Originally Posted by getmeintohalifax

I'd return to the UK in a heartbeat if my partner was up for it. Right now, I'm perfectly happy in Canada, I'm enjoying life here and, with our jobs and stuff, it just makes perfect sense to be here right now. However, the UK is and always will be home. I miss the architecture, the pubs, the footy, the curry, friends, family, the shops, the tv shows (which I can, of course, access over here with a little effort), the music scene, and the North East coastline.

One of the biggest things I miss is being close to everything. Growing up in Sunderland, I could be in Newcastle, Gateshead, South Shields, Durham, Hartlepool or Middlesbrough within half an hour. I could be in York in an hour, Edinburgh in an hour and a half, or London in three hours. If I wanted to jump on a plane, after a 20 minute drive to the airport, I could easily reach anywhere in Europe within a couple of hours and, with budget airlines, it wouldn't necessarily cost too much.

In Halifax, once you leave HRM, you're basically out in the sticks. Yes, there's some absolutely beautiful towns and scenery, but it's not quite the same. If I want to go to another big city, it's either a monster drive or an expensive flight.

I didn't mean for this to end up sounding like a massive moan - I genuinely like it here. It's just that there's a lot to miss about the UK. A lot of people are quick to moan about the UK (and there are certainly many things wrong with it) but, once you spend a lot of time outside the country, I think you begin to appreciate what a fantastic country we were born in.

Originally Posted by ArthurBrit

Fantastic post,

The only bit I don't get is the need or want to be in the following:

Newcastle, Gateshead, South Shields, Durham, Hartlepool or Middlesbrough.

Other than that bit it's how I feel.

Originally Posted by Novocastrian

Watch it.

Originally Posted by ArthurBrit

I am but a humble, yet superior southerner

Originally Posted by Novocastrian

Superior usually implies being further up.

Originally Posted by ArthurBrit

Superior - something which is higher in a hierarchical structure of any kind.

Technically I guess there must be things that you northerners are superior to us southerners. I'll let you take geography .

Originally Posted by iaink

Oh enough already

How childish.

Originally Posted by Novocastrian

And then there's Liverpudlians...

Originally Posted by iaink

I rather like liverpudlians as a rule, not that I am one...

Originally Posted by JonboyE

Missing Sunderland?

That has to be a first.