FireFly, you really have to put Britain's situation into perspective. First, they are a tiny, tiny country. There are certainly advantages they could exploit in terms of transit that we would never, ever be able to realize.
Weather impacts? The Brits do not have the extremes we do, thus do not have as significant an issue with dealing with heating and cooling costs.
They most certainly do not have nearly the volume of raw material industries as we do (mining, forestry and of course petroleum).
They are packed so tight together, just the number of bum rubs heats most neighbourhoods effectively.
Comparing Britain to Canada is sheer nonsense. You are smart enough to understand that one. To me, it's like Mobility before the Clearnet merger. Mobility covered one heck of a lot more area, did it far better and with happier clientelle. But Clearnet was in that small concentrated area. Merger comes, and the Clearnet philosophy goes nation wide. Yuck. we then find out that it takes four of them to do one of our jobs, and not even as well. The grass was definitely NOT greener in that one.
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