A country music artist from the United Kingdom spent months traveling the United States, and one of his biggest takeaways is that his home country has been ruined by it. Not as in literally destroyed, but rather he found his own view of the U.K. forever altered by the experience.

Shane O’Reilly explained to his Instagram audience that traveling America for months on end is different than visiting for two or three weeks. “That is what I’ve just done,” he said, “and I have arrived home back in the U.K., which is where I’m from, and the U.S. has ruined the U.K. for me. Ruined.”

The size and scope of America is ‘mind-blowing’

“Everything here is so small,” he continued. “The cars are small, the roads are small, the houses are small. And the craziest thing that I find is, when I was traveling the U.S., I went to four or five different states. Home base was Tennessee. I went to Wyoming, I went to Utah, North Carolina, Vegas, and L.A. Everywhere was so, so different. It was mind-blowing how different each state was. And now I understand why you Americans do not really leave the U.S. that much.”

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He said he came home and found the U.K. to be “one depressing place.”

“No one talks. No one brings you up. It’s very, very small. I can drive from the top of the U.K. to the bottom of the U.K. in 10 hours. I was sometimes driving six or seven hours in one day in the........

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