Why would someone want to move back to Britain after living in the US for many years ?

@nedkelly

Lol… and most certainly not in Manchester … just saying ..

@Soossie You can: the geographical "Europe" and the political "European Union" are very different things, if that's what you have in mind, and not all European countries are in the European Union.

Also please do remember that "Europe" consists of nearly thirty different countries with their own, sometimes very distinctive, very different languages and cultures.

@ArishMell

I know … I have visited many of those countries …. starting from Cyprus and ending in UK … I know how different the Italian culture is from German culture … I know how Greece looks different fro Switzerland … etc.

What I meant was since British people voted for Brexit (of course from European Union and not Geographical) they became closer to Americans than Europeans ..

@caPnAhab Ewwwwwww,

Hardly 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️... Vegemite is Australian @caPnAhab

@AbbeyRhode That's a point!

@4meAndyou ... it sets you up for the day , no need for lunch ... have you tried black pudding

@BigGuy2 I love black pudding. Had it at an Irish festival I attended at a local college.

@FreeSpirit1 that should stir some people up. Lol

@room101 I am interested in your perspective. have you been to the US?
if so often and or when?
what did you learn
I am yet, ( it is is getting late) to come to the UK myself, and see with my won eyes what is often ill communicated.

@SatyrService I've only been to the US a few times. Short visits to New York, New Jersey and the Boston area. Quite a long time ago. On every occasion, my visits were marred by confrontations with guns.

No matter how much I enjoyed those visits, it's the gun experiences that have stayed with me. There are still a lot of things and places in the USA that I would like to see and experience. However, I don't see myself ever going back. Guess I'll just have to forgo all of it.

As for the UK, it's no paradise. But it doesn't portray itself as such. Like everywhere, it has its problems. I grew up there...........as a first-generation immigrant from a former colony. Overall, I think that my parents made a wise choice in relocating us there.

@room101 I frankly I’m very concerned about the future of my country

@firefall Glad I am not the only one feels like that . I have never felt welcome in the uk especially england . I find the scots alot friendlier and welcoming and homely . If I knew then what I know now I would have fought my dad all the way when he suggested immigrating here . I dont know if the white english are purposely this way but definitly is the way they are .

@Rhode57 Yes, Scotland was much friendlier, just too cold, and the Welsh in Wales were also pretty friendly when they clocked you aren't English 😆

@shuhak 😝
Good one.

@Roundandroundwego I know the USA's Democrat and Republican, Parties, are respectively left and right in their American spectrum generally somewhat to the right of that in most European (including British) mainstream politics.

However, I am not American, I do not live in America; and I support neither of that nation's Parties.

So I don't know how you seem to think I do.

I simply asked you to explain why, as you told me, some motorists despise pedestrians and cyclists, and do so in political terms. That is what I don't understand.


No mode of personal travel and transport is intrinsically political although the facilities (roads, railways, airports, etc) are provided - or not - in any country under any political system, at governmental level.

- Some people's choices are limited by personal circumstances (e.g., money or health problems).

- Others may choose not to own a car they can afford but do not need.

- Many motorists also walk, cycle or use public transport for particular trips according to wish or situation.

There are no politics in these, but you say some think there are. So why do they?

@ArishMell the island of Oahu is very Democratic party run. The driving is a political statement, as are the Three "interstate" freeways. It's anti Nature, pro war, pro USA and pro Hawaiian overthrow. The right to an abortion is the first thing on their lips if you try to talk about the poor tiny island they're destroying. So is the "shame on you! You just want to outlaw abortion ' excuse. Always drinking and always driving, they're the Dems. The US left. But most people just hate that. The powerful social classes are a small minority.

@Roundandroundwego Ah, I see.

@deadgerbil How much are you offering? ;)

@Nimbus I'll see if I can get you a shack in Mississippi

@SW-User that's me about 30 minutes into my work day.

@Jacko1971 always happiest at home 😌

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout Or homesick ;)

@Elessar Which culinary horrors? (Native I assume you mean, not the up-price-down-value horrors inflicted on other countries by the ubiquitous American junk-food chains!)

A lot of the bad reputation Britain has for poor cookery is self-made, partly by people boasting publicly about their mother's culinary ineptitude or laziness, but mainly by snobbish food-writers in the glossy-magazine trade, paid to slag off anything British except the country-cottage life sought by the London-centric second-homes brigade.

@ArishMell Don't take me seriously here, I'm just surfing the wave of the memesaboit Brot food 🏄‍♂️

@Jacko1971 I know, it was the only reason he returned. I don't think it's too mean spirited of me to say I wish he'd been turned away he may not have been the man who directly caused GBH but he was part of the group and they did get away with a significant amount of money.

@GeniUs it was the assault on the driver that saw them get the heavy sentence.

@Jacko1971 which he didn't serve but fled the country and only came back for health care as he approached death.

@SW-User Clever ;)

@SW-User Gotta be Heinz!

@NativePortlander1970 Indeed, those too.