Far be it for me to stoop to the lowest comment denominator debates, but aren't gulf states pumping money, in large amounts, into the U.K.? I know that SIVs and SWFs are helping to support the U.S. treasury market, which basically means they're subsidizing the interest on our massive debt, and they've helped bail out distressed financials on Wall. One area the Republicans get right is global liquidity - it's all good, because money does not discriminate.
I forgot something. Russia has the UK by the balls with their energy. If things get worse between the West and Russia, you had better sharpen up your axe for firewood, because Russia can flip the switch and turn off your heating fuel. I wouldn't have a Russian friend, anyway.
No such thing in the UK. But it's true the government and the quality of life absolutely suck, weather pretty awful a lot of the time. For everybody but the upper class and the daring entrepreneurs, one of the worst place to live in the western world when you consider the ripoff housing market (with shitholes selling for 200,000 pounds), the hooligans & the rapists running around the place and you get 5 years in jail for having a handgun. Otherwise the UK has a lot of fun to offer when you are young and senseless.
Don't think so, my friend. Every single thing the OP posted that he hated about London is essentially flourishing in Moscow.
Mercer, the HR consulting firm, publish annual quality of life surveys. Here is an excerpt: Worldwide Quality of Living Survey 2008 2008 ranking 2007 ranking Top 10 1 1 ZURICH Switzerland 2 3 VIENNA Austria 2 2 GENEVA Switzerland 4 3 VANCOUVER Canada 5 5 AUCKLAND New Zealand 6 5 DUSSELDORF Germany 7 8 MUNICH Germany 7 7 FRANKFURT Germany 9 9 BERN Switzerland 10 9 SYDNEY Australia BOTTOM 10 206 203 DHAKA Bangladesh 207 208 SANAA Yemen Arab Republic 207 208 PORT HARCOURT Nigeria 209 207 KINSHASA Dem. Rep. Of The Congo 210 211 POINTE NOIRE Congo 211 210 NDJAMENA Chad 212 212 KHARTOUM Sudan 213 214 BRAZZAVILLE Congo 214 213 BANGUI Central African Republic 215 215 BAGHDAD Iraq London ranks at 38, New York 49, and Dubai 83. Moscow, on the other hand, only narrowly escapes the bottom 10.
Brendan.....mmm, why don't you feck off back to Ireland then. Germanwhatever, you're obviously a humourless tit. And the other cretins lining up to lay into London, suggesting Dubai, Moscow, Zurich (yawn!) etc could ever be a pleasant city to live in!!!You are screaming assholes. Drink-up, we'll have another, old boy!