Is anyone else a yo-yo?
May 16th 2003 | 10:27 pm
#16
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Originally posted by jayneT
Hi
His family are in north Perth and his mother is close to Mandura. We were thinking of maybe just outside Perth to the south. To be honest we don't really know because I have never been to Oz and like I said he hasn't lived there for years.
Are you going to Perth? Or are you already there?
Jayne
Hi
His family are in north Perth and his mother is close to Mandura. We were thinking of maybe just outside Perth to the south. To be honest we don't really know because I have never been to Oz and like I said he hasn't lived there for years.
Are you going to Perth? Or are you already there?
Jayne
May 16th 2003 | 10:35 pm
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Originally posted by matt&sue
we are thiking on south perth around rockingham looks really nice
we are thiking on south perth around rockingham looks really nice
Jayne
May 16th 2003 | 11:03 pm
#18
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I read somewhere that if you have lived in 2 countries you are forever torn between the 2. I think this to be a true statement.
I am a returning Aussie who has lived 20 years abroad in 3 other countries (including UK) and at 35 find myself torn between them all. Someone told me before I moved back here that one should never go back in life. Good advice not taken.
Queenie
I am a returning Aussie who has lived 20 years abroad in 3 other countries (including UK) and at 35 find myself torn between them all. Someone told me before I moved back here that one should never go back in life. Good advice not taken.
Queenie
May 17th 2003 | 3:48 am
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Well it is nice to know that you're not the only one who feel like this, thanks to all who have posted and not made the decision any easier (!) but have helped me realise that it's not just us.
Definately true that once you have moved you are always unsettled but better that than to be boring and have no desire for change and adventure!!!
Anyway we are off to write (another) pros and cons list!! and maybe I should take the advice of who ever said "we think too much" but then that is a mother's (and father's) job.
Ho Hum
Scarlett
Definately true that once you have moved you are always unsettled but better that than to be boring and have no desire for change and adventure!!!
Anyway we are off to write (another) pros and cons list!! and maybe I should take the advice of who ever said "we think too much" but then that is a mother's (and father's) job.
Ho Hum
Scarlett
May 17th 2003 | 7:31 am
#20
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From: hybrid territory
Originally posted by queenie
I read somewhere that if you have lived in 2 countries you are forever torn between the 2. I think this to be a true statement.
I am a returning Aussie who has lived 20 years abroad in 3 other countries (including UK) and at 35 find myself torn between them all. Someone told me before I moved back here that one should never go back in life. Good advice not taken.
Queenie
I read somewhere that if you have lived in 2 countries you are forever torn between the 2. I think this to be a true statement.
I am a returning Aussie who has lived 20 years abroad in 3 other countries (including UK) and at 35 find myself torn between them all. Someone told me before I moved back here that one should never go back in life. Good advice not taken.
Queenie
The trick for me when I returned to live in the same town in the UK that I'd left a few years earlier without a backward glance was to make it a move forward rather than back. A wise person (my husband actually
) once said to me that when you move it should be to something not from something. For me, it was more education. Life is too short to regret not doing something; or to regret something you did 
May 17th 2003 | 7:57 am
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Originally posted by jayneT
My uncle moved to Canada over 50 years ago. Although he liked Canada he always saw the negative side and eventually decided after 20 years to come back to the UK, kids and all. Four years later, still unsettled, he found that the UK had moved on during his absence and he didn't like what he found. So back to Canada he went. He has been back in Canada ever since, 30 odd years now, but he still sees all the negative of Canada and longs for the UK. I think once you go - it is hard to come back because life moves on without you.
Maybe once you leave somewhere you never truely belong any one place again?????!!!!!
Jayne
My uncle moved to Canada over 50 years ago. Although he liked Canada he always saw the negative side and eventually decided after 20 years to come back to the UK, kids and all. Four years later, still unsettled, he found that the UK had moved on during his absence and he didn't like what he found. So back to Canada he went. He has been back in Canada ever since, 30 odd years now, but he still sees all the negative of Canada and longs for the UK. I think once you go - it is hard to come back because life moves on without you.
Maybe once you leave somewhere you never truely belong any one place again?????!!!!!
Jayne
