{"id":84584,"date":"2023-11-26T17:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T17:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happylifestyleinc.com\/?p=84584"},"modified":"2023-11-26T17:26:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T17:26:02","slug":"aussie-living-in-london-reveals-british-things-she-thought-were-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happylifestyleinc.com\/travel\/aussie-living-in-london-reveals-british-things-she-thought-were-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie living in London reveals British things she thought were weird"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Aussie living in London reveals four British things she thought were weird after making the move &#8211; but now finds &#8216;completely normal&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Amie Elizabeth made the trip across the world to London one year ago<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0US student studying in Wales reveals her biggest culture shocks<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An Australian woman who moved to London has revealed the four British traits she found the strangest after arriving on our shores.<\/p>\n<p>Amie Elizabeth, who goes by @amieelizabeth95 on TikTok, moved to the UK a year ago for work.<\/p>\n<p>She posted a clip saying: &#8216;One year on and I&#8217;m sort of British.. if you call it British to have vegemite on toast every morning still&#8217; and it has been seen by more than 200,000 people in less than 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>She tells followers: &#8216;These are British things that I thought were weird when I first moved here, but after a year of living in\u00a0London, I just find completely normal&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/21\/16\/78069595-12775789-image-a-57_1700584236354.jpg\" height=\"1057\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Amie Elizabeth, who goes by @amieelizabeth95 on TikTok,\u00a0moved to the UK a year ago<\/p>\n<h2>Queueing for everything<\/h2>\n<p>The first thing on the TikToker&#8217;s list is something Britons are notorious for &#8211; queuing.<\/p>\n<p>She explained: &#8216;British people just love to queue and when I first got here I was like, why are we waiting in this line for Subway?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Why is there a line to like get into the petrol\u00a0station? Like there&#8217;s just queues for everything.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>However, she revealed that now she just factors it into her daily life, quipping: &#8216;I&#8217;m comfortable with the fact that I probably spends 12 out of my 24 hours in a day queueing.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>One viewer was confused and commented &#8216;I don\u2019t understand how people are shocked about queuing, what do other countries do barge people out the way?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Another puzzled Brit chimed in: &#8216;I really don\u2019t understand what the alternative to queuing is? What do other countries do&#8217; and one other follower said: &#8216;Why do people think we \u2018love\u2019 to queue?? We don\u2019t have a choice&#8217;.<\/p>\n<h2>Parking either direction on the road<\/h2>\n<p>Second up on the Aussie&#8217;s list is parking your car facing either direction on the road.<\/p>\n<p>She explained &#8216;When I first got here, I was really shocked that you like parked either direction on the road and I was like why is that car parked backwards?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Now, if I see a parking spot in London, that is mine, do not care how I have to get into it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/21\/16\/78069593-12775789-image-m-59_1700584289232.jpg\" height=\"1054\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The clip is captioned &#8216;One year on and I&#8217;m sort of British.. if you call it British to have vegemite on toast every morning still&#8217; and has been seen by more than 200,000 people in less than 24 hours<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0I moved to Glasgow from Las Vegas &#8211; here are the biggest culture shocks I&#8217;ve faced, from VERY strict alcohol measurements in pubs to hard-to-pronounce words<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/21\/16\/76372333-12775789-Lua_Rodriguez_Murphy_moved_from_Las_Vegas_to_Glasgow_revealing_t-a-60_1700584543667.jpg\" height=\"252\" width=\"274\"><\/p>\n<h2>Drinking culture<\/h2>\n<p>Next she said that the drinking culture in the UK &#8216;really shocked her,&#8217; despite hearing about it before.<\/p>\n<p>She told viewers: &#8216;Literally every day after work, pubs are just full of people who go for after work drinks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;In Australia pubs aren&#8217;t really a thing until like a Friday night maybe or a Saturday &#8211; also my company holds after work drinks regularly and that&#8217;s not a thing.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Amie joked: &#8216;Australian companies rarely hold alcohol related events, but now it&#8217;s like 4:30 and I&#8217;m like okay, who wants to get to the pub for a drink?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>One commenter questioned &#8216;How do you get to know your colleagues if you don\u2019t socialise out with work?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Another advised: &#8216;Having lived in London for 20 years before moving out\u2026 I don\u2019t miss any of that stuff. Try heading outside of the big smoke.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h2>British customer service\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Finally, she mentions her shock of British customer service and that when she first arrived, she thought &#8216;everyone was so rude&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>She said &#8216;No one says hi to you when you first walk into a shop, people will literally just ignore you customer service wise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When I went and got my phone plan down, I sat down and was like &#8220;hey I want a phone plan&#8217; and they&#8217;re like &#8216;yep no worries&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The girl turned around tapped in her computer for no joke 20 minutes, did not say a word to me and didn&#8217;t even look at me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was like is this normal? This is the most awkward thing I&#8217;ve ever done.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Now however, she boasts that she&#8217;s &#8216;used to it,&#8217; saying: &#8216;Don&#8217;t talk to me actually. Do you know what? I don&#8217;t wanna talk to you in customer service, just you do your thing and I&#8217;ll do my thing, we&#8217;re all fine&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>One Briton commented &#8216;Customer service is only bad down South. Up North we&#8217;re really friendly I promise&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Another suggested: &#8216;Bare minimum interaction is the perfect level of customer service&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Someone else agreed, penning &#8216;The \u201cdetached\u201d customer service thing is definitely just a London thing, having moved there from the north of England.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>However, Amie replied with &#8216;Nah I moved to the midlands first and this interaction was there!! Shocked me so much the first time it happened&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/travel\/article-12775789\/Aussie-living-London-British-things-weird.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aussie living in London reveals four British things she thought were weird after making the move &#8211; but now finds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Aussie living in London reveals British things she thought were weird - happy LifeStyle inc<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/happylifestyleinc.com\/travel\/aussie-living-in-london-reveals-british-things-she-thought-were-weird\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Aussie living in London reveals British things she thought were weird - happy LifeStyle inc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Aussie living in London reveals four British things she thought were weird after making the move &#8211; 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