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Feb 11th 2014, 7:47 am

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Re: Florida, California or UK?!

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Originally Posted by hungryhorace

+1

I've lived there, it's beautiful and very affluent. Hardly any asylum seekers or eastern european immigrants either - win.

Oh the irony

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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing

Oh they're there. They come through at night. Waiting ... watching ....

Nah, they don't. Or maybe they do. Who knows, but saying there's no Eastern Europeans there is just as absurd as using weather as a reason to say somewhere is bad or good

Feb 11th 2014, 7:49 am

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Re: Florida, California or UK?!

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I wouldn't want to live in an area where Eastern Europeans were more >=1% of the town population.

Hey....

Feb 11th 2014, 7:54 am

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Don't come to Chicago then. Full of Polish immigrants and their descendants. Plus, I don't make six figures a year and you'd be within 60 miles of me.

I'm talking at a town level. I wouldn't want to live in the low income areas, which is where these people usually are. Where we live according to the last census the median income is around $150k. That suits me fine.

Feb 11th 2014, 7:57 am

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Re: Florida, California or UK?!

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I live in a village. I don't know, nor do I care what everyone makes as long as they don't bother me.

For that matter, my household income is nowhere near $150K - are you sure I'm allowed to be talking to you?

Feb 11th 2014, 7:58 am

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Re: Florida, California or UK?!

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I wouldn't want to live in an area where Eastern Europeans were more >=1% of the town population. Same goes for asylum seekers, low income earners etc.

Oooh. You have big problems!

Now I don't like my beloved London overtaken by Eastern Europeans, but I'd still live there in a heart beat.

But low income earners - just think that over please.

Re. Wokingham - again, I remember visiting many years ago, and it looked just like any other bit of UK suburbia. But what Christmasoompa is describing sounds abosolutely lovely - so what do I know!

Feb 11th 2014, 8:00 am

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Re: Florida, California or UK?!

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Now I don't like my beloved London overtaken by Eastern Europeans ...

Reread that and tell me it doesn't sound just a tad over dramatic ...

Feb 11th 2014, 8:00 am

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Reread that and tell me it doesn't sound just a tad over dramatic ...

It's true though.

Feb 11th 2014, 8:01 am

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It's true though.

Look out - the sky is falling as well.

Feb 11th 2014, 8:03 am

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Re: Florida, California or UK?!

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Oooh. You have big problems!

Now I don't like my beloved London overtaken by Eastern Europeans, but I'd still live there in a heart beat.

I couldn't think of anything worse than living in London. I take your point though, however, remember also London is one of the richest places in the Western world.

Feb 11th 2014, 8:04 am

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Re: Florida, California or UK?!

This Eastern European doesn't much care for London, either

Feb 11th 2014, 8:07 am

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Re: Florida, California or UK?!

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This Eastern European doesn't much care for London, either

But you're barely any more "East European" than all those Italians in New York are "Italian".

Feb 11th 2014, 8:11 am

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I couldn't think of anything worse than living in London. ......

So you relocated to Boston, MA which is crowded and expensive like London, but with less history, less culture, and poorer public transport.

Feb 11th 2014, 8:11 am

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So you relocated to Boston, MA which is crowded and expensive like London, but with less history, less culture, and poorer public transport.

Also, more rain ...

/the more you know

Feb 11th 2014, 8:12 am

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But you're barely any more "East European" than all those Italians in New York are "Italian".

I had a waiter the other week who said to us he was Italian. So I asked him how much renewing his Italian passport cost, as I commented by UK one is extortionate to renew from the US. Turns out he isn't either an Italian citizen nor has he ever visited Italy.

Yet he feels able to call himself Italian. I informed him he was American, and if he was Italian to get the citizenship. What a berk.

Feb 11th 2014, 8:13 am

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So you relocated to Boston, MA which is crowded and expensive like London, but with less history, less culture, and poorer public transport.

I don't live in Boston. I live in the 'burbs outside. The thought of that would fill me with just as much detest as living in London.

NB: I would never compare Boston to London. Like you say, they're worlds apart. Boston is minuscule in pretty much every regard compared to London.