18 years and going back.
Feb 28th 2016, 4:29 pm
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18 years and going back.
Hi, we are expats from the UK, having lived here in BC for the past 18 years. We are in the process of moving back to Europe, just waiting for our house to sell. Canada has been good to us and we have made lots of memories, but the past few years we have become unsettled. We have thought long and hard as to why our thoughts towards Canada have changed as it was always our plan to be here forever. We feel we have become frustrated being so far from everywhere, not enjoying the long winters anymore and to be honest bored with our life here. The past few years we have spent more time in Europe and each time its got harder to return here. Before we made the final decision to move back, we really tried to get back our enthusiasm for Canada but its never happened. During our time here we did suffer a bout of home sickness, so know this is a completely different feeling we now have. Life is too short to be unhappy and we're really excited about the future and to start 'living' again and not just existing. We just wondered if anyone else had these thoughts during your time here in Canada?
Mar 2nd 2016, 4:31 pm
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Re: 18 years and going back.
Hi, we are expats from the UK, having lived here in BC for the past 18 years. We are in the process of moving back to Europe, just waiting for our house to sell. Canada has been good to us and we have made lots of memories, but the past few years we have become unsettled. We have thought long and hard as to why our thoughts towards Canada have changed as it was always our plan to be here forever. We feel we have become frustrated being so far from everywhere, not enjoying the long winters anymore and to be honest bored with our life here. The past few years we have spent more time in Europe and each time its got harder to return here. Before we made the final decision to move back, we really tried to get back our enthusiasm for Canada but its never happened. During our time here we did suffer a bout of home sickness, so know this is a completely different feeling we now have. Life is too short to be unhappy and we're really excited about the future and to start 'living' again and not just existing. We just wondered if anyone else had these thoughts during your time here in Canada?
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Mar 2nd 2016, 4:49 pm
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Re: 18 years and going back.
Hi, we are expats from the UK, having lived here in BC for the past 18 years. We are in the process of moving back to Europe, just waiting for our house to sell. Canada has been good to us and we have made lots of memories, but the past few years we have become unsettled. We have thought long and hard as to why our thoughts towards Canada have changed as it was always our plan to be here forever. We feel we have become frustrated being so far from everywhere, not enjoying the long winters anymore and to be honest bored with our life here. The past few years we have spent more time in Europe and each time its got harder to return here. Before we made the final decision to move back, we really tried to get back our enthusiasm for Canada but its never happened. During our time here we did suffer a bout of home sickness, so know this is a completely different feeling we now have. Life is too short to be unhappy and we're really excited about the future and to start 'living' again and not just existing. We just wondered if anyone else had these thoughts during your time here in Canada?
Mar 5th 2016, 8:00 pm
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Re: 18 years and going back.
As the OP has opened a duplicate thread in the MBTTUK forum I will close this thread.
