Not even "I live here" really, far more meaningful is "I consider it home". Important distinction. I'm using home in the sense that one would use "I'm going home" vs "I'm going back to the flat" when they first move out of their parents. Was it not a moment, the first time you said out loud, without thinking about it, "I'm going home" to refer to the building you lived in at the moment instead of the building where you grew up? That is what I meant by home.
I never had that moment, because I'm always thinking about it. Very difficult not to think about where home is when you stick outside of every ethnic community in every possible candidate for your hometown. It's some serious liminal problems
And no, I really don't know what else there is than that to being British in identity? Anything else you can list could easily not be there and they'd still be British in identity so long as "Britain" is emotionally home.
Far too shallow & far too simple a definition. A Briton does not stop being a Briton just because they've made their home abroad, a foreigner does not always become British or even partially British even if it's their home. Becoming British is bloody difficult, or perhaps more accurately, becoming fully British is bloody difficult. Sometimes even generations is not enough
i.e I would rather keep the United Kingdom together but honestly think having a royal family in this day and age is...just kinda daft, really 
Oh sure you can go back and forth on the economics of it one way or the other, but at the end of the day...ain't it just kinda daft? It's the future now, why do we have something as archaic as a monarchy?
Because it keeps the head of state & head of government separate. Ideally this means one branch in the hands of a Monarchy steeped in tradition & authority, the other steeped in the legitimacy of democratic government rule. This avoids the Republican problem where Presidents become awesome rulers in charge of state & government, or where every possible candidate for the head of state & head of government are selected by local plutocratic elites. It helps to keep people around who have no respect for new money
Then again I'm the opposite of a traditionalist in many ways and think if a tradition no longer serves a useful purpose it should be disposed of. So when the only major defence people fall back to is "But it's tradition" and "But wouldn't it be sad if we didn't have one", I just hear the equivalent of white noise xD Throw them out and leave them to only matter in anyway to the few who care. Just like we did with Hot Cross Buns.
I'm more of a conservative, in the sense that I find value in preserving the old simply because it's your inheritance. This value is not just personal, mind you. The French Revolutionaries abandoned their traditional institutions because they weren't "useful," while the British kept their inherited institutions intact. One abrogated their traditions entirely, the other allowed them to evolve with the generations. Both became democracies, but only one became a massive team killing fucktard nation of head loppers, larping about how free and liberal they were whilst they had an Emperor with a public security bureau mass-conscripting the male population to destroy the enemies of the state. Republican constitutional rights are just pieces of paper, while the actual guarantors of their rights are the conventions they form... Now if only there was some kind of constitutional government based on conventions...
It's like what Marx said, the desire to abandon everything which makes your people who they are in the rush to become the global, formless proletariat most easily exploited by the bourgeoisie, is the ideology set by the ruling elite in order to strip people from the communities they may use to organise and offer a viable destiny. Sell your civilisation, and for what?
(Explanation: May be just me, but it seems like nobody seems to bother with Hot Cross Buns on Good Friday anymore, except for the odd religious types for whom Good Friday is more than just another bank holiday).
I eat hot cross buns religiously, pun intended - I grew up eating them where they were very cheap and very delicious. I do not know the religious significance though, besides the obvious cross.
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