Here's another thought on the matter, from what I hear Ireland is a pretty happening place to be right now.
Some of my family in Dublin are working in tech companies and making pretty good money. M -----Original Message----- From: Harkins,Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 11:34 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Living in the UK (RE: Jobs FYI) Hey, Erika~! :-) A few thoughts on the UK/USA geo-cultural divide.... Britain seems wonderful to me but I have heard that London is pricey, no? Also I have heard it is very fast-paced there (London) culturally and I find our culture here in Canada already too fast-paced... On the other hand obviously all of England is not London... I'll be missing a thousand nuances here I'm sure, but someone who lives in the UK was telling me that she felt kind of oppressed by the weight of cultural tradition given that Britain has as a much older society than Canada and the States, and she perceived North America as a place where we are freer to make up our own rules due to our relative youth..... not to mention the whole class-consciousness thing. (I think that's especially true of Canada and one of the things I like about it.) If you consider the high population density in Britain as well I'm sure there must be a romanticizing of the sense of wide open space that America evokes. I haven't looked at any of the studies but it wouldn't surprise me if personal distance and space were closer in the UK as well - though less dramatically than in, say, Japan. I am sure that the UK is no different than elsewhere in having a love-hate relationship with USA culture. I'm sure if you dig a little deeper behind those comments you will find a bunch of mixed feelings. Also I heard an English music commentator remarking on the relative lack of British influence in music today compared to the heyday of the Beatles and the Stones... due largely no doubt to the dominance of the rap/hip-hop or whatever you call it scene. Maybe that is affecting people's perception of their culture there.... I think all that is mainly a question of trend and fashion and has nothing to do with the essence of what's going on either side of the Atlantic... Anyways if I had the chance to live there for a while I'd grab it.... glad to hear you're having fun there, and here's to more of it! :-) Patrick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
