mono

What are the things that you prefer about the UK/missed whilst you were away?

kenpom

Good fish and chips, oh yes and I havent seen a decent dog turd since I have been in NZ

Tr1boy

My sister.


(but not in a Tasmanian way )

Mummy in the foothills

Family, food and weather. in that order.

Jan n Neil

The f + c in NZ are way better than the UK, but u are right about the turds. The only thing i miss is a decent pint of bitter

lauralollipop

Mostly I miss friends & family, events like weddings and christenings etc....and going to my local with my mates and catching up with school mates (people who you have a history with)

I sometimes miss certain weather like snow and rain (but only sometimes, just cos I get bored of the sun constantly shining and its a novelty now). I miss sungging up in front of the fire all cosy when its cold outside. Or going for a walk by the river with my dogs wearing wellies and splashing through the muddy puddles (these were things I didn't appreciate when I had them and whinged about them) Its true you don't know what you have till its gone.

But Mainly I miss the shopping, Tescos, Asda, Morrisons, Boots, and all the cheap and good quality clothing and lots of different choice of food which is also cheap and shopping 24 hours too.

oh and the TV I miss my Sky tv cos Foxtel is rubbish

This is all I miss though!

I used to miss fish and chips but when we went back after 3 years for a holiday we went and got some and they were full of grease and it was all stuck tot he top of our mouths, so we realised we weren't missing much. Plus the fish is better here and marginally cheaper I think.

kenpom

I have been here 6 years and have given up on fush and chups which dont even enter the same league as those from the NE of England

sammyz

kenpom....a great dog turd..now that cracked me up!

I miss the great sense of humour that us Brits have...my family......traditions.....a tray of fish and chips scoffed down after a night at a great pub with friends who have said great sense of humour......the British countryside.........frost in the morning..........being able to speak your mind when needed..........baked beans,I have dreams about baked beans.......

Nu-Shooz

With every other person owning a dog in OZ i saw plenty of the steaming stuff. The doggy beach was a killer, god the stench, it was disgusting.

Anyhooooo i missed everything about UK. I thought i wouldn't, but i did, so there you go

livinginreality

For us its a more outdoor lifestyle.We spend alot of time outside,walking all seasons,plus I spend alot of time gardening(I grow most of our own food).We also love travelling alot,and do so on a regular basis.The climate suits me(I had spent 30 years in Australia),and where I live is usually pretty good in summer.I love the pubs,festivals,live music,history,people,beauty of the countryside,the native animals/flora,the health service,cheap dentists,cheap food/clothes/toiletries ect,variety of tv programmes,gentleness of the country(not alot can kill yah lol)and a sense of being connected to my own land!Whew!!!

quoll

I want to live in a place that is mellow, where people talk to you and have the same sense of humour and the conversation you began 15 years ago continues as if there has never been a hiatus. Where there is variety when you drive from A to B, when your day begins and you have no idea what the weather will be like, where the grass is GREEEEEEEEEN and the gardens full of bright beautiful flowers that change with the seasons, where you can walk down a street and be confronted with a thousand years of human endeavour without even looking.

I long for long summer nights and cold winter days in front of a fire with a real Christmas feel at Christmas time.

I love my people - close ones and friends and I want to be there to share all those special times with them, the births, the marriages and, sadly, the deaths, to see my cousins and friends and their kids moving, growing and changing with the times.

I appreciate the variety in the shops as well - takes me a good two weeks to get over that gobsmacked awe of the variety there too.

Basically, I want to live where I belong and not where I am an alien with alien views, alien noises and alien attitudes to batter my life every single day.

Easy peasy really!

bobbarker12345

it seems like you suffer from 'the grass is greener' syndrome. i had it before i moved back to the UK, but reality will cut through that once you get back here. people who have lived away from the UK for a long time come back to find its just not the same place, and not in a good way.

Nu-Shooz

But the 'same place' is what some of us want...everything changes anyway, no matter where you live. But home is home even if you don't like it.

moneypenny20

For you maybe. For many many others, the UK is home and regardless of superficial changes, it will always be home and anywhere else is just that - anywhere else. Every country has problems. People who love a country - whether it's home or not takes no notice of those problems. People who don't love a country find the problems insurmountable.

Fleaflyfloflum

Utter rubbish

I have been away for 10yrs and came back in April. I love it more than ever.