Something that I should add - if you visit Yorkshire namely Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Goole, Hull and Scarborough. As you know, I am a foodie as I wrote about magical street food in Tokyo or the French cuisine in Nice. Thank you Maartje! This way people can live everywhere and not depend on the city which is too expensive. It's interesting. The cool Britannia era and the political discourse around equal opportunities, positive discrimination and multiculturalism gradually over a long period of time became completely replaced with an anti immigration narrative which reached a crescendo with Brexit and ripped a massive great hole through the country and I honestly don't believe we can ever be the same again. Also, if Brexit is such a good idea, why not let Northern Ireland secede and let Scotland have its independence? You hit the nail on the head for me. Like everywhere else, it already has pressures from an ageing longer living population. something changed. Bigot "a person who is intolerant towards those holding different opinions". [12] This is widely regarded as a backronym. I have rights. It's the only country in Europe, except maybe Ireland, which has a great entrepreneurial spirit instead of paper-pushing bureaucrats sucking the lifeblood out of the economy. I have a partner and were happy but other than that relationship I have no fulfilment. Having lived abroad for so long, we've learnt a lot of things about ourselves, other countries and the UK. - Houses- I have seen bigger matchboxes. I know many foreigners who are happy in the UK and live well. Sometimes foreigners dont understand this and confuse our ambition and drive with anger. P.S. Susie Dent's Larpers and Shroomers: The Language Report, published by the Oxford University Press, designated it as the "word of the year"[29] in 2004. Dear Cory, I think this is the most precious article on living in a country on the entire Internet. "What British culture?" https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/how-i-learnt-to-loathe-england I'm excited for something new and a place that's easier to travel solo in. That's a really nice and honest article. I'd really like to visite England again, because i think i lacked many things to know and experience in this place, i like England very much and i hope to be back soon. In fact, we think it was the best decision ever. Thank you for doing the right thing when it's easier to stay quiet. At least in comparison to other European countries. I've witnessed how the foreigners were treated after the Brexit vote and on behalf of my country, I'm sorry. Looking at the OECD date, Britain ranks as the 11th safest country and #1 with amongst countries with a population bigger than 50 Million. Yes, it does rain here a lot, but given water shortages will be one of the biggest threats to world peace, I would take a bit more rain over a dry country any day of the week. British people love Italy. I was born/raised in the UK (with brief spells in Germany), and wanted to thank you for your nuanced, albeit slightly depressing post. I'm 30, resident of south East Northumberland in my childhood and then Newcastle as an adult, and have known the term Charver for as long as I can remember. I learnt the language and am well integrated (except for German TV, which is truly awful so I have Freesat!) People always blame it on individuals and never on parties, politic beliefs or societies. In this groundbreaking investigation, Owen Jones . Canada is so high on our bucket list. Of course when no one studies or shows interest in Engineering or medicine, they country will be deprived of innovative, intelligent workforce. I wish you happiness :), I got in Uk 17 years ago , a child 20 at that time ,didnt know what the future holds .Moving on , two children now, a house in mortgages, and a difficult financial situation. Since we are freelancers and we are location independent, we realised there are better places more suitable for our current lifestyle. :). This is a wonderful piece. This is before any deductions. Or at least it was before the Brexit idea, but more on this a later in this article. I went above and beyond to integrate myself. I am an Indian immigrant living in the UK for 15 odd years. We are all ashamed of people like Hector and we wish they would become obsolete. Sigh. Once the violence started to happen I could see the shame in their faces though. I'm grateful for your honesty, I sure know it's not easy to find the courage to admit when things are not peachy. Both children born here , is so hard , really hard . Except the rain; everyone hates the rain haha. The mess that UK is today is due to the failed policies of successive governments. You write an entire article telling folk about the benefits of open borders and 'cultural enrichment', and yet you admit that your worst experiences were in the far left and immigrant-infested cities of London and Bristol, and you're happyin the conservative and very English North Yorkshire. Unless you share your accommodation, you are extremely rich or live in a partnership with someone, you can't essentially live in London. I now live full-time in Germany and just enjoy the lifestyle better. Things have changed so much here. It's merely a route to (SE) England. Britain is unrecognizable from its former glory. So just try a little bit harder. This also means that, in order to actually enjoy real life (not some kind of manufacturt-pre-organised and structured activity), you have to either walk on the coasts or on the morland (a bit of a sad alternative) or go abroad on holidays. May I wish you both all the very best with your trip. They're not uneducated, racist or anything else that the left or the pro EU lot think which is very closed mided (In my view) if they've come to that conclusion. Comfortable in winter AND summer. It does have it's strengths, mostly about work, but leisure is not one of them. Just read Hector's racists comments towards another reader and if you still think my attitude should change, Brian, you are much like Hector. Plus with the stupid spellings now some parents choose, who knows how they're spelled!!! Then with what happened in UK last summer, it saddens me that those who come and fight the hardest to work and stay in the country are the ones to leave. great article, summarises all I ended up thinking about the UK four years after moving here. Thank you, Karin. We left our home in Germany on the border to Switzerland because we had had enough of the discriminatory behaviour of many Swiss towards 'outsiders' (many German professionals are cross-border commuters for work) and now we find ourselves in the same situation, again. The internet you are using thats a British invention too ! Warrens Village: Miserable, noisy, depressing, tacky, chav-tastic - See 308 traveler reviews, 221 candid photos, and great deals for Warrens Village at Tripadvisor. I hope you both find a better home. I saw one the other day, people said, "It's an acronym, 'chav', from 'council house and violent'"well, no, it isn't, that was made up in recent times. As a former UK resident, I understand your position. I think people like this author who want to attack the UK and the British people should LEAVE PERMANENTLY as their self centred bigotry will never change. The newspapers and the Tory party conjure up this idea that immigrants and immigration are the cause of so many of our problems (strain on social welfare, NHS, not enough housing, not enough jobs etc) to hide the true cause of those problems, which is cuts to funding and their government! It makes me so sad to see where we have ended up. There's only one thing Brits love more than telling people how great their home towns are, and that's complaining about their home towns. A Labour Government faces the same problems - and honestly will be no different as there is no money to splurge like the Noughties! I am struggling in this last year or so. The non-whites you do have in YOUR government are actively working against their own people's interests (Patel and Sunak come to mind) and they are highly xenophobic. Because I think its going to be quite a negative one and to be honest that we have had our time in the premiere league and unfortunately we relegated out selves with an own goal, in classic British style! I'm sad that 52% of our fellow countrymen make you feel that you're not welcome. I learnt Pubjabi to chat to my new neighbours and Mandarin to talk to the Chinese students living nearby. I really hate how the UK has become, especially over the last few years, and Brexit was the final straw for me. But something, somewhere, went wrongthus, we decided to leave the UK. But now that has been reversed through the mainstream political narrative embracing populist views. I can probably tell you something fantastic about a lot of them. Perhaps, the main reason I loved these, was because we were all like-minded young individuals, who dreamt of a true democratic UK which had the Labour party at the core. There weren't any. Hello Faith, thank you for your comment. Mass immigration destroys societies, creates division and problems, immigration of few people and more controlled, where only the best can become English is what UK has to do. This is a great comment which brings a lot more perspective. "The culture in Britain has moved from brilliant to that of hate, racism and ignorance." I'm out of here in a few months, heading back home to the sun, soca music, and lovely people, but I'm truly sad for those who have to stay here for whatever reason, being told daily they have faces that don't "fit", and living in fear, and festering in anger over daily dealings with racists. We were both European expats who came here to study. Maybe surprising to you but I voted for Brexit.let me explain why because I promise you, 17 million of us are not uneducated racists who believe everything The Sun and the Daily Express writes. No one worked there who wasn't English. The best years were probably (economically and socially) from mid 1990's, 1993 until 2008 (esp the boom Blair years). I understand totally. The good news is that we live in a time when remote working is becoming more and more accessible. I don't like the sunshine so no, I didn't expect wall to wall sunshine. My peers were cool, the work environment was multicultural, everyone was smart, funny, different and awesome. This is sad. Why did we decide to move out of the UK? It sounds like a fascinating place! Lol, they have direct access to private healthcare through their kids' corporate jobs. In 2013 linguist David Crystal said on BBC Learning English: People talk about "chav behaviour" or "chav insults" and that sort of thing. Travel in my native country of Australia isn't cheap, but you can get from my city (Newcastle) to Sydney on the train for five bucks the same distance in the UK would cost around 60 quid on the day. I'm still searching for the answer but got lost somewhere along the way. This was a great read and it made me think a lot. As an example of how the problem was always there yet less visible I worked in a digital agency for a while where it was only British people who worked there and all of the women were de facto secretaries for the men, even though their roles were much more complex than this. The UK welcomed 625,000 immigrants to the last year, even after Brexit, and more than any other EU nation.
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