I live in scotland !!! SO tell me wh abroad is better and make me move ???
Abroad is better because it is not the UK.
Isn’t that more than enough reason to move?
By abroad, I assume you mean the US, but I could be wrong. In any case, the answer to your question depends on what you are looking for and what you value.
Generally speaking, from my substantial visiting in Germany and more limited exposure to England, many things are more convenient in the US. For the majority of the middle class, it is (again, really generalizing here) easier to get around, easier to buy a house, easier to get services. In my experience, middle class people seem to have more disposable income in the US. Is that a reason to move? Maybe, maybe not.
If you are really considering this, find out about visas before you get all excited. It is much harder to get a visa here than I would have thought.
…easier to get fat, easier to get shot, easier to get drugs, shall I go on?
Anti-Americanism aside - I can believe that everything is more convenient there. I have heard very positive stories from people I know who’ve been there - the most common being ‘everything is “all-you-can-eat” and when they say all you can eat they mean all you can eat’.
Assuming A Brit means America when they say abroad is perfectly ok and forgivable, but it is not a correct asumption. I believe that when a Brit says abroad they are highly likely to mean a european country. America is so ‘in our faces’ that we say ‘America’ when we mean America and ‘abroad’ when we mean, say… france (for example)
Depends on the broad…
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Umm, isn’t “abroad” kind of a big place? Some parts of Italy might be better than the UK. Most of Rwanda probably isn’t.
To answer your second question, though, if you have an opportunity to move to another country – especially one where the primary language is not English – go for it. I can’t promise you’ll like it better than home, but you’ll certainly learn more than you ever thought possible, meet all kinds of interesting folks, and stock up on good memories for your old age. ('Course, you could also end up like me, hopelessly in love with not one but TWO countries where I can’t work legally and feeling increasingly out of place at home, but I wouldn’t change a thing if I could do it all again.)
Yes, you only have to look at the lengths people go to (sealing themselves up in containers, hanging under the cross-channel train) to see that the UK is a highly desirable place to live in if you’re from some places.
But it’s a great experience to spend some time away. If you have the chance, go somewhere else for a while. If you have a UK passport, you have an automatic right to work anywhere in W Europe, which is better than nothing. Better still, if you’re still young and free, get yourself out to Asia or some place and bum around teaching English for a few months at least. Financially, you won’t get rich, but afterwards you’ll have a wealth of experience that lots of other people don’t have. Go for it.
UK expat here who has lived abroad for last four years…
It’s very hard to define “better”.
In Australia, the weather was certainly better. The cities were cleaner and less congested. There were more trees in the middle of big cities, and housing cost less. I personally found the Medicare system a million times better than the NHS. There was masses of space - this could be a disadvantage in so far as it made cross-country travel far more expensive and lengthy.
However pay was way, way lower, taxes were way higher, people drove terribly (IMO!) and many government things were hideously bureaucratic, useless and corrupt. Including the actual government… 
Here in the UAE the weather is fabulous - until it gets to the summer where it’s 45-50 degrees centigrade day AND night. Pay can be wonderfully high and income tax is totally non-existent. It’s wonderfully multicultural, dynamic and fast-changing. There’s far less crime - you could leave a luxury car unlocked and it wouldn’t be stolen. There are less muggings and assaults, virtually no burglaries. Shops open until 11pm - very convenient for people who work during the day. There are endless clean sandy beaches. Dubai is a beautiful city and I am thankful every day I’ve had the chance to work here.
However some things are more expensive here, unless you know how to find non-rich-white-expat-targeted restaurants you’ll pay an arm and a leg for dining out (otherwise you can get some amazingly cheap and wonderful food), alcohol is more expensive and you need a license to take it home, there is inequality of pay amongst different nationalities, there is no free public health service, the internet is heavily censored (except in Dubai Internet City and Media City free zone), telecoms are a monopoly and v expensive compared to many other countries.
And they don’t drive here as such, they just shut their eyes, ram their foot down on the accelerator and their hand on the horn at any hour of day or night…
The weather is better than in the UK and that goes for about anywhere except obvious places like the Sahara Desert and Greenland.
On a similar note, for a college student do you think the UK would be better or the US?
I know this is a bit vague, and it would depend a lot on where in the US or UK, but in general if anyone has lived in or been to both places, which do you think is better for college student?