[KyokoUK]

I guess you are right within the context you are talking about. First though, I was thinking legitimate marriages, not forced ones or "mail order brides" and I know some horror tales about that. And yes we need, in the UK, to address the issue of women being forced to return to their homeland, marry someone they don't want to and return. I have heard of some of those ending in blood shed.

for the expences here, I spent some years in the US and I am having to struggle some back here at home but I felt so exposed to crime and unsafe in the US that getting back to my lovely England I felt it was worth the extra expence. I tend to live a little more minimalist, though, than many people. So alltogether you are right in your points and from the view I was addressing I think I still had some valid points. I am glad to have this discussion with you and thank you for giving me this additional view on these issues.