What's it like living in the uk?

happy Asked by overit 10 months ago, 25 answers.

I've always wanted to live in the UK but I live in cold a*ss boring Canada. The UK seems so cool like the accents and the bulidings and the schools anyways whats it really like in the UK?

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Answered by love16 on Jan 03, 2008, 06:01AM
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it's cold and to me it's boring in the uk they is nothing a lot of things to do in the day are the night.

Answered by badxxgurl on Jan 03, 2008, 07:42AM
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in the uk its fun - 2 me and my mate's we enjoy it here, there is lot to do in the day and the night lol xx

Answered by singsthesorrow on Jan 03, 2008, 07:54AM
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Definitely cold. I live in London and I don't think there's loads to do. Buildings? haha, which. Schools - warning you have to wear a uniform. I can't really comment about the accents. A lot of people imagine people in the UK to have posh queen-like accents but it's all different around the UK. Here in London you either get the chavs (innit man, like omg yeah, haha) or people with not a posh accent exactly but anyone outside of UK would think of it as typical british. It's also extremely multi-cultural here in London (I don't know anyone who is 100% english in London) so there are a lot of foreign accents. I don't know what you imagine it to be like here but all I can say about here is there's terrible hygeine (litter and bird crap everywhere) but the shopping is good (exensive, but good).
I guess if it's all new to you then you wouldn't find it boring but you would definitely be disappointed in many ways.

Answered by amans13 on Jan 03, 2008, 09:22AM
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well its like FREEZING all year round even in the summer at times lol but erm the only place I would suggest in the UK to live in is London becuase thats really the only palce where u'l have fun!..I live in London and its realy fun theres a lot of stuff to do if you know your way around. they have liek the best clubs and great places to shop, but its really expensive here tho...but with the accent everyone in london uses INIT at the end of every sentence even me its kinda of a habbit lol..n its not only chavs hu use it. but no1 really has a posh accent in london, like most of the people use slang, I'm from east london so we use east london slang.

you wont really see any real british person in London becuase every one in London is a foreigner, were all from different parts of the world..but the majority is Indians and other Asians and also a lot of East Europeans, American and them Aussies but no1 really likes them lol...but I guess its all good though..how Canada?

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Answered by funadvice on Jan 03, 2008, 09:31AM
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I don't think it's colder than Canada! We have the Gulf Stream to keep us warm (at the moment, anyway) so we don't get the snowy winters that Canada does. (Yes, we do get some snow, but what we call a 'blizzard' is apparantly what Canadians call a 'light flurry'.)

I have several British friends who have decided to emigrate to Canada over the last 10 years. They admire your lifestyle and your politics and your beautiful country. Some parents I know think their kids are going to get a better deal in Canadian schools if they are dyslexic, for example.

But there are some great things about Britain. Some of the big cities are very exciting and multi-cultural, the TV is good (compared to the rest of the world) the country is small and easy to get around but very varied and beautiful.

One thing you probably wouldn't like is that it's a very crowded island. Canada is so big that you have more space to spread out. In England, particularly, people are very squashed together and we keep having problems with noisy neighbours etc.

Answered by baseball246 on Jan 03, 2008, 12:49PM
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come live in the us where its warm as crap .. especially texas .. it s awsome

HOUSTON!

Answered by valhallaqueen100 on Jan 03, 2008, 12:56PM
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I was born and bred in Londinium good ole town the Romans left behind. I still have sites to visit living here all my life I have taken advantage o it. We don't have the weather we used to due to global warming

Answered by stellaapplemoor on Jan 03, 2008, 04:00PM
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I love London and I think it's amazing. There is so much to do and if you get sick of all the crowds, traffic etc then you stick on the suburbs - go into town when you want to. I honestly wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

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Answered by slavaim on Jan 04, 2008, 06:12PM
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Lots of people have romantic notions of what it would be like to live in another country. Personally I've always wondered what it'd be like to live in Canada. we're probably quite a cynical and negative bunch in terms of our attitude compared to north americans. But I think that's changing a lot since we're becoming so Americanised.

What's it really like? I guess it's varied, if you go ten miles in either direction the accent can change drastically.

We generally tend to win all the worst of in Europe awards, such as highest teenage pregnancy rates in Europe etc. STDs are also rife amongst the youth.

One thing I hear a lot, especially while I'm at uni (in Manchester), is that London is really unfriendly, so I recommend you come up north to truly sample what England is like Don't listen to that guy who said all the best stuff is in Londom, from the sounds of it the guy has probably never left his city.

In terms of education I think our uni's are highly regarded around the world, but it's quite expensive for foreigners to study here.

Lots of the UK is really quite urban, as has been mentioned there can be poverty, we don't really have a lot of space here. I don't really think much of the stereotypes about us are true. Wehave small houses, but many of us have an alright standard of living.

Answered by sotchick on Jan 06, 2008, 02:59PM
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I love england!!

Theres lots to do you just need to no the right places!!

2007 was a bad year tho for good weather

Answered by ash7990 on Jan 09, 2008, 04:17AM
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I live on the south coast of england, the warmest part (haha). Ok it can be lovely in the summer, but it can also be windy and raining - thats the thing with british weather...its so unpredictable. Its expensive here, we have to pay stupid amounts of tax which go to those fat idiots in government, or the illegal immigrants which we just let in, or lazy people who cant be bothered to work. - yes thats right a fair percentage of my wages each month goes to some low life chavvy scum who had a kid at 14 and cant be bothered to work. I have to travel 20 miles to chichester or go to brighton (13 miles?) for something to do as there is nothing to do where I live.

Answered by funkyfish586 on Jan 09, 2008, 11:42AM
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we are in darkness 24 hours a day. and it rains p*ss

Answered by funadvice on Jan 26, 2008, 10:12AM
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I Live in the UK and it is pretty cool but it rains a lot

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Answered by funadvice on Jan 26, 2008, 10:13AM
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rains a lot but its a cool place 2 live

Answered by thedudebrokemyheart on Feb 01, 2008, 09:29AM
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all it does is p*ssing rain and its full of chavs!!

Answered by kittykat2k7 on Feb 10, 2008, 01:46PM
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lol let me tell you the grass is no greener (or whatever they say) over here...
it rains and floods and its full of chavs... ok maybe if you go to London and Visit Trafalgar square (spelt it wrong lol) and Hamleys and stuff but.. yea I'd rather live in Canada than here because I went there for a wedding lol ok I'm going off topic...
But yeah the UK's not as good as you think " )

Answered by stephh_x on Feb 14, 2008, 02:30AM
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its rubbish and cold and boring
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Answered by funadvice on Apr 15, 2008, 09:00AM
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I live in great yarmouth wich is in uk its boring but if you was here ud always want to go back to canada x

Answered by lil_princess_4_lyf on Jun 18, 2008, 11:59AM
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Buy the film Kiddulthood of ebay chip your dvd player watch it then ull think twice about wanting to live sorry didnt mean to be rude im trying all I can to get out of this country I h8 it so much

Answered by missgembab on Jul 17, 2008, 10:00PM
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well "lil princess 4 lyf" *** off out of the country then, no one is asking you to stay here! I hate it when people moan about how crap the UK is, I much rather live here than any other European place...yes we get high taxes and *** weather, but why keep going on about it?, any one who complains is like those annoyin old people on buses! I totally agree with ash7990, yep thats the reality of life in general here. There are a lot worser places to live, trust me

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