Hey yall !....Whats England like ??

 It was a fun day but I’m ‘really’ glad that i managed not to slip over in that mud! Where did you used to work? 

Until I stoped working I always had outdoor jobs, I was out in all weathers all year round, I got used to it and it didn't really bother me, though obviously nobody likes to be too cold - but mud is alway the worst of it, it doesn't matter the type of ground once it's muddy it makes everything hard work. It now feels a bit strange when I can sit inside when the weather's really bad. I both empathise and envy you your mud. 

yes !  things in Autumn are really pretty. !

wow , all this about England sounds really awesome.  ive seen Braveheart, Aidie.,.....oh, it sounds really neat to visit there someday maybe. oh nice ! free health treatment,...oh yes, ! ive seen on a tv show once where,  in England ya cant buy guns .   oh. alrity, Aidie, thats neat about England. 

Not when I’m stuck out in it, in the middle of a very muddy and slippery nature reserve! It might be if I was watching it from inside though!

However, when referring to positives...

Our history and heritage spans back millennia. We are still finding out where we all came from.

The NHS is one of the best things that our country introduced. At least those that cannot afford private healthcare, can rely on the NHS to help.

In this country, ownership of a firearm is a PRIVILEGE and not a RIGHT. 

Like all countries, England does have it's dark spots. However, thankfully, violent crime is actually quite a rarity.

I once heard Billy Connelly say 'there's no such thing as bad weather, there's just the wrong clothes' and I think I agree with him. Right now, I'm sitting in my nice warm house with an icy rain storm outside and it's not so bad. In fact the rain on the window makes the trees in their autumn finery look lovely. 

i love rain, its just so beautiful.

Wet! I can’t remember the last day when it didn’t rain!!

Glad to see some support here for the NHS system. I can't use it, after I've been so many years abroad; but if I had to return, I'm sure it would do its best; Always supposing the current regime don't destroy it just because they hate everything it stands for. I have recently witnessed (while back home for a break) two cases of really effective healthcare for other family members.

I have to say that almost no one at my income level really felt particularly at home in the UK during the 10 year Thatcher reign; even those who voted for her. They were very divisive times; and it's just as bad right now. But I still have quite a lot of faith in the majority of UK people.

The NHS is definitely a national treasure. 

I don't know how England/Britain/UK compares in tourist numbers to the rest of Europe but I do think we get fair few of them; they do tend to go to all the main and most obvious tourist spots and miss out on some of the UK's most beautiful and less well known places though, but then there is good and bad to that I suppose. 

I'm used to living in very touristy areas and I like them but some of the Instagram crazes have been very difficult and quite destructive to local beauty spots. It does make me sad though when someone gets off and plane and onto a bus then spends 10 days driving from one castle to the next and not much else, but I suppose that's easier to organise if you live on the other side of the world.

England is the most beautiful place in the world completely underrated as a tourist spot. England has a very complex historic background. As for living there that is more difficult as the house prices are crazy compared to USA. The really big difference between USA and England is our health system which we call the NHS. Put simply everyone gets health treatment for free.  Also we cant buy guns in supermarkets or really at all.  England is tiny compared to the vastness of the USA which I found is its greatness beauty.

I stand corrected! 

The Cairngorms are in Scotland, Snowdonia is in Wales.

I just naturally assumed that Jake meant the UK as a whole.

CaliforniaDreamer95 said:

The Cairngorms, Snowdonia... among others.

With out wanting to be pedantic but neither The Cairngorms or Snowdonia are in England. 

:-) That really does sum it up, CD95. A helluva like the States, Jake. I quit the UK decades ago, but still like the country. The politics sucks! Kmart has nothing to worry about, in comparison. ;-)

Hello Jake,

At the moment England is...

- Freezing Cold

- Confused

- Lots of the skilled population are unemployed

- Migrants are trying to get to a country that they think that will offer them a decent future. Instead, it can barely look after its own citizens

- It is offering rose coloured spectacles to the unfortunates 

- A government that is a mix of corrupt elitists 

Other than this, it has some of the best national parks. Lake District, North Yorkshire Moors, Yorkshire Dales, Peak District, The Cairngorms, Snowdonia... among others.