I fully understand what you are saying, WAV.

Yours is the veiled view of the person who dreams of some former but non-existent "Golden Age," in your case, perhaps the era of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, et al.

I think the nature of your problem has more to do with all those Pakistanis. Dark skinned taxi drivers who speak with accents. The reek of curry around those take-out restaurants. All that vindaloo. . . .

Don Firth