[Closed] Is it right to feel UK sick...?

wear are you know, i feel the need to leave the UK

mate, i will swap you.
somewhere like perpignan would suit me fine...... 8)

somewhere like perpignan would suit me fine

i know, but it would still do me nicely 😀

I felt like this pretty much the whole time I lived in Tasmania for 13 months.

I missed the leafy Surrey Hills the most, which is about as diametrically opposite to rugged Tas as one can possibly get.

Where i used to live people celebrated Xmas on the beach. Just felt wrong to me!

I live in Switzerland. They don't do hedges. I miss hedges.

Thing is I am not even british...

come and visit 🙂

Photim, dont the Swizz do Hedgefunds ?

Thing is I am not even british..

Have you got some british in you?? 😯

I miss Acapulco. 😥

I'm not Mexican and I've never been to Mexico, but ¡Ay, caramba! how I miss it.

wors nope although I know plenty of people that would have loved to make me british on the inside ;)...
Crap I even miss the british approach to gayness 🙁

I lived in Madrid for a couple of years and it was great, but I missed the UK. I missed the mud and how green it is mainly. Forrin countries don't have proper mud.

I'm quite the Francophile - it's my guilty secret, what with me being and English gent and all that. But the French have it so good - great surfing beaches, superb mountains and that just don't give a crap attitude. Good weather too which means you can do all that eating outdoors thing. They do love a good strike though, which is a little off-putting. 😉

In my limited time living overseas (3 years in Germany), I can honestly say that I did not miss this wet misserable island for one minute.

But, for 12 months after we returned to the UK, the kids kept asking "when can we go home again?"
I felt the same. I still occasionally feel the same now TBH.

Missing the house in France after 5 days back, mainly due to the sh''e weather, it was lovely the whole time we were over there and had some lovely road riding

Have you got some british in you??

Wors are you making him an offer?

Ah, I think in your situation juan, yes, possibly. If you'd grown up here as a nipper, all through university and 10 years of work in London then no, not at all.

I'm in Canadia, celebrating my 13 month anniversary. I miss lots of little things (historic buildings, sausages, squash and the understanding of it, bacon butties, football, cricket), but it's the big things that really make it - the quality of life, the overall niceness of people, the hot Canadian women who love an English accent. I realise it may change, but right now I see the UK as a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there (again)...

I lived in Spain for ten years and have been back in the UK for less than two months. I will be back in Spain as soon as possible, I had forgotten how depressing the weather actually is...

just be thankful that you are somewhere warm and sunny (just guessing).in the next few months the weather will turn to s**t here 🙁 and british gas are rubbing their hands whilst i speak 😡

lived in the uk,italy and now spain.
sick of all of them,miss all of them,when I change.

just can't win I suppose.

Don simon,I'd wanted to ask you about leaving spain,guess I don't have to now.

Read voltaire's candide,last night.put it all into a bit of perspective.
asides from being funny,and short,both good things in a book.

Lived in Oz for years... missed the Highlands

Back in the Highlands....Missing Oz 🙄

Kbrembo - Member
Lived in Oz for years... missed the Highlands
Back in the Highlands....Missing Oz

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Don simon,I'd wanted to ask you about leaving spain,guess I don't have to now.

I've just spent 5 days working in Germany, fantastic country but man I miss my local, the food, the culture and most of all my bike.

I suppose I should mention the wife too

Hiya Juan. I do miss Scotland when I am away from it but I would love to live in france.

I live in Canada and missed the UK a few weeks ago, so when the missus got fired I thought it was a good time to come 'home' to make sure we were doing the right thing, after 2 days all 3 of us wanted to come back to Canada which we now refer to as home and moan a lot less about

can't see us coming back for a good while tbh

I've lived and worked abroad for long enough to know that I could never leave Britain; I love the weather, the landscapes, the culture and the history - no other nation takes as much pride and interest in its own history. Britain has more charitable organisations than any other country in the world, we love doing things for other people less fortunate than us.

Here's an illustration: I was once listening to a programme on R4 called "Does He Take Sugar?" which is about disability. They were covering a conference in southern England for people who suffer from a certain type of blindness. They interviewed a Frenchman who had this and had travelled over to attend the conference. When they asked him why, he replied: "I listen to the programme every week from my home in northern France. When I heard about this conference I just had to come; you probably don't realise this but in France we have nothing like societies and support groups for sufferers of certain illnesses, we don't have charities and we don't organise meetings and conferences. That's why I came to England."

I'm not surprised Juan you made a lot of friends when you were over and really did get right into our culture and travelled around. It's a great country only the miserable ones complain about it being miserable. I'll gladly live in many other countries but I do love the UK.

things i miss about UK---
- the humor
- carpets
- beer
- bacon
- eye contact
- not being the random foreigner who speaks the local lingo like a toddler
- friendly women (if not so easy on the eye)
- semiskimmed milk
- good coffee
- better bus drivers
- hills and country pubs and cafes
- village centres

that's all for now 🙂

I miss New Zealand. Would go back to live in a heartbeat - sadly the other half likes being near her family too much... one day maybe.

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 😥

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.

^^^ wonders... [i]is that [b]actually[/b] Hans Rey?[/i]^^^ 😯

Well excpet for point 2 3 6 Iam with hansrey

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

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

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!).

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

It must be terrible wherever you are.

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).

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?).

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...

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/

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

that's all for now

FTFY. 😉

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.

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.

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.

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. 🙂

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? 😉

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

No.

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.