40 single, Tatoos and ASBO'S welcome to UK

Aug. 3, 2010 - PRLog -- I grew up in the UK. I am a son to British parents and I am an ex soldier of the British Army. I return to UK twice a year to see family, however each time I return I am appalled at the way it is deteriorating. I moved away in 2005 leaving behind 2 gorgeous daughters whom I adore, but the woman I married was typical of many woman of Britain today, unfaithful, neurotic, unsettled, and is now a mother of four children to three different fathers and no, contrary to the picture being painted, she, or I, had never ever lived on a council estate or have ever been long term unemployable!  I have not remarried nor have any more children.

Abroad the sentiment is shared with so many of my peers. We simply moved to ‘greener pastures’ and I do not consider myself or any of my peers to be in any way socially inept, we are well educated, earn good money and are very well presented, however we found ourselves single to the point of despair in UK, so we moved abroad, where the woman truly and unreservedly appreciate a good man. In my humble opinion British men have changed a lot less than British woman. That song by Rita Paine ‘Young Hearts’ has a lot to answer for.

Socio-economically speaking it’s a no-brainer. How many times do we hear our parents talk of there being 15 cinemas in the local town, and there being cafes and milk bars and 5 dance halls when they were young, well yes it’s a simple case of supply and demand. If I was a business man in the 50 and 60s I would simply look around at all the people in the 20-30 age groups and cater for the demographic. Now however look around and Britain is aging fast. The lovely department stores my Mum took me around as a child are replaced by charity shops and fast food joints. Daytime television is all about wheel chairs and Insurance for the over sixties. The geriatric market is huge. Add to this the time bomb of the pensions of all the baby boomers coming of age and expecting their handouts, I understand the UK’s benefit deficit is over 80 billion pounds a year and this is going to get worse, much worse. Televisions are bigger and louder, ask yourself is this aimed at the younger market?

In the Eighteens when I was a teen ( beware grumpy old man opining) the courting game was different, well all I am going to say is I had fun, many girlfriends and nights out enjoying my twenties, At least you could hear a girl talking in a club, now it really has gotten so much louder and the music is more catered for the drunk culture, shouting and paying a fortune to speak to a lady twice your age, actually the pensioners were the nicest people to chat to, they were not drunk or swearing, the woman my age were, it’s not a sweeping generalization it’s every single time I go out in UK!! Hardly the place to meet a nice girl unless of course you are into morbid obesity, tattoos, fighting, bad language and falling over in the street getting an Asbo! Go the library I am told,’ join a book club’ if ever there was a place for these woman to find a place to vent their pent up inadequacies is at these clubs! This hunger Britain has for this appalling reality TV is a yearning to see others who are as neurotic as they are, and to blurt out about lack of body image.

I don’t blame the kids I mean what is there for them to do?  Parents are so frightened some pedophile is living next door and is going to kidnap their offspring, I don’t believe there was any more or less danger of this years ago, however we were not morbidly obsessively following every moment of every abduction on HD television, so, paranoid to extreme, they ferry their children everywhere in huge SUV’s to and from school and Mum is only happy when they are upstairs playing video games getting some 12 year old girl drunk and pregnant, exercise is listening to your Ipod with a track suit on! ….Yes I’ve read the Daily Mail!!

I moved to a city 6000 plus kms away where the average age is 25, a meal is 50pence, a 1500 km overnight sleeper train is less than 25 pounds, the weather is to die for on it’s own, and the ladies generally don’t take drugs, smoke, drink, swear or come in at 3 in the morning, with bruises, smelling of after shave and expect you to get up for work after taking care of the kids all night. Recent reports tell us UK woman are less happy now than they have ever been. The ladies where I live know what they want, and do not spend hours bewailing ‘they don’t know what they want with their lives’. I feel sorry for my male friends who have stayed in UK, as their tolerance for what is a good partner has waned so badly as a coping mechanism to what is available, and make some terrible decisions.

I am British and I love my country but there is nothing left in UK whatsoever for a single forty something year old male, I may add at this point I have never taken drugs, been arrested, I am not overweight, smoke, swear, lazy or a pervert, Perhaps I am guilty of being boring for holding down a job and being reliable. I am told my standards are far too high, and to get a UK girlfriend   I should ease up and practice one or a few of these vices, sorry no can do. I took Mr. Tebbitts advice and got on my bike, well a plane to be exact.

If you’re married and you were lucky to find one of the very few lovely girls left, I applaud you, keep hold of her for goodness sake, and work at it, just look at how happy the long term married pensioners are for goodness sake!   I wish you well, however if you are alone, and have some standards left, I invite you to move just anywhere, well the more East the better, and it will open your eyes, but then again when I invite my single friends still in UK, they ask how long is the flight, they  hmmm a while, then espy some girl fallen over in the street with her underwear on display and then say …

“She’s a bit of alright,.. her with the thong …. Getting arrested and thrown in the back of the police van”

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