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The UK seems more competitive, more dog eat dog and people seem more aggressive (especially on the roads) than I remember.
LOL that's funny because whenever my US relatives visit here in the UK, they always remark on how "nice" drivers are and let people into traffic when Americans wouldn't.
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You turn on the radio now and all you hear is crap.
Depends on the station - I love XFM!
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A lot of pubs seem to have vanished too, or the existing pubs appear empty, as if pub culture is dying a slow death?
Pubs dont seem to be the same thing as what they used to be. A place for the working man to meet his mates after a hard days graft for a few pints before heading home. Or to have an old fashioned lock-in.
Now, the best use they get is on Match days for football or Rugby.
We've been gone 6 years, and on many previous visits we couldn't wait to get away again, but we much prefer it to Canada now. I think everywhere's changing, some for better, some for worse. The UK doesn't seem nearly as bad as it did when we left - maybe the 'worst' part was about 6-7 years ago, and it's slowly getting better, but being away longer, it's not as good as when you left, kwim?
Just out of interest i wonder how you find it getting better?
In my case i have always preferred it to say Australia in most ways apart from the all important financial aspect.
Now with the rapid inflation in prices in Oz and the exchange rate way in our favour,we are considerating rather strongly a return.
Maybe it's just a change in perspective? We find that we prefer people in the UK to here, and keep finding more Brits who say the same. There's much less processed food than here, and financially, we'd probably be better off on the whole there than here now, our grocery bills have tripled in 6 years. Education is better in the UK too.
It's been over 6 years since I returned to the UK from the US after living there for 18 years. Yes it's changed a great deal and one of the marked differences is the choice of restaurants we have and the appreciation of good food. However, a good choice of restaurants is limited to the more genteel areas. Unfortunarely in so many parts of London, all you have a choice of is third rate chines and Indian take-aways, fried chicken and chips (one or more on every block), kebabs shops joints and 3rd rate pizza joints that double as chick and chips shops.
Everyone is a foodie and an expert now, to the point of puke enducing.
Traffic in London is horendous and local government have become legalized organized crime syndicates, who extort money from it's residents, through parking fines and council tax. It's impossible to park anywhere and the cost of driving is like nowhere else I know.
Yes, there are things of the past I miss.
It's like that in Canada too. Go down the "main drag", and all vietnamese noodle/sub shops, falafel/shawarma shops, and cardboard pizza places.
Most pubs these days are only busy when the hockey is on, and most of the food is all delivered from the same distibution warehouse in town.
sad, really.
My family and I recently returned to the UK after a 16 year stint of living in the US (Virginia, followed by Florida). Boy, times have sure changed. We are currently staying with my relatives in Luton and even my home town seems to have changed drastically over the last couple of decades. The UK seems more competitive, more dog eat dog and people seem more aggressive (especially on the roads) than I remember. The subculture of "chavs" seems to have grown too as most teenagers I see now look like degenerate chavs, hopeless and aimless. Television is much more raunchy, London has gone from a city with no skyline to a city with a good skyline and people seem more rushed, more rude and what's with the plethora of yuppie flats everywhere? This country has certainly changed a lot from when I left in late 1995. You turn on the radio now and all you hear is crap. A lot of pubs seem to have vanished too, or the existing pubs appear empty, as if pub culture is dying a slow death? Here in Luton, there are a lot more Eastern Europeans than I can ever recall, which is fine. Still, with all that being said, I'm glad to be back. A lot of things are still familiar
lol--While you were in the US you should have lived in Atlanta for a while.
This is the sort of thing many relocators say about the ATL.
How's the mass transit system--we go round and round with the increase of crime on MARTA. Hit a high note a few weeks ago and there will be an investigation. TV--socks and bows---that must be true everywhere.
Home is home. If Atlanta only had a beach/ocean I would have no complaints--whatever goes on --no chance of that but the river and mountains aren't far away.
It's like that in Canada too. Go down the "main drag", and all vietnamese noodle/sub shops, falafel/shawarma shops, and cardboard pizza places.
Most pubs these days are only busy when the hockey is on, and most of the food is all delivered from the same distibution warehouse in town.
sad, really.
Really? Sounds awful.Thank heavens it's not like that where we are in NC. Love it here!
Canada (if you want to be near a decent size city) house prices always seem higher than the US too.
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