Eastern and Central Europe have a certain immunity, I think. The UK is no further ahead than countries like France, Belgium (though they have a resistant Flemish community), and Sweden.

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Sweden is a much better place to live from my experience. I haven't lived in the others, but from what I've been told Scandinavian countries are still the "gold standard" compared to others, although they have suffered from privatization and globalization as well.

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You might be right about that: we'll see.

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Cheers! Where are you from in the UK, by the way? North of England, I guess?

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Until the age of 10, I grew up in Essex. Then moved to Norfolk, where I lived until I was 29 (with three years in North London from 89 to 92). Been in Latvia since then.

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