What's one thing you've seen in other countries that you wish we had here?

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In my home country, we have riders on motorbikes whose job it is to transport things from one place to another.
For example, if you left your charger at your mums, you could just request one of those and they would bring it straight to you.
Mind you in that country taxis are a lot cheaper than they are over here, so even if we had something like this here it would probably be too expensive and not worth it.

Your adult life as a parent is mostly work. You are at work while your parents do the majority of the childcare. And then you reverse that for your grandchildren.

As I said, family is everything. It isn't seen as a requirement. It's what people want to do. Grandchildren adore their grandparents and vice versa.

And because they retire early, there is life post-grandchildren too! Dancing aunties. Street dancing. It's a lovely culture.

Doesn't sound so great for retail staff.

We'll just forget about everything else then, shall we?

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Honestly I would settle for sprung at this point just how many years has it been cold and wet for

They used to have a lot of 'dollar movie theatres' in the USA. It's 30yrs since I was there but they showed older films and tickets were $1. It was a great way to catch something you'd missed when it was first released and a super cheap afternoon or evening out. I still think it's a great idea 😁

I do not mean salt and pepper; that proves my point. 😀

The food available in restaurants and cafes is dire, IMHO. Not what is available in supermarkets, but what is done to it. Just my opinion. Would take too long to explain further.

We live in Victorian street lined with quince trees. They are on the junction corners of several roads. If they don't get picked, you really know it if one falls. UK and there are also plum trees one street up - if they aren't picked they smell and if they fall they are very slippy

You know how greenhouses and conservatories get hot because of the sun through the windows?

The same thing happens with rooms in direct sunlight. Our living room gets very balmy in spring as there's direct sunlight onto the window

They have this in some car parks in the UK- it’s very handy!

Oh yes, this!!! And we are rare in our crap trains. Spain, Switzerland, China all have fab trains.

We have LOTS of dog parks here in the NW

That just depends on whether the banter is offensive, damaging and hurtful. Why should people have to put up with it? Do you want to live in the 1970s?

Apparently we do have one, but they actively ferry unknowns to us instead of keeping them out. Quite the opposite of what a border force is paid to actually do.

Yes. The system I had in the UK was awful and really discriminated against people in flats. Mixed waste was only taken once every two weeks. Terrible.

Bidets, I think they're great.

Sun.
A fast, efficient state health service.
Clean rivers and beaches
Weekly markets full of fresh produce grown by the seller.
Oh how I wish I’d stayed.

All rich countries have undocumented migrants and asylum seekers.

I'd like coffee shops to stay open late.

Yes, they have those where I live in the UK and I think it's a great system.

Shifts are a thing. FWIW I'd far prefer working retail or hospitality in Asia to the UK, much less aggro and theft.

I wouldn't have wanted my mother in law to have been my child's childminder (my own mother wasn't alive to have been able to nor was she local enough even if she had been).

It sounds very insular with a pressure to give birth while your own parents are still fit enough to be childminders. I have Chinese relatives - all have left China now and live on separate continents so clearly wasn't a pattern they worked hard to continue.

Where was this

Yes, me too. I really like that.

Well, China is not exactly renowned for encouraging individualism.

French/Belgian/German health service