After more than 15 years in the States and other countries I'm sick it?

Question

and I want to come home to the UK,but everyone there says not to that its gone to Hell.Is it true?Am I just enthralled by my childhood memories? I have no ties anywhere so I could live anywhere in the UK,but perferably some where not to urban but not to remote. Any ideas?

thats supposed to be "of it"

Answer 1

We'd love to have you back! Sunny Surrey would be perfect for you. And don't believe everything you're told. We're a long way from Hell x

Answer 2

I'd live in England rather than America any day!

Where in England are you from? Maybe you should start off in your home town.

East Twickenham is great. It's by the river, quite quiet, has marble Hill Park, and is only 10 mins walk into Richmond, and less than an hour's journey into central London by tube or train for shopping and Theatres You can get a cheap (about £5.50) ticket after 9.30am which will last you all day on tubes, buses and trains. Richmond has 2 theatres of it's own and loads of restaurants within walking distance. Plus there are many restaurants in Twickenham within walking distance. If you don't want to walk there are buses every few minutes.

You should definitely return to the UK!!

Hmmm....I've just read the answer from lickintonight, and I think he has a point. He's spot on in fact! I still like England though!

Answer 3

if you are thinking about relocating back to the UK, I'd consider various options
perhaps come over on a trial basis (say 6 months), see if you like it, see if its what you want to do.

I'm presuming you have a green card, if so I'd consider tasking out US citizenship prior to leaving the US, and keep your UK citizenship that way round if you get hacked off with the UK you can still return to the US with the minimumn of problems.

I think the UK economy is screwed, its going to go down the Pan big time, possibly fairly soon. The actions of many governemtns have encouraged that, but the last 10 years have virtually guaranteed that.

if you want to get out of the US consider going to Canada, economically it has nothing but good popints as far as I can see, try BC or midwest Canada - I think the eEast coast has simialr problems to the US & UK.

Another option may be to go to Oz or possibly New Zeeland

Answer 4

I recommend you try Gibraltar first - nice small community, great weather.
There's not much going on in the UK at the moment. Blair continues to embarrass us by sucking up to Bush, taxes are sky high, the joy that used to exist in this country is being sucked out of us by an increasingly corrupt government and police force.
Try other English speaking countries with nice weather first.
Australia, New Zealand, Southern Africa.

Good luck

Answer 5

Yep, it's gone to total shite. I'm pisssing off to Canada as soon as I've finished at uni and there's no force in heaven or hell that would drag my asss back to this shithole while there's a breath left in me. Tax is one of the highest in the world, yet you pay for dental, opticians, extra road and fuel tax, council tax (which is what we got after poll tax and you remember how popular that was?) there aren't enough police officers and those we have are inadequately protected and get shot by the growing number of crack gangs that proliferate our streets. We're onto third generation dole bludgers who call themselves chavs and are proud of their illiteracy and profligate spawning of baseball hat wearing offspring, the schools are full and can't recruit good teachers because they can't handle the paperwork, abuse and crapppy wages, the prisons are overfull which is why the scrotebags who mug people and carjack you get let off with meaningless bail conditions that can never be enforced. Blair has sold us up the river behind Bush's bandwagon so we're at risk from terrorist attack just a few years after the IRA finally disbanded, unemployment is on the rise again, we have no control over immigration and this is leading to an undercurrent of racism and suspicion between fellow humans. We wait months to be admitted to hospitals, which are as underfunded and understaffed as the schools, for much the same reasons, and when you do get treated, it's by a surgeon who has worked 70hr weeks for the last six months and in an environment that gives you SARS. Man Utd has been sold to the yanks, Chelsea to a Russian and Arsenal has been overrun by the French, which is a good way of illustrating "British" business in general. The last big car company, Rover, after being bought by Germans, was flogged for asset stripping to the Koreans and is no more. Fuel is nearly a pound a litre, roads are constantly jammed up or being dug up, the rail service is it's usual laughable crappiness, except the prices have tripled in five years, yet the government are pushing to get people out of their cars. If you live next door to the type of people who break your windows and play loud music all night so they can psych themselves up to kill your cat and mug your granny in the morning, don't worry - there's something called an ASBO, which if you like doing paperwork, will only take 6months or so to get put in place against them. They seem to like collecting them. However, if you snap and smack one of them, you can bet your **** that you'll be whisked off as a child beater. Then there's the peadophiles, who have all been pretty much unleashed into the community, along with all the nutters from the assylums they closed down. The only people making money are in the construction trade, because there's a lack of skilled workers (because the kids don't want to learn skills and there's nobody to teach them) and because all the chavs keep breeding so they can be given bigger council houses. The cost of housing has gone completely supernova - the average semi house price is now over £200,000 and everyone is in debt, so give it another few years when inflation hits - which is being held down at the moment by enforced low interest rates (you know that the bank of England now controls this - not the democratically elected government, right?) the whole country will go to the wall again like in the late eighties/ early nineties. You know things are getting bad when Jeremy Clarkson seems to be the only person in the public eye who makes sense any more and most voters don't bother showing up because there really is no difference between one greasey git in a suit and the next one.

So if I were you, I'd choose an igloo in the antarctic next to a 50 year old nuclear power plant over this soggy little island.

Answer 6

I wouldn't return to the UK if I were you. The government is oging to the dogs and their international policy is making us a target for terrorist threats. It is one of the most expensive countries in the world to live in and it's not really worth the cost.

Perhaps you could move to a semi-rural location in the states? You would certainly have a lot more to choose from and quite likely a better quality of life too.

Answer 7

Go home and see what YOU think. You'll never be satisfied otherwise. Start with a place that appeals to you, or that you were once familiar with. Keep an open mind. First, though, maybe you should try to figure out what it is you're looking for in life. You can't find it if you don't know what it is.

Answer 8

Best place I've been to is Bristol. I've a mate who lives there, great young city, creative and lively. Also its an urban area surrounded by great country side so you get the best of both worlds.

Answer 9

I feel the same as you do i've been away for 18 years and hear the same things as you i am planning on going back but don't know where to start good luck to you

Answer 10

No, the UK is cool depending on where you are. I live in the South, it's really peaceful. Drop me an e-mail if you want to know more: [e-mail]