sky

I agree

homesick harry

its like i said, maybe they dont want to here problems, as it might disturb their heads in the sand 'i've got to make it work here because i gave it the big one when coming & i probably came for the wrong reasons anyway & cant go back tothe UK even if i wanted to' attitude,
they're positive, we're not so positive, no-ones right, no-ones wrong, but the 'negatives' tend to be able to listen to the 'positives' without starting going off on one.
Insecure is right, my partner calls it 'small island mentality', they're all insecure & chips on their shoulder because secretly they know they're at the back end of the world & ono-one really gives a toss if they're nuclear free or not, the LOTR phenomenon has gone & they've no history.

turkeytickler

weve got king kong and narnia coverage on continuous loop to look forward to now for the next 6 months.....

homesick harry

yeah, but lets not celebrate xmas too much, might be seen as garish, or spending money, or laughing out loud, or enjoying things.

sky

I so miss in depth balanced quality reporting and world news.
Can't afford the crappy sky tv here though so have to wait for the late night news for my fix.

homesick harry

its a shame you cant afford sky, the sky news has an hour about every 3 hours, that is live from the UK sky news, its ace, familiar faces, balanced reporting & they have BBC news too, where the reporter doesnt smirk after some catastrophe, & they can say the word 'championships' instead of champs, & they call the english team 'the england team', instead of we or us & where the reporters can look straight at the camera instead of being cross eyed (what is that), & they dont look like they're dressed in the 1980's from the warehouse. If we didn't have sky, i swear i'd turn kiwi (not really, but you get my point, no wonder they call themselves one eyed)

Mark & Sarah

What am I going to do?
Me and my family have spent the best part of 18 months trying to get into NZ and now we have succeeded and are ready to fly over (20/12)we are having second thoughts, thanks mainly to the posts in this thread.
Please please please can anyone tell me;










How are we gonna manage with a tin roof?



Get a life - some of you moaning buggers are giving us Northerners a bad name!
I have travelled all over Europe and the world and this "pride and live for today attitude" people talk about......Didnt see much of it in Poland,Turkey,Belgium,France (btw, I think they have finally run out of cars to burn).

Thanks for the balanced points of view folks.



Now, must start looking at getting a fridge! FFS!!!

sky

Don't you think British expats have travelled then?
Good luck with the F/F FFS!

homesick harry

if you're having 2nd thoughts because of this forum, you must be strong willed.
other people's opinions should never influence you in life on anything this big. Only you can succeed here, i'll be honest though, if you can come here & not moan about anything, then maybe you'll have found the secret the people on this thread obviously haven't, some of the things on here are emphasised for comedy value, but i'll be honest, they're pretty true.
I hope you love it here, i've said on one thread maybe you havent read that some of the best times of my life have been in NZ, but as for a modern real life, its very hard.
You've travelled all over europe & the world, what.....on holiday, good luck with real life in NZ, i think this forum can prepare you, i understand you not wanting to hear bad news, but its here, & thousands are living it, read somethign saying 195000 people left the uk last year for NZ, 110000 returned within 1 year, 60% of people cant all be wrong.
This forum is balanced by the way, where would we be with the 'NZ is great brigade', wait until you get here, the houses etc might be something you can get over, but i defy anyone to think that the media is balanced & that kiwis are an informed broad minded people.
I genuinely hope you love it, let us know how you feel come March

Mark & Sarah

Of course they have!
My 6 years travelling the globe in the navy did however take me to some VERY far flung places where,unbelievably, people coped with worse things than no insulation and tin roofs!(I do appreciate the gist of the thread tho!)
I am so excited....

babybella

Yep, best you take your son back to the Uk where he can grow up with a nice Nottingham, Brummy or Geordie or whatever accent, and he will have to wear shoes to avoid the dog shit and broken glass.
And what the first things we were asked in the Uk was where we lived, what school we sent our kids too and what we did for a living. may of well of just asked us how much we earned. My house is bigger than yours is alive and well in the UK too!
Not surprised you and the depressive Harry have no mates with that attitude towards your host country.
KAZ

livewire

oh get OVER it.

livewire

On second thoughts - keep posting Kazhen, we Brits like a good laugh

homesick harry

i've got mates thanks, why dont all kiwis bring there kids back here & give them asthma from all the damp houses, or meningitis from the fact that you all live in each others pockets.
Why is it if NZ is so great that they're all leaving in droves, why is that.
As for people asking where you lived, Seatoun in Wellington has houses with rusty tin roofs priced at $500k +, if thats not because people are pretentious & want to say they live in a certain place i dont know what is.
Why dont you return here Kaz, you're a died in the wool kiwi, why are you overseas if NZ is so great ???
& as for accents, anyone over here right now, have they seen that ANZ advert for the 5 cent coins, where the little girl goes 'all the tiiiiiimmmmmmmme', lovely accent that, sounds like she's got something stuck up her nose.
The kids over here cant string together a coherent sentence.
All this BS about NZ lifestyle is superficial & skin deep, see past it & see the real world here.

homesick harry

the first thing we were asked by everyone here is
'how long you here for' you know why, because even kiwis cant imagine people staying here forever.