Pointless to argue with someone who forms their knowledge of the world from 70s sitcoms.......
Agreed.
ok, well i have never lived in the UK(comparing london gangs to gangs in bogota and quatelma or even la is a stretch, maybe recently they have gotten worse, but lets see how it is in 10 years). Maybe certain areas are bad off, but nothing like the poverty and lawlessness that takes place in these countries. I cant even remeber the last time england was involved in a civil war... or ruled by thugs and drug dealers. Obviously placebo has lived in some nice places, so i think his perspective is quite different from people who perceive the UK as a nice place. From what i know sweeden and singapore have a very high standard of living, but there also tiny tiny countries(new york city in fact is larger then both of these countries combined)And they are both essentially cash cows with both having very high GDP's. So i can imagine why placebo thinks UK is a shithole compared to sweeden and singapore, LOL. It makes sense it terms of quality of life. But its all relative, cause obviously england would be heaven to anyone comming from darfur or north korea. I really think this is the point gerd is making, everyone on here who lives in these developed first world nations should be lucky and thankfull for what you have, cause it could be a lot fucking worse my friends. And if you put it all in perspective, england is not that bad.... i think this is what gerd is trying to say, also one other thing, everyone on here should consider themselves lucky as well to be able to leave there so called "shitholes" and live where they choose. Not everyone on this planet has that choice....
But the fact remains that the quality of life was much higher than in England even if I had less disposable income than I did when in England, and there were virtually nil anti-social problems that I experienced, in the town I lived in (which admittedly was fairly small about 10k or so) or in Prague itself, in fact the few times I witnessed loutish behaviour was in Prague and it was caused by scummy English "people" who'd come over for stag parties.......About Sweden/Singapore you make a valid point, but the Czech Republic is a much poorer country than the UK, it's also a far less developed country than the UK in terms of its social awareness, (hell in CZ you sometimes get looked at funny if you're male and have an earring if you catch my drift)
