bassman578

exactly how we feel ...

Gezza

Prdon my igonrance - What's wrong with chocolate where UR?

Nomore

we are stuck in Perth....moving back to UK nxt year
we will be looking forward to:
1. great shops with decent clothes.
2. great food that is truly edible.
3. family.
4. friends.
5. white christmas.
6. N.H.S
7. better wages.
8. central heating.
9. better education for the kids.
10. more things to do.
11. pubs.
12. clubbing.
13. shopping.
14. entertainment.
15. history
16. television
17. friendliness
18. nicer cars.
19. places to visit.
20. being central

My list will carry on and on but i think you have got the message by now. Good luck to you lot who stay...your gonna need it.... :scared:

aaron8123

All of the above plus

Cheap European Holidays
Wider choices in supermarkets
Being able to watch TV without a zillion commercial breaks
A Decent Curry
Not having to spend a few hours a day on this site because have bugger all else to do

ladylisa

My brother has just returned from a long weekend in Venice. He said he had an amazing time and then said thats the best bit of living in the UK the access to the most amazing cities...I cannot wait to be back!

bugman

We left auckland NZ after nearly three years, we now live in the USA but the things i missed about the Uk are fairly standard.

The easy access to the great countryside, those non native meadows in NZ do not constitute wildspace to me, there is something totally unique about the Uk countrside in that you can be so near to towns and yet within minutes be surrounded by a history filled landscape which varies through the year. Aucklands mild sub tropical climate was thoroughly uninspiring and I found the heat from the sun unbearable on my skin, the sun burns even when it cool there so any extended walks there could be difficult.

Excellent traditional foods and beer, I find UK cheese, yoghurt, bread, bacon, sausages and ale to be way better than anything in NZ although i'll admit you can get some decent stuff, here in the USA its a different story, the aforementioned foods can be awful, yoghurt is often a gloopy mess full of all kinds of weird ingredients and to try and find bread with less than 20 ingredients is a chore.

the tv (i hate to say it) the UKs documentaries, crime dramas, natural history are excellent.

back to the countryside, of course NZ has world famous natural areas BUT to find the better spots you tend to have to travel for ages and hit a national park, in the Uk you can find a windswept hill or a quaint sheltered waterfall in a forest within minutes of almost anywhere and they tend to be 'just' common land, no rules and regulations just pure enjoyment. here in the US you again have to travel to get to the best places but I find the change in seasons even just in the local area mean that the environment is stimulating.

bugman

hayley, i'll agree JD wetherspoons is a great place to drink, good ales and some interesting characters, i actually brought a stack of yorkshire t with me.

bugman.

bugman

Jon, i know EXACTLY how you feel, when i was in NZ I felt down a lot of the time however here in Illinois I love the seasons and I know im only one flight from manny airport, i get the occasional day where i do miss the Uk so i'll watch prime suspect or even rick stein! Its funny but NZ was more like the UK but for that reason i didnt see the point of being there, with the USA its a new place so i enjoy it more here.

bugman

HiddenPaw

I always remember watching films on Aussie TV and the first set of ads would come after about 20mins, the next set after 18, then 15. By the time you got to the last half hour of the film, the ads would be every 7 minutes. Used to drive me nuts!

Hayley

Like the lack of music cause then you don't get townie and you can have a lively conversation.

Have the in-laws visiting in sept there's a heavy Yorkshire t tariff imposed on visitors!

HiddenPaw

We had so much trouble trying to decide where to go for a family holiday because of all the places that ticked the right boxes for us: Corsica, Provence, Pyrenees, Tuscany, Italian Lakes, Sicily, Sardinia,...and so on. There is just so much choice...too much choice!!

Hayley

Sigh!

woodyinoz

pmsl

We thought the same thing the other night whilst watching a film. We were so annoyed that we timed it. For every 10 mins of film we got 5 mins of ads. To make things worse they put kids movies on at 8pm. Due to the ads they don't finish till gone 10pm at best - what time is this for kids


I have decided today that I am looking forward to people being able to say the word 'sorry'. If somebody knocks into you in the shops you get glared at... I guess that it has to be your fault for being in the shop at the same time. Today my daughter nearly got hit after the lollipop man 'wearing bright clothes and a stop sign in a 40 limit' blew his whistle for her to cross. The driver of the car was another mum and she just walked straight passed us at school and never appologised! What is happening here

aaron8123

Spooky that you mentioned the above as we are due back on 16th August and I am booking a 1 week break to sardinia in Sept. It has been somewhere I have wanted to go to for years but never got around to it. I think that coming out here as made us realise to grab life's opportunites and not live for tomorrow, we put much on hold on the build up to coming here thinking we can make up for it when we get here, but it has been such a disappointment.

I cannot explain it but we only holidayed in Sydney here for a five day break and I hated it, the harbour was nice but not much else. I think anywhere I would have gone in Oz would have been shrouded by the fact I do not like it here. People are saying go and at explore oz before you come back, but we have no inclination to do that whatsoever. Sums it up for us really.

Anyway just rambling. Cannot wait to get home

woodyinoz

I guess that your taste buds get used to one kind of thing. My favourite has always been Cadbury's dairy milk. When we got here we found that it tasted so much different. They have to change the ingredients so that the chocolate doesn't melt in the shops. This leaves it with in my opinion a plastic type of texture and a weird taste. I have now gone over to Dove which is very nice here

I just need to find reasonable priced sausages that taste halfway decent