Things You Like And Dislike About Your Home Country

[bovril]

Open to non English foxes or foxiles. 

 

England:

 

Like:

Variety of food.

Beer.

General sense of fair play. 

Unspoiled countryside.

 

Dislike:

Shit transport infrastructure for a rich country.

Weather.

Obsession with class and wealth. 

[leicsmac]

United States (New Hampshire)

 

Like:

Different food options and prices

General easygoing social environment (in this state, anyway)

Amazing scenery

 

Dislike:

Worrying about getting sick or injured

Attitudes towards marginalised people that bleed over into affecting the entire country

Distance to travel to get anything done

[Izzy]

England, Our England:

 

Like:

Our freedom, liberty and democracy compared to other nations

Education, Health Service, Emergency Services and general standard of living/cleanliness

Beautiful countryside, towns and coastline

National obsession with sport

Diversity, variety and general tolerance for each other

Opportunities to better oneself and be the best one can be

The royal family and how the rest of the world (mainly) respect us as a nation

 

Dislike:

The weathers a bit shit

Pace of life (rat race)

Obsession with materialistic stuff and celebrity

The roads are chaos and there are too many cars

[bovril]

3 minutes ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

England, Our England:

 

Like:

Our freedom, liberty and democracy compared to other nations

Education, Health Service, Emergency Services and general standard of living/cleanliness

Beautiful countryside, towns and coastline

National obsession with sport

Diversity, variety and general tolerance for each other

Opportunities to better oneself and be the best one can be

The royal family and how the rest of the world (mainly) respect us as a nation

 

Dislike:

The weathers a bit shit

Pace of life (rat race)

Obsession with materialistic stuff and celebrity

The roads are chaos and there are too many cars

Agree with the coastline and most of the rest of post, though sport obsession can get towards overkill at times.

Freedom and liberty is difficult to quantify but I agree we are freer to live the way we want in the UK than most places, although maybe not in all aspects of life. Whether we are more democratic than other nations is debatable.

 

Also, the weather is 'a bit' shit  

[David Guiza]

England (Warwickshire, currently)

 

Likes

History

Arts

Sport

Character 

Diversity 

 

Dislikes

Arrogance

London obssesion

Boris

As above, public transport

 

[Izzy]

1 minute ago, bovril said:

Agree with the coastline and most of the rest of post, though sport obsession can get towards overkill at times.

Freedom and liberty is difficult to quantify but I agree we are freer to live the way we want in the UK than most places, although maybe not in all aspects of life. Whether we are more democratic than other nations is debatable.

 

Also, the weather is 'a bit' shit  

Yeah I guess so. I suppose our democratic system is 'fair' to an extent even if the process might not be right. I don't feel like anything is rigged or bent I suppose like some countries. 

[fuchsntf]

2 hours ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

England, Our England:

 

Like:

 freedom, liberty acompared to other nations

Education, Health Service, Emergency Services and general standard of living/cleanliness

Beautiful countryside, towns and coastline

National obsession with sport

Diversity, variety and general tolerance for each other

Opportunities to better oneself and be the best one can be

The royal family and how the rest of the world (mainly) respect us as a nation

 

Dislike:

The weathers a bit shit

Pace of life (rat race)

Obsession with materialistic stuff and celebrity

The roads are chaos and there are too many cars

 

1 hour ago, bovril said:

Agree with the coastline and most of the rest of post, though sport obsession can get towards overkill at times.

Freedom and liberty is difficult to quantify but I agree we are freer to live the way we want in the UK than most places, although maybe not in all aspects of life. Whether we are more democratic than other nations is debatable.

 

Also, the weather is 'a bit' shit  

Excuse me!!!   Our weather is not shit.!

Its our weather..Its the only country where God and the Angels can freely take a piss.

What do you think, gives us our green and pleasant Land, that fills the likes of the lake district and

moreover Cropston resevoir..The fog gives us great Sherlock homes stories, the envy of the world

When my German aquaintences get cocky, I tell them we English get the Deckchairs out when it rains,

Wear T-shirts in November-April, cloth caps and head handkerchiefs  in the summer.

We told generation of our children, to learn but not cook well for others, then we will get the best

of all foreign restaurants, who will then cook for us..

Mind you the English businessmen misunderstood that power of reasoning, and became not wise but so

unimaginitive, that we let Foreign businesses to take over.

Though I do tell these so called clever Germans, We won the World cup once, proved we know how it works,

So dont feel the need, to win the peace every 4 years. But when it matters we are winning 2-0 (1918 +1945).

Thats why we dont let them play cricket, put a bloody bat and hard ball in their hands, they'll invade their neighbours

just because they'll never understand the bloody  rules.

 

We have the best goverment, because they remind us,with every passing election one needs a bloody good sense of Humour.

Which in itself Created  the major government seat..The local pub, where all things are democratically discussed, so good

that after a pint or 2, we feel the world is now a better place...

The French might have their croisannts and baguettes, but our treacle, tarts, Yorkshirepuddings, and ginger cakes are the

real Point de Resistance, Indians brought their great curry dishes with them, but it took an English twist, that now the

Civilised western world loves Chicken tikka massala.

 

We are the only country to have a revolution, which the commoner won, then gave the crown back,to the stuarts,

that lead through all the historical drama over the centuries, that we now have a German Queen..

We Claim to be Proud Anglo-Saxon, with a twist of Norman (my desent) , then have the bloody

cheek to say foreigners are not welcome...

We give our American colonies and friends, their independence, they shoot themselves up, then have the audacity

to put a Mr Fart  ( sorry Trump)    into the presidents office.

You couldnt make it up...

But in the end, our great Traditional Sense of humour, gives us the great strength of not really giving a shit..

Even so we still have strange folk who believe in being proud of who you are, instead of what you do.!!

 

[Jattdogg]

Transplanted to Canada

 

Likes:

-Maple syrup

-friendly multicultural citizens

-tim hortons. Cheap but meh food. Canadian icon lol.

-healthcare for all (but some shitty wait times)

-so much greenspace, camping, cottages etc

-elisha cuthbert

 

Dislikes:

-Celine Dion

-travelling anywhere is a mission distance wise

-extremely cold winter periods  (-20 celsius)

-extremely hot summer periods (35 celsius and above)

 

[Benguin]

Leicester, UK.

 

Wouldn't want to live anywhere else. 

[Guest]

England

 

Like:

Pageantry (the one thing we sell well)

Countryside

Music

Variety of food

Ability to live and travel freely across europe

Belief in justice

The NHS

The 9 days in August when the sun comes out

Our plugs

Attempted equality. 

Quality pubs and restaurants (i.e. not Wetherspoons though it has its place)

Volunteers

The emergency service

Relative freedom

Historic area/buildings/artifacts

Role in producing so many varied sports

People helping each other in adversity

Rutland water

 

Dislike:

Our role in multiple wars

Our role in carbonising the planet

The fact such a rich country can be so unequal

The weather

The Tory party

Transport

The fact only London sees any infrastructure investment

low grade sausages and bacon with added water

Daily Mail and other purveyors of immigration hysteria

Price over quality

FPTP

Too backwards looking as a nation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Unabomber]

England 

I like how you can travel to anywhere within the country within a day. 

Good selection of pubs and fine dining restaurants.

 

I dislike the fact that people don’t appreciate what we have and litter/take advantage/sponge off the state etc. 

[Captain...]

England (London)

Likes:

Humour

Music

Culture

Diversity

Too many to list

 

Dislikes:

The fact that this country has everything to make it great but is constantly held back by small minded, selfish people and exploitative scum bags.

 

The incompetent fools that constantly get elected to represent the people due to a broken electoral system.

[Merging Cultures]

Zambia

 

Like:

- The lifestyle I and my family enjoy here 

- I can spend a lot of time with my children

- The game parks and wild animals

- It's relatively peaceful and safe

- Get to watch every Leicester game on TV

 

Dislike:

- Far from our families

- Limited entertainment choices

- The high levels of poverty, which I am fortunate to hopefully have an impact in reducing

- Low quality infrastructure

- A lack of education means that people do not respect their environment, women are often mistreated, and there are significant poor sanitary practices 

 

[Guest MattP]

Great Britain.

 

Like:

- The liberty and the way this tiny little island has shaped so much of the World

- Cricket

- The Countryside

- The Pubs

- The Proms and places like Glyndebourne.

- The sense of community (which appears to sadly becoming lost in a lot of places)

- Our ironic and self-decrepating humour

- Our Cathedrals, Churches and Castles.

- Cider

 

Dislike:

- The people who seek to criticise it at every opportunity and don't realise how lucky they are to live in a place like it.

- Cities like London, pits of human misery that are now a biodome of bastards.

 

[Voll Blau]

Like

 

- Countryside

- Humour

- Contribution to the arts worldwide, especially popular music, relative to the size of the country

- Gradual regeneration of many of our city centres

- Diversity

- Beer

 

Dislike

 

- How bad our rail system is, and public transport outside of London

- National anthem

- Class structure

- Some of our contribution to history

- The fact many of us are English monoglots

[Rogstanley]

England

 

Like

 

Sporting culture

Music culture

Proliference of diverse youth cultures 

British comedy (except Irish which is crap)

Relatively effective justice system

Relatively effective police/security

The fact that having a British passport, british education and British pounds makes leaving the country both short and long term relatively easy

The positive attitude of most people from Gen Y and younger towards inclusivity 

The world class city of London 

Parts of the countryside and coastline is just about nice

The concept of the NHS 

The fact that most of us do try to look after our poor and underprivileged 

 

Dislike

 

Having the worst transport infrastructure in the developed world

A population too submissive and docile to stand up for things like workers rights and wages 

Wages in general under the present government 

Minging attitudes towards anything or anyone remotely different from large sections of old people and even some of the more closed minded young people 

Baby boomers and their sense of entitlement and wisdom despite having lived through a time of unprecedented comfort and prosperity

How easily people are divided/the class system 

Awful weather 

Very few really beautiful places/absence of any exceptional geography 

Lack of colour and vibrancy in our day to day culture 

It's often just a bit dull here compared to other places 

 

 

 

[egg_fried_rice]

28 minutes ago, Rogstanley said:

 

British comedy (except Irish which is crap)

 

 

 

 

Careful now!

 

England

 

+

Humour

Beer and pub culture

Countryside, coastline, national parks etc

NHS & decentish welfare system

Mostly tolerant

 

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Transport systems (looks to be a common one this)

Increasingly moving towards a corporately influenced system of government

The skewed work/life balance culture

Little Englanders

So much rain

[Stadt]

UK, more specifically England.

 

Like:

Our history - not all great but we have centuries of rich and varied history.

Landsapes - Rolling countryside and places like Bradgate are fantastic.

Humour - Nowhere does piss taking quite like we do.

Sport - Personally I'm only really arsed about football and maybe cricket but the depth and breadth of sport in the UK is unparalleled.

Music - A huge proportion of the most influential bands, groups, artists, singers or whatever are British.

Accents - For a comparatively small place the variation in our accents is brilliant and I'm certain it's been voted the 'sexiest' in the world (Probably only received pronunciation though haha).

Universal healthcare - The US is generally more backwards than us, healthcare being one example.

Strong HDI with a reasonable cost of living.

It's safe - crime rates are fine but we don't have the threat of expansionist neighbours, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes/cyclones, forest fires, or other mental natural disasters besides occasional flooding.

Fought tyranny on the continent, twice.

Industrial revolution.

Great scientists and advances to science.

British food is unfairly maligned, some of it is great.

Pub culture

Union flag is great (St. George's isn't)

Increasingly atheist/agnostic

 

Dislike:

History of brutal imperialism

Transport infrastructure

Modern orange brick copy and paste housing estates

Housing costs

Post war buildings

Two party system

Culture of anti-intellectualism (not sure if it's the same in the rest of Western Europe

London centric

Chavs

Obesity rate

National anthem

 

 

Weather isn't great but I don't really mind the rain.

Edited 24 January 2018 by Wookie

[Samilktray]

Likes:

Grime music

Nandos

 

Dislikes:

Middle class white people 

The food 

 

[Guest MattP]

7 hours ago, Samilktray said:

Likes:

Grime music

Nandos

 

Dislikes:

Middle class white people 

The food 

Is Grime Music actually a serious genre? I heard some once and just presumed it was taking the piss out of something.

[The Doctor]

England

 

Like:

Beer

There's no weather, just grey - so no blizzards, hurricanes etc.

 

Dislike:

National anthem is so dirge 

[bovril]

National Anthem is awful tbf. 

[Guest MattP]

5 minutes ago, bovril said:

National Anthem is awful tbf. 

Worst one of the lot, sad for a country that has created so much beautiful music.

Edited 24 January 2018 by MattP

[Rogstanley]

1 minute ago, MattP said:

Worst one of the lot, sad for a country that has created so much beautiful music.

And poetry. Don’t forget our fantastic poets.

[Durnerz]

Great Britain


Likes:

Food culture
Sport
Comedy (although a little downhill at present)
London

Dislikes:

Price of British Holidays
Newspapers promoting hatred
'Celebrity' culture for nobodies
Politicians