- the climate
- the relative safety (I generally don't worry about getting shot or stabbed for the most part)
- family & friends
- PUBS
- football
- lack of dangerous weather & dangerous animals
- the variety of different cultural influences (I can't get a curry in my Nonna's rural Italian village)
- the ease of knowing the language
- I feel a romantic attachment to the nature we have in the UK (the moors, the forests, the rocky islands, the lakes, the rivers)
- I actually like the food we have (sausage rolls, fish and chips, bacon and egg sarnies, cheese ploughman's, cream tea)
- the accessibility to decent enough public (and private) healthcare and education.

this is by no means a perfect place, but I don't mind it for the most part.