QA問答：英國(guó)人是如何應(yīng)對(duì)生活在英國(guó)的惡劣的天氣、糟糕的房屋、丑陋的壁紙、糟糕的食物和令人沮喪的破敗城市的？

Tony Austin
We take solace from knowing you don't live here.

知道你不住在這里，我們感到很安慰。

Steve Winterberg
Let’s break this down:
Awful weather: There’s more rain in New York City than London, and more snow in New England than any part of the UK. As for the summers, in most States summers are unbearable and air-con is must due to poorly built houses with little insulation, where as in the UK summers are pleasant and houses don’t need air-con, some office blocks do.
Poorly built homes: Many people in the UK live in houses over 100 years old, some houses are more than 400 years - longer than the USA has existed! And they are still standing. Shoddy eh?
Ugly wallpapers: There are many types of wallpaper in the UK - just as in America - and most are not ugly. And most people just paint their walls because wallpaper is no longer fashionable.
Awful food: Have you ever eaten American food? Burgers, pizza, chill-dogs (whatever they are). Even fast food restaurants taste better in the UK than in the USA - for the same franchise! And everything else tastes better than that and is healthier than the what Americans eat.
Depressing run down cities: Ever been to Detroit? No city or town in the UK is as run down as Motor City!
So, what’s it like living in the dump that is the USA, eating unhealthy tasteless food, freezing in the Winters and boiling in the Summers? It must be hell? No wonder many Hollywood stars end up living in the UK. If you had the money, why wouldn’t you?

讓我們來分解一下：
1、糟糕的天氣：
紐約市的降雨量比倫敦多，新英格蘭的降雪量比英國(guó)任何地方都多。
至于夏天，在大多數(shù)州，夏天都令人難以忍受，由于房屋建造得很差，幾乎沒有隔熱材料，空調(diào)是必須的。而在英國(guó)，夏天很愉快，房子不需要空調(diào)，只有一些辦公樓需要空調(diào)。
2、建造不善的房屋：
在英國(guó)，許多人住在有100多年歷史的房子里，有些房子已經(jīng)有400多年的歷史了，比美國(guó)歷史還長(zhǎng)！他們?nèi)匀煌α⒅?。嗯，這是劣質(zhì)的嗎？
3、丑陋的壁紙：
英國(guó)有很多種壁紙，就像美國(guó)一樣，大多數(shù)都不難看。大多數(shù)人只是粉刷墻壁，因?yàn)楸诩埐辉倭餍辛恕?br /> 4、難吃的食物：
 你吃過美國(guó)菜嗎？漢堡、披薩、熱狗（不管它們是什么）。即使是快餐店，在英國(guó)的味道也比在美國(guó)的要好——同樣的特許經(jīng)營(yíng)權(quán)！其他的東西都比那個(gè)好吃，都比美國(guó)人吃的更健康。
5、蕭條的破敗城市：
去過底特律嗎？在英國(guó)，沒有哪個(gè)城市或城鎮(zhèn)，像這座汽車城那樣破敗不堪！

 那么，生活在美國(guó)的垃圾堆里，吃著不健康、無味的食物，冬天凍著，夏天煮著，是什么感覺呢？一定是地獄吧？難怪許多好萊塢明星最終都選擇住在英國(guó)。如果你有錢，為什么不住英國(guó)呢？
 
?thelfl?d
I was lucky enough to live and study in the UK for 5 years (I am from Chile). My oldest daughter was born in the UK.
I can assure you the weather is great, especially if you are coming from Canada or Minnesota. So it rains every day, it means no air pollution anywhere and beautiful green parks everywhere.
The most amazing thing about the UK is people. They are welcoming, polite, tolerant, tolerant, tolerant, with the right amount of crazy. Plus, they are so funny and are always laughing at themselves, except when attacked by someone from the US apparently.
Also, probably this is something that you do not value at all, but it's filled with culture and arts. Museums (which are all free by the way), plays, music, everything and anything you can think of. I so miss listening to the Messiah at Christmas. They are culturally aware for the most part.
They do not feel the need to be happy every single moment or run chores all the time to fill time.
Despite what they think, NHS is such a good health service. I was hospitalized 3 months because I had a high-risk pregnancy, so believe me when I say I could not believe the care I got.
Finally, they understand there is a world out there. They would never call a sport competition held in the UK between UK teams, the “World Cup” or anything similar.
Lived in the US for a year for my master's, only to miss the UK.
Greetings from Chile to all UK crazy lovely people.

我很幸運(yùn)能在英國(guó)生活和學(xué)習(xí)5年（我來自智利）。我的大女兒出生在英國(guó)。
我可以向你保證，天氣很好，尤其是如果你來自加拿大或明尼蘇達(dá)州。所以，每天都下雨，這意味著任何地方都沒有空氣污染，到處都是美麗的綠色公園。
英國(guó)最令人驚奇的是人。他們熱情、禮貌、寬容、包容，有著恰到好處的瘋狂。此外，他們非常有趣，總是自嘲，除非被來自美國(guó)的人攻擊。
此外，也許這是你根本不重視的東西，但它充滿了文化和藝術(shù)。博物館（順便說一句，這些都是免費(fèi)的）、戲劇、音樂、一切你能想到的東西。我很懷念在圣誕節(jié)聽彌賽亞。他們?cè)诤艽蟪潭壬暇哂形幕庾R(shí)。
他們不覺得需要每時(shí)每刻都開心，也不覺得需要一直做家務(wù)來打發(fā)時(shí)間。
 不管他們?cè)趺聪耄?guó)的國(guó)民醫(yī)療服務(wù)體系是一個(gè)很好的醫(yī)療服務(wù)體系。因?yàn)槲业膽言斜慌卸楦唢L(fēng)險(xiǎn)的，我住院了3個(gè)月，我不敢相信我得到的護(hù)理，請(qǐng)相信我。
 最后，他們明白外面還有一個(gè)世界。他們永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)把在英國(guó)舉行的英國(guó)隊(duì)之間的體育比賽稱為“世界杯”或類似的比賽。
為了攻讀碩士學(xué)位，我在美國(guó)住了一年，不得不錯(cuò)過了英國(guó)。
 從智利發(fā)來的，向所有英國(guó)瘋狂可愛的人們的問候。

Barbara L
We can change our wallpaper, some of the homes are 100s of years old - that’s pretty good for ‘poorly built’! We have some of the most amazing restaurants in the world, and we don’t need to worry about our chicken being bleached, or leaving out eggs out of the fridge.
The weather and the cities… you’ve got me there
However that’s a small price to pay for the NHS, much less misogyny in our healthcare (which is ACTUAL healthcare, and not a for-profit business!) being able to get treatment for illnesses without fear of going bankrupt, fewer religious nut jobs on the street, being able to walk down the street without being shot at, not being terrified of our police, schools not brainwashing our kids, teachers being able to afford to teach, parents not having to pay for necessities for their kids classroom, and being able to safely send our kids to school and be sure they’re not going to die in a mass school shooting.
I mean, we’re not doing the best job in the world, but at least we’re not the USA.

我們可以更換壁紙，有些房子已經(jīng)有100年的歷史了——如果說這是“糟糕的建筑”，這很好！
我們有一些世界上最棒的餐廳，我們不需要擔(dān)心我們的雞肉被漂白了，或者忘記把雞蛋放在冰箱里了。
天氣和城市……這可把我難住了。思考.jpg
然而，想想英國(guó)的國(guó)民醫(yī)療服務(wù)體系，天氣和城市只能算是一個(gè)很小的代價(jià)，更不用說我們的醫(yī)療保健中的厭女癥要少得多（這是實(shí)際的醫(yī)療保健，而不是營(yíng)利性的業(yè)務(wù)?。?。能夠在不用擔(dān)心破產(chǎn)的情況下獲得疾病治療。街上宗教狂熱者很少，能夠在街上行走而不被槍擊，不需要害怕我們的警察，學(xué)校不會(huì)給我們的孩子洗腦，教師有能力教書，家長(zhǎng)不必為孩子的課堂支付必需品，能夠安全地送孩子上學(xué)，確保他們不會(huì)死于大規(guī)模校園槍擊案。
我的意思是，我們做不到世界上最好的，但至少我們這里不是美國(guó)。

Lord Davenport
We sit in our poorly built (brick, not wooden) homes, with the ugly wallpaper, in our depressing run down cities, looking out at the awful weather, and we think to ourselves, at least our awful weather saves us from famine due to endless drought, and, don’t forget, no rain - no beer!
Then we remember. The people in some countries, might not have a home at all, because they have been unfortunate to have been ill, and lost their home to pay for treatment. Possibly from gunshot wounds, from some madman with an assault rifle.
It then makes us feel better when we remember our working conditions with lots of holidays, and if we choose to work abroad, we wont have our Government chasing us for tax. It makes us feel even better when we see the shambles some, supposidly democratic countries call, their “political system”, where the one with the most popular votes, isn’t necessarily the winner, especially when you see some of the leaders it throws up!
So we sit back, enjoy our awful food, sigh, and thank God we don’t live elswhere.

我們坐在我們破舊不堪的城市里，坐在建得很差的（磚砌的，而不是木制的）房子里，貼著丑陋的壁紙，看著糟糕的天氣，我們心想，至少我們?cè)愀獾奶鞖庾屛覀兠庥跓o休止的干旱帶來的饑荒，別忘了，沒有雨，就沒有啤酒！
然后，我們就想到了。一些國(guó)家的人民可能根本沒有家，因?yàn)樗麄儾恍疑×?，為了支付治療費(fèi)用失去了家園?？赡苁菢寕部赡苁悄硞€(gè)拿著突擊步槍的瘋子。
當(dāng)我們想到自己有很多假期的工作時(shí)，這會(huì)讓我們感覺更好，如果我們選擇出國(guó)工作，我們就不會(huì)被政府追著征稅。
當(dāng)我們看到一些假想的民主國(guó)家所稱的“政治體系”的混亂時(shí)，我們會(huì)感覺更好，在這個(gè)體系中，得票最多的人不一定是贏家，尤其是當(dāng)你看到它拋出來供你選擇的一些領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人時(shí)！
所以，我們坐下來，享受我們?cè)愀獾氖澄?，嘆一口氣，感謝上帝，我們不住在其他地方。

Nigel Robinson
I should not think the Bristish cope with the UK any differently than Americans cope with the USA.
Poorly built homes? ours dont blow away in a storm like American homes.
Ugly wallpapers? i think you are thinking of France, they love ugly patterned wallpaper. Most British paint their walls in tasteful colours.
Awful food? The English dont chlorinate our chicken, or let the Americans export theirs to the UK. The English dont wash their eggs, making their storage short term. Oh, have you ever eaten an English beef dinner, or maybe a tasty curry?
Depressing run down cities? I am thinking of cities like Detroit which looks more like a Beirut slum, and Trailer Parks where even the Americans call the occupants “Trailer Trash”.
You really are living in a fantasy world.

我不認(rèn)為英國(guó)人對(duì)英國(guó)的應(yīng)對(duì)方式，與美國(guó)人對(duì)美國(guó)的應(yīng)對(duì)方式有任何不同。
建得不好的房子？我們的房子不會(huì)像美國(guó)的房子那樣在風(fēng)暴中被吹走。
丑陋的壁紙？我想你想到的是法國(guó)，他們喜歡丑陋的花紋壁紙。大多數(shù)英國(guó)人把墻漆成高雅的顏色。
糟糕的食物？英國(guó)人不給我們的雞肉氯化，也不讓美國(guó)人把他們的雞肉出口到英國(guó)。英國(guó)人不洗雞蛋，因?yàn)橄措u蛋會(huì)讓雞蛋的儲(chǔ)存時(shí)間變得很短。
 哦，你吃過英國(guó)牛肉晚餐，或者美味的咖喱嗎？
 蕭條的破敗城市？我想到的是像底特律。底特律看起來更像貝魯特（黎巴嫩首都）的貧民窟，還有拖車公園，美國(guó)人甚至稱其為“住在活動(dòng)房屋的廢物”。
你真的生活在一個(gè)幻想的世界里。

Stephanie Lovely
How can the Americans (as I presume the questioner is, because only they ask such stupid questions) stand to live in the US with their psychotic, fascist ex-president and his messed up racist cultists trying to get him back into office. Or the current president who possibly has Alzheimer's. Or the beef that is unsellable in any other country because if the amount of crap you inject into it? Or the general intolerance of the masses? Or the religious nutters who seem to have a huge hand in how the country is run? Or the daily school shootings? The insane amount of racism? The lack of Maternity leave for new mothers? The lack of healthcare? Etc etc etc.
Frankly, I'll take my poorly built home, that is actually a new build and is really vary spacious and nice. And my ugly wallpaper… oh wait, that's just plain white and clean looking. Lessee… awful food… no, I quite enjoy it. At least the beef is edible. The weather? No… yeah it rains a lot, but that's why we are such a green and pleasant land and out major cities aren't on fire. And depressing and run down cities… ok, well some of them are older than the US itself so yeah, there will be some delapidation and some of the towns are a bit grim…. But we don't have a Skid Row at least!

美國(guó)人（我想提問者應(yīng)該是美國(guó)人，因?yàn)橹挥兴麄儾艜?huì)問這么愚蠢的問題）怎么能忍受在美國(guó)生活，他們的精神病患者、法西斯前總統(tǒng)和他那些混亂的種族主義邪教分子試圖讓他重新上臺(tái)。
還有可能患有老年癡呆癥的現(xiàn)任總統(tǒng)，還有在任何其他國(guó)家都賣不出去的牛肉，因?yàn)槟憬o牛肉注射了那么多的垃圾！還有群眾的普遍性偏執(zhí)狹窄？還有那些似乎對(duì)國(guó)家管理有很大影響力的宗教瘋子？還有每天的校園槍擊案？瘋狂的種族主義？新媽媽沒有產(chǎn)假？缺乏醫(yī)療保健？等等。
坦率地說，我會(huì)帶著我那棟建得很差的房子，那實(shí)際上是一棟新房子，非常寬敞漂亮。還有我那丑陋的壁紙……哦，等等，那只是純白干凈的樣子。讓我看看……糟糕的食物……不，我很喜歡。至少牛肉是可以吃的。天氣？不……是的，雨下得很多，但這就是為什么我們是一片綠色宜人的土地，而大城市沒有火災(zāi)的原因。還有令人沮喪和破敗的城市……好吧，其中一些城市比美國(guó)本身更古老，所以是的，會(huì)有一些破舊，一些城鎮(zhèn)有點(diǎn)陰森……但我們至少?zèng)]有流浪漢聚集的貧民區(qū)！

Stephen Hilsum
The absolute ignorance Americans show about anything outside their shores hasn't improved since my big sister married an American airman and emigrated to the USA in 1961. Someone asked her ‘do you have electricity in England?’ to which she replied ‘yes, actually our mud hut was wired up last week!’ The sad part was that the American believed her!

自從我姐姐1961年嫁給一名美國(guó)飛行員并移民到美國(guó)以來，美國(guó)人對(duì)境外任何事情的絕對(duì)無知一直都沒有改善。
有人問她：“英國(guó)有電嗎？”
對(duì)此，她回答說：“是的，實(shí)際上我們的泥屋上周已經(jīng)裝好電了！”
可悲的是美國(guó)人居然相信了她！

LulaWilliams
We are British? We can cope with anything and we love misery. Misery is our favourite. Picture the scene. You've walked 20 miles, it's pitch black, freezing cold, the wind is knocking you sideways, the chip shop is closed and its just started to rain. Absolutely brilliant, this is what we live for.

我們是英國(guó)人？我們可以應(yīng)付任何事情，我們喜歡痛苦。痛苦是我們的最愛。想象一下這個(gè)場(chǎng)景。你已經(jīng)走了20英里，天一片漆黑，冰冷刺骨，風(fēng)把你吹向一邊，薯?xiàng)l店關(guān)門了，剛開始下雨。絕對(duì)精彩，這就是我們活著的目的。

Clive Anderson
6 cities in the US

美國(guó)的6個(gè)城市：










Chel Wright
Wallpaper?!!! I don't have any walls papered.
It was nice and sunny when I woke up this morning. It was quite warm so opened the windows to let fresh air in. Not bad for mid September!!!
Awful food?! Well if you can't cook that's hardly our fucking problem!!!

壁紙？?。?！我沒有任何壁紙。
今天早上我醒來時(shí)天氣晴朗。天氣很暖和，所以我打開窗戶讓新鮮空氣進(jìn)來。對(duì)九月中旬來說還不錯(cuò)?。?！
糟糕的食物？！好吧，如果你不會(huì)做飯，那就不是我們的問題了！??！

Lives in a Castle
It's very easy it is now the middle of September the weather has been warm today and has been all week. The neares town dates back to the middle ages, my house is nearly 200 years old and will still be here in 200 years time. Your mainly timber frxd houses will last around 30 years if you are lucky. I have been to New York twice and Chicago once, and you say that we have run down cities ? At least I'm unlikely to get shot which is more than I can say for most Americans.

很容易，現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)是九月中旬了，今天的天氣一直很暖和，整個(gè)星期都很暖和。附近的小鎮(zhèn)可以追溯到中世紀(jì)，我的房子已經(jīng)有將近200年的歷史了，200年后還會(huì)在這里。如果你運(yùn)氣好的話，你的木結(jié)構(gòu)房屋可以使用30年左右。我去過紐約兩次，芝加哥一次，你說我們已經(jīng)破敗不堪了？至少我不太可能中槍，這對(duì)大多數(shù)美國(guó)人來說是不可能的。