I have been in Calgary for about 18 months now and I am now coming to the end of my first trip back to the UK.. I I'm so glad I never gave up on my dream of moving to Canada and I'm so glad i made that move in the first place... after spending the last two week back here in the uk I cannot wait to get back to Calgary.. just wounding how many of you thought the same after coming back to your old homes for the first time?

Have never made the trip back. Nine years since I left.

Nine years!

As soon as I got off the plane on my first trip back I wanted to get right back on it.

I went back last week after almost three years. It was sad to see it so storm battered and LHR T3 car park looked like a German car showroom to me, but I liked it there which was a surprise to me, I appreciated it for the first time although I am still glad to live here.

Made me appreciate how nice life in the UK was and how rubbish and vulgar life is in north America. But I'd made my Faustian bargain and there was no going back for longer than few months at a time.

I've been here 9 years and have traveled back at least once a year most years. Current job means I go to UK 2-3 times a year. I look forward to returning back to family & fresh air here on The Rock but honestly, I don't see anything in the UK that would prevent me from living back there again if circumstances called for it. The "I'd never set foot in the UK again" thing sometimes quoted here has never gelled with me. To each their own and all that...

I can see that, never say never.. just dont see me moving back here with the way things are

We landed Feb 1st 2007. I have no desire to visit, let alone move back. Been back a few times for family reasons etc. Each time I couldn't wait to get back HOME.

been here 4 yrs dont think ye ever get back home out your brain lol.

I've been in Canada long enough to have had a daughter born here, grow up and emigrate, to London, from whence I came. In London she enjoys a life Canada doesn't offer, she lives by the river, two stops on the DLR from the city airport; that means lots of cheap trips, lots of weekends in culturally different places. When I'm home we meet, in Camden or in the West End and go to the pub and for curry. And I wish I could live there.

Is there a point to this thread?

The OP feels the need to share a desire to be in Calgary. One reads much the same of Philadelphia.

Ah, I see. I would like to share my desire to be anywhere but Canada.

HTH.

Right now I'd rather like to be on Frenchman Street.