Why would anyone live here?

Today i woke to the first really rainy grey morning i've seen in a long time. It was weather that Americans think England has all the time. We sat in the car and waited in traffic, break-lights smashed across the rain on the windows. I said - 'why would anyone want to live in this country?' And my mum said 'Because it is one of the free-est countries in the world, and people have good lives here, and we have so much history.'
Which i guess is true. And the sublime gorgeousness of a summer day in England is worth the drawing-in grey-ness of October.