People from other countries - they’re just better than us, aren’t they?

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I’m on holiday in the Balkans and like everytime I go overseas, it’s difficult not to conclude people from other countries are just better than us.

Immaculately kept, litter free, great service in bars and restaurants by experienced staff, polite well behaved kids eating out in restaurants, not a screen in sight. Everyone generally better looking, better dressed.

Or do I have rose tinted holiday goggles on?

Nail on the head there with all your points, especially the bit where we seem to be encouraged to "self loath" as a nation. Never experienced that anywhere else except the UK - most other countries I've been to are proud of their nation, and like you say, proud to fly the flag etc.

Do not only are Brits crap at.everything we are all ugly too🙄🙄🙄.

I so wish I was Parisian 😌

The chic kind, not the endless riots kind

I think there's a big difference between going on holiday somewhere and living there. If you don't agree why not looking into moving abroad OP?

Post a photo of yourself so we can admire your beauty

Speak for yourself OP.

Yes. Whenever I come back to Ireland I always notice how sloppy people have become in their appearance, including myself. I could make more of an effort.
The public services are spotless unlike the diseased random public bathrooms available in Ireland.
I don’t see a crisp white shirt for miles.

A older lady who returned to england said it was disgusting after years living elsewhere how much it had changed and the statement of dog shit up the streets had me crack up.
Along with others refusing to return to the Uk...claiming it is a less desireable unfortune for us thst we are stuck with a few that know better as well.

Is this the same Balkans people who were shooting one another into mass graves and committing horrendous war crimes in the 90s? Yes, I’ve always thought they were much better than us. Ffs

In Spain when they clear up their dogs mess, they rinse the pavement with a squirting bottle of soapy water, the rubbish is never left for long to avoid cockroaches the area, the beaches are cleaned every night, the communities de weed the pavements. It works well even in the poorer communities.

Wasn’t the French equivalent a certain Jean-Marie Le Pen?

We invented Harry Potter, and nobody can say the rest of the world took it and made it better, like they did with other British things, like football, and the railways.

They really, really haven’t. Pay is low, taxes are high, they’re taxed from the first € they earn, no zero band. Strikes are frequent, anything that requires a government official to work on it works at a snails pace or not at all. The tourist places look lovely generally but in most cities and towns there’s masses of graffiti, and high crime areas just like in parts of the U.K. Racism is rife.

It’s lovely to visit, but it’s just like the U.K. under the surface.

I hate to say it but the worst areas for us tend to be where they have a high immigration community. It seems to have gone to shit really badly. One area I know Roma live and they dump all the rubbish on the pavement. Grim.

I went to Malta, some years back, and flew back early because it was so dirty and grim.

My MIL was from another country and she was vile.

It's weird that you think people are 'better' if they're good looking and well dressed. The kids probably behave because otherwise they're hit.

Maybe you should just move abroad if it's so great everywhere else OP? Personally I think it's really beautiful and very lovely where I live. I don't really care if they people around me are good looking and dress well though.

Sorry but I don't think a single person thinks Americans are better than Brits 😂😂 I think op was talking about European destinations

Well I've just been in a (Western) European country which had a significant litter problem.

I suspect the clean places pay people to pick up litter while our councils are always claiming poverty and don't do it and rely on litter pickers (and also don't empty bins often enough so people leave their stuff next to a full bin and then the foxes or whatever get at it).

I am in Italy now and have just come from Copenhagen and Japan and as an Aussie we could definitely learn a thing or two about manners and order from the latter and about style and beauty in general from the Danes. The world is a big place and we can all visit and bring a little of that back home with us.

It’s also a discipline problem. From what have seen, European parents are, on average, much, much stricter with kids and young people than British parents.

Agreed OP - Europeans are just somehow better than us fat, pasty, badly-dressed Brits and our feral children. Thankfully whenever I go abroad, the locals simply cannot believe I'm British because I'm so well-dressed (in tasteful, muted tones) and my children so vitamin-sufficient.

Just a shame what the person who invented Harry Potter became

The British exceptionalism is hilarious. It even applies to negatives.

No you're not particularly worse than anywhere else FFS.

I've lived lots of places and now live in a lovely bit of the UK. The driving is better here than lots of countries, there is less violent crime than lots of countries, you're reasonably high up the obesity charts but not at the top. I love the fashion here compared to my home town but I'm comparing a small town to a big city which isn't fair.

OP If you really believe it, then try to inact the changes you need to create what you are seeing

Good. Who needs an in-depth conversation to buy a toaster? Give me an Argos catalogue and a pen and let's get on with it.

Campaigning the rights of women sounds good to me.