brissybee

If you left Australia, what (excluding family, friends, pets) would you miss the most?

moneypenny20

The sun, blue skies and turquoise ocean, struggling to remember them right now but a give it a few weeks and they'll be back I don't sunbake and am quite pale but I need to have that light. The wildlife in the garden (excepting spiders and cockroaches). The friendliness of the people oh and my wood burner. That'll do for now.

NickyC

I'd miss the coffee, the wine, the food, the warmth, the jacarandas in flower, the birds and the stunning harbour glimpses.

But mostly, I'd miss the clear light, the blue skies, the space and the feeling that you can breathe.

Cheetah7

The space, the scenery, the wildlife, the black cockies that I work with and the ones that fly over my house each day.

Being 5 mins drive from the ocean and 2 hours drive from some beautiful forests. The ocean, the warmth, the sun, the friendliness of my neighbours.

The life here itself and how I live it.

Jon77

Well I have been away from Australia for 5 years and am moving back in 6 months yayyyyyyyy It's a long story

Anyway what I have missed the most is -

1) SEAFOOD, fresh seafood, oysters, massive fresh prawns and an amazing array of tasty fresh fish. Ok fish n chips are great sometimes but you cannot beat Australia for it's fresh seafood. One of the first things I am going to do on my return is get down the Sydney Fish Market

2) CHOICE OF FOOD, you just do not have the range of food in the UK. Ok there are very good Indian, Chinese and Thai restaurants in the UK. But there is such a diverse population in Australia all with their own food.

3) THE WEATHER
Winter 2009/10 was the coldest in the UK for 30 years ! There was snow on the ground from mid December until mid January in most places ! Ok it look nice at Christmas but I was over it straight after. Miss walking around barefoot and not having to worry about wrapping up warm for a good part of the year.

4) OPTIMISTIC PEOPLE, Aussies are give it a go type people. It wasn't until I returned to the UK I realised how negative and restricted the UK can be.

5) CAMPING, Camping in the UK just insn't the same after you have tried it in Australia

6) THE OPEN SPACE. I remember the first time I went West of the Blue Mountains towards Bathurst and we stopped at a high vantage point looking West over a vast plain and a big sky. Feels cramped and stuffy in the UK.

Those are some of the things I miss, there are many more.

MISSED COFFEE !!!!!! You cannot get a good cup of coffee in the UK !

The_Foulgers

We're emigrating in a little over 4 weeks now.
We've been to Oz several times (incl 3 times in 14 months and felt "homesick" for Oz everytime we've got back to the Uk. We echo all that's been said, especially the friendliness and genuiness and openness of people and the amount of light, space and the ability to breathe.
We can't wait to be back in the place we think of as home and which very soon really will be.

Kim67

I miss:

Blue Sky and clean air

Possums and Morton Bay Figs in my backyard

Good food

Being able to buy alcohol and drink it without a liquor license

Good schools

Great ballet schools, fun filled eisteddfods and the Bloch Shop

Saying yeah, nah, but, and not confusing people with your answer

Ozzidoc

I've been away for nearly 13 years.

I miss the wildlife; the beautiful birds in my parents' country garden. And the morning smell of a hot day. It's similar here in San Diego, but not the same.

brissybee

I'm thinking Winter sunshine, king prawns, smaller population, jacarandas, frangipanis and magpies.

LINZI

The sun/beaches/scenery/open space

BadgeIsBack

The space. The countryside around here. City and country life.

(Which is exactly what people talk about in the UK.) Top tip to observe - noone has to live in suburbia or in sanddunes with nothing but nature strips.

MartinLuther

If I was to go back to the UK my biggest miss would be 4 seasons in one year.

I used to really hate it when summer didn't happen.

brissybee

I know, but so many do. Am campaigning for an eventual escape from Yukka-land.

northernbird

Most of what the others have said. The slower pace of life, the space, the sunshine. UK too busy for me now, 5 week holiday recently absolutely killed me and reiterated that I am in the right place.

Hutch

1) Drivers that peek around the side of me in the vain hope that the kilometre long queue of traffic in front of me has magically disappeared and that in a mystical dreamland of joy I'm a cruel bozo keeping Miss P-Plate from her date with a retarded footy fan with chronic halitosis and the vocabulary of a chimp
2) The lack of pavements. I mean seriously - what sort of over-rated facility a pavement is - why the **** would I need some sort of concreted area for my journeys on foot when I call stroll happily along a patch of bindi-infested grass copping strands of cob-webs the size of hosepipe in the eye
3) Saying 'Awwwww .... look' before responding to any question.
4) Listening to the 'Security to ...' announcements in K-Mart and immediately rushing over there to see if they've apprehended the perp or whether their fool-proof 'Can I check your bag' security has failed them yet again
5) Leo Sayer
6) Filling up at a different petrol station every day of the week because the oil companies like playing some twisted ****ing game of petrol-price bingo
7) World famous pies from world famous pie shops made by world famous ****ing liars
8) Tony Abbott. I mean seriously. What in the name of all that's ****ing holy?
9) That ignorant gurning bald-headed twat (Cockie or something) that presents one of the morning TV shows and employs all the interviewing subtlety of a rampant rhino on Viagra
10) Chicken salt

No really, I'd miss it all.