Comments on: Moving to London from America- What You’ll Miss

By: UK vs USA - 5 Things the British Do Better - Sunny in London

UK vs USA - 5 Things the British Do Better - Sunny in London — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 12:16:36 +0000

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By: moviebox

moviebox — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 06:38:44 +0000

nice post, thanks for sharing!

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 22 May 2017 12:25:43 +0000

When I was little entertainment in malls actually was that with book stores/game stores and independent gift stores. Each mall was different in what it had to offer.

Is it that way in Europe where it’s all bland and *trendy* meaning only those with high end jobs can afford it and malls that can’t are ghettos overran by gangs/thugs or do they still cater to the general family over the pond?

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 22 May 2017 12:23:56 +0000

As for entertainment all we have in our malls are stupid mobile phone shops and they call it *entertainment*. In big cities there are literally no less then 5 such shops like Americans can’t get enough of staring at those tiny screens.
🙁

I know Europe has mobile phones too but in videos me and my parents have seen you rarely ever see someone being glued to it and talking loudly into one.

They just use them for quick calls when they need to which is the actual purpose of a smartphone. Weird huh.
I’m sure smartphone addicted people exist in Europe but they just don’t loudly advertise themselves so are a bit of a challenge to find.

I still use Windows 7 Pro and if I don’t go to dodgy sites doing weird file formats then I do just fine despite the Windows 10 nay sayers who think you can’t use 7 or shouldn’t. Windows 10 is too smartphone like including quietly herding the sheep tothe MS App store.

If Windows 10.1 comes out I think MS App store will be the key component and you will probably only be able to get it that method and no way else trying to mimic the Apple store. They already tried their own I-Tunes called Zune and it failed after a while as it was a pain in the ass to use compared to I-Tunes but I-TUnes is insanely cost prohibitive as with anything Apple.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 22 May 2017 12:17:42 +0000

Not sure if it’s this way in Europe but what they won’t tell you is the REAL reason America’s malls are dying or dead is because the stores are all the same.

I was lucky to grow up in just the tiny bit where malls were all unique even here in Salem Oregon Lancaster Mall and Salem Centre I mean Center mall all had way different stores and eateries and we would go to both.

Now it’s all *trendy* stores for women into designer wares or hip hop gang style type clothes so we don’t go like we used to.

Jc Penny was great for discount prices up to the early 00s and had decent quality as it was half Chinese made and half Taiwan which still made good quality.

Now it’s all crap at high prices and made for teen age punks and young women who have money to burn (or parents with lots of money) and not care how they look.

By: Sunny London

Sunny London — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 17:46:27 +0000

In reply to Christine Givens. Christine, thank you for reading. I'm just seeing my original response didn't go throw. Yes, I completely degree it's a reminder of college life with clothes hanging every where here!

By: Christine Givens

Christine Givens — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 15:08:37 +0000

Haha! I love your blog. It’s fab. I would say, having lived in UK for 6 years, I miss my dryer. Boo hoo. My flat is always filled with clothes hanging to dry, esp in the winter. Sigh. A small price I guess, for international experience. Though I sometimes feel I stepped back into collegiate life.

Thanks for all the time you put into this site. Would love to meet you someday!

Christine

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 22:01:55 +0000

In reply to Sunny London. Oooh...I like that idea! A visa swap to England. Of course, I wouldn't come back. My suggestion: amazon.com and shipping savvy friends and family. Problems solved!

By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 20:42:51 +0000

I always put a travel-size pack of facial cleansing wipes in my travel bag when I flew to visit my Scottish boyfriend (now husband of 12 years), so I never noticed the lack of paper towels at Heathrow. As an artist, the thing I missed most was easy access to large-scale arts supply stores, but the lovely thing about Britain IS that the local shops are wonderful and the art shops will order anything they don’t have in-store. It’s sad to see places like ASDA and super-size Tesco come in on the outskirts and start affecting retail in city centres. They’re SO convenient, but we’ve seen several family-owned butcher shops, bakeries and other stores go out of business recently, and I think it’s changing what’s really fantastic about British towns. I kinda wish they’d take our generic-looking suburban strip malls (that make every city in the US look exactly the same) as a warning and stop that nonsense before it destroys their beautiful, thriving, busy city centers. We don’t live in the UK anymore, but visit there often, and love it there! Enjoy.