What Will I Miss About the UK - One liners please!
Feb 21st 2007, 5:37 pm
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What Will I Miss About the UK - One liners please!
Hi All,
After 40 years in the UK, having spent 30 of them convinced I'd end up living elsewhere, I'm almost decided that the time has come to do something about it.
I'm working for a multinational bank in London and my boss has vacancies on his New York team, so getting over there should be painless. Before I jump in and register my interest I thought I'd read up a little on the web forums and see what the expats liked and disliked. A lot of discussion seems to centre around what people miss, so I was looking for a concise list of everything I should be prepared to mourn from the UK or hate about the US once I'm there.
It'd be cool to keep it to one-liners, at least until the list is mostly complete, so I can distil them out and maybe edit them onto the end of my starter list below if it's allowed. Anyway, here are my guesses in no particular order:
Beer
Pub
Annual Holiday Allowance
Curry
Family
Friends
Lane discipline
Tony Blair will follow me to the US
I'll become a bad speller overnight
Confusing Date Formats
Coronation Street
Countryside
PG Tips
Anyone else have much to add to that?
After 40 years in the UK, having spent 30 of them convinced I'd end up living elsewhere, I'm almost decided that the time has come to do something about it.
I'm working for a multinational bank in London and my boss has vacancies on his New York team, so getting over there should be painless. Before I jump in and register my interest I thought I'd read up a little on the web forums and see what the expats liked and disliked. A lot of discussion seems to centre around what people miss, so I was looking for a concise list of everything I should be prepared to mourn from the UK or hate about the US once I'm there.
It'd be cool to keep it to one-liners, at least until the list is mostly complete, so I can distil them out and maybe edit them onto the end of my starter list below if it's allowed. Anyway, here are my guesses in no particular order:
Beer
Pub
Annual Holiday Allowance
Curry
Family
Friends
Lane discipline
Tony Blair will follow me to the US
I'll become a bad speller overnight
Confusing Date Formats
Coronation Street
Countryside
PG Tips
Anyone else have much to add to that?
Last edited by carlt; Feb 21st 2007 at 5:40 pm.
Feb 21st 2007, 5:42 pm
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Re: What Will I Miss About the UK - One liners please!
welcome to BE carl 
the biggest thing for me is the 'humour' or 'lack of' so best add that to your list
the biggest thing for me is the 'humour' or 'lack of' so best add that to your list
Feb 21st 2007, 5:44 pm
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Re: What Will I Miss About the UK - One liners please!
Hi All,
After 40 years in the UK, having spent 30 of them convinced I'd end up living elsewhere, I'm almost decided that the time has come to do something about it.
I'm working for a multinational bank in London and my boss has vacancies on his New York team, so getting over there should be painless. Before I jump in and register my interest I thought I'd read up a little on the web forums and see what the expats liked and disliked. A lot of discussion seems to centre around what people miss, so I was looking for a concise list of everything I should be prepared to mourn from the UK or hate about the US once I'm there.
It'd be cool to keep it to one-liners, at least until the list is mostly complete, so I can distil them out and maybe edit them onto the end of my starter list below if it's allowed. Anyway, here are my guesses in no particular order:
Beer
Pub
Annual Holiday Allowance
Curry
Family
Friends
Lane discipline
Tony Blair will follow me to the US
I'll become a bad speller overnight
Confusing Date Formats
Coronation Street
Countryside
PG Tips
Anyone else have much to add to that?
After 40 years in the UK, having spent 30 of them convinced I'd end up living elsewhere, I'm almost decided that the time has come to do something about it.
I'm working for a multinational bank in London and my boss has vacancies on his New York team, so getting over there should be painless. Before I jump in and register my interest I thought I'd read up a little on the web forums and see what the expats liked and disliked. A lot of discussion seems to centre around what people miss, so I was looking for a concise list of everything I should be prepared to mourn from the UK or hate about the US once I'm there.
It'd be cool to keep it to one-liners, at least until the list is mostly complete, so I can distil them out and maybe edit them onto the end of my starter list below if it's allowed. Anyway, here are my guesses in no particular order:
Beer
Pub
Annual Holiday Allowance
Curry
Family
Friends
Lane discipline
Tony Blair will follow me to the US
I'll become a bad speller overnight
Confusing Date Formats
Coronation Street
Countryside
PG Tips
Anyone else have much to add to that?
Lots of wonderful museums and art galleries, 2 great opera houses, and generally a place that's ALIVE.
Just don't burn your bridges, because it is unlikely ever to be home...
Feb 21st 2007, 6:03 pm
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Re: What Will I Miss About the UK - One liners please!
Free entertainment like museums
Decent, affordable groceries
Affordable car insurance
Parks, especially if you like sports, anything impromptu you might play at the park with friends
Depending on where in the UK, you might miss the weather, certainly the seasons
Travel abroad
Holiday time, though your transferring, so in a better position to work something out here.
NHS...even with all the gripes
The humour
The tele, perhaps.
Sales protection...nothing here has a warranty worth spitting at
But if you have the chances, go for it, you'll probably love it for all the gripes, and if you don't, then you'll appreciate things you never would have thought about other wise.
Decent, affordable groceries
Affordable car insurance
Parks, especially if you like sports, anything impromptu you might play at the park with friends
Depending on where in the UK, you might miss the weather, certainly the seasons
Travel abroad
Holiday time, though your transferring, so in a better position to work something out here.
NHS...even with all the gripes
The humour
The tele, perhaps.
Sales protection...nothing here has a warranty worth spitting at
But if you have the chances, go for it, you'll probably love it for all the gripes, and if you don't, then you'll appreciate things you never would have thought about other wise.
Feb 21st 2007, 6:11 pm
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Re: What Will I Miss About the UK - One liners please!
Free entertainment like museums
Decent, affordable groceries
Affordable car insurance
Parks, especially if you like sports, anything impromptu you might play at the park with friends
Depending on where in the UK, you might miss the weather, certainly the seasons
Travel abroad
Holiday time, though your transferring, so in a better position to work something out here.
NHS...even with all the gripes
The humour
The tele, perhaps.
Sales protection...nothing here has a warranty worth spitting at
But if you have the chances, go for it, you'll probably love it for all the gripes, and if you don't, then you'll appreciate things you never would have thought about other wise.
Decent, affordable groceries
Affordable car insurance
Parks, especially if you like sports, anything impromptu you might play at the park with friends
Depending on where in the UK, you might miss the weather, certainly the seasons
Travel abroad
Holiday time, though your transferring, so in a better position to work something out here.
NHS...even with all the gripes
The humour
The tele, perhaps.
Sales protection...nothing here has a warranty worth spitting at
But if you have the chances, go for it, you'll probably love it for all the gripes, and if you don't, then you'll appreciate things you never would have thought about other wise.
Feb 21st 2007, 6:55 pm
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Feb 21st 2007, 7:01 pm
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Feb 21st 2007, 7:13 pm
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Re: What Will I Miss About the UK - One liners please!
so I was looking for a concise list of everything I should be prepared to mourn from the UK
Everything.
Feb 21st 2007, 7:15 pm
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Re: What Will I Miss About the UK - One liners please!
Drivers' education.
Feb 21st 2007, 7:16 pm
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Feb 21st 2007, 7:27 pm
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Re: What Will I Miss About the UK - One liners please!
Decent customer service and competitive rates!!
Feb 21st 2007, 9:39 pm
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Re: What Will I Miss About the UK - One liners please!
Not to worry about the PG Tips mate, you can get them in loads of places now! 
English summers......pub garden lunches
walking anywhere at all except for to the car and back
Getting on a bus or train everyday If I want to instead of taking the car
Mother's Day, Father's day, Family Birthday's, Friends Birthdays, Funerals and births of people near & dear to you.
National Trust
Cream tea's, toasted teacakes, ready meals, Cornish pasties.
Bluebells and the smell of the English countryside, cow manure and all!
By the way welcome and good luck
English summers......pub garden lunches
walking anywhere at all except for to the car and back
Getting on a bus or train everyday If I want to instead of taking the car
Mother's Day, Father's day, Family Birthday's, Friends Birthdays, Funerals and births of people near & dear to you.
National Trust
Cream tea's, toasted teacakes, ready meals, Cornish pasties.
Bluebells and the smell of the English countryside, cow manure and all!
By the way welcome and good luck