I'm curious;
We have people from around the world here on #nostr and I'd like to know what people's perspectives of the UK are right now.
What comes immediately to mind when you think about Britain?
The wider the variety of places represented in the answers the more my curiosity will be sated, so thanks in advance 😊
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Cops visiting you at home for "hate speech"
I'm a British national who moved out of the country about 10 years ago, I'm very disheartened by the way things are going there. I have great love in my heart for that land and the friends and family I left behind, but the people in charge have no interest in the common people.
I feel you and I couldn't agree for more.
It's very true...call me a cynic, in all my nearly 45 years, I've never seen anything to suggest that they have any interest in the common folk
I've always assumed it's a mentality stemming from the historical and now culturally entrenched class system. Peasants and serfs below the aristocracy 🤷🏻♂️
sad place, turning backwards, we were supposed to lead for the better. Instead we are paving the way to suppress freedom of expression. We are taking the shortcut instead of addressing the message and sentiments of the public. I used to admire my country I so called home. But now all I feel is let down, disappoint from the people whom I supposed to trust my welfare! 😔💔
The perception is that the UK is now a very dangerous place. It has been before but now it's worst. 20 years ago I went to visit some friend and I heard stories of bullies not even scared of adults and families where both parents would go binge drinking leaving the kids alone.I was there 6 years ago. Well I could have been in India.
The police at the border is horrible. The like to intimidate people. Compare to the USA it's a scary place.
Oh we definitely have enough families who show no care and attention to their kids and prefer to go off taking drugs and getting drunk. We also have young people with no respect or fear for their elders since discipline has been eradicated. Surprised to hear about the hostile police tbh but appreciate that as a perception shared. Thankyou 🙏
Hope your country will be back the old splendor
I hope so, one day - if not in my lifetime then at least in my daughters
I don't know, you've done it twice & there was a very long span in between.
Rome hasn't risen again since it fell...
I lived there pre-Brexit, and still have friends there. It is a failed empire that will take a generation before it realizes that it is only a small island in the middle of nowhere. That's OK, all empires have the same problem, Russia is still going through it too. Also, as long as you have money you can hace a nice lifestyle even if the whether does suck. I love your part of the country!
A Kingdom falling apart.
I feel like I don't hear anything about the UK here in the States unless there is another stabbing. Although, a month or so ago, immigrant related stuff dominated social media.
There's some great answers coming in - I'll be responding to some of them in a bit - keep them coming though and if you care to let me know where you're seeing us from
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Absolute shit
So I’m in the USA.
Wife has family in UK and I’ve never met them (was supposed to but then life happened)
Honestly, I’m not sure I would visit there.
Call it fear or prudence…but if I can say something online here in the States, but step off a plane a be arrested for it in the UK (or elsewhere)…
Is that a risk I’m willing to take?
I have to think long and hard about that👆
For context, I believe everyone should be able to say whatever they want whenever they want and wherever they want
BUT we should be wise and not say everything that comes to our mind.
We should have the right (it’s God given!) yet we should use wisdom to discern what leaves our mouth (or fingertips if typing 🤣)
Wow, lots of negative notes here I’m reading, looks like Xitter 😂
People like to complain, and shit on everything, so don’t take all these notes too seriously.
Perspective of UK you ask, I had a good time when I visited, would never live there personally, but would definitely go back to visit, maybe further up north next time, Scotland maybe.
Between England, Scotland, Wales, and Northen Ireland, I assume there would be quite a difference, also depends if you are in a city or in the country.
What comes to mind right away is Brexit, don’t think it was a good idea to exit, and maybe the UK in time, realised that too.
Other random things to mind: Puffins, Punks, Double Decker, The Beatles, David Bowie, The Cure, Joy Division, Little Britain 😂
The first thing I think of after brexit is: fuck customs duties.
The second when I think I want to go to Cornwall is: I need to get a passport.
i live in uk, 20 years now and i can tell is a sad place to live.
i am executing my exist plan to mauritius 🇲🇺
never been there but best ⚽️ league in the world & best english accent
Aus always had a unique relationship with Britain. A lot of us have roots there.
They were always the older brother even if we felt like we got the better end of the deal living out here than back in ol’ Blighty.
I thought you might be ok after Brexit. Then my country went psychotic during Covid and you seemed to get through that better than us but everything else was fukt there before here.
I think the Irish will save themselves. The Poms will resist but it’s too far gone to be saved now.
Love the ULEZ bladerunners but that they need to exist is the real problem.
Think you’re pretty much as fukt as us tbh mate. The loicensing will continue until you go spill some blood and there seems to be as little appetite for that there as there is here (ie none).
This sums it up well: 
From the US. All I hear about is the migrant crime, cutlural replacement, and govt tyranny
Britain is where some of my ancestors came from, traveling to Plymouth and Salem in 1643. I'm proud of that heritage, even though I know what they were fleeing from and how hard life was in the early colonies.
I fell in love with a girl whose parents were from the UK back in the 90's, but because she had been born over there she was required to become a citizen of the US or go back to her home country, even though the US had been her "home country" since before she was able to walk or speak. Now I see her posts struggling to take care of her family in a failing economy.
My biggest exposure to the UK is through the TV show "Time Team" which my wife and I enjoy watching on Amazon Prime Video and Youtube. Such a rich history of struggle.
Just like most other countries, the UK has great potential to take their history, their resources and their people and turn it into an amazing story of success as we all build towards a Type I civilization. But just like the vast majority of other countries, the UK is dealing with a failed monetary foundation and politicians who are beholden to banks and the other slave drivers of debt. Until they break the yoke, things will get worse before they get better.
I wouldn’t feel safe there. Feels like a weird mix of chaos and fascism.
(I’m from Czech Republic)
I want to live on Skye.
Now that would be something 🤔 very remote living, probably quite nice 😅
I know just the place.
Hey I think I saw that place in the Dune movie.
Sometimes I wonder at my own reclusive, recalcitrant oddity, and then I recall that some of my ancestors are from there....
"I habs nit gstolen.", as they say around here.
Mind-blowing how the word *habs* figures in that sentence. If Greece did the oikos, Germania figured right away how it was wired 😸
habs means prison in arabic doesn't it?
If so, ironic.
The sentence translates to "I didn't steal it." 😂
As in, I inherited it.
though google doesn't want to say the word for some reason, that looks like "habs" to me
it's not prison, exactly, but being locked up... i was in a remand center when i learned this word, and these little moroccan and algerian dweebs used to say this word a lot, and yes, there is no P in arabic but the way they said it was very close to P for arabic (the voice was weak)
or rather, to be enclosed, even if by imaginary lines only
the one mention of "confinement" is the only one that comes close to "imaginary lines", the rest are clearly hard boundaries
"Isn't that what *language* is about?"🥇 
imaginary lines are used to box you in as much as see the door, intent is everything (as is your mental state)
manipulators use these imaginary lines to cage you
when these lines fail to stop you they use physical lines and force
I get it as if that is what settlements are made of... An always give and take between the dweller and the world (this last taken as both the nature and the neighbors even if settled far apart). At Rainer's oikology indeed those lines fluctuating between imagination and reality could be taken as root condition for the making of civilization regardless if nomadic or sedentary... What do we domesticate with the use of language? A common field of agreement between dwellers and the world, I guess...
John Ashurt. The castles. Bristol music. Trainspotting. Lee Jobba. Ruairi Mcsorley, Ainsley Harriot... Indeed, in that order.
i've lived in blackpool and cambridge
what springs to mind for me is pokey brick buildings abutted next to each other and nice quiet wide open meadows with cows and not much hills
what i hate about it is the pompous authoritarian attitude of the government and its employees, which is why it's never been a place i've lived for its own sake
liverpool and st annes are quite nice, as was the meadows around cambridge
Poor, drunk, lazy, beaten down.
And no pools, sun or ocean life to speak of. Horrible place.
I find a juxtaposition the best way to tell.
The underground was hot noisey and jammed it felt like an assault on my senses. But the country side was lush and a mosaic
In Germany, I could hear the conductor tell a joke, and hear the train politely giggle. The countryside was vast but more streamlined.
