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Nerine Nov 5th 2007 11:07 pm
Expats Once Removed
 
This is really aimed at people who've left their country of origin, lived in another for some time and then moved to Australia.

Which, if any, expat group do you tend to gravitate towards or feel an affinity for - that of your homeland or your subsequent country? With so many Kiwis and Brits in SE Queensland it's quite nice to have a foot in both camps. Have you found the same?

welshviking Nov 5th 2007 11:09 pm
Re: Expats Once Removed
 
Originally Posted by Nerine (Post 5517582)
This is really aimed at people who've left their country of origin, lived in another for some time and then moved to Australia.

Which, if any, expat group do you tend to gravitate towards or feel an affinity for - that of your homeland or your subsequent country? With so many Kiwis and Brits in SE Queensland it's quite nice to have a foot in both camps. Have you found the same?
To be honest I feel all over the place a bit really, kinda shared out between countries, and we have't go to Oz yet,


You?

Hutch Nov 6th 2007 12:33 am
Re: Expats Once Removed
 
Originally Posted by Nerine (Post 5517582)
Which, if any, expat group do you tend to gravitate towards or feel an affinity for - that of your homeland or your subsequent country?
The latter. :)

Nerine Nov 6th 2007 7:53 am
Re: Expats Once Removed
 
Me? well, I'm surprised that I feel more empathy towards Kiwis. I'm still very proud of my British heritage and our traditions and there's no way I'd loose my (very) English accent (much to my kids' disgust :D) but I do feel more of a draw towards Kiwis, possibly because I've not severed ties with NZ yet. It's an interesting one.

I often wonder what it would feel like to go back to Britain to live, how easy it would be to fit in.

jce Nov 6th 2007 8:06 pm
Re: Expats Once Removed
 
Originally Posted by Nerine (Post 5517582)
This is really aimed at people who've left their country of origin, lived in another for some time and then moved to Australia.

Which, if any, expat group do you tend to gravitate towards or feel an affinity for - that of your homeland or your subsequent country? With so many Kiwis and Brits in SE Queensland it's quite nice to have a foot in both camps. Have you found the same?
I was born in South Africa, moved to the UK and now in Australia

I learnt from my parents who moved from the UK to South Africa that mainly associating with expats is the best way not to settle and end up going back!

So here now I always tend to gravitate to aussies rather than Brits.

Geelong Gent Nov 6th 2007 8:43 pm
Re: Expats Once Removed
 
Originally Posted by Nerine (Post 5519899)
Me? well, I'm surprised that I feel more empathy towards Kiwis. I'm still very proud of my British heritage and our traditions and there's no way I'd loose my (very) English accent (much to my kids' disgust :D) but I do feel more of a draw towards Kiwis, possibly because I've not severed ties with NZ yet. It's an interesting one.

I often wonder what it would feel like to go back to Britain to live, how easy it would be to fit in.
Nerine I am the opposite I feel more akin to my british heritage. Perhaps leaving friends in my mid 20's in NZ and finding them still in the same rut some 15 years later:(

Perhaps I have also discovered more to England than east enders and hankerchief dancing.

Buzzy--Bee Nov 6th 2007 8:49 pm
Re: Expats Once Removed
 
Originally Posted by Geelong Gent (Post 5522561)
Nerine I am the opposite I feel more akin to my british heritage. Perhaps leaving friends in my mid 20's in NZ and finding them still in the same rut some 15 years later:(

Perhaps I have also discovered more to England than east enders and hankerchief dancing.
Yes Mrs Buzzy feels the same mate. Me, I'm an Englishman living the life of an Australian. To avoid confusion, I refer to myself as Victorian, which makes my Dad laugh as that's exactly what I've been referring to him as all his life! :D

Buzzy

Nerine Nov 7th 2007 8:16 am
Re: Expats Once Removed
 
:D

I guess I should say I'm a Queenslander then? (visions of balconied wooden houses spring to mind) :lol:


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