There are few things that I really don't like about Manchester. They are listed below.

• The public transport. This topic is really complex. The following p**es me off n particular:
• The traffic jams. Solution of which is priority for no one, and certainly not for the city council.
• The absolutely ridiculous tram system. And the fact that 'expansion of the tram system' really means approx. 200 m of new track in the city (useless) and a brand new line in the Quays (where there are two lines already). I guess that about a half of the Greater Manchester area has no access to the trams and is stuck in the traffic jams instead, and this bothers no one.
• The absurd ticket system. The tram tickets work only for one line. The bus tickets work only for one operator. Well, you can have bus tickets for all operators, but that is more expensive than it should be. There is one ticket which covers both all buses and all trams, but it is very expensive.
• No night buses to our place from Sunday to Thursday. Therefore, if we ever decide to go out (to pub, theater, cinema, anything), we need to either decide not to go, or hurry back before the last day bus leaves, or use private-hire (which is not that expensive, but it is too expensive to do it often).
• The absolute inability of the bus drivers (or rather their bosses?) to wait a bit to prevent arriving in packs. What use is it if 7 buses arrive at once, and then there is 45 min wait for the next 7 buses?
• The total unpredictability of the bus arrival times. Yes, there is a schedule, but that is no more than a piece of useless paper. You just cannot rely on the schedule, which means that you are usually either really early or really late. The first case is just a terrible loss of time; the latter case can have serious consequences if you miss a train, a plane, etc.
• No trees. Or almost. In the city centre, there is some grass (not much of it!), but hardly any trees.
• No sakura trees. (If there are some, please tell me where they are.)
• No proper green spaces. There are some parks, but they are scarce, and not really accessible if you don't have a car (which we do not have).
• No cultural summary available. There is no single place where you could find interesting events. In practice, you have to check all the websites of all cultural venues if you do not want to miss something. Half the times you still miss something, mostly because some events are 'intellectuals-only', and 'ordinary' people (us) never learn about them.

I think that's the stuff which I find the worst at the moment.

There are also few things that I don't like about life in the UK which are not Manchester-specific:

• Stupid and absurd bank account rules (mentioned and explained extensively before).
• The auto-censoring everyone has to perform every day in order not to commit a hate crime.
• The idea of hate-crime, I think that you should be allowed to say what you think, even if a particular group of people finds the stuff offensive. If you say stupid nonsense or absolute bulls*t (e.g. that some people are worse than other people based only on their race or gender), you deserve condemnation and you deserve disrespect - but you should not be sent into prison for that. Sending people to prison for their opinions interferes with free speech.
• CCTV everywhere. Why?
• Silly inconsistent rules about guns and weapons. I am theoretically not allowed to have anything that could be used as a weapon. This is nonsense. Even a beer in a glass bottle can be easily used as a weapon. And, on the other hand, the bad guys don't care about such bans that much, so why am I not entitled to defend myself (in a reasonable way)?

Of course there are many positive things. I guess that half of these things only really make me angry because I am used to something better, and would leave no impression if I'd come from elsewhere. But hey, of course this is Western Europe, and I've expected everything to be better here than back home in the East!