Moving back to Blighty...parents dead against it
Jun 24th 2011, 12:07 am
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Re: Moving back to Blighty...parents dead against it
" we are off to Tesco" I was in second heaven !!
Incidentally, that last visit was the deciding point for us, we came straight back and made plans to move back and we are off in November.
The power of Tesco
Jun 24th 2011, 8:45 am
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Some people are just all knowing I guess...LOL (and probably don't even own a passport LOL)
Jun 24th 2011, 9:51 am
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Yeah, I guess it wouldnt have been much of a show if there were all these hurdles...its about living the dream...I heard Jeremy hardy on the radio (podcast) call it temperature based colonialism!! hehe!
I cannot believe how much getting sick worries me here,,,,no sick leave no free care...i feel fine but what if? so glad my dad had the NHS...what a worry it would have been to wait for those bills....
I cannot believe how much getting sick worries me here,,,,no sick leave no free care...i feel fine but what if? so glad my dad had the NHS...what a worry it would have been to wait for those bills....
Jun 24th 2011, 10:05 am
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LOL There will never be public health in SA. The 5 million tax payers simply can't support the majority of non-tax paying folks......Not sure Mr Zuma thought through that in his election promises. DOH. So be thankful for small gestures. Last time I went to a state hospital here it was like something out of resident evil!
Jun 24th 2011, 11:42 am
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LOL There will never be public health in SA. The 5 million tax payers simply can't support the majority of non-tax paying folks......Not sure Mr Zuma thought through that in his election promises. DOH. So be thankful for small gestures. Last time I went to a state hospital here it was like something out of resident evil!
I'm not prepared to take that chance!
Jun 24th 2011, 2:07 pm
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LOL There will never be public health in SA. The 5 million tax payers simply can't support the majority of non-tax paying folks......Not sure Mr Zuma thought through that in his election promises. DOH. So be thankful for small gestures. Last time I went to a state hospital here it was like something out of resident evil!
Jun 24th 2011, 6:59 pm
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Jun 25th 2011, 11:44 am
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Jun 25th 2011, 2:06 pm
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Jun 25th 2011, 2:48 pm
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Maybe you don't realise just how powerful Tesco really IS in the United Kingdom! It appears to be a law unto itself, a commercial mammoth of gigantic proportions and somehow or other it seems to steam roller its way through all kinds of official local authority opposition and legal constraints whenever it puts forward any plans for a new store or the very considerable extension of an existing store in any given location.
There are hardly any towns of any size and with a population in excess of about 5,000 that do not contain a Tesco store, and many towns of only a slightly larger size not only have a main Tesco store on their outskirts but one or two or even more smaller Tesco Extra or Tesco Express stores within the centres. For example, Bicester, Oxfordshire - pop. 29,000 - has a huge Tesco superstore and five more smaller stores in the town area.
The local authority council and many other opponents of a proposed new Tesco store in Sheringham, Norfolk, fought tooth and nail to prevent it happening, but Tesco refused to be "beaten" and just wouln't accept "no" for an answer and used every trick in the book to win through - which it did. Sheringham now has a Tesco store.
Herefordshire County Council, along with Ledbury Town Council, is currently engaged in a "battle" with Tesco over its plans to considerably extend the current Tesco store in Ledbury and locate on a site in another area of the town, just off the by-pass and further away from the town centre. The council had previously and successfully and quite unusually prevented Tesco from opening up a smaller Tesco Express store in the town centre of Ledbury, but you can bet your life that, like in Sheringham, Tesco will eventually win this fight in Ledbury, too, and the town will have a brand new and much larger Tesco superstore further away from housing estates and the main shopping area where most of the current shopkeepers and traders are the most voceiferous of anti Tesco opponents - naturally enough.
Yes, Tesco is very powerful indeed!
There are hardly any towns of any size and with a population in excess of about 5,000 that do not contain a Tesco store, and many towns of only a slightly larger size not only have a main Tesco store on their outskirts but one or two or even more smaller Tesco Extra or Tesco Express stores within the centres. For example, Bicester, Oxfordshire - pop. 29,000 - has a huge Tesco superstore and five more smaller stores in the town area.
The local authority council and many other opponents of a proposed new Tesco store in Sheringham, Norfolk, fought tooth and nail to prevent it happening, but Tesco refused to be "beaten" and just wouln't accept "no" for an answer and used every trick in the book to win through - which it did. Sheringham now has a Tesco store.
Herefordshire County Council, along with Ledbury Town Council, is currently engaged in a "battle" with Tesco over its plans to considerably extend the current Tesco store in Ledbury and locate on a site in another area of the town, just off the by-pass and further away from the town centre. The council had previously and successfully and quite unusually prevented Tesco from opening up a smaller Tesco Express store in the town centre of Ledbury, but you can bet your life that, like in Sheringham, Tesco will eventually win this fight in Ledbury, too, and the town will have a brand new and much larger Tesco superstore further away from housing estates and the main shopping area where most of the current shopkeepers and traders are the most voceiferous of anti Tesco opponents - naturally enough.
Yes, Tesco is very powerful indeed!
Jun 25th 2011, 2:53 pm
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Maybe you don't realise just how powerful Tesco really IS in the United Kingdom! It appears to be a law unto itself, a commercial mammoth of gigantic proportions and somehow or other it seems to steam roller its way through all kinds of official local authority opposition and legal constraints whenever it puts forward any plans for a new store or the very considerable extension of an existing store in any given location.
There are hardly any towns of any size and with a population in excess of about 5,000 that do not contain a Tesco store, and many towns of only a slightly larger size not only have a main Tesco store on their outskirts but one or two or even more smaller Tesco Extra or Tesco Express stores within the centres. For example, Bicester, Oxfordshire - pop. 29,000 - has a huge Tesco superstore and five more smaller stores in the town area.
The local authority council and many other opponents of a proposed new Tesco store in Sheringham, Norfolk, fought tooth and nail to prevent it happening, but Tesco refused to be "beaten" and just wouln't accept "no" for an answer and used every trick in the book to win through - which it did. Sheringham now has a Tesco store.
Herefordshire County Council, along with Ledbury Town Council, is currently engaged in a "battle" with Tesco over its plans to considerably extend the current Tesco store in Ledbury and locate on a site in another area of the town, just off the by-pass and further away from the town centre. The council had previously and successfully and quite unusually prevented Tesco from opening up a smaller Tesco Express store in the town centre of Ledbury, but you can bet your life that, like in Sheringham, Tesco will eventually win this fight in Ledbury, too, and the town will have a brand new and much larger Tesco superstore further away from housing estates and the main shopping area where most of the current shopkeepers and traders are the most voceiferous of anti Tesco opponents - naturally enough.
Yes, Tesco is very powerful indeed!
There are hardly any towns of any size and with a population in excess of about 5,000 that do not contain a Tesco store, and many towns of only a slightly larger size not only have a main Tesco store on their outskirts but one or two or even more smaller Tesco Extra or Tesco Express stores within the centres. For example, Bicester, Oxfordshire - pop. 29,000 - has a huge Tesco superstore and five more smaller stores in the town area.
The local authority council and many other opponents of a proposed new Tesco store in Sheringham, Norfolk, fought tooth and nail to prevent it happening, but Tesco refused to be "beaten" and just wouln't accept "no" for an answer and used every trick in the book to win through - which it did. Sheringham now has a Tesco store.
Herefordshire County Council, along with Ledbury Town Council, is currently engaged in a "battle" with Tesco over its plans to considerably extend the current Tesco store in Ledbury and locate on a site in another area of the town, just off the by-pass and further away from the town centre. The council had previously and successfully and quite unusually prevented Tesco from opening up a smaller Tesco Express store in the town centre of Ledbury, but you can bet your life that, like in Sheringham, Tesco will eventually win this fight in Ledbury, too, and the town will have a brand new and much larger Tesco superstore further away from housing estates and the main shopping area where most of the current shopkeepers and traders are the most voceiferous of anti Tesco opponents - naturally enough.
Yes, Tesco is very powerful indeed!
Jun 25th 2011, 4:15 pm
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Re: Moving back to Blighty...parents dead against it
Maybe you don't realise just how powerful Tesco really IS in the United Kingdom! It appears to be a law unto itself, a commercial mammoth of gigantic proportions and somehow or other it seems to steam roller its way through all kinds of official local authority opposition and legal constraints whenever it puts forward any plans for a new store or the very considerable extension of an existing store in any given location.
There are hardly any towns of any size and with a population in excess of about 5,000 that do not contain a Tesco store, and many towns of only a slightly larger size not only have a main Tesco store on their outskirts but one or two or even more smaller Tesco Extra or Tesco Express stores within the centres. For example, Bicester, Oxfordshire - pop. 29,000 - has a huge Tesco superstore and five more smaller stores in the town area.
The local authority council and many other opponents of a proposed new Tesco store in Sheringham, Norfolk, fought tooth and nail to prevent it happening, but Tesco refused to be "beaten" and just wouln't accept "no" for an answer and used every trick in the book to win through - which it did. Sheringham now has a Tesco store.
Herefordshire County Council, along with Ledbury Town Council, is currently engaged in a "battle" with Tesco over its plans to considerably extend the current Tesco store in Ledbury and locate on a site in another area of the town, just off the by-pass and further away from the town centre. The council had previously and successfully and quite unusually prevented Tesco from opening up a smaller Tesco Express store in the town centre of Ledbury, but you can bet your life that, like in Sheringham, Tesco will eventually win this fight in Ledbury, too, and the town will have a brand new and much larger Tesco superstore further away from housing estates and the main shopping area where most of the current shopkeepers and traders are the most voceiferous of anti Tesco opponents - naturally enough.
Yes, Tesco is very powerful indeed!
There are hardly any towns of any size and with a population in excess of about 5,000 that do not contain a Tesco store, and many towns of only a slightly larger size not only have a main Tesco store on their outskirts but one or two or even more smaller Tesco Extra or Tesco Express stores within the centres. For example, Bicester, Oxfordshire - pop. 29,000 - has a huge Tesco superstore and five more smaller stores in the town area.
The local authority council and many other opponents of a proposed new Tesco store in Sheringham, Norfolk, fought tooth and nail to prevent it happening, but Tesco refused to be "beaten" and just wouln't accept "no" for an answer and used every trick in the book to win through - which it did. Sheringham now has a Tesco store.
Herefordshire County Council, along with Ledbury Town Council, is currently engaged in a "battle" with Tesco over its plans to considerably extend the current Tesco store in Ledbury and locate on a site in another area of the town, just off the by-pass and further away from the town centre. The council had previously and successfully and quite unusually prevented Tesco from opening up a smaller Tesco Express store in the town centre of Ledbury, but you can bet your life that, like in Sheringham, Tesco will eventually win this fight in Ledbury, too, and the town will have a brand new and much larger Tesco superstore further away from housing estates and the main shopping area where most of the current shopkeepers and traders are the most voceiferous of anti Tesco opponents - naturally enough.
Yes, Tesco is very powerful indeed!
Jun 25th 2011, 7:39 pm
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We DO go to Europe all the time: Athens, Istanbul, Amalfi Coast, Morocco, Andalucia - each place as different and as exotic as the next. Australia is a mono-culture. Even my husband agrees. There is nothing like arriving in Paris off the Eurostar in London from the beautiful St Pancras. I always intended to move back to Canada. My mom is still there. I visit once a year and again, i keep my eyes wide open. As much as I love Canada, I adore London more.
This city has it all and I never stop telling people that. It is beautiful, leafy and civilised. Sure, people are pushy on the Tube but my London rule is to move one street north or south and the crowds disappear. The night before the Royal Wedding, I wandered down the Mall and talked to some Canadians on holiday. I truly pitied them for not living here. I work in Mayfair and sometimes, in the summer, I love nothing more than to walk home to Hammersmith through Hyde Park as the sun sets. I live in a nice apartment (we DON'T have a lot of money) and I cook most evenings. This city is so charming, it kills me sometimes. I find it easy to live here. Sure, there's crime but hand on heart, I experienced and saw more crime in Canada than i have the entire time I have lived in London. Don't believe everything the Daily Mail says.
. Although London is great, the landscape and architecture is so varied throughout the UK, so different to many of the cookie-cutter buildings here in the US. I have to go to Peterborough for a passport renewal next Friday so we're renting a car and have managed to book 2 nights at a B&B in north Norfolk...in a windmill next to the sea! I couldn't do that in New Jersey lol!The proximity to the rest of Europe and north Africa is also a great thing about living in the UK, especially with the cheap flights and ferry crossings/Eurostar trains. The US, Canada and Australia is so vast that you can be on a plane for hours and still be in the same country...it's a bit monotonous tbh.
Jun 25th 2011, 9:34 pm
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Re: Moving back to Blighty...parents dead against it
Totally pees me off here in SA too...if you're not in the country, here and now, how can you be sure your perception or view is actually true and correct for today, and not based on historic bias or from what you've heard or read in the news/social networks etc....and we all know the dangers of believing what you read without assessing the source for its bias or validity in todays media age! LOL I guess social media is the same.
Some people are just all knowing I guess...LOL (and probably don't even own a passport LOL)
Some people are just all knowing I guess...LOL (and probably don't even own a passport LOL)