The UK has been named the worst place to live in Europe for quality of life, behind countries with damaged economies such as Ireland and Italy, according to the latest uSwitch quality of life index.

The UK emerged as having the second lowest hours of sunshine a year, the fourth highest retirement age, and the third lowest spend on health as a percentage of GDP.

Despite above average household income – the fourth highest in Europe – Britons have 5.5 fewer days holiday a year than the European average and endure a below average government spend on education.

UK households also struggle with a high cost of living, with food and diesel prices the highest in Europe, and unleaded petrol, alcohol and cigarettes all costing more than the European average.

As a result, more than one in 10 Britons (12%) said they are "seriously considering" emigrating, with "broken society" the biggest concern for 59% of those questioned, followed by the cost of living (49%), and crime and violence (47%). Just 5% of those questioned are happy in the UK.

The study examined 16 factors to determine where the UK sits in relation to nine other major European countries. Variables such as net income, VAT and the cost of essential goods were put under the miscroscope, as well as lifestyle factors such as hours of sunshine, holiday entitlement, working hours and life expectancy.

France bagged the top spot for the third year running, despite families earning an average £31,767 (compared to the UK's £38,547) and working longer hours than people in the UK. But the French enjoy 2,124 hours of sunshine, have an average retirement age of 60, and and receive 36 days of holiday a year. They also live a year longer than Brits, with an average life expectancy of 81.4 years compared to 80.4 in the UK. People in France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden call all expect to live longer than people in the UK.

Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany rounded out the top five best European countries for quality of life, with Denmark, Poland, Sweden and Ireland also above the UK in the table. Last year, Ireland was joint bottom with the UK.

France and Spain are also where people in the UK would most like to live, with 13% of the 2,036 adults surveyed by uSwitch choosing Spain and 7% opting for France. The Spanish can expect to live just over a year longer than people in the UK, and enjoy the highest number of days holiday in Europe with 39 days. Spain also has the lowest alcohol price of the 10 countries.

Uswitch said it had weighted each category to "nationally representative criteria" using sources such as the OECD, the Met Office, the World Health Organisation and Eurostat. It then calculated a standardised score for each category, defining quality of life as the sum of the standardised scores.

Ann Robinson of uSwitch.com said: "Last year, at least our neighbours in Ireland were worse off, now we can't even console ourselves with that. We are now officially at the bottom of the pile. We may still be enjoying the fourth highest household income in Europe, but the high cost of living means we are living to work.

"When coupled with many of the issues facing households in the UK today it is not surprising that one in 10 of us have contemplated starting a new life abroad. But for those of us who decide to stick it out and ride the storm, there will be no choice but to batten down the hatches. Cutting back where possible to help combat our high living costs will go some way to improving our quality of life."

Why have I lived in France the past 11years, eh! Everywhere I go in England there are miserable cunts. The shop assistants seem the worst. It seems as it someone has smeared dogshit on their top lips. Say good morning to any twat over there and they respond as if you've asked them to suck your cock! Fuck 'em, and don't come here for your quality of life: most I've met have fucked off back to Blighty. They can't hack how happy we are here, with our climate and quality of life!

France was our second (or third) choice after Japan.


No earthquakes there there but you got plenty of niggers and muzz; waiting to go on the rampage in the countryside; come the revolution.


Maybe.

pippin wrote:

Why have I lived in France the past 11years, eh!

Because you're a convicted pedophile like roman polanski?

Ship Brasher back to Pakistan and things will improve greatly.

why do hundreds of thousands of mimes and waiters leave frogdom to work there then?

My uncle's brother and his wife have lived in San Diego for quite a while now and the wife is originally from the Midlands in England. For a long time she dreamed of moving back to her home country and a couple of years ago they actually did.

Yeah....after about a year they moved back to San Diego.

I wouldn't live anywhere else....

simplefrench wrote:

The UK has been named the worst place to live in Europe for quality of life, behind countries with damaged economies such as Ireland and Italy, according to the latest USwitch quality of life index.

France bagged the top spot for the third year running, despite families earning an average £31,767 (compared to the UK's £38,547) and working longer hours than people in the UK.

That statement is even wrong

IMF(2010) GDP/capita


Rank Counry US$



1 Luxembourg 104,390



18 France 40,591

19 Germany 40,512

20 Island 39,563

21 UK 36,298

22 Italy 33,828

25 Spain 29,875


Who wants to live in that shithole anyway?

Except naturally North of England and Scotland

French wine is the worst quality in the world. Who want to drink that shit anyway?

Nappybonesapart wrote:

why do hundreds of thousands of mimes and waiters leave frogdom to work there then?

Come on, you obviously know the answer.

The demand for mimes and unqualified and rude waiters is very high in that shithole called UK.

ProudRacist wrote:

French wine is the worst quality in the world. Who want to drink that shit anyway?

Pretty much 500 million people all over the world.

Anything else?

maxdorleans wrote:

ProudRacist wrote:

French wine is the worst quality in the world. Who want to drink that shit anyway?

Pretty much 500 million people all over the world.

Anything else?

Those figures have been cooked up like a Zimbabwean billionaire.

ProudRacist wrote:

French wine is the worst quality in the world. Who want to drink that shit anyway?

You fuckin' ignorant peasant! You're talking through your arsehole, man!

BurnParis wrote:

pippin wrote:

Why have I lived in France the past 11years, eh!

Because you're a convicted pedophile like roman polanski?

Still as deluded as ever, I see. You can see my house now if you Google Street view. The one in the middle on three floors. You will know where I live, or just ask Gensie or Hadrian.

"UK has 'worst quality of life in Europe'"

Un non événement.

Nappybonesapart wrote:

why do hundreds of thousands of mimes and waiters leave frogdom to work there then?

I must admit that I did work as a waiter for three summers in Pembrokshire, Wales. But it wasn't about money. At all. I could have worked in a McDonald's anywhere in France, and I'd have made much more cash.

I came over to your little rainy island to learn your language.

I'm henceforth able to bash your Anglo-squeaking asses in your own friggin' language. And that, my friend, is a true delight.

Yorktown wrote:

I must admit that I did work as a waiter for three summers in Pembrokshire, Wales. But it wasn't about money. At all. I could have worked in a McDonald's anywhere in France, and I'd have made much more cash.

I came over to your little rainy island to learn your language.

I'm henceforth able to bash your Anglo-squeaking asses in your own friggin' language. And that, my friend, is a true delight.

You worship the anglospere. Just look at your avatar.

Yorktown wrote:

Nappybonesapart wrote:

why do hundreds of thousands of mimes and waiters leave frogdom to work there then?

I must admit that I did work as a waiter for three summers in Pembrokshire, Wales. But it wasn't about money. At all. I could have worked in a McDonald's anywhere in France, and I'd have made much more cash.

I came over to your little rainy island to learn your language.

I'm henceforth able to bash your Anglo-squeaking asses in your own friggin' language. And that, my friend, is a true delight.

'I'm henceforth able'?

Wha yoo wanna say?

Thus, you're able to speak English like a raging gabacho ponce?

Henceforth, you've been able to speak English like a raging gabacho ponce?

Or just that you're a raging gabacho ponce?

Oh, and I suspect Greece is a far fuckin worse place to be right now.

Poopsie wrote:

You worship the anglospere.

Not quite.

Prior to travelling in that postage stamp island across the Channel, I did condider the Brits to be my fellow cousins. After spending a few weeks wandering in their streets, pubs, shopping malls - closely staring at the local fauna - I suddenly realized that the average Limey is racially inferior to his French counterpart.

Then, the immortal words of George Clemenceau came to my mind. "England? Well, a French colony that turned badly wrong." The old fart had it right.





To make things even worse, this godforsaken shithole can only afford a Swaziland-like dental healthcare system.

Hey, Yorkie, while you're here, and since you live in Paris.

I spent the weekend in Tarifa, where the ferry from Tangiers docks in Europe.

I noticed that over 75% of the vehicles leaving the port had French registration plates.

Is North Africa this year's lieu de mode for fashionable Parisian holidaymakers, or what?

Yorktown posted:

After spending a few weeks wandering in their streets, pubs, shopping malls - closely staring at the local fauna

Fella, you got creep written all over you.

There's a reason for this: the UK tends to look up to America as its socio-economic model, rather than to Europe. That's why it always seems so squalid, uncaring and run-down whenever I go back there. The place seems to swarm with unpleasant, rude, loud, fat, drunken, stupid, ugly and unemployable people, with their feral kids. Half the shops are boarded up, the streets are full of litter and puddles of puke, public transport is a disgrace, and housing is both substandard and expensive. To cap it all, beer is too expensive and even the pubs are no longer inviting. A depressing experience.

Smart Brits learn a foreign language or two and move to the continent - or just go anyway. www.dailymail.co.uk . . .

Luckily, the survey only covers 10 countries - so the UK can pretend that things are probably much worse in, say, Greece, Portugal, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania etc. (It might even be true, but don't count on it.)

Never mind, though: at least the UK is still a nicer place to live than Wankistan.

Wulfrun wrote:

There's a reason for this: the UK tends to look up to America as its socio-economic model, rather than to Europe. That's why it always seems so squalid, uncaring and run-down whenever I go back there. The place seems to swarm with unpleasant, rude, loud, fat, drunken, stupid, ugly and unemployable people, with their feral kids. Half the shops are boarded up, the streets are full of litter and puddles of puke, public transport is a disgrace, and housing is both substandard and expensive. To cap it all, beer is too expensive and even the pubs are no longer inviting. A depressing experience.

Smart Brits learn a foreign language or two and move to the continent - or just go anyway. www.dailymail.co.uk . . .

Luckily, the survey only covers 10 countries - so the UK can pretend that things are probably much worse in, say, Greece, Portugal, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania etc. (It might even be true, but don't count on it.)

Never mind, though: at least the UK is still a nicer place to live than Wankistan.

What about all the social services you're so fond of? Haven't they made the UK a little slice of heaven?

Wulfrun wrote:

There's a reason for this: the UK tends to look up to America as its socio-economic model, rather than to Europe. That's why it always seems so squalid, uncaring and run-down whenever I go back there. The place seems to swarm with unpleasant, rude, loud, fat, drunken, stupid, ugly and unemployable people, with their feral kids. Half the shops are boarded up, the streets are full of litter and puddles of puke, public transport is a disgrace, and housing is both substandard and expensive. To cap it all, beer is too expensive and even the pubs are no longer inviting. A depressing experience.

Smart Brits learn a foreign language or two and move to the continent - or just go anyway. www.dailymail.co.uk . . .

Luckily, the survey only covers 10 countries - so the UK can pretend that things are probably much worse in, say, Greece, Portugal, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania etc. (It might even be true, but don't count on it.)

Never mind, though: at least the UK is still a nicer place to live than Wankistan.

Meanwhile in the paradise called Europe...

Suicide rates by country (per 100,000 people):

Country Male Female Avg Year

Lithuania 58.5 8.8 31.5 2009
Belarus[5][6] N/A N/A 25.3 2010
Ukraine[10] 40.9 7.0 22.6 2005
Hungary[11] 37.1 8.8 21.8 2009
Latvia[11] 37.6 6.7 20.7 2009
Slovenia[13] 32.1 7.9 19.8 2008
Serbia and Montenegro 28.4 11.1 19.5 2006
Finland[11] 27.3 9.5 18.3 2009
Belgium[note 1][11] 26.5 9.3 17.6 2009
France 25.5 9.0 17.0 2006
Estonia[11] 29.1 6.2 16.5 2008
Sweden 26.0 6.3 15.8 2007
Moldova 28.0 4.3 15.7 2007
Poland 26.8 4.4 15.2 2006
Switzerland[11] 21.8 9.1 15.1 2007
Croatia[11] 26.1 5.5 15.0 2009
Austria[11] 20.9 5.7 12.8 2009
Czech Republic[11] 21.8 3.7 12.4 2009
Bosnia and Herzegovina 20.3 3.3 11.8 1991

Canada[18] 17.9 5.4 11.6 2005

Ireland[11] 18.6 4.7 11.6 2009
Norway 16.8 6.0 11.4 2006
Romania 18.9 4.0 11.3 2007
Iceland[19] 17.9 4.5 11.3 2009
United Kingdom 17.7 5.4 11.3 2008

United States 17.7 4.5 11.1 2005

en.wikipedia.org . . .