I quite like the UK 
Any time I've been over it's seemed like a pretty great place to live.
Thats cos it is.
what people either don't know cos they've never been anywhere else or just have forgotten it that all the 1st world countries have thier problems.
Take here in Oz , the utopian land of make believe for alot of brits, there is what is seen to be a huge immigration "issue" ( if the immigrant is brown
). They even had thier own race riots in Sydney a few years back.
Gun crime is worse than the uk due to Motorcycle gangs and organised crime.
Corruption in the police is common enought to make the news by starting with " another top policeman has been found ..."
poverty and illness in the aboriginal culture (still half a million strong despite the white mans efforts) is a huge and mostly ignored problem in the northern regions.
Racism is there at an almost constant if low level. Even the greek and italian communities call themselves Wogs.
few places in the world have a higher standard of living than europe as a whole. In the USA the wages are low and paid annual leave isn't a given even in well paid jobs. We have a friend who works there as an accountant who gets 8 days a year and considers herself lucky!
France , sweden , denmark and poland all have higher suicide rates than the uk , so the apparent better standard of living doesn't seem to be doing them much good.
I think most people around the world would be incredibly happy if thier country had the 10th highest standard of living in a region with a very high standard to start with.
The Uk is just having a hard time at the moment so people are focusing on the negative elements.
I was the same till i jumped the fence and found out the grass isn't greener at all, it is however full of things that want to bite you to death.
I am looking forward to coming home in a couple of years.
