Without any doubt: the UK!

I am originally from Spain, and although everybody dreams of our wonderful weather, coming from a town in the Pyrenees, I cannot say that to be the strength over there.

I have been living in UK for 14 years now and I do because I love it.

I can only talk of London at the moment as (I am researching the possibility of a change now) I have always live here.

The sun is not free in this part of the world but when it does decide to pay us a visit, it makes parks and gardens look like a dream landscape.

And maybe that's London's secret: the art of convening in perfect harmony town with countryside, old with new, modern with classical...

The opportunities of getting a good job over here are immense. Id you don't work it is because you don't want, something that is sadly encouraged by the benefit system which gives the chance to have a dignified life to anybody.

Studying in a British university is also a very enjoyable experience. The teachers here are human, not superior beings!, they respect the individuality of every student and would encourage them to perform at their best. This all without mentioning the economical support available for someone who wants to get some education or simply change their career.

In this country nobody is old. You can see 83 year old men going to evening courses in the local college and still fighting for their independence and showing the world that no matter what they will live the principle of long life education with pride.

Regarding social life, English people is not as cold as the stereotypes suggest. Travel by bus and people will talk to you in the bus stop, maybe not in London where everybody is too busy as everybody else is busy in a big city, but in smaller places or in the boroughs that form this huge metropolis, people is generally approachable and ready to share experiences.

Of course this country has bad things too, for example the weather! but how could we enjoy the great green landscapes if we didn't have the rain to water them? I lived for a year in Rome, in Ostia, by the seaside, the weather was what everybody would consider perfect, the food, another area of complaining for UK visitors, excellent! but the day to day life was a continuous straggle, first to get a job, then to get it, then to keep an image that Italians so much value for first impressions. I was stressed 24 hours of the seven days the week has.

I used to go to bed crying and get up crying again. I was a foreigner in a foreign country and reminded of it constantly. Here in London, I have never felt that way, I feel free, fulfill and with full of opportunities waiting for me on my doorstep.

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