Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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

107 replies

Brefugee · 12/01/2023 09:32

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).

OP posts:
Snowflake2023 · 12/01/2023 21:40

The Tower of London
People eating fish and chips in the bus shelter when it's raining at the seaside and still having fun!
Always making tea in a crisis
Pantos at Christmas
Agatha Christie and our love of murder mysteries
HP sauce
Bubble and Squeek
White horse and stone henge
Red buses and black taxis

EmmaEmerald · 12/01/2023 21:42

NotRightNowNo "Talking to someone you've never met like you only saw them yesterday."

yes, but with enough formality, aka British reserve, to not feel nervy about it. I love it!

Peterbear · 12/01/2023 21:45

I needed this thread thanku OP! X

PristineSnow · 12/01/2023 21:50

ErrolTheDragon · 12/01/2023 11:17

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 GoretexGrin)
Plus very few dangerous animals and plants.

This is the one thing I really miss since leaving England. (Though where I lived last had such heavy clay soil that unfortunately the local paths were often unusable in wet weather as you could end up with a half stone of clay on each boot.) And London. I miss London.

Ritascornershop · 12/01/2023 21:52

I was raised in Canada, but have lived in England. My grandparents were all English (dead for decades) and I’m really quite annoyed with them for emigrating. From an outsider’s perspective, some of the things that are great about living in Britain;

the size - so much variety and you can get anywhere within a day or so.

gorgeous landscape - I particularly like the gentleness of the south, but really it’s all quite stunning.

the older architecture (anything prewar). Britain is so lucky to have masses of solid & lovely to look at buildings. I mostly lived in Georgian buildings when I lived there, but am very keen on Edwardian, deco, and interwar stock.

food - really amazing traditional food & an enthusiastic fandom of other cuisines. Your supermarkets are so good!

the level of debate around contentious topics is braver and often more thorough than Canadians would ever have. We’re lazy that way and compliant.

British comedy, tv dramas, the contributions to contemporary music.

Seaside towns, BBC shipping forecast, local and National museums, village pubs, that it’s just one time zone, Country Living magazine, my grandmother’s shortbread and scones, yes to cheese, the coastline, blue plaques, spa towns, wonderful independent shops, I could go on :)

MrsMitford3 · 12/01/2023 22:16

My local pub-a proper local
That I can leave my house with dog and be at a river, a castle, town, woods or fields within 20 mins walk-lifesaver during lockdown.
I walk out my door every day and think how much I love where I live
Supporting football,rugby,rowing
Sarcastic British humour
Self deprecating humour-we are so good at laughing at ourselves
Great British telly
Local cricket clubs
Bamburgh and Buttermere
Community spirit
wild swimming
local breweries with horse and cart delivering kegs clip clopping down my road-fab sound
Stately homes and glorious gardens
Free Museums

I could go on forever...

MrsMitford3 · 12/01/2023 22:19

Oh and ppl knitting hats/caddies for the post boxes to commemorate various events-Olympics, Queen etc

Pomp and circumstance- nobody does it better

New posts on this thread. Refresh page