Was it a good experience?
Nov 24th 2004 | 2:31 pm
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Re: Was it a good experience?
Originally Posted by MikeStanton
Welcome home.
Thank you Mike Stanton. Never have I heard two more encouraging words.
Nov 24th 2004 | 2:55 pm
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Re: Was it a good experience?
Originally Posted by estarriol
Wow, I haven't posted here in ages, but I just got an e-mail because you replied to this thread.
I still don't regret ever leaving the UK. I love travel, and going to Oz has convinced me that I should do more of it - but as travel, not as emigration. The main negative effect it's had on me, to be honest, is financially - moving both ways was very expensive (something like £10,000 total in actual attributable costs), and I had to rebuild my business at both ends, which is proving very difficult at the moment. (If anyone needs a skilled freelance Web developer or general IT guru, please let me know - I specialise in MS web technologies and servicing SMEs, no job too small or too large).
As for the appreciation for Britain - no, it hasn't worn off, although I don't feel it acutely all the time as I did when I was about to come back. Instead, it has sunk into my psyche as a base appreciation for our country. Things are obviously quite dark and miserable here with weather at the moment, and I am still having personal issues getting over the nightmare that my relationship over there turned into, but that's a separate issue. As soon as spring rolls around, I'll be appreciating it with the best of them. And we do Christmas so very, very well...
Best of luck to you, friend.
I still don't regret ever leaving the UK. I love travel, and going to Oz has convinced me that I should do more of it - but as travel, not as emigration. The main negative effect it's had on me, to be honest, is financially - moving both ways was very expensive (something like £10,000 total in actual attributable costs), and I had to rebuild my business at both ends, which is proving very difficult at the moment. (If anyone needs a skilled freelance Web developer or general IT guru, please let me know - I specialise in MS web technologies and servicing SMEs, no job too small or too large).
As for the appreciation for Britain - no, it hasn't worn off, although I don't feel it acutely all the time as I did when I was about to come back. Instead, it has sunk into my psyche as a base appreciation for our country. Things are obviously quite dark and miserable here with weather at the moment, and I am still having personal issues getting over the nightmare that my relationship over there turned into, but that's a separate issue. As soon as spring rolls around, I'll be appreciating it with the best of them. And we do Christmas so very, very well...
Best of luck to you, friend.
Sorry to drag you back into the world of the Expats.com. but there is always someone out there needing a little advice.
It has been invaluable to hear other experiences and thoughts about moving back, and you realise that you are not a complete failure for wanting to do so or more importantly, that you are not the only one. As for the dark and miserable weather, I would give anything to have Christmas under these conditions! (family and friends coming over here for the festive (?) season). Instead I will have to settle for a humid, sweltering non-Christmas until next year.
Thanks IT guru, you have really helped.
Nov 24th 2004 | 5:03 pm
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Re: Was it a good experience?
Originally Posted by Bellefield
Sorry to drag you back into the world of the Expats.com.
It has been invaluable to hear other experiences and thoughts about moving back, and you realise that you are not a complete failure for wanting to do so or more importantly, that you are not the only one.
Failure is never trying anything new because you're too scared, or too lazy, or too indoctrinated to thinking only inside the box. No, my friend, you're the furthest thing from a failure.
As for the dark and miserable weather, I would give anything to have Christmas under these conditions!
And on that note, I'll shut up, except to say I'm glad you've found what you really want and are coming back home. Good for you!
Nov 28th 2004 | 8:57 am
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Re: Was it a good experience?
It does make me laugh when some people use the word 'failure'
We give up everything as we know it to go and live in a different country, try as hard as we can to fit in but because we don't feel it's right for us some see it as a sort of failure?
To have seen so much and to have lived somewhere completly different for even the shortest time doesn't mean anyone has failed...just 'Experienced'
I think thats a better word
We give up everything as we know it to go and live in a different country, try as hard as we can to fit in but because we don't feel it's right for us some see it as a sort of failure?
To have seen so much and to have lived somewhere completly different for even the shortest time doesn't mean anyone has failed...just 'Experienced'
I think thats a better word
Dec 2nd 2004 | 10:46 am
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Re: Was it a good experience?
[QUOTE=estarriol]
just doesn't work in a 40 degree mid-summer. It is, and always has been, a winter festival. I have a theory that that's why Aus winters seem so long - they have no midwinter festivals the way we do to dispel the miserable nature of winter. Similarly, this is why I think Easter is such a big deal over there, being the closest thing they have.
QUOTE]
what a fantastic post!!!
As Aussie winters are warmer, can't see the need to break from them, but see where you are coming from.
BM
just doesn't work in a 40 degree mid-summer. It is, and always has been, a winter festival. I have a theory that that's why Aus winters seem so long - they have no midwinter festivals the way we do to dispel the miserable nature of winter. Similarly, this is why I think Easter is such a big deal over there, being the closest thing they have.
QUOTE]
what a fantastic post!!!
As Aussie winters are warmer, can't see the need to break from them, but see where you are coming from.
BM
Dec 2nd 2004 | 6:16 pm
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Re: Was it a good experience?
Originally Posted by odaat
I have met a few Ozzie's since getting back to UK - the men have become more and more dull, plastic and witless, and the women sexless and sun damaged with skin as rubbery as dried chicken.
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Dec 2nd 2004 | 11:21 pm
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Re: Was it a good experience?
Originally Posted by janeyray
It does make me laugh when some people use the word 'failure'
We give up everything as we know it to go and live in a different country, try as hard as we can to fit in but because we don't feel it's right for us some see it as a sort of failure?
To have seen so much and to have lived somewhere completly different for even the shortest time doesn't mean anyone has failed...just 'Experienced'
I think thats a better word
We give up everything as we know it to go and live in a different country, try as hard as we can to fit in but because we don't feel it's right for us some see it as a sort of failure?
To have seen so much and to have lived somewhere completly different for even the shortest time doesn't mean anyone has failed...just 'Experienced'
I think thats a better word
Agreed.
