How we see the US after 8 months in the UK & Europe (REVERSE CULTURE SHOCKS)

Have you noticed these differences between the US and UK or Europe? Have you experienced your own reverse culture shocks? Let us know! Watch our Culture Shocks as Americans in the UK video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZBX5gwQKa4&t Things we miss about the UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEhlHuXsKpE&t We Went on a British Holiday... in Victoria, Canada?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECLxexxEPos Finding British foods in American grocery stores (shocking prices): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qg4W_Qi3lw

If more Americans travelled they’d bring the positive changes back home and maybe generationally things would change. I always feel like America is too disconnected from the world, geographically, and for various reasons most people have little interest in discovering what the rest of the world has to offer. Imagine if most people went on holiday to Europe every year and came back to the US with similar thoughts to your own here.

Biggest culture shock to me, while in the U.S as a Brit, was bread. What Americans consider to be a loaf of bread would horrify most Europeans.

I've not spent much time in the US, but I remember visiting friends in LA. I decided to walk to the local shops as my friends were at work. Got stopped by the cops twice to ask what I was doing trying to walk a couple of miles, had to cross a couple of big roads and use a bridge with no proper sidewalk. To be fair they were charming when they realised I was a Brit, but being questioned by the police for walking somewhere was very odd.

My husband and I visited the US to drive the length of the east coast. On our first stop we decided to stretch our legs and wander around the local area. We were walking along a residential street when a police car stopped beside us and we were asked what we were doing. We said “Walking?!” this seemed to thoroughly confuse the police! 🤣

Bill Bryson wrote two great books 'Notes from a small island' about moving to the UK from Des Moines and the culture shocks that ensued and 'Notes from a big country' about moving back to the States after years in Britain.I remember theres a funny chapter about him trying to walk to a store on his return to America and having the police called on him. Both books are great and i would highly recommend both.

I’m a Brit and recently travelled to Denver for work, staying slightly outside the city. I was amazed that there was literally no-where to walk that didn’t involve getting in a car and then finding the designated walking area, usually a park or something. Coming from the UK where there are public footpaths everywhere for enjoyment this seemed crazy. Cars, cars, cars …

As a Brit I have to admit that Americans, I have met in the UK and Europe have always been incredibly friendly.

With the safety thing, i often see people try to use “the uk has knife crime” as a rebuttal for the American gun crime, but they always overlook the fact that per capita knife crime is also worse in the US.

Tipping… It’s not that companies cannot afford to pay workers a living wage, but rather they choose not to.

Mike From Manchester U.K. you guys will always be welcome to come back to the U.K.

I can only compliment you on your willingness to experience things outside your comfort zone... compare, contrast and give your honest opinion of what works for you and what doesn't. Please keep up what you're doing.

I live in Wiltshire in the UK and have never been to America but when I was growing up it was always my dream to do so. I thought it was the land of dreams and so far ahead in many ways to other countries in the world. However , now I'm older and wiser and with the easy access to be able to watch great videos like yours , I have come to appreciate what an amazing place the UK is to live. I now realise that this country and others in Europe are the countries ahead of the curve. We don't have to worry about going bankrupt through illness or injury because our health care is totally free , if we work we are given up to 5 weeks holiday a year to enjoy and spend time with family or friends , our roads are safer because we have a sensible law that requires our cars to have an annual M.O.T safety check every year [ I could not believe this isn't compulsory in the USA ] and we don't get earthquakes or tornadoes. Admittedly we do get way too much rain but it's never dangerously hot or ridiculously cold. As for our history and scenery it's probably second to none as you have shown us time and time again in your wonderful videos. All in all I have found a new appreciation for the country that I live in thanks to great videos like yours. This country isn't perfect but what country is ? Keep up the great work guys.

Thank you for your positive response to the UK, people who live in the UK often think it is a bad place, it is not. They do not understand the freedom and security they take for granted.

It's despicable that American workers get slave wages and are expected to grovel to customers to bump their pay up. They should try to get unionised, which I know is hard but the bosses are taking the piss

In 1976 my wife and I walked from Knob Hill in San Francisco, through Japan Town, Goldengate Park, and then across Goldengate Bridge, and then all the way back. It was a great walk, but Americans thought we were crazy. I must say that walking across that bridge and back again was wierdly awsome. The bridge noticably swayed a few feet in the wind, vibrated when vehicles passed us, and the mist descending was eerie.

Got to agree on the tipping thing here in the UK. I feel that we only tip if the service has been truely excellent and the food has been very good, and I'd never consider doing more than 10%. I feel sorry that service staff in restaurants in the US need tips to actually earn enough to live.

The best thing about TMG is that these guys realise there's more to the UK than London Hope you come back soon guys......PS being Carly ❤

42-year-old UK citizen here. I don't even have a driver's license. Never needed one. I walk, cycle and use public transport.

It's not a difference between the USA and Europe, it's the USA which is so different to the rest of the world.