When I visited England over 30 years ago, people were already telling me that London was no longer English. It has grown worse since.
I am afraid that John Cleese is typical. There are many American liberals who are similar: they profess to admire multiculturalism, but really enjoy more traditional settings: they strive to connect with the culture they themselves have undermined.
The poet Roy Campbell noted the same phenomenon in his Autobiography “Light on a Dark Horse.” He said that travelers profess to admire the landscapes, but what they really long for is the lives of the simpler people they see in trips to rural areas, or more old-fashioned parts of the world.
In moving to those places, they buy up the nice, old houses, and may even contribute to retoration activities — but they do not actually attend the old, traditional churches, and they import their stinking, liberal politics, until pretty soon the whole place is not the same. This is happening to NH because of all the rich Massachusetts newcomers. Much of NJ has been ruined by New Yorkers.
Much of NJ has been ruined by New Yorkers.
If FL hasn’t been, it has to be very close.