American Reacts To How Has Your Concept Of Freedom Changed, As An American Living Abroad? | Part 1

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[Kelsea-]

I think the greatest freedom is to let the kids go to school in the morning without wondering if they will be seen alive again at noon.

[canadianmike]

As a Canadian, I am always shocked to visit the US. We are so close, and we get all their TV and movies, and yet how we see the world is so vastly different. Why do Americans scream freedom so load yet seem to have so little. Over 70% of Canadians have travelled to the US, and 55% also travel globally. When we meet Americans in the US, so few have ever left their cities or states. Then, to find out they do not travel because they get so few holidays, I fail to see how that is freedom, to me that sound of indentured servitude. I would say slavery but that carries far to meny landmines. I also do not understand how they survive in a country where medical care is a service and not a right. Then, there is the US education system. With all this, where is the freedom, I do not understand.

[michaelgemignani]

I am an american living in Italy....and there is no way I am going back. Italy has it problems.... its not a perfect place but compared to the states of today.... its paradise.

[RealConstructor]

The US has no freedom, they have feardom. Fear of gun violence, mass shootings, home invasions or sexual assault. Fear of not seeing your children back from school because of shootings, abductions or drugs. Fear of losing your job in a heartbeat. Fear of losing your house and being homeless. Fear of getting bankrupt of healthcare bills. Fear of not having saved enough for your children to go to college or university. Fear of earning too little for paying the bills for groceries, rent or mortgage, medicines or energy. Most, if not all, of these fears don’t exist in other developed countries. That’s freedom.

[PreceptorGrant]

Firing at will is one of the most messed up things about the US. In the UK, Europe, Australia, there are hard-won worker's rights. They can't just fire you for no reason. They gotta go through the proper process, and if they don't then an industrial tribunal for unfair dismissal is totally a thing you can do.

[petemulhearn]

A Brit in the US. My first visit to the USA was on a two week business trip to LA in 1984 with another Brit. We we staying in a condo on Sherwood and Sepulveda owned by the company we were visiting. On the Saturday morning we decided to walk to a supermarket about a mile along the road. After about 200 yds we were stopped by two officers in a police car, asked for ID and questioned as to why we were walking along the road!!! When the officer realised we were Brits he explained that our behaviour (2 white guys dressed in jeans and T shirts walking alongside a road on a Saturday morning) was regarded as suspicious. WOW! When we told our our colleagues at the office the following Monday the all laughed and said that nobody walks to the supermarket and next time we should drive. In all my time in the UK and 3 years in Germany I have never been stopped and questioned by the police for walking to the supermarket.

[jurgengrove]

As a German, I have to get something off my chest!
Does "American freedom" mean that you have to work overtime to get vacation?
Being fired by your boss when you get sick?
Have a job without the support of a union?
Health insurance linked to your employer?
The "minimum wage" isn't enough to live on?
Not having protection against dismissal?
No pension payments from your employer?
I don't want to be in a community like that, I don't even want to miss out...
Well, not everything that glitters is gold here either, but what you (US) are doing is simply exploitation and modern slavery.
Basically in Germany:
Vacation and illness are different!!
Minimum vacation from the first day is twenty days per year, usually thirty!
The time in which you get your full salary if you are sick is six weeks, then for one and a half years = 60%. The unions are cooperative and always try to find a good compromise for both sides and not put guns to each other's heads. Protection against dismissal = three months after the probationary period, more often, depending on the job. Parental leave: six weeks before the birth and two years after, with the father being able to take one year. Oh yes! I forgot: Social and socialist are not the The USA has a lot of catching up to do to understand this. The land of the for guns.

[lethalmantis]

When I was 31 (I'm 34 now), I fell seriously ill due to an autoimmune disease. As a result, I spent 4 days in the intensive care unit of the hospital with severe kidney, heart, and lung failure. Following the hospitalization, my kidney function continued to decline rapidly, leading me to eventually undergo a kidney transplant. The total cost of the care I received amounted to approximately €23, 000 before the transplant, which took place a year later. The transplant itself cost €150, 000. In total, I was unwell for two years, during which my employer covered my salary at 100% for the first year, 90% for the subsequent 6 months, and 80% for an additional 6 months. Living in the Netherlands allowed me to resume my life without financial issues, and it is now two years after the transplant.

[hape]

*Peace of mind!* That's the biggest freedom of them all. Not to worry about medical bills, student loans, sudden death in a mass shooting, police brutality, job loss, child abduction and so on and so forth.

[hape]

Car _dependence_ – isn't dependence the exact opposite of freedom? Freedom would be the freedom to choose which means of transport you _want_ to use, to walk to the bakery around the corner, to cycle to the beer garden, to take the car to the supermarket for the weekly groceries, to take the tram or the train to the next or whatever city ... And as already mentioned: what freedom do the elderly, the disabled, children and those without a driving licence have? They are effectively housebound or at least at the mercy of a driver.

[wout]

americans talk about freedom, we europeans just have it.

[izabelasiczek]

Living my whole life first in Poland (12y) Germany (15y) UK(18) NZ(2y) then I've moved to Colorado omg I left after 6 months they do not have freedom all they have is FEAR!!! fear of everything literally everything! I have never lived in fear before it was awful. I was on 2 year nursing contract double pay than in the eu but omg I was a mental health nurse and I had to send letters to people asking them for payments after they been to our hospital for help after they tried to un alive themselves! Barbaric! They were tying people up to their beds security with guns Jesus Christ was awful

[karldehaut]

The greatest freedom is when society provides its citizens with equitable access to opportunities for a better life and a better future for its children.

[kiljaeden]

I'm in the UK but work for an American company. Apparently when they initially set up their local entity they tried to set it up with the same non-benefits; but were promptly told:

No, you legally have to offer at least twenty paid days off but you'll probably need to offer at least 25 days to compete for staff.

No, that does not include public holidays and those are paid time off too.

No, people here won't work 12 hour days.

No, people won't use their private phones for work purposes.

[baronmeduse]

One year, here in the Netherlands, I started a new job and three days in my mother died (in another country). I got paid compassionate leave and had to stay away for almost a month to organise things. Job was safe and I came back to it six weeks later.

[baramuth]

Hello Charlie, yes the tiresome subject of freedom in the USA.
For every American who watches this video, it should be a total slap in the face when they see it.
How many Americans have never left the USA, if they have, then at most to Mexico or Canada, there is no more time for that.
That's one point, no time to visit another continent with so little vacation time.
Most Americans who have never left their country still think that the USA is the promised land and only there it would be good, which is a total lie.
Why do Americans need 2 or more jobs, of course to make ends meet each month, to weave and pay their bills.
In my opinion, this is a total exploitation of the worker.
The American way of life is a farce.
It's more like daily exploitation, humiliation, you feel like a slave.
There would be a lot more to write about what is wrong in the USA and that would be quite a lot.
Freedom like we have in Europe is something Americans can only dream of.
But it is the Land of the Free

[nahajaha]

I was shocked when I was in Charleston that there were two bridges to the other side and neither had a sidewalk. It was just cars. That there were streets in the city without sidewalks and that there were schools that didn’t have save walking rotes to the nearby neighbourhoods. How are your kids going to get around.

[AliothAncalagon]

The saddest part is that the US denial of its shortcomings is preventing any meaningful improvements.
There was a moment in time when the US was one of the countries, maybe even THE country with the highest standards regarding freedom.
But if you only spend your time telling yourself how great you are, you will obviously not realize when you fall back.
Eventually the Human Freedom Index diagnoses that the level of personal freedom you offer your citizens deserves rank 33 next to Chile. Yikes.

[joanmackie]

I grew up in England, where I walked or cycled alone to school. I could disappear into the woods for hours on end and climb trees without my mother worrying (she’ll come home when she’s hungry). I have had (so far) three hip replacements, the first in Switzerland when I lived there, completely covered by my health insurance, the second in France where I now live, completely covered by my health insurance. These were not exactly free, since you pay monthly for insurance in these countries, but the third was in New Zealand, where I had just arrived as a tourist, and was also covered by government insurance. I think my greatest freedom is the freedom from fear. I can walk down the street alone at any time of night or day (except perhaps in certain parts of big cities), I can walk alone in the forest (choosing my route carefully during the hunting season). I haven’t ever felt nervous on public transport in any country, I have camped alone in my one-woman tent in various countries, not always in official camp-sites, etc. etc….. Parents here may worry about their children having to cross busy roads, but mass shootings are unheard of. I think it was once like that in the US too, but sadly those freedoms are being lost today. I hope you find the way back.

[Pappa_]

Usually people do not believe, that Finland and the Scandinavian countries are the "happiest" countries in the World. We neither, in Finland. But after living abroad about 25 years, I really do understand why. The " happiness" includes all the things mentioned here and more. We are not smiling or laughing, but we are satisfied, what we got. Simple things like safety and trust. Problem with the US is, "You do not know, what you do not know". So nothing changes.