Why I wouldn't want to live in England

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I'd love to live in England for awhile and see what it's really like.

Well, England's much like anywhere else - it has its nice areas and not-so-nice areas, its social conflicts and its things that it does well.

Football is a religion in England. You should try being a football fan during the summer when the season has finished, having to watch Tennis, slowly going stir crazy, counting down the days until the season starts again. Unless there's a World Cup, then you just despair at how awful England are... again!

I'd absolutely love to live in England at some point. I've always wanted to experience a football match, singing along with those chants. Sitting in a pub listening to the locals or touring the countryside would both be new and interesting to me.

Some of the football chants are genius, often made up on the spot. You don't get that type of off the cuff humour anywhere else in the world. Note of caution, if you do go to a footy match, don't watch Stoke City, they play a kind of rugby/wrestling hybrid sport, you might find your neck begins to ache because the ball is booted in the air every 5 seconds. It's certainly not the beautiful game!

Oh no doubt. I watched the riots on BBC as well as the Royal Wedding. I would still rather live there a good while and have a greater experience of England and the English than with a short visit. London is so expensive. I've looked at flat rentals (in London) online before to get an idea of how much it would cost to go over there and stay for a good little while.

Wait until you buy your first gallon of English gas.

You'll soon wish you were back home. lol

Our government don't like seeing us enjoying ourselves.

Very true. US$8.20 a gallon!



But to counterbalance that, quite a lot of England (not the UK as a whole, but England) is urban so you don't need a car for long distances. That said, even if you don't drive, the high cost of everything still gets passed onto you, just in other ways.



Rarely has a truer word been spoken as of late.

In much of Northern England the royal wedding went uncelebrated and almost ignored. A lot of people I know thought it was mainly for royalists, southerners and foreigners. The Irish were hugely into the Royal Wedding whenever I listened to RTÉ - their coverage was even more fawning and extensive than that of the BBC.

Ouch! I suppose I'll be taking a bus/subway/train where ever I go over there. At least it can't be far.

While the wedding was on I was going back and forwards between RTÉ, Auntie and CNN websites comparing them on the fawn-o-meter. (though I'd've said Auntie were the worst!)

It's also speculative, biased nonsense and it seems it wasn't banned: Allen decided to not release it in the UK:http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/reviews/cannes-2011-review-keith-allen-unlawful-killing.php

The requested changes relate to alleged libelous content so what's more likely is that no UK distributor would touch it with a barge-pole because of the legal difficulties which would result from broadcasting an alleged libel: if that aspect was tested and found true, the broadcaster would be held to be as guilty as the film's maker.
So really, a "ban" is not even necessary for a film which constitutes a legal minefield.

The problem with any conspiracy theory is that once the thing starts running there is no stopping it - anything can and is taken on board as self-perpetuating evidence.
The moon landing, 9/11, Diana: they all essentially exist in a self-fueling, evidence-free vacuum.

I loved my three months in Redruth, Cornwall, UK. I want to spend much more time there soon.

^^ Cornwall is just beautiful.

My wife's family on her father's side is from England. A castle used to belong to them until Queen Mary of the Scots gave it over to some Catholic monks. On my mother's side, I'm a descendant of some Irish aristocracy that was deposed when the O'Brians declared themselves royalty. England always seemed like a lovely land in the history books, even with all its wars and everything else. Doesn't help that now so many Churches are being turned into mosques and other foreign stuff.

This is happening in much of Western Europe, not just in the UK.