Britain is the worst place to live.............?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph....o-live-in-Europe.html

It's official, make sure your passport is in date.

[Sqad]

Butch....no.

[BertiWooster]

Yes - what a flea ridden / backwater place Britain is - i'm tempted to seek out a utopian country to live in .

North Korea sounds nice - in fact I think there is a opening for a head of state coming up shortly . Tempting

[mike11111]

I think AOG's approach to posting is largely based on firework safety advice: "Light blue touchpaper and retire"

[trt]

'' They don´t.....less than 0.1% want to live in the UK and most of them are "scroungers"

Where did you get this info from squad and why is there so many people from Poland in my local Tesco?

[Sqad]

There are pluses and minuses wherever one lives..............but without sounding un patriotic, Uk certainly has some problems that need addressing.

[jake-the-peg]

A very confused and contrived article.

Spain and France have a higher quality of living - perhaps - if you have a job - Both have unemployment rates higher than here - Spain has 20%!

Then it's not actually all Europe is it? but 10 "leading nations"!

If the UK is such a dreadful place to be I wonder why so many Europeans are over here working in it

[Sqad]

jake........nobody has said that it is a "dreadful" place to live, just out of 10 European countries, using certain criteria it is the " worst" place to live.

[Ankou]

as i said its a joke. pepper pot the results and choose which country beats us under each heading, disregard all the others trailing behind in each category and bingo, we are the pits.

[trt]

JtP,
squad reckons only 0.1% want to live in the UK, but dosent have any proof, read above post.

[Sqad]

trt << half of Europe want to live here?????<<<

Population of Europe is about 700 million.....are you say that 350 million non UK residents from Europe want to come to the UK.?

Proof is hard to find, but common sense might come to the fore here.

[R1Geezer]

They seem to base "worst place to live" on prices of things mainly when conveniently forgetting that UK is a low direct taxation place and hence higher indirect taxation. Hands up who would like French Income tax at 33%?? mmmm? nope thought not!

[Sqad]

R1Geezer....it is not the rate of direct taxation that is important it is at what level it comes in. I wouldn´t mind taxation at 100% as long as it came in at €500.000.

I said that all countries have their pluses and minuses.

[jake-the-peg]

"using certain criteria"

precisely

Guess what? "Using certain criteria" it's the best place to live too!

Isn't that amazing?

Britain has one of the lowest unemployment rates in Europe

Life expectancy beats even the US despite the fortune they spend on healthcare

France, Australia even Canada have more murders per capita than we have

[Sqad]

Jake....nobody is disputing that....well I would as I am not sure what Australia and Canada have to do with the question posted and as for life expectancy in the USA we are not comparing like for like.

You can pick out the best bits for UK and I could pick out the worst parts and we would get nowhere.

[Ankou]

don't like the tax ? how about taking the average annual salary of spain at £24,228 against our £37,172 ?

no, thought not.

ok ok, here's one. how about the cost of unleaded petrol in the netherlands at 1.298ppl or germany at 1.211ppl against our 1.163ppl ?

no, ok how about..... (ad infinitum)

[R1Geezer]

yes sqad and in France there is no threshold, you pay tax on the first euro. Nice!

[R1Geezer]

I hate to side with the lefties on this but personally I'd live here rather than anywhere else in Europe. I don't accept all this standard of living balearics. The NHS alone is worth living here for, no where else in Europe is comparable.