Prefer UK or Canada ?
Mar 15th 2013, 6:04 am
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Re: Prefer UK or Canada ?
I can't imagine that anyone who won the lottery would choose to live in Canada unless they'd been born in Canada and had never left. Canada isn't that sort of place.
It is, however, a good choice for many, it's safe and steady. Not a Ferrari of a country, more a badge engineered Vanden-Plas; comfortable with a few nice bits though overall a bit bland and derivative. A suitable place to spend one's middle age.
It is, however, a good choice for many, it's safe and steady. Not a Ferrari of a country, more a badge engineered Vanden-Plas; comfortable with a few nice bits though overall a bit bland and derivative. A suitable place to spend one's middle age.
Utterly bizarre.
Mar 15th 2013, 6:13 am
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Re: Prefer UK or Canada ?
Don't think I can really answer this one as it's a bit early in our experience, however I will say that at this moment in time we are pleased with our decision and are happy here.
I still love the fact that the UK is and always will be home for me. When I speak to people and they ask where i'm from there is a certain proud feeling when I say England. We are all looking forward to our visit back in 3 weeks and Steve and I are especially looking forward to a lovely pint of Aspall Suffolk Cider in a few of Norwich/Norfolk's quaint pubs. I miss the history of our home country, family/friends obviously and the usual comforts of familiar things but for the most part currently I like it here.
And as for your Northeners/Southeners discussion.......you're all outsiders to us Norfolk folk
I still love the fact that the UK is and always will be home for me. When I speak to people and they ask where i'm from there is a certain proud feeling when I say England. We are all looking forward to our visit back in 3 weeks and Steve and I are especially looking forward to a lovely pint of Aspall Suffolk Cider in a few of Norwich/Norfolk's quaint pubs. I miss the history of our home country, family/friends obviously and the usual comforts of familiar things but for the most part currently I like it here.
And as for your Northeners/Southeners discussion.......you're all outsiders to us Norfolk folk
Mar 15th 2013, 6:17 am
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That's right webbed feet and all. The "NFN" thing is actually given allowance with regard to education results in Norfolk 
Mar 15th 2013, 6:26 am
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Mar 15th 2013, 6:31 am
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Re: Prefer UK or Canada ?
Wow see now i'm excited that someone on here knows where we lived......i'm easily pleased. I was bought up in Mile Cross (of all places) and Steve from Drayton. Before we moved we were out at Horsham St Faiths and I worked in and around Sprowston. 
Mar 15th 2013, 6:49 am
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Re: Prefer UK or Canada ?
Just for the hell of it I had a look at the centre of Sunderland on Streetview. Half the shops were shut and the place was under an overcast gloom that would have Vancouverites reaching for the rusty razorblades.
Mar 15th 2013, 7:02 am
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Mar 15th 2013, 7:12 am
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Re: Prefer UK or Canada ?
On reflection, I might have been better off using the proximity of the Lake District and Northumberland as examples of having interesting, different stuff nearby! Nobody wants to be going to Gateshead and Middlesbrough! Anyway, my point was more about the variety of places that you could easily visit.
Mar 15th 2013, 7:24 am
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Re: Prefer UK or Canada ?
At the moment I like it here....it's new....we are still exploring...still feels like an adventure...... I have never felt like I specifically came to Canada......rather I came to North America....... I'm not sure I would have come if the US wasn't bolted to the bottom of Canada.
A cottage in the hills of Tuscany will probably start to look a lot better option as I approach my 60th birthday. It is extremely unlikely that I will return to UK to live.
A cottage in the hills of Tuscany will probably start to look a lot better option as I approach my 60th birthday. It is extremely unlikely that I will return to UK to live.
Mar 15th 2013, 7:51 am
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Re: Prefer UK or Canada ?
For the record, Sunderland city centre is a dump (you could say that about a lot of UK town/city centres at the moment though)! And the football team always lose (I try to tell myself that it makes the occasional victories even sweeter...but it basically just makes me depressed and angry every Saturday afternoon!) But the coastal suburb that I grew up in ... well I genuinely would not want to have grown up anywhere else.
On reflection, I might have been better off using the proximity of the Lake District and Northumberland as examples of having interesting, different stuff nearby! Nobody wants to be going to Gateshead and Middlesbrough! Anyway, my point was more about the variety of places that you could easily visit.
On reflection, I might have been better off using the proximity of the Lake District and Northumberland as examples of having interesting, different stuff nearby! Nobody wants to be going to Gateshead and Middlesbrough! Anyway, my point was more about the variety of places that you could easily visit.
The look in her eye told me that if I came back it would be as a single man.
Mar 15th 2013, 7:58 am
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Re: Prefer UK or Canada ?
Shortly after I was married I took my wife to see the land of my birth. I remember standing at the top of a cliff overlooking Marsden Rock. It was October. The North Sea was a turgid grey. The overcast sky was even greyer. It was drizzling. Not that light drizzle that dampens the outside of your clothes but the wetting stuff that reaches parts that no drizzle should reach. To complement it all there was a biting north easterly wind that felt like it had just arrived from the Arctic.
The look in her eye told me that if I came back it would be as a single man.
The look in her eye told me that if I came back it would be as a single man.
