Why I wouldn't want to live in England

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Yes, I know. The thread here is about England, but yes, it's basically a game of cultural transplantation and economic leaching that's going on throughout Europe nowadays. The absurd paranoia and extreme nationalism that had prevented such before has been replaced by absurd multiculturalism and extreme anti-nationalism and that is leading to a crappy status of state to say the least.

Because I don´t trust its people. I was there just once, for like a week. And believe me or not, you CAN know the national character from the outside and inside, if you really pay attention to the small details. And I did. And what I saw I did not like. Why? Because if you compare the English with the Americans, Yanks come of it as friendlier and more real (if you know what mean).

Yanks are friendly because the simply are friendly, but the English are friendly because they think it is polite.

And there is a difference between being truly friendly and pretending it in order to be perceived as "polite". I could not trust them! And because I have troubles reading some social clues, they made it really painful for me. They say something else than they really think. They are able to smile while they are sending you to hell. I hate it!

And their cuisine really is horrrible, it´s not just empty words. They cook it well, they style it well, but the combinations they are able to put together are f*****g awful! I mean, COME ON, oysters in yoghurt??? Fish and chips? (And I don´t care it´s a traditional food, I did not like it). The only thing I liked about it was the classical English breakfast, but next time I order it, I´ll do it only later in the day. Because I had it before I was flying home. At seven o´clock in the morning at the airport. It cost 18 pounds, it was overly salty and kinda cold. But I ate it anyway, I was hungry. I should not have done it, tho. I realised it later. I am not used to such a tough breakfast, I normaly eat the classical continental one. As a result, I had stomach aches for the next seven hours. But otherwise, it was good. But I´ll order it next time as a lunch. As I realised, it is posible in England.

England sounds too far away for me to live. I'd like to think that england is a smaller wannabe USA, so I'll just stay here

I've only ever been to Prague once in my life, but I really enjoyed the few days I spent in your city.

I wouldn't eat that muck if you paid me.



What's wrong with that? It's a pretty usual combination in many cuisines - that or fish and potatoes.

Also, curries are probably more popular in England these days than fish and chips. If given a choice, though, I would stick with fish and chips.




(If no-one noticed, there's no bacon on that one.)

You know that there are a number of different variations on the full breakfast around the British Isles, like the Scottish breakfast, the Welsh breakfast, the Ulster fry and the Irish breakfast? They often have slightly different ingredients in them. For example, I'd much rather jettison the toast and have black pudding (or haggis), white pudding, soda bread and potato bread on mine. The beans are non-negotiable, but I can do without the hash browns if necessary.



Rule of thumb in an English airport - don't bother with their breakfasts! Get something to eat beforehand in a supermarket (or prepare something yourself) and eat that instead.

The black pudding makes up for the lack of bacon...I think...

Oh my gosh, I would bust open if I ate all that! Hate mushrooms though...

Watching left-side traffic makes me feel incredibly dizzy.

OMG, really? That must be very unpleasant.

England is like a giant cage and its full of rats, and they keep putting more and more rats inside so they are stepping on each other and biting each other and still they get more and more rats and keep putting them in this now seemingly tiny cage.

You've never been outside have you?

I did not like it that much in England, though the country itself is beautiful. During my trip, I met mostly The small Englanders, which was very unfortunate. But I would never say that England is like a cage full of rats.

It´s true that I don´t trust them. I find some of them arrogant and most of them two-faced, but it´s because they feel the need to be polite all the time even if they think something about ass. The bloody British politeness. But that was my only problem with them. It also stemmed from the fact that I am an Aspie and I can´t read other people´s intentions that well, and they made it hard for me because they think something different that they say. But otherwise, it was not such a bad trip. I learnt a lot about them two years ago, I liked the countryside and the atypical architecture (at least in our country it IS atypical), and was kind of glad that I´ve been there. Oh, and I did not really liked their cuisine, but that´s a very unimportant thing. You can always fo to some Indian or Chinese restaurant

Speaking of traffic, how about this?



This is copypasted from TV Tropes' page on British Stuffiness , the gist of which is pretty much what I was going to put, minus any actual clarity and without coherent punctuation; it's a bit generalisation-y too.

"Americans, as a part of a culture, are actively encouraged to emote to the point that the lack of active emotional content in one's speech and mannerisms is considered quite rude or even anti-social. Thus, the more reserved culture of the British can make its people come off as acting 'flat' or just plain false to Americans, who are used to their own more emotive culture. Likewise, to Brits —especially older Brits— the typical American emotional response is hysterical and bipolar at best and maliciously, sneeringly rude at worst."

Um… my above remark on feeling dizzy when watching left-side traffic was simply an answer to the indirect question of the topic. Other than that, I have nothing against the UK or British people. If I somehow could settle there, I would spend all my spare time in museums and libraries. And book stores, sure.

Only negative thing I hear about London for example, is that the traffic is very bad.

I know. It was a poor attempt to shoehorn in something vaguely related to what you were saying. I apologise.

Every nations has its problems and specific behaviors, though everything you said about the Americans was true. We Czechs have some specific behaviors, too. I know I should not generalise, BUT I think that I should be let to speak my thoughts and have my opinion. You cannot blame me for not liking the British because you happen to be one of them. I am saying it because I would not blame you for not liking MY or any other nation. This would be, in exchange, YOUR saint right. Without our rights and thoughts, we would be mindless slaves. Our opinions make all of us unique. Diversity of opinions is good for starting a good conversation.