Cogman
Lifer
- Sep 19, 2000
- 10,286
- 145
- 106
Pros for england life:
Its old, you can see a lot of neat old stuff there.
Some say not to touch the food, I say, They have a fairly good variety of food at every supermarket, you just have to know where to look.
It is green, year round. In the winter, it is like "Oh, this is pretty green" in the summer it is like "GAH green overload!"
Cons:
Social life is basically going to a pub and getting drunk, they really don't have a lot to do outside of that (ok, there are museums and stuff, but really, not a whole lot).
You'll never see open land, real open land.
Housing is EXPENSIVE. Forget having a yard, you'll be lucky to have a hole in the wall for the same price we spend on a 2 story front home with a front and back yard.
Very much a nanny state, people are pushing them to do everything for them.
Government resorts to an unsettling amount of fear tactics, IE cameras at every corner, signs saying things like "We have people everywhere you no good dirty scoundrel, if you step out of line we WILL see it."
TV tax, you spend more then we do on cable TV for 4 channels of crappy programming. They assume you have a tv (Even if you don't) and will send threatening letters to you if you if you don't pay for the TV tax. If you want semi-ok tv you have to go with sky network, and no, that doesn't include tv tax.
Huge slums in every city. (they are called council houses), very, VERY ignorant people live there, they make our rednecks seem semi intelligent.
It makes more sense not to work then it does to work there. Living off the dole is very common.
NHS sucks, really bad.
Gas is REALLY expensive, not only that, but to own a car means you'll be taxed 100 different ways.
Did I mention the VAT, yeah, it sucks, at every level all goods are taxed, and pretty heavily.
To visit is ok, but I would never want to live there.
Its old, you can see a lot of neat old stuff there.
Some say not to touch the food, I say, They have a fairly good variety of food at every supermarket, you just have to know where to look.
It is green, year round. In the winter, it is like "Oh, this is pretty green" in the summer it is like "GAH green overload!"
Cons:
Social life is basically going to a pub and getting drunk, they really don't have a lot to do outside of that (ok, there are museums and stuff, but really, not a whole lot).
You'll never see open land, real open land.
Housing is EXPENSIVE. Forget having a yard, you'll be lucky to have a hole in the wall for the same price we spend on a 2 story front home with a front and back yard.
Very much a nanny state, people are pushing them to do everything for them.
Government resorts to an unsettling amount of fear tactics, IE cameras at every corner, signs saying things like "We have people everywhere you no good dirty scoundrel, if you step out of line we WILL see it."
TV tax, you spend more then we do on cable TV for 4 channels of crappy programming. They assume you have a tv (Even if you don't) and will send threatening letters to you if you if you don't pay for the TV tax. If you want semi-ok tv you have to go with sky network, and no, that doesn't include tv tax.
Huge slums in every city. (they are called council houses), very, VERY ignorant people live there, they make our rednecks seem semi intelligent.
It makes more sense not to work then it does to work there. Living off the dole is very common.
NHS sucks, really bad.
Gas is REALLY expensive, not only that, but to own a car means you'll be taxed 100 different ways.
Did I mention the VAT, yeah, it sucks, at every level all goods are taxed, and pretty heavily.
To visit is ok, but I would never want to live there.
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