I felt like moving to Austria. I did. I visit the UK often mind.
Where do you lot live to think the UK has positives? Safe and secure?!!! This country is a violent s@@thole, or it least that's how it seems to me. You cannot leave anything without it being nicked, and just getting to or from work runs a daily risk of being sworn at or pushed and jostled or worse. As noted elsewhere, the whole place just seems to be about being selfish and "me me me". After five years we know no one apart from immediate neighbours and no one speaks. I want to live where you do!
Move. That's just the north. Most of the UK is fine.
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I know noone other than my immediate neighbours, but that is because I'm anti social and don't go out and do community stuff. One of my neighbours does and surprise surprise knows load of people.
I live in the south. In the Home Counties. It's the only place I can get work. I leave early and get home at 9 or later so not much time really to do good things locally. That's life here.
I live in the south.
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I'd be concerned about the food:
[quote=Houns ]Called my Dr's at 10:30 today, I have an appointment at 15:30 today. Bloody awful Be honest, you're never out of the surgery long enough for him to update your records.
Has Molly left yet?
You cannot leave anything without it being nicked
I was in Wales (Rhosilli) two days ago. Took a few pics of the sea, organized my rucksack, left. Realized 30 minutes later that my £750.00 camera was still on the bench.
With a sick feeling I returned pronto, approached the bench, asked two leaving Welshmen if anyone had 'mentioned finding a camera'.
'Oh yes, we handed it on to the shop there'. I was so effusively thankful that it prompted bemusement from the two men.
(For balance - I had my first DSLR stolen away unseen from my side. Glastonbury Festival - sat on the grass talking to a girfriend outside Banana Joe's blanket stall) which was ironic as G' bury festival on the whole was a positive experience and made me think (broadly )better of people. Except for that twunt with my Praktika PM3 full of black and white pics of mudbaths and Hells Angels wot I was going to publish. Bah.
The bigger the population, - the more depersonalised the social climate, and the higher the risk of crime - is my generalisation.
I think most places in the world have a harsh contrast between city and village life, the UK is not a hotbed of horrible people all of a sudden, althoughwith rampant materialism comes a certain effect...
Left the UK over 3 years ago, not because of governments, elections or attention seeking flounces.
In Australia I pay to see my GP, pay more for prescriptions, pay for X-rays, have worse roads, less respect for the environment and no easy access to the alps.
For all the many frustrations living in the UK has it's really not a bad place to live.
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Seriously considering moving back to Scotland, possibly even the US.
Funniest thing I have read, dislike of the way the UK is heading so move to the country where suggesting paying unemployment benefit or addressing healthcare can have you labelled as a Communist 🙂
Doesn't Sweden have a fairly inexperienced, ineffective minority SD/Green government at the moment?
I've lived in the US. Mrs MR was so sick for so long (months) that her sick leave ran out, her insurance only covered HMO care (you don't want to know how bad that was) and I couldn't legally work at that time so we had to come back home to the UK for healthcare that was (if not brilliant) at least better than nothing.
There are two positions in the US - you are up, or down. I thought the phrase 'one paycheck away from living under a bridge' was hyperbole. As we packed and left we found a woman rifling through our waste bags in the lot underneath the condo. She went to run away when she saw us but Mrs Rider called her back. Turned out she was a smart, articulate woman who had been left by her wealthy husband and his nice lawyers. He took everything, she had nothing. Welcome to Florida, have a nice stay. We of course let her have everything she wanted. Knowing what she really wanted was a country that wouldn't let her down so hard.
I see it happening here. We follow the US almost slavishly.
Someone on here said Swedish bacon is no good.
Thread closed and stay in the UK
Yeah I too would love to know if MrGrips has scuttled off to Sweden and the burning question we probably would all like to know ...
Did he take that Lycra Jumpsuit with him 😆
I spent three months in Sweden and all I can say is I'm glad the whole thing was on expenses as it was very expensive for everything. It was a nice place, but I can't say I hanker to go back.
