What don't you miss about the UK
Jun 11th 2010, 2:25 pm
#31
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Re: What don't you miss about the UK
Really?
Semi-literate racist football hooligans given jobs and paid double what their Indian coworkers get?
People who are worth nothing in the UK suddenly having doors held open for them, NOT shopping at Iceland, being able to afford a real car, NOT living a draughty council flat......
Sounds like a success to me.
(PS and that's just me. There are hundreds of others like that)
Semi-literate racist football hooligans given jobs and paid double what their Indian coworkers get?
People who are worth nothing in the UK suddenly having doors held open for them, NOT shopping at Iceland, being able to afford a real car, NOT living a draughty council flat......
Sounds like a success to me.
(PS and that's just me. There are hundreds of others like that)
Jun 11th 2010, 3:02 pm
#32
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Re: What don't you miss about the UK
Really?
Semi-literate racist football hooligans given jobs and paid double what their Indian coworkers get?
People who are worth nothing in the UK suddenly having doors held open for them, NOT shopping at Iceland, being able to afford a real car, NOT living a draughty council flat......
Sounds like a success to me.
(PS and that's just me. There are hundreds of others like that)
Semi-literate racist football hooligans given jobs and paid double what their Indian coworkers get?
People who are worth nothing in the UK suddenly having doors held open for them, NOT shopping at Iceland, being able to afford a real car, NOT living a draughty council flat......
Sounds like a success to me.
(PS and that's just me. There are hundreds of others like that)
Jun 11th 2010, 10:11 pm
#33
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Re: What don't you miss about the UK
Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis
vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent:
Sibylla ti theleis; respondebat illa: apothanein thelo.
( For I myself once saw with my own eyes the Sibyl hanging in a cage, and when the boys asked her, 'Sybil, what do you want?' she answered 'I want to die.')....
Such it is with the UK, these days. And yet she contains more soul than the UAE night hope to muster.
vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent:
Sibylla ti theleis; respondebat illa: apothanein thelo.
( For I myself once saw with my own eyes the Sibyl hanging in a cage, and when the boys asked her, 'Sybil, what do you want?' she answered 'I want to die.')....
Such it is with the UK, these days. And yet she contains more soul than the UAE night hope to muster.
Jun 12th 2010, 12:38 pm
#34
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Re: What don't you miss about the UK
I don't miss......
Cold, wet grey days
Council Tax Bills
40% income tax without question (but then you have a 3K ISA tax free stipend Yippee!)
Plastic smiles and hypocritical schemes at the office
The tea making round
Chavs
Seeing the evidence of poor dental hygiene and the lack of obtaining an appointment with an NHS dentist.
Dinner ladies on the bus in their tabards
Being run over by pushchair chavs
Seeing pink .....chavs wearing pink from head to toe. (visions of Pepto Bismol)
RACIST folk....especially the closet types.
I must restrain myself.............
I miss terribly ....
STILL GAME from my Edinburgh days...funny the subtitles in England
M&S vicky sponge and a caramel latte or cinnamon mocha
in the M&S coffee shop.
Havent found a M&S coffee shop here . Do send a message if you know where one is.
Jun 12th 2010, 8:17 pm
#35
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Re: What don't you miss about the UK
Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis
vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent:
Sibylla ti theleis; respondebat illa: apothanein thelo.
( For I myself once saw with my own eyes the Sibyl hanging in a cage, and when the boys asked her, 'Sybil, what do you want?' she answered 'I want to die.')....
Such it is with the UK, these days. And yet she contains more soul than the UAE night hope to muster.
vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent:
Sibylla ti theleis; respondebat illa: apothanein thelo.
( For I myself once saw with my own eyes the Sibyl hanging in a cage, and when the boys asked her, 'Sybil, what do you want?' she answered 'I want to die.')....
Such it is with the UK, these days. And yet she contains more soul than the UAE night hope to muster.
Dubai isn't ideal - we don't look at it through rose-tinted spectacles (even if they are bi-focals) ... there's still a great deal that has to be fixed - but we're still happier here than we would be if we were back in the UK.
We regard ourselves as being very fortunate in that we have no children (just didn't happen but didn't beat ourselves up about it), bought off-plan way back in 2003 so we're still in a reasonably good position property-wise (please don't think we're trying to be smug here, we really aren't), and although we still enjoy Dubai we're hoping that we'll be in Muscat this time next year. Yet another off-plan property which we recently visited and which, it seems, will be delivered on time in September this year.
So, short answer (after all the waffle above) - there's nothing apart from family and friends that we miss about the UK. But perhaps having no children has something to do with that.
Jun 13th 2010, 12:24 am
#36
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Re: What don't you miss about the UK
Would kind of agree but unfortunately the UK is more like "The Wire" than "Dixon of Dock Green" - or even "The Sweeney". On our last trip back to UK in 2008 we couldn't find anybody we knew who was happy to be living there (ages ranged from late 20s to mid 60s) and, from emails and phone conversations since, nothing has changed. This includes family, too. In fact since that visit youngest sister and DH have emigrated to Cape Town so parents now have two (out of three) daughters who have left the UK.
Dubai isn't ideal - we don't look at it through rose-tinted spectacles (even if they are bi-focals) ... there's still a great deal that has to be fixed - but we're still happier here than we would be if we were back in the UK.
We regard ourselves as being very fortunate in that we have no children (just didn't happen but didn't beat ourselves up about it), bought off-plan way back in 2003 so we're still in a reasonably good position property-wise (please don't think we're trying to be smug here, we really aren't), and although we still enjoy Dubai we're hoping that we'll be in Muscat this time next year. Yet another off-plan property which we recently visited and which, it seems, will be delivered on time in September this year.
So, short answer (after all the waffle above) - there's nothing apart from family and friends that we miss about the UK. But perhaps having no children has something to do with that.
Dubai isn't ideal - we don't look at it through rose-tinted spectacles (even if they are bi-focals) ... there's still a great deal that has to be fixed - but we're still happier here than we would be if we were back in the UK.
We regard ourselves as being very fortunate in that we have no children (just didn't happen but didn't beat ourselves up about it), bought off-plan way back in 2003 so we're still in a reasonably good position property-wise (please don't think we're trying to be smug here, we really aren't), and although we still enjoy Dubai we're hoping that we'll be in Muscat this time next year. Yet another off-plan property which we recently visited and which, it seems, will be delivered on time in September this year.
So, short answer (after all the waffle above) - there's nothing apart from family and friends that we miss about the UK. But perhaps having no children has something to do with that.
Jun 13th 2010, 4:23 am
#37
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calm down Bahtatboy! cold shower! The gasmask has been left in the UK I'm afraid!
Jun 13th 2010, 5:18 am
#39
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Jun 13th 2010, 7:43 am
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Re: What don't you miss about the UK
My lad has been here since he was 7 and is def not an expat brat but does recognize that a lot of his friends are.... you just have to keep yourself and your kids grounded
Jun 13th 2010, 8:44 am
#42
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Re: What don't you miss about the UK
I find the children out here have far better value's, manners than any I have seen in the UK my own included
Jun 13th 2010, 10:20 am
#43
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Re: What don't you miss about the UK
Nothing is that black & white, but if you think your parentling skills wouldn't be up to raising a decent child here, then maybe you should return?
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Jun 13th 2010, 10:30 am
#44
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Re: What don't you miss about the UK
I don't miss
Standing on a freezing station platform at 7.00am on a January morning to be told that my train is cancelled, despite spending a small fortune on tickets
Chavs (there are less here & easier to avoid)
Being charged over £1 for a small bottle of water
Chewing gum on pavements
Congestion charge & astronomical parking fees
Snow, ice, sleet, grey January/February skies & being cold generally
High tax & NI - largely spent by buffoons who really haven't a clue or don't care
Tabloid press
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Standing on a freezing station platform at 7.00am on a January morning to be told that my train is cancelled, despite spending a small fortune on tickets
Chavs (there are less here & easier to avoid)
Being charged over £1 for a small bottle of water
Chewing gum on pavements
Congestion charge & astronomical parking fees
Snow, ice, sleet, grey January/February skies & being cold generally
High tax & NI - largely spent by buffoons who really haven't a clue or don't care
Tabloid press
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Jun 13th 2010, 11:50 am
#45
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Re: What don't you miss about the UK
Don't Miss;
Income Tax
Shitty Rainy Scottish Weather
Miss;
Sky TV
Shitty Cold Scottish Weather
Tenents
Income Tax
Shitty Rainy Scottish Weather
Miss;
Sky TV
Shitty Cold Scottish Weather
Tenents