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Re: Not Appreciating Your own Country
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:23 pm
by Dave Wells
Living in Australia it's too easy to make such a statement.
Re: Not Appreciating Your own Country
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 8:33 am
by stefano romantico
I have lived in prague for the past 6 years and it is a very beautiful city but it is a very cold kulture . I lived also in berlin wher i miss it . I go to budapest to shoot in two days and i might settle down there .
Re: Not Appreciating Your own Country
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:08 pm
by beutelwolf
I have lived in the UK for almost 20 years, and before that for 30 years in Germany.
And there are things I like better in Germany and there are things I like better in the UK.
On the plus side for the UK (compared to Germany)
- society allows you more to be an individual, it does not force you into a system
- British pragmatism
- generally, a friendlier place
On the negative side
- centralised (and opaque) authority in many areas of public life
- public services are generally worse, e.g. public transport, the postal system
- the remnants of the class system; this has some subtle consequences, e.g. the way Britain gradually lost its industries and focused on the financial sector instead is connected to that
Someone mentioned as a British plus the scenery. Well, as far as towns and cities go, fair enough - there are quite a few places worth visiting, but I find the British countryside a bit underwhelming. That is mostly greenery that is either directly or indirectly the result of farming and other human intervention, and that even includes the Scottish highlands (getting rid of forests to favour sheep-farming).