u/TigerAJ2

I noticed that on my tips to both England, there is a different between houses and housing estates.

The housing designs are quite the same, but I noticed Scotland has more modern housing, while England's housing kinda feels like it's stuck in the past. A lot of new builds in England traditional archecture with a slight modern tweak. I'm not saying Scotland's new build are better. Indeed, they look the same, but...

I also noticed that, many housing estates, towns, and cities tend to be red brick in England. In Scotland, the houses tend to be grey with pebbledash.

Of course, England has some grey pebbledash houses as well, but it seems like they stopped using pebbledash and whitewashing their new houses, and keep the red brick exposed.

I am a Canadian and it's pretty common here in North America, perhaps less so here, but Elsehwere, that King George III was an evil mad King and a borderline dictator. Someone I know called him the worst King Britain ever had and the most evil.

How true is this? Was he evil for his role in the Impendence Wars and Britain's role in slavery?

Almost every country in the world has a more lager dominated beer culture, not just by volume of sales.

It seems that England is quite a different country when it comes to this.

I know that in England, the top selling beers by volume are lagers, but they're not really English lagers. They are lagers from European countries and they're looked down upon by some circles. The English seem to not have a culture of lager.

When I went to England, I noticed the beer culture is more pub focused. It's more about 'real ale' like bitters, milds, India Pale Ales, and then stouts and porters. Served from handpumps. Outside of a few big brands, it's all local and regional.

As someone who is more used to drinking cold refreshing crisp lagers, and a country where these styles are niche (Sweden), it was a shock to me. I tried several English styled ales in pubs and they tasted very warm and flat. Cameral, toffee like, and very earthy and grassy, nutty, and woody. Malty. It's certainly an experience but I didn't like it and gave me bad heart burn.

The stouts and ''porters'' tasted like dark chocolate and coffee. Those were quite nice.

I wonder why the English are quite different from the rest of the world when it comes to preferring ales over lagers? The only country I can think of which comes close is Belgium.