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Since I was a child, I've always wanted to live in England. AND I start talking in a british accent out of nowhere, all the time. I love guys who wear skinny jeans and such, since that's the style there. . .
The fact you 'start talking with an accent' tells me you'll have that nice fake one everyone uses.
There's no such thing as a British (or English) accent. Aha
I'm not a huge fan of London. If you're from there , you're used to it, if you're a tourist, youre infatuated and can see no wrong. If you're visiting, it's rather shocking. I don't find them rude, but they did seem uneasy and less 'fun'; I'm from SW though.
I've been there and rather liked it.
You will find that things are a bit expensive however, but they have a lot of nice things too.
I would recommend however, dropping the accent until you can pick it up for real. In all honesty, your own natural accent may make you popular because you'll be different from the usual voices everyone hears.
I'm sorry to disappoint you but NOT all of us wear tight jeans, sip on tea and speak with a RP accent.
Anyhooooo London sucks ass - it's bloodly expensive.
The real Mods and Rockers were gone long before my father's time, although there are some poseurs attempting to revive them.
And mimicking Mrs. Doubtfire's hollywood British accent won't get you far.
There are many parts of England. In the north they live in caves, drag their knuckles and burn peat for fuel. I understand toilet paper was recently introduced, although many of those around Manchester still prefer to eat it rather than use it for its intended purpose. They also long for Labour, or perhaps the Romans, to return to power. You can spot them by their bad teeth and clucking sound they make while in motion.
Many parts of London are very nice and very friendly...if you know where to go, and you're not from the north...or Scotland, or Ireland. And don't mind jokes about the Wales and the Welsh, especially Cardiff.
The best place to live in England is Buckinghamshire.
In all the time I have known you, this is when I have most wanted to give you a tongue-lashing. You have been a naughty girl. Bad bad BAD carolann.
Tongue lashing? Promises, promises.
I LOVE when you call me naughty (even though you're clucking as you say this.)
When I'm good, I'm great. But when I'm bad I'm better...
Hiya,
The reasons I like living here, the politeness, the countryside, the old folk songs that wouldn’t make any sense anywhere else, people popping in to see how you are, etc. has all but gone. It seems to be more unusual to live that way than not to now. It’s really sad.
I was born and live in Liverpool we talk with a scouse accent bad it's a beautiful city and as almost all Americans say the Beatles come from here move here
My friend from Indonesia has visited London, and she loved it. It would be cool to visit there, and even Manchester. I have a Manchester friend. If he's reading this he knows who he is :)
ive lived in england all my life and i havnt really seen everyone going around in skinny jeans? More like 1/100 of us wear skinny jeans
I like in England and just thought I should tell you that its not how it looks in the movies and the accents you get there are really chav like (some arent but most are). I plan on moving out of the Uk at some point in the future because it seems too boring and basic but then again I dont enjoy most things so maybe it could be a good place for you but I highly doubt it.
collective sigh from all the girls wistfully gazing into the distance..imagining
What's wrong with London?? I love London, feels like home. Although I haven't lived in any other part of the UK so I don't really know how the price of everything compares with elsewhere...
Just the rudeness of people. I spent 30 minutes there on two consecutive days and got shouted at twice. First, for looking at St. Pancras station and second, for not running on an escalator despite clearly having a broken foot.
Britain gets friendlier the further you radiate away from London. Out walking in Inverness, four people (including three women who were alone) stopped to offer me, a strange man, a lift in their cars.
It didn't occur to you that the three women may have been rampant sexual deviants looking for easy sex with a handsome stranger and the guy a serial killer? Scotland can be like that sometimes...
In London you need to keep to yourself, the reason we do that is because it's potentially very dangerous. Srsly, most people *Including myself* don't even make eye contact with strangers, not because we want to seem rude but because it really offends some people.
Many would take umbrage at you associating Inverness with England.
And yes, you are a strange man.
Why would I associate Inverness with England?
And pft! You're a strange woman yourself.
Because Inverness is in Scotland, Dappled. Ever so offensive for a scot to be thought of as living in part of England. Wonder why the scots have such a reputation for being mean spirited?
"Britain gets friendlier the further you radiate away from London. Out walking in Inverness, four people (including three women who were alone) stopped to offer me, a strange man, a lift in their cars."
Scotland is part of Britain. It isn't part of England. I was very careful what I said, as always. I'm not sure how anyone would be offended by me calling their countrymen really nice (and particularly telling someone Scottish that they're nicer than the English). I'll never understand people's willingness to find offence where there wasn't any to be found.
You associated Inverness with England booboohead!
We should both be comfortable in our strangeness...
Those seem like strange things to get shouted at for- what's wrong with looking at a station? Harsh about the foot though
I don't know, I have lived in London for 12 years and personally I haven't noticed any extreme rudeness from people or perhaps I am use to it? I'm not sure
The only distinguishing thing I find is that when I visit people from smaller towns they're usually more open and friendly whereas city people are more reserved
Well, I was actually shouted at for blocking the footpath. It just so happened that I was looking at the station at the same time. I'd walked from Euston to St. Pancras and was on the opposite side of the road near St. Pancras. The pavements there are wide enough for four or five people so she had no trouble getting past (and it was a Sunday, so not particularly busy). She just seemed really annoyed that I was stationary.
I had a lot of bags with me so maybe she thought I was a tourist, as opposed to someone who was just passing through.
I have American, Canadian, and Australian friends who have moved here and who grew to like it. But I think it took some effort on their part to understand us and our outlook. It's not quite what they were expecting.
One friend couldn't understand why we derive quite so much humour from saying precisely the opposite of what we really mean, or even how we say something which sounds pleasant but barely hides an unpleasantness. The first time she heard someone say a workmate was ill and someone else say, "Oh, what a shame. I do hope it's nothing trivial" she didn't even notice the insult, because she wasn't listening for one. It dawned on her an hour or so later and then she thought it was unspeakably cruel.
The truth is that it's a joke of course, but then there's a level above that where there may be some very mild dislike for the person it was said against, and a further level that the person is liked in other regards, otherwise it wouldn't have been said openly in the first place.
That's very much us. We speak in layers and everything has more than one meaning. If I was an outsider coming here, I'd be thinking: why can't these idiots just say what they mean? I'd also be thinking: do they ever stop talking about the weather?
But, that aside, we're really quite nice and you're more than welcome. Just don't go anywhere near London.
I've always had a fondness for England (I'm American). I would like to live there as well.
London is a shit hole. Come to leeds if you can stand the shitty yorkshire accent. @dappled yeah everyone i know insults everyone but in a good way e.g Me: "Hey nob head hows it going?" Friend; "im fine jizz stain, how are you?"