American Family Moved to the UK

fuzzybuddy said:
I did visit London 20 years ago, so, of course, I'm supremely able to comment on this thread. Somehow, I doubt tourism promoters in the UK are rolling out an ad campaign touting their toilets, as the ones Matthew loves. And sorry, Matt, there was nothing in your video , which makes me want to pack my bags, and fly over. From my brief stay in the UK, I felt very much at home. But Matt, you're not a great salesman.
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He's not trying to sell it, more I suspect to explain the differences he's found between the 2 countries...
 

Clearly, most of y'all have never been to a Buc-ee's. It's a convenience store in Texas on steroids, with the cheapest fuel in town and restrooms so clean they'd put your grandmother to shame. Absolutely no half doors, and enough stalls to service an army platoon. And snack food to feed that platoon and then some.
 

retiredtraveler said:
Yeah. Your pics are 'typical' of the states for all the travels we've done. Sidewalks are the exception, not the rule. I'm in an outlying Chicago 'burb'. We mostly have sidewalks in town, but that's not true all over town. It's 'typical' in most of the states, where roads were built over 50 years ago, to not have a walk. It's primarily the newer burbs and of course, major cities, to have them.
But hey, Americans don't walk anyway.
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ah, not entirely true. I walk all the time, and so do many of my friends. :love:
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I did visit London 20 years ago, so, of course, I'm supremely able to comment on this thread. Somehow, I doubt tourism promoters in the UK are rolling out an ad campaign touting their toilets, as the ones Matthew loves. And sorry, Matt, there was nothing in your video , which makes me want to pack my bags, and fly over. From my brief stay in the UK, I felt very much at home. But Matt, you're not a great salesman. I don't know how many country lanes have sidewalks? And yeah, if you aren't in a built up urban area ,and surrounded by cows, you might be in the countryside.. Gee WOW! Matt, you got to get out a lot more.
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What Matt describes to me is kind of like 8 blind men at different parts of an elephant trying to describe what an elephant looks like. Each doing what they like about their part. Nothing wrong with that just their or his opinion
 
CarolfromTX said:
Clearly, most of y'all have never been to a Buc-ee's. It's a convenience store in Texas on steroids, with the cheapest fuel in town and restrooms so clean they'd put your grandmother to shame. Absolutely no half doors, and enough stalls to service an army platoon. And snack food to feed that platoon and then some.
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The size of the UK cannot be compared to the size of the US .... We've had this discussion in the past.

.... the ENTIRE United Kingdom would fit into our state of Oregon, and I believe the climate and coastline would be comparable to Oregon too.

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England is a beautiful/quant/historic country but the weather there would really depress me, I lived in Europe during the 1980s and suffered from sustained seasonal depression because of constant rain and cloudy skies. I never did get used to it. I love my sunny skies, it keeps me in a much happier state of mind.
 
Lc jones said:
England is a beautiful/quant/historic country but the weather there would really depress me, I lived in Europe during the 1980s and suffered from sustained seasonal depression because of constant rain and cloudy skies. I never did get used to it. I love my sunny skies, it keeps me in a much happier state of mind.
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There isn't constant rain here in the south of England in fact we get relatively little rain annually. I just compared Florida and according to stats they get around 59 inches of rain per year on average... conversely we in the south of England get quite a lot less at 39 inches, pa . Our summers are hot, the last 2 summers have been extremely hot at high 90's degrees..
 
hollydolly said:
There isn't constant rain here in the south of England in fact we get relatively little rain annually. I just compared Florida and according to stats they get around 59 inches of rain per year on average... conversely we in the south of England get quite a lot less at 39 inches, pa . Our summers are hot, the last 2 summers have been extremely hot at high 90's degrees..
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That’s interesting how about sunshine?
 
hollydolly said:
There isn't constant rain here in the south of England in fact we get relatively little rain annually. I just compared Florida and according to stats they get around 59 inches of rain per year on average... conversely we in the south of England get quite a lot less at 39 inches, pa . Our summers are hot, the last 2 summers have been extremely hot at high 90's degrees..
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We get 12 inches of rain a year and our average summer temp is 104. LOL Lots of sunshine.
 
hollydolly said:
I have heard in the past about American public toilets having half doors. I would not want to use those, because I would hate anyone hearing me going to the loo....

I could understand a small crawl space under a toilet door which we do have here too, in case a child gets locked in or an emergency happens..but not a half door.. !!
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@hollydolly I've never seen a rest room with a half door here HD. But there is a small crawl space under the door. But you can hear the tinkling! lol Guess I must be used to it. I think we tune it out, though, and mind our business... :ROFLMAO:
 
I feel sad to see animosity (or animosity perceived) creeping into discussions =(
I've only been to England one time (would drop everything in a New York minute to go again) but I found the people kind and courteous. Yes, there were some things I didn't "get" but overall I loved it.
As a travel nurse in the USA I've worked in or traveled through many states... beautiful sights to see and lovely people to meet as well.

No country is all bad; no country is perfect but You can find beauty and kindness wherever you go.
 
The animosity comes from insecure, overly-defensive residents of England.

The map posted in #57 by Bonnie puts things in perspective. Yet, it should include Hawaii and Alaska - which is over twice the size of Texas! 🤪
 
Lc jones said:
I imagine because there are locks on the doors....
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there are locks on our doors too. When you lock the door on the inside there's an indicator on the outside which tells others the loo is occupied.. it prevents people trying to open the door when you're in there... but it's not just the uk, every country I've ever visited has similar locks on their public toilets ...

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Lc jones said:
England is a beautiful/quant/historic country but the weather there would really depress me, I lived in Europe during the 1980s and suffered from sustained seasonal depression because of constant rain and cloudy skies. I never did get used to it. I love my sunny skies, it keeps me in a much happier state of mind.
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Britain is not just composed of England you know! As for the weather it is usually the first thing mentioned when one meets up with another person. We have loads of microclimates, one of our daughters lives only six miles from us, her weather an be very different to ours.
 
When I was at School, I was told that the UK would
fit inside Texas with room to spare, the picture of
the map above is including Ireland, only a little bit
at the top right corner of it is British, the rest is a
different Country.

Mike.
 
pleinmont said:
Britain is not just composed of England you know! As for the weather it is usually the first thing mentioned when one meets up with another person. We have loads of microclimates, one of our daughters lives only six miles from us, her weather an be very different to ours.
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Exactly.

Look at a map of the world .. and that is why the comparison (weatherwise and size) to our state of Oregon.... although you are across from Canada.
 
Lc jones said:
That’s interesting how about sunshine?
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Where I live in the East of England our annual sunshine is approx 1600 hours per annum ...In the area where the young couple in the video live which is far south and on the coast they get more than that...

Here in the south and also in the west (although the latter conversely gets a lot of rain too) we get more sunshine than the rest of the uk... the North of the UK and Ireland generally get the least sun

The UK maybe a small Island but it's weather is hugely diverse...
 
Mike said:
When I was at School, I was told that the UK would
fit inside Texas with room to spare, the picture of
the map above is including Ireland, only a little bit
at the top right corner of it is British, the rest is a
different Country.

Mike.
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The state of Oregon is about 98,466 square miles with a population estimated at nearly 3.8 million.
The United Kingdom: about 93,278 square miles with population of more than 61 million

The weather ... the United Kingdom's climate is similar to Oregon's.
 
Bonnie said:
The state of Oregon is about 98,466 square miles with a population estimated at nearly 3.8 million.
The United Kingdom: about 93,278 square miles with population of more than 61 million

The weather ... the United Kingdom's climate is similar to Oregon's.
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actually the offical figures are close to 68 million,
 

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