Originally Posted by ehl250 (Post 11036073)

I came 'home' June 2012. I returned for 3 mos. when my daughter a mother of three girls, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She is doing well now. I am retired & currently live in Hay-on-Wye. The countryside is out of this world. Spoiled for choice of dog walks. My family over here, bro. S-I-law only live 20 miles away although my niece lives/works in London & my nephew is in the Army, currently stationed in the UK. At this time last year he returned from 4 mos., with the Army, in Canada. They are sending him back for another 18 mos. He would like to eventually settle there. I am very happy about that. I hope eventually, his sister will follow him. I too will be returning to Canada, eventually. What is happening in the UK courtesy of the EU (or, as some refer to it, the EUSSR) re the freedom of movement is heartbreaking.We are in the countdown now - Dec.31st midnight - England's borders will be a free for all. For those of you who rely on the BBC for news from 'home' as I did before I came back, I suggest you swallow your pride & read the Express if you REALLY want to know what is going on. Come over for a visit, if you can. The England I grew up in no longer exists.
If Cameron gets in in 2015 I'll eat my hat. He knows it too & is throwing out promises left, right & centre. Now the 11th hour is approaching, even the BBC is having to report on some of the issues. However, you will not get the whole picture from them.

Originally Posted by ehl250 (Post 11036073)

I came 'home' June 2012. I returned for 3 mos. when my daughter a mother of three girls, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She is doing well now. I am retired & currently live in Hay-on-Wye. The countryside is out of this world. Spoiled for choice of dog walks. My family over here, bro. S-I-law only live 20 miles away although my niece lives/works in London & my nephew is in the Army, currently stationed in the UK. At this time last year he returned from 4 mos., with the Army, in Canada. They are sending him back for another 18 mos. He would like to eventually settle there. I am very happy about that. I hope eventually, his sister will follow him. I too will be returning to Canada, eventually. What is happening in the UK courtesy of the EU (or, as some refer to it, the EUSSR) re the freedom of movement is heartbreaking.We are in the countdown now - Dec.31st midnight - England's borders will be a free for all. For those of you who rely on the BBC for news from 'home' as I did before I came back, I suggest you swallow your pride & read the Express if you REALLY want to know what is going on. Come over for a visit, if you can. The England I grew up in no longer exists.
If Cameron gets in in 2015 I'll eat my hat. He knows it too & is throwing out promises left, right & centre. Now the 11th hour is approaching, even the BBC is having to report on some of the issues. However, you will not get the whole picture from them.

Originally Posted by brissybee (Post 11038502)

You seem to be in a nice part of the country. I'm interested (and concerned) about how the EU freedom of movement impacts -you and your part of the World? I can't see the benefits of adding mass populations to an already crowded country and I'm genuinely interested how things are affected on a day to day basis? Not the country, generally, but you (people where you are) ... how are they directly affected?

Originally Posted by ehl250 (Post 11039552)

Hi brissybee - Fortunately, because this is a small very rural area, we are not impacted. There are no jobs here to bring in immigrants. It is a sheep farming area. I am retired. Also, here, there isn't the pressure on the Drs' offices, unlike in the urban districts.

Originally Posted by chris955 (Post 11039002)

What a beautiful part of the world, not a million miles from us. As you say wonderful countryside.
Its an odd thing I find when people say the England I grew up in no longer exists, the Australia I grew up in longer exists either as the world moves on. Perhaps some areas have real problems with these migrants, we dont see it here to be fair, the best fish and chip shop around is run by Poles and wonderful people they are. Of course there are some that are the opposite and take the piss out of the benefit system etc but they are the minority.

Originally Posted by ehl250 (Post 11041406)

Australia is a huge country. Here, there are now towns where you will hardly hear English spoken. The last group of E.Europeans who came, legally, turned out to be a million & a half instead of the few thousand the gov't had said they expected to come. That doesn't include the 200,000 Roma gypsies here. This time around the gov't refuses to give an estimate.

Originally Posted by chris955 (Post 11041585)

I havent actually been anywhere you hardly hear an English voice but I have no doubt they exist, much like places in Brisbane or Sydney or Melbourne. If you go to Sunnybank in Queensland almost every face is Oriental, that didnt bother me either. Both countries are built on migrants.

Originally Posted by brits1 (Post 11041707)

When our two Sons arrived in the UK they were surprised at the lack of migrants as they were VERY use to living among people of all nations in Perth, it did not bother them as such but more amazed them after people telling them in Aus "you will hardly here an English accent when you go back. If anyone is leaving here and going to any of the Commonwealth countries to escape migrants then their in for a bit of a shock.

Originally Posted by brits1 (Post 11041707)

When our two Sons arrived in the UK they were surprised at the lack of migrants as they were VERY use to living among people of all nations in Perth, it did not bother them as such but more amazed them after people telling them in Aus "you will hardly here an English accent when you go back. If anyone is leaving here and going to any of the Commonwealth countries to escape migrants then their in for a bit of a shock.