BEVS

Very sensible & a good point.

Let's have a thread about this. I'll make a copy of your post into it.

Hazelnut

When we first moved into our rural house we often lost either water supply, electricity or the ability to go anywhere due to 3ft of snow that went to 6ft drifts across the roads. We had one memorable New Years where we lost all three together.

These days it's not quite so bad as we have a new water main but we lost electricity for three days just before Christmas. Hence no water bowser filled and ready but we still have the torches etc.

BEVS

What on earth made you move there then. You must have considered how it might be yet you have nothing good to say about the place. Period.

Rhetorical question BTW.

Hazelnut

Why ask a rather curt question that comes across as a bit mean if you don't want to know the answer?

We honestly don't mind needing an emergency kit and having these shortages, it's all part and parcel of living rurally although I'm not denying we're happier now it doesn't happen so often I wasn't moaning, I was merely relating a personal story to build a situational link to ask about the NZ emergency packs. I'm sorry that you see that as something negative, I thought it was quite a common, conversational convention.

In response to your question I do feel a need to justify myself so here's your answer, it's up to you whether you read it or not.

Where we live used to be beautiful and it's allowed us, for 20yrs, to have a lifestyle and home that we could never have dreamed of or afforded elsewhere in the UK. We've lived here four times as long as we've lived anywhere else. We still love our efficient, ecofriendly, solid, warm, spacious, modernised 250yr old lifestyle block and home but new industrial developments around us are giving us the push we need to leave our comfy nest and recognize that it's time to move on if we want a last grand adventure before we become too old to do it any more. Having been pushed to the edge of our comfy nest by developing, external circumstances we've realised we quite like the view so we're flapping our wings and building up the courage and strength to jump.

What we won't miss are the minus 15-20 winters, weeks of snow and constant rain all year round which is something I do moan about, I am British after all!. I've adapted to them and taken them as the downside of all the positives of living where we do but it would be lovely to live somewhere that was, in general, slightly warmer. I'm not looking forward to going back to cold, drafty, leaking and mouldy houses which seems to be the normal for NZ from what I read on here but we've restored five houses before so I'm sure we can do it again.

There's also an element of I'm finding it scary to think of moving so far away from what we know plus starting a brand new career when MrH and I thought we wouldn't be moving homes or jobs again until we retired, hopefully many years down the line. Trying to find and focus on the positives of potential new home and looking at the negatives of old home help with this adjustment process, that's one of my mechanisms for coping and adjusting to large changes. I'm sorry if that's offensive to some people.

Tom H

I'm going to get a slating for this

As I've started visiting Australia regularly for work, I now have picked up on Aussie dialect when being outraged at something

The days of swearing etc are long gone, I've got into the habit of now saying FAR OUT!!!! I suppose it stops the kids from picking up on foul and abusive language.

I should stop going to the AFL games if there's one being played whilst over.

scrubbedexpat094

I am now able to kill baby cockroaches with my bare hands . I don't even bat an eyelid about it. The bigger ones still give me the creeps a bit but I never thought I'd get used to the buggers.

MrsFychan

most of the time they are already leg up - why/how do they do that? if not then I spray them and go back 5mins later.

fulwood

Oh it's only 90 degrees!

BEVS

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Lovely to see you down here Fulwood

Bo-Jangles

Cewl, cool!


I never ever thought I would say those words - aahhgg!! Middle aged folks other than creepy dudes of the likes of Austin Powers were never meant to say that word. Oh how I cringed at the fifty+ brigade using it in everyday work parlance and now what I have to cringe at myself when I hear it roll of the tongue unexpectedly. *shudders* at the thought!!

Bo-Jangles

Ooh look at that lovely dress in that shop window, I wonder if I can afford it?


It is lovely, so I do a deal with myself - it is nearly or was recently my birthday / Christmas or wedding anniversary so if it costs less than $200 I might just buy it.


I looked at a jumper today that looked 'quite nice' until I looked at the price tag and saw $169 - needless to say it's still in the shop.

Bo-Jangles

'Oooops!!!'


As in getting in amongst it with the slack-ass work ethuc and covering a multitude of sins; such as when you've had an action point against you on the agenda for the past seven meetings and you still haven't got around to it.

moving2NZ2013

Aye

And sometimes I'll suddenly say something in a kiwi accent. Hate it

MrsFychan

yyjjjeeeezzz

barnsleymat

'the'

Never needed it back in Yorkshire.