My standards are: - it's hard to judge costs in the UK because the exchange rate is so horrible that everything is expensive - it's hard to judge speed because the UK is so small compared to Australia that it seems incredibly quick to get anywhere - as for being on time, I'm kind of baffled as to how European trains manage to be as punctual as they are; so I guess you'd consider my standards lax on that front. - as for unhelpfulness, bad manners etc, it isn't until one needs help that one runs into problems with unhelpfulness, and I didn't need help. Websites helped me figure out which trains I needed to catch, and signs on stations told me where to catch them, which is all as one expects. - as for the comfort of the actual trains themselves, that varied depending on the particular line, but they were all reasonably comfortable. Again, perhaps my standards are low in that regard, because comparing with how trains were when I was a child, they're all more comfortable than they used to be.
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- it's hard to judge costs in the UK because the exchange rate is so horrible that everything is expensive
- it's hard to judge speed because the UK is so small compared to Australia that it seems incredibly quick to get anywhere
- as for being on time, I'm kind of baffled as to how European trains manage to be as punctual as they are; so I guess you'd consider my standards lax on that front.
- as for unhelpfulness, bad manners etc, it isn't until one needs help that one runs into problems with unhelpfulness, and I didn't need help. Websites helped me figure out which trains I needed to catch, and signs on stations told me where to catch them, which is all as one expects.
- as for the comfort of the actual trains themselves, that varied depending on the particular line, but they were all reasonably comfortable. Again, perhaps my standards are low in that regard, because comparing with how trains were when I was a child, they're all more comfortable than they used to be.