Love the uk life

[Vegasxxcort]

I am on here daily wishing i was like ya'll born in the uk .

There is plenty wrong with the UK, but there is plenty wrong with everywhere really. I would choose the UK over the US.
I like it here. I like having seasons and the options of travelling round Europe easily. I like all the different cultures and subcultures we have here. I like the history. I like the countryside.

The people that are dying to get here are desperate to get away from France, now that is a shit hole.
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How is that funny?

I hear France is not a great place to visit if you are disabled, but I don't know how true that is. It has put our family off going.

The UK has become too socialist, left wing, woke.

The US, subject to the state, is so much better.

I mean… it’s ok. It ain’t utopia. There’s plenty that needs improvement. But I know as a woman I’m very lucky to have been born and live here compared to a lot of other places.

I work in an industry that sees lots of Americans coming over to the UK for a project, and it's noticeable how much they seem to enjoy life here. I don't know whether the idea before they come is that its all bad food and bad weather! But it's refreshing to see what is good about life in the UK from an outside perspective. The things they seem to like about life here include access to culture and a sense of history, public transport, ability to travel in Europe, our pub culture, better work/life balance, the NHS, our sense of humour and ability not to take ourselves to seriously. They pretty universally find our sense of irony an understatement baffling though! The idea that something catastrophic would happen and a Brit would say something like "Well that's a little awkward...." 😂Or that you would tease someone you like mercilessly, but be perfectly formal and polite with someone that you don't.

Awww thanks that’s so nice. We have glorious landscapes, interesting weather, nice orderly cues, medieval towns and folksy little villages. We’ve got endless accents we call each other love, mate, occasionally squire and sometimes even ‘my good man’. There’s a ton of less entertaining stuff but we will always have the ‘Gooseberry and Cinnamon Yogurt’ sketch so I agree it is pretty marvellous.

Yes - it’s the opportunities afforded to you by being born here, I would love to live in a different country but it wouldn’t be to escape.

agree.

i wish the weather was a tiny bit better. i'm so fed up of the endless grey cloud. however someone said to me recently that it makes us really appreciate it when the sun's out and the skies are blue, which is very true.

Of all the countries in the world the UK is probably one of the best to be living in right now. Could do with a bit more sun though.

I feel lucky to live in the UK and feel slightly irritated when people bash it. Nowhere is perfect but cost of living is affecting people world wide. People complain about the weather but we don’t have to worry about extreme events such as earthquakes and hurricanes that kill/displace 1000’s in other countries. We have national minimum wage, benefits for people who can’t work. Low unemployment rate. Housing costs are high in the south but you get a lot more for your money in the north. Plus we have beautiful countryside.

I'm interested to know which area you live in that's so much fancier than Preston? We moved here a couple of years ago and whilst it isn't perfect the people are friendly, plenty of good nurseries and good schools, parks, lovely countryside on the doorstep and good transport links to cities, the coast, Lake District. The house prices are good too we were able to buy a much bigger house with a lovely garden than we expected. And it has a real community feel, I've felt so welcome taking my little boy to toddler groups and activities. I'm proud of where I live and feel very lucky to be raising our family here ❤️

We have our problems (who doesn't), but I like being British and living here. People on MN like to carry on like it's totally miserable and the worst thing ever , and I suppose it's more natural to post online about the things which annoy rather than the good things, but for many of us life is pretty nice on the whole.

So true.

No, it is not perfect, but no country is.

I feel very lucky tooo.

I used to think that, but with global warming and water shortages, I don't so much now.

I love living in the UK. So many reasons as given above, definitely room for lots of improvement but with the climate catastrophe enveloping us I think I'd rather be here than a lot of other places although of course flooding and sea levels rising will be an issue. No where will be completely immune to it

@EverythingAllatOnceAllTheTime you know the opposite of woke is basically Nazism don't you? You believe in racism and discrimination.

Do you actually know what the word woke means?

Incorrect re Nazism.

And yes I know the definition of ‘woke’, and the evolution of the word in popular idiom.

Thanks.

YANBU @Vegasxxcort.

I live in a really poor, rough area and I love it. It's my home. It was better when we were in the EU though.

Catch yerself on.

What's good about it?

I think it's a bit shit .

Preston has a bad reputation, but I went there for a day and I thought it was quite nice.

Just because people have fought a lot to live in a different country doesn't mean that it's great in that country.

People are always leaving countries to go to other countries. People will always have to fight to enter these countries due to visa issues.

I was living in waterford in ireland last year. The Locals there were saying about how hard it is to live there with the sky high rents and cost of living.

Then I got talking to people from other countries who had come to Ireland. They were saying how long it had taken them to get citizenship of ireland. That it had been a hard process for them

So just because people want to get into a country, doesn't mean that the country they come into is a heavenly utopia. It still can have a lot of problems.

It's the same with people who move to the UK.

Being difficult to get into doesn't make it a great country.