People who return home
Aug 3rd 2006, 4:24 pm
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Re: People who return home
Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad
Can from the west coast now!! 
Aug 3rd 2006, 5:21 pm
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Re: People who return home
Originally Posted by Kate2112
I love being in Seattle. It reminds me in some ways of England
Downtown Seattle is fantastic! Lots of theatres, good restaurants, shopping is great, people are friendly. Where we live is quiet but not too quiet. Not sure I'd like New England either, the winters are a bit too tough brrrrr
Downtown Seattle is fantastic! Lots of theatres, good restaurants, shopping is great, people are friendly. Where we live is quiet but not too quiet. Not sure I'd like New England either, the winters are a bit too tough brrrrr
I've been through Seattle a couple of times. The thing that impressed me most was the gorgeous scenery. Mt Rainer, Mt St. Helens, the Cascades and plenty of beautiful forrests. Just looking out the newly built observation area at the airport I could see loads of beautiful mountains.
You must really enjoy living there.
Aug 3rd 2006, 5:31 pm
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Re: People who return home
Originally Posted by Jabba1
I've been through Seattle a couple of times. The thing that impressed me most was the gorgeous scenery. Mt Rainer, Mt St. Helens, the Cascades and plenty of beautiful forrests. Just looking out the newly built observation area at the airport I could see loads of beautiful mountains.
You must really enjoy living there.
You must really enjoy living there.
Yes I do
Aug 3rd 2006, 5:58 pm
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Re: People who return home
Originally Posted by cinnabar
I love that Seattle has a guaranteed two months of summer, compared to the British "summer" where you don't know what you're getting from one day to the next.
Aug 3rd 2006, 6:06 pm
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Re: People who return home
Originally Posted by Bob
nice and cold out there at the moment ain't it
brass monkeys down in housotn right now - almost had to break the fleeces out this morning - dipped below 90!
Aug 3rd 2006, 7:05 pm
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Re: People who return home
Originally Posted by Bob
you'll be sick of the snow soon enough when you have to shovel it out, or worry about moving parking zones...
Cars, saab's are good, just get winter studs, all weather tyres ain't bad, but studs are better, and errr...avoid jeep
Cars, saab's are good, just get winter studs, all weather tyres ain't bad, but studs are better, and errr...avoid jeep
I like Saabs, the 93t was on my list. Dunno about the newen though, they've replaced the headlights with Dame Edna specs
I need to do some test drives, I wanna try some hybrids too (Prius tempts with with its 60mpg and tax refunds)
Aug 3rd 2006, 7:12 pm
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Re: People who return home
Originally Posted by TouristTrap
I've noticed that the folk who return back to the UK from here seem to be long-timers as opposed to newly-landeds as we see on the other forum.
Why would that be?
Why would that be?
could be that there is a general understanding that if you can't make it in the USA, you should return home
Aug 3rd 2006, 7:28 pm
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Re: People who return home
Originally Posted by jaytee
could be that there is a general understanding that if you can't make it in the USA, you should return home
Aug 4th 2006, 12:11 am
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Re: People who return home
Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad
brass monkeys down in housotn right now - almost had to break the fleeces out this morning - dipped below 90!
Aug 4th 2006, 1:06 am
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Re: People who return home
Originally Posted by Kate2112
I love being in Seattle. It reminds me in some ways of England
Downtown Seattle is fantastic! Lots of theatres, good restaurants, shopping is great, people are friendly. Where we live is quiet but not too quiet. Not sure I'd like New England either, the winters are a bit too tough brrrrr
Downtown Seattle is fantastic! Lots of theatres, good restaurants, shopping is great, people are friendly. Where we live is quiet but not too quiet. Not sure I'd like New England either, the winters are a bit too tough brrrrr
Aug 4th 2006, 2:06 am
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Re: People who return home
Originally Posted by Sarah
plus its where Frasier lives and does his radio show
Aug 4th 2006, 4:21 pm
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Re: People who return home
Originally Posted by Andy_LongIsland
I like Saabs, the 93t was on my list. Dunno about the newen though, they've replaced the headlights with Dame Edna specs
Aug 4th 2006, 4:29 pm
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Re: People who return home
Originally Posted by Bob
yeah, there a bit minging...but look around, where I use to live in Belfast, they still have a 2003 saab with 30K on the clock now down to $12K because it's a manual, and in a grey and been sitting...dime a dozen with deals, just getting someone to service them around maine was the real issue *l*
I'll try the saabs as i've been impressed in the past. I'm a bit of a Japanese car snob though so it'll take me a lot to pull away from them
Aug 4th 2006, 5:16 pm
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Re: People who return home
Originally Posted by Andy_LongIsland
I'll try the saabs as i've been impressed in the past. I'm a bit of a Japanese car snob though so it'll take me a lot to pull away from them
Aug 4th 2006, 5:39 pm
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Re: People who return home
Originally Posted by Bob
one thing with saabs though, generally there forward wheel drive, so if you slip off into a ditch with your arse in, you'll need a tow unlike with a rear wheel drive....but on the plus, they do start well in the stupidly cold winters and are very reliable and get good mileage, also pretty cheap to insure..if you can find a Viggen, there quite ugly I guess, but they don't half motor
I really wanna see what the winters are like here. The wife keeps telling me it doesnt matter what I get as they do a good job of clearning the roads so that confuses me too