Are you happy with life in the UK?

Re: Are you happy with life in the UK?

brid which country would you like to live in?

By the time I'm about 32 I hope to of moved to the U.S. I don't hate this country by a long shot, but there is just more on offer for me over the pond.

The country can't be that bad Brid if it's had the infrastructure to help educate you into a position where your earning in the highest at bracket.

I don't think brid is wholesale saying this country is a pit, just that it does seem of become a little fucked up over the last 9 years?

I'd love to see the US equivalent of those stats. I know that house prices in most effluent areas are worse than the UK. Some of the senior engineers/management I deal with from silicon valley are all renting and can't afford to buy houses.

Nevermind the healthcare system.

I understand what you're getting at. Although issues such as oil prices are worldwide.

The really dissapointing aspect of the housing market is that people need to have a partner and both be earning around 20k each just to buy a half decent place. I know a couple in Woking who just forked out 160k for a flat last week and that was the best they could do. I might be moving south in the summer and will probably end up in Bracknell or Reading. Not out of choice either. Just that's where the cheapest two bed houses are. Still 160k though.

I'm all for repossessions! People should be careful with their money.

In a word No. We don't get powder days here and boarding in Scotland is a mixture between mud and sleet.

To be fair, yeh we do have a lot of shit ion our country some of which gets my goat but at the same time, we don't know the ins and outs of other places either. As Jambon siad it really might be same shit different country.

It's not simple to just move over to another place as you've got to think that quite a few places have such different ways of life to us here!

Thats what holidays are for, to enjoy getting away and having fun for a while. it's a treat!

i'd gan to the US... not anywhere in the middle though... west coast probably... once it's USSR-esq Iron Curtain goes up in the next few years ( to protect 'itself' from the arabs) - it'll be secure as hell!

oh well done most peaople have been travlling!!!well they must know all about the countries they've been in...really???

I've got foreign friends that i've known since i was small, I've travelled all over the world, I've studied a language for A-level. However this doesn't mean I know all about what it would be like to actually live in a country, know their laws, their way of life fully.
6 months in not really experiencing a country fully in my opinion. Yeh it gives you more understanding but doesn't mean you could just suddenly up root and know about what the whole concept of emigrating would be like.


I agree with you about becoming used to all the things that you've said but this does go on in other countries too.....look at Isreal I hardly think they have liife much better than we do

yeh I understand but it makes me wonder why people think that other places are so much better???

isreal was the first place that popped into my head.

Anyway i do agree with what you are saying, and it is interesting....anyway i'm only little so can't comment on how i may feel in 5 years time when I've been working for longer blah blah blah

I really want to move abroad when me and my GF finnish uni, don't like England, its depressing!

bullshit.

Proper changed IMO.

I'm quite happy, I've just come out of Uni and I have my own flat and no debt on credit cards loans etc, the only debt being my mortgage which I am more than comfortable paying.

But I know that for the vast majority of people this is an impossible situation and the only reason I'm in such a good position is because I'm really lucky and my parents could afford to help me out and we bought a house and sold it at just the right times.

Even getting a decent paid job is hard these days, all the money we spend on our education and to me, a degree doesn't really have much effect on the job you get unless you're going into something like medicine, law etc. Most people's degrees aren't needed for the job they are doing and there's loads of graduates who can't get a job at all or have to settle with jobs at Morrisons or something.

But I agree with jambon, what's the point in complaining about it, change happens and we just have to put up with it

We dont get sun in the summer, and we dont get good snow in the winter,

The football teams are ok,

The olympic team is erm, ok

The NHS is gash

public Transport is gash

Justice system is a joke,

as is immegration policy



Britain is a Mediocre country! end of

dont diss the justice system! how many times have you been busted with boot and got away scott free.

wtf is boot?