"Welcome to beautiful, broken Britain..."
It wasn’t the feral youths that elicited this comment from a British co-worker, it was the sales rep who walked away from us when her shift was over rather than complete the sale, it was the administrative roundabouts that stretched out our Visa application until the morning we were due to leave, it is the traffic and the "congestion" charges and regulations for getting cell (mobile) phones that require you to have an exhaustive UK financial history and the cost of doing nearly anything. It is beautiful. But they acknowledge the breaks with humor and acceptance. As another Brit put it, "Welcome to the UK--the richest third world country in the world"
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