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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I understand. We never moved there but my husband worked for a British company and we considered moving there. He was there all the time and we and our kids spent a month there. Agree that drinking is too much a part of their lives; also cigars. There was also a huge emphasis on going out to elaborate dinners, drinking a lot and expensng it. They really loved that. They often were in other countries for work, including the U.S., including Las Vegas. The British guys were crazy for it, staying out all night, etc. These were all married guts with kids. The sexism of their workplace was like Mad Men. I was shocked by this. I hated driving around, the roundabouts. Lots of two-lane roads that would take forever to get anywhere. I remember at that time the most popular TV show on Friday night was about gardening. They love gardening. It didn't strike me as charming but as boring. We went to the house of one of his colleagues in the country. They didn't own it because a lord or earl or someone owned it along with all the land in the town. They would have liked to buy it but couldn't. They were sanguine about it. We drove by this one endless fence around an estate. It went for miles. There is social mobility there but still an out of sight class. The house we stayed in had a lot of functional and design problems that you wouldn't find in the U.S. Everything seemed delicate and like it could break easily. It seemed old-fashioned in the worst ways possible. The one good thing was that my husband made good friends with the guys he worked with. They were smart and loved to talk, as he did. But I did not want to live there. [/quote] Cigars were a big part of their lives? Which decade was this?[/quote]
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