Originally Posted by Rosie Cheeks

Well said Pollyanna. We are so similar and you say it so well.

Originally Posted by Mrs Best

Goodness - what Melbourne suburb was this?

I have only been abused by coffee morning mothers who in the course of conversation managed to drop in comments like "stupid english people" "stupid poms" etc.

Needless to say I never went back to coffee morning.

A friend of mine went to a school mothers dinner and had to listen to 2 hours of England being rubbished by mothers who had never set foot there. One of the comments was how "scruffy" the uniforms looked in England.

It's stuff like that you have to put up with - and it's just not worth it in my opinoin. I don't like it that much here but I'd never say so to the locals.

Originally Posted by Pollyana

I have put EVERYTHING into this, and got nothing out of it. My health has gone downhill at a great rate of knots. I can't get out there and do sport or outdoor pursuits cos my body hasn't the stamina any longer. I am giving my husband all my inheritance from my dad so he can go on courses he wants to do (bang goes my escape money). I have fought to make friends who have mostly turned away cos we don't fit their cosy Aussie family lifestyle, and I have spent 3 years trying to get the security of a decent job.

Sorry for myself - NO, never.
CROSS with myself, yes, for coming here in the first place, but the pull of love was too strong to resist.

Originally Posted by FPM

Change your mates.

Originally Posted by LouiseD

Hi Mrs B - It was in Cheltenham - I was dropping my daughter off at work and had parked my car too close to his - I wasn't even parking up and leaving, just simply dropping her off and going.

I can't believe that people rubbish a country that they haven't even been to. Iv'e heard several comments from Aussies that they don't like the UK - when I ask them where they've visited they tell me they've been to London. So they base the whole of their decision about the UK on one city. Two people on hearing my English accent have actually asked me which part of London I'm from

Originally Posted by northernbird

actually I don't think I will, makes a change from the whinging poms I come across.

Originally Posted by northernbird

English people here do exactly the same. Having a crap time where they choose to settle yet Australia is crap. No difference at all.

Originally Posted by northernbird

English people here do exactly the same. Having a crap time where they choose to settle yet Australia is crap. No difference at all.

Originally Posted by toandfro

Have tried so hard to ignore you , but you have obviously take the Australia is perfect pills .Pity you don't realise that your "mates" rate you after the dog .don't ever depend on them.If you find you need help find a whinging pom they won't turn on you even though you deserve it . you're worse than a reformed smoker. though while you slag off england they will tolerate you

Originally Posted by toandfro

Not all of us, I have been to every state worked in 3 .the difference is in England from county to county things change here if there is no sign to tell you where you are ,you would never guess. all the same all over.

Originally Posted by FPM

Will do

My sister lives in Stokenchurch, nr High Wycombe, they have a huge Asda nearby and when Yoosun and I were there last year she could not believe the choice (i tried to tell her but you know how it is ). She said she had never seen so much choice in a supermarket and so big. Having said that she was also impressed with Tesco and Morrisons, especially the ' two for ones'

She was very impressed with a genuine Ploughmans Lunch at one of my local village pubs (it was real Ploughmans, no lettuce in sight _

Hmm, not sure why she didn't settle there. I'm gonna have to work on her



See that's why I do it. I know that Britain is not the best place on earth, but I also sure as sh!t know that Australia isn't either. And the more they bang on about it being God's country and all that hogwash, the greater delight I take in defending in my own country. They really buy into all the hype. The problem is even if you keep saying something it still doesn't make it true. But they believe it.

Aussies are like your typical loud mouthed school bully, they love dishing it out but can't take it back.

Being married to a 'neutral' is great really, I can crack on about stuff without offending my wife.

Originally Posted by toandfro

Have tried so hard to ignore you , but you have obviously take the Australia is perfect pills .Pity you don't realise that your "mates" rate you after the dog .don't ever depend on them.If you find you need help find a whinging pom they won't turn on you even though you deserve it . you're worse than a reformed smoker. though while you slag off england they will tolerate you

Originally Posted by northernbird

You are not trying hard enough . Look I have never said Australia is perfect and I have never slagged off England. I have said where I am from in England is a craphole and i have said I love living where I do. My life here is good and it wasn't in England, simple as that.

As for my Australian friends. They have done more for me in the 6 years I have known them than any other friend of any nationality I have known and I have lived in about 5 different countries. I know I can depend on them without question and have done on many occasions.

Originally Posted by Rosie Cheeks

Doctor doctor, I can't pronounce my F's, T's and H's

Well you can't say fairer than that then