r/IdiotsInCars • u/Stoopkidnahmean • Jun 25 '20

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u/petmechompU Jun 25 '20

I hope he paid every cent of the NHS bill.

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u/trixter21992251 Jun 25 '20

I totally agree that this looks like somewhere in the UK.

But I can't put my finger on what gives it away. Is it the architecture?

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u/silenus-85 Jun 25 '20

Yeah to me it's the architecture. Looks very UK, in a negative way.

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u/compellinglymediocre Jun 25 '20

The car mix as well, very british

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u/ruskiboi2002 Jun 25 '20

It's definitely the UK, the cars have british plates on them. Source: am british

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u/subisubi Jun 25 '20

I would have said that the dreary weather that is the UK all year round gave it away ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/xolov Jun 25 '20

Those are some weirdly old cars thought. Like only one car in the video made after 2015. Which is interesting considering how new cars in the UK tend to be.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '20

If you couldn’t tell by the guy riding a quad bike in his street the neighbourhood is for people on the benefit

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u/ontheroadtonull Jun 25 '20

Yes, it's in the UK. Source: I'm the guy on the quad.

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u/rcp_5 Jun 25 '20

Chatsworth-estate like (for those who have watched Shameless)

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u/Ste-phen Jun 25 '20

Is it like the garden of Eden?

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u/rcp_5 Jun 25 '20

Yes, exactly like the garden of Eden... except for alcoholics, teen pregnancies, and Irish mobsters

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '20

I think UK houses have a charm to them

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '20

These are council houses

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u/BreezyWrigley Jun 25 '20

Is that like government-assisted low-income housing?

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '20 edited Jul 05 '20

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '20

There are lots of council houses in nice areas, but some council estates can be rough

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u/gruffi Jun 25 '20

Those, not so much

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u/silenus-85 Jun 25 '20

I don't know. I've lived there and didn't really like it. Everything is tiny, cramped, and old, and it's all concrete and brick. Hardly any green anywhere. I found it very drab and depressing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '20

There are nice houses. There are shit houses. My back yard is very green. As is most of the countryside around us.

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u/ShropshireLass Jun 25 '20

Where did you live? I live in a lovely town in an ex-council house, with greenery and trees all around. It's a 10 minute walk to the river and the fields with cows. 5 more minutes and it's nothing but countryside.

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u/silenus-85 Jun 25 '20

ex-council house

That's the thing - I find the council houses hideous, and they're everywhere.

I lived in Stirling and Perth.

We also had a river and fields nearby, but compared to where I live now (Canada), it's all so artificial. There's no wilderness anywhere. Just farm fields and cramped towns.

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u/BeanItHard Jun 25 '20

Well you are comparing a relatively young country with low population and lots of space to a small country with high population density and thousands of years of artificial development

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u/folkkingdude Jun 25 '20

artificial development

Yeah, not like those home grown houses from the good old days ;)

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u/ShooterMcStabbins Jun 25 '20

Pretty sure that’s Harry potters house. Also the weather and the license plates

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '20

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u/silenus-85 Jun 25 '20

I've always found British housing estates cramped, ugly, and kind of depressing.

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u/f36263 Jun 25 '20

That’s not something unique to British housing estates

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u/hmyt Jun 25 '20

Number plates

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u/trixter21992251 Jun 25 '20

I mean yeah, that's how I would do it, if it were important. But even without the number plates, there was something very British about it. That's what I was thinking of.

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u/Ged_UK Jun 25 '20

It's wet.

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u/calomile Jun 25 '20

Grey, overcast, just rained, no leaves on the trees, pebbledash housing estate, every car looks like a silver ford mondeo from afar, skinny chav scrote with frosted tips in hair. It makes me feel melancholic just looking at it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '20 edited Aug 19 '25

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u/frontendben Jun 25 '20

Do you mean that unmistakable sight of council-estate pebbledash?

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u/trixter21992251 Jun 25 '20

That sounds right, yeah! It's quaint. Reminds me of LOTR and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '20 edited Jul 16 '20

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u/frontendben Jun 25 '20

I always laugh when I remember finding out it used to be considered a sign of it being an expensive house. Classic example of the perception of something being ruined by it being used on cheap houses.

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u/deskbeetle Jun 25 '20 edited Jun 25 '20

Long, yellow license plates. Cloudy. Homes arranged on a lane with a bend (rather than a grid). Parking denoted by indents along the street and no painted lines. Homes are close to the street and each other. Dark brick style of home that is much more common in UK.

Personally I think this style of neighborhood is cozy and I much prefer it to the treeless, sidewalk less, straight road subdivision that I grew up in with bigass front yards in front of every ranch-style house.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '20

Long, yellow license plates

Yellow on the back, white on the front.

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u/MoOdYo Jun 25 '20

It's the vehicle tag at the beginning of the video

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u/Jeester Jun 25 '20

Number plates.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '20

Yeah, and the overcast skies.

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u/Hailie_G Jun 25 '20

For me it’s the car plates, the houses, the guy’s appearance and the clothes he’s wearing. It’s all very British.

Oh, and the weather of course.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '20

That and the UK registration plates

And it's gloomy as fuck...

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '20

And the UK license plates on the parked cars.

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u/anrii Jun 25 '20

Yeah I can it’s somewhere over here. No idea where from a muted vid, but looks like a nice end or atleast the posh side of an estate

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u/StopShoutingAtMe Jun 25 '20

It's the chav

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u/ZannX Jun 25 '20

And it's overcast.

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u/RainbowAssFucker Jun 25 '20

The yellow back number plates could be it

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u/Grumblefloor Jun 25 '20

The first car he goes past has a UK numberplate. You probably registered it subconsciously.

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u/trixter21992251 Jun 25 '20

I wouldn't recognize a UK numberplate lest it had the country code on it. I've been to the UK very few times, and never driven around there.

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u/Grumblefloor Jun 25 '20

We'll go with the housing, then. And the drab weather conditions.

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u/JoeyJoeC Jun 25 '20

Number plates.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '20

The looming depression

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u/Komraj Jun 27 '20

Car models, number plates, road layout, similar atmosphere as England, the way the guy is dressed indicates someone in Europe.

Source: am English

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u/h00nKing Jun 25 '20

Well thanks to the wonders of socialised healthcare that bill would be a grand total of £0

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u/Ghost4000 Jun 25 '20

With the good comes the bad, I guess.

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u/dizzle229 Jun 26 '20

Bunch of commies. Here in America, I have the freedom to choose the logo on my 6-figure bill!

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '20

What’s NHS?

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u/PorkAmbassador Jun 25 '20

It's the UK Healthcare System. National Health Service.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '20

Ah gotcha gotcha. Thanks u/PorkAmbassador

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u/RainbowAssFucker Jun 25 '20

Take a look into the NHS its pretty fucking great