Typical day in broken britain:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/s...re/8293217.stm

Vandals smash TV gardener statue

Vandals snapped the head off the Percy Thrower statue
Park vandals in Shropshire have broken the head off a bronze bust of the late television gardener Percy Thrower

Why have you presented this, like a radio broadcaster would?

Whats the point we've told you it goes on everywhere. We can go about trading stupid vandal and crime stories from wherever we are living all week. It still doesn't make the UK a terrible place to move back to, just as crime stats and boredom don't stop people moving to OZ or gang problems deter people moving to Los Angeles. It's pointless.
If you are so flippin unhappy move and leave the vandals to it. Or do something about it instead of moan.

Maybe I am a radio presenter and I can't help it?

Now calm down. You got out of this hell hole. If it was easy to move don't you think I would have done it by now? This thread seems full of people who moved and are now homesick god knows why there is not much to be homesick about.

I didn't get out of any hell hole I loved my life in the UK, I loved my Dh too and here we are. If I was living somewhere I disliked so much I'd do something about it. We intend to move back, nothing to do with hating where we are, life is what you make it.
Make a list of what you want/need out of life, then travel the UK till you find an area that can give you all that. Moving to another country is a very expensive lesson in life for a great many people, when moving from north to south or east to west, in UK costs a whole lot less.
Maybe you could start a new post giving us your list of needs and between us all we've lived all over UK and Ireland, I bet we could find a nice area between us.
You sound so bitter it's really sad. I don't think you appreciate what you already have there.

How eloquently put, the only response I could come up with for Martin was quite rude

Fewer words?

2 and 1 was obviously off.

Looking at his previous posts though he hasn't been around for 18 months so with a bit of luck he will disappear into his own little fantasy world again.

He's never left Royston Vasey.

I thought about it, but hey no one ever said I was a woman of few words
Unless he starts another post giving us his list of needs I think I'll just ignore him, my cage is rattling

What a load of bollocks. Hell hole indeed. Try living in downtown Kabul or Darfur. Britain is one of the better places in the world to live - fairly obviously you have never experienced anything different and are overly influenced by the Daily Fail.

Admit i have never been to nor cared to go to MK ....and can imagine it being any number of things ...but a hell hole...?? Many places out here in OZ have more than a little anti social behaviour as well.
Years ago when in Albany,West Australia,a smallish city of about 20,000 folk and rather genteel in an Aussie sort of way..a statue of an Aboriginal had it's head also removed during the night. It was located off the main street.
Hence not such an unusual event.

[QUOTE=king kong;7985273] I agree with you on this. The West is in decline - there's no doubt about that, no argument at all - and this is a symptom of it. I suppose harsher punishments would slow the rate of violence and murder down, but in general I hold a very pessimistic view on the matter.

I will add that major crime waves like we are in right now have happened in the past, and these were met with increased punishment until crime was reduced. But then the increased cost of these punishment, incarceration and rehab programmes became a drain on the state, the budgets were reduced, a wave of liberalism predominated and crime went back up. Think of 18th London and then Victorian London and then the 1940s and then today. Up and down. The imminent Conservative Government is being quite honest about the massive spending cuts on the way (biggest for 30 years) so I doubt we'll see crime being dealt with more seriously for a long time, if ever.

The solution, IMO, is find a peaceful rural location with a solid, old-fashioned community feel and a low population, and hide out there.