Oh, well I'm sorry to hear that. As an american, while I find many flaws with my country I personally could never hate it. It's my home and I feel blessed to have the opportunities I have and the sacrifices that were made for it. (Not knocking on you, I hope you don't see it that way).
So, if you had to leave and live somewhere else, where would you go?
Personally, I just want to live in a place with a catholic community I can interact with and possibly raise a family in if I am to become a married man. I don't like secular western culture one bit. I see alot of sexual behavior and moral relativism around. I honestly don't know what I want in life but now I should be thinking about myself and what I desire (I hate the self, not myself particularly but the idea of putting oneself above others. It is bizarre to think of one's wants. Why do I need to follow my own path? Are desires innate or do I have to choose them? How does one know the path taken is correct?). Perhaps we should think of what we love to help us think of the future?
What do you desire out of a home? (sorry if that is too personal)
Nah, that's fine. I think I'd want to live somewhere where there's a sense of humility and shared values. In my view, you just don't get that in a place like London. Everyone operates on vastly different moral principles, which makes daily life more unpredictable (and unpleasant) than it needs to be.
The "community" that is often depicted in British soap operas such as EastEnders or Coronation Street doesn't really exist in real-life London.
As London becomes more diverse, its society becomes increasingly atomised to the point where you just end up feeling a sense of cultural alienation.
Though I am not religious myself, I think the loss of community has to do with the abandonment of religious belief and the cultural values which emerged from it. It's become fashionable among so-called enlightened British progressives to reframe British history as nothing but a tale of oppression and plunder.
The optimist in me would like to think old-fashioned English values such as self-restraint, reticence, marriage being the bedrock of family life etc – values which were once synonymous with Britain in the past – still exist in some residual form in more rural parts of England, but these days I'm not so sure (I've never visited such areas).
