I’m not very knowledgeable about this, but I have friends and family in the UK and traveled there monthly for years, so not zero context: and for a country that

I’m not very knowledgeable about this, but I have friends and family in the UK and traveled there monthly for years, so not zero context: and for a country that went from the largest empire ever to a minor great power at best in like 50 years, it seems like a pretty attractive place to live all things considered. It’s got problems but not like 10x worse than any other developed nation. Do you happen to know how they managed that decline without worse consequences?