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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Americans are cash cows for British universities, along with all other international students. There's only a few British schools worth leaving the US for and don't kid yourself today's UK is going to give you a unique experience. Maybe 20 years ago it would have.

The UK is bitterly divided by cultural and populist issues and there's significant pressures on universities these days from a variety of quarters. Just saying the grass isn't greener on the other side of the fence.[/quote]

Americans are also cash cows for American universities, along with all international students. It is a business and you need to be an informed consumer. You can get a great education for a great price in the UK if you choose wisely.

And every country is divided by cultural and populist issues. That said, I would take the current climate in the UK over the US any day. We don’t have a government that is trying to use every lever they have to destroy the any source of opposition there. [/quote]

Your post shows that you have no clue what the UK is really like, which is common among most Americans. UK politics is bitterly divided, the current Labour government has collapsed in approvals in the polls and is trailing Farage's Reform Party. Part of its unpopularity is the widely held perception that it pursues a two-tier policing and justice strategy, punishing one group more heavily than others, sending people to prison for a year over a twitter or FB post. Economically moribund, it's commonly talked that young people are seeking to leave the country for places like Dubai for job opportunities. Major demographic changes with even the current prime minister worried about the UK turning into an island of strangers. Universities have seen funding cut significantly and as academic cultures go, UK universities are even more conformist and pedantic than American universities.

It's not all doom and gloom, of course. But the myopia of Americans when it comes to the UK, whether it's people thinking it's still the posh land of milk and honey and people swanning around twee villages with posh accents, or a uber progressive wonderland of socially correct beliefs and an escape from whatever your American bogeyman is only just makes me laugh. [/quote]

I am the previous poster to this screed. But I have to say that I do have some clue of what the UK is like, having lived there for thirty years or so (and having received an excellent education there, as one of my children is also currently doing). You, on the other hand, appear to get all your information sources from right-wing "news" sources. Politics is far less divided there than here. And while US wages are much higher than the UK, unemployment there is below 5 percent and the economy is not doing too badly. Indeed, the UK was the fastest growing country in the G7 this last quarter.

So please keep your apocalyptic nonsense to yourself.[/quote]

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