Is it normal that i think england looks depressing?

I have never been, but I agree lol. It feels a bit like bleh. Their best food is Indian and they vacation in France and Spain where the culture and food isn't dull.

I wonder where you've got this impression from.

As much as you can say anything about a country as a whole, England is not a particularly horrible place. New York, North Carolina, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Pennsylvania are all roughly the size of England in terms of land area, and I'm sure they all have very pleasant areas and totally depressing areas. The same applies to England.

Having lived in Scotland, I can tell you that while much of the country can be stunning on the rare occasions when the the sun shines, there are areas which are very grim and depressing no matter what the weather.

I'm from England and I never found it a depressing place (at least, not for the reasons that you describe lol).

I left when I was in my early 20s and have lived in a variety of different places since, and one thing they all have in common is that they have been hot and sunny. This wasn't an intentional choice, it's just pure coincidence that my job and then my husband's job has always taken me to these places.

Now, after getting used to the sunshine, I do find the UK a bit grey and bleak looking when I go back. It's more noticeable to me now. However, I don't think it's depressing. It's part of the island's charm.

People from the UK always stik up their nose like they are better than us Americans, but they are just as shitty as us. Slightly different, but still assholios

I always wished I lived in England. It looks so gray and rainy and with pretty nature.
I don't care much for the sun.

What is wrong with you? I am in England. It's so beautiful and happy. Ever heard this line "blest isle with matchless, with matchless beauty crowned"? It's talking about England. A line from our favourite patriotic song Rule, Britannia.

They just need some bright colored paint and a little piped in sunshine.

You also have to understand that the population density of England is pretty high. Even considered alone, in exclusion of the other nations of the United Kingdom, it is the 4th most populated nation in Europe, and houses 56.3 million people in a space the size of New York or Pennsylvania or the other states mentioned above.

What's more, most of England's economic activity is concentrated in and around cities whose basic infrastructure was first built hundreds of years before the US was even founded, so it's no wonder that parts of those cities are crowded and ugly. When the population explodes over hundreds of years, you can expand and innovate it, but there are limits to how far you can do that when space is limited and society's functioning historically depends on other people's prior claims to it. And you can't just raze a city to the ground and start again!

Before I saw more of the world, the very notion that a country could contain land that wasn't either someone's property, or protected from becoming property by some law or council claim that kept it public, really used to seem weird to me.

The rest of the world is normal: it's just England that's bursting at its seams!

It depends on what you call 'beautiful'...

In my opinion, most big European cities I've seen are ugly outside of their historical centres.

Google Image search Oxford, Bath, York and Chester and come back to us on whether England is really so bad.

I grew up in Houston, Texas, and to tell you the truth I always wanted to go to England, the rest of Great Britain and Ireland, but especially England. I truly enjoy rain, fog and overcast days. I don't like overly bright sunlight, and or dry air; living in Las Vegas was a lot like living in Purgatory for 15 years to me. I have honestly never liked the desert, but I do, and always will love dessert!

Normal, it always had been a depressing place.