Poll: Britons would prefer to live in the U.S.

Media and Policy Review ^ | 8/26/02 | Kevin Kelley

[Kevin Kelley]

Poll: Britons would prefer to live in the U.S.

Remember the utopian socialist model? The free health care, the great education? Almost all of the European countries have moved markedly to the left over the last 30 years. Not surprisingly, quality of life and individual happiness have fallen.

LONDON (Reuters) - More than half of Britons would like to emigrate from their homeland, fed up with the price of living and terrible weather, and would prefer to live in the United States or Spain, a survey published Monday said.

Did you get that!? More than half? That is a huge number of dissatisfied people. Yes the world hates us......and would move here in a New York minute if given the chance.

I like the little part about the weather. I lived in England for 12 months, and the weather is indeed a shortcoming, but that's not what's driving this poll. The Brits have had (many) hundreds of years to get used to the weather. No, the problem is that expanding government programs have led to huge levels of taxation--with little or no benefit to the average taxpayer. Liberal income redistribution schemes have removed incentives for success, while high per capita immigration have eroded the British culture. Liberalism has destroyed the British way of life. Now the people want out.

[Hugin]

Of course as soon as they got here they would immediatly start trying to replicate that same socialism here.

[Billthedrill]

I wintered in Scotland once but MadIvan would shoot me if I claimed that were typical of fair Albion. Stone cottages. Uninsulated stone cottages. Uninsulated stone cottages bereft of central heating.

I'm convinced they invented Scotch because they had to.

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

Why would the Britons want to come here?I thought they were opposed to private gun ownership!

[weikel]

He wants to come here before Queen Bess has him executed.

[RedwM]

Sorry. We no longer accept Anglo-Europeans.

[AmishDude]

Beware Prince Ludwig, the Indestructible.

[spectre]

Dear Brits: You have a beautiful country with a more or less democracy. I haven't been there in over 20 years but I sure loved it then.

If you would take your country back from the socialists and outrageous PC crowd, you would not have to move.

Regards

[LS]

My wife has a friend whose husband, an exec, was recently transferred there. She HATES it. Thinks the Brits are completely immoral (she is a Christian, and was shocked at the heathen nature of Britain).

[crystalk]

First, Britain should file a Declaration of DEpendence and officially rejoin the USA.

Then, Texas should act as permitted under law to resume her independence [ie Republic of Texas] that she gave up in 1845.

Then, the USA/Britain combo should state that it finds itself incapable of self-government, knows it lacks what it takes to survive in the world, and appeal to become non-voting subjects of the Texas democracy.

[Michael2001]

Remember the utopian socialist model? The free health care, the great education? Almost all of the European countries have moved markedly to the left over the last 30 years. Not surprisingly, quality of life and individual happiness have fallen.

Not surprising to Freepers. But surprising to the folk at Berkeley.

[Phillip Augustus]

Great idea, but I would take it one step farther; I'd increase British immigration (subject, of course, to your conditions) while simutaneously decreasing Third World immigration.

And I would also extend to the invitation to the Brits to all of the Continent (excluding Albania and Bosnia/Hercegovina, of course, which are majority Muslim).

[JDoutrider]

Ah Come on now Bill!!!

Tell em the truth...it rains here %99 of the time! When you can't see Mt Rainier it's because it's raining, and if in the unlikely event you can see Her, it means that it's going to rain...

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

So like, would Britain be our 51st state?

[gcruse]

Myself, I've never seen the Canyon, nor the Navajo nor Taos, nor ever could want to.

Okay, stay away if you must.  There is a spirit
in the desert southwest absent everywhere else
in the country. I've lived in Canada and all over the
US and don't want to be outside the southwest
again.

[SC Swamp Fox]

You are right, I just spent 3 weeks in San Diego. If it wasn't for the cost of living (real estate), I would be looking to move myself.

[crystalk]

Oh I said that too strongly, of course, I just mean that it would not become a priority in my life up there at the top, to see those particular sites...

Best, c.

[LS]

No thanks. Texas had slavery. I'm happy with the U.S. they way it is---with a few improvements. Slavery ain't one of them.

[Conservative til I die]

im a Macleod of the Clan Macleod(Scottish, in case you want to know),

You wouldn't chance have been born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel and are immortal?

[weikel]

I Kurgan will get you.