Welcome back to the mad house
I have to agree with you completely, although I have lived here all the time I have definitely noticed in the last few years things have got worse.
No one indicates. Those on round-abouts taking the 3rd exit happily go around without indicating. Maybe light bulbs are expensive? i don't know. In London no one indicates to pedestrians that they are turning into a side road, including black cabs! take your chances.
On suburban roads when their lane is blocked by a parked car or a bus, the oncoming driver will happily jump out into your path making you brake hard, after all he got to the obstacle a split second before you so it must be his right of way???
People park in my road blocking neighbours driveways, and park in such a way to make it impossible for me to get out of my drive. I guess consideration for other people is out of fashion?
People slam their doors into mine in the car park, so I have taken to parking in the most obscure spots or next to expensive cars in the hope that they actually care about their own doors.
And just last weekend, on the A13 just as it changes to 30mph near Canning Town, a complete lunatic barged past between me and a car next to me who was changing lanes to get into the right lane. He literally went down the middle of the dividing line between lanes at 50mph or more, I don't know how he didn't scrape me and the other guy. I don't want to judge maybe he was in a real hurry?
Sometimes I really dread driving I'm almost guaranteed to encounter some nutters even on a 10 minute drive locally.