Britain - what do you love about it?

lol abdul come on how can u not like it, maybe being a muslim i guess you can feel targeted, which I understand but you cant deny that you wouldn't wanna be living in some village in africa spending 2 hours a day getting water each day

In fact, my mum owns a very nice house in Zanzibar with a fully functioning water supply. I find Britain to be very dull, in all honesty. It's a good place to pursue a career, although I much prefer cities like Dubai which are up and coming.

Tolerance, how we have decent opening hours compared to alot of places in Europe, music, literature, nightlife, how we're all pretty distant from each other but then something will come around like the Olympics and we create a little community,we have more opportunities than alot of other places...

Maybe because I have lived abroad and seen the other side of the coin but I do actually love living here.

ok yeah dubai is nice, lucky you have a rich family, what is zanzibar like is it stable

I wish I had a rich family *CrawfordRolex dreams*. The cost of living in Zanzibar is just much cheaper - £100k will get you a mansion, essentially. It's like any other part of Africa, you have your nice built up rich areas (with universities/schools/hospitals) and then your slum type areas where it's not so pleasant. I was born there so I'm just used to the whole shazzam (believe my last holiday there I was walking around in the city centre barefoot) .

I wish I had a rich family *CrawfordRolex dreams*. The cost of living in Zanzibar is just much cheaper - £100k will get you a mansion, essentially. It's like any other part of Africa, you have your nice built up rich areas (with universities/schools/hospitals) and then your slum type areas where it's not so pleasant. I was born there so I'm just used to the whole shazzam (believe my last holiday there I was walking around in the city centre barefoot) .

The countryside, living in the countryside. How friendly and tolerant people can be. I love that we actually get four seasons, rather than year long sun or whatever else.

That all said, I do hate how nobody is ever willing to stand up for things that they believe in and let the political elite do whatever they want and take advantage of the public, no matter how ridiculous it is because we're supposed to be reserved and polite. Not really a fan of people who live in cities either.

I also love how generally boring the north is. Nothing ever really happens, good or bad. It's just nice, save for the occasional shocker, but they're nearly always isolated incidents and don't give much worry. I'd hate for things to become more like the south, as much as I like travelling down there for a bit of a change of pace.

lol your some tribal raff

Yes but that mansion will have iron bars on all its windows to prevent burglaries. Just look at the newly built modern houses in South Africa which look like small prisons.

While I loath the UK on the whole, however, I agree with this. I was in Zurich not too long ago and the stores open at 10AM, and it Stockholm sometimes not until 11AM, and close at 4PM/5PM. The reason is that there's not much demand by the population for commodities as there is in the UK because we are apart of such a large population of 'plain spoken man in the street' bigoted losers.

I've just come back from living in Paris for the year and it frustrated me how such a big city which is one of the most visited places on earth could still have everything shut on Sundays, early closing hours and huge gaps of nothingness during the lunch period. I agree that it's because in the UK we demand things to be open, I don't think it's because we have a 'plain spoken man mentality' though, we're just a lot more accepting of peoples needs rather than abiding by silly 200 year old traditions.