UK 'Is Worst Place To Live In Europe'

one of the criteria is sunshine lol this is just a marketing ploy for uswitch some marketing exec has said it would be cheaper to pay for a survey and then publish the results than to actually advertise everywhere.

Looks like they are right. Free ad for uswitch and not a serious survey.
 
DJMK4 said:
If we are the "worst" why do people keep coming over then to take our jobs and take what the country offers.
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Exchange rate.

If you come from abroad then money isn't worth the same.

Love how Some have picked out alcohol and cigarettes, but totally ignored, refit engage, working hours, Holliday and the like.


Also don't you think they have taken buying power in to account, so even though they earn less, it's still comparatively cheaper.
 
You say we are worst place to live, however I find this comment quite flawed

There may be "bad" things about Britain, which are better in other countries, however in these other countries I bet there are things which are "Just not as good" as back in the UK.

So I think things will balance out if I am honest.

Don't you think everyone is going through a rough time at the moment even though I am not denying that the UK is not an expensive place to live, as it is. But calling it the very worst, I don't agree with.
 
krooton said:
Dunno about that, moved here from South Africa 10 years ago, and whilst chavs and "travelers" are annoying, on the whole I like this place and it's people.
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It’s not the people. What’s bringing this place down are the never ending price increases, uncertainty about the future and a general malaise. It’s just all doom and gloom at present but then these things do change. Some people paint it much worse than it really is. It's what grabs headlines.
 
Living in the UK maybe the worst place to live in Europe, but for a lot of the minorities living and working here, its a far far better place to be than where they came from.

Hence immigrants will end up doing the jobs that the natives dont want and live a far better quality of life than they would otherwise have, ehile all the native 'snobs' will complain about how bad everything is for them, how they wont ever work the most basic jobs, and how much they want to move to Australia.

Then all the herp derps will whine that the immigrants are stealing their jobs, which the native people are too stuck up to want to actually do.

Is this an example of a vicious cycle? Or just a cycle of ignorance?
 
dazzerd said:
I have a child on the way. not much chance, but in hindsight yes I should have done when I was younger
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Quite a few fellow ex-pats had kids when I lived in Germany. You can make all the excuses you want but if you really wanted out then it wouldn't be hard at all.
 
I'm not sure moving a child to another country in their first couple of years of life is a sensible thing to do but yes if I reaaallly wanted to do it I could but my overriding responsibility at the moment is to my wife and soon to be child, not to my own selfish desires.

Anyway this thread is not about me but about Britain.
 
Classic example of a Survey being carried out in such a way that it provides the results that the company paying for it want. This is an ongoing problem with non-independent surveys. A company goes to a researcher and says 'we want a survey carried out to prove that the UK is crap'. Naturally the surveyor asks the questions that give a bad response for the UK (Sunshine, cost of living etc). Company gets back results it wanted and the research agency get continued business for getting the 'right' results. I mean who would use a research company that proved them wrong.
I could prove that the UK is the best place in the world by changing the 'research' to Curry Houses per square mile or asking which country has the most beautiful countryside.

Edit : Spelling
 
dazzerd said:
I'm not sure moving a child to another country in their first couple of years of life is a sensible thing to do but yes if I reaaallly wanted to do it I could but my overriding responsibility at the moment is to my wife and soon to be child, not to my own selfish desires.

Anyway this thread is not about me but about Britain.
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I'm just pointing out how a lot of people in Britain moan so much but there is always an excuse as to why they won't get off their arse do anything about it. Moving a child in their first couple of years is actually the perfect time rather than when they are 10 or something, although I know people that moved with older kids as well and they got on fine. If people really think Britain is that bad then they would act on it, but they don't.
 
fendi said:
do you have a link to said mansion? or anywhere resembling one for that price. sounds a bargain.
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My uncle lives over there, he built a 6 bedroom house from nothing and it only cost him £30,000. Polish labour is cheap. My cousin works 9-5 as a waiter and gets £18 a day
 
Jay794 said:
My uncle lives over there, he built a 6 bedroom house from nothing and it only cost him £30,000. Polish labour is cheap. My cousin works 9-5 as a waiter and gets £18 a day
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£18 pound a day for your services ?

And people are saying that "the UK is the worst place to live"

really?
 
JeffH said:
Classic example of a Survey being carried out in such a way that it provides the results that the company paying for it want. ...

I could prove that the UK is the best place in the world by changing the 'research' to Curry Houses per square mile
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That is rather dependent on the social norms, I find a traditional British pub a relaxing place but somebody from Italy may feel very uncomfortable in one.

Things like sunshine and cost of living (relative to income of course) are fairly universal though.
 
DJMK4 said:
If we are the "worst" why do people keep coming over then to take our jobs and take what the country offers.
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Hope you're trolling.

The jobs that these people take are the jobs that people refuse to do/don't want to do, namely it tends to be the people living week by week with their £40 dole money, spending it on fags and booze. A huge stereotype there, but I don't think it's inaccurate.


I don't think we're living in the worst, but we're certainly not the best.
 
DJMK4 said:
£18 pound a day for your services ?

And people are saying that "the UK is the worst place to live"

really?
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What's wrong with £18?

You only see £18 as a bad thing because it'd barely buy you a few days food in the UK.

The same waiter may be paid £50 a day in the UK and actually be worse off.
 
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