Do you call Australia home?
Jun 4th 2009, 1:46 pm
#31
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Re: Do you call Australia home?
I always refer to Wales as home and here as "out here". My children are Australian, I have an Australian passport and we have no intentions of moving home any time. But funnily we both would want, in the event of death, to be sent back home to be buried with everyone else we know in the cemetery overlooking Andrew's mam's house. I was laughing the other day saying to him "why do you want to be there if your dead" and he said in all seriousness - I dont know, I dont want to be on my own, thats where everyone else is.
For us thats true - my dad, my grandad, my grandmother, my aunties, my first boyfriend and countless others I know are all entrenched in this acre plot. I wouldnt dream of finishing off anywhere else
If I got cancer tomorrow, I think I would go home. As the children get older, I guess that option will fade away
Vivienne
For us thats true - my dad, my grandad, my grandmother, my aunties, my first boyfriend and countless others I know are all entrenched in this acre plot. I wouldnt dream of finishing off anywhere else
If I got cancer tomorrow, I think I would go home. As the children get older, I guess that option will fade away
Vivienne
Jun 4th 2009, 3:31 pm
#32
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Re: Do you call Australia home?
Do you intend to ever return there to live for good? Or will it be a case of you will continue to live here forever but your heart always in the motherland……
Jun 4th 2009, 7:40 pm
#33
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Re: Do you call Australia home?
Home for us is where we are as a family. We left the UK and were homeless for a few days until we landed in Australia. Where we live now is home and the UK is the UK.
I wouldn't be happy calling the UK home and it wouldn't occur to me to do so, it would make me feel my life here wasn't 'real' or valid.
I wouldn't be happy calling the UK home and it wouldn't occur to me to do so, it would make me feel my life here wasn't 'real' or valid.
Jun 5th 2009, 12:11 am
#34
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Re: Do you call Australia home?
Home to me is England and always will be. Australia is where I live at the moment but I really hope not forever.
Mark feels differently about this so we will see where we end up.
Mark feels differently about this so we will see where we end up.
Jun 5th 2009, 12:58 am
#35
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Re: Do you call Australia home?
I reckon whether or not you consider yourself an Australian is something else again. I consider myself to be a new Australian as I have citizenship, simple.
Jun 5th 2009, 1:01 am
#36
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Re: Do you call Australia home?
IMO home is where u love to be and you are comfortable being yourself and you want to stay there forever..............so in our case....Home is Sunny Qld
Jun 5th 2009, 1:43 am
#37
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Re: Do you call Australia home?
Hi Laura, good to hear from you! Yeah, we are happy, it has still been hard, OH no job, eldest son had problems all round, usual stuff but we are happy to be back and we are staying.OH is currently in UK for family things and is miserable, can't wait to get back so that made me feel better coz he was the one who had the probs last time and I just wondered if going back might affect him but all good. How are you, you sound very settled too?
Jun 5th 2009, 1:49 am
#38
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Re: Do you call Australia home?
I call here home, i call there home. I hold an Aussie passport but I'm not Australian, I will always be English, but I am at home and happy here...
Jun 5th 2009, 9:22 am
#39
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Re: Do you call Australia home?
Lived in HK from being 1 to 9 yrs and have never considered UK home. Makes no difference to me, I could live in most places in the world and be happy - just don't forward my address to the wife and kids
Cooler
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Jun 5th 2009, 9:39 am
#40
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Re: Do you call Australia home?
England is home to me.
I reckon if i'm here for 50 years blighty will still be home....time will tell
I reckon if i'm here for 50 years blighty will still be home....time will tell
Jun 5th 2009, 11:59 am
#41
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Re: Do you call Australia home?
I still call the UK home, referring to family home, occasionally but there is no real emotional tie to the home, or physical location, just the place where myself and my parents spent a lot of time.
Jun 5th 2009, 12:02 pm
#42
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Re: Do you call Australia home?
The most important members of my family are here - kids, Himself, dogs and cats - it'd be pretty insulting to them if I didn't consider them to be home. Well, possibly the cats wouldn't care.
Jun 5th 2009, 11:05 pm
#43
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Re: Do you call Australia home?
Never be home, even if I spend the next twenty years here!
Jun 6th 2009, 11:05 am
#44
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Re: Do you call Australia home?
I think of a home as a place where old people start eating with their tongues, are tied to chairs, horse whipped with electric flex and charged a fortune for the pleasure!
Jun 6th 2009, 11:26 am
#45
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Re: Do you call Australia home?
Felt like home as soon as we arrived so yes I definately call Australia home. As with a lot of other expats the Uk is just the UK or 'back there'.
Even when we have visitors over from 'back there' I don't have any pangs of homesickness at all.
Loz x
Even when we have visitors over from 'back there' I don't have any pangs of homesickness at all.
Loz x
