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[dmallind]

162. Because it has little else

The UK has a terrible climate, is miserably overcrowded, unacceptably expensive, and underserved with fine cuisine to say the least. It has no particularly spectacular scenery when compared to, say, France to use your example. Although some small parts nestled between surrounding industrial parks and council estates might have a combined bucolic/craggy charming vibe going, they are not comparable to the Alps or the Riviera by any stretch. It does have some world-class museums and galleries all sadly in London, and it's a worthwhile stop for connoisseurs of beer or whisky. Beyond that though what brings in the tourists? Lake Windermere is not overrun with masses of Japanese photographers like Buckingham Palace is. You don't hear a huge number of American accents at Buckden Pike or Torpenhow Hill (the most tautonymic placename I know) like you do at Westmister Abbey.

Take away all that pomp and pagaentry and you have an entire nation that is the equivalent of a suburban Cleveland without the Puerto Rican food.

Born there, lived there 20+ yrs by the way.