An Aussie lady residing within the UK has shared a video of all of the variations between the 2 nations, revealing the one factor she doesn’t know the right way to reply.
Kate Heaslip, 22, moved to Manchester with a buddy in December with the hopes of staying for round 5 months.
Since shifting to the foremost metropolis she has observed simply how completely different the UK is to Australia, particularly in the case of greetings and accents.
“‘The place we might say ‘Hiya, how are you?’ they’d say ‘You alright?’ or ‘Are you okay?’” Kate stated in a TikTok that has amassed greater than 25,000 views.
Admittedly, she stated she simply “doesn’t know the right way to reply that”.
The 22-year-old was additionally left baffled by the number of accents within the UK.
“That is one factor I discover actually fascinating. In Australia, everybody aside from the east coast, principally sounds the very same,” she stated.
“Some individuals have extra of an Aussie accent but it surely’s principally the identical round the entire nation”.
“You go down the street two kilometres and somebody has a very completely different accent,” she stated about Brits.
Kate, who recorded the clip whereas on a prepare, additionally expressed her disappointment in the case of the shortage of seasoning, primarily on scorching chips.
“They don’t salt their chips. Not one of the chips in any meals locations have salt on them, particularly hen salt …”
Fellow Aussies swarmed the feedback part of her TikTok additionally mentioning the shortage of seasoning.
“I’m a kiwi in Eire and the salt factor is similar right here!!! WHAT DO THESE PEOPLE HAVE AGAINST SEASONING,” one particular person joked.
“I used to be in London final week and obtained fish and chips and it had no salttt,” one other shocked expat wrote.
A 3rd added: “Oh my god, the no salt on their chips. The entire time in Europe I simply needed hen salt on chips.”
One other huge distinction Kate identified was the way in which Brits stroll down the road, with out sticking to 1 facet.
“While you’re strolling down the road, this one annoys Sarah (buddy), nobody sticks to the left and the correct,” she defined, including it ought to all the time be “left” and folks ought to “keep on with their left”.
One particular person commented that it’s a “London factor” and that they “stick left in Manchester”.
“I can inform you first hand they completely don’t hahaha I’m dodging all day lengthy,” Kate argued again.
Her different gripe was in the direction of the dimensions of soppy drinks, and the way a can is 330ml as a substitute of 375ml.
“Which isn’t a giant distinction but it surely’s the distinction within the final sip when you end your meals’. She joked that it “kills her each time”.
When it got here to the climate she was shocked that it wasn’t as chilly as fellow vacationers make it out to be.
“It’s freezing generally however I assumed I used to be gonna want extra coats. It’d get chilly really, I’m not gonna jinx that,” she stated.
Kate stated regardless of all of the variations she loves it within the UK.
“The variations are actually bizarre however that’s the best half, is seeing what’s completely different about right here and residential and I adore it,” she added.
