Things that You Can’t Do in America but are OK in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇸American Living in England

I'm fascinated by all the comments regarding drinking in England UNDER the age of 18. I'm gonna talk about this on my livestream tomorrow night @ 8pm UK time...please join me if you can. I wanna learn more....

In the Uk it isn't Jaywalking, we call it 'crossing the road' !

Darth Vader taught us how to cross the road safely using the Green Cross Code

Lol you can be responsible for a gun at 18 but cant be trusted to cross a road 😂😂😂

The price you see on an item in a shop is the price you pay. No tax added at the till.

And yet so often you see Americans bragging how proud they are that they live in the "land of the free" and acting as though they're the only country on the planet that has "freedom".... It drives me up the bloody wall !!! 🤷🤷

British hens have a dot matrix printer in their bottoms which puts the Best Before date, and sometimes a picture of a lion, on the eggs as they come out!

Another few things to add to the list. 1) In Britain it is quite normal to linger in restaurants. One is not pressured to eat up and go to make way for the next customers, or presented with the bill until it is requested. 2) Tipping is not obligatory or even expected for most customer services, unlike in the USA where tipping is almost de rigueur, as the wages paid to many in customer services is very low and they depend on tips to make up their wages. 3) Maternity leave and paternity leave. In Britain it is not unusual for women to take a full year for maternity leave, 39 weeks of which are paid. Fathers can take two weeks off following the birth of their child.

Might be worth mentioning that these things are the same across all of the UK, not just in England.

Finding another employee to cover your holiday days off? No chance, "hey, this is your company, you are responsible for your staffing, not me. I am just telling you when I won't be here so do one"

Here is something else you can’t do in the USA but you can do in the uk you can enjoy decent chocolate in the uk

I was in Georgia many years ago, about 2008 and i crossed this road and it was safe to do so. Just like i would in the UK. Then i heard these sirens and this cop comes tearing across the road and actually skids to a stop and gets out and starts yelling at me. He was going on about "Jaywalking", and i was like what on earth is jaywalking. Once he heard my accent he said "Your not from around here are you?". Err no, im from the UK, just over here on work. He just said Have a nice day, got in his car and drove off !. lol. Guess he could not be bothered with a foreigner.

You can also step foot on someone's property and not run the risk of being shot for trespassing

Jaywalking is the dumbest law ever. Basically like saying a grown person hasn't learnt to cross the road. Bonkers

Jaywalking was an invention of the motor industries in the US to demean pedestrians hit by cars. Jay was quite literally a term like ‘idiot’ or ‘moron’, placing the fault of road accidents on the road crosser rather than the driver. In most of the world the driver is responsible since if you weren’t paying attention to the sides of the road you weren’t paying enough attention

Might also be worth mentioning that we don’t all live in London

Re : Jaywalking. It's very simple. In the UK the pedestrian comes first and - even ON A ROAD - it's the driver's job NOT to kkll them (unless they just jump out in front of a moving vehicle and the driver stands no chance!) In the US the almighty car comes first! That says a lot about the two countries !!

The construct 'Blahblah County' does not exist in British English. Most counties end in -shire and those that do not are just known to be counties, like Kent or Somerset. If you want to emphasise that you are talking about Kent as an administrative unit, then, "The County of Kent" would be used. In Ireland it is the exact opposite usage to the US, County Cork, rather than Cork County.

My wife has had cancer twice - cost for treatment. Zero -that's the power of the fantastic NHS in the UK

As a British parent, I appreciate being able to send my children to school and not fear collecting them from the morgue.