No, not sour grapes, I don’t want my country to turn into a clone of the US thanks. I still like the idea of being able to walk to the shops and get places without having to use a car, which wasn’t possible where I lived in the states.
However, I am fed up of clueless imbeciles here who have not the faintest idea what life is really like in Britain offering their stupid and worthless opinions on how and why Britain going to hell in a handcart.
Islam and socialism isn’t causing post offices and corner shops to close, it is simple free market economics. People do not use these amenities, prefering the lower prices in out-of-town supermarkets instead, as is the case throughout much of the US outside the major cities. Islam and ‘socialism’ don’t come into it....
Well, I’ve no idea where you live in England, but I’m old enough to remember that everything necessary to life was within walking distance in the small town outside Columbus, Ohio where I grew up.
So, FWIW, I’m sympathetic to your plight. I’ve never been more than 100 miles out of the US, and have always wanted to visit England. The village life has always been a draw for me. Mrs. Mugwump commented on it when she went to Bournemouth 15 years ago with her sister to retrieve her widowed aunt who was losing her health and had to return here.
My sympathies, one again.