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Shoreditch London England
Tilbury - Essex
Romford - Essex
Chadwell Heath
St Mary Cray -Orpington
Langdon Hills -Essex
Hoping for a move to NS later this year:fingerscrossed:

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Here is mine. A bit different!!!!!

Tehran/Iran
Canterbury
Witstable
Vancouver:fingerscrossed:

Wish me luck!

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Would love to experience life in Texas, did you not like it?would love to hear the good and Bad experiences you had Lol:lol:

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I am so sorry to hear that, I really have fond memories of Worthing, and our staff were amongst the nicest, we had such good times and laughs and yet they did their work so there was never any problems between us, I loved it. When did your brother work there? We had a regular clientelle from the navy come to us, they were great, and believe it or not very protective of us, if anyone tried to be nasty to us about our nationality (don't forget this was during the worst of the troubles) they would not stand for it, I truely loved those boys they were the crust of the earth and I hope each and everyone is safe and happy today :thumbup::D

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Sounds like Worthing was a nice place to be then.
Unfortunately it's really run down and dirty now. If you want to shop these days then you have to go elsewhere as half the shops are borded up now.
Unless of course you want to go to Tescos as there are now approx 12 Tesco expresses and a massive Tescos about to open in Durrington!

It's not the place I moved to 10 years ago :(

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Very brief for me:

Aberfan, South Wales
Plymouth, Devon
Helston, Cornwall
Bristol
Helston, Cornwall - here until our move to Nova Scotia


Kaz

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Mizz Teapot, I notice that you lived in many afrikaans speaking towns... my mother tongue is afrikaans (but my afr. is crap!). Nice to meet a fellow Saffer on BE!

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bunch of gypsies on this site! and I thought we were unable to grow roots :rofl:

my list:
cape town - South Africa
johannesburg south - South Africa
alberton - South Africa
edenvale - South Africa
turnpike lane, finsbury park, earlsfield, highams park x 2 - London
bremthal - Germany

heading back to UK (Chelmsford? - that will be another thread)
and then Calgary!! hopefully 2010/2011

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I lived there until I was 5.:)

Mine is very boring, I lived in pretty much a 10 mile radius all my life.

Camberley, Surrey
Frimley Green, Surrey
Camberley, Surrey
Frimley, Surrey
Ash, Hamphire (ick)
Fleet, Hampshire
Victoria, BC

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I am so sorry to hear that, but I will aways treasure my memories of worthing and the lovely people we met there, its so sad when things get run down, the thing with the shops, its happening everywhere, all the town centres are destroyed now, with the new malls, and Tesco's ,Asda, Sainsbury's running the country now I think, its so sad all the individuality have gone out of our town centres:(

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Another Tesco in Durrington? Did they pull down the original? I see you agree about how run-down the town has become. I thought it was maybe just me comparing it to the space and cleanness of Calgary. :unsure:

We're going back in April, just to visit family. All our olds are too crumbly to visit us here, and the younger ones too cheap! :p
I wish we didn't have to go back at all (and use our precious vacation time and money!) (she says meanly:o)

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I noticed the same thing last time I was in the UK. We went to the Borders to visit family, and yet there were the big malls, the superstore-like big box stores with big carparks, followed by a village barely hanging on. :huh: I was surprised to see such a north american suburban type of planning there.

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Lincolnshire 6 places
Costa Blanca 4 places
Lincolnshire 2 places.

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Yes it is happening all over the united kingdom and Ireland , and it is so sad, the big cities ie London, Glasgow, Edinburugh, Dublin,Belfast will always survive, but the individuality of independant stores, have all but dissapeared,:( and the smaller towns and villages have really struggled, the heart has been ripped out of them, generations of family business's gone, old tradesmanships are getting lost, the old qualities of the UK are dying and its very sad to see.:( but I suppose thats progress and we all have to accept it. I still like areas of europe, that keep their villages and cultures alive, the great british pub for example has been hijacked by the breweries, and turned into theme pubs for the youngsters, my husband and I never went out to a pub any more, yet when we lived in England we loved the village pubs, they were beautiful, and unique to England, great meeting places,:thumbdown: now it would be hard to find one that dosent have gaming machines, kids drinking out of bottles, and loud music, so sad

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I agree with you, when I went back in '05 for a visit, it had changed beyond recognition (I had been away for 9years). That wonderful village life and pub tradition isn't there like it used to be. My family told me the breweries have taken over and whitewashed traditional pubs and are all into food as well. Since when were English people interested in food beyond pub grub and a packet of scratchings? When I used to live there we went to the pub to drink and socialise, a quiet drink in the local with your mates was nice and it was a tradition. Now it's all "continental" by placing emphasis on food or blasting your ears out with loud music to attract the kids. We used to have those before, but they were mainly the large custom made wine bars and the pubs were still pubs.

I don't like the way England has changed, hence why I choose to live abroad, I don't know if I'll ever go back, not if it keeps going in the same direction it is which is likely so I probably wont want to...