It's the well-kept secret that the weather is actually rather wonderful for a lot of the time (witness the arcadian spring of recent weeks) which keeps most of us here in Britain. The American myth about lousy British weather derives, I suspect, from the coincidence of large numbers of US servicemen based here in the 1940s and 50s with a lengthy sequence of abnormally cold and wet summers. What the article doesn't mention is that a significant proportion of British emigrants return in less than five years - having discovered that the grass isn't greener on the other side after all.
I’ve been there twice. Nasty cold and rainy both times.