The Case for Emigration
Nov 22nd 2019, 2:39 pm
#16
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Re: The Case for Emigration
No, her accent (although dulled by exposure to other accents and by time) was immediately recognisable as being from County Durham, at least by a geordie like me.
Yesterday was the first time I'd heard her speak but I didn't need her words about her background to know her origins.
Canny lass, local hero too.
Yesterday was the first time I'd heard her speak but I didn't need her words about her background to know her origins.
Canny lass, local hero too.
Nov 22nd 2019, 2:48 pm
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Nov 22nd 2019, 2:53 pm
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Nov 22nd 2019, 2:54 pm
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Nov 22nd 2019, 2:56 pm
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Nov 22nd 2019, 3:32 pm
#21
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Re: The Case for Emigration
'“Years later, I can say with confidence that this country has offered for me opportunities I never would have had in England,” Hill testified. “I grew up poor with a very distinctive working-class accent.”'
That's it, innit? If you're in the UK and you have an affluent background, you have no reason to leave. You're not going to be richer here and your children are not going to be better educated. There's no more outdoors here than there.
It's not that abroad has a "pull" just that, by circumstance, your opportunities are limited where you are so you gotta go.
That's it, innit? If you're in the UK and you have an affluent background, you have no reason to leave. You're not going to be richer here and your children are not going to be better educated. There's no more outdoors here than there.
It's not that abroad has a "pull" just that, by circumstance, your opportunities are limited where you are so you gotta go.
He knew a few pipefitting mates who'd emigrated to Western Australia and had gained employment in off shore oil and gas rigs.
It worked out well for him, off shore work pays well and he's probably the hardest working person I've ever met. He and his wife got a lovely house and his boys had an excellent education. They never regretted the move.
Nov 22nd 2019, 3:47 pm
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Nov 22nd 2019, 3:51 pm
#23
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Re: The Case for Emigration
We have the entire set of Auf Wiedersehen Pet on DVD, very enjoyable to watch and he said so much of it is spot on. I didn't know him in his younger days, but the scouse I know would be most like Dennis, the sensible and dependable one 
Nov 22nd 2019, 7:47 pm
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Re: The Case for Emigration
I am, of course, blessed with remarkable beauty. But success in life is primarily a function of having chosen one's parents well and then it's a matter of luck. Working hard helps, of course, but it's peculiarly vain to think that, if one has had success, it is because one deserves it.
As for immigration, it was never on the radar for me at any-point in my life and just sorta happened, was certainly never anything that ever crossed my mind, heck I had never even thought of visiting Canada, I of course knew Canada existed, but I never had any desire to visit.
Only country I ever really had an interest in was Australia and I am not sure why, if I had been from a country who well was more into working holiday visa scheme, I may have tried it out, but I had no idea such things even existed until too late in life.
Nov 23rd 2019, 6:41 am
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Re: The Case for Emigration
When my family met my Middlesbrough born husband one of my sisters remarked "Ooh listen to his accent. Isn't it nice?!" 😯
Nov 25th 2019, 10:16 pm
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Re: The Case for Emigration
DBD has it. After working for 5 years in the east end, I took the opportunity of university to take the edge off the cockney accent, and when I went back dahn sarf, even though I was living in the same areas, never really slipped back.
A few years later (~30?) i was consoling a fellow "young buck" at the engineering consultancy I was working in, who was lamenting he was never gonna get nowhere with his accent, pointing out that all the partners were proper posh. I didn't tell him I'd changed mine, just filled him up with beer and got him on his train back to Essex. But he was right... and so was Ms Hill.
A few years later (~30?) i was consoling a fellow "young buck" at the engineering consultancy I was working in, who was lamenting he was never gonna get nowhere with his accent, pointing out that all the partners were proper posh. I didn't tell him I'd changed mine, just filled him up with beer and got him on his train back to Essex. But he was right... and so was Ms Hill.
'“Years later, I can say with confidence that this country has offered for me opportunities I never would have had in England,” Hill testified. “I grew up poor with a very distinctive working-class accent.”'
That's it, innit? If you're in the UK and you have an affluent background, you have no reason to leave. You're not going to be richer here and your children are not going to be better educated. There's no more outdoors here than there.
It's not that abroad has a "pull" just that, by circumstance, your opportunities are limited where you are so you gotta go.
That's it, innit? If you're in the UK and you have an affluent background, you have no reason to leave. You're not going to be richer here and your children are not going to be better educated. There's no more outdoors here than there.
It's not that abroad has a "pull" just that, by circumstance, your opportunities are limited where you are so you gotta go.
Nov 26th 2019, 5:43 pm
#28
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Re: The Case for Emigration
I was accustomed in Nando's Markham recently by a South African woman obsessed with my "Australian" accent. She wanted to know how often I made it "home" and everything.
At least at Hooters people know how to behave.
At least at Hooters people know how to behave.
Nov 26th 2019, 7:02 pm
#29
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Re: The Case for Emigration
Just saw a snippet of Fiona Hill's statement. Didn't detect any Northern dialect until about the third second of her speech. She makes the comment that America offered her opportunity that would be impossible by someone of her class in the UK, but she neglects the fact that she was a Harvard scholar (so bright and educated) and had she gone to Oxbridge or even returned after Harvard, she would stand out from her coal mining chums, and probably have done equally well.
Nov 26th 2019, 7:06 pm
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Re: The Case for Emigration
Just saw a snippet of Fiona Hill's statement. Didn't detect any Northern dialect until about the third second of her speech. She makes the comment that America offered her opportunity that would be impossible by someone of her class in the UK, but she neglects the fact that she was a Harvard scholar (so bright and educated) and had she gone to Oxbridge or even returned after Harvard, she would stand out from her coal mining chums, and probably have done equally well.
An American professor encouraged Hill to apply for a graduate program in the U.S.
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