London, which used to be my favorite city in Europe has become a hellhole with the widest gulf between rich and poor that I saw in Europe. Oxford looked fit for a postcard but not much else and Exeter was like the most revolting suburb you could imagine except English. Yuppie English.
Ugh, ugh, ugh.
Joanna
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>Doug:
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>>Really? Worse than the US? (That parenthetical statement is short for
>>"excepting the British," right?)
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>I think it really depends where you live. Small towns are generally
>horrible - probably as bad if not worse than comparable US places, whereas
>large metropolitan areas are quite cosmopolitan and open for outsiders - if
>they can afford living there (which is a big if). The US has an advantage
>of the economies of scale - given its sheer size it is easier to find an
>acceptable place outside major metropolitan areas than it is in most
>European countries.
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>Wojtek
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