<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body> The last time I was in England, I thought it was horrible. 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: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid000701c5bee5$72156480$9e66dc80@WSokolows"> <pre wrap="">Doug: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Really? Worse than the US? (That parenthetical statement is short for "excepting the British," right?) </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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. Wojtek ___________________________________ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>