American woman who moved to the countryside in Wales lifts a lid on the shocking disadvantages to live in the UK

An American woman who lives in the countryside in Wales has lifted a lid about the shocking reality to live in the UK … others warn that it is not as dreamy as you would think.

Jessica Hanson, 42, originally from Miami, FloridaLived the dream of every American girl when she met and fell in love with a ‘dashing -looking British’ man named Dickie Paterson.

The two WO in 2023 and bought a house in a small village in Wales called Conwy.

Hanson was enthusiastic to move to the picturesque city, but shortly after she settled, she soon realized that life there was very different from life in America.

From heaven -high prices and terribly again to unfriendly neighbors and strict rules, Hanson admitted to the Daily Mail that there were many disadvantages to live in the UK that surprises her.

Living in such a small village also meant that there were not many food options, shops and restaurants closed super early, and things like Uber And Doordash did not exist there.

It was a shocking adjustment for the resident of Florida, who admitted that it feels a bit too ‘dystopically’ to her taste.

‘In terms of convenience of life, I expected it to be the same. But that’s just not, “she explained during an exclusive chat with the Daily Mail.

‘Admittedly, that is because I am not in Central London, but rather in a small town in Wales. But the lack of conveniences is what I have the most difficult time with.

‘At the time of the day or night [in the US]I can have everything I want to deliver. Groceries are brought to the door within half an hour.

‘Warm eating of every type of kitchen that you could imagine is available. Everything is just that easy there. ‘

And that’s not all. Hanson also explained that setting up the WiFi in their new house was a nightmare.

‘Setting up my tools for the British house was wild for me. In the US everything is on the package you want and placed in your credit card, and you are set, “she went on.

“Getting WiFi in front of the house was a nightmare in which I had to talk to a real person for almost half an hour, and then I had to set up a British bank account because the only way to pay was by connecting an account with a sort of code (not ours).”

She also declined the enormous high costs of energy and gas – as well as the constant gloomy weather.

“Holy hell,” she exclaimed. ‘Where I lived [in the US] Gas was $ 2.36 per gallon. In the UK it is around $ 10 for the same measurement.

“And the costs of heating? I don’t know how people afford it there, because it is generally always freezing (for me anyway). ‘

She added that it is cold and windy for ‘two -thirds of the year and practically’ gray all the time ‘.

“Where I live, in particular, there seems to be a 75 percent chance on a certain day that it gets cold and foggy,” she shared.

“It touches me mentally. I become lethargic and sad when I am there because I don’t want to go outside.

“I just miss that I can go outside in a T-shirt and shorts and walk around comfortably.”

Hanson also claimed that people are not nearly as extraverted in the UK as in the US.

She explained that people in the community in Florida where she lived were ‘super friendly’ and remembered that they got ‘waves and hellos from so many strangers’.

But in her new neighborhood this is the opposite.

‘In the US people talk to you wherever you go. They check in. The question about what you do, where you come from, “she said.

‘Children run in and out of houses in the streets in the neighborhood, to the point where I sometimes smile when I am in a house and ask a friend or family member,’ whose child is that? “And they just pick up.

“That is not my experience in the UK. Of course this can be due to the weather.

“In the beginning, not many people run around streets, I think, because it is so cold and windy for two -thirds of the year.”

She added that there is a whole series of bizarre ‘rules’ and ‘expectations’ that are difficult for her to adapt.

‘The Nanny Staatsmentality crawls out of me. They have recently reduced the speed limit throughout my province to 20 km / h. That is bananas for me, “Hanson revealed.

“It feels a bit dystopic. CCTV and speed cameras are omnipresent. 50 MPH [speed limit] On the highway. Why?

“In general, British freedom feels for me, as a polite prison where rules are for everything, form for every exception, and you are expected to thank you for the privilege.”

When asked if there were benefits in the UK, Hanson said that the groceries are a little cheaper and the view when you drive through the countryside and ‘beautiful’.

‘Oh, and the dairy products. All dairy is fantastic, “she added. “Once I was introduced to British cheese, I just couldn’t eat the American nonsense that we pass on as ‘cheese’.”

Hanson recently posted a video Tap In which she shared her opinion about life in the United Kingdom and of course, British did not go well.

It went viral, but resulted in her confronted immense recoil.

In response to the hatred, she told the Daily Mail: ‘I have a very thick skin and I don’t mind laughing at all the British who poke me in the Tiktok videos. I even get quite a smile from how furious people become. ‘

“In the end I would say:” Life is what you make. “You can choose to see the best things of a place or to reflect on the negatives,” she concluded.

‘I have tried it lately, super hard, to find the positives and to focus on them, such as when there is a hot day and the sun shines on the rolling hills and only goes down 9 p.m. and you can sit outside without a sweater on.

‘I try to cement my head those days. Or when I hear my great stepchildren talking in their chic little British accents to my nieces and cousins ​​and they all hear giggling.

‘Maybe the readers of the Daily can mail me some tips on what I should look for, so that I can continue to look for the best parts of Great Britain in my latest journey of this crazy life. I think that would indeed be useful. ‘