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The job centres in my area are full of benefits frauds. I've been with them a couple of times in the past, they mean well but the system is swamped so one has the feeling of being overlooked, especially when one is trying to compete for employment with limited experience. Disturbingly the (visible) number of homeless I see each weekend in my town has sky-rocketed since brexit. I will admit I do not like our conservative government at the moment, but the other options are either crazy, fractured or plain unsuitable. Life goes on, I suppose.

That sucks. I was going to have to rely on affordable housing but I'm disabled so I wouldn't need work. Guess the world sucks in general these days. All the grass is crabby.

I'm an American who has also thought of moving to the UK. I know it's nor perfect but it's always seemed to be more rational. Like a place where science is not a dirty word and no one thinks a gun is an essential part of life otherwise the communists will come. If you get sick you can just go to a hospital and you don't have to worry about owing six figures of debt. I have insurance in America but even with that I really can't go to a hospital without going broke. They don't even pay for my most of contact lenses and yearly eye exam. If I need more than $100 or so in non life threatening care they don't pay and it's about 20% of life threatening care. I admit it's very poor insurance. Many people do better because their job provides it. I don't have one.

Ever since I was a teenager I've been interested in British film and music. The jokes are more intelligent and subtle and the characters have depth and a story is told then it's done. A series is 6 maybe 10 episodes. They do this a few times. I don't see that as often in America. It's 150 episodes of the same people no matter how boring it gets.

So I probably have a romanticized view of the place. I don't think I would want to go now because with Brexit and all that I see a lot of the same attitude I see here in America. No one likes for foreigners and in England I am the Mexican even if I also speak English. The person who here is the problem simply because I am there. I must be taking jobs, I don't know the culture etc. I also know the logistics of it. You have a very small island that already has a lot people on it. Unless I mary a British women or a British company offers me a job I have no chance. I am sure some local English person can take that job.

But I can dream. One day I will marry Michelle Ryan and it will work out. The English people here might remember her as Zoe from East Enders. We got reruns of that here late night on PBS and I noticed her for sure. But it was definitely a bad soap and not a good as other BBC shows.

It just a thought of moving to UK, I also wanted to move to Canada, I know I can't to it. I want to move somewhere in California, I wish I can move FAR away from my family.

you guys are thinking too small, we should move to outer space

I don't get why anyone would wanna live over here. Even Brits don't wanna live over here. It's all media fakery making it out to look like it's a nice place to live unless you have a few hundred thousand in the bank to pay the extortion. Real Britain is pretty racist and judgemental, most people voted brexit cause of racism and xenophobia, that xenophobia is extended to Americans by the way. Brits tend to not like Americans in general from what I've seen, not speaking for everyone but it's pretty common knowledge Brits don't like Americans, look it up.

The Tories are on a rampage with social cleansing at the moment anyways and killing the disabled & NHS so that puts you at the bottom of the priority pile anyway unless you're a millionaire.

Also whoever put that thing about Brits being polite into your head you should probably quickly drown that out. I've not met anyone who doesn't swear in every other sentence for a long time unless they're shy.

People are nice on the surface here because were taught that appearance is important, but under that it's a complete mess so don't get your hopes up.

You're better off going to Canada, just learn how to include ey's and aboots into your vocabulary and you'll fit in. xD

Anyway it doesn't matter, if that doomsday clock doesn't go backwards we're all f****d.

No disrespect but I disagree. The point of the job centre is that the staff keeps a track on the machines and that they're updated with new job postings, you go in and print off aload of local jobs on the machines, if you've not applied to any of them provided (cause there's usually loads on a machine) then it's their job to get on your case about it.

Most people seem to think that the job centre staff themselves are supposed to find you a job and spoon feed you but it's not like that anymore, maybe back in the 80s but not now. (Not unless you're attractive and a male advisor wants to cherry pick a job for you cause they're a massive perv ). They even give you free phone access to ring the places you want to apply for provided there isn't a big queue for the phones, which in the middle of Manchester city there isn't so I doubt there would be massive queues for them elsewhere.