To All Non - British people?

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edison

Parts of the South seem ok, lot of violence on your streets at night with what appears to be drunks,an the litter people i watched just throw it anywhere ,no pride in their town, if they live there,can`t say i will be sorry to leave but, the way things are going.?

Josh C

ive been to manchester twice its cool, bit rough in places. And old trafford has terrible transport. And the peak district is lovely.

Jamsie

I have lived in the UK. Best place so far - Wales.

Hated Kent and the South. London exciting but impersonal.

Like the North, i.e Manchester and like the accents up North

ajjm

Liverpool. being all over the world and there is not a place like it. The people and the city is 10 times better then any place that ive being. that includes DUBLIN where im from.

Dread Pirate Roberts

I have yet to go to the United Kingdom. However, I am planning on going next fall with Florida State University's International Program to London for 15 weeks. While there, I intend to visit London, Stonehenge, Glasgow (I have a family friend who lives there), Edinburgh, Stratford-on-Avon, Harlaxton Manor, Chillingham Castle, and as many haunted houses/mansions/castles and beautiful cathedrals as I can find.

tattooed1

great if your friendly most will be friendly to from nc usa

Calculus

I am not a Brit but I do live in London. I am leaving UK in 2008 so I have made a commitment to visit as many places as possible in UK. The most picturesque area so far that I have been to is Peak District in Derbyshire. Oh Its endless moors and green patches! I was so stunned by its scenary I visited there twice. Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire was also breathtaking, despite the fact I was visiting in the month of December.
Cotswolds is not very far behind in the "Most picturesque areas" list. Bibury in Cotswolds is probabaly the most beautiful village in Britain. This village, which also boasts of the famous Arlington Row (A row of houses built in 1700's - one of the most photographed places in Britain) is made just for picture-postcards and nothing else. Burford, Bourton-on-Water, Upper & Lower Slaughter are also very much worth a visit (or two).
The day after I landed in UK (this was 4 years ago) I paid a visit to the Sherlock Holmes Museum in Baker Street, not able to miss it being an avid avid fan of the greatest detective!
Stonehenge - visiting there makes you feel like travelling back 5000 years to the past - a must-see.
Portsmouth Dockyard - that famous battleship of Lord Nelson!
Last weekend I was in Dover to see the White Cliffs; it was magnificent, even though half of the day was a wash-out.
I have been to Hull a couple of times, purely because I had a friend there. Even though not a tourist attraction as such, it was good to see how the main cities are different from London. Also been to the Trafford Centre in Manchester, one of the biggest shopping malls in Europe.
Been to Cambridge, it is wonderful to see how they have blended the centuries' old university into the town. Shakespeare Village in Stratford-on-Avon is an attraction in its own right. Also been to Scotland for two nights, could not much appreciate the beauty due to time constraints. Hope to go there again soon. At the moment I am planning the next-month's trip to Lake District.

jenbaugh55

We are currently living in Liverpool (from Raleigh, NC). It's a great city. The people are truely the nicest around. As long as you are nice and considerate to others around you, you should not run into any problems.

(remember though, that all people have bad days and even if you run into a grump not to take it personally.)

Abelard

I've been living in this country for 10 years and have driven almost everywhere. I came here from Poland. It improved tremendously. Especially places like Newcastle, Cardiff, Belfast, Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham changed very much for the better. And the food improved quite a lot. There used to be almost exclusively supermarkets, and now you can find (although still just few) farmers' markets, butchers, groceries. The quality of life improved as people started looking more at France, Spain and Italy rather than US. This results in small towns regaining their individual flavours. 10 years ago an awful High Street with just McDonald's, Woolworth, Pizza Hut and KFC used to be the norm. The biggest social revolutions over last ten years?:
1) Coffee shops - something that I really missed when I arrived here from Poland. I could only find few in King's Road in London. Now they seem to be almost everywhere.
2) Luxury apartment blocks - ten years ago Docklands was one of few places where you could find nice and comfortable apartments, like they used to build them on the continent. There wasn't something in-between council flats in horrible tower blocks and the very expensive detached houses. So as a result you would have these rows of these really depressing semidetached houses inhabited by people who cannot afford to maintain them properly. Now the choice is much broader.

renzu_kuken

I went to Bournemouth in England 2004, I stayed for 6 weeks doing an English course there, and now I'm living in Scotland I have been here for a year since I finished my "A" Level in Libya, desperatley I'm not Libyan I'm Iraqi but lived in Libbya for a quite long time. and now studying at Aberdeen College.

England:- Busy, I went to London for one day but "SO busy", Expensive. Bournemouth was much more quite than London, I like the weather "Cold and Snow" British here do not like cold weather, they are fed up of it, they want to have sunshine, but I hate sunshine and I want cold so Britain is for me. Bournemouth was so clean as I remember and I liked Bournemouth square were scateborders do their tricks and the millinuem flame is on all the time...it was extraordinary!

Scotland:- Aberdeen "Mr. hay You! give my hot soup back" OR " I'll hug the fireplace until dawn" SO Cold and Windy, it's in the far north east, Scottish people are so kind with us, especially when they know we are from Iraq, they share us our feelings and sadness, I truly appreciate it and I'll say in my loudest voice "THANK YOU BRITONS". but please allow me to exprite my feelings about the government, "Well, after all what I saw you citizens talk about your government that way" I'm too scared to talk the way you do.
So, Government are against or pretending to be with us, but they are against us...Does Blaire know anything about Iraq or Islam "If anyone's reading this topic, he'll say, (Oh god) Here he bgan" But no, I won't begin because this should be a very loooooooooong topic. anyway, I know that not ALL but some british citizens are with Muslims the one's whom really know what peace mean, to leave everyone practice his own religion and tradition without harming people, yes, bombers are freaking us out "Because they are hitting random places, We might be killed as well not only Christians" but we shouldn't leave this as a wall between our love and kind to each other.

just one last thing, a scottish woman came yesturday to our home, she is our naighbor, she brought us honey, me and my mom really liked her, she was talkative and supportive, I like for all british citizens to be our friends, live together, share thoughts, and be happy all the time, because "NOT" for the last time I really liked UK and it's people.

Your Friend, Leon

boo

ok, i'm english so i won't answer, but i thought i'd point out that in ref to josh c's answer (this is quite funny to me) that he states that the transport in old trafford is very bad. Josh, old trafford is a football ground, what do u expect the tranport to be like! lol!

Beckee

Last month I visited London, Oxford, Coventry, Durham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Isles of Mull and Iona, Oban, Ullapool, the Isle of Lewis, Inverness, Culrain, and Manchester.

England was very interesting, and I'm glad I visited. I particularly enjoyed taking trains and watching the BBC. I made some good friends, too.

Highland Scotland was jaw-dropping, eye-popping, heart-stopping gorgeous! It was also very meaningful to me personally and spiritually. I made good friends in Scotland as well.

I ate at one fabulous restaurant in Inverness, and some pretty good Asian restaurants all over Britain. Still wondering why I can't get tea or chopsticks in the Chinese restaurants there (actually I have a theory about the tea). In general, though...well, I didn't go for the food.

I miss the money, pound coins in particular. Your currency is much more interesting than American money.

pgw410

I went to England and Wales two years ago. I loved it! The countries are prettier and have more friendly people. I went with a student ambassador program called People to People in the summer of 2005.

marianddoc

Been over most of England and spent some time in southern Scotland. Spent the most time in the Borders.

Everyone we met was very welcoming to us Yank visitors.

Outside of the larger cities, the scenery is quite beautiful. The ride to Alston from almost anywhere is spectacular. If I could retire anywhere, it'd be in the Borders, can't wait to return.

A very different and, to my mind, superior lifestyle to that in the US.

And football (real football) everywhere!

Melissa G

I went to London and Oxford. I was on a long weekend jaunt and I absolutely love your country and It's people. I went to a West Ham/ Blackburn match and was treated like a local. They were all amused that a couple of yanks even knew anything about the EPL. My husband is a rabid Arsenal fan. We can't wait to bring our son in a year or so when he is old enough to remember the trip. I am a bit worried though about your current Muslim cultural collision. I do worry about another terrorist attack. I hope y'all figure it out. I would hate to see any of the British people die from the hands of a home grown terrorist. I consider you my brothers and sisters and I am thankful that our founding fathers were Brits. Thanks for Shakespeare, The Beatles and Monty Python. Y'all are the funniest people on the planet.

green_eyes

NO!!! But I want to go so badly!!!! Maybe when you send answerer number 1, you could send me too!!?? I love it even though I've never been there......such a pity!

Hey you up there, above me, Dread Pirate Roberts...maybe you could take me in your luggage!? That'd be awful nice of you to do so.....!!!*beggs down on both knees, lower lip pouting*

Amymoni

I've lived in London for 3 months (1990), and come back for a week or two almost every year since then. London is such an amazing city, especially if you get away from the centre. We usually live in a rented apartment in Earls Court, and travel all over the city. We have a favourite pub tucked away in a back street in Hammersmith, love to go shopping in and around Islington and in Borough Market, try to visit a new park every year, take guided walks all over the place, search for historical pubs and new places to eat, visit galleries and museums... People are generally friendly, and the Dry Martinis in DukeÂ´s are sensational! I simply love London!

Guineapig

For DREAD PIRATE ROBERTS: glad you include Harlaxton Manor it's was built by an ancestor and is now the UK campus of a US University [Edmondsville?] You'll love it - it was where the 'The Ruling Class' was filmed - hilarious and worth watching before you come over here.

Jen-Jen

I want to visit the UK so desperately it's not funny!!!! Someone send me a ticket to the UK!

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