Any Poms thinking of going back to the UK?
#46
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Re: Any Poms thinking of going back to the UK?
There are places like Silicon Valley where the weather is very nice all year around with doses of sun - and good employment perhaps. Still cold at night in winter - if you want to be warm at night you are almost obliged to go to the tropics.
I don't think anyone likes hot weather not even a local. I think in the main, Australia is a good place if you like the outdoors - it is still very much an outdoor lifestyle. It's not too bad.
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I don't think anyone likes hot weather not even a local. I think in the main, Australia is a good place if you like the outdoors - it is still very much an outdoor lifestyle. It's not too bad.
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#47
Re: Any Poms thinking of going back to the UK?
That's the windscreen - careful you don't crack it....People sometimes forget that when they are cold they forget what it felt like to be warm - and when they are too hot they would love to be cold - or cool. People talk about how it is easier to warm up etc but when people are cold and am feeling it - it's hard.
I am looking forward to Spring now but in the main I look forwards to Daylight Saving. I would take Melbourne's climate with a few days of 40 a year over the UK given the choice. People forget there are months in Melbourne where the weather is not particularly hot or cold - try Oct-Dec, Mar-May (etc). There are probably few places in the world where the weather is just right. I've heard people say LA is great for that but then you have to live in LA and deal with the pollution..
I am looking forward to Spring now but in the main I look forwards to Daylight Saving. I would take Melbourne's climate with a few days of 40 a year over the UK given the choice. People forget there are months in Melbourne where the weather is not particularly hot or cold - try Oct-Dec, Mar-May (etc). There are probably few places in the world where the weather is just right. I've heard people say LA is great for that but then you have to live in LA and deal with the pollution..
Of course, the weather is only one consideration when we're talking about what we like/dislike about a country. There's actually nothing that I vehemently dislike about Australia, and much that I love (and will miss, especially family). It's just that, for Scouse and I, our foreseeable future is in the UK and as I make a point of always finding the best in wherever I happen to be - I know it's going to be a hoot
#48
Re: Any Poms thinking of going back to the UK?
FWIW we are making tentative steps to go back to the UK. Both places have good and bad points, but as retirees we came for the space and the weather; now that we find there's not much else we might go back to die at "home".
If we do, we won't regret having had ten years here, anyway. But then again, it may never happen!
If we do, we won't regret having had ten years here, anyway. But then again, it may never happen!
#49
Re: Any Poms thinking of going back to the UK?
FWIW we are making tentative steps to go back to the UK. Both places have good and bad points, but as retirees we came for the space and the weather; now that we find there's not much else we might go back to die at "home".
If we do, we won't regret having had ten years here, anyway. But then again, it may never happen!
If we do, we won't regret having had ten years here, anyway. But then again, it may never happen!
Every single person who has or hasn't posted on here is different. There's Wol and spouse, coming to Australia to retire, and may be going back again, and here's Scouse and I, going to the UK to retire. I know he'll never come back to Australia to live, too much of his heart is in Liverpool. But if he pops off before me, I think I'll come home. To family and 'my' country, but mainly because I don't think I could bear to be there without him.
What a silly old chook I am, I read that back after I'd posted it and got all teary. I suppose that's what happens when you find the love of your life at 50 - you don't want inconveniences like old age and death separating you until you've had at least another 50 years together. Oh well, what's that old saying? - it's not the years in your life, but the life in your years.
Last edited by spouse of scouse; Aug 16th 2014 at 12:00 pm.
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Re: Any Poms thinking of going back to the UK?
Gawd Wol, don't go home to die, go home to live! You can die after that
Every single person who has or hasn't posted on here is different. There's Wol and spouse, coming to Australia to retire, and may be going back again, and here's Scouse and I, going to the UK to retire. I know he'll never come back to Australia to live, too much of his heart is in Liverpool. But if he pops off before me, I think I'll come home. To family and 'my' country, but mainly because I don't think I could bear to be there without him.
What a silly old chook I am, I read that back after I'd posted it and got all teary. I suppose that's what happens when you find the love of your life at 50 - you don't want inconveniences like old age and death separating you until you've had at least another 50 years together. Oh well, what's that old saying? - it's not the years in your life, but the life in your years.
Every single person who has or hasn't posted on here is different. There's Wol and spouse, coming to Australia to retire, and may be going back again, and here's Scouse and I, going to the UK to retire. I know he'll never come back to Australia to live, too much of his heart is in Liverpool. But if he pops off before me, I think I'll come home. To family and 'my' country, but mainly because I don't think I could bear to be there without him.
What a silly old chook I am, I read that back after I'd posted it and got all teary. I suppose that's what happens when you find the love of your life at 50 - you don't want inconveniences like old age and death separating you until you've had at least another 50 years together. Oh well, what's that old saying? - it's not the years in your life, but the life in your years.
Plus I only ever tend to look forwards to the future with optimism and am happy to live in the present and rarely look back.
We are both really looking forwards to sharing selfish time with each other again, like we did when we were younger, no responsibilties, or as little as possible, freedom, and being able to go anywhere and anyplace. If that happens to be then UK so be it. I think the location will be of secondary importance to us.
Hope it goes well for you, spouse of scouse.
#51
Re: Any Poms thinking of going back to the UK?
I haven't even begun to think about life without my Partner..... Hopefully I'll never have to.
Plus I only ever tend to look forwards to the future with optimism and am happy to live in the present and rarely look back.
We are both really looking forwards to sharing selfish time with each other again, like we did when we were younger, no responsibilties, or as little as possible, freedom, and being able to go anywhere and anyplace. If that happens to be then UK so be it. I think the location will be of secondary importance to us.
Hope it goes well for you, spouse of scouse.
Plus I only ever tend to look forwards to the future with optimism and am happy to live in the present and rarely look back.
We are both really looking forwards to sharing selfish time with each other again, like we did when we were younger, no responsibilties, or as little as possible, freedom, and being able to go anywhere and anyplace. If that happens to be then UK so be it. I think the location will be of secondary importance to us.
Hope it goes well for you, spouse of scouse.
Fully agree about the 'selfish time' - lots of fun ahead for Scouse and I, and you and your partner! Travelling's our thing, and with so many places easily accessible from the UK - woohoo
Wishing you and your partner all the best too
#52
Re: Any Poms thinking of going back to the UK?
FWIW we are making tentative steps to go back to the UK. Both places have good and bad points, but as retirees we came for the space and the weather; now that we find there's not much else we might go back to die at "home".
If we do, we won't regret having had ten years here, anyway. But then again, it may never happen!
If we do, we won't regret having had ten years here, anyway. But then again, it may never happen!
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Re: Any Poms thinking of going back to the UK?
Funny thing, grass greener etc. We're working on the reverse. Done all the Europe thing, Florida etc and now looking at retirement soon and already checking out buying a caravan and intend three months visiting/travelling then three months back. Just had another "summer day" of rain and wind and trying to dry off golf gear for hubby tomorrow. Would welcome some recommendation of places north/ south of brisbane.
#54
Re: Any Poms thinking of going back to the UK?
Lived in Sydney for 9 years, but been back to England 6 times for a holiday. Also going again in December and January.
I'm over the long, too-hot summers as well. I've got two little girls, and I sometimes chuckle to myself when I think that it's basically too hot to do anything with them outside between about 11am to 5pm for most of the summer, whereas at home I might have been whinging about the rain or the cold wind. So in the end, unless we've gone to the beach for the day, the extreme heat is a hassle, as you have to apply the SPF 30 all the time and the kids just flake in the heat.
I'm over the long, too-hot summers as well. I've got two little girls, and I sometimes chuckle to myself when I think that it's basically too hot to do anything with them outside between about 11am to 5pm for most of the summer, whereas at home I might have been whinging about the rain or the cold wind. So in the end, unless we've gone to the beach for the day, the extreme heat is a hassle, as you have to apply the SPF 30 all the time and the kids just flake in the heat.
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Re: Any Poms thinking of going back to the UK?
Lived in Sydney for 9 years, but been back to England 6 times for a holiday. Also going again in December and January.
I'm over the long, too-hot summers as well. I've got two little girls, and I sometimes chuckle to myself when I think that it's basically too hot to do anything with them outside between about 11am to 5pm for most of the summer, whereas at home I might have been whinging about the rain or the cold wind. So in the end, unless we've gone to the beach for the day, the extreme heat is a hassle, as you have to apply the SPF 30 all the time and the kids just flake in the heat.
I'm over the long, too-hot summers as well. I've got two little girls, and I sometimes chuckle to myself when I think that it's basically too hot to do anything with them outside between about 11am to 5pm for most of the summer, whereas at home I might have been whinging about the rain or the cold wind. So in the end, unless we've gone to the beach for the day, the extreme heat is a hassle, as you have to apply the SPF 30 all the time and the kids just flake in the heat.
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Re: Any Poms thinking of going back to the UK?
What I am saying is I love Ireland but the weather means I could never live there...I went there for two weeks in summer and was grey and drizzly every day. Countries can't help their weather it is just a geographical accident. My kids were inside kids in the UK...they would go outside of course, one of my boys loved football the other rugby but when we moved to Australia they got into all sports, one joined surf lifesaving the other a tennis club and saling club plus keeping up with their original sports...Perth weather is awesome, it is winter this weekend and you can be doing out all weekend. To deny the awesome weather is just silly.
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Re: Any Poms thinking of going back to the UK?
It is only 40 plus five or so days a year and the nights are then beautiful! There are months and months of great weather in Perth:-) anyway I am over and out tired of the same, boring conversation about a few 40 plus days of weather means Perth doesn't have a great outdoor lifestyle.
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I don't believe the weather stops kids doing anything anywhere. Remember Australia is a large place and the weather you get in Perth is a vast difference you in Hobart. What weather does give kids is opportunity. For example, the long British winters presents less opportinuty for children than a child living close to a mountain an hour flight away in Switzerland where the winters are long but often sunny and surrounded by mountains that thrive off cold.
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Re: Any Poms thinking of going back to the UK?
What I am saying is I love Ireland but the weather means I could never live there...I went there for two weeks in summer and was grey and drizzly every day. Countries can't help their weather it is just a geographical accident. My kids were inside kids in the UK...they would go outside of course, one of my boys loved football the other rugby but when we moved to Australia they got into all sports, one joined surf lifesaving the other a tennis club and saling club plus keeping up with their original sports...Perth weather is awesome, it is winter this weekend and you can be doing out all weekend. To deny the awesome weather is just silly.