Why the UK is great place to live

• Guest 665

  • Registered: 24 Mar 2008
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  23 May 2009     08:0721880
  #1      
  Ok, going head to head with my husband on this. I am a glass half full person so I am going to see how many posts this one gets against Rick's!
  
  I think the UK is a great place to live because:
  
  We don't have any poisonous or dangerous wild animals
  We have a temperate climate and variation (would be boring to be 30 degrees and sunny all year round!)
  We have some of the most beautiful scenery countryside and heritage in the world (if only we all knew how to enjoy it! )
  We are a very clean nation compared to many of our European counterparts
  People are generally good and help each other
  We have an excellent heath care system that is free at the point of delivery and available to all. Yes it has its problems but it's still the envy of the world.
  We don't carry guns (mostly) and neither do the police routinely
  Generally you can feel safe in most places (compare this with some south american countries!)
  Generally our public services are uncorrupt (lets leave MP expenses out of this bit!) Compare this with some south american countries too.
  We have a huge array of voluntary organisations determiend to make a difference
  We have a huge array of people who regularly donate to those voluntary organizations.
  You never have to go very far to get to the coast
  Most citizens enjoy a good standard of living - there is poverty but when you compare it to many other countries it is relatively not that bad
  
  Ok that's a starter for 13 from me - over to you guys!
  Ps this is not for a political debate please!
• Guest 640

  • Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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  23 May 2009     08:3321884
  #2      
  Im afraid Rick had a head start on you Claire but the posters on his page are actually giving your theory support...so I'll help you out here..
  
  My feeling is that a country is as good as it gets depending on where you are in the social scale. For example I watch regularly the programme The Apprentice, and find it great stuff. But what is striking about it and other people have commented too are the superb shots of London showing just how fab it can look. Its true it looks great if you have a helicopter and a big house, or one of those Penthouses as shown in the The Apprentice, situated beautifully by the river in the all new Docklands. All is beautiful when painted by lots of cash. But the images looks so good one is tempted to move back to London where I spent 25 years or so.
  
  However the reality is something different. Stroll through the awful streets of Balham and Tooting and its so far removed from the images on The Apprentice as to be somewhere else. You asked that we dont mention politics but just one tiny thing. Interestingly one of the guys ( Sir Antony Steen) with his hand in the till lives in a beautiful Balmoral style house. He said we were all jealous. Well...it could be. But his view on whether Britain is a great place will be coloured by his plush lifestyle( at our expense..oh no IM at it again). So the view from where he is might be very different to the view from the humble immigrant living in Balham type squalor.
  
  Whether its a great place or not would very much depend on where your seeing it from.
  
  But on the whole its a good place to live in, but really probably much the same as most other western countries. Countries where you have your nuts cut off for having a cold cider would not really wash with most of us here.
  email: dover7@msn.com
• Rick Jones

  • Location: Dover
  23 May 2009     09:5821894
  #3      
  Hey it's true - you never have to go too far to get to the coast and visit some of the worst beaches in Europe!
  
  (sorry wifey, this was just my attempt at humour, please don't hit me again)
• Guest 660

  • Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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  23 May 2009     10:0721895
  #4      
  I am with you Claire,hit him as much as you like that nasty depresing Rick,this is still the best country in the world
  If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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  23 May 2009     11:2821898
  #5      
  depresing but true john.
• Guest 645

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  23 May 2009     11:5921901
  #6      
  I've have just returned from Town.(I've had a haircut for the party on Monday).The town is bustling, there are screams of happiness from the kids enjoying the fair in Pencester.parents pushing their kids in prams to the seafront.Scores of people disgorging from the trains at the Priory it really looks buzzing. A truly great heartwarming site. Lets hope the coffeee shops don't close early due to excessive demand on their staff etc......argh. I'd stay open until midnight on a Bank Holiday weekend like this one..
  Marek
  I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
• Guest 674

  • Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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  23 May 2009     19:2921909
  #7      
  I love it here i aint going no where
• Alec Sheldon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 18 Aug 2008
  • Posts: 1,037
  23 May 2009     23:1421926
  #8      
  It can't be that bad. Every man and his dog are queuing up to get here.
• Guest 674

  • Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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  24 May 2009     07:4421928
  #9      
  its a great place
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  24 May 2009     09:1521939
  #10      
  good one alec, the population goes up every year.
  
  we cannot be that bad.
• Guest 674

  • Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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  24 May 2009     19:0621956
  #11      
  howard
  and quite a number leave as well
  would be interesting to see the figures that leave and enter country
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  24 May 2009     19:2521961
  #12      
  keith
  the net result is that the population of the uk goes up every way.
  
  that says it all really.