Quote Originally Posted by James Hubbard View Post
I wanted to ask all of you who are Brits and those who have lived in the UK for a long time - or just arrived and fresh ...

--What do you love about the UK, and what are you proud of about our country?

I have lived in the Philippines for a year and I have missed a lot, ... will be going back in 2.5 weeks and I will miss my asawa but I really look forward to my country.

Let me try to start the list with 4


1) Temperate Climate
2) World Class Education
3) Stiff upper lip and politeness (in general)
4) Respect for other nations and cultures . . .


ok, over to you all now.
I love Scotland, the Lochs, the Glens, the Coastlines, the Islands.

I love the Lake District.

I like the TV strangely, mostly the documentaries on Sky and the Beeb and as a Sci-fi fan Sky One is great.

I am proud of our history, at least proud of some of it, we did a lot of bad things like the rest of the colonial powers of old.

I do like our general sense of fairness, however it is I fear a dying trait, far too few see past narrow self interest these days.

I like the general lack of deadly creatures, earthquakes, volcano's i.e. our relative immunity from major natural disasters.

Our infrastructure although it could be much better.

And I am proud of our overall contribution to our understanding of all aspects of the Universe we live in (in all branches of fundamental science).

There are though lots of things I am not particularly fond of too but I'll save that for another day.


Jim