Living in the UK is great and this is why...

[Brefugee]

Putting this in AIBU because it's inspired by another thread (title). It is not a TAAT so please don't make it one or it will get zapped.

I'll start with it is quite small and relatively easy to get around. My home town is actually partly with the boundary of a National park, and you can go from city to countryside within a bus-ride. The landscape is incredible.

Stoic acceptance of queuing.

Cheese. The King of Cheese comes from England (Wensleydale).

I love this list 😊

Seasons definitely!

Cheese glorious cheese!

Marmite

Jaffa cakes and Tunnock's Teacakes

Yorkshire pudding
The unwritten laws of queuing

Sarcasm, piss-taking and satire - we are world leaders in all 3

Swans that can break a man's arm.

Proper pubs

Massive diversity of regional accents

Nice to see this thread after all the negative ones. We have lived outside the UK for 10 years and have recently made the decision to sell up and return "home".

The lovely things listed on this thread have made me feel much better!

I love that nowhere in the whole country is out of reach within a day.

I live somewhere where London and the coast are both within a 40min train journey.

I walk out of my house, down a footpath and I’m in unspoiled countryside for miles. I walk the other way down the footpath, hop on a bus and in 7 minutes I’m in the centre of a busy market town.

Twenty minute taxi to the airport and in a couple of hours I’m in Edinburgh.

A bit more of a slog, but with an overnight stay it’s more comfortable: we can pick DS up from Uni in Cornwall within 6 or 7 hours.

The whole of the beautiful country is almost literally on the doorstep. I’m thinking of the US etc where moving across the country might as well be moving across the world.

I no longer live in the UK.
What I miss is

British banter
Beautiful countryside
Brick houses with hedges
Things with gravy. (British food is actually really good!)

A huge network of public footpaths and/or right to roam, and a climate which means there are actually very few days when the weather is too hostile to use them all day. (I will admit the joys of the U.K. have increased since the invention of Goretex)
Plus very few dangerous animals and plants.

Pubs. Not the noisy new ones, but you know when you used to walk down the street on a summer's day, and go past a pub and you'd get a beery whiff and the noise of lots of conversations and laughter. You still get that in some places and i love it.

And yes yes yes to Marmite.

Well I am with you on Yorkshire tea but I see your Wensleydale and raise you a Cheshire or a nice crumbly Lancashire.

As with PP, the countryside is the best. I like foreign holidays and have boggled at some lovely scenery elsewhere in the world. But a fine day in The Peak District takes some beating.

Also we do proper puddings.

Marmite can get to f* but pickles and chutneys are to be celebrated.

Well I am with you on Yorkshire tea but I see your Wensleydale and raise you a Cheshire or a nice crumbly Lancashire.

they are excellent, but not quite as good. Better than cheddar though. And i miss Stilton.

Curry, decent cup of tea and a decent pint of bitter.

Where I live the scenery is stunning but unlikely to kill you and there's no animals to kill you either (apart from cows).
The weather isn't extreme.
A beautiful May day in the UK is one of life's great pleasures.

Oh and yes, a good pub, a proper pub - there's nothing better.

I absolutely love British culture and hospitality. The majority of people are always up for a chat and a laugh with a stranger. I love how the community comes together when something happens. I love the history of the U.K. and that no matter how hard it is to manage, people are still welcoming and generous with the little they have.
I love how most people here hold doors open for each other, how if we see someone struggle we jump up ready to help. I’ve witnessed people dropping their own bags to do so- remarkable.
I love how most people use their manners.

Echo all the comments but some of them are dependent on ability to pay.
Some of those things are very much a middle class privilege.
Some of those freedoms and rights are rapidly being eroded.
Some of those national institutions (NHS, justice system, education) are struggling to work for everyone.

Every great invention was either invented or honed here. Literally nothing worthwhile exists that isn't indebted to Britain.

We get next day Prime delivery. In some countries it's a two-day window.

We don't get serial killers anymore.

Having moved away, this is what I miss most

Eating out - curry houses, gastropubs, the little sandwich shops. And afternoon tea.

Incredible media, theatre, gig culture

Multiculturalism - I'm not saying it's perfect, but I'm hard pressed to think of a country that manages diversity of backgrounds better.

The shopping in major centres like London and Manchester

Full of smart, confident, bolshy people

The sense of its own history

London is one of the greatest cities in the world. Theatre, art, museums, food second to none.
The country has the most beautiful and varied scenery. It is close to many other countries.

The history. It's seeps out of our pores. You don't notice it until you go somewhere like Oz which hasn't got it, in the same way, and you miss it deeply.

The humour.

The weather! Bizarrely. It's not extreme, the seasons each bring something lovely.

It's beautiful.

London.

Schooling. I know lots of people have bad experiences, but mine have all been good.

Nhs. Same as above. Only ever good for me and my family.

This is making me homesick 😭

British contributions to inventions, technology and science. All parts of the UK contributed to these in a big way with England and Scotland best known for it.

Northern Ireland's is less well known, but we've contributed to:

James Francis Pantridge, CBE MC OStJ (3 October 1916 – 26 December 2004) was a Northern Irish physician, cardiologist, and professor who transformed emergency medicine and paramedic services with the invention of the portable defibrillator.

The modern tractor, by Harry Ferguson

The Ejector seat, by Sir James Martin

Streetcars, by John Stephenson

Electric tramway, by William and Anthony Traill

the DeLorean Car in Back To The Future films.

William Thomson from Belfast invented the Kelvin System.

As I said, some of the world's greatest minds were born, bred and lived in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland!

Much to be proud of!

Lots of the things in The Detectorists:
Sarcasm in a friendly way
Sunlight streaming through the trees
Pubs
Folk music
Ancient history right under our feet

Also, no earthquakes/tornadoes/few dangerous animals

Op you haven’t added to your list the royal family’s misfortunes that you recently said you were enjoying so much.
You must be in seventh heaven with all the Harry drama.

You must be in seventh heaven with all the Harry drama.

well, yes. But I'm enjoying that just as much where i am that is a truly global slo-mo trainwreck

I agree with many things on the list but I am too gloomy about the awful bigger picture stuff in the UK to be fully cheered by the little things like cheese

Give over - a million other moaning threads (nothing wrong with a good moan granted) leave this one alone won't you?

Yeah, sorry I think it just set me off