6 Ways Living in America Has Completely Changed Me

America is much the better for having gained you as a citizen. This from an American who loves your channel, loves your humor, and loves the knowledge you impart to us with each new upload. Thank you. ❤🇺🇸

American here. Your takes are so refreshing. Constantly hearing about the bad of your home country tends to leave you in a bad spot, even though you yourself did nothing wrong. Please, don't stop being you! Keep posting content like this! Shake away biases for people!

You still need to install the rubber seal at the bottom of the garage door. It is an easy project and will help keep critters and snow out.

Fellow Brit who moved to Chicago last year. It's the best thing I've ever done. I feel so lucky I had the chance to leave the UK and come here.

I lived in Germany for two years more than a decade ago and have generally followed news and the media there (though less so in recent years). Even back then I told my German friends that the US plays an underappreciated role in the world, and Europe especially. No matter what happens in those countries, good or bad, they always compare themselves to things in the US. And never favorably to the US. It makes them feel better - or, rarely, worse in the case of... Oh no! We are becoming too much like the US. They used to give the US weather on my local German radio station whenever it seemed extreme enough to them. And farther back even, I remember hearing on the radio news all about the breakup of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow - in detail. Look at those crazy Americans! In all the years I used to read Der Spiegel Online, I never read a favorable comment about the US but once. And that was not from a writer from the magazine. Rather, it was in an interview with 3 women scientists who were immigrants to Germany (from, I think, Poland, Vietnam, and an African country I can't remember). All three of the women had also spent some time in the US as scientists, and claimed they were treated much better there. Imagine! The other thing I noticed was that, because they receive so much news (mostly negative) and entertainment from the US , they think they know the US far better than they do. For example, a German friend of mine who acrually lived in the US for a year wanted to know why the US had arbitrarily chosen 100 for the number of senators in the US Senate. He told me that was stupid. He also complained that Americans were too patriotic (a common anti-American theme, especially in Germany). His evidence at the time was Bruce Springsteen's song, Born in the USA. 🤷🏻‍♂️ One other thing that struck me was that Europeans tend to see the world from their perspective . That's not surprising, of course. But they mistakenly think of Americans as misguided Europeans and not as a disparate country with a mostly different history - and thus a different perspective from them. (It drives me up the wall when the Britush claim that the US was "late" entering WWI and WWII, as if it was the US's responsibility to save Europe from itself.)

I've never really sensed you looking down or insulting your adopted country, Laurence. It's been an endearing feature that makes your content a joy to watch. It's the little things that count and you certainly do that with each posting.

You're achieving success because you are enjoyable to watch, funny, poignant and honest. You help us laugh at ourselves, which, everyone needs to do.

For myself and every other American who can love what our homeland has to offer while still being an Anglophile, we're glad you're here. :-)

Congratulations for being in the US for 15 years! We love having you.😊❤

Thank you for your humorous take on life as an American without being condescending. We get a lot of negative things said about us by outsiders so it is refreshing to hear you have embraced our way of life. Continue to tell your stories so that others will see that we all aren’t loud mouthed boors!

Thank you so much for not running the US down! So many who come here spend their time telling us what is wrong with us while accepting all the benefits!

Laurence, it continues to bring me joy that you chose to go through the naturalization process and become an official American citizen! Thank you for making our country better by making up a part of its population! We are blessed to have you.

Your enthusiasm about the U.S has made me love and appreciate my country so much more.

I’ve been here 25-years and couldn’t agree with you more. I was 34 when I moved here, and strangely, I feel my life started on the day I moved. I was full of the wonder of a new country, and have never regretted a day of life here. However - we differ in one way - I will never punctuate within the quotation marks (at the end of a sentence). My accent is still 100% Geordie, but I now say many US things - with an English accent - and I do use the dreaded Zee. Finally, I agree with the American way of treating success - and have expressed the same thoughts as you highlight here about the UK tearing people down. It’s a sad way to live - as fake as British people find it (and I’ve read many comments from Brits saying it), the American way of celebrating success and cheering each other on is very nice - and encourages success.

Oooo, Laurence, much love from an old mum in Southern California for your 15 year anniversary! I absolutely love your channel. & Arthur just about stole this episode. What a precious boy. And the pictures of you in your younger years were lovely to see. Love to Tarah & your adorable 🐱. May you become an even greater You Tube Sensation.

Born and bred American, and I put the punctuation after the quotation marks unless it’s part of the quote itself.

So honest question, do we know why Laurence (I can never remember which spelling he goes by) doesn't drive? I've known a handful of people over the years who never got their licenses, but there's usually some reason behind that decision. I maintain that even if you don't plan on regularly driving or owning a car, it's definitely good to know how to and have the ability to do so. Always love a good creampie joke, nice work.

I feel like a 5 year old whenever I watch your videos, Laurence! Keep teaching us things about Britain (and America!) that I never knew!

Congrats! I just had my 25th anniversary as a European expat in the US this summer. It's funny to see how many of the same experiences you have had as me; from gaining lbs to gaining experience and insights--and to lose them again (the lbs, anyway). Love watching your channel. It's all very relatable!

Laurence is easily in my Top 15 favorite British YouTubers that became American citizens! ❤