Love the uk life

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

What a random post...

Mine?

I was replying to a poster

So how could it be random .

Have you been following the thread?

My point is : some people on this thread wrote that we are lucky to live in the UK, because it is very difficult for other people to get into the UK to live here. That they have to give up a lot.

I pointed out that it's the same everywhere, due to visa issues.

It's very hard for non EU people to get citizenship in the republic of Ireland. I've lived in Ireland. One man told me that it took him 7 years to get citizenship of Ireland.

It's also extremely hard for people to get a visa to live in the USA , if they were not born there.

People not being able to get in to live in the UK easily, doesn't mean that the UK is great

That is how the visa process is everywhere

And the local Lord turns up to help when something goes wrong in your cottage, except you don't know he's the Lord because he's scruffy looking and soon you fall in love and then find out he lives in the castle and is filthy rich. Then you have a wedding with everyone dressed in kilts and you have a ceilidh and live happily ever after.

Words change meaning. Like many words, woke simply does not mean what it originally meant.

YANBU. I immigrated to the UK a couple decades ago, am quite happy here, and am glad my children have most of the benefits of being native born.

you know the opposite of woke is basically Nazism don't you?

To my knowledge, the original opposite of woke is unaware - woke just meant someone fully aware of the situation, as opposed to sleeping on it/unaware.

As others said, then its meaning shifted to mean a particular political/ideological view, aware within a very specific lens that treats itself as the only lens that is now mostly used in mockery of that idea, so the opposite would be willing to use multiple viewpoints.

I'd love to live in the US. There's just so much space and I long to live in the middle of nowhere. Most Americans are also much more cheerful and polite than the Brits

Well your sarcasm is spot on British so are sure you are not from here?

The uk is a bit of a dump lately to be fair

I’m another who loves the UK and feel lucky to have been born here. I embarrass myself sometimes, with how I feel about it.

It's really not that great, I wouldn't recommend it to anybody. Shitty weather, shittier salaries, high taxes, high cost of living. I know Trump is an incompetent piece of shit but hopefully you can shut him out and work on making things better locally. Unless you live in a Republican state in which case, move, ASAP.

What does it mean nowadays?

Where is really not that great. Do you mean the UK?

@Newnamehiwhodis I love it too. Spent a lot of time there - but it was long ago, and really, is there anything at all to beat London in the ‘90’s … ahhhh it was so lovely I lived in London in the 90s and early 2000's when it was all Cool Britannia, and it did feel cool. Loved it so much, Bridget Jones type lifestyle in a lovely if small studio, on a starter wage, the best times.

I love my bit of the UK, but I have been to many places where I would not want to live. It's pretty free though, the downside is it looks scruffy but on the upside, no one is expecting you to have a manicured lawn, no-one cares what you look like and there are a lot of different types of people all living alongside each other, mostly getting on ok. This is very different than even our close neighbours in Europe, depending on where of course.

The UK is not great. I've lived in both the UK and US and US has a much higher standard of living.

@AnotherChildFreeCatLady what do you base your assessment of 'higher standard of living'?

Well there's more to do for a start

I wouldn’t live anywhere else! We travel a lot, but there’s nothing like coming home.

Yes the COL is tough, we are a couple in our 30s with a baby. We both work 2 jobs and that’s tough - but we can enjoy life with a bit of planning because of that.

I loved it too but moved to a very high quality of living country ( acc to ratinngs) in Europe but I find it dull here and prefer UK, waiting for things to get better so can move back.

It depends what you define high standard of living. Material things yes, otherwise not really.

Many places are.

Polite?? Have you been to the state lately?

Better salaries, lower tax, lower overall cost of living, bigger country with more to explore, better and bigger houses, better weather, better healthcare (if you can afford it of course), umm I'm sure there's more.

I have said the same thing about Americans being more cheerful and people always laugh and think I'm crazy but it's very true. My experience of the people in the UK (not friends or family, but neighbours, service workers, strangers you see regularly) is that they are bitter and downright horrible most of the time. We were driven from our last house largely bc the neighbours were absolute cunts. Oh, the one and only upside to being in the UK, I can say "cunt" and nobody cares. I guess that's something ..