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I know someone who won several millions on the UK lottery while living in the UK, and decided that with their new-found riches the ideal place for them was a cookie-cutter Calgary suburb.

Utterly bizarre.

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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 ;)

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Thats cos they are all family;)

"NFN". I enjoyed my time in Norwich, but Canada is home.

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:lol: That's right webbed feet and all. The "NFN" thing is actually given allowance with regard to education results in Norfolk :blink:

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Did you live in Norwich?????

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A couple of years up Sprowston way, its a boss place.

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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. :thumbsup:

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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.

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He was sick of giving people High 6's.

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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.

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:rofl:

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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.

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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.

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A quick shove and you could have stayed ;)

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With the picture he painted I would have jumped in had I been there