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- grim North Sea shithole Spend some time in other coutries and you'll yearn to return. Trust me.

ben_w 8y ago
Four months continuous in Germany, only reason I came back was mum’s Alzheimer’s getting to the point of needing more care than my family and inlaws could provide themselves. When she gets too bad for me to be of any use, I’m off again. I’ll miss chips and the NHS. I’ll miss my friends. I won’t miss the country — especially not in the current toxic political situation.
superflyguy 8y ago
Oh yes. My trips to countries such as Thailand, Italy, Holland, Japan, Denmark, the US (Pittsburgh, LA, NY) and Spain can never end quickly enough. The thought occurs to me that you've only visited France and whatever they're calling Czechoslovakia this year.
- detritus 8y ago
  Whereas as someone who spends quite a lot of time each year in Spain and Italy, and dearly love both; have family in one and a partner from the other - we are both quite glad to return to Britain after a few weeks away. She, particularly, sees the downsides of her home country quite quickly. I have a bit more tolerance, but there're elements of a certain flavour of society missed. For us, anyway. Oh, and I visited Czechia (whatever) for the first time last year and was smitten... but I was only there for a couple of weeks. Not really enough time to form any useful - or, indeed, completely useless - comparisons. /anecdata
  - superflyguy 8y ago
    I see you didn't defend France there!
mcjiggerlog 8y ago
Over 3 years in Spain and no plans to return to Brexitlandia. The UK has it's good points, but better quality of life can be found elsewhere.
- dazc 8y ago
  I lived for 3 years in Spain and while I miss cheap rent and cheap public transport I don't miss the noise and bad manners.
  - Reason077 8y ago
    Noise levels can be pretty bad in big UK cities too. Especially London. Too many extra-loud modified motorbikes, too many overflying Heathrow planes. But yes, British people are for the most part polite!
- growlist 8y ago
  Not much QOL though if you're one of the millions of unemployed.
  - ben_w 8y ago
    And that’s why I never bought a place in Merthyr Tydfil despite being famously affordable, and also why I moved out of Aberystwyth when I graduated despite it looking pretty and being a good place for really long quiet countryside walks. High unemployment in an area sucks even when you personally have a job. Given nothing will stop Brexit, I wish I could say I thought Westminster cared enough to provide replacements for EU support of the poorest regions of the UK… but, and this is mere opinion, I don’t think it can see past Kensington nine days out of ten.
    - growlist 8y ago
      I was talking about Spain. Opportunities for young people are not good there atm - worse than the UK.
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Four months continuous in Germany, only reason I came back was mum’s Alzheimer’s getting to the point of needing more care than my family and inlaws could provide themselves. When she gets too bad for me to be of any use, I’m off again. I’ll miss chips and the NHS. I’ll miss my friends. I won’t miss the country — especially not in the current toxic political situation.

superflyguy 8y ago

Oh yes. My trips to countries such as Thailand, Italy, Holland, Japan, Denmark, the US (Pittsburgh, LA, NY) and Spain can never end quickly enough. The thought occurs to me that you've only visited France and whatever they're calling Czechoslovakia this year.

detritus 8y ago
Whereas as someone who spends quite a lot of time each year in Spain and Italy, and dearly love both; have family in one and a partner from the other - we are both quite glad to return to Britain after a few weeks away. She, particularly, sees the downsides of her home country quite quickly. I have a bit more tolerance, but there're elements of a certain flavour of society missed. For us, anyway. Oh, and I visited Czechia (whatever) for the first time last year and was smitten... but I was only there for a couple of weeks. Not really enough time to form any useful - or, indeed, completely useless - comparisons. /anecdata
- superflyguy 8y ago
  I see you didn't defend France there!

mcjiggerlog 8y ago

Over 3 years in Spain and no plans to return to Brexitlandia. The UK has it's good points, but better quality of life can be found elsewhere.

dazc 8y ago
I lived for 3 years in Spain and while I miss cheap rent and cheap public transport I don't miss the noise and bad manners.
- Reason077 8y ago
  Noise levels can be pretty bad in big UK cities too. Especially London. Too many extra-loud modified motorbikes, too many overflying Heathrow planes. But yes, British people are for the most part polite!
growlist 8y ago
Not much QOL though if you're one of the millions of unemployed.
- ben_w 8y ago
  And that’s why I never bought a place in Merthyr Tydfil despite being famously affordable, and also why I moved out of Aberystwyth when I graduated despite it looking pretty and being a good place for really long quiet countryside walks. High unemployment in an area sucks even when you personally have a job. Given nothing will stop Brexit, I wish I could say I thought Westminster cared enough to provide replacements for EU support of the poorest regions of the UK… but, and this is mere opinion, I don’t think it can see past Kensington nine days out of ten.
  - growlist 8y ago
    I was talking about Spain. Opportunities for young people are not good there atm - worse than the UK.

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