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Is it right to feel UK sick...?

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Elbows - Member

I've been in Germany for 8 years now and miss the beer, pies and the humour - and not being looked at like an alien when I refer to my friend's yellow Fiat Panda as Thunderbird 4.
I know it's time for a visit home when I start day dreaming about riding in Dalby forest followed by Fish and chips at the White Horse Cafe, mmmmm, I'm going to book flights this evening.

However, when I've been back in the Republic of North Yorkshire for a few days, I'll miss the beer, kebabs and being able to filter out (or not understand)the cr@p that a lot of people speak.

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no_eyed_deer - Member

^^^ wonders... is that actually Hans Rey?^^^

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juan - Member

Well excpet for point 2 3 6 Iam with hansrey

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juan - Member

I'll swap with you too - its getting dark early, the wind was freezing yesterday and the sky is grey today. It looks like winter already

Careful what you wish for. You'll have no job, people would be very rude, irrespectful (is that a word), impolite and won't give a rat ass about you. Cycling will be the most painful and dangerous experience you'll ever have and although your meal will be cheaper, everything else would be very expensive and you won't be able to take any picture as non one will process your films any more.

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HansRey - Member

nah, not the real HR, i'm a copycat Elbows, you have a point about filtering out conversations !!

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phinw - Member

My wife is Spanish. Before I met her she had been in the UK for several years working, getting a degree etc. She decided to go back home in 2002 but after 6 months realised she'd made a terrible mistake and told her family she was going back to the UK. Her Mum turned round and said "I can't believe its taken you 6 months to reach that decision, you've been bloody miserable since the day you arrived!". (I met her a few weeks after she got back and we were married 8 months later!)

She loves it here and considers it more home than Galicia (where it rains more than the UK anyway!).

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rondo101 - Member

HR - you think the coffee in the UK is good?

It must be terrible wherever you are.

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Kryton57 - Member

Pretty much the other way around.

I'm pretty sick of the dismal news/general outlook painted by the media, rising prices, stagnant housing options, general grayness of the UK.

Pretty depressing really, I'd love to be working 9-5 under Euro rules, going home to a Villa to sip Rioja in the sun while Jnr's in bed.

Or is that not what really happens in the likes of Spain/South of France? (waits for illusions to be shattered).

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don simon - Member

Pretty depressing really, I'd love to be working 9-5 under Euro rules, going home to a Villa to sip Rioja in the sun while Jnr's in bed.

Or is that not what really happens in the likes of Spain/South of France? (waits for illusions to be shattered).

It really is quite a beautiful dream, isn't it? (Try looking at it another way, the same s**t with sunshine. How much do you value sunshine?).

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HansRey - Member

well, ok, it's easy to get a good coffee from a cafe or get good coffee in the stores in the UK. Here in Finland the stuff in the cafes is good, but the stuff in the regular stores isn't. To get decent stuff, i have to go to specialist stores... My work mates even prefer tea because the coffee here causes stomach aches.

Finland is very good, don't get me wrong. I've been here 3months and it doesn't feel like a holiday now, so reality is kicking in. I think that's why i'm quite dour atm...

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Kryton57 - Member

don simon - Member

Pretty depressing really, I'd love to be working 9-5 under Euro rules, going home to a Villa to sip Rioja in the sun while Jnr's in bed.

Or is that not what really happens in the likes of Spain/South of France? (waits for illusions to be shattered).

It really is quite a beautiful dream, isn't it? (Try looking at it another way, the same s**t with sunshine. How much do you value sunshine?).

Its a good point. My wife's west indian so we looked to move to the carribean.

The plus points, 9-5, sun & beaches in the evening & weekend.

The minus points, a pittance of a salary, vastly reduced quality of life, and almost impossibloe to save up to return to the UK (unless you had funds to saved in the UK.

An example - average salary over there £7k per annum. House prices - same as here. Petrol - same as here. Imported Cornflakes, £6 per box.

So yes, how important is the sundshine indeed...... :0/

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Pimpmaster Jazz - Member

things i miss about UK---
- the humour
- carpets
- beer
- bacon
- eye contact (not on the tube)
- not being the random foreigner who speaks the local lingo like a toddler (unless you're in Glasgow or mid-Wales)
- friendly women (if not so easy on the eye) Essex, yes?
- semiskimmed milk
- good coffee
- better bus drivers
- hills and country pubs and cafes
- village centres

that's all for now

FTFY.

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Pimpmaster Jazz - Member

Its a good point. My wife's west indian so we looked to move to the carribean.

The plus points, 9-5, sun & beaches in the evening & weekend.

The minus points, a pittance of a salary, vastly reduced quality of life, and almost impossibloe to save up to return to the UK (unless you had funds to saved in the UK.

An example - average salary over there £7k per annum. House prices - same as here. Petrol - same as here. Imported Cornflakes, £6 per box.

So yes, how important is the sundshine indeed...... :0/

Lived overseas for three years, including the West Indies. I loved WI, but wouldn't want to live there permanently. Similarly, I loved coming home, but usually wanted to go away again within a few days. As it is, I don't see myself living in the UK for the rest of my life despite the huge amount of positives that go with it.

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The Swedish Chef - Member

I left the UK for Sweden 8 years ago and have no intention to head back anytime soon. However this is more to do with changes in personal/family situation than any deep hatred for the UK.

I miss the South Downs, my memories are exactly the same as those depicted so brilliantly in the Mint Source cartoons.

I miss the idea of having a local pub, despite the fact I would hardly ever use one, however the thought of having a local is nice.

Taxi driver who know where they are and where you want to go, and how to get there.

The earning potential.

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zippykona - Member

I had the opportunity to live in Oz ,which I dearly love.
Figured that I would spend all my holiday and money visiting UK.
Plus I always felt like I was staying at someone elses house. I was busting to have a good old moan about something but couldn't as I could have rightly been told," if you don't like it f..k off".
Best things about England - 200 Miles away you can be somewhere completely different, the milk,good trail network,the BBC,the weather..not too hot, not too cold and its my home.

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PeterPoddy - Member

Hi Juan!

I've not lived overseas, but I've been to enough places to know that I could never leave England (And I do mean England, not the ) forever. Maybe a year or two, yes, it would be silly not to. But I couldn't leave the country I love and only come home for holidays. That would be wrong. I couldn't live in Australia if you paid me a billion quid though.

The news and politics don't concern me, I just ignore them, but the people, the places, the food (Yes. The food) the variety, and the overall 'rightness' of England does it for me. It's my home, and for all it's faults, I love it.

Different places have different faults, I just prefer English faults to foreign ones.

There is nothing I've ever experienced anywhere like an English summers day in the countryside. Not even close.

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Pimpmaster Jazz - Member

There is nothing I've ever experienced anywhere like an English summers day in the countryside. Not even close.

What about a Welsh summers day?

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juan - Member

To be fair I'll take english and scotish summer day anytime...

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winterfold - Member

No.

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Stoatsbrother - Member

Lived in Oz and Canada. Never missed the uk in those 2 years. Bits I miss of Oz but the benefits of the UK outweigh the drawbacks. But if I had to live in a city it would be Sydney, Melbourne or Vancouver.

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