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Originally posted by VectraManI saw an upside down BMW on the Brussels Ring Road about 7am a few weeks back.
Another one of those grass is greener things is people saying how terrrible British roads are because of low standards/under investment/British workers don't care etc. But actually, try Belgium.
British motorists are the most uptight in Europe, the Belgians the most laid-back, and the French top the league for road rage, figures suggest.
The survey comes as the RAC Foundation warns Britons driving abroad this summer to take care, with UK tourists in far greater danger on foreign roads.
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Originally posted by threadedI also hear more English being spoken in Denmark than in England.
I can go into a corner shop, petrol station, W.H.Y., in Denmark and speak English and be understood. Why not in England? It is just another one of those truely bizarre things.
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Originally posted by Clog II The AvengerI hear more English being spoken in Holland than in England.
I can go into a corner shop, petrol station, W.H.Y., in Denmark and speak English and be understood. Why not in England? It is just another one of those truely bizarre things.
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Aye SS
Life is what you make it, and its true that you cant run away from yourself.
For some odd reason whilst reading your comments a couple of Old tunes from the Smiths camce back to me
Clumsy and shy I went to london and died
I booked myself in at the YWCA
I said I like it here can I stay
and do you have a vacancy for a back scrubber."
I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
But heaven knows I'm miserable now
I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
And heaven knows I'm miserable now
In my life
Why do I give valuable time
To people who don't care if I live or die ?
Two lovers entwined pass me by
And heaven knows I'm miserable now
As merry as the days were long
I was right and you were wrong
Back at the old grey school
I would win and you would lose
But you've got everything now
and what a terrible mess I've made of my life
No, I've never had a job
because I've never wanted one
I've seen you smile
but I've never really heard you laugh
So who is rich and who is poor?
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The UK
I have my issues with the UK, but looking at everything in perspective is a must when deciding whether to emigrate or not.
Your happiness elsewhere will depend on quite a few things. I think a lot of people interperet a desire for change as a reason to emigrate but fail to realise that the reason they are so miserable is not the UK, its themselves.
It sometimes takes an extended sojourn overseas to put things in perspective. Many of my fellow countryman where whinging about SA when they left, spent a few years here and either went back with their tails between their legs, or went back willingly becuase they weighed up the good and the bad and decided that they would rather live there, and put up with all the associated cr@p, becuase the benefits outweighed the positives.
I went through a funny phase a while back. I live in tower hamlets, its summer, so it smells, there are chavs everywhere quaffing KFC with their mouths open, sirens police , tiny flats etc and I was getting pretty depressed.
A mate was over from Minsk, and I went with him to London Bridge and we watched a free openair jazz concert which was brilliant. He said to me that nothing like this ever happens where he is from and he would love to live here because there is so much to do and see, so many opportunities etc. He has lived here before so he know the drill and he is talking based on his experiences in both places.
All it really took was his words to twig in my head to realise that you and you alone make yourself happy, its not really to do with a place, bar extreme circumstances and events.
When I was younger I used to work in a beach bar in Cape Town. Funky house tunes, 100 m away facing the sea, all the drinks I wanted, being chatted up by beautiful girls, enough money to live quite comfortably, lots of free time. The evening sessions where Ibiza'esque in their perfection.
All I wanted to do was get to London, so I could get a job in IT and make money and consequently was miserable a large part of the time and I really didnt appreciate what I had at the time. I now pay 4 times more tax than my monthly salary there at the time, but I would be lying if I said that made me any happier or I feel any bigger sense of well being because of it.
We are constantly told whats bad and negative, every news item has a negative slant making us fearful, paranoid and ultimately shaping our perception of the world around us.
The UK is not a bad place to live, like everywhere else it has its bad points but I think the media make it out to be much worse than it actually is.
Sunny "Tony B is still a tw@t though" San
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Originally posted by VectraManI saw an upside down BMW on the Brussels Ring Road about 7am a few weeks back.
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Originally posted by BovveredGreat survey. One of the options was clearly not what people were actually thinking, but a PC comment straight out of the do-gooders handbook.
If there were options saying, "fed up of immigration", "fed up of anti-social behaviour", "fed up of the victims of crime being the victims of justic", I wonder how many people would have ticked those boxes?
Which equals not liking what Britain had become DUR !
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Originally posted by VectraManI saw an upside down BMW on the Brussels Ring Road about 7am a few weeks back.
Another one of those grass is greener things is people saying how terrrible British roads are because of low standards/under investment/British workers don't care etc. But actually, try Belgium.
Even when a place has "the weather" or "the lifestyle" or "no chavs" and those places do exist, you still have a number of barriers which make it much more difficult to live there than people think.
Good luck to those who manage, but for many it is a frying pan, fire situation.
I also think it is pointless arguing over why people left based on some dodgy survey data. People dont always answer honestly and may give a positive answer even though deep down there is another reason for leaving.
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Originally posted by The Lone GunmanWorked in Brussels for 12 months traffic scared the willies out of me.
Another one of those grass is greener things is people saying how terrrible British roads are because of low standards/under investment/British workers don't care etc. But actually, try Belgium.
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Originally posted by Joe BlackBet you loved the whole "Priorite a Droit" thing as well.
I actualy didnt drive much in Brussels. Local transport was up to the job so I left my car at home. Watching from the bus was bad enough.
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Originally posted by Joe BlackLG, so far as the "pull over and let faster cars pass you as soon as you can" the problem though is that in some countries it seems you're expected to pull over even when there's no space to pull over into.
In my experience the stats give a fare indication of driving in different countries, certainly here in Belgium where I see far more dangerous driving and general lack of concern for anyone, be that other road users or fellow passengers, any day of the week than I ever did in the UK.
Stats 2004
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Originally posted by VectraManAnd what do you think the rules of the road say in the UK?
In Germany you should pull over into a suitable gap to let a faster car pass you then pull out again to continue with your over taking.
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