The English Dream

The English dream involves watching cricket played on a village green in the hazy sunshine of a late-afternoon in August, drinking tea out of china cups and eating home-made cakes. The sound of leather on willow and of birds singing lazily, the sight of thatched roofs and the smell of the leather seats in your uncle's vintage Jag, with perhaps the hint come September of the first bonfires burning fallen leaves. A pint of hearty ale in front of a roaring log fire in your local pub as Christmas approaches and the joy of walking through a sea of colour when the cherry trees blossom the next spring.

It was never about being obscenely wealthy, just rich enough not to worry and to enjoy a few simple pleasures in a calm, relaxed and polite way with some like-minded individuals.

 -- Simon Crump's answer to Why is there no 'English Dream' as there is an 'American Dream'? - Quora