Why are sporting facilities in the UK so terrible compared to the USA?

Oh yeah and if you run in the evening or on a weekend you have to be careful where you run in case you encounter chavscum. It's just awful.

The US has a structured School and College system for sport. The UK has a club system.

Huge financial difference.

US wastes tons of public money on sports facilities for high schools.

hate to say it, but it's true. it's keeping up with the joneses on steroids.

We are wider people, so we need wider roads and pavements to accommodate our and our cars’ giant azzes and also more running tracks begging those wideasses to please burn some fat.

It's a long time ago when I studied for a bit in the UK. Surprisingly , it felt a little poor even then.
Now after following Brexit, it seems the UK is even worse than the US.
And don't get distracted by the fancy schools in the US. It's only good for the people who can afford them, everybody else needs to stay out and that includes the publicly funded track.

Not to mention, in the UK you are likely to get slammed by a car since they have no intention or obligation to yield to pedestrians at an intersection.

Compared to the rest of the world, the UK has few sporting facilities. Some may argue that you can find a place to play almost any sport in the UK and they may be right. But let me ask you this? Do you enjoy playing football on the street pavement? Is that what you call facility? The UK football leagues are full of talent, but they lack the proper facility to host a competitive match. A top quality field, good referees and decent stadia, they are all things the UK is missing.

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It’s a small land mass with a large population and infrastructure built for a much smaller population. Therefore the narrow pavements feel crowded.

still loads of places with plenty of space, just get out of the big cities.

How can I move to the USA? I'm 34.

It's in Kentucky, what do you expect?

As with a lot of things in the UK it depends on where you live. COVID hit some tracks very hard and many councils were already behind on maintenance for them.

When I started running my club had a cinder track and it was better than nothing. But where I live now we have four good tracks within 5 miles. Sadly this is not true for elsewhere.

The states have plenty of tracks but you can't use them. There are also plenty of track meets, but they're only for people in school meets for the most part.

That sums it up

Why do the brits have such janky teeth? Some questions don’t have good answers.

Local government seems to be in freefall in the UK and is mainly run for the benefit of its employees. They keep reducing services to ludicrous levels but increasing taxation. Meanwhile, the left wing mainly socialist population lap it up because they are told its essential to "tackle poverty". We literally have the richest poor people in the world here, so much so that people risk crossing the English channel on dinghies to get here. "Poor" here means not being able to buy a nice 2 bedroom house when you're 23 and have a low paid job, or having to pay normal city prices to rent a 2 bedroom apartment.

An example of local government cost cutting - my local authority closed the running track in my city for housing development, meaning athletes have had to train around a local park for the last 3 years or so. That park has a small public toilet but.... its locked at 5pm. Most athletes train after 6pm.

Its actually pretty depressing how few services are provided in return for rather high taxes. But most of the people here don't seem to notice.

I live within a mile of 2 middle schools with newly resurfaced all-weather tracks better than I ever ran on in HS. I'm not sure they even have track teams, or how they justify the expense, but I'll take it.

re British teeth- my dentist told me that Brits don't have fluoride in their water so that's why their teeth look alien, here.