Why I wouldn't want to live in England

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i got a smileys data error, so i had to split my post.

here is an aerial shot of a nice suburb in sydney (1/4 of the value of the properties shown in oxshott)



here is a street view from that street (not by far the best street in sydney), and as you can see, the land area and foliage provides privacy to the houses on this street so that it is very difficult to see the houses from the road. (corrected typo)


i can not find after hours of searching, any street in london that is as beautiful as this street in sydney (in turramurra (which is not the best area in sydney)). i used to live in this street at as a child.

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here is my backyard today. it is expansive and peaceful, and i could never afford anything like this in england


here is a couple of my flowers, and if i lived in england, i could only afford a one bedroom unit in a dirty and cramped and unprivate suburb i guess.


i am very glad i live in australia.

and to you aussie bloke, wake up and see how lucky we are to afford to own a piece of this environment we live in.

and here is the view that i see if i walk for 2 minutes up the road.



i am very happy living here.

I do and I don't. The reason I don't want to live there is because I don't want to be away from my friends and my family. The reason I'd like to live there, is because that's where all my favourite rock bands are from. It's a Catch 22 for me.

I'd like to live in England. I might be able to get some decent fish n chips finally.

Blue mountains I could live their.

Well your right about it been gloomy B9 in England ( I was young when I went but I was not impressed where are the trees ? Is that why they have parks? In France and to a lesser extent Switzerland (my favorite country) and you see those lovely long boulevards with impossibly big tress, I'd take a chesnut tree over a high maintenance rose any day.

I think thats why I like Keating his not to fond of England to

I think I offended B9 with my aussie "rant" sorry you need to be careful when your in the company of ultra nationalists, sorry but the all to often Aussie 1/2 arsed attempts really gets me down , take a look at the paint in my unit block* (common area) and my recent (Swiss) efforts in my own unit and you'll know what I mean .

* like near new paint that chips off with your finger nails

So B9 are you telling me "Australian made" is just as worthy as "Swiss made" My swiss /french uncle asked me "what does Australia make" I said they make air , polluted in fact from all that coal dust .

No offense just calling it how I see it.

live their what?



keating was very entertaining and drove his opponents to hysterical fits of anger in an amusing way. that is why i liked him.

here is a little clip of him, but youtube is sadly devoid of his best moments (he was prime minister of australia for those who do not know who we are talking about)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdAoQvqh7eY[/youtube]

That is one of the few things I miss since moving from England to France 7 years ago. That and bacon, mature Cheddar cheese and real beer served at room temperature.

What I don't miss from England is the congested traffic, road rage, congested supermarkets and the ever more nasty rat race there with everyone for him/herself. France has it's own negatives but overall I'd personally say the quality of life is better here in France than England.

you did not offend me. i am not a "nationalist".

i have no political angst about my environment.

i do think that australia is an OK place to live in, and your dissatisfaction with australia is hard to understand. your deprecation of australia makes me annoyed because you make claims about this place that are false.

australia has a very laid back attitude that suits me well. i went to the supermarket the other day in my pyjama's because i could not be bothered to get dressed and i was not harassed in any way. the teller laughed and she said "going back to bed after breakfast huh?" and i said "yes. i am probably sleepwalking but i am hungry", and she laughed and the deal was done and i went back to my car in a daze (it was 7:20 am) with my stuff, and no one was in the least bit phased.

you get free health care, and if you are on a disability pension (which is easy to get i believe (i have been told i would be eligible)), then you do not have to pay for your car registration, and you only pay 20% of your utility bills, and they pay you $375 per week for the rest of your life (until the pension goes up).

they also pay your rates if you own your house.

in australia, you can own (and live in) a 4 million dollar house and have $185,000 in the bank and still get full disability pension.

why are you so insulting of this place?

i accept that there is little culture in australia, but culture is not understood by me. i could not give a rats arse about how people sip coffee on latte strips beside the road or what things they talk about. i just want to go and buy the things i need and go back to my home on a 1/2 acre block that i own with no worries or obligations. i can do that here.

if i become sick and can not make a living, i will get $375 per week as well as utility help and continue to live a satisfactory life until i die in this country.

some people say australia is very racist. that is not true. i have never heard any racist comments on the streets covertly let alone overtly. there is some dissatisfaction with muslims i admit, but it is because they have come here and disagree with our way of life.

there are no muslims where i live, so i never think in term of how they interfere with my life.
there is nowhere else in the world which is so generous.

so because you have a shoddy paint job in your unit that was painted by people in australia, then you are just going to bellow to the world what backward rednecks all australians are? i am australian and i would not have made a half arsed effort if i was commissioned to ensure your unit was painted effectively.

you should not use such a broad brush to paint how australia is.
the broadness of your brush indicates the thickness of your discernment, and you should go back to switzerland if you are a citizen of that place and live in your perceived utopia. if you were not accepted back here, then you may start to see how homesick you are for this place.




so you scratched your walls with your fingernails in order to chip the paint off? how long would the paint have remained in place without your feral intervention? how long would your fingernails last if you did not claw like an animal in a tantrum at your newly painted walls with the intention to prove australians are idiots?




gee whiz. you are truly a cranky grub in a tasty apple.
i buy danish butter (lurpack) because i think it is better than our butter, but that is all.

you refer to australians as "they" and so i refer to you as "they". you should go back to switzerland and live there and be happy that you are where you belong.

i am not in any way politically inspired to tell you that i think you should leave our shores and take your dissatisfaction with you. i am inspired to tell you you should go home because i do not want to live in a world inhabited by homesick people.

here is where i live and here is where i fit,
and if you can not live here
then go home and be done with it.

I don't want to live in England any more because I want a decent sized apartment! What the authorities describe as 'liveable' is ridiculous! I recently viewed a 'flat' which consisted of one rectangular room with a tiny kitchenette (no freezer!) and a square bathroom. I am really small, but I could have paced from one end to the other in about five steps! Also I am sick of this binge drinking culture, especially when the locals decide to 'decorate' the pavements

If you're serious about missing mature Cheddar cheese, LMK as I can sort you out. (Family connection.)

At least Brits don't tend to have access to firearms, so if you manage to offend somebody, you're not likely to get yourself shot.

We have satellite, cable and the Internet, so there's no reason to miss programmes you enjoy.

There are a couple of spiders whose bites sting a bit, and one snake whose bite might make a four year old feel unwell, but in all, there's not a lot over here that can kill you. I suppose you could trip over the cat when walking downstairs in the morning, but that's about it.

Oh, and we don't have poison ivy - we have stinging nettles. Which can annoy for a little while.


It's unlikely you will freeze to death or die of heat exhaustion, animal attack or murder.


And we will generally be nice to you even if you're being a pain in the butt.

The one reason to visit is to get Electronic Music from Europe.

Thank you for the offer, but we get by. Every few months the supermarket does a special offer on some imported English cheddar on their cheese counter - usually Cathedral City - and we buy a whole block! it lasts us quite well and we freeze some too for making cheese sauces etc.

The strangest thing missing from France is English style bacon. It simply doesn't exist in France (savages ) The closest they have is potrine which is simply the same cut of pork cut thickly and uncured but it isn't bacon. The French lardons aren't too bad which is the potrine cut into small pieces but it is like eating uncured bacon the size of small fingernails.

My dad would never live in England because he says he prefers to live in a society where everyone is equal, and that in England, it's not like that, because of the royal family. I don't know why he hates them so much, especially when he doesn't know anything about the monarchy.

I would love to live in England, though, because I plan on working for the royal household someday.