Originally Posted by kevinl

I didn't quote you but your post was the same as many, " I would have to have a good reason to go back not like these plonkers". Not an exact quote I know.
That sort of thing gets repeated again and again on here, its like a round robin of evangelical preachers who must save us from ourselves.

Yesterday I wasn't in the mood for it.
I packed up work on Friday and trying to explain 30 times to people that yes of course you like Australia but you would rather go back and no it doesn't rain everyday and we probably won't get blown up or stabbed as soon as we leave the airport, starts to wear.
I have been explaining myself for months, since we decided to go back and to constantly get people who don't have the knowledge or experience we have to pop up and add their two penith, especially when they are dragging out the same old crap that the last one did does wind me up.
It shouldn't get to me I know but try to remember when you start to preach to someone that there reasons mean nothing that there is probably a whole lot of other shit going on that goes along with the trivial.
If you have something constructive to add then great, otherwise at least you give us something to take our frustration out on.
Unfortunately in the real world you can't get into these rows and so I do probably let my built up frustration come out on here at times, I don't expect somebody happily cruising along to understand how it feels.

Kevin.

Originally Posted by jempee

Thanks for the reply. I think i read somewhere that Australia has the highest return rate for emigrants. In my mind i assume that is because it is so hot/completly different seasons to UK (ie hot at xmas)/bugs/spiders etc what do you think?? and that is genuine interest

Also wanted to ask those that are returning to the UK ....

Have you been back to the uk since you emigrated, for hols etc?
have you had many visitors?
are you able to you webcam/phone relatives/friends regulary?

these are all 'out of interest' questions and not barbed in anyway. I know a couple with teenagers on vancouver island who would properly return to uk if it was not for the fact the children do not want to go back at all. They have not been back to the Uk since emigrating and that got me thinking.

Originally Posted by Hayley

Just thought I'd hop on and stir the pot. I am in the states and think that anyone who would want to live here rather than the Uk is a materialistic idiot that cares more about the stuff they can buy/ decorate their houses with/ stuff in the garage/ buy 24 seven than having a laugh and a simple cup of tea. I used take the view that the US is not for me but that's not to say someone else wouldn't like it....
however I am becoming less and less tolerant he more and more time I spend here because my bloody house won't sell and I just want to be home. I am in real danger of becoming what I hate and when I finally get back declaring I will never leave England and sticking union jacks all over my lawn like the blind US folks here who haven't been out of their home state.

save me! rant over. :-)