Pretty Good Britain? Is that ironic?
You decide. We chose to live here rather than arrive via a British birth canal, so it's likely we're fond of the place. On the other hand it's not all green and unpleasantly soggy land, picturesque villages blighted by traffic, bustling high streets filled with the same chain stores, historic castles advertising a bloody past, stunning country houses still standing as testament to a nasty class system, a colourful royal family still standing as testament to a nasty class system, proudly independent politicians kept in line by the Sun and party whips, with leadership marching in lockstep to Washington, etc. Get the picture?

Who are you?
We -- sorry -- I arrived in London in the autumn of 1995 after nearly a decade living in the New York metropolitan area and a childhood spent listening to Bob Seger and REO Speedwagon in Ohio. I'm involved in the photography, writing, and web sectors of the economy, and am comfortably settled with wife and no children in rural East Sussex near Burwash, the village Rudyard Kipling called home for the last 35 years of his life. I've seen a good bit of Britain, and between my research partner and myself we're probably able to answer most expat and tourist-related questions. We're also a valuable co-database on matters relating to tax, immigration, cycling, surviving as a vegan among omnivores, Jersey City politics, getting hit by cars and trapped in laundromats, and the sad decline of liberalism.