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The joys of living in England

It's not a place where middle-class English people want to live.

Can't live?
 
dexy's midnight runners just released a new album, although now they're apparently called dexy's or something :)
 
There's a film that describes what it's like for someone coming to England for the first time, titled Lucky Sunil, shown by the BBC in 1988. The protagonist, Sunil Sharma, gets admitted to "Queen Victoria College," which he and his family think is part of the U of London -- only to discover, when he arrives in London, that it's a money-making crammer. The dining table of the college's owner is loftily called "high table." Sunil, being a gent of culture, also takes part in the filming of what he thinks is a Shakespearean play -- only to find out (too late) that it's a porno flick. It's hilarious seeing the illusions this foreigner arrives with and the way they're shattered by the sordid reality of Britain. Unfortunately it seems the film can't be had for love or money.
 
bigbadwolf said:
There's a film that describes what it's like for someone coming to England for the first time, titled Lucky Sunil, shown by the BBC in 1988. The protagonist, Sunil Sharma, gets admitted to "Queen Victoria College," which he and his family think is part of the U of London -- only to discover, when he arrives in London, that it's a money-making crammer. The dining table of the college's owner is loftily called "high table." Sunil, being a gent of culture, also takes part in the filming of what he thinks is a Shakespearean play -- only to find out (too late) that it's a porno flick. It's hilarious seeing the illusions this foreigner arrives with and the way they're shattered by the sordid reality of Britain. Unfortunately it seems the film can't be had for love or money.
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On Charing Cross Road on the way to Foyles there's a shop (close to the Leicester Sq. station) that has many old films and it might have it.

Each time I visit the street, there seems to be one bookshop less (usually replaced by yet another coffee shop..)
 
Daniel Duffy said:
Each time I visit the street, there seems to be one bookshop less (usually replaced by yet another coffee shop..)
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It ain't what it used to be. Look at what happened to 84 Charing Cross Road:

The five-story building where Marks & Co. was located during the novel's action still exists, and has a small round gold-coloured plaque mentioning the novel on a pillar of the outer wall. It housed a music and CD store in the early 1990s, and later other retail outlets. It housed a Med Kitchen restaurant as late as 2009.
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Daniel Duffy said:
Are you sure its UK not your English which is making your leaving not good over there?

its should be it's

which replace by that

I would personally place a comma after UK.
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May be that's why I am not living in UK. Wandering in places where they speak and write English like me.
 
Andy Nguyen said:
Sounds like paradise to me. Why Londoners don't move en masse to Paris?
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Maybe because 1) they don't speak French, and 2) the insular mentality of so many English people keeps then tethered to England come what may (though this doesn't convince even me as quite a few have migrated to warmer and sunnier Spain). I should point out that a contingent of French people has come to work and live in London (though I don't know why).
 
Andy Nguyen said:
Sounds like paradise to me. Why Londoners don't move en masse to Paris?
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Paris is even worse than London. There are nearly half a million french in London now, having realised that London is better than anywhere in France :)
 
UK is the best for me in EU (I am from Asia), remember UK is the only English-Speaking country in EU. All cities in UK except London is small... Compared to Asian countries with a nice night life, probably London is a good choice, but living in London is very expensive, one of the top in the world.
 
Daniel Duffy said:
Are you sure its UK not your English which is making your leaving not good over there?

its should be it's

which replace by that

I would personally place a comma after UK.
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Its common people from Engineering background cannot write good English, you can try to talk to a final year Chinese student and test their speaking. And spelling problem appears very often among people from Middle East(Arabs, Iranian), I have a arabic friend who can spent more then ten years in US and UK, studying marketing and work like a sales man, but he cant spell well.
 
Edward Zhou said:
UK is the best for me in EU (I am from Asia), remember UK is the only English-Speaking country in EU. All cities in UK except London is small... Compared to Asian countries with a nice night life, probably London is a good choice, but living in London is very expensive, one of the top in the world.
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Republic of Ireland (!= UK ;))
And everyone speaks English in Amsterdam!
 
here's a good math problem. can anyone prove the following? ;)

26 + 6 = 1
 
The infrastructure is crumbling, the prices sky-high, the wages kissing the ground, the people and the service surly, the weather gosh-awful...
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I should point out that a contingent of French people has come to work and live in London (though I don't know why).
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if in the UK the wages are kissing the ground, in France it's already deeply under the ground, that's why
 

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