Livin' in the UK....

[Erja_Perttu]

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I think Britain's a wonderful place (yes, I really live here too) with great humour, but it's got a lot of detractions as well, the same as any other place. I think you'll something more solid to base your decision on than something as hit and miss as humour.

Whereabouts in the country are you from then, it sounds nice. My favourite place in England is Leicester, it's still got lots of scumbags living there, but the majority of people there are nice.

In general though I agree that it's nicer the further south you go. I'm an Essex boy born, and that's really on the frontier edge of civilisation.

Well, I'm pretty south.

I am, quite proudly, from the hometown of John Cleese. It's the same as any place you go, good bits and bad bits, and funnily enough most of the bad bits are on one side of the railway line. We have a literal wrong side of tracks! This week, a helicopter has been flying over town non stop to try and find drug dens.

On the good side though we've got a new sea wall, a new pier and in the summer we have a beach festival, a bike race, foot races and a steam fair. Sometimes the Red Arrows drop by and do a display in June.

Generally life here is good, unless you read the local paper.

 

[Ghengis John]

Killington, just out of curiosity how's marriage work? Can you obtain citizenship through marriage?

You can, but it's still pretty arduous, from what I understand. I haven't looked into it myself since I'm already married and brought my wife over from America. (Although sometimes we joke about getting divorced and temporarily marrying UK citizens just for the passports and then remarrying. Plan B is changing my name to something English like "Nigel Carruthers", buying a fake passport, and opening a pub somewhere in Devon.)

Ah thanks for the info, one more thing, out of curiosity what accent would you go with along the lines of Plan B? Or none at all?

 

[Death-of-Penguins]

If you really like the humour that much, come and give us a try. I live in Scotland, and though there are Neds and such, it's a nice enough place to live. The public transport's pretty good, if you ignore the timetables being accurate. We're never exactly on time. But we do get where we're going.

We complain we live somewhere terrible, but to be honest, there's lots of nice things here too. Visit museums, use our free health service, see some of our lovely scenery... Meet the nicer people, enjoy our TV (with a few ad free channels)... Try our food, because some of it is yummy.

The government right now is closer to what you'd get over in the States right now anyway, and we've got a couple of our own silly politicians (Boris Johnson the blonde bouncing but not quite buffoon comes to mind).

The weather's predictably boring, nothing extreme.

We'll take the piss out of your accent, and your country, but offer you a drink and a biscuit when you want to watch Doctor Who with us. Give us a shot, and you might find you really like it.

Or you might hate it, but I feel you'd have an all right time.

 

[Alphavillain]

You saying you want to move to Britain because of the humour is a bit like me saying I'd like to go to Japan because of it's minimalist architecture, attention to precision engineering, and (hey, I won't lie) hentai. Sometimes places are better when you romanticise them a little.

And like others above me have said, British humour is schoolkids walking past you and calling you a ****. Sorry, but that's more representative of British humour than the Pythons.

 

[Roperius]

One piece of advice I can give you if you want to visit (or live) in the Uk is to keep to the south as much as possible.

No more north than london, and no more south than scarbrough.

Why i say this is because most places in the north are either very rough, in poverty, or generally not very nice (such as stoke on trent, Birmingham, Manchester, and Ipswich). Near enough everywhere in the south is normally very nice, and that's where I live (Southampton). The lake district area I hear is very nice also.

wow... are you actually being serious?... are you a member of the royal family or something? someone who has never left your palace to be amoungst us peasants?

OT: stay away from the south (cornwall and devon is okay, for example penzance where i used to live, if you can get a cool place near a beach)
why i say this is because they're all pompous tory snobs

Tell you what, lets go back to the Petty Kingdoms, then we can really get some national division going. Why just have a North/South divide, we could really foment something here...

Everywhere has good and bad areas, I'm from a very nice part of Essex, but I can vouch for a small portion of it being an absolute pit. The South isn't full of Tory snobs, just as the North isn't a giant coal mine.

In answer to the main part of the thread itself, I'd leave moving here for a little while, until a) the UK has recovered from the recession b) the government sorts itself out.

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

well, really you're both being kinda dumb - there's nice people (and dicks) all over England north and south, its a generalisation to say all people in the south are pompous snobs or people in the north are... living in... poverty (wtf?)

i was being ironic, using a sweeping generalisation just as he had done...
im quite aware that there are dicks everywhere, i was pointing out that he's an idiot for thinking that southampton was some kind of idilic utopia while the rest of us britons live in squalor

 

[Nickolai77]

And like others above me have said, British humour is schoolkids walking past you and calling you a ****. Sorry, but that's more representative of British humour than the Pythons.

^This.

British humour on TV is good, but that isn't reflective of the general population.

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

Ah thanks for the info, one more thing, out of curiosity what accent would you go with along the lines of Plan B? Or none at all?

Well, if I'm going to be passing as English in Devon, I'd have to go with the West Country accent. It's one of the easier ones to fake--start talking like a pirate and calling everyone "my lover", and you're halfway there.

 

[Parsley]

well, really you're both being kinda dumb - there's nice people (and dicks) all over England north and south, its a generalisation to say all people in the south are pompous snobs or people in the north are... living in... poverty (wtf?)

i was being ironic, using a sweeping generalisation just as he had done...
im quite aware that there are dicks everywhere, i was pointing out that he's an idiot for thinking that southampton was some kind of idilic utopia while the rest of us britons live in squalor

haha ok my bad

Basically I think we can agree that Jazoni is being pretty bigoted

 

[Squarez]

if your member of a ethnic or religious minority you will get a easy ride overhere, however if your a white christian you would be treated like shit by the goverment

However, if you are an ethnic minority you will get treated like shit by ignorant white people who believe they're hard done by when, in reality, we all get the same except minorities constantly get bashed by the Daily Fucking Mail and it's vermin readers.

/rant

 

[Ghengis John]

Ah thanks for the info, one more thing, out of curiosity what accent would you go with along the lines of Plan B? Or none at all?

Well, if I'm going to be passing as English in Devon, I'd have to go with the West Country accent. It's one of the easier ones to fake--start talking like a pirate and calling everyone "my lover", and you're halfway there.

Well I just laughed so hard it felt like something near my intestines flipped. I like your plan, best of luck and I hope it doesn't come to that .

 

[Roperius]

In answer to the main part of the thread itself, I'd leave moving here for a little while, until a) the UK has recovered from the recession b) the government sorts itself out.

It's not like any where else isn't it recession, and the gov is only as incompetent as it always has been. I don't really see why waiting is going to help him.

Relocating anywhere during the recession may be detrimental. Then again, I suppose you may improve your job prospects.

Also, the Hung-Parliament seems to have doubled the level of incompetence within government.

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

well, really you're both being kinda dumb - there's nice people (and dicks) all over England north and south, its a generalisation to say all people in the south are pompous snobs or people in the north are... living in... poverty (wtf?)

i was being ironic, using a sweeping generalisation just as he had done...
im quite aware that there are dicks everywhere, i was pointing out that he's an idiot for thinking that southampton was some kind of idilic utopia while the rest of us britons live in squalor

haha ok my bad

Basically I think we can agree that Jazoni is being pretty bigoted

that we can
he also missed out scotland and wales entirely, again im assuming because.. i dunno maybe he didnt think anyone would want to live there anwyay or something.

Actually OT: as has been pointed out, there are nice places and nice people everywhere, contrasted with horribly places and horrible people everywhere.
for example i live in glasgow, recently voted most friendly city in europe (or something like that) but at the same time, im a few miles away from a place called whitecrook which has been dubbed murder capital of scotland...

 

[AndyRock]

My only advice is to try and avoid blackpool... It's the nearest large town to me, and it has the highest concentration of chavs of anywhere else i've been.

 

[Darchrow]

I moved to Nottingham for my Master Degree from Thailand and I can tell you right now that I can see myself having a family in Nottingham, sure its more expensive than where I come from but big cities are the loneliest place in the world. Nottingham is just the right size, has its share of dickheads but Thailand has them also!

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

I found the UK to be kinda gloomy o.o There's no sunshine 70% of the time and whilst expensive, demand for professional labour isn't that strong ... which means forget central London ... you simply won't beable to afford it because Britain seems to prefer home grown morons over intellectuals and professionals.

And of course all the British intellectuals end up going .... to Australia... seemingly enough. (3% of Victorians are expatriated Brits, many of them either with degrees gotten here or abroad)

Gotta love the double standards ...

I don't know, speaking as a person with an Australian passport all I got was latent racism in the UK ... and no I'm not talking the *nudge nudge* 'It's all a bit of fun'-type of racism that Australian-British relations tend to exhibit. No ... open racism despite being better qualified and accredited than the people making the comments.

Deeply unpleasant. Though maybe my experience was worse than the average traveler there. The Brits had better take some notes from the New World on how to treat guests because I experienced less racism in common interaction in JAPAN than I did the UK.

 

[Lethos]

I live in London and lemme tell you, I love it here.

Without sounding too nationalist, IMO London is one of the best cities in the world. The lights, the mix of cultures from all around the world, the history, the people, the theatre, the comedy, the shopping. It's all great.

Also, ignore all the people saying that we are a dying country or that it's a shithole.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

Well, really the UK is no better or worse than any other western nation. And just like everywhere else the vast majority of British TV/humour etc is crap, it's just that is has to be succesful before it stands a chance of making it over to the States so you only see the good stuff where you are.
If you can it's best to come over as a student because then you have a good chance of being set up with a decent social circle from the offset who'll be able to guide you around. If not make some friends on the internet and go and visit them or something because just picking an area without knowing about it and having some sort of introduction socially may well go horribly wrong.

 

[HotFezz8]

not knowing where you come from makes comparision hard, but i liv here, and i love it. not love as in blissful ignorance, im as aware of the flaws as anyone, but love in spite of it. we have one of the best standards of living in the world, terrific people (if you make an effort to go find them and accept you will meet some dickheads) and a health service second to none.

that last reason keeps me here by the way, i have a uncle in new zealand who fell and broke a leg, he was charged $50for the ambulance ride, they couldn't afford it so he was driven there by his hysterical wife. no way, thats bad. as a comparision, my father dropped his hand on a circular saw here, and ws taken directly to hospital, and directly into th ER surgery. full recovery.

literally everyone in englnad has a story like that. and its the same for almost every other aspect of english life. we ***** and moan, but we have one of the best countries in the world, comparatively.

p.s. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Watching-English-Hidden-Rules-Behaviour/dp/0340818867/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1295743503&sr=8-1 i strongly recommend you get this book, its fun to read and very accurate. let me know if this helps man