In a city of over a million people, Kelli Simmons struggled to find one person who could locate Bermuda on a map.

She took it personally. So did many of the Bermudians who watched her Bermuda Trivia Question on YouTube, and her friends on Facebook.

“I just asked, ‘Where is Bermuda’,” she said of her poll of people on the streets of Birmingham, England. “Answers ranged from Japan, South America or, somewhere in the Caribbean.”

Even people from the Caribbean seemed to have trouble with the question.

The video was part of Foreign Reality, a YouTube series the 38-year-old Bermudian started when she moved to Birmingham in 2012. She uses the name Brown Suga on the videos, which share her experiences there. Her latest video asking about Bermuda, was done last month.

She said Bermudians tend to be a proud people despite coming from a very small place.

“It can be a real blow to the ego,” she said. “I’m like, ‘Damn you never heard of me before?’”

Bermuda Trivia Question, has 100 views on YouTube and more than 1,000 comments on her Facebook page, Sugary Brown.

Many of the comments were from Bermudians who were hurt and outraged that no one had heard of them. “Some of them were angry with the Bermuda Department of Tourism,” Ms Simmons said. “Bermuda’s paying all this money to put our name out there and still, a lot of people abroad haven’t heard of us.”

She made Bermuda Trivia Question because she was tired of the blank stares she got when she talked about Bermuda.

“When I tell people out here where I am from they look completely confused,” she said. “They can’t place my accent and they think I am American or Canadian.”

She moved to the UK because she really wanted to travel and learn about new cultures. “I wanted to broaden my mind and leave behind the small-rock mentality,” she said.

Moving to the UK was nothing like she expected.

“My weight was impacted by my relocation,” she said. “It went up. I think it was from the stress of the move. The employment situation was different here. A lot of people here get paid a lot less than in Bermuda.

“Sometimes I feel like I have taken one step forward and two steps back.”

Her greatest struggle has been being away from the support network of her family and friends at home. However she acknowledged that her experiences weren’t necessarily shared by other Bermudians living in the UK. Despite the difficulties, she loves her new home.

“I don’t think I will ever go back to Bermuda,” she said. “I love the melting pot of diversity that we have here. There are people from so many different places and cultures. In Bermuda, we really have so few cultures by comparison.

“Honestly, I haven’t found any culture here that I identify with as a Bermudian. I really see how much I am a Bermudian.

“We are used to a much higher standard of living. We are a very materialistic and wealthy Island. I never experienced poverty and struggling until I moved here.”

The set-up for Foreign Reality is basic. Ms Simmons taught herself to shoot and edit movies using only her cell phone.

She has experienced the most success with a second series of videos called Thirsty Curlz about natural hair. One video she did about black Pacific Islanders of Melanesia with blond hair, had more than 150,000 YouTube views.

“People were debating whether they were actually black or were they Asian,” she said. “It was controversial.”

Before she left Bermuda, she was well known as a poet and rap artist. In 2010, she made a single called Imboxable that had a lot of play on Bermuda radio. In England, she hasn’t yet gotten involved in the poetry scene, but she is working on it.

• For more information see her Facebook pages under Thirsty Curlz and Sugary Brown.

• Her videos can be seen here: YouTube video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmK1WAE7pPU.

• Note: The beginning of the Bermuda Trivia Question video contains offensive language.

• Ms Simmons is looking for sponsors to help her put out more work.