Well in some way I'm glad you're backing me up on the 'England is shit' part lol, but as I've mentioned in other comments, I'm not really in a time of life where I can just up and leave to any random place. The choices are, unfortunately, China or England, for many reasons. I can go to England with the 100% intention of leaving again in a few years, but England has to be the drop off point to begin with.

After that, maybe some homogenous urban sprawl in Texas where I get to be shot in the desert for some reason.

Sounds a lot more fun than writing to my local council about the intrusive new wind farm in Kent or whatever XD

As for the HK situation, yeah I'm always keeping an eye on it and it is just... sad. But I have a friend there who used to be - USED TO BE - a total anglophile. And yet, now, living in HK under CCP rule, says she no longer desires to go to England because it sucks now.

That was the most truly depressing hit. Somebody so enamoured with a place to come out and say that while living under communist rule. Sigh.