Right then, only postive posts please!
Feb 25th 2008 | 8:38 pm
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Re: Right then, only postive posts please!
Wow, I cannot believe you have said that. 
I have been wondering about this for a while now but not really had the guts to say it to anyone. I feel so much more English here then I ever did back in the UK. Am I too English to accept another country as my home? Only time will tell I suppose.
Cheers
Matt
I have been wondering about this for a while now but not really had the guts to say it to anyone. I feel so much more English here then I ever did back in the UK. Am I too English to accept another country as my home? Only time will tell I suppose.
Cheers
Matt
afterall, this is the positivethread.
Feb 25th 2008 | 8:52 pm
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Re: Right then, only postive posts please!
The thing is - a lot of the MBTUK posters feel free to express their frustrations about the country they have moved to on this particular forum because IDEALLY they don't have people present who LOVE the place that the MBTUK posters are trying to get away from!
There is nothing worse than people trying to pee on your decsion to move back when it's all you want to do. Although trying to make you feel bad about your decision comes a close second especially when they slate your reasons for loving "home".
The MBTUK forum can be a sanctuary for some and it should be nurtured and maintained for those people who feel lost,alone,sad,frustrated or regretful so that they can say what they need to and talk about their "home" if that is what makes them happiest.
*pearly*
There is nothing worse than people trying to pee on your decsion to move back when it's all you want to do. Although trying to make you feel bad about your decision comes a close second especially when they slate your reasons for loving "home".
The MBTUK forum can be a sanctuary for some and it should be nurtured and maintained for those people who feel lost,alone,sad,frustrated or regretful so that they can say what they need to and talk about their "home" if that is what makes them happiest.
*pearly*
Feb 25th 2008 | 11:06 pm
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Re: Right then, only postive posts please!
Going back after you've spent a number of years away can be like emigrating a second time. Sometimes, too, you find that the country you are leaving has 'grown' onto you. You just don't realize how much until you are back 'home' That is perhaps where the 'boomerang Poms' come from?
I've been back in England for twelve years now after eighteen in Sydney although I am living a few miles away from the village where I grew up. I have very few links with that village now.
I like living in a village surrounded by countryside and I've made new friends both in the village and at work. However, I've got family in Sydney and none here and I'm thinking of returning to OZ for that reason. I just can't bear the thought of resigning from my job after twelve years. I'm plucking up my courage to ask for a 'career break - unpaid leave' so I can see how I go, emigrating for a third time. If I get knocked back for my career break then it means that I've got to make a big decision, something that I always find hard.
I've been back in England for twelve years now after eighteen in Sydney although I am living a few miles away from the village where I grew up. I have very few links with that village now.
I like living in a village surrounded by countryside and I've made new friends both in the village and at work. However, I've got family in Sydney and none here and I'm thinking of returning to OZ for that reason. I just can't bear the thought of resigning from my job after twelve years. I'm plucking up my courage to ask for a 'career break - unpaid leave' so I can see how I go, emigrating for a third time. If I get knocked back for my career break then it means that I've got to make a big decision, something that I always find hard.
Feb 25th 2008 | 11:36 pm
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Re: Right then, only postive posts please!
They probably prefer cool summers and not the hot hot heat we get here in the Southern States. I too have still yet to see my tulips do well but my mini daffs are ok. I know lupines were prized in my Mum's gardens in Cornwall. I think the bulbs and certain flowers like places where the summers are cool. On the other hand my lillies are magnificent here whereas in my families gardens in Cornwall they are ok but nothing like my ones which are five feet tall. The vegetables are the same. You can only grow the (cool season ones) carrots, spinach, lettuce, leeks in the early Spring and fall months here and they die off during the hot summer but then egg plants, peppers ect love the heat.
Feb 25th 2008 | 11:39 pm
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Re: Right then, only postive posts please!
This isn't an anti UK post and I'm not trying to have a go at the OP but just think that these are sweeping generalisations that do not particularily apply to the UK any more than anywhere else. They depend entirely on the type of area that you are in or what the people you are mixing with are like etc.To me there is good and bad in most places and what should be important is where you personally are happiest. To most of the posters on this thread its the UK but for me its Australia. This however does not mean that one is better or worse than the other but simply different and I don't understand the need to knock the other that many posters seem to have.
But, as my other pals have said, this is the POSITIVE UK thread. All positive posts are welcome!
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