What to expect!
Mar 23rd 2007, 10:38 am
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What to expect!
Me and my family were planning on returning to the UK for two weeks and i just want to know what to expect.
I remember all the chavs and vandalizing and the small houses and there have been quite a few posts saying England has changed into a broken down country. But i just want to hear a few stories of people going back and liking it, then returning. Or maybe you hated it?
Thanks.
(I realise i posted this thread twice)
I remember all the chavs and vandalizing and the small houses and there have been quite a few posts saying England has changed into a broken down country. But i just want to hear a few stories of people going back and liking it, then returning. Or maybe you hated it?
Thanks.
(I realise i posted this thread twice)
Last edited by starlet; Mar 23rd 2007 at 10:59 am.
Mar 23rd 2007, 11:14 am
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Re: What to expect!
Me and my family were planning on returning to the UK for two weeks and i just want to know what to expect.
I remember all the chavs and vandalizing and the small houses and there have been quite a few posts saying England has changed into a broken down country. But i just want to hear a few stories of people going back and liking it, then returning. Or maybe you hated it?
Thanks.
(I realise i posted this thread twice)
I remember all the chavs and vandalizing and the small houses and there have been quite a few posts saying England has changed into a broken down country. But i just want to hear a few stories of people going back and liking it, then returning. Or maybe you hated it?
Thanks.
(I realise i posted this thread twice)
Hope you enjoy your visit and don't run into too many 'chavs'!!
Mar 23rd 2007, 11:26 am
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Re: What to expect!
Glad to hear 
brings hope to me
brings hope to me
Mar 23rd 2007, 12:12 pm
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Re: What to expect!
I spent 3 weeks in January around the Cheshire area...apart from a few new buildings nothing seems to have changed. Although I did notice a lot of Eastern European accents.
Mar 23rd 2007, 1:07 pm
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Re: What to expect!
Hi starlet - we returned to the UK last year and have never looked back - we love it - I think it all depends on what part of the UK you are visiting - some parts (which I won't mention for fear of offending people who may live there!!) are a bit crap but most of the UK is fabulous IMO. I have said before and I'll say again I think the media is so much to blame for giving the UK this awful reputation - our papers and news constantly report doom and gloom. I personally see very little evidence of this 'broken down country' I see a country that has some problems like most developed nations such as OZ, USA and Canada but I also see a country with beautiful countryside, a deep and varied history, beautiful temperate summers and ever increasing milder winters, reasonable and well stocked shops (food and clothes) and decent telly (yes I know if I lived in Oz I would be too busy out enjoying myself at barbies and down the beach to watch telly.... 'whatever'!!), and it's the place where all the people I love most live - all of these things is what brought me home, and these things for me outweigh the bad parts of living in the UK.
Hope you enjoy your visit and don't run into too many 'chavs'!!
Hope you enjoy your visit and don't run into too many 'chavs'!!
Mar 23rd 2007, 1:10 pm
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Re: What to expect!
Me and my family were planning on returning to the UK for two weeks and i just want to know what to expect.
I remember all the chavs and vandalizing and the small houses and there have been quite a few posts saying England has changed into a broken down country. But i just want to hear a few stories of people going back and liking it, then returning. Or maybe you hated it?
Thanks.
(I realise i posted this thread twice)
I remember all the chavs and vandalizing and the small houses and there have been quite a few posts saying England has changed into a broken down country. But i just want to hear a few stories of people going back and liking it, then returning. Or maybe you hated it?
Thanks.
(I realise i posted this thread twice)
She hates the fact she has to come back here to OZ
Mar 23rd 2007, 1:19 pm
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Re: What to expect!
They are also the ones who will be unhappy and bitter wherever they live.
The UK is the same as it has ever been.... a prosperous, first world, modern country.
G
Mar 23rd 2007, 1:19 pm
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Re: What to expect!
I was back for 3 weeks in the New Year and loved every minute I was there.
Mar 23rd 2007, 1:20 pm
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Remember that a big percentage of these posts are made by people who are bitter because they have been unable to make a decent lives for themselves and need someone or something to blame.
They are also the ones who will be unhappy and bitter wherever they live.
The UK is the same as it has ever been.... a prosperous, first world, modern country.
G
They are also the ones who will be unhappy and bitter wherever they live.
The UK is the same as it has ever been.... a prosperous, first world, modern country.
G
Mar 23rd 2007, 1:58 pm
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Re: What to expect!
Hi starlet - we returned to the UK last year and have never looked back - we love it - I think it all depends on what part of the UK you are visiting - some parts (which I won't mention for fear of offending people who may live there!!) are a bit crap but most of the UK is fabulous IMO. I have said before and I'll say again I think the media is so much to blame for giving the UK this awful reputation - our papers and news constantly report doom and gloom. I personally see very little evidence of this 'broken down country' I see a country that has some problems like most developed nations such as OZ, USA and Canada but I also see a country with beautiful countryside, a deep and varied history, beautiful temperate summers and ever increasing milder winters, reasonable and well stocked shops (food and clothes) and decent telly (yes I know if I lived in Oz I would be too busy out enjoying myself at barbies and down the beach to watch telly.... 'whatever'!!), and it's the place where all the people I love most live - all of these things is what brought me home, and these things for me outweigh the bad parts of living in the UK.
Hope you enjoy your visit and don't run into too many 'chavs'!!
Hope you enjoy your visit and don't run into too many 'chavs'!!
Great post and so true
Mar 23rd 2007, 10:41 pm
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Re: What to expect!
Hi starlet - we returned to the UK last year and have never looked back - we love it - I think it all depends on what part of the UK you are visiting - some parts (which I won't mention for fear of offending people who may live there!!) are a bit crap but most of the UK is fabulous IMO. I have said before and I'll say again I think the media is so much to blame for giving the UK this awful reputation - our papers and news constantly report doom and gloom. I personally see very little evidence of this 'broken down country' I see a country that has some problems like most developed nations such as OZ, USA and Canada but I also see a country with beautiful countryside, a deep and varied history, beautiful temperate summers and ever increasing milder winters, reasonable and well stocked shops (food and clothes) and decent telly (yes I know if I lived in Oz I would be too busy out enjoying myself at barbies and down the beach to watch telly.... 'whatever'!!), and it's the place where all the people I love most live - all of these things is what brought me home, and these things for me outweigh the bad parts of living in the UK.
Hope you enjoy your visit and don't run into too many 'chavs'!!
Hope you enjoy your visit and don't run into too many 'chavs'!!
Well written and I have to agree with you totally.
Makes you appreciate what you had before you went away.
Lifes always far from perfect you have your good days and bad but I know that although difficult I am looking forward to my return to blighty.
Mar 23rd 2007, 10:42 pm
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Re: What to expect!
Remember that a big percentage of these posts are made by people who are bitter because they have been unable to make a decent lives for themselves and need someone or something to blame.
They are also the ones who will be unhappy and bitter wherever they live.
The UK is the same as it has ever been.... a prosperous, first world, modern country.
G
They are also the ones who will be unhappy and bitter wherever they live.
The UK is the same as it has ever been.... a prosperous, first world, modern country.
G
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Mar 24th 2007, 12:16 am
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Re: What to expect!
If he loves the place so much why is he emigrating to Australia ?
And in every other quote he says " The Uk people who moan about the Uk gone to the wall and stuff ! Are sad people who couldnt make a go of it in the UK !! "
He also then advises that where he lives he has such terrific views and countryside , he is a millionaire , lives like a king is always head hunted as he is so good , Thinks that the Uk is the best place in the world , and yet is emigrating
Maybe he will advise why he wants to go to a place that so many on here are so keen to get away from ? as i and maybe a few others would agree ??
It totally baffles me !!
And in every other quote he says " The Uk people who moan about the Uk gone to the wall and stuff ! Are sad people who couldnt make a go of it in the UK !! "
He also then advises that where he lives he has such terrific views and countryside , he is a millionaire , lives like a king is always head hunted as he is so good , Thinks that the Uk is the best place in the world , and yet is emigrating
Maybe he will advise why he wants to go to a place that so many on here are so keen to get away from ? as i and maybe a few others would agree ??
It totally baffles me !!
Mar 24th 2007, 12:55 am
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Re: What to expect!
And in some shops there are notices in Polish - like I saw on the bakery department at Tesco.
Mar 24th 2007, 1:00 am
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Re: What to expect!
PS You don't have to write in bold...regular will do nicely.
