I'd live there (in theory), but never made any plans in the past.

But not now.

Didn't have you down as a Francophile. Thought you were very much a Northern Englander.

Not that the two are mutually exclusive - just that the north of England was you.

Lived most of my life in the South....Berkshire, Oxford and London.

G

I made wonderful friends in France and here also. Been very lucky here on that front as I see a lot of posts on here with folks finding that side difficult.
Luck has a bigger part in your emigration experience than I expected.

Have you made many Aussie friends G?

Several......much to my chagrin.

I am currently trying to teach them to speak English properly.

I can't make that claim, as a Jock, theirs is better than mine

I'm anglo-Irish with a big dash of scottish.

Learnt to speak proper at a public school don'tchaknow.

My wife went to pubby and no one knows she is Scottish, which really annoys her!

Wouldn't annoy me

How dare you!!

smart arse

Mind you....it would be better than sounding Australian

As much as I love it here, I'd have to agree

You will get into trouble agreeing with me y'know

Me too. We've (family and close friends) also have done all our time in London, Oxford, Berkshire, and Kent in that order, and for myself, Wiltshire.

I thought you once said you were a Yorkshire man.

No, how much? Sixpence halfpenny?