A British man shared his experience of driving in the US after spending three weeks on a road trip where he drove through Colorado and Utah – but he was left feeling ‘stressed’

Visiting a foreign country can be exciting, but following different rules might feel overwhelming. Most of the world, including here in the US, as well as Europe, China and Russia, will drive on the right side of the road.

But despite the majority of the globe following that practice, our friends in the UK drive on the left side of the road. So when they come across the pond and drive on our roads, it’s probably daunting for them. One man from the UK recently traveled across the Atlantic for a three-week road trip where he visited Colorado and Utah.

Writing on Reddit, he shared: “Just got back from a three-week trip where we drove through Colorado and Utah on every type of road imaginable and honestly found the driving culture incredibly stressful – even more so than Italy or central London.”

He highlighted three behaviors that particularly unsettled him, including attitudes toward speed limits.

“Doing the speed limit made us total outliners,” he confessed. “We set cruise control and stuck to it, but were overtaken constantly, even by massive trucks. One lorry even flashed us for doing the limit in the slow lane.”

The traveler continued: “Signaling to change lanes or merge, almost always made people speed up to block us. It felt oddly competitive, like no one wanted to give up ‘their’ bit of road.

“For example: even when we were just pulling out to overtake a slow lorry crawling uphill (with every intention of moving back in), someone would rush to close the gap. That same lorry would then go flying past us on the next downhill anyway haha.”

He also noted that people don’t seem to yield as much as Brits do on the roads.

“People just didn’t let us in… at junctions, merges, anywhere. In the UK it’s normal to give way, or at least acknowledge when someone’s signaled and clearly trying to move. Over there, it felt hostile.

“We weren’t nervous drivers, just trying to follow the limits etc.

“Is this just normal? Or is it a regional thing? Genuinely curious – we have bad drivers in the UK too, but I wasn’t expecting it to feel so mean.”

The post quickly gained a lot of attention, racking up nearly 1,000 upvotes and plenty of comments. One user responded: “Welcome to America.”

Another chimed in: “Sounds like a typical drive in Anywhere, USA to me.” A third commented: “I’ve traveled all over the US. It varies by region.”