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Sportychico

Would you like to go into a shop and be grunted at by a rude, miserable, probably non speaking English assistant or have a welcome (however insincere) like 'welcome, can I help you' 'have a nice day' ....US customer service wins hands down.....Call centres...all Indian in UK...can't understand a word and can never help....US Call centres...miles, miles better......Weather better, property cheaper, more space, loads of things to do.....I'm a Brit but sad to say our country has had it

Sportychico

im better looking but close xx

Sally Redux

3...2...1 I was waiting for the immigrants.

christmasoompa

You'd be amazed, I think it's the 'negative Brit' thing. Last summer a friend of mine made a comment about how she hoped the summer was going to be better than the last one when it 'rained constantly'. I pointed out that it had actually only rained 6 days between April and the end of July - we were being re-roofed so I was watching for rain like a hawk and even had records kept daily for billing purposes. She was amazed and then admitted her memory was playing tricks when she looked back at photos and found her daughter playing in the paddling pool almost every day even in April!

We're in a very dry part of the UK, but even so it's amazing how local people seem to think it rains far more than it actually does.

Sportychico

im lucky to have houses in UK and Florida...if I could I would be in US full time....you should stop moaning about LA or move back to UK and / or being negative....what's the point?

Sally Redux

Where am I 'moaning'?

N1cky

This is just too funny now.

When I'm in the LA office, I have to get a colleague to order my lunch, as people don't understand me. Customer service is good in the UK, and you don't have to tell the sales assistant who is following you around, making suggestions, to F off. I called Virgin Atlantic call center last week, spoke to a lovely English woman who dealt with my call in around 3 minutes because she didn't have to give me loads of drivel about 'anything else I can help you with today...' Property certainly isn't cheaper in the Bay Area (where I now live) compared to Buckinghamshire (where I relocated from) and my garden is smaller here than it was there. There is plenty to do in the UK, more so than where we currently live, and equally so to LA (and it's easier to do these things in the rain, than in 120 degree heat). Unless you want to spend all day sat on the beach of course.

Sally Redux

Britain actually doesn't have a high proportion of immigrants or a very corrupt government either.

Sportychico

whether it actually rains or not is irrelevant ....last 6 summers (apart from last one) have been poor...Also 91.7% of the time the sky is GREY...this is a FACT...if you like that then good for you....personally I hate it...Ricketts is on its way back in UK coz of lack of vitamin D / sunshine....hoorahhhh!!

SultanOfSwing

US call centres are Indian as well. One or two in Mexico I think. Nothing wrong with Indians or Mexicans but it's rare I'll call customer support for a US company and there's an American on the other end. So that's bollocks for a kick off.

Rain in the UK? Yeah, it rains in the US as well. Also, I think you are confusing overcast with wet. It might be overcast for 200 odd days a year but I doubt it rains on all 200 of those days. So that's bollocks too.

Regionally, one can easily find all kinds of weather in the US, some good some bad, some in between. It isn't always better than the weather in the UK at any given moment and weather is what it is, if you're basing your choice of residence based solely on that, you're bound to be disappointed.

I like living here (though that took a while) and I don't think it's shit in the UK - so wrap your head around that ...

N1cky

Oooh! You definitely should go back Sally

Sally Redux

Rickets is an issue in communities with dress codes that cover up totally, for sure.

Sportychico

well move back to UK then x

dunroving

So logically you are saying that there is less sunshine in the UK than there used to be? Come on!!!