UK house quality

GDB2222

omendata wrote: »

UK is finished, once i am settled up i will leave this crime ridden. politically correct hellhole for good and will be glad never to return!

As you get older, you may start to appreciate the UK health service more. What's it like in Slovakia? It may be excellent, for all I know.

omendata

It is superb actually they have low waiting times and the doctors are superb - my girlfriend had to go back to Slovakia when the NHS botched her operation in order to get it done properly - the Slovak doctors were horrified at the NHS standards!

Sorry mate but the NHS has failed we have doctors who do the job now not for the hippocratic oath but how much prestige and money it gives them and nurses who would rather use their iphones than do their job - personal experience there!

robatwork

omendata wrote: »

It is superb actually they have low waiting times and the doctors are superb - my girlfriend had to go back to Slovakia when the NHS botched her operation in order to get it done properly - the Slovak doctors were horrified at the NHS standards!

Sorry mate but the NHS has failed we have doctors who do the job now not for the hippocratic oath but how much prestige and money it gives them and nurses who would rather use their iphones than do their job - personal experience there!

Looks like omendata has been PPR'd but my tuppence on the NHS and health services abroad.... at least my experience of central europe mirrors the above. Their hospitals are cleaner and more modern than our overcrowded, dirty, falling apart, expensive or no parking monstrosities.

The doctors in the NHS here tend to be 90% non native anyhow and I have found standards similar. I have found that some nurses and doctors abroad speak clearer English than nurses and doctors here - no exaggeration.

Davesnave

The poster formerly known as omendata wasn't PPR for the comment above, which was allowed to stand, but for a post which followed it, and maybe others too, for all I know.

Samsonite1

It is always difficult to judge based on the fact that you can only see so many properties. I have actually lived in Italy and London (and many other parts of the UK). Based on my experience, double-glazing was not great in Italy (Milan FWIW) - in most buildings the windows were thin and metal framed. A/C tended to be unreliable and was often blown out during the summer (when you needed it). If you used the washing machine and another device like a toaster or kettle, the electrics would trip and you had to go into the basement to get to the trip switches (annoying in a big apartment block).

There are hardly any houses at all in Milan because I guess it is a big city. On the other hand, living around 10 miles out of central London, it is all decent sized houses with drives and 99% double glazed.

Despite all that, I would not necessarily say one is better than the other because in a similar way to the OP, I am comparing the more central parts of an Italian city with the outer suburbs of London - it seems that central areas are less value and less quality, but if you go out of town a bit to the suburbs, things improve (if you looking at quality).

sillyhilly

omendata wrote: »

It is superb actually they have low waiting times and the doctors are superb - my girlfriend had to go back to Slovakia when the NHS botched her operation in order to get it done properly - the Slovak doctors were horrified at the NHS standards!

Sorry mate but the NHS has failed we have doctors who do the job now not for the hippocratic oath but how much prestige and money it gives them and nurses who would rather use their iphones than do their job - personal experience there!

Could I suggest that you move to Slovakia sooner?

I mean, you live in the UK for a reason, right? Better money? Better work standards / opportunities? Less corrupt?

I agree though that Slovakia is sleepy. Although in comparing Bratislava to London, it is the ultimate dull bore. But if that floats your boat, go for it!

Rocksolid

We can't compare Slovakia with UK, for the simple reason that are not comparable, but few remarks:

1) In the communism that was the architecture, so buildings inside and outside they suck! Today for sure are also cleaner.
So the occident looks always newer and cool.

2) NHS is slow because you are comparing a German queue system with the UK, no way man, German are the most efficient in almost everything, search online.

3) In UK too many foreigners imported like the meat from a farm, inevitably the quality of everything goes down, and criminality goes up.

Anyway this is an OT...

In Italy the electrical system usually is limited to 3KW/h, max 6.
We are retarted in that, no way to change it.

I'll look again around Northampton, Bedford, Milton Keynes, really curious... But also in Watford houses suck, if you want to talk about external London...

Samsonite1

Those are grotty areas. Try Southern edges of London and beyond, Bromley, Sussex, Surrey - quite different.

Rocksolid

From outside in those locations look better, I would say almost pretty, but inside are the same...
I personally visited other 12 houses and 2 apartments in the north London, new or old same crack quality...
What I've noticed is that also 500k house (4 bedroom and not so big) around London are low quality, they are all built in this way...
I'm still curious to see the foundations project...
Such a disgrace...

RelievedSheff

Rocksolid wrote: »

From outside in those locations look better, I would say almost pretty, but inside are the same...
I personally visited other 12 houses and 2 apartments in the north London, new or old same crack quality...
What I've noticed is that also 500k house (4 bedroom and not so big) around London are low quality, they are all built in this way...
I'm still curious to see the foundations project...
Such a disgrace...

Go to any new build housing estate that is being built and you will be able to see new homes in varying stages of construction from foundations right through to final sign off.

Visiting 14 homes really isn't enough to write off the whole of the UK housing stock as badly built.

Before we bought our first home we viewed over 80 houses before settling on the one that was right for us at the time. Even within houses of the same construction and house type there were differences in build quality. It is luck of the draw which trades people you get on the build you choose, some are far better than others.