Coming from a beautiful, green, uncrowded country, as big as the UK, but with the same population in Birmingham, around 2,000,000 last time I checked (oh no, around 5,000,000 now - I thank Suyash Agrawal for correcting me).

A few hundred years ago, Britain had a population of about 5 million, but now there are about 65 million.

Well, guess what – it’s different! Throw 65 million people into New Zealand and it might start to look less pristine too.

Until recently, New Zealand's non-Maori population was largely descended from British immigrants, who brought with them British cultural and technological ideas.

Your country is actually descended from Britain.

But all you can say about this relatively older nation is a litany of insults, mostly for being old.

I hope you won't call your biological parents and grandparents similar insulting terms.

Yes, there is dirt in Britain.

From at least one other answer, I noticed that even your beach is not actually guaranteed to be perfect! However, I can show you some photos of even one in dirty old Southampton, one with a pier and a refinery

Factory's port city, on the low-tide coastline, has only a single speck of plastic trash (and a lone piece of green glass) among clean cobblestones; we can all display our work selectively.

You have decided to hate Britain, so all you show and see is the result of crowding and carelessness.

Yes, I can show you some pictures of an overflowing bin surrounded by disposable coffee cups, but although they are in Britain, they are not Britain.

You choose to only see the things you hate so much, which blinds you to all the good things.

As far as you're concerned, they're British.

Well, I guess it helps that you are away from where I am from! Still, they are beautiful.

Within half an hour of leaving my home in shabby old Southampton I can reach places I would not trade for, even in your lovely young country.

For example, there are beautiful chalk streams such as the River Court, the River Each and the River Avon in Hampshire, whose clear water rises from underground aquifers deep in the chalk formations and is home to trout and other fish.

An ideal habitat for this species.

I just discovered yesterday that there are only 200 chalk rivers in the world and 85% of them are in England.

This is the itch on a winter afternoon: The New Forest in early autumn: During tree-turning season, when the pigs happily search for acorns to eat, another part of the forest: A forest stream in late summer: The history of churches, castles and cathedrals can

going back a thousand years (well, Exeter is just over half an hour away, but I don’t have a picture of Winchester Cathedral on my phone yet): and prehistory that has been around for four or five thousand years

Architecture: Surf Nephew’s Cornish Beaches: Old and New Southampton, Moving Forward While Respecting the Past: