The United Britain of Great Kingdom

I'll chip in in no particular order.
The English language is universal.
The relatively mild climate.
The lower firearms fatalities especially in USA.
The NHS
Milk delivered to our door.
Enough.
 
Definitely the music. Some of my favourite bands are from this great country. Here's a few bands that I can't count the number of hours I've spent listening to them:

Iron Maiden
Cradle of Filth
Anaal Nathrakh
Bolt Thrower
Carcass
"The Peaceville Trio" My Dying Bride, Anathema, and Paradise Lost
Bloodshot Dawn
Akercocke
DragonForce
Black Sabbath
Saor

 
UK is safe, generally quite benign in many aspects, and generally we have low corruption and a good legal system with a lot of protected rights and freedoms.

But the climate is bad. The geography, save for a few places, pretty restrictive.

It would be far better if we had the UK transposed to a warmer place like Spain or central US. I'd love to be able to drive for days and still be nowhere near anything.
 
Cities are walkable.

It’s relatively safe.

Climate is good.

English is a language most kids around the world has to learn at school meaning making travelling easy for the Brit to most places.

Geographically close to lots of interesting places. Vs say had I live in NZ, which is nice, English speaking, is miles from anywhere, 4hrs from Aus on a plane.

Infrastructure is on the good side…it’s not the best but you are not forced to sit on the roof of a train like in India.

The law is fair, mostly.
No major natural disasters (and no, the richter 3.0 earth quake don’t count…) no volcanos like in Iceland, no Flooding like in India, no massive forest fires like in California or Australia (no, the “small” ones last week is not the same, I’m not saying they are less bad but it’s not the same in scale and frequency).
 
Decent cup o' tea. Yanks and most of the rest of the world are ossessed with coffee for some reason, can't bear the stuff myself. Alright thats not entirely true its ok now and again as a change but not a daily drinker.

chroniclard said:
Roast potatoes.
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Yorkshire puddin'.
Bakewell Tart.
Spotted Dick! (try explaining that to americans)
Custard.
Marmite!

Greebo said:
Just how green it is which I suppose goes hand in hand with our climate.

Its when i travel back from my holidays each year to somewhere hot and sunny that I really appreciate just how much everything is green in the UK.
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Not lately it ain't its as dry and dusty as a spanish resort and not far off as hot
 
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