The difference between McDonald’s restaurants in Australia and the United Kingdom shocked people
A woman who moved from Australia to the UK revealed what shocked her friends when they visited. Amie Elizabeth, a content creator who posts on TikTok as @Amieelizabeth95, shared the eye-opening revelation in a recent video. Originally from Australia, Amie now lives in London, and quite a few cultural differences shocked her and her friends, including the difference between McDonald’s restaurants.
Amie explained: “Some friends came to visit me from Australia recently and these are the things that like blew their mind about living in the UK that I just thought was so cute because I’ve been here for two years now, so like you take them for granted when you’re living here.”
She continued: “My first one was Amazon same-day delivery. My friend forgot one of their phone chargers, and so we ordered her a new phone charger off of Amazon. We ordered it like 8am and arrived by 10pm, and she was like wow, what.”
Amie said she was also shocked by the same thing when she moved to the UK. “When I first moved here, I was like mind-blown by the sheer amount of stuff you can buy off of Amazon that was like same-day or next-day delivery.”
For her second point, Amie said she was taken aback by London’s architecture. “The second one was all of the beautiful buildings that just hold so much history in them. When I first moved here I was so mesmerised by all of the beautiful historic buildings.
“You’ll walk through central London, and you’ll see a McDonald’s in this beautiful old Victorian building, and you’re like why do they let them put McDonald’s in there? She added: “The last one is just how big London is and how much is going on every day.
“My friend was like I genuinely think you need a whole month to spend in London to unpack it and I was like no, babes, you need an entire lifetime to see all of London and even then you won’t see it. Anyway, this is just a reminder that I moved to London because I freaking love it here.”
In another video, Amie shared the British things that she found ‘weird’ when she first moved. She explained: “These are British things that I thought were weird when I first moved here, but after a year of living in London, I just find completely normal.
“British people just love to queue, and when I first got here I was like why are we waiting in this line for subway? Why is there a line to get into the petrol station? Like there was just queues for everything, and now I just factor it into my daily life and I’m comfortable with the fact that I probably spend 12 out of my 24 hours in a day queuing.”
Another cultural difference that surprised Amie was parking. “When I first got here, I was really shocked that you parked either direction on the road. And I was like, why is that car parked backwards? Now, if I see a parking spot in London, that is mine. I do not care how I have to get into it,” she explained.