Why i miss living in England [tZSqdLUT33o]

So it's been about 8 months now since I

left the UK. As you know, I've been mostly

in Thailand and Japan and also Vietnam.

So I've been away from home for quite a

long time now, and it's getting to around

that time when I start thinking about

things I miss about living in England and

my home back in England. I guess it's kind

of ironic that you don't really realize

how great the place you're currently

living in is until you leave it, and then

you realize, oh wait, I actually kind of

miss this and that. The problem is when

I'm in England back home, I feel bored and

I feel like I really want to leave England

as quickly as possible, and overseas just

looks so much more interesting. But then

when I'm finally overseas, I start getting

annoyed about little things. For example,

I really miss just being able to drink the

water out of the taps back home in

England, and it makes you realize that

there's quite a lot of countries in the

world where you can't drink the water that

comes out of the tap. Number one, because

it tastes horrible, and number two, it's

probably dangerous. All you can do really

with the water that comes out of the taps

here is have a shower, but being very

careful not to get the water into your

eyes or into your mouth and accidentally

swallow it, or using the water to do the

washing up. Even when you're trying to

make your own food, it's kind of

frustrating because you can't use the

water that comes out of the sink to wash

salad, for example, because it gets on the

salad and then you end up eating the salad

with the water on it. As someone who's

from England and is used to just being

able to use and drink any water that comes

out of taps, it is really frustrating

having to constantly buy these big bottles

of water. We recently bought loads of new

bottles of water, and I'm currently

staring at the big pile of bottled water

that's over on the floor. We have like 20

bottles, and it was so tiring having to

carry all this up from the car and then

carry it up into the apartment. It just

seems kind of strange as someone coming

from a country where it's very normal to

be able to use the tap water, and it's

been like that since I was born. I don't

think England has undrinkable tap water

since hundreds of years ago. Having usable

and safe tap water just seems like it

would be a very basic part of a country's

infrastructure that you should get sorted

out as soon as you can. But it's still

kind of bizarre that in 2023, so many

countries still have unsafe tap water. So

if the entire country is also buying

hundreds of bottles of water every month

like we are, then can you imagine the

amount of plastic waste? Surely the cost

of everyone having to buy bottles of water

combined with the cost of having to get

rid of all of this plastic waste is more

than just spending the money and investing

it into the water infrastructure. So I

have pretty bad number 2s every single

day, and I'm also getting this weird skin

rash on my hands, and these things only

seem to go away when I leave Thailand. So

I don't really know what is causing it.

I'm guessing it could be the water. Next

thing I miss about living in the UK would

have to be the food. I don't know why the

UK has such a bad reputation for food,

When I think British food, or the food you

can get in Britain, is some of the best

food in the world, and I've been to a lot

of countries, and when I'm really hungry,

I still crave British food the most out of

anything. When you search into Google in

Japanese or Korean, which are the 2

languages I can speak as a foreign

language, and you search for why is

British food and don't even fill out the

rest of the sentence, it will

automatically fill out the most popular

searches. They will come up as why is

British food so bad or why is British food

so disgusting. And I really don't know

what they're talking about. My favorite

food when it comes to British food would

have to be fish and chips with the big red

sausage, or the saveloy as it's also known

as, and also Cornish pasties, nice meaty

beef pies. And we also have the best bacon

in the world. Only England does bacon the

way that England does it, with the back

part of the pig. In every country I've

been in, when they sell bacon, either it's

like some weird version of ham or it's

American streaky bacon, which is from the

belly of the pig, which is okay, but it's

not the same as British back bacon. Even

simple things like the bread in England is

so much better than the bread in any other

country, so making a sandwich always

tastes delicious, whereas in Thailand the

bread is kind of weird. It's just very

small. They don't seem to have the whole

grain, wholemeal kind of breads that I'm

used to in England. Okay, I admit most of

the British food is going to be brown and

fried stuff, but it's good. It's not

spicy, it's not harmful on my stomach,

doesn't give me diarrhea. Have you ever

had a microwave Rustler's barbecue burger

with a pot noodle at 1 AM in the morning?

It is the most delicious thing ever. I

feel like sometimes Japanese people are so

snobbish and elitist when it comes to

food. They think their own food is so

good. Oh, sushi this and ramen that and

wagyu beef food. I bet Japanese people

have never had a good pork pie or Scotch

egg. I remember taking my ex-wife England

for Christmas, and I made her try some

food like pork pies, Cornish pasty, and

she didn't like any of it. She said, oh,

it tastes really bland, it tastes of

nothing. What are you talking about? It

tastes like meat and pastry and gravy.

That's what it's supposed to taste like.

I just find it kind of rich coming from a

Japanese person that English food tastes

bland and boring when they literally think

fugu is the best thing in the world, and

fugu tastes of nothing. They literally eat

raw fish which barely has any flavor apart

from kind of like a fishy, salty flavor,

and they think English food has no taste.

Okay. Also, international food that's made

in Britain tastes better than

international food that's made overseas.

For example, England has hands down the

best Chinese takeaways, and I've had

Chinese food outside of England. I've had

Chinese food in Japan, Korea, Thailand,

and they don't make it the same way they

make it in England. I guess in England

they're making the Chinese food to suit

the British person's palate. Taste buds

and palates, but it just tastes better in

England. I think even Chinese food in

China tastes worse than Chinese food in

England. The next thing I miss a lot would

have to be Amazon, the website. In England

we have Amazon, in Japan there's also

Amazon, but in Thailand there's no Amazon.

And when I was in England, I was using

Amazon basically every day because you get

next-day delivery or sometimes same-day

delivery, and if you don't like the thing

you bought, you can refund it. As someone

who likes tech and cameras and phones and

gadgets and stuff, I really liked buying

stuff on Amazon and then refunding it back

to Amazon, and then I could mess around

with it. And if I wanted to keep it, I

would keep it. If I didn't really like it,

then I'll just send it back to Amazon.

Not having access to Amazon has been kind

of frustrating. There are equivalents of

Amazon in Thailand like Shopee or Kaidoo,

Kaidee, but I can't seem to be able to use

them because they won't accept my bank

cards. So every time I want to buy

something very obscure like a microphone

arm mount or like a little screw for my

camera mount. I need to ask my girlfriend

to order it for me, and it's just a little

bit annoying that I can't just do my own

shopping. That brings me on to my next

point. When you're living in a foreign

country and you don't speak the language

and you've got a girlfriend who does, you

kind of feel like you can't really do

anything on your own. You don't feel like

you have full independence, whereas in

England I can do stuff myself like book an

eye test, book a dentist appointment, go

for driving lessons. And the language

barrier is never a problem because

obviously I speak English and I just feel

like an independent adult. But when I'm in

other countries, I feel like I need my

girlfriend or my ex-wife to sort stuff out

for me and deal with the locals in the

local language. It just makes me feel like

a kid again, like my mummy is looking

after me. And as a grown adult man, that

doesn't really give me good feelings.

Even though I speak Japanese, when I was

living in Japan, I couldn't do certain

things. I needed my ex-wife to help me

because it was like a very complicated

application process. For example, signing

up for a bank account, signing up for a

phone contract. I didn't really feel like

my Japanese was good enough to be able to

completely understand. If I went by

myself, I'd probably just sit there saying

yes, yes, okay, okay randomly, even though

I wasn't fully understanding everything

they said. Because when they're reading

off some kind of really long contracts in

very formal Japanese, it can be quite

difficult to follow. But I think out of

everything, one of the number one things I

really miss has to be my house in England,

my parents' house, because it's so nice

and big and my garden is huge. You've seen

it by now probably, but my garden is

probably the best garden I've ever had or

been in. And that's just one of the charms

of the British countryside. It's so green

and lush, full of nature, the rabbits

running around, the birds chirping, the

squirrels running up and down the trees.

There's just nothing quite like the

British countryside. I've seen other

countrysides in Asia and they're mostly

just like jungles and they look scary,

like barren wastelands of vegetation. For

example, the nature and the wildlife in

the UK is cute and pretty,

like rabbits and deer and foxes

and hedgehogs. But then in Asia, I don't

think I've seen a single rabbit here. All

you see in the countryside in Asia is

mostly Southeast Asia, is like packs of

wild stray dogs roaming the roads, or in

Japan, flocks of black ugly crows making

that horrible sound. I used to love waking

up early in the morning, having my coffee,

sitting by the window and just watching

the little rabbits running around the

garden, the little baby rabbits just

having fun and existing. Everything is

just like out of a children's book, like

Peter Rabbit or Watership Down or Farthing

Wood. For example, the 2 words forest or

woods versus the word jungle. Which one

sounds better? When I think of a wood or a

forest, I think of like a mystical,

magical wonderland full of rabbits and

bunnies and deer. And it's just so

beautiful and amazing and peaceful and

full of greenery. And then when I think of

the word jungle, I think of danger,

inhospitable environment, venomous snakes,

big disgusting insects. I always felt way

more relaxed and at peace in the English

countryside than any other place in the

world. Okay, maybe Japan. Kyoto with the

scenery and the temples is a close second.

There's definitely a lot of things about

England that I don't miss, like people

constantly going on strikes, the train

strikes, the hospital strikes. Really

annoying, especially when you're trying to

travel or meet people and then the train

services are not working or running that

day. I mean, can you imagine the trains

going on strike in Japan, in Tokyo or

Osaka? There's no way. They would ever go

on strike. Also, I feel like British

society is kind of rotten. People just are

very degenerate, don't have good manners

in public, very rude, especially the

children. I'd go to the train station,

there'd be a gang of kids and they would

just start shouting at me. British people

seem to have a very weird reaction when

they see an Asian person. And when I say

Asian person, I'm not talking about Indian

people, I'm talking about Chinese people.

So if you look Chinese, Japanese, or

Korean, they're probably going to shout

something like ni hao at you. And they

think that's really funny. I feel a lot

safer and I feel more comfortable being in

Asia because I feel like I fit in. I don't

really stick out. In England, every time I

go out, I'm always worried that some gang

of kids are going to shout at me some kind

of rude thing because of my looks.

English kids can be scary. They're pretty

big as well. You think, oh, what are you

scared of? They're just little kids. But

then you see an English kid and they're

like 5'8, 5'9, pretty masculine,

big build as well for a 16-year-old. And

I'm thinking to myself, I don't think I

could even take a 16-year-old. Maybe if

there's like a gang of kids, I could take

2 of them, 2 of the smaller ones. But then

there'd be like a 16-year-old who's same

size as me and stronger. Being a 5'9

skinny looking Asian guy in England just

makes you stand out as an easy target and

no one respects you because you don't look

like a man. I don't think I'd have these

problems if I was a big 6-foot-tall bloke

who was normal size or even fat, because

at least if you're fat, no one's going to

be able to push you around. English kids,

they can sniff out the fear. And I guess I

am projecting a lot of fear because I am

fearful for my life. I might get attacked

or something and I won't be able to defend

myself very well. So they can sniff out

the fear like a pack of dogs can. Anyway,

I could talk for hours about why I don't

miss living in the UK, so maybe that'll be

a different video. Thanks for listening

and goodbye.