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say it back yeah you're right and carry

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on with your day try and communicate

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their emotions through talking about the

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weather we love a queue we love waiting

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in queues that's our thing that's what

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we do in Britain you could be in the

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same bedroom as like 10 people it's just

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really confusing for everyone don't come

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to the UK hiya welcome to easy English

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if you're thinking about coming or

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moving to the UK then this episode is

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for you I asked the residents of

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Brighton for one piece of advice on

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coming to the UK now before we get

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here we go what advice would you give to

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someone who's thinking of coming to the

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UK

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would suggest

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suggestions through talking about the

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weather uh is someone in the industry

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asked if you're right you don't answer

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yes you just say you're right back it's

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not a question what advice would you

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give to someone who's going to come to

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the UK

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um we are very big on manners we like

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saying please and thank you and we we

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love a queue we love waiting in queues

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that's our thing that's what we do in

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Britain

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what uh advice would you give to someone

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who is thinking of coming to the UK

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well bring an adapter

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if you're not from the UK and you don't

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have the the right adapter you need to

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definitely bring in the desert people

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are willing to help you like regardless

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that they if you ask for directions you

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go up to a random stranger they will

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drop everything and they will give you

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directions like it's happened so many

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times regardless of who you are they

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will they will help you if you're coming

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to England and you don't know anyone and

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you're completely new I reckon the best

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thing to do is go to a hostel where you

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meet like like-minded people and you get

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to meet like different cultures as well

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so then you don't feel alone and then

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you can explore together and I'd say the

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easiest way to explore is Google use all

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the apps like for events that are

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happening there's always something on in

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England so

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um yeah I think what will make it easier

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for coming to a foreign country is

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meeting like-minded people and just

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getting to know other people so then you

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know you're not alone and you can

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explore together and Google Google's

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your best friend what advice would you

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give to someone who's thinking of coming

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to the UK

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what I would say is obviously the big

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cities like London Brighton are amazing

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and there's loads to do but perhaps

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don't go for these big obvious cities

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try and find some hidden gems ask people

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that live here or research online and

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find some more um less well-known cities

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or towns to go to to get like a a

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different experience if you're coming to

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the UK about every area all the bus

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systems are different and it's just

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really confusing for everyone take care

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of yourself if you're um adventuring or

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exploring like in the night well if

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you're on a night out or a night drink

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with friends just kind of

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be sensible I guess because it's it

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there's different

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there's different kinds of there's loads

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of different kinds of like people scary

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people what advice would you give to

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someone who wants to come to the UK

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don't come to the UK it's not the best

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place as far better places in Europe or

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anywhere around the world that you'll

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have a much better experience in the UK

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and that's coming someone that's lived

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here their whole life okay and why is

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this so important

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um it's

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um it's safe so so do you have um

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weather talk like ready and loaded in

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New York really yeah so generally it's

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like oh it's nice it's a bit unless it's

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a bit cooler today isn't it as a way of

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just feeling like

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everyone's a bit calmer today so you've

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already sort of thought of it you've

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already got it ready to cocked and load

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it into fire and how important is small

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talk then in the UK because this is part

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of small talk right it's Mega it's

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extremely important I think so your

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advice almost is do small talk or don't

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be don't be afraid to do smarter don't

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be afraid to do small talk and and make

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sure that you realize it's actually big

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talk and weather is Big yeah how do you

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like differentiate between uh hey are

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you alright or you're right how would

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you how can you tell

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I just go for the like Posh white women

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voice yeah you're right and then give a

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little nod

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so as like a rule of thumb always

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presume they don't really want to know

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how you are they don't really care yeah

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but is that does that mean that like

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most Brits are like uh not very polite

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not necessarily I think we're all very

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very polite people then why do we do it

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don't you think formality maybe

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so what's the best response to her yeah

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you're right say it back yeah you're

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right and carry on with your day okay so

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yeah you're right oh yeah you and just

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carry on

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are you yourself someone who regards

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manners as a quite highly in yourself

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100 yeah you say p's and q's yeah you

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have to

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and um what um

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what is it what's this big Fascination

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because it's a bit of a cliche the

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queuing thing right yeah I think it's

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just kind of respect for the other

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people that are there as well it's just

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kind of a way of showing like you value

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their time they value your time it's

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just kind of a it's more pleasant for

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everyone yeah it's Pleasant for everyone

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and where whereabouts in UK are you from

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I'm from Hull the North and what why

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would you not even recommend going to

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your hometown uh Hull is just not the

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nicest place in the world the people

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aren't the nicest but wasn't it this uh

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the cap uh it won like the city of

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culture it was but that didn't really

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help us at all to be honest it's still

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not a good place to go and is this a

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problem which uh you've uh encountered

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yourself did you forget yeah yeah

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because we needed to to buy one we had

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one we bring one we brought one yeah

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um but uh yeah if you have two phones

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you need to charge and you have like

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your your electric toothbrush and etc

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etc uh one isn't enough so uh and what

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if you do forget it did you find ways to

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yeah we bought one at I think at the

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supermarket yeah the Asda a grocery

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store yeah this is the supermarket so

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yeah okay so there is a solution that

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was it's not the end of the world not

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the end of the world but it's handy if

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you've got one on your hands

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stereotypically but it's about closed

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off people I'd say no what is the best

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way to approach a Brit then to ask for

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directions

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I don't know like

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hey can you help me with something or

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hey do you mind telling me where this is

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or something like that sorry to bother

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you but yeah sorry to bother you though

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sorry to bother you so what like

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starting off from a point of apology or

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something

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a safe bet yeah can you explain what

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hostel is oh what a hostel is basically

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um it's like a cheap version of hotels

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it's dorm rooms you could be in the same

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bedroom as like 10 people nice chillout

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areas everyone's in the same boat so

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you're all getting to know each other

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and yeah just a really nice environment

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for people to get to know each other

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um and explore yeah yeah why is it you

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would say like don't go for the obvious

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choices is there a reason because we're

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in Brighton right now right and it's

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lovely yeah but is is there and you have

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an issue with it maybe not at all not so

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much don't go for them I think you do

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have to go to Brighton and London

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probably Brighton over London yeah

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because it's more we're still the sea

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it's more quirky it's more it's got a

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good vibe yeah don't just limit yourself

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because they're the ones that you know

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about from from media and things

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um just try and broaden your horizons a

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bit maybe we're from Bournemouth right

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so uh there's there's a thing called the

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uh in The Bowman square there's a thing

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called like a safety bus and if you're

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feeling uneasy or like you've drunk too

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much you've drunk too much or if you're

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alone you go to the safety person

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there's people there that can help you

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so I feel like there are systems in

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places becoming more of like a known

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problem and it's people are tackling it

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so perhaps a bit of advice would be that

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this might be something in place in most

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sort of cities yeah in wetherspoons you

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can um you can go to a bar and you ask

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for a specific name and the person

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behind the bar calls a taxi for you

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so it's like it's on a it's like a Down

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Low kind of I want to leave but I can't

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remove myself from the situation safely

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no it's just kind of really smart so

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then if you're telling people not to

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come where you tell them to go what

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what's is there a specific country you

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prefer to England I'd love to go to

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Finland the people in Finland are

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apparently really nice I know quite a

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few Finnish people that are lovely

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there's sort of any South American

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countries that are apparently really

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sort of fun and will have a good time if

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you go to them I'm interested to hear

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what advice you might have in the

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comments below about coming to the UK it

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can be practical or a cultural it can be

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obvious or subtle thanks for watching

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this video and we'll see you next week

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