the thing they don't mention about the tuition costs is that in the uk it is not payed off until you make a certain amount of money. and after 40 years the debt is completely wiped off if you never reach the needed salary amount.

Hi from N Ireland! "Scots Irish"refers to the large number of people, particularly in the north of Ireland, with both Scots and Irish heritage. Due to the large amount of historic emigration - most recently mainly from Scotland to here during The Plantation, but farther back it was the other direction (Ireland populated Scotland through the millennia, and both native languages are very similar [Gaelic]). The province of Ireland that I live in in called Ulster, and "Ulster Scots" is a local identity and dialect, heavily influenced by Scottish emigration since the Plantation. I myself am Irish, and have an Irish passport, but many here have a UK passport and identify accordingly.

He said we’ll be the fattest in EUROPE, not the world, so you’ll still take that title don’t worry 😉

Housing is generally smaller here in the U.K., but our houses are built of stone or brick and last for many centuries. My modest little house is considered modern because it was built in 1919. My sister’s home is a Medieval farm house. My step father’s home was 17th century. Houses here are very expensive, but represent a long term investment for your family and descendants.

Tuition fees for university are a relatively recent thing in the UK. When I went to uni in the early 90s, it was free and the government gave you a grant for living expenses. The grant wasn't enough to cover all expenses so, like most students at the time (unless they had parents who could subsidise them) I had part-time evening/weekend jobs to make up the difference.

I think the marriage rate is per year. So in the UK there were 4.5 marriages per 1000 people in that year. It doesn't tell you what percentage of the population are married.

I started uni in 1998. Up until then, students had been given grants which did not require repayment. My year was the first to be charged tuition fees thanks to the Labour party, despite their mantra being 'education, education, and education'. I believe it was £1025 p.a., but the Conservatives took the ball and ran with it, and it is now something around £10k p.a. I studied French, which meant I only had 8 hours of lectures/seminars a week. It did NOT feel like good value for money. Charging £10k also has the knock-on effect of making the student feel -not unreasonably- like a customer, meaning that they can demand not to hear opinions with which they disagree. It's a fucking joke.

Fortunately I went to university at a time in the UK when there were no tuition fees. Zero, zilch, nada. It is disgusting how the universities currently milk the UK and foreign students, and how much the vice chancellors are paid.

The US is 40 times the size of the UK, with 5 times the population, hence 8 times as sparsely populated.

'Depends on how much you're trying to steal', delivered in deadpan voice. WELL DONE!!!😄

hi , I don,t think the queens question regarding maternity leave in the UK was answered in the video .This was taken from the nhs website and is the minimum legally required ,some bigger companies offer more benefits "If you are employed and pregnant, you are entitled to 52 weeks (1 year) of maternity leave, no matter how long you've worked for your employer. This is made up of 26 weeks of ordinary maternity leave and 26 weeks of additional maternity leave. You have a range of rights during this period and can also request that your employer provides flexible working arrangements if you decide to return to work at the end of your leave. Your employment terms (for example, your pension contributions) are protected while you're on Statutory Maternity Leave. If you're made redundant while on Statutory Maternity Leave, you also have extra rights."

really happy for you and your new addition to the family

I have to say, with ALL due respect to you King Boomer, it's good to see your Queen Boomer back on KZfaq. I sincerely hope that you are both well? P.S. Congratulations on the birth of your little one.

I don't mind if you take your channel in this direction. Some series that you reacted to never interested me anyway, so it's nice that there are plenty of other things to react to instead of just British sitcoms :)

Welcome back QB! So glad you're back & on fighting form!

Congrats to both of you on the new arrival!

Scotch / Irish refers to Ulster Scots. Scottish settlers who settled in the north east of Ireland. They have a distinct dialect derived from Scots. Many Ulster Scots moved on to the USA.

Well done for identifying the Isle of Man. Considering the perception of the average American when it comes to geography, you were on point.

K&Q! (&PB) Great stuff guys! Cheers!

I’m from the England and honestly your rant on universities I am absolutely on board with. If I had a kid, I would advice not to go to university. My takeaway from with University is that I made good friends and that’s it. I took an animation course and got work as an animator and what I learnt in comparison (in the first 3 years) was minimal compared to what I learnt on my job. I honestly feel you could learn more from KZfaq videos these days than what you would get from University lectures or seminars.

Welcome back, lady, queen and mom! Delighted that things have worked out for you guys.

Welcome back queenie . You’re looking fantastic .

Scotch-Irish is a very specific term referring to a migrant group of protestant settlers from Scotland to Northern Ireland in the C17 and their subsequent migration to the American colonies in the C18.

Welcome back Queen, good to see you

Congrats to you both! ❤

When it comes to work a lot of my American colleagues are so much happier in the UK when it comes to work life balance, working here is more relaxed. For the short time I worked in the US I felt the difference quite dramatically, it makes me feel sorry for Americans because I don't think the attitude towards work there is for the better, I believe there should be more balance between both life and work.

"You have to do something, it can be college, it can be trade school, it can be starting a business." - Queen Boomer is going to be such a good Dad.

Hi guys. Great to have the Queen back.

Maternity leave is 12 months paid leave. Paternity leave is between 2-4 paid weeks depending who you work for. When it comes to getting a degree, the numbers they showed was for a PHD which takes 4 years and will cost you no more the £39,500 as you pay a fix price for the year. In Wales it's half that and Scotland it's free. But the numbers they gave for the US was for community collage not University. To get a PHD in the US it'll cost you on around $100,000+ depending on the University as it takes 5-6 years.

I never went to university, or higher education, I took an apprenticeship, so my employer paid my college fees and also paid me a wage, for four years. Apprenticeships went out of favour for a while, but are becoming more popular for obvious reasons for those that want to be skilled tradesmen. As far as I'm aware, the debt that is built up, only has to be paid back in tax years that reach a certain level of earnings. Above that thresh-hold a set % is automatically deducted from wages, similar to taxes in P.A.Y.E. So those that benefit from the education in theory, pay some back. At the end of the working life, the debt is dissolved even if not a penny is actually paid back, but to me it still seems like a burden to have to carry throughout most of life, when years ago it was just FREE. The problem is every kid is told, to be a success, you need to go to uni, for any job. So instead of 10% of population most capable, going & having it paid for, every Tom, Dick & Harry, Sue as well, swamped the funding affordability, and with the high numbers the colleges got greedy.

Impressed that you could identify the Isle of Man! Great reaction KB+QB :)

The Bee Gees were born on the Isle Of Man.

The university situation is crazy in uk you take a loan from government that covers your cost of study they also provide you with a maintenance loan which helps you pay for clothes accommodation etc that can vary in amounts depending on your parents income but in UK you only pay it back after you start earning over a certain amount even then you only pay for 30 years or it stops when you reach 65 then they write the remaining off

Great to see you both back, ❤ William UK

Congrats on the baby !!!

Not been on your channel for a while. The last time I saw Queen Boomer, she was pregnant. So a massive congratulations to you both on the birth of your baby daughter. Wishing you and your family all the very best. 😊

In England we learn the story of the 3 little pigs at an early age, ;) move your giant wooden house over to England, and see how you feel in the winter lol, and that's before you see how much it will take to heat it.

Life expectancy in the US is very low for a highly-developed country, due to the opioid epidemic, a high murder rate, high number of road accident deaths etc.

I feel it is important to note that the education comparison sounds like it is definitely from the English perspective. Education in Scotland is free, or, in some instances, at the very least (more so in cases of postgraduate study) heavily subsidised; we have a tuition fee 'gift' (not to be repayed), and tuition loans (to be repayed and is more common for postgrad studies).

Love yous guys. Huge HUGS from across the pond. 🇬🇧🇺🇸💜

Hey it’s the queen! I hope you’re doing great and princess boomer is doing great ❤

I would have liked the profession of a finger painter. Perhaps even a potato shape printer. Great reactions again.

Good to see you Queen B. It's great to see you looking lovely as always. So pleased to hear that Princess Boomer is doing well also. ❤❤❤

Universities here in the UK make their money milking foreign students who come from wealthy families to study in the UK. Nowadays, universities are the UK's biggest export. Not only has it created a massive immigration problem, it has worsened the housing situation in the UK too. The only new properties that get built in any city is exclusively student accommodation. You can't live in them if you're not a student and you can't buy them unless you're a foreign investor who is a cash buyer. The British government for the last 13 years has asset stripped the country to line their own pockets. Now the country is fucked. The whole country is owned by Chinese and Middle Eastern investors who send their kids here for university.

I didn't hear the news - Congratz!

18:21 Degree in finger painting is wild...I have one of those

Maternity Leave - Eligible employees can take up to 52 weeks' maternity leave. The first 26 weeks is known as 'Ordinary Maternity Leave', the last 26 weeks as 'Additional Maternity Leave'. The earliest that leave can be taken is 11 weeks before the expected week of childbirth, unless the baby is born early.

One thing you are missing re tuition fees, we don't pay them back until we are earning £20 000+ a year and it is a small percentage of earnings (6 - 9%). Once you retire the debt is wiped. After 25 or 30 years the debt is wiped (depending on the scheme) If you become permanently unfit to work it is wiped.

We have smaller homes on average cause like you said, we’re a tiny island with a massive population. Japan has the same problem, although they really do put you in boxes over there

In the UK you don’t get a student loan from a bank, it’s from the government. You only start paying off your student loans after you earn above a certain threshold. It’s also written off after 30 years. Only 27% of university graduates pay off their student loans in full. If you actually got a degree in finger painting, you’re probably never going to earn enough to pay it back. Unlike in the US with a bank loan. So it’s a little bit of a misleading comparison.

Scotch Irish is Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland’s ancestors came to Northern Ireland from Scotland. That’s why people from Northern Ireland sound more Scottish than they do to the rest of Ireland

Me, watching this video "It's the rate per year. Per year. PER YEAR. FUCKS SAKE! PERFUCKINGYEAR!!!" 😅

Took me 16 years to pay off my original uni student loan, it was deducted direct from my wages at 9% over a certain threshold, the threshold was very low. It's different now, so it depends when you studied what the terms are, but the fees are astronomical.

The red bit is the isle of man. Good UK geography boomer. Welsh born and bred but I sound like a manc 😂

BOOMER SAYS "HOW DO WE HAVE SO MANY OBEASE PEOPLE WALKING AROUND?" I say: "you don't they are all on scooters..."

Smaller houses quicker to heat up lol , I like my little home it's cosy 😊

You were both great on that one nothing wrong with having a good rant now and again .National insurance contributions are taken from everyone's wages by the government every week so your medical costs are pre paid .In England prescriptions have a nominal fee on collection .in Scotland they are free at time of writing .

Student loans in the UK aren't repaid like traditional debt. It only takes 9% of your income if you are earning middle class wages usually over £28,000 per year and are mostly absolved after a number of years and hardly take a financial burden. The cost to study at university is £9,250 per year for a total of 3 years (this is your tuition fee) and a maintenance loan to cover your cost of living varies on your parents' income but maxes out at roughly £9,000 per year paid to you in three installments. Again, this is all paid back as a sort of '9% tax increase' after you graduate.

Marriage rates - that's per year! You don't normally get married every year.... :o) It's not "0.45% of people are married", its "0.45% of people got married this year"

Scotch irish i think is to do that both have a similar surnames meaning over the centuries they moved between each other.

4:22 I’m English, in my thirties and I’ve never heard ‘Scotch-Irish’ lol

I think obesity is definitely an issue here (and most countries). But personally, I've just lost 5 stone or 70 lbs or 32 KG. Although I still have a little to left to lose. But I look at it like this, I spent the first half of my life enjoying food and eating what I want. I'm going to spend the rest of it putting my health before my stomach demands.

New dad looking "radiant", mum not looking too shabby either.

The student debt thing for university in the UK needs explaining. In the old days the education was free for everyone and you might get a free grant for living expenses (means tested - if your parent were rich they had to contribute to the latter). The costs were borne through the taxes that everyone pays. This became thought of as unequitable as some people didn't get to go to university, although it was always posited that they and the country benefited as a whole, having qualified doctors, scientists lawyers etc. Nowadays you get a 'student loan' - this is firm a specific government sponsored lender, not a high street bank. Again the cash comes in two parts - a loan for the full cost of the education and a loan for living expenses, which is again means tested so parents may have to contribute. Although the final loan seems massive, you only pay it back once your earnings go over a certain threshold and it comes out of your pre-income tax salary through payroll - you do not have to write a cheque to a loanshark demanding cash with menaces, you never see it going. Also you have 25-30 years to pay it off, or to the age of 65, after which it is forgiven. So if you choose to study finger painting, you may never pay off the loan but no one will hold it against you and eventually it will be forgiven, unless you sell a painting for a million, in which case the Government will come looking for a percentage. If you study something that leads to a high earning career, like law, you will pay off the loan more quickly and probably won't ever notice.

Lovely to see the Queen 👑 back and congratulations . This is a bit of an oldie and inflation has probably altered some of the comparisons . Student loans only become payable when you start earning a certain amount and in Scotland it's free .

Yes it is the Isle of Man 🇮🇲 Hi 👋 glad to see the Queen is doing well ❤️ Also I think Scot’s Irish are the Protestants in Northern Ireland (who came via Scotland ) as opposed to the catholics who are Irish

British and proud, and also very proud of our friendship with the USA. 🇬🇧🇺🇸 Scotch-Irish Americans American descendants of Ulster Scots Not to be confused with Irish Scottish people or Ulster Scots people. Scotch-Irish (or Scots-Irish) Americans are American descendants of Ulster Protestants who emigrated from Ulster (Ireland's northernmost province) to America during the 18th and 19th centuries. Their ancestors had originally migrated to Ulster mainly from the Scottish Lowlands and Northern England in the 17th century. In the 2017 American Community Survey, 5.39 million (1.7% of the population) reported Scottish ancestry, an additional 3 million (0.9% of the population) identified more specifically with Scotch-Irish ancestry, and many people who claim "American ancestry" may actually be of Scotch-Irish ancestry

Congratulations new Mommy, great to see you back! The King has been lost without you!

At preset in the UK anything up to 35-40 % are not earning apparently according to news polls

Scotch Irish Is largerly Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland ultimately goes back to the Plantation of Ulster which was Scottish people settling in Ireland. James 1st, Son of Mary Queen of Scots, had claims to the throne in Scotland, England and Ireland. He obviously had England and Scotland (he was also James VI in England). So the plantation of Ulster i guess was his first steps into trying to get his Ireland. BTW he was the first of the Brtiish colonisers of the Americas, hence the Jamestown colony...

The university debt figures are INCREDIBLY misleading and it works wildly different to the US. For one thing it's cheap debt, for another it's not real debt, it isn't on your credit report, and you don't have to pay anything on it unless you're earning relatively quite a lot of money. Our problem isn't debt, it's too many people doing degrees in utterly worthless subjects and then scratching their heads wondering why they're having to take terrible jobs - or put another way, too many people are going to university. My problem is a bit more nuanced - why do relatively wealthy people have to be sent to university, paid for by relatively not wealthy people who didn't go to university and have worked hard all their lives. For engineering, physics, compsci and the like maybe - though that money thing is still a problem - but not for anything art or phil, can we stop with that?

16:16 Scotland has FREE tuition for Scottish residents, foreign students (including English) have to pay. Edit: OK, so it mentions it at 23:48

Sorry, one more comment - about tuition fees. I think you are so right! The numbers in this video are nuts. My younger brother did a year of his undergraduate University College London computer science course at Texas A&M near Houston TX (it was fun visiting him!). I remember that he had to have $5,000 in his current account before they'd even let him into the country. Fortunately, he was on a scholarship so he didn't have to cover anything other than his living expenses because otherwise the tuition fees would have been (if I remember correctly) something like $15,000 - at least. To be clear, that was in 1995!

Congratulations to you pair of muppets, and welcome to the world princess Boomer. Wishing you and you're new family all the best. From Brum in the UK. hilarious you pair are, take care

Cant wait to meet your wee baby. Is that a baby monitor next to Queen Boomer? ❤❤

3:00 - When I was at school and had to draw the British Isles in Geography, the teacher said "just remember it looks like a witch riding a pig, chasing a koala". It must have worked cuz I always remembered it lol!

Saying Scotch Irish is going to annoy Scottish People,Scotch is an alcoholic drink , shouldn't be used to describe someone from Scotland ❤.

Scotch-Irish Americans are American descendants of Ulster Protestants who emigrated from Ulster to America during the 18th and 19th centuries. Their ancestors had originally migrated to Ulster mainly from the Scottish Lowlands and Northern England in the 17th century.

Welcome back Queen Boomer, glad to see you all happy and healthy 😊. Seems odd not seeing you with a baby bump now, i kind of got used to it 😃 Does it feel weird not having all that extra weight pulling you forwards ? Or was it more of a "Thank christ i can stand upright properly again now"

Good to see you back in the secondary throne Queen B. As for Student fees, yes they are a bit of a nuisance (although the re-payments are aligned to wages). There was a big move to University education being promoted as the de-facto approach under Tony Blair in the late Nineties but they led to skills gaps in other areas such as traditional 'trades'. These Labour Force gaps tended to be plugged with tradespeople from Eastern Europe (amongst other places) but since the UK left the EU/Single Market, a significant portion of people have returned to the European mainland as such the UK has labour shortages in certain sectors. It would make sense to promote trades based occupations as a viable alternative to Academia for young people in the UK as it it's a win-win. The Labour market has an adequate supply and through apprenticeship schemes, a good portion of young people could be free of student debt. This would of course depend on the the availability of such schemes.

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19:35 when it comes to student loans, ours come from the a government scheme, and you don’t start paying them back until you start making a certain amount of money (I think it’s £22k a year now), and even then it’s a small percentage of that. Most of the time I’ve been working, my student loan repayments have been between £7 and £11 a month, and just like tax and pension it’s taken straight from my pay before it even gets to me. As for our universities, I think we have it slightly easier than American colleges as we only have to study one subject, so it’s a lot more focused, and the modules/credits you need to pass are all there in front of you when the year starts.

In the UK you are better of learning a trade ..... Polish Plumbers have been getting very wealthy while UK graduates hop from low payed job to low payed job ....

regarding house sizes the thing you have to remember is a lot of our housing dates back along time and even newer builds have to sit on streets hundreds of years old and remain in keeping with the local area. It is true our country is smaller but then so is the population. Ive travelled to u.s a few times and stayed in rented accomdation, particularly in florida so I can see the difference but being absolutely truthful it doesn't really impact quality of life at all we just have our layouts a little different. universities over the last couple of decades have gotten ridiculous, so you're bang on the money there. Scottish- Irish , yeah what nonsense where was just "irish"? I think the dude must have been smoking something weird .

Scotch-Irish Americans are descendants of the Ulster protestants who in turn are descended from the Scots who took over Ulster land during the plantations. There are far fewer than 5 million of them in Northern Ireland, so this includes a diaspora in the rest of the UK of people who emigrated whose ancestors did in recent history.

Scotch-Irish is actually an old American term for Ulster Protestants who are descendants of Scottish settlers in what is now Northern Ireland.

Sorry..been watching you guys for past year, all of my comments are happening at once :)

OK, let's start with one fact: Scotch is a whisky, whereas Scots are people from Scotland. There is no such group as Scotch Irish, but there is a group known as Ulster Scots. It goes back to the 1700's and the days of the Plantation, when many English and Scots made their homes as settlers and landowners mostly in the north and west of Ireland. The Scots and Ulstermen (Ulster once a Province in Ireland until the partition in 1921/22) intermarried and had common bonds going back centuries. Ulster was mainly Protesatnt as were the Scots who went there, and so you have the Ulster Scots. Yes, Belfast is in Northern Ireland - in fact it is the capital, and where the Titanic was built; where John Dunlop invented the pneumatic tyre; where Harry Ferguson invented the tractor tri-linkage system; were Lord Kelvin discovered Absolute Zero; where Milk of Magnesia was invented; where the Martin ejector seat was invented - along witht the Quick Release parachue; and where no less than 17 American Presidents had their roots. It's also where the American Rangers were formed (in Carrigfergus). Dublin is the capital of Eire (oka the Republic of Ireland). Do not make the mistake of referring to all Ulstermen, Ulster Scots, Scots or Welshmen as English! They may (or may not) think of themselves as British, but not English (and I most certainly include the good folk from the ROI in that). While England, Wales and Scotland are collectively known as Great Britain, the official title when Northern Ireland is included, is called The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Simple! At this point I would make a strong suggestion: please control your language as most decent people in the UK find it offensive, more especially when there are children in most households! Foul language is just not acceptable on a public platform, and it shows a lack of good breeding (along with your lack of sound education).

You've got the settled paunch KB. We all get that!

Congratulations to you both ❤🎉

Welcome back

You should check out London "appartments" to rent for $4,000 plus a month. I say appartments. Most are one room with a small bathroom, no bath. Kitchenette in the living room which is also your bedroom!!! And you can touch each end of the room at the same time.

Tuition fee rates are wrong. There are 2 rates separate for Domestic students and International students. The rate is English students at English Universities. NOTE: SCOTLAND sets its own laws on this. Scottish students can get their University fees paid in the UK so ZERO. English students attending Scottish Universities pay at most a Domestic rate of around £4k ($5k) per annum. Some may even claim full fees paid! So even for English students studying in Scotland it's cheaper

Check out the Isle of Man TT races. They are completely mental,and unique to the world of motorcycle racing. You will love it!

Scotch-Irish refers to people descended from Ulster Protestants who originally came to Northern Ireland from Scotland.

Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) SMP for eligible employees can be paid for up to 39 weeks, usually as follows: the first 6 weeks: 90% of their average weekly earnings (AWE) before tax the remaining 33 weeks: £172.48 or 90% of their AWE (whichever is lower)

On education: You only have to pay the student debt back depending on how much you earn and it's pretty reasonable , if you never become a high earner then you don't ever pay it back, it just comes out automatically from PAYE which is how most people are paid in the UK.

University is 9k per year in Wales, but you don't start paying back till you hit a certain salary, again you can get bursaries or scholarships that may ease the costs

I want a degree in finger painting. 😂😂

I love the quibble over Scots Irish. Yes, the amount of US citizen's say Italian, Irish, Chinese American.