I don't think it's unreasonable to feel that way, even if that's not my experience. A lot of people are going through a hard time, and frankly, it's very British to complain about Britain.
Oh, and I live in the East Midlands in a home bought for about £120k about 5 years ago, a home that is already adapted for disability due to the previous owner which was a big reason for the choice - getting that in a rental when our previous landlord refused to fix boiler for years wasn't going to happen.
But I don’t have special educational needs. With the greatest respect, these sorts of ‘positives’ aren’t the kinds of positives I’m referring to. I mean general yardsticks of quality of life that apply to most people.
You entirely missed the poster's discussion around improving public infrastructure (new playground), people volunteering and improving survival rates.
Literally anyone can become disabled. The only thing between you and a disability, is luck and time, and issues being identified earlier vastly improves quality of life - that does ripple out to most people in society, most people will know someone who directly benefits at some point. Many mothers on here are only alive, only have children alive, because of that.
I’ve had weather warnings, flooding and high winds for 2 weeks solid.
Most weather warnings are from weather events that hit other areas far worse.
I grew up where tornado seasons lasts for month and winter typically involves snow stacked above my height and weather induced power outages are still the norm. British weather may not suit postcards, but I enjoy it where I am most of the time.
Good grief, unless I love the UK and think it’s fabulous then I’m a miserable person?
You don't have to love it - but if someone lists what they enjoy, and you call them all 'absence of negatives, not the presence of a positive," then yeah, it comes across as deep in misery - like you simply can't see the joy in something someone else does.
But we’re not comparing our quality of life now to 60 years ago, we are comparing it to ‘comparable’ countries.
Are we? The title is discussing how the quality of life is decreasing over time n the UK - not in the UK compared to other countries. There is nothing in the original post about other countries either.
And coming from one of those apparently wonderful countries according to others on this thread, I'm much happier in the UK.
I’m surprised people thought Brexit would help control illegal immigration.
Or immigration at all. Non-EU migration has always been significantly higher than EU migration. It's also been a money maker for so many, includes those in government bringing in 'private partners' to deal with migration paperwork for a fee that started with non-EU migrants.
But Remain politicians refused to discuss any potential changes UK could do while in it or really engage with people for what they thought was an easy win for the status quo - and were very, very wrong in ways that impact them very little compared to everyone else.
Just like I’ve never seen knife crime in the UK, I’ve never seen gun crime in the states.
The US has higher knife-related homicides and comparable crimes per capita as well compared to the UK as well. The only stats that put the UK higher are ones where there is no comparable crime are included, particularly around arrests/convictions for possession of certain types of bladed articles that have no laws against them in the US.