If we are all leaving...

[Andyw]

Where is Old York ?

[AlfredJPruffock]

A colleague of mine has sold up and is moving to New Zealand.

Question. Where is Old Zealand?

Methinks this is is derived from the costal provence of the Southern Netherlands called Zeeland.

[Pondlife]

Where is Old York ?

Um, England I think.

[PropertyCrashUK]

If everyone who is thinking or leaving, or the 5 million who have, actually protested in the streets then perhaps we would get the country we want run in the way we want.

The reality is, IMPO, that a handful of way too politically correct people are ******* the country up for all of us by not putting criminals in jail, by giving criminals everything they seem to want, by giving scroungers lots of money, by deriding all the values that many of us hold dear and which made this country great....

It is THOSE people we should be kicking out.

When did we all decide that sending criminals to jail for long times was no longer a good idea? Was there a vote on it? I don't recall anyone asking our opinion on it.

[bogeyman]

A colleague of mine has sold up and is moving to New Zealand.

Question. Where is Old Zealand?

I'm sure you were being facetious, but it's in Denmark.

Either New or Old Zealand are vastly superior alternatives to this toilet formally known as the UK.

[gingerjedi]

I begrudge the £1000+ a week it cost to keep the feckers there, prison reform is what we need somthing along the lines of a jap PoW camp, they can sort the railways out at the same time!

[bogeyman]

The reality is, IMPO, that a handful of way too politically correct people are ******* the country up for all of us by not putting criminals in jail

But they can't. There are not enough cells.

Read the news - they are actively trawling 'Young Offenders' institutions and trying to find the least scummy, scumbags to release early!

[GreenerGrass]

It seems everyone on here agrees the country has gone to the dogs under Nu Lie and we all want to get out, so the question is:

Where is the best place to live in terms of relative safty, cost of living, standard of living, ability to make a living, culture, climate food etc?

Following Hannah Pool's article in the Evening Standard the other day slagging off Australia on the basis of visiting Sidney 5 years ago, I think I want to live there for most of the reasons she dislikes it.
Quite tricky to get in for contractors I'm told even if you're on the skills hotlist, for some reason they prefer people in permie jobs?

[Numptycorner]

I hate the pc mess this country has become, you can't even trip over blind people these days, or punch spastics in the face.

[Lockhouse]

New Zealand has it's own problems - a lot of the locals are poorly educated, property prices are (relatively) high and wages are low, crime is actually much worse than in the UK but not as much of it get reported etc.