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London is best place........
Farrah, ru moving to the UK? Come and live near me lol less than 20 miles from central London, near enough to the city for work, shopping and nightlife but still lovely countryside just 10mins away and not many judgmental or backward desis twitching the curtains if u come home late at night or making snide comments on how ur dressed or what a bad person u must be for not marrying a Pakistani 
Parts of London or outskirts (home counties) are perfect, I’d stay away from the more traditional desi areas esp if hubby is white cos they’ll tend to stare and tut-tut.. Inside London South Kensington or Knightsbridge are brilliant but super-expensive and even when ur paying sky-high rents or mortgage for possibly the nicest parts of the city u prob won’t end up with much space (for a million pounds u’d still feel a bit ‘boxed in’ lol), someone mentioned St. John’s Wood which is lovely as well and more reasonably priced.. Hampstead and Highgate are nice as well, they have almost like a village atmosphere even tho ur inside London, v.fashionable place to be and also u’ve got Regents Park nearby and loads of halal restaurants etc. just a mile or so away down in Bayswater and Edgeware. Being in a decent part of London means the Muslims will be mostly professionals instead of the sterotypical desi benefit scroungers with their 12 kids and mum who has lived here 30yrs yet can’t speak English..
Houston is a brilliant place, the houses are so cheap (u can get practically a palace over there for the price of a 4-bed detached house in a nicer part of London lol). Great shopping as well but toooooo hot…
London is best place........
Go hazelie....you tell 'em :)
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London all the way! Woot Woot! after that Los Angeles!
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Edinburgh. Classy city, great architecture, history and night life. Although the Pak community is pretty backward, but extremely small, so won't bother you.
You can descent sized accomodation in Lieth. Central Edinburgh is pretty much unaffordable. I miss Edinburgh every time as I struggle on the Norh Circular.
Avoid London like the plague, crap city, full of crime and grime. South Kensington and Knightsbridge are literally unaffordable unless you are a Russian oligarch. Same goes for Hamstead, Highgate and Swiss Cottage. Most people end up living in slums like Tooting, Walthamstow and Ilford, not to mention Southall Hounslow etc. Honestly, I would prefer living in favella in Rio then these areas. Anywhere half descent like Sutton or New Malden are a billion miles away from central London. Public transport is crap, and is shut most weekends for endless repairs. Heathrow, the main airport is an embarasment. Berlin, Paris and Madrid are a billion times better that ths ****e hole.
London all the way! Woot Woot! after that Los Angeles!
Actually, I would say forget LA or London. Why not Dubai.
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I was going to write Dubai but then realised that the OP wants some location best in UK/USA.
There is no city that can match Dubai, I love it:jano:
Khan15 is right about the public transport, the tube is awful, esp when u compare it to public transport in other countries, British Rail is also a national embarrassment.. I drive everywhere and tbh the motorways are in a pretty bad state as well, roadworks everywhere and not enough lanes for all the traffic, US highways are 10x better.. Parking in central London is pure hell, there are idiots waiting around corners to give u tickets, clamp u or even tow ur car away (the worst thing is they don't even leave a notice to say where it's gone or anything, u just go back to ur car - and it's disappeared!!), there's the congestion charge u have to pay if u drive in during the daytime on weekdays and added to that a lot of the better areas have residents only parking bays on the streets (tho I admit that's a big positive if u actually live there)..
On a positive note, there are mid-level areas of London and around it that are affordable and with a good quality of life, forgot to mention it earlier but Islington is nice and so is Maida Vale, loads of good restaurants etc. and where I live in Essex (tho technically part of 'Greater London'), there's Brentwood which is not so pricey but still a great place to live and as well as the more affordable parts (there isn't really a 'rough' part of town) there's Shenfield and Hutton Mount which is full of rich city traders, premiership footballers etc like nearby Chigwell, Buckhurst Hill and Loughton (tho parts of Loughton are cr*p)..It's very nouveau-riche tho so if u look down on 'new money' u'll hate the place lol, women tend to be blonde with fake boobs and the men have tans so brown they can pass for desi lol.. Parts of Kent are nice as well, bits of Bromley and Chislehurst.. Don't know the other sides of London so well but obviously there are slightly more expensive but still affordable places (esp if both partners are working) that are really nice :)
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I know it's quite far from London but Bournemouth is a good area to live :)
Houston is the best US city to live if you want a third world experience. Even then, I would rather live in mexico. Its hot and humid and has mosquitos the size of birds. The entire city was built on swamp land. Its full of desi folks I guess the mosquitos remind them of back home.
Live on the west coast san fran, san diego. Seattle if you are from UK and like rain. On the east coast the only place I like is sub-urbs of DC. The home values in all of these places are relatively high compared to houston. Thats because these cities werent built on swamp land.
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I think the tubes and trains arnt that bad.. If anything im impressed with the overground in london and ive just started using it 2 weeks back! THEY HAVE HEATERS!
Those of you who are hating on Britain, u are a bunch of ignorant idiots.
Our weather might be **** (I'll give you that) and the NHS has gone down the drain thanks to the idiotic incompetent immigrant Indian nurses and doctors but this country is still the best in a lot of ways..
Britain is much better than most places in Europe or USA, especially for ethnic minorities and Muslims.
There are some areas any decent person should avoid, inner city ghetto areas are bad (especially around Oldham, Bolton, Bradford etc.) that's where you get the bad apples from both the Paki and the Caucasian community, the typical chav types with their race riots and recently religious intolerance (from both sides) who mess it up for the rest of us...
My area is great, the vast majoirty of people are Anglo but there is a sizeable ethnic minority (Paki, Bangla, Italian, Polish and Chinese), everyone knows everyone else and get on with each other (except for a few bad apples), the vicar and the imam are friends and you often see them going for a stroll together, Anglo boys and Paki boys play cricket together, veiled women go shopping to the mall with their white girlfriends, bearded-types and their beer-bellied white mates get together to watch the football and everyone respects everyone elses beliefs and lifestyle choices...
I hate the inner-city areas where Pakis only hang with Pakis and Anglo boys only with Anglo boys, Black boys only with Black boys...
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PS. It's hard to believe some of you are educated.
Pakis will be Pakis (prejudiced, arrogant etc.), no matter how high up we move in life we can't shed our backward mentality.
What makes you guys think you're any better than the so-called "panidu", "cab drivers" and "backward desis"? You're exhibiting the exact same desi kameenapun.
An upper/middle-class white person would never snub blue-collar workers the way you guys are doing, they treat everyone the same... You try aping white people in everything else but you miss out their good points..
By snubbing others you're just showing how ill-bred you all are.
What's wrong with lower-class blue-collar workers if they earn an honest living for their family and give their kids a good upbringing?
I know lots of so called educated urban Paki types who practice every fraud under the sun and give all Pakis a bad name, and they're always busy runnin' after money that's why they don't instill any values or manners in their kids and their kids grow up confused, lost and messed up on so many levels...
My parents started off in this country as blue-collar workers but we never leached off goverment- benefits ever in our lives, our parents brought us up on their hard earned honest earnings... and people tell me they commend my parents for instilling such good manners in me...
Not every blue-collar family is reclusive, can't speak English, leaches of benefits, druggies etc.
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^can you tell us where the ghettos are in oldham, bolton and bradford?
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well said Nosherwan.
Edinburgh. Classy city, great architecture, history and night life. Although the Pak community is pretty backward, but extremely small, so won't bother you.
You can descent sized accomodation in Lieth. Central Edinburgh is pretty much unaffordable. I miss Edinburgh every time as I struggle on the Norh Circular.
Avoid London like the plague, crap city, full of crime and grime. South Kensington and Knightsbridge are literally unaffordable unless you are a Russian oligarch. Same goes for Hamstead, Highgate and Swiss Cottage. Most people end up living in slums like Tooting, Walthamstow and Ilford, not to mention Southall Hounslow etc. Honestly, I would prefer living in favella in Rio then these areas. Anywhere half descent like Sutton or New Malden are a billion miles away from central London. Public transport is crap, and is shut most weekends for endless repairs. Heathrow, the main airport is an embarasment. Berlin, Paris and Madrid are a billion times better that ths ****e hole.
I don't see much difference between London and Paris's airports, I believe Lahore Airport is much better than any European airport in terms of cleanliness.
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^What's that based on? Coz I'd take Heathrow toilets over Lahore Airport toilets any day. Not to mention the general smell.
Those of you who are hating on Britain, u are a bunch of ignorant idiots.
Our weather might be **** (I'll give you that) and the NHS has gone down the drain thanks to the idiotic incompetent immigrant Indian nurses and doctors but this country is still the best in a lot of ways..
NHS isn't in a good place because of privitisation, it has very little to do with the doctors and nurses and where they are from.
PS. It's hard to believe some of you are educated.
Pakis will be Pakis (prejudiced, arrogant etc.), no matter how high up we move in life we can't shed our backward mentality.
What makes you guys think you're any better than the so-called "panidu", "cab drivers" and "backward desis"? You're exhibiting the exact same desi kameenapun.
An upper/middle-class white person would never snub blue-collar workers the way you guys are doing, they treat everyone the same... You try aping white people in everything else but you miss out their good points..
You must not know many upper/middle class white people if you really believe that. People share this in common, regardless of race.
Khan15 is right about the public transport, the tube is awful, esp when u compare it to public transport in other countries,
What countries are you comparing it to? I feel this is something people just like to say.
The tube has it's problems (overcrowding and peak times, line closures etc) but it is far more modernised than most countries (the stations themselves and the trains), cleaner, better manned and when it's working you get trains every few minutes (1-3mins).
The only real down side is the cost.