Andre, why don’t you do a video showing us your town. I’m sure there are lots of beautiful sights and buildings to show us. Most Americans will never have the opportunity to see Portugal, and I’m sure seeing your town from your perspective will be fascinating.

I nearly died when he said "Loads of snow" meanwhile you can still see grass. 😂😂😂😂😂

I'm an American and have watched several of your reaction videos, seeing how much you love and appreciate my country makes me appreciate it more and realize how lucky I am, and I thank you for that, more Americans need to understand how good we really do have it here.

The climate in the north and south changes the style and appearance of home construction

4:30 There is a difference between inter city public transportation and cross country transportation.

One thing to know about Boston is that its metro area has the highest percentage of Portuguese speakers of any metro area in the US.

The ancient joke about a Boston (Bawston) accent: Pahk the cahr in Hahvahd yahd.

Being from northern New England I have to say nothing is better on French toast or pancakes than butter and REAL maple syrup.

Yes you're crazy. I love your enthusiasm for things we take for granted. I'm sure Portugal has equally beautiful places.

Absolutely construction is different in different states. Florida houses are known for almost-flat roofs, concrete block construction, and a "hurricane band" of steel that works like a belt to hold it together in high winds. No basements because of the high water table. As you go north, roof pitches are steeper so the snow/ice comes off easier, and wood construction is preferred as you can put stronger and stronger insulation for the cold winter months. Many houses have basements or partial basements. As for style of home, yes, the Colonial style is big in the northeast, ranches (one floor) in the south, and splattered all over are Victorian, Mid-Century Modern, Tudor, Arts & Crafts....on and on.

Andre. I live in Louisiana. I’ve lived in Los Angeles and New York and New Orleans. I however love Sweden and love traveling to Orebro. You should tell us about life in your home town and Country.

The trains are nice, but it's a better system for the Eastern states. Once you cross the Mississippi cars or planes are better. The Amtrak doesn't go everywhere, so you would need to get a rental car to see more.

Riding Amtrak outside of the East coast corridor is a NIGHTMARE.

The building construction is different in different regions. I am a (retired) truck driver and I traveled extensively all over America (with the exception of Alaska and Hawaii) The USA is one country with many distinct cultures within its borders. It is really quite fascinating to experience traveling here.

Boston is completely unaffordable …unless you’re rich

I’m from USA, state of Maine. My state is 2 states north of Massachusetts, Boston. It’s a beautiful city, lots of history. It’s where our revolution with England began and where the pilgrims in 1600’s came. so lots and lots of history.if it weren’t for the strength of Bostonian’s we would not have United States. remember, our buildings in New England are the oldest. Colonial. Texas wasn’t even a state yet. So our homes look very different.

This train is nice but it's not public transportation, unless you consider planes and everything public transportation.

I liked seeing the guy wearing shorts with snow outside. I live in Denver Colorado & that's a pretty common sight around here in the spring. It can snow overnight, then get into the 50's or 60's the next day.

Northern homes have basements or cellars the size of the home. In the south they may have a small tornado shelter enough for family to survive a couple days.

That’s the Northeast Corridor you’re seeing outside the train. It’s a huge mega-region that starts in Boston and ends at Washington DC. This region is a economic powerhouse with a large GDP of 3.2 trillion dollars in a year and its all connected by all types of transportation.

I took a train ride in the USA (from Texas to Ohio and back) just to be able to say that I had done it. I loved the train -- but the only draw back was that the train tracks nearly always go through the "back side" of many town -- people don't like to live next to train tracks --so you get views of junk yards and derelict places -- you won't get the views of the really nice parts of town -- but it is still a good way to travel because you get to see some nice views, too -- especially between towns. The country views are really nice.

French toast is a dish of sliced bread soaked in beaten eggs and often milk or cream, then pan-fried. Alternative names and variants include eggy bread,Bombay toast, gypsy toast and poor knights (of Windsor).When French toast is served as a sweet dish, sugar, vanilla, or cinnamon are also commonly added before pan-frying, and then it may be topped with sugar (often powdered sugar), butter, fruit, or syrup. When it is a savory dish, it is generally fried with a pinch of salt or pepper, and it can then be served with a sauce such as ketchup or mayonnaise.

I love how Andre loves the yellow school buses. Sometimes, it really is the simple things in life that make it beautiful.

The hockey teams that play each other are American team and Canadian teams. So the other countries flag is also represented and their national anthem sung, as well as the u.s. In baseball, we used to play 2 teams from Canada, now just one. Toronto. Same as in basketball, and soccer may play more than 1 team.. I think only football is just America. They have their own Canadian league that plays "American, in this case, " Canadian " football. There are videos online of when the mic failed during the national anthem (in Canada), the Canadian audience finished the sing. It was beautiful.

By all means, ride the trains. It's the easiest way to really appreciate the size of the US, without exhausting yourself driving. Easy as flying, with better scenery.

thats an Amtrak train they were riding on....they are for long train rides across states so they're completely different than the trains & transportation system in the cities to get to different parts of the city....I've taken an Amtrak train ride from Southern California to Washington DC....it was ok....the food wasn't the best & we were in a sleeper car at the end of the train so it was crazy small & bumpy....the views & stops were nice though....yes the houses in the Northern states & Southern states tend to be very different in construction....some of it has to do with weather conditions....I really appreciate that these people put the prices in their videos instead of just telling us that its less or too expensive compared to where people are from....french toast is a typical light breakfast or midnight snack made from bread that you dip in egg & milk then cooked in a pan & covered in powdered sugar & cinnamon & syrup & whatever else you want....21

I live in California and have never noticed how blue the shadows of trees are in the snow. The aerial shot was lovely. I wish all Americans were as kind in their comments about America as you are. Thank you.

Boston is one of the great walking cities in the US and has a good subway too. A bunch of the making of the US happened in Boston. There is a Freedom Trail too, a self guided tour of historic sites.

Boston is among the oldest cities in the US, and is the Birthplace of the Revolution. Not far away you can visit the battlefields of Lexington and Concord - two towns where the Minutemen first fought the British, and it touched off our War for Independence. Also the Bunker Hill battlefield is in the Boston metro area.

Feel free to ask anything you want about Boston! I bet there are hundreds of us who will be happy to give you dozens of different answers. Yeah, that family definitely lives in a rich area. And while some people do have furnished basements like that, most of them are full of laundry, random storage stuff, and maybe tools. That food is pretty representative of diner food, but that was a pricy place. There are other diners that are much more casual and much cheaper. In case you're curious, on that meal I would tip at least $16 - just over 20%. If the service was amazing or we were high maintenance (loud, picky, messy kids) I'd go higher. Even thought the temperature wasn't that low, the waterfront would have been absolutely freezing! The wind there would be absolutely brutal and there was no real sun to make it bearable. The wind chill makes such a difference that the weather apps or news gives you the actual temperature and then what it feels like with the wind chill factor. 21!

We spent 10 days in Boston (actually stayed in Peabody). Boston was a great walking town. Shout out to Nick’s Pizza in Peabody.

You would love East Tennessee. It's Beautiful and you would like how friendly the people are. I am born and raised here

Long distance train travel is much better than subways and busses, but its quality will vary from state to state.

Just as each state has it's own sort of culture, they each have a slightly different climate. For example, the house in the video has a basement. Houses in Florida cannot have basements because the water table is too high and the ground too soft. The houses further south, especially in Florida, have to be rated for extreme weather and hurricanes, while those further north do not need to be built for such conditions.

As an American, I recognized the pancakes, but not their French Toast. Typical French Toast is cooked in egg and then you pour syrup over them. I haven't seen them with chocolate. As for "Americans are good at desserts", well... a lot of the sweet things you react to aren't desserts to us. They're main dishes. :)

People say public transportation is bad in America because it only really covers major cities. If you live in some small town or even some small cities public transportation does not really exist.

What it's truly like depends on your earnings, your race, your beliefs, and your community.

The New England area has very different architecture from the south not only because of the weather and terrain but because it is the oldest settlement in the US. All the states and major cities are also closer together so the train systems and public transportation is much better. Tiny tidbit - in Louisiana we don’t have basements in our homes because the water table is so high. They would stay flooded. lol

Building is designed according to the region and weather. Different styles of architecture throughout the nation.

The trains in the northeast are pretty decent, particularly those on the northeast corridor from Washington to Boston. I lived in Boston for ten years in the late 70s/early 80s. It is a beautiful city, but they are not in the city itself. They are in Dedham, which is also beautiful, but it is a country town compared to Boston itself(btw, Dedham has the oldest standing timber-frame house in the US, built in 1637.). Boston proper is much more densely built up. It's a very old city for the US, founded in 1630, and so it probably resembles a lot of European cities. Also, even though I lived there for ten years, I could never get the hang of the Boston Accent. Only those who grew up with it can do it properly. Bostonians take great pride in walking around in shorts and a T-shirt in the middle of blizzards! The snow on the ground in this video is a dusting by New England standards. BOSTON COLLEGE! My Alma Mater! I graduated from BC in 1981. 21!

Not too far from Boston is Salem Massachusetts. The Salem witch trials from 1692. It’s most popular in October where many people dress up like witches, and it’s very pretty and quaint in the fall. (If your looking for ideas)

Go do any diner thats open for breakfast and look on the menu for something called "all American breakfast" " breakfast platter" "classic breakfast". You'll typically end up with sausage links or Patty's, eggs, pancakes or French toast, and hashbrowns

The problem with public transportation in the states is there isn't enough of it. We're a vast nation and our car culture is king. I love trains and wish we had a greater network.

Andre, they are riding an Amtrak train. Something you could consider when you visit the US is to take an Amtrak around the country. You can book a package where you can get a scenic train across country and you can get off 10 times in 30 days. You could spend a couple days in different locations. There are train routes from NY to California and stop in different states. Texas, Colorado, Louisiana, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington State and also DC, Florida. Something to look into. They are nice trains.

Here in the northern US, I'm in upstate NY, houses have steeper roofs so the snow slides off and the weight of the snow doesn't collapse the roof.

I grew up in NYC and it’s near-in suburbs and my wife and I attended law school in Boston. That corridor is one of the few where rail makes sense. You don’t need a car in either city (you do in their suburbs - but as a tourist you don’t need one to see the city centers). The Acela (a more high speed version Amtrak than they took will take you to downtown Boston pretty quickly. And the cities are close enough that train (if on time which can be a struggle for Amtrak) is about as fast as going from city center to the airport 2 hours before your flight, doing all the security stuff, landing in Boston and then getting a cab or Uber to your hotel. That said, I wouldn’t take Amtrak outside the northeast corridor and even there it can be dicey as to being on time. There’s also something quintessentially American about driving between cities. But for NYC midtown to downtown Boston the Acela train is a good option. That said, 9 times out of 10 I’d still fly because there are so many shuttles leaving so often and the flight is very quick. When you said, “Boston is beautiful,” they were showing a pretty far out from Boston suburb. Westwood, MA is even outside even the 128-corridor outer ring road. Center of Westwood to Boston Commin is a 27 minute / 23 mile (37km) drive. Don’t get me wrong, Boston is great city to visit as a tourist and a perfect jumping off point for road trips into New England like Vermont, NH, the Maine coast. Also only a South African can say “lots of snow” for that few inches of nothing.

I heard your comment about taking a train. Traveling by train has been in my bucket list for a long time. Last fall, I was finally able to take the Auto Train from Lorain, Virginia to Sanford Florida. The Auto Train allowed me to put my car on the train while I traveled in comfort in a roomette that was a private compartment that could be converted to a sleeping room at night. The trip took 17 hours and I loved every minute of it. I may try the train trip from Chicago to the Rocky Mountains next.

Public Transportation in the U.S. is dependent on population density. Giant cities have decent public transport, but for some reason people outside the U.S. don't realize the impossibility of good public transportation in rural areas which is most of America.

LOL thats not "loads of snow". Thats a light dusting.

Portugal is at the top of my list to see, I have a very romantic view of Portugal. I think you should show us your country.!

Black pudding is from England and Ireland it made from pork, pork/beef blood mixed with pork fat and cereal and made into a sausage to eat.

You should do the same NY to Boston trip. I live in Boston and it has so much amazing history. That station is literally down the highway from me. The yellow building with the flags is the new Westwood fire station.

If you come to Chicago, Andre, you should check out the Chicago Amtrak station. A bunch of the Amtrak stations were built a long time ago when there was a lot more funding for public services and there was this big ideal about U.S. train riders riding in style. So they're big, fancy buildings that probably wouldn't get built for a government-subsidized service in today's funding climate. I will also say that the Amtrak is AMAZING, but the problem is that Amtrak doesn't serve most cities so you only get it if you live in one of the cities on the train route. Biden just approved a big infrastructure package to hopefully expand Amtrak service to more cities, though! My favorite Amtrak train route is the Empire Builder. It starts in Chicago and takes three days to go all across the Midwest to the West Coast. The train track runs through national parks and Indian reservations where cars can't go, so I just hang out in the lounge car with my laptop for three days watching all these crazy forests and mountains and wild horses and Native American ritual sites go by. There's this interesting train culture where people talk to each other on the train too, so I always make at least one new train buddy when I take a long route. They're always super-interesting people too.

Construction is very different depending on which part of theUS they are in. Here in the northeast we are built to withstand hurricanes, Nor’easter storms and to keep warm in winter and cool in summer. The basement is used to keep cool in summer, many have kitchens as well.

The National Hockey League is actually a combination of the United States and Canadian teams. That's why there was both the US and Canadian flags. We also sing both national anthems. Hockey is also one of the big sports in the US.

9:40 lol that's new york. Boston is the "pahk yah cah" accent.

Public transportation is almost non-existent away from cities.

I ride Amtrak whenever I can; the seats are huge and so much leg room I can hardly reach the footrest. By the time you mess with security at the airport and delays, the train trip I take is basically the same amount of time. There is a train that goes through the mountains to California (California Zephyr) where you can relax and enjoy the scenery without the stress of 3 days driving. Basements are a safety feature if you live in many areas; tornado shelter plus storage. I grew up in Michigan, where the snow is way deeper than that. But tons of things to do over the winter, snow mobiles, ice fishing, lots of museums.

The California Zephyr, which runs from Chicago to Omaha to Denver to Salt Lake City to Reno to just outside of San Francisco and dozens of places in between is probably the best way to see the sheer beauty of the US countryside. It's 51.5 hours and just over 2,400 miles long, or roughly the driving distance from Lisbon to Minsk. You can also attach a separate trip from New York to Chicago if you want the full length trip. There's a fast and slow version, the slow version adding 28 hours to the trip and the fast one adding 19.5 hours. It also adds an extra 710 miles to the mile, making the trip longer than that from Lisbon to Moscow in a car.

It must be pointed out that the breakfast they odered was enough for at least 4 people. Normally you each order one plate. The bill was actually fairly inexpensive for the number of entrees that were shown.

Wait - they think that’s what snow is like? Buwahahaha! In Lake Tahoe the ~average~ annual snowfall is just over 23 feet.

"Definitely a lot more food than we're used to eating" lol well they ordered two full meals for each of them. That had nothing to do with American serving sizes. :)

You are right about the home construction, I live in Texas. Our houses are built to let heat OUT, and northern houses are built to keep heat IN. Where I live we don't have basements either, because the water is too close to the surface.

what the houses are made of and their unique style mostly depends on region with some exceptions. In places like Denver and Chicago for example, there were serious fires that consumed the cities when the houses were made of wood, so all the buildings built in the late 1800's-early 1900s are made of brick. In California, though they have a ton of wild fires and one that also consumed San Francisco following the earthquake in 1906, use a lot of wood in their construction because they have the most forests in the state out of the whole country, the local wood is very cheap to build with. In places like arizona and new mexico you'll see a lot of adobe type housing made of clay or limestone which helps keep the home cool. every major city has it's own feeling and look, giving everyone a lovely insight on the history!

they are riding Amtrak trains. That is not public transportation.

21 Boston is a great city. I've always had a good time every time I have been.

Yes, the construction is different in the North and South of the US. As you guessed, it is because the houses in the north are designed to conserve heat, and houses in the south are designed to release heat.

My family came from a lower class suburb on the outskirts of Boston. Such neighborhoods are heavily Irish. So many parishes.

I love that they play music in their video.

Northern states need more pitch in the roof due to snowfall, they're built quite robust, snow is heavy, warmer climates you don't need the steep pitch.

My better half is a home designer. Building standard laws different in every state. Florida has the strictest building codes because of hurricanes. Their homes are usually CMU. Northern houses are built to withstand more snow. Midwest homes are stick built, but really should adopt Florida codes due to the tornado season. Houses in the NW have ice issue in winter but don't build to fight the ice.

I just started watching some of your videos, and they make me smile. Thank you!

The east coast is the only place where you’ll find trains and subways that are like this and there’s very little public transportation available outside of the upper east coast. They government and state governments are trying to make more better transportation available across the country but it takes time and money and the cooperation of everyone involved to make it happen so for now we are limited but the country is working on it. As far as I know

Big cities like Boston and New City are expensive. That breakfast would be expensive in most other places but it also was too much for just two people.

watching you salivate after that Nutella and Brioche had me dying ...thats why I rock with you because your reactions are so real and funny

Andre, There's a old hockey joke, "you came to see a fight and a hockey game broke out." 😂 Twenty Juan 😂

I'm American, and I have never tasted Nutella!....is that wrong?!😂😂😂🇺🇸❤️

if you end up in the Midwest, I highly recommend Chicago, Illinois for a stop, as well as Omaha, Nebraska. Good examples of how cities are throughout the region. plus, loads of history in both.

In many parts of the U.S. basements are rare. Where I am in South Texas, there are few basements because the water table may be high, so a basement stays damp and may flood easily. In other places, the cost would be high, because it would involve blasting into rock. In the vaguely northeast, basements were more popular as places to site the older massive oil and coal heating systems and a place to store the coal which was loaded down a chute into the basement where a mechanism moved it as needed into the furnace. In the South and West, wood heat was historically easier, and in the Texas region, we have enormous natural gas reserves, so it's relatively cheap to heat with gas and to make electricity for heating with a relatively clean fuel.

Amtrak is not exactly public transportation in the sense of using a city's subway or elevated train. It's more on the lines of a flight, but slower and cheaper, or a bus, but more comfortable.

That's a fancy train. Not public transportation, which is generally the subway. Whole different story. The price tells you.

Those people were on the Amtrak between NYC and Boston. Amtrak is better than the commuter trauns or subway.

hockey is now a national sport, not just the north and Canada.. in fact the Dallas (texas) Stars are currently in round 2 of the Stanly Cup playoffs. ..

8:33 you got something messed up Texas is not a hot state. It’s a mix seasonal state. It has blazing heat, freezing cold weather. It rains in hails there and they also have drought. So no it’s not just a state that has a mixed season on an extreme scale. Unlike other states that’s just either or

They are obviously NOT from New England. ;-) That amount of snow is negligible. Oh, and it's NOT cold either !! They also do not know that you DO NOT throw ice !! You can hurt someone very badly !!

More countries should build basements. They just make financial sense. Generally the most expensive part of a house is the roof, and a basement doesn't require any more roof space. You get another floor without using any more land. They stay much cooler since they're underground. They offer much more protection from natural disasters. It's only places where the water level is too high that basements don't make sense.

New York City to Route 128 outside of Boston is 212 miles [340 km]. The scheduled time is 3 hours 45 minutes.

2:40 Advanced booking Amtrak tickets are relatively inexpensive for most regional routes but cross-country (coast-to-coast) trains generally cost more than a plane ticket.

Another European youtuber reacted to this video and was shocked at how much they paid for that breakfast - I would point out they got at least three entrees between the two people, maybe four. Their egg/toast/sausage/beans plates were each one entree per person and those pancakes are another one (those are not a side dish sized portion) and the french toast plate looks like a side dish portion but I'm not even sure about that. They got a LOT of food between just the two of them!

I’m from New Hampshire and Boston is beautiful. I also lived on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, which is lovely. Construction is different everywhere. New England has beautiful architecture and history everywhere you go. At least there isn’t much snow, so they enjoy Boston.

I took a trip on Amtrak from Tampa, Fl. to San Jose, Ca., and then back, a few months later. It was a real adventure, and yes, you're correct. U.S. has a wide variety of terrain.

The neighborhood at 11:40 is representative of many American neighborhoods all over.

Last time i took a train to New York from Boston in 1973, it took 10 hours. A lot of stops and breakdowns. I flew back in 45 minutes for $20. This folks are in Westwood, 2 towns over from here, slightly more upscale since its closer to Boston.

21.....I love train travel too, which is why I love traveling in Europe. It is so convenient to get on a train and travel from one country to another. It's comfortable and you get let out in the city center. The two best train routes in the US are the Northeast corridor (Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC) & the California coast. Amtrak goes cross country but it is not a high-speed train, so it takes forever. US public transportation is not as bad as people make it out to be, but if you don't live in a large city, it is not as widespread to get from place to place. Because of the US size, cars are king.

Yes construction is different in the Northeast because of the cold and because people tend to live much more closely together in the North. Roofs have to shed snow so they have steep angles and insulation is really important. Also train service between cities is very good in that area. I live in Tucson and there's no trains you could take on a daily basis to anywhere. I lived in San Francisco for a long time and you can take trains and the Rapid Transit all over the Bay Area but you cannot go long distance without getting on an airplane. Or a car of course. We don't have basements in Arizona. Basements are mostly needed in cold climates because the foundations have to reach below the frost line. Plus in Arizona the soil is very hard to dig a basement plus land is cheaper so houses tend to be all one-story. OTOH good insulation and deep set windows (so the sun doesn't directly shine in the house in the summer months) are common along with flat roofs. And you cannot legally occupy a home that doesn't have a source of cool air during the summer because people will die.

This is the "northeast corridor" (DC - Baltimore - Philly - NYC - Boston). There are more passengers traveling more miles more often on this specific route, than all other railroad routes in North America combined (excluding ones that stay within a single metropolitan area, which is really a separate category). So it's not at all typical of public transportation in most of the country. Yeah, Texas and Boston are in different regions, both geopolitically and also in terms of climate, so there are some significant differences in typical house design and construction. Among other things, most of Texas is warm enough for enough of the year to not really need basements; and large parts of Texas are arid enough, and the Latin-American cultural influence strong enough, that wood is less common as a building material, and materials like stone and adobe much more common, than is the case in e.g. the Midwest. (Boston, being on the east coast, does use a fair amount of stone, but for different reasons.) Also, Boston was settled so early, before America developed its own distinct culture, that it has quite a lot of certain architectural forms that are not common in most of the country, notably, row houses. Deserts, yes. There's a famous quote to the effect that, the way to eat well in England is to have breakfast three meals a day. Well, my take is that the way to eat well in the Midwest, is to have dessert at every meal. Pie, ok, sure; but also muffins and brownies and cookies and doughnuts and cakes and coffee cakes and sweet breads (zucchini bread, pumpkin bread, triple chocolate quick bread, etc.) and cobbler and candies (buckeyes!) and ice cream and pudding and various Jell-O salads and dessert bars and caramel corn and caramel apples and chocolate-covered strawberries and the list just goes on and on and on. It's not at all unusual for more than two thirds of a family recipe collection to consist of various desserts. You don't expect restaurants (or anything really) to be cheap that close to the coast. Hockey is tough enough I guess, but the *most* difficult sport is extreme camping. Yeah. It's really in-tents.

If you take a train for longer distances, you can get a room or roomette. Then you get real food in a dining car. Amtrak is pretty well known for its good food, included in the price of your ticket.There are lots of YT videos showing this. I've been across country by train several times and up and down the eastern seaboard many times, as I lived in the area. Trains are great!

Public transportation is bad because it's not available everywhere and for most people. Amtrak's whole thing is that it is easier and more comfortable than flying, but it's almost useless for most travel because the routes are so limited. It's a great way to travel if it's heading the right way and you have plenty of time. Because it's going to be late. Freight trains have the right of way everywhere but in New England.

I have watched several of your videos and I must say I truly love your fresh outlook of US, it makes me stop to appreciate my surroundings and the rest of the country, so thank you❣️ I have subscribed but as a side note I wouldn't mind a tour of your country through your eyes🙏🏼 As in many countries the political climate here is very unstable and I'm hoping for a better future for my kids and their kids. Best wishes in what ever life brings you 🫶

Boston is probably our most historic city with many places and things from the revolutionary war period when America was just beginning. The size of the US poses major problems when it comes to public transportation. You can take trains like amtrak to travel the country and busses are a very convenient way to travel, too.