Your opnion on living in Britain

[drizzy]

Bit confused by some of the pro-Australia stuff. I'm Australian but been in the UK 5.5 years.

Australia has fights. Australia has a bit of a problem with alcohol induced violence. I don't know if it's necessarily worse or better than the UK, but it's a real issue. People in Australia don't have access to drugs like the UK, so dodgy amphetamines are more widely available. So you get a lot of drunk douchebags on speed who like fighting. Or heroin addicts.

The UK is brilliant. I feel safer in London than I do in Melbourne.

 

[Efour]

worked in/been to a fair few countries and always glad to get back to London/UK.

One of the finest countries in the world and im not very patriotic. Glad i was born British.


I love the British weather, hate all the sun worshiping crap and cold blooded Lizard idiots that need to lay in it for 12h a day.

 

[D.P.]

I felt like bum hole every single time i came back to the UK over the last 9 years of traveling back and forth...Every single time

I'm the same, every time I return to the Uk I am glad it is only for a few days and I feel even better about my choice to me ingrate. Feel so sorry for people trapped on the island.

 

[D.P.]

a sense of safety is the big one for me.

having spent my late teens and my early twenties doing the normal thing of hanging out with my peers, going to pubs, bars and clubs etc, i realized that unless i was drunk, i was almost always on edge...Just waiting for the inevitable moron to start a fight or start mouthing off or pushing someone etc..

Walking through parks or even around the streets at night and waiting for the 'alright mate, you got a fag?' from the gangs of scum.

Never being able to leave anything of any value in public because it will either be stolen or vandalized.

Girls being unable/unwilling to walk around outside alone after dark. Old people being scared to leave their homes. Stuff like that. The pointless petty violence...

but as i said in an earlier post, not everywhere in the UK is like that...but an awful lot of it is :/ I now live somewhere in the UK where, for the most part, that stuff doesn't happen...I had to come to the far reaches to find it though.

That is a very good point. I don't happen to live in a particularly safe part of the US all things considered but most of my friends don't even bother locking their house or car.

One eye opening experience some time back with my ex-GF, I was staying at her place and in the morning we realized we had no milk. Without a second thought she just nipped over next door in her pajamas to get milk from the neighbour who happened to be out. She just walked in to his unlocked house and pured out some milk, left a thank you note on a posit by the fridge. Completely normal to her.

How many places in the UK within a town would you leave car and house unlocked when you are away?

 

[asim18]

I had a pen and chucked it over their heads down the road. They all dashed for it. Quite hilarious.

Hilarious? You find it hilarious that these children were so poor that that they "dashed" for a pen?

And then you didn't even have the courtesy to hand it to the child first in line, instead threw it over their heads into the dirt?

 

[D.P.]

worked in/been to a fair few countries and always glad to get back to London/UK.

One of the finest countries in the world and im not very patriotic. Glad i was born British.


I love the British weather, hate all the sun worshiping crap and cold blooded Lizard idiots that need to lay in it for 12h a day.

My hate of the British weather is the unpredictably and the minute difference between seasons. Actually the Uk does get seasons, just one long cool wet season, the only differs e in winter in Scotland It is dark for 18 hours. The fact is a mild day in winter can be warmer than a cold day in summer. I have done plenty of hiking in Scotland in the summer when it was single digits, and then tired my hair out in winter when it was 12-15*c and I am trying to go skiing. March had the best weather in Scotland for the entire year, how on earth should that happen?


I don't care that much for sunbathing, although it is nice to chill out by the pool here. What I like is that I can reliably go out and enjoy the great outdoors without having to worry about the weather. I can plan a BBQ or boat trip months in advance. In the summer I can just wake up out of bed, throw on shorts and t shirts and get out hiking without looking at the weather forecast. In winter I can drive up to the mountains and know there will be good snow for sking 5-6 months of the year, in Scotland you could drive up and find bare ski slew or hurricane force winds. Ad I am a big fan of Scottish. Skiing,
One it, but it drives you nuts trying to make the most of it.

 

[mollymoo]

No, I've had a pretty uneventful middle class home counties life. Great family etc. Nothing particularly unpleasant at all. Or at least nothing that stood out to me before going abroad....

but yeah, everyone has their own experiences of course.

So you have had an un-eventful middle class, yet

a sense of safety is the big one for me.

having spent my late teens and my early twenties doing the normal thing of hanging out with my peers, going to pubs, bars and clubs etc, i realized that unless i was drunk, i was almost always on edge...Just waiting for the inevitable moron to start a fight or start mouthing off or pushing someone etc..

Walking through parks or even around the streets at night and waiting for the 'alright mate, you got a fag?' from the gangs of scum.

Never being able to leave anything of any value in public because it will either be stolen or vandalized.

Girls being unable/unwilling to walk around outside alone after dark. Old people being scared to leave their homes. Stuff like that. The pointless petty violence...

but as i said in an earlier post, not everywhere in the UK is like that...but an awful lot of it is :/ I now live somewhere in the UK where, for the most part, that stuff doesn't happen...I had to come to the far reaches to find it though.

you then claim that things may of been eventful enough to cause you paranoia, just seems odd.

For the record I think it's a great place and have enough family now returning (mainly from Australia) to compound that belief.

 

[PardonTheWait]

It's quite good here, let's be honest.

There are other places where I would like to live for a time, if it were possible, but only for variety.

 

[tom_nieto]

The UK is the most civilised country in the world. I've lived in a few different places around the world, but I just couldn't imagine living anywhere else.

For those that think the UK is rubbish, I suggest jump in your car and go and see some more places in the British isles. It's amazing what we've got on our doorstep.

 

[mollymoo]

The UK is the most civilised country in the world. I've lived in a few different places around the world, but I just couldn't imagine living anywhere else.

For those that think the UK is rubbish, I suggest jump in your car and go and see some more places in the British isles. It's amazing what we've got on our doorstep.

Which has always been my point, get out there have a look, you'll be surprised.

 

[Clipsey]

The area I live, I love and wouldn't change it to go back.
It feels like England did when I grew up, kids playing out in the streets til late at night, a family playing basketball in the street with some other children, people know each other and care......even say hello to one another! Everyone loves school spirit and supports their local sports teams and embrace the rivalries (in a friendly manner).
There are plenty of opportunities for people, tons of social events going on, and the main thing is pride in your area, people love their hometowns and celebrate them all the time!

When I go back home (Essex), I enjoy certain things, but this is mainly seeing my family and friends, pubs and Indian restaurants
Can't say I really miss anything

 

[theleg]

So you have had an un-eventful middle class, yet



you then claim that things may of been eventful enough to cause you paranoia, just seems odd.

For the record I think it's a great place and have enough family now returning (mainly from Australia) to compound that belief.

Im not paranoid. those things happened regularly right in front of my eyes. Which is why i used the word inevitable ya see..

 

[Rotty]

It could be worse, you could be French

 

[theleg]

The UK is the most civilised country in the world. I've lived in a few different places around the world, but I just couldn't imagine living anywhere else.

For those that think the UK is rubbish, I suggest jump in your car and go and see some more places in the British isles. It's amazing what we've got on our doorstep.

Go to any town/city centre on a friday or saturday night and tell me its civilised

 

[2bit]

Go to any town/city centre on a friday or saturday night and tell me its civilised

Compared with what though?

 

[theleg]

Compared to what though?

Well compared to places that don't have fights breaking out all over the place. Don't have women in mini skirts spitting at and fighting with police.

Ive yet to go somewhere that has it so bad as the UK...except certain places on the continent which are the preferred holiday destination for that same demographic.

 

[Third Opinion]

I am in the UK because I cannot afford to be elsewhere. Probably not the right reason to be here. I was born in Britain and as far as I can see my family are mainly British except for my father who was Swedish. I love Sweden but way too expensive but the the women are beautiful.

I stayed in the USA for 24 months, not horrible but rather boring in day to day life.

The UK is an easy country to live in, that's why so many want to come here.

 

[Firestar_3x]

Compared with what though?

It's called picking out the 'worst' in a country, then comparing it to other country's with rosé tinted glasses on.

I'd suggest if you see fights breaking out all the time then you need to spend a night out someplace worthwhile and not the dives some people seem to frequent.

 

[theleg]

It's called picking out the 'worst' in a country, then comparing it to other country's with rosé tinted glasses on.

I'd suggest if you see fights breaking out all the time then you need to spend a night out someplace worthwhile and not the dives some people seem to frequent.

Well isn't that what this thread is about? Picking out what we don't like about living in the UK? and picking out what we do like.

and yes, the culture of pointless and random violence is the thing that I have singled out as being the worst part of living in the UK. As per this thread. I don't have rose tinted specs when i compare it to other places though..Just regular eyes.

Its not about the bars/pubs/clubs its the town centres in general.

 

[Firestar_3x]

The thread is basically about Britain vs other places you could live, singling out fights on a Friday night seems a little strange, I've yet to find a place in the world which doesn't have issues with drunks / fighting.

All the issues which are present in the UK happen in every other country around the world.