Are the English people friendly to American expats?

I love this sketch of Americans in London.  I don't think I'm ever quite this friendly, in ANY country, but I can see how us Yanks might have this reputation.    And honestly, there are worse things to be accused of than being overly friendly.
Harry and Paul - Americans in London
(just skip the first few seconds)

Too funny June!  I had two older couples who were like that when I was flying to London with my wedding dress.

I love this sketch of Americans in London.  I don't think I'm ever quite this friendly, in ANY country, but I can see how us Yanks might have this reputation.    And honestly, there are worse things to be accused of than being overly friendly.

Those are my parents. They got them perfectly! I will be sharing this with everyone I know.

When I told DH that American put molasses instead of tomato sauce on their beans (I had to explain what molasses were) he was shocked.  He just can't tolerate that mix of sweet and savory.

I'm so used to baked beans with tomato sauce now that I've forgotten what American style baked beans taste like.

When I told DH that American put molasses instead of tomato sauce on their beans (I had to explain what molasses were) he was shocked.  He just can't tolerate that mix of sweet and savory.

I'm so used to baked beans with tomato sauce now that I've forgotten what American style baked beans taste like.

When I first moved here I couldn't eat baked beans because of the sauce...now I'm ok with it (as long as it has some cheese in it) but I still like to make them the "American" way (by draining all the sauce off and rinsing, then starting from scratch).

When I told DH that American put molasses instead of tomato sauce on their beans (I had to explain what molasses were) he was shocked.  He just can't tolerate that mix of sweet and savory.

But I always thought that that tomato sauce on Heinz was pretty sweet  What you're used to, I guess. Growing up, we had B&M baked beans -- usually with hot dogs -- every Saturday night. My father would eat the leftover ones for breakfast on Sunday 
To return to the topic:
I think most British (or English) people are pretty friendly to Americans. There may be certain prejudices about our culture but I think they like to *know* Americans. Trouble is then you become the token American.

I will say that in the early naive days I brought up the War thinking I would get a 'thanks dude' and was quite shocked at the replies. They have a totally different perspective on it..

When I first read your post I thought, "uh-oh someone will take offense..."

I believe I understand what you are saying because I'm a native New Englander. I live in a town that is named after an English person -- a "Lord" -- and many of our street names are British.

It's also true that people are just plain more reserved in this part of the U.S. -- generally speaking, obviously. There's no need to take offense. The fact is there's a real North/South divide culturally, however that does NOT mean that all Yankees are reserved or that all Southerners are hospitable. But certain generalities do exist.

I had no intention to offend- I'm sure your love for the UK strong-I am  not downplaying that at all. But the fact that New England has strong historic ties to England is just solid reality, just as Boston has strong ties to Ireland, given the massive number of Irish people who settled here in the past 150 years. Growing up in New England, we are constantly reminded how we are former British colonies, the revolution started here-and we have the reminders of our former Britishness everywhere-as all of our counties and  nearly all our towns named for English towns, as we were settled by the English. Plus people That *I* have encountered in my time living in Minnesota, texas, Florida and North Carolina were far more outgoing in inititaing conversation with strangers than people in the northeast. That's just the way it is-I don't know why people behave the way they do, that's just one of the mysteries of the human condition. But it is always a good thing to find a place where people have a positive outlook and try to engage others in a positive constructive manner.

it doesn't matter where we're from, what does matter is the love we have for the UK

I will say that in the early naive days I brought up the War thinking I would get a 'thanks dude'

Are you serious?

ALL baked beans are yucky!  I like my beans sauce free!   

I don't know much about English people, aside from my one flatmate I had who was lovely and a few of my lecturers who were also lovely, but I've found Scottish folk to be incredibly friendly. I find most are also generally curious as to why on earth I'm here. 

In my world...
UK baked beans = US pork & beans that we eat at picnics and bbqs with burgers and hot dogs.
US baked beans = UK baked beans with brown sugar (or molasses in some recipes), a bit of chopped onion, some tomato ketchup, a dash of worcestershire sauce, a touch of spice, baked until they're rich and thick and yummy.

Beans by themselves are fairly boring- they are nice to have alongside a main dish..perhaps sausage or hotdogs. Beans do very well within  Mexican dishes ( I looove Mexican food). Black beans, pinto beans, etc

To follow on with the German theme, my grandfather only spoke PA Dutch at home. 

I can, and have, carried on conversations with people in public in German in PA.  But it is very different from modern German.

It is the Swiss German dialect, which grew in a different way than Swiss German has in Switzerland (well, not that there's a cohesive Swiss German, each town and region has slight and not so slight differences). I can understand some PA Dutch dialect after living in Switzerland for many years, but some of it is utterly unintelligible to me.

I will say that in the early naive days I brought up the War thinking I would get a 'thanks dude' and was quite shocked at the replies. They have a totally different perspective on it..

No offense, but, um, why?

Are you serious?

I hope not.