I suppose you probably were visiting some university districts/CBDs where people likely to have received higher education. Elsewhere, aside from basic "hello"/"how are you", locals in general are not able to communicate in English.
Too bad OpenAI named it 4.1 instead of 4.10. You can either claim 4.10 > 4.5 (the dots separate natural numbers) or 4.1 == 4.10 (they are decimal numbers), but you can't have both at once