To be depressed about how expensive but shyt the UK is

Whereabouts is this? It's not that amusing tbf

Someone has taken them into their home after all

They want to go back ASAP as it's miserable here - crap houses, horrendously expensive heating etc.
They can't go right now only because men will be sent to die which they are not very keen on.
I find it rather amusing that war refugees pity the Brits.
Their area has never been bombed as it's "Polish part" of the country.

Well if the colour of the stone meets their approval …..but then again there are quite a lot of terraced houses, it’s a difficult conundrum for sure.

I’m a fully grown adult thanks, so you can quit with your silly remarks and it works the other way as well, posters are allowed to praise the country they live in, their experience is just as valid as the negative posters.

Yet another "avocado toast". No one in our family ever smoked but we will never be able to buy a house 😂

Albaamy said they liked Bath, do you allow them to live there?

There is negativity for a reason- dreadful health system with eye watering wait times, sewage in our rivers and seas, horrendous unaffordable housing, shite education system, struggling unprotected youth, dreadful cost of living ….. the list is endless. You can’t even leave now thanks to Brexit.

And yet it was the Uk that offered them a haven in a time of war, gave them a home and offered safety. If it’s really that shite they can always pop off home and dodge the bombs.

Where to?

Ireland?

Are you Irish?

Off you go then

We all started out in bedsits. None of this buying a house in your 20's

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But a lot of people did??

I do sometimes think my parents personify the whole 'boomer' mentality, but instead of having a holiday they bought a terraced house. Then they saved up (by stopping smoking!) and bought a detached house.

I do realise that it is simpler if you are double income though

we're all paying for the baby boomers mistakes in life
WTF does this even mean?

I asked that question hours ago - answer came there none.

we're all paying for the baby boomers mistakes in life

WTF does this even mean?

I'm a boomer, still renting, single mother, blah blah. We were the ones who were told we could retire at 60 before the rug was pulled out from under us.
I had a Saturday job at the age of 14.

We all started out in bedsits. None of this buying a house in your 20's. There wasn't even minimum wages in those days.

Life is change. Every generation has their own troubles. So does every country.

I'm blessed I don't live in a war zone. --I have though - in UK!!
My parents went through WW2. Their generation also rebuilt the whole shebang. Giving YOU a better life now.

Now to me the Cotswolds is paradise, I rent a lovely holiday cottage every year in a beautiful village that looks like a picture book, hoping to move there once I retire. It’s clear you dislike absolutely everything about this country you really should make every effort to leave, thousands do it each year so even though it’s harder now it’s certainly not impossible, it can’t be healthy living somewhere you despise.

I meant to ask but can’t edit my last post, where did you visit @Albaamy121?

I feel the same (even though compared with some other countries, I know we’re lucky in many ways), and I think it’s because things really have got harder over the last 20 years. It fees like there’s far greater inequality - some people are spending loads of money and enjoying themselves, whereas others just can’t. As a fairly average income household, we used to enjoy days out, weekends away, the occasional meal out, coffee shop breakfast every week or two, and that was normal. Now bills and the cost of living are so high, those things are very rare treats. A travelodge family room used to be £45 to stay near my parents a few years ago, and now we’re lucky if we find anything under £100. Last time we went to a coffee shop it cost £30 for 4 of us… it struck me that the barista would have to work for 3 hours just to afford a family breakfast treat, and to me that feels so wrong. There’s cost-cutting everywhere - communicating with any organisation now seems to involve waiting on hold for hours or getting frustrating stock responses from a chatbot. It feels like everyone’s attempting to fleece us - now Christmas is approaching, places near us are advertising light trails, Santa experiences etc for about £100 a family ticket, and no way will it be worth that. Things might be shyt everywhere; they certainly are here too if you’re not on a high income.

Yes..but you need a good job seekers allowance there. Livng expenses can be very high. Housing is in very short supply and is very expensive. I've just read that if you go to the Dr it costs a fortune. There are no set fees or charges for GP services. To visit a GP, you can expect to pay from around 45 -65 euro According to one doctor I met, he was no longer practising medicine in Ireland because it was like practising in a third world country.

The biggest issue this country has is the depressing negativity that is highlighted in abundance in these posts. Constantly talking the country down, constantly moaning, never happy with anything. It’s these types of a unique fusion of entitlement and loathing that sets this country apart for the wrong reasons.
If I could do anything for this great nation I’d eject the lot of them to a far flung miserable outpost where they would really have something to whinge about!!

I didn’t say, it’s not Norway. I’m in capital city in one of the other Scandics.