The Romans were only about 500 years ahead of the rest of the world. They pretty much built the UK then got sick of the crappy weather and bad food.
I will take a nice pasta with a good tomato sauce over eels and potatoes any day.
Today, Brits with money are fleeing to Italy (Tuscany) to get away from the Islamic hell hole the Labour Party, political correctness and TV newsmedia created in the UK.
“But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
There was no tomato sauce before the New World but aside from that it is sad to see a once great super power go out with a whimper.
they never really tamed enough of Britannia to take it easy...Pax Romana notwithstanding
they always had their hands full with the Cornish, Welsh, Scots etc..9th legion sorta thing
and like many conquerers in one place long enough they became as Briton as Roman genetically
and faded away as Rome fell to the Gauls...they were needed back home more than in some far flung fish and chips joint
it was a lot to manage Empire wise
and the Saxons and Jutes and Angles were coming eventually anyhow..in numbers no one could stop...they were lucky they left when they did
everyone ended up there to some point till they figured out how to get here..over the big lake