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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I recently lived in the UK for a few years. Your professional salary will be about half of what it is here, in a lot of places the infrastructure is pretty run down, and many people are like football hooligans.  The sense of humor does contain a lot of biting sarcasm, which can feel like white men punching down. I witnessed a lot of overt racism, sexism, antisemitism and homophobia. I am a WASP woman, though, so I have a limited perspective on how that compares to a lot of places in the US. I might not entrust my old age to the NHS.

On the plus side, the excellent tv has even more offerings, with the BBC, Channel 4, and ITV putting many of their shows on streaming options  to all with tv licenses. Many game shows are challenging and literate. You can jump on the excellent public transit to castles and stately homes. There are free museums, as well as reasonably priced theater and live music. A lot of people are very down to earth.

Villages are highly varied. Some are prosperous bedroom communities for nearby cities like Oxford or Birmingham. Some are just a pub and a church nursery school, since everyone shops at big box stores 10 miles away. Some are fading, as the transit and job situation are poor. All of these types have fields of sheep.[/quote]

Yes, there’s a lot of sarcasm. I’m surprised by your comment about it feeling like white men punching down. I have many mixed race British friends (mainly women) and we share this sense of humour. However, I’m Australian and we are much more culturally similar.

Many people are like football hooligans? Yes, there obviously are louts. Many? No more than in the US, possibly less. Nobody’s storming Westminster. I actually think there’s a lot less hooliganism than a couple of decades ago.  We must be due a good riot.

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Less hooliganism does not mean there’s a not good amount. Brexit suggests there are some deep seeded problems as well.

I love the UK and it’s culture but getting off the train in a Yorkshire town, finding out the bus I was to take was on strike and having to walk half a mile to the other bus stop along a high street lined with pubs and betting shops was [b]the most frightened I’ve ever been of white people[/b] - and I’m a white man. It was as ROUGH as anything I’ve seen in the US and I was accosted more aggressively than anywhere in the US.[/quote]

What the actual f**k, PP? Did you think the "of white people! And I'm white!" addition was...somehow useful to us? 
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