American Reacts to 'Just How Different are British and American Counties'

In this video, I as an American react to the differences between British and American Counties. I was surprised by some of the differences between the two.
00:00 - Intro
01:30 - Reaction
16:17 - Outro

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[midwestamericans]

Hey, all if you liked this content make sure to leave a like so that I know. I also wanted to just say I appreciate all of you! Hope everyone is having a great day. I also hope you learned something in this video as I know I did.

[cpmahon]

Fun fact, Sheriff is simply a derivation of the term Shire Reeve. Historically the Shire Reeve was the highest law official in a county and answerable to the King.

[martynnotman]

Theres one County in England thats name is unusual. Durham is always referred to as "County Durham" which is a practise common in Ireland (County Down, County Fermanagh etc) but unique here. Its possibly because it was a County Palatine until the mid 19th century ruled by the Prince Bishop of Durham and not really part of England.

[milestone]

Geographical features like rivers tend to be used as a boundary for counties etc in the England hence they're not square.

[PeterDay]

Sheriff was made from two words Shire and Reeve.a local official, in particular the chief magistrate of a town or district in Anglo-Saxon England.

[breastemperor]

As a brit, I can't fathom why you'd want more than one Essex...

[steveyates]

Rutland is England`s smallest county for half the year. For the other half the smallest is the Isle of Wight. That`s when the tide`s in.

[artysmarty_mum]

I'm so thrilled you checked lost in the pond out, such a good channel xs

[chrislawley]

love Lost in The Pond & now find you InnocentAmerican reacting to him 😃 Wonderful Thank You and Map Men

[paulWalker-zhnk]

Its not all about size, the UK. Is beautiful .

[susanashcroft]

I love your enthusiasm, your willingness to learn and also teach us too. Thank you Ethan.

[mikefish]

We have parishes in the UK and they are the smallest administrative area.

[vaudevillian]

I think in some ways it’s helpful to think of our counties as our states (in some ways the home nations fulfil this function but culturally the breakdown is at the county/region level). Many county boundaries link to historical kingdoms of over 1500 years ago in some cases

[Will-nnux]

My mum was once a deputy mayor at a town in England, before becoming the mayor. I wished she'd held the deputy mayor position in the next town over, where that was called the sheriff.

[ferguskinley]

Third comment just luv to say I am seriously enjoying ur videos and I think most ppl can agree, as soon as the notification flashes up I stop what I’m doing and watch the video not many YouTubers can make me do that!

[gordonsmith]

Shire (Anglo-Saxon) County (Norman French) an administrative area historically under a Count (English: Earl*)

*Earl is the only English title to have survived the Norman conquest. An earl's wife is a countess. ie: The Earl & Countess of Wessex.

[lynnhamps]

To confuse things further, London is made up of boroughs although it is a city and has another, smaller city of London within it...whenever I see these kinds of geographical videos, it always amazes me that the UK has achieved so much despite it's area...size truly doesn't matter it seems...lol.

[alansmithee]

Hello Ethan (& family). I imagine Washington, County Durham would confuse Americans, especially when it is now in Tyne and Wear. At least no "shire" to mispronounce.
This is to the north of my county Yorkshire, that some Westminster folk have chopped into bits as it was too big for them though other comments are dealing with that.
To the south of this is Lincoln in Lincolnshire to keep some more US versions company.

[danowen]

Good to see a reaction video that adds some value to what’s being talked about, as I feel sorry for the original vloggers making these videos and not getting any of the revenue from reactions. But it’s still a slightly awkward sub-genre of YT.

[Sarah-ndgy]

In England we have County Councils, City Councils, District Councils, Parish Councils and Borough Councils (I'm sure someone is going to tell me I have forgotten one).
How they work Governmentally? Well that largely depends on which county you live in (a bit like how they vary State to State). I used to work with a number of Councils of the various types up and down the country and there seemed to be quite a bit of variation of what responsibilities fell to which part of the administration. In some areas the County Council is responsible for services, where in others it is the District Council, the Parish Council or the Borough Council. Sometimes its split across all of them. There can be bye laws set by each of them, depending on their authority level, which again varies. Police services are generally split by county.
And when it comes to London, that is entirely its own animal and, adding to the complication, the 1 square mile that forms the City of London having its own Lord Mayor, its own administration and its own Police Force and the 32 Boroughs of the Greater London Authority (covered by the Metropolitan Police) have a Mayor of London & a London Assembly in a devolved Government that has its own additional tax and with each Borough having its own Council with its own bye laws. Each borough has wards that have their own council representative. Added to that TFL actually have responsibility for certain areas and bridges (not always railway bridges) for some reason. None of these administrative areas are to be confused with Constituencies. Each constituency is represented by an MP, which is the member of Parliament who represents you in Parliament. Your MP could be a back bencher in Government, member of the opposition or another smaller party, or could be a member of the Government, the Cabinet or event the Prime Minster him or herself. A Constituency is outlined separately and can both cross other administrative lines and exclude areas of existing administrative area. And that is just England. Different again when it comes to Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland, with each also being different from each other. I would suggest not trying to understand how they work governmentally - it will give you a headache

(And sorry I didnt paragraph properly or use appropriate punctuation. As usual its late and I'm tired at the time of writing and my brain just gives up at that point)