Hi I'm Joel and I'm Lia and welcome back to
another Q&A
the last video went down
really well so we thought why not do
another one yeah so I've changed the
jumper but kept the fluff arms yeah cuz they
went down well as well anyone who hasn't
seen the old video I put on a red jumper
that was boring and I attached some
white Christmassy - so they've made a comeback
made a comeback and after this I promise
you will never see them again, till next year
ok so first question is quite a good
question yeah where's the best place to
live in the UK? London no um I went to
Arundel the other day with my family
for a big Christmas lunch and apparently
my parents said that had been voted the
happiest place to live in the UK it is
beautiful and I would actually really
love to live there, how do you measure
happiness in an area exactly
well richness
basically is massive castle in the middle of
this like,  town and it's all really
beautiful it looks like the town from
Shrek basically and every house had half
of a Christmas tree stapled to it with
Christmas lights on you know like a tree
just against the house half the tree yes
they saw off half the tree and attach it onto
the house so it looked like half the
tree was in the house and half was out the house.
that's amazing every
building in the whole town had a tree on
the house that's so cool best place to
live in the UK um for me I'd say one of
the pretty suburbs of London yeah but
there's some amazing places like North
North London or southwest of London
where you can get into town quickly
enough to have your job here but you've
got that country life yeah that would
be the ideal that'd be ideal yeah we'll
have all that we will one day one day
next question have you planned a visit
to France? no well yes she's not making
me with her!  so me and my
brother are gonna get the Eurostar train
from Kings Cross down to Paris so and
then from Paris we're gonna take trains
around Europe we haven't booked any of
the trains we've only booked one way so
we're just gonna see what happens see
where we end up on New Year's
and speaking of New Years someone has
asked best New Year's Eve plans to do in
London? well there's a couple of things
yeah and there's a reason lots of
Londoners get out of London for New
Year's Eve yeah and that's because it's
crazy expensive yeah it's oversubscribed
and like London clubs can be a bit
underwhelming definitely
before I lived in London my family came
here and we stayed in a hotel we went
on South Bank but the opposite side so
north bank to watch the fireworks but
you had to be careful of the wind
because when we were there we saw about
30 seconds of fireworks then all the
smoke from the fireworks blew our way
and completely blocked everything so all
we saw was smoke and it was like that
was a complete waste of time
so I wouldn't advise going out to watch
the fireworks live in person no I'd only
do that if you're like up a building
maybe you can go up The Shard maybe and
watch it from there? That'd be great and you have to book that like a year in advance
You kind of have to book anywhere super
early because everywheres booked
for New Year's Eve if you want like a
sit-down dinner watching the fireworks
with a nice view in London in some sort
of like skyline yeah posh building, I think even on the
London Eye you can book a pod yeah you
can crazy crazy
yeah but part of me kind of wants to
avoid London on New Year's just because
London's had so much horrible stuff
happen to it this year and any time when
London's gonna be busy yeah loads of
people potential threat scares me so I
so it's got to you, so it's got to me
yes got to you...  you're scared
you're running away yeah I'm running
away from London. So advice for that don't
come to London, but seriously if you do
want advice for London New Year's Eve plans then I
would suggest checking out
our friends Jess from Love and London
also Christie from Backpacking Bananas
they're both really good they know their
stuff they know more about this sort of
thing than we do so go check them out
okay so this is a question that we love
answering is best restaurant in London?
we just love food it's so hard it's
difficult there are too many there are
too many I wish you'd said favourite then
give me the genre and I have to pick
from my favorite breakdown of genre one
that I went to the other day which I
really liked was a vegan burger
restaurant in Brick Lane
called Mooshies, was so good honestly the
best burger I've ever had
I'm not even vegan and it was just so
delicious I've got to take my brother there that sounds amazing, it's not necessarily my
favourite restaurant in London but it's
one of the places that I tend to go to a
lot and the reason we go there is
because it's so easy for groups, it's called Vapianos
and everyone who goes through the doors
gets given their own card and when you
leave you only pay for what you ordered
on your card so it's perfect for when you're
with like eight friends and everyone
just hates that moment the bill comes
because you have to figure out who ate what and
it can just be really stressful and
British people sometimes don't just like
splitting it eight ways because someone
you know I mean yeah it can just be so
awkward and it's just a really great
place to get pizza, pasta or salad it's
really good fresh food yeah love love
Italian food
love Italian food you literally order
your food put your card like there to
tap it to put the food onto your card
then they cook it in front of you,  they cook it in
front of you and then you pay on the
exit, pay on exit so good so
great really good love it in America
though they do splitting bills really
well I've noticed when I've gone with
my family there'll be massive tables and
they'll give a bill to each person like
a receipt to each person and they just
do it whereas in the UK like waiters are
like urgh I've got to split the bill I'm like we need to learn from America
so the next one is what are the must go
places in London? My favourite place is
South Bank and as well as that my
favourite place is the National Theatre
on South Bank it's made up of three
theatres loads of shows you can get £15
tickets I really recommend and
I think mine must go place in London is
where Joel said his restaurant was Brick
Lane because it's really important for
you to see like gritty bits of London coz it's
not all like shiny shiny can't stand
anywhere too polished
yeah so get yourself down to East London
and check out Shoreditch
check out Brick Lane this is a really
cool question someone has asked what do
young people in England and London think
about the Royals? yeah so what do we
think about the monarchy? personally we
both love the monarchy, love them! I just
think they're great I think they're
great for the country and I just think
they're really nice people yeah I
absolutely love them I know a few people
who don't yeah who are like I don't want to pay my
taxes for a Royal wedding but I am happy to pay
my taxes towards the Royal wedding do you
think it's 50/50 I think 50/50, split down the middle you reckon? Well lots of
young people nowadays are becoming more
aware of like injustice and like
fairness yes so I understand why people are
saying how is it fair that these people
are being paid millions and millions
billions of pounds yeah and there's
homeless people like I went to Windsor
Castle the other day and it was
amazing this huge castle like so many
rooms and outside I saw like three
homeless people and it's like how is
that right yeah I know, it's true, but it's just
difficult it's difficult because part of you
loves everything they stand for and the
tourism they bring to the UK yes what
they do for us and how happy they make
do you know what I mean the morale-boosting not just
in the UK but all over the world but
then yeah I guess the money thing is
just really sad and I kind of switch off
to it a bit because I don't want to believe it
is true yeah so what are some typical
English names? is the next question
okay just off the top my head go Bob
Wayne Steve Sarah Lesley Jane
Bob Moira not Moira! Mavis, Melissa, hmmm not Lia and not Joel, yeah not our names basically
an English name beginning with J Jim
John just like just simple names English
name beginning with Y. Ooooh that's hard,   that's difficult, that's too much, why did I do that?
English names
beginning with D Derek Dom. Oh, wonder why you thought of that? Oh, oh! That's my boyfriends name. Dominic. Everyone's
gonna go searching for him on Instagram now. No don't coz he's deleted it.
and the last question is how do you make
money from being YouTubers we don't get
asked this question very much
I'd expect it to happen more
but we don't I sometimes get asked at
like a dinner party yeah oh yeah in
person when someone's like what do you do?
you're like I make YouTube videos so
YouTubers make money from views on their
channel so they get paid through Google
Adsense but no one's allowed to say
exactly how much they earn because we
have to do sort of like sign something
at the beginning that says you don't talk
about this yeah but it's not a lot
it doesn't make up for a lot of your
income the other way money is through
advertisements on your channel in terms
of brand deals like working with brands
who might sponsor a video yeah 
brands on other platforms if
you've got Facebook Instagram Twitter
you can also collaborate with them there
and recommend products to your followers
that are suitable and brands you
actually like so that's a way of making
money
yeah and the other way is to sell your
own products so obviously lots of
YouTubers you watch have merch we have
a patreon page where rather than sort of
selling merchandise we sort of sell like
Skype sessions with us so you can just
hang out and be friends yeah so that's
kind of a way of making money but it's
nowhere near enough to sort of say we're
full time no we've still got our part-time
like day jobs and then part-time YouTube
exactly so we're still hashtag relatable
relatable okay guys we hope you've
enjoyed this video
and please leave us a comment if you've
got any other questions because we love
doing these yeah definitely and I hope
you enjoy New Years Eve we both do
oh yeah and New Year's Day as well it's
gonna be 2018 can't believe it I can't
believe we've hit 15k every year since
we started we always say what do you
want for Christmas 10,000 subscribers we wanna reach that milestone and
then it didn't happen until this year it
just all happened really quickly yeah it
suddenly hit ten thousand in about
October I think and so now we've hit fifteen
thousand which is insane so thank you to
everyone who has subscribed we loved
sort of growing a little community
around us I think is absolutely fine to
want more people to watch your videos oh
yeah, so we're just like happy to
celebrate that and not be like oh we
can't mention numbers
so yeah thanks everyone for your
support and we'll see you next time
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