Britain has worst quality of life in Europe

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thriftybabe wrote: »

When I hear that people are paying 4 euros for a half pint of Magners in Spain I really think that we are doing okay.

I'm sure you could pay handsomely for exotic, foreign drinks in the UK, too.

Wookster

andykn wrote: »

By "not surprising" I hope you mean "completely wrong"? Otherwise you come across as a baseless whiner.

Not surprising that Britain comes towards the bottom.

Call me a baseless whiner but I'll just tell you you need to travel a bit and see how people in other countries (say in Mainland Europe, South Africa, the USA, Canada & Australia) live.

Perhaps then you will realise that the UK is leagues below those places.

Apologies, just telling it like I see it...

FrankieBoyle

Wookster wrote: »

Not surprising that Britain comes towards the bottom.

Call me a baseless whiner but I'll just tell you you need to travel a bit and see how people in other countries (say in Mainland Europe, South Africa, the USA, Canada & Australia) live.

Perhaps then you will realise that the UK is leagues below those places.

Apologies, just telling it like I see it...

So why are you still here if it's so rubbish

StevieJ

FrankieBoyle wrote: »

So why are you still here if it's so rubbish

That is a fair point, maybe the others won't have him Not sure I would fancy South Africa.

Wookster

FrankieBoyle wrote: »

So why are you still here if it's so rubbish

Sucker for punishment?

Actually I am looking at options abroad but this is a tough time where ever you are for jobs.

andykn

Wookster wrote: »

Not surprising that Britain comes towards the bottom.

Call me a baseless whiner but I'll just tell you you need to travel a bit and see how people in other countries (say in Mainland Europe, South Africa, the USA, Canada & Australia) live.

Perhaps then you will realise that the UK is leagues below those places.

Apologies, just telling it like I see it...

Personal experience is fine, I can hardly argue with the way you see it, it's just that the basis of this survey is worthless.

For me personally, too many people get shot in SA and locked up in the USA (1 in 100 adult males is in prison, I think).

Canada too cold, Australia too hot and not enough going on (I live in London).

My sister lives in France and its nice but high taxes, unemployment and nos of strike days. Berr's expensive too and that's if you can find anywhere open; most of non urban France seems to close at 9.30. As for Europe as a whole - Europop <shudder>.

YMMV

Cleaver

amcluesent wrote: »

British people have the worst quality of life in Europe, according to a report which highlights the long hours, bad weather, low life expectancy and high price of many consumer goods.

"Though British households enjoy the highest income, at £35,730 a year, £10,325 higher than the European average, British families have to contend with a high cost of living, with fuel, food and alcohol all costing more than the European average.

Oh for god's sake. Who cares?

Get a new hobby, meet some new friends, go and volunteer for a saturday night with the homeless, bake a cake you've never baked before, go to a bar you've always been scared to go in and have a cocktail, go and eat sushi, go and see some death metal just for the sh*t of it, go on a walking tour, buy a guinea pig, learn how to write your name in Japanese, write a hand-written letter to a friend you normally only e-mail, call your mum and tell her she's ace, learn how to play 'smoke on the water' on the guitar, join the library and get out all of those classic books you've never read, write a 10 page letter to Tesco head office telling them you'll never shop there again and you're using your local butcher from now on, make a pizza from scratch including the base and with fresh oregano, listen to 'Sabotage' by The Beastie Boys really, really loudly, spend a sunday afternoon with three cream cakes and your favourite magazines, buy £100 of shares in a company picked at random, visit Iceland for a weekend, go to the seaside and play on the penny machines, get a tattoo in a hidden place and don't tell anyone, send a kid in your family £20 and tell them to spend it on only fun stuff, next time it really hammers it down with rain go and have a dance in the downpour, learn a couple of star constellations and then find them on a clear night, go for a walk with a loved one at midnight, write a complaint letter to a business you've always hated, buy an unusual hat, borrow the first series of The Wire on DVD and enjoy, test drive a posh car, enter a 10k run, lie in bed with your partner and play mallet's mallet, learn to juggle.

I won't go on. Quality of life is nothing to do with your nation's average life expectancy, the amount of days you get off work or alcohol costing more at your local shop than it does in Spain. Get out there, enjoy yourself.

Wookster

andykn wrote: »

Personal experience is fine, I can hardly argue with the way you see it, it's just that the basis of this survey is worthless.

For me personally, too many people get shot in SA and locked up in the USA (1 in 100 adult males is in prison, I think).

Canada too cold, Australia too hot and not enough going on (I live in London).

My sister lives in France and its nice but high taxes, unemployment and nos of strike days. Berr's expensive too and that's if you can find anywhere open; most of non urban France seems to close at 9.30. As for Europe as a whole - Europop <shudder>.

YMMV

Every place has its pros and its cons and some things are more important to some people than others. For example, I'd be quite happy to live in a much smaller town as I do nothing that takes advantage of anything specific to London (other than perhaps travelling on crowded trains) but you would not.

Afriend_2

This threads so depressing. I'm off to play word association at the moneysavers. They are extremely welcoming. Asking how my day is. No-one does that on here. I suspect they're all members of the church of scientology trying to recruit. If I start telling you all that you're great and hugging you, then I've been corrupted.