London was the World centre for Music, The Arts, Theatre and Photography meant it was a great place to be. There are, officially,100,000 "Places Of Interest" in London which has 32 Boroughs and 60,000 streets:)
London (I lived there for 10+ years) is an amazing place. When the western world collapses it will be remembered for all of the right reasons. A parliament that was the first European country to ban slavery to having the most diverse free museums and people. What's not to love? I even loved the Tube during rush hour.
grow the fuck up mate, the western world collapsing hahahhahaha. Oh no the tribes are coming.
The Tube is a Londoner's favourite topic for gripes because it's so essential. It's a great service when it's working well, but when it doesn't work due to industrial action, excessive weather or breakdowns, it's a tragedy for those who use it and you'll regularly hear about it.
Sheffield, India. 😀
Dublin, Nigeria
London Bridge most certainly DID fall down. In 1282, several of the bridges 20 starlings gave way and sections(with houses on ) fell into the Thames. Queen Eleanor had been given the monet to look after the bridge but she spent it on herself. After that, the City took over and founded the Bridge House Trust to spend the money on maintenance. It is still around today with a fund of over £ 700 million!
It's funny that the weather is such a stereotype - It rains more in LA, NYC, Paris, Berlin etc etc.. The issue is it has more cloudy days for 6-8 months. That creates a false perception.
I think you would both LOVE it, and surprise yourself. You like music, good food and a cool vibe - That is LONDON babyyyy! My friends and family from US, Australia, NZ and Canada have all said it is easily one of their favourite cities ever. There is a reason it is in the top 3 most visited cities in the world. (By international tourists)
Sheffield offers things to see that London doesn't have. For a start it has a decent tram service. The industrial museum has a working 12,000 HP steam engine that they power up. There's the Crucible theatre for the Snooker championships. Sheffield is the most wooded city in Europe. A hike down the Rivelin river valley is a good afternoon trip where you can see where they used water powered millstones to sharpen cutlery. The Peak District national park is just 15 minutes away. And in my opinion, Sheffield has better pubs than London. I stayed in the suburb of Stannington which is more like a country village with horse riders on the roads.
London tube and transport is on time in the main other than worker strikes, its a fantastic place to visit but not a great place to live well it wasn't for me, don't think the guy was from Bristol, more likely the Home Counties
Londons a great place to live & work. Norveners arent keen cos its a bit big & to fast for em. Country Bumpkin carrot crunching types Hate London. Everyone else loves it.
That guy was 90? Unbelievable.
I agree with Michael Beckett. It's my fav city. I really like alot of other cities, but London is special. I wouldn't like to live there, but it's a great city to have in our country.
I also don't think the guy is from Bristol.
Google ..England and Gulf Stream and begin to understand the weather.🙉🐵🙊🙈
its not always raining , the weather does change quite a bit , it can change few times in a day but its hot here at the minute. I love the weather changes. and this time of year you get 18 hrs of daylight
Congratulations! Love the tube, but it's awful at rush hour and when the weather gets really hot!
Happy 200th 🏆
The main positive about London is that it's really easy to settle in. No one gives a shit how you live your life. The big negative is just how expensive it is. The main thing is you'll never discover the whole city, no matter how long you live here. It's simply too big and there are too many things happening and too many communities for any person to get a handle on it all. I love my city, wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
The weather isn’t as bad as people seem to think. New York has far more rain than London! Also the crime rate isn’t as bad as the media often like to make out - it’s a huge political football, and it’s often made to look worse than it is. Let’s face it, zero school shootings in the country let alone London. But on a ranking of other cities in Europe, London is 62nd out of 188. Not ideal but not the worst.
It’s my home town. There’s always SO much going on, the food is amazing with every type of food you can think of available. I love that it’s a total melting pot of nationalities. I grew up in a hugely multicultural area and it, for me, was a positive way to grow up. And there’s so much green space too which often surprises people who visit. Masses of parks and open spaces which can really help when it’s horribly hot in the summer!
congratulations guys 🙌🇬🇧😊
Thing about the tourism is, hardly anyone lives in zone 1 of London, they're mostly living in the cheaper zones 2-6, so natives only feel the effect of too many people when they're going to the touristy areas themselves or missing a train because of the crowds. But since the trains come every two minutes it's really not that bad.
‘When a man is tired of London he is tired of life’ is a quote of 18th c. writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson.
Some interesting facts for you guys. Did you know that London is twice the size of NYC but only has half the population? London has so much green space that the UN officially classifies London as a forrest, in fact it's the world's largest urban forest. A visitor to London may be surprised to discover that over 300 languages are Spoken there. London is only the 39th on the list of wettest cities in Europe. Way ahead of London in terms of precipitation are cities such as Athens, Nicosia and Madrid.
Congratulation's take care of yourself, hubbies time to cater to your every whim and need.
The British don't tend to use the word "spunk". It's a bit rude
spunk is the same but also a semen slang.
I live in London and it's very expensive hoping to retire away from it in the Lake District.
Could should Jurassic Park quote?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should. Just like the background music you mentioned.
In the top ten most expensive cities in the world London is eighth. New York is seventh. 2024 survey.
Kendrick and friends were 🔥
Hiya I think London bridge is falling down, I think it was the great fire of London, the same year as the black plague ❤
Definitely not fallen down as I walked over it yesterday although fun fact the previous stone London bridge can be found in Texas after being bought by a wealthy American. Some say he thought he was buying the much more famous Tower Bridge.
@@richt71
That's a myth regarding the American who bought the 1960's London Bridge he shipped the stones and used them to face a bridge he had built over Lake Havasu...but he knew which bridge he was buying. There have been bridges around that crossing over the Thames since Roman times, and had been rebuilt several times and the bridge whilst it didn't fall down per se, it did sink into the soft river bed and the supports of the bridge did at one era clog up the river causing the currents to slow and the river to freeze solid in the winter. So much so that Winter Fairs were held, including fires on the ice...until later minutes were used to rebuild a better bridge with stronger supports, until it needed to be widened to take the increase in motorised traffic.
@@brigidsingleton1596 There is a london bridge in Arizona but it's a much more recent version.
@@richt71
According to Google, the Lake Havasu London Bridge was shipped over in pieces costing $17 (?) million (I might have that sum wrong, sorry) and the bridge was erected on 10th October 1971.
Was that as recent as you suspected?
His accent is not from Bristol.
For nicer places Like the city of York fantastic history great Food plenty of Pubs, bands Busking,
City of York can never be as Nice as London!
Yorkshire tea is Rank n all
@@pjtufty66 have you ever been to York mate .
I pay $1700 a month rent in Balham
My 3 bedroom house mortgage was £49 per month with a £250 deposit........but that was 1983:)
Not a virgin i'm so disapointed !
I think Mrs Doubtfire sounded like the old woman.
Flemish or Dutch.
Three mistakes that many Americans make:
1. London is England.
2. England is Britain
3. Britain is the United Kingdom.
None of those things are true.
Hi ,London Bridge never did fall down as it says in the nursery rhyme,it was damaged by ice in the 12 th century, and by fires over the years ,but nothing catastrophic.The London Underground is notorious for being hot and stuffy,they didn't build enough ventilation into it ,air conditioning still isn't as widespread in the UK as it is in USA . Enjoy the vlogs ,like your sense of humour❤❤
Choob not toob.
She just moved here but she doesn't like the best form of transport in London because it's busy, what in London?
...and the weather today was 24⁰c 75⁰f at 3pm, a few clouds, white fluffy ones, and a fly past by the Red Arrows this evening!
And we had a Sea Food Platter, for afternoon Tea, a mixed salad with home grown Radishes, Tomatoes, Peppers, and Extra Virgin Olive Oil from the Costa del Azahar, in Spain, where we have our Villa. This evening we went on a Motorbike ride to my mate's house, 30 odd miles away, luckily his wife was out 😉.
It’s like living in Rwanda 🤣🤣🤣
serious they reckon there only 10% of british people live in the capital
Have you been to either? Thought not.
@MISSYGful I have and the Capital of England is Foreign most British move out to the Surround areas not saying there all Rwandan but there more foreign then there english
@@AndrewClemo91 At the last Census,42% of Londoners were born in THe UK.
There is soooo much great music out there, you only don't look at the right places because the american industry of course only wants to sell you crap. So here just a short impression whats out there, and there is even more, and of course these bands all have a ton of other great songs.
LOVEBITES A Frozen Serenade 2021 LIVE in Tokyo with lyrics
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EPICA - Once Upon a Nightmare (ΩMEGA ALIVE) ~ 2021 [Full HD]
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AD INFINITUM - Marching on Versailles (Official Video) | Napalm Records
ua-cam.com/video/9Ugq3ZBNEIM/v-deo.html
BEYOND THE BLACK - Free Me (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
ua-cam.com/video/qN51U0LvC2c/v-deo.html
NIGHTWISH - Ghost Love Score (OFFICIAL LIVE)
ua-cam.com/video/JYjIlHWBAVo/v-deo.html
and thats just the tip of the iceberg 🤘🏼😄🤘🏼
He's a brave man.
We are not melting pot. We are a big salad bowl.
London is a country within a country. I only live about 90 minutes away. Still much too close. Can you tell I am not a fan?
Stay away then, we appreciate it.
@@SgtTechcomDN38416 I have every intention of staying away. Wild horses etc.
Shitty audio
My advice as a Londoner, don’t come to London, it’s overpriced full of pickpockets
Agree. I've only been to London for rock gigs through the late 70s - early 2000s. I'd never go by choice!
@@lemming9984 things have only got worse, especially in the city where all the tourists are
Absolute bollocks
Come to London, shop sensibly, in the cafes and restaurants - not in the obvious tourist traps…. Keep your valuables out of sight - not in a back pocket or wearing a backpack with money and phones in the pockets that can be easily unzipped and to prevent engaging with someone whose accent isn’t easily identifiable like French, Spanish or Italian 😉 and they approach you with “a map” claiming to be lost, tell them to ask a Policeman! They won’t of course! …but there’s pickpockets in Liverpool, Manchester…York… everywhere where there are tourists ready to be primed by someone for theft!! 😡😡😡
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@@weedle30 Better advice is DON'T COME.
DON'T EVER say SPUNK to a Brit !! It means SEMEN !!
If he had asked the same questions in the poorer parts of London he would have been given VERY different answers !!
Great place, but overpriced and overcrowded. Too many tourists and illegal immigrants 😢