Take this shit back to Reddit.

Go get around Slough for a weekend by public transportation and tell me how it compares to living in a suburb of Nashville or Dallas with a car you can lease for the same as that bus fare.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5857406&forum_id=2...id.#49820721)

I haven't tried living in rural Alabama, but I'm guessing this is better.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5857406&forum_id=2...id.#49820589)

Easily Alabama.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5857406&forum_id=2...id.#49820613)

https://x.com/flapprdotnet/status/2044600064262201495?s=61

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5857406&forum_id=2...id.#49820843)

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/rankings_by_country.jsp?title=2025&displayColumn=5

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/rankings_by_country.jsp?title=2026&displayColumn=5

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5857406&forum_id=2...id.#49820397)

Now go to the white areas of Mississippi or Alabama. They are far nicer places than the nicest / least shitty place in the UK.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5857406&forum_id=2...id.#49820471)

On one hand you're comparing an entire country to individual states, not Surrey versus Connecticut or the west Midlands to Alabama. It is unfair. On the other hand, most of the UK has always been noticeably more modest than their peers in the US. People live in smaller housing and there are apartments aplenty with bedrooms smaller than a typical master bedroom's walk in closet in a standard American subdivision. On the other hand, London is shockingly expensive with staggering levels of wealth paying insane prices for the housing you get. On my last trip to London talked to someone who'd paid $5M for a floor of townhouse. Not the whole townhouse but a floor. Yes, it's Notting Hill, but even so. How does that work in a country with sharply lower salaries than the US?

I'd say that the top 5 million people in the UK out of a population of 60+ million (can't keep track of the latest numbers, all due to mass migration) live very well, in expensive London terraced houses or handsome old Georgian rectories or nice suburban villas, with upmarket cars and plenty of foreign travel and private schools. And the global rich in London distort that perception of wealth even further.

That still leaves you with the 55+ million who have far more modest lives. And they are poorer than the typical family in Mississippi or Alabama. Most towns outside London are pretty shitty, this is an overlooked part of the UK, as the way wealth in the UK organizes itself the money outside London is almost entirely in the countryside and country villages and smaller market towns, not the secondary cities (Edinburgh and Bristol being the exception among the secondary cities). The rich and UMC in the smaller cities commute from lovely country villages. This is a reverse of the US, where the rural areas are poor and rural small towns are shitty.

But aspects of the UK lifestyle is more manageable for the poor and the bottom 25%. There's something to be said for completely free NHS services and a generous welfare state, though the latter is part of the current economic crisis in Britain, which really can't afford its first world lifestyle the way it likes to think it can.

Long way of saying, yes, UK is in denial, but there's still plenty of money in the UK and poor people probably do have it better over there.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5857406&forum_id=2...id.#49820787)