Tell me the bad things about living in the UK

[alwayscrashinginthesamecar1]

In the interests of equality, as we have had other threads for other countries, I thought I'd start this thread.

I'll start it off with

Bloody awful weather
Obsessed with class
Racist and in some places sectarian too
Filthy cities.

Looking for negativity is not the way I like to live.

I like the UK because we have safe drinking water. Great school and health systems, abundant supplies of food, is a relatively safe place to live.
I am extremely lucky.

Traffic, always stuck in bloody traffic

Filth, there always seems to be litter everywhere

This Government who seem to service themselves well. I think many enquiries will be held in the future based on their handling of CV - I say this as a frontline nurse.

Can't help you I'm afraid. There's nothing 'bad' about the UK that isn't just as bad (or worse) somewhere else. So all in all, the UK is tops

I don't see the filth. I have visited places in the world with open sewers and where defacation in the street is commonplace.
UK is pretty clean.

Weather. I want seasons, though i'm not complaining about all the gorgeous sunshine lately

So much investment in London rather than the rest of the UK. Brexit. Poor public transport. Lack of housing. Small houses. NHS and education both being political footballs does my nut.

Where I live there is an insularity amongst certain people that if you weren't born and bred here you can't have an opinion on any local issues.

I don’t think the cities are particularly filthy. Compared to somewhere like Singapore, maybe, but have you ever been to NYC?!

I also don’t mind the weather (my father is North African and loves it. The Sahara and surrounding areas are no joke in summer!). It’s been over 20 degrees lately but still breezy and green. Lush.

If I had to pick the main things I don’t like it would probably be political and we have enough threads on that.

The houses and gardens are getting smaller and smaller down south. We were house hunting locally last year and came across 3 bed Victorian terraced houses with asking prices of over £650k. Ouch.

Also most cities and towns aren’t very cycle friendly. I don’t cycle because I’m too scared of being mown down.

House prices.

Worlds worst cuisine.

Left wingers shouting down everyone who doesn’t think like them. It’s scary how it’s turning out.

You've never been to Birmingham then or some of it's deprived suburbs?

Actually I’ve thought of another - generally, unless you source specifically - fruit and veg are quite tasteless and poor quality. Love shopping and cooking in France as the vegetables taste more.

What a disgusting and negative thread. Would you direct that original list at New Delhi (because it could well apply if you changed class for caste). No - I didn't think so.

You are sowing hatred and self loathing. Be gone.

Amazes me how people are so narrowi-minded and seeking out the negative aspects.Why are so many desperate people willing to pay traffickers £££ snd rusk their lives and their children's lives to get here, rather than stay in France or Spain or Italy or Greece?

I can’t help either. I’m second generation in the UK and whilst it’s not perfect ( where is?) there is nothing that I hate about it.

What I love is that for most people it’s safe, it’s multi cultural (well it is here in London) , freedom of speech, education, I could go on and on. I won’t even complain about the weather as even that has improved vastly (granted, through climate change).

Currently, an appalling government, but we at least we live in a country that can vote them in. (Which makes this one harder to swallow, but that's another threads )

I think the uk is pretty good really, I think it's easy to take for granted what we have.

Great NHS, even if underfunded, it's still great and needs to be recognised as such.
Mostly clean living conditions

Whingeing poms.
Everyone always whingeing. It's always someone else's fault - the gov, the rich. The lack of can-do attitude.

I cannot think of anything negative. Certainly not witnessed racism.

I’m actually quite grateful to live in the Uk,The weather gets on my nerves though

fruit and veg are quite tasteless and poor quality

Yes!

Also a pretty joyless attitude to children. Children making noise, kids in restaurants, crying on trains etc are not tolerated much

This thread is a direct reflection of other identical threads I have seen asking the exact same thing about the USA and Australia. I'm just holding a mirror up.

FWIW I'm from the UK myself, and lived there for over thirty years in various places. I love a lot about it, but there are negative aspects, just like every country.

I love the UK. Like others have said - filthy cities? Maybe compared to Singapore, Tokyo... but on the whole, the UK is brilliant.

I think the overcrowding, traffic issues are magnified by mumsnet’s over-representation in SE England. Other parts of the country aren’t as mobbed, even the cities and conurbations.

world’s worst cuisine
Specifically, what?

You are sowing hatred and self loathing. Be gone.

I agree.

The attitude to and treatment of teachers.

I taught full time secondary in London for 20 years. Loved London, now in another country also teaching.
In retrospect I cant believe I put up with it in UK, but I didn't know any better. Such a shame that a country do rich in creativity, the arts, culture and diversity treats its educators so very poorly.

I miss London but not the job and the sheer disdain from the public, the media and government. I'm now on much better pay, have far more holidays and much less hours, I feel valued as a professional.

I really hope someday this aspect of life in the UK improves.

Be gone

No. Who made you thread police?