That's very true; especially emotional milestones I'm sure, that makes sense...and perhaps that will always be the case as previous poster said. It does help me a lot that it seems that this is normal among immigrants, not just me going bonkers Cheers

I get them every now and again and its not the best feeling but after nearly 6years i am getting abit better its seems to get worst when i have had a drink i think i get down/fed up and just want my mates around me who have known me all my life and just have a laugh with them

I hope things get better

Thanks I miss having mates around that have known me forever too. Fortunately for me tho I no longer drink - if I did I'd be a wreck and have such an enormous phone bill lol

And thank you to the people who sent me karma & wishes

I think people have this weird idea (forced on them by other expats and native Aussies around them) that they should feel 100% at home in Australia 100% of the time.

This is ridiculous.

Why would it be normal to feel completely at home in a country that, at the end of the day, isn't actually YOUR home - at least in the sense that it's not where you are from and it's not where you grew up. Where does this expectation come from?

My view is that having periods of feeling slightly 'odd' or 'ill at ease' are normal and to be expected. I don't think it's right that people end up feeling that feeling like that is somehow strange or abnormal.

I am deeply suspicious of expats who claim to have no nostalgia or sentiment for their 'home country', no matter how slight. I tend to suspect that people who do the whole 'I don't miss anything about the UK and hope I never have to go there again' thing are either lying to themselves or lying to others. I don't think they are being totally honest - they are putting up some kind of mental wall around the issue.

If they ARE being serious and mean what they say, then they simply must be very unsentimental, ultra-pragmatic 'cold' people, which is also a little odd.

Yes I have read on different forums before how someone misses absolutely nothing about the UK and would be happy to never see the place again, I find that extremely sad and as you say suspicious. They also seem unable to find even the slightest problem with Australia. Sorry off topic.
It is perfectly normal to feel the way the OP does.

Update: got over it - now all well and good, very happy, no plans to ever go back still, or even to leave this area. So I guess it was indeed all perfectly normal

Yup! At least you can now say you are normal!!!

Gosh, how disappointing!!

Never mind- you could always be "speshul" like me.