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Originally Posted by Mark Henry
Me mums is a British (London) war bride. Came over in a converted Lancaster, had to wear O2 masks over 20k feet, lost an engine mid-Atlantic and had to live a 5 days in Gander with total strangers. I have a bunch of cousins over the pond, but I've never been.
When I was a kid some couldn't understand what I was saying because I had the accent.
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Yup, me too. Mother came over a later, and on a ship. (We joke it was the Mayflower..) I am close with my family over there, and I am happy about that.
On the plus side, most Brits genuinely like America and us Yanks. Many have been here, and we share much popular culture. But as the travel writer Paul Theroux has pointed out, "no Anglophiles actually live in England.."
They can be quite miserable gits. And not always nice towards each other.. (They save their affections for their dogs.)
On the plus side, they can be very stoic and put up with just about anything. Some mishap or misfortune? They literally laugh at it.. The class system is always lurking (although we are blind to it), but leaders (in business, in my experience) can actually lead (a dying art in America).
Back to the OP - yes, go! Summer can be crowded and sometimes too warm (no A/C), winter is cold and rainy. The longer days in May & June are great for traveling. The Cornish and Devon coasts are nice. The trains are great.