UK dwellers, I have a question.

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Every time I go to England, I always look at the apartment ads. There's a strong side of me that really wants to live in the British Isles.

What is it that appeals to you?

I love our countryside! I live close to the New Forest - which is just beautiful. I'm quite close to some lovely beaches too, I'm very lucky in that respect.

I like the fact that, on the highways, there are very few billboards.

I like the unique greenery; we have beauty and green--but not the SAME kind of green as British Isles green.

Every neighborhood, even those close to Central London, has a decent park/green space.

I like the countryside in general; I was surprised by it. Growing up, I thought England was one big industrial zone.

Quality post and cherry picking there Empathy.

Are you trying to say that, in the UK, there is no knife crime, property is not expensive and that climate equates sociability?

There's lots of green in the UK, even in Central London.

Obviously, it's more green outside of London. But London neighborhoods have lots of parks.

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I agree in a sense. Whilst you can't 'cherry pick' from local food sources, you can decide on how many Syrian refugees can come and go inside the capital. One thing is certain, whilst many counties have bought enough middle ground from their pension and inheritance pot, some stately homes go unaccounted for. Some being claimed by the national trust. Come now, oh stately home, allow yourself to give asylum to some of our worlds most poorest and humble refugees. Even Downton Abbey won't argue with that, or complain about the silver going missing one day..
and well, as for some of our most decent country pubs being shut down, I'd differ to put up more mansion taxes on the rich and create a better welfare budget for our most needy.
After all, the worlds duty free tax system and foreign E.U budget is going to need it.

The British don't even like each other, so the same people that hate Americans probably hate people from 5 miles away.

And London is like a separate country, and I find it a loveless place.

Birmingham is in the middle of the country and is not a very pretty place, but the people there are friendly, and from Birmingham you can get to a lot of pretty places easily. Manchester has gone hip and is expensive now.

The particularly English habit of never speaking directly drives me nuts.

What is interesting about over here is the amount of very old stuff littering up the place, you can go and touch stuff that was built a thousand years ago.

I've lived in England, south Scotland and now in the north in one if the areas with low rainfall

I find people in the North of Scotland friendly but it is a bit of a time warp - I like that but it does mean shopping on line and oh if you have one of "those" postcodes you pay extra or wait longer for delivery. Feels like we are second class citizens sometimes up here.

We have a lot of tourists (it's beautiful and you trip over distilleries). I think we are welcoming up here.

I think the British don't like brash noisy tourists regardless of their nationality - I bet most Aspie's wouldn't fit in that category!

Racism is everywhere and I get the impression it is worse in the US but that's based on what I see in the news and quite frankly I don't trust the news so who knows