The Royal Navy Problem
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When the Italians have more ships...
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England is a POOR country. Without London, the per capita GDP of the United Kingdom is lower than Mississippi the poorest American state:
Mississippi: In 2023, Mississippi's GDP per capita was $47,190.
United Kingdom: In 2022, the UK's GDP per capita was £37,852, or roughly $45,000.Maybe 10 years ago or so my wife and I saw this movie with Steve Coogan called "The Trip." We said "let's do that." We flew to England for an open end vacation and rented a car to drive around stay in quaint village hotels and have fine dining in the local pubs. We didn't plan well, it was a spur of the moment kind of thing. We started in London where our plane came in and just drove north. Outside of London, England was a lot like Gary, Indiana or Camden, NJ. Quite surprising. There are certified tourist destinations that are wonderful but to just generally cruise through the random British countryside is kind of depressing. It's poor.
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@Tom-K said in The Royal Navy Problem:
England is a POOR country. Without London, the per capita GDP of the United Kingdom is lower than Mississippi the poorest American state:
Mississippi: In 2023, Mississippi's GDP per capita was $47,190.
United Kingdom: In 2022, the UK's GDP per capita was £37,852, or roughly $45,000.Maybe 10 years ago or so my wife and I saw this movie with Steve Coogan called "The Trip." We said "let's do that." We flew to England for an open end vacation and rented a car to drive around stay in quaint village hotels and have fine dining in the local pubs. We didn't plan well, it was a spur of the moment kind of thing. We started in London where our plane came in and just drove north. Outside of London, England was a lot like Gary, Indiana or Camden, NJ. Quite surprising. There are certified tourist destinations that are wonderful but to just generally cruise through the random British countryside is kind of depressing. It's poor.
It's not really just London, it's the South East of the country where all the money is. This has been going on for decades. The Lancashire former mill-town I grew up in is a shadow of it's former self.
There's also a difference between the bigger cities and the smaller towns. My brother lives in a suburb of Manchester, and it's actually pretty nice. I lived in Chester before I moved to Canada, which is also pretty affluent and a tourist destination. It's the former industrial towns that have really suffered.
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@Mik said in The Royal Navy Problem:
They’re Italian. Half or more are in drydock.
Read the article. The Italians have most of theirs at sea.
.Half the Brits are in the drydock...
