there seems to be a lot move visibly poverty; people wearing poorer clothing and eating cheaper food even in middle class areas, but that was an effect of the Great Recession
the demographics seems to have really changed; there are far more Middle Easterners and the vast majority are Muslims. There are more blacks in certain areas as well. You can spend a lot of time in the UK without seeing Indians that aren’t Pakistani/Bangladeshi. You seem to get more visible racism as well - I remember seeing a couple of incidents involving racism against Blacks which I would have never have seen twenty years ago.
infrastructure seems to be on the decline quite badly. I was surprised at how bad things were even in London with public transport and the like. It seems that the police are very overstretched but the Labour governments don’t want to enforce the law (because many of the criminals are either poor or ethnic minority) and the Tory governments are unwilling to look politically incorrect and/or are corrupt.
I wouldn’t move to the UK for career growth as that’s only really feasible these days in the US. Australia tends to have the philosophy of “work to live” and many people don’t chase jobs as they do in the US.
To answer the initial question:
there seems to be a lot move visibly poverty; people wearing poorer clothing and eating cheaper food even in middle class areas, but that was an effect of the Great Recession
the demographics seems to have really changed; there are far more Middle Easterners and the vast majority are Muslims. There are more blacks in certain areas as well. You can spend a lot of time in the UK without seeing Indians that aren’t Pakistani/Bangladeshi. You seem to get more visible racism as well - I remember seeing a couple of incidents involving racism against Blacks which I would have never have seen twenty years ago.
infrastructure seems to be on the decline quite badly. I was surprised at how bad things were even in London with public transport and the like. It seems that the police are very overstretched but the Labour governments don’t want to enforce the law (because many of the criminals are either poor or ethnic minority) and the Tory governments are unwilling to look politically incorrect and/or are corrupt.
I wouldn’t move to the UK for career growth as that’s only really feasible these days in the US. Australia tends to have the philosophy of “work to live” and many people don’t chase jobs as they do in the US.