Has Anyone Moved Back To The UK & Regretted It?
#556
Re: Has Anyone Moved Back To The UK & Regretted It?
Ugh, grimness abounds -- lately it seems that everywhere I go/look I just see yet another gaggle of grey-faced sociopathic teenagers with absolutely no sense at all of the existence of other people in the world. I know there are exceptions on both sides, but the kids back in the States seem so well-adjusted and considerate by comparison. I have started having nightmares about my own kids (currently aged 5 and 2) swigging lager and chucking crisp packets around some windswept playground.
I was in a good mood till I went out.
#557
Re: Has Anyone Moved Back To The UK & Regretted It?
Oh no, must have been a real downer. I know that when we were back last year and having a brilliant time, I'd often come across gangs of kids, idly kicking cider cans around the street, being 'grim' and quite intimidating. It did feel like Britain was very much sitting at the balance point of society. So sad as it's such a bloody gorgeous place with smashing people...it's just that the arse end of society seems to have grown recently....or maybe it's just me heading into 'crotchety old scroat' age!
Ugh, grimness abounds -- lately it seems that everywhere I go/look I just see yet another gaggle of grey-faced sociopathic teenagers with absolutely no sense at all of the existence of other people in the world. I know there are exceptions on both sides, but the kids back in the States seem so well-adjusted and considerate by comparison. I have started having nightmares about my own kids (currently aged 5 and 2) swigging lager and chucking crisp packets around some windswept playground.
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Re: Has Anyone Moved Back To The UK & Regretted It?
I think it has grown too that part of society that seem not to care and reading stories about how a lovely man got murdered in his corner shop for a few sweets and a packet of cigs. I know it happens elsewhere but maybe its just more in your face here , I just know that its something I personally see alot more here
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Re: Has Anyone Moved Back To The UK & Regretted It?
Oh no, must have been a real downer. I know that when we were back last year and having a brilliant time, I'd often come across gangs of kids, idly kicking cider cans around the street, being 'grim' and quite intimidating. It did feel like Britain was very much sitting at the balance point of society. So sad as it's such a bloody gorgeous place with smashing people...it's just that the arse end of society seems to have grown recently....or maybe it's just me heading into 'crotchety old scroat' age!
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Re: Has Anyone Moved Back To The UK & Regretted It?
Ugh, grimness abounds -- lately it seems that everywhere I go/look I just see yet another gaggle of grey-faced sociopathic teenagers with absolutely no sense at all of the existence of other people in the world. I know there are exceptions on both sides, but the kids back in the States seem so well-adjusted and considerate by comparison. I have started having nightmares about my own kids (currently aged 5 and 2) swigging lager and chucking crisp packets around some windswept playground.
How exactly are they being sociopathic? Sometimes I look at a group of teenagers talking loudly or kicking cans around, then I think back to the 1980's when I was a teenager. Was I any different? nope.
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Re: Has Anyone Moved Back To The UK & Regretted It?
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Re: Has Anyone Moved Back To The UK & Regretted It?
I think it has grown too that part of society that seem not to care and reading stories about how a lovely man got murdered in his corner shop for a few sweets and a packet of cigs. I know it happens elsewhere but maybe its just more in your face here , I just know that its something I personally see alot more here
#563
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This is very true. I live next to one of the most dangerous areas of the US, but they hardly get a mention on the local news when there is a killing. The news stations here try to hype up the good news much more than the bad. I do like that about this area in particular.
#564
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This is very true. I live next to one of the most dangerous areas of the US, but they hardly get a mention on the local news when there is a killing. The news stations here try to hype up the good news much more than the bad. I do like that about this area in particular.
You learn to only go shopping to certain stores early (we've been known to just stop and leave) as by later in the afternoon gang bangers do their shopping with their families, weird to see 6mth old babies with his gang colours on sitting in his pushchair wearing designer jeans.
I'm happy to live in the countryside, we are now 45 mins from the city and try not to go to often. But thats where the big grocery stores are.
#565
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I must admit I havent seen too many grey faced youth kicking cans around but I have only been here for 2 weeks. I have seen a lot of dynamic city centres, some glorious days of sunshine which happy families have used to their best advantage and joined me at historic sites and beautiful wild flower gardens. I have walked through London, Darlington (ah, yes, there were some young people outside a pub in Darlington but they didnt bother me) Cambridge and a few other places at night and not felt in the least bit intimidated or even noticed one punch up (seen more in Canberra in the past few months) or drunken swearing louts (definitely seen more in Canberra). There were some footie fans singing loudly outside the sports bar in the Haymarket yesterday but that is the closest I have come to drunken yobbishness.
Another thing I have noticed here is the lack of spew on the pavements - might be that I have only been in certain "nice" parts of all the places I have visited but compared with downtown Canberra it has been comparatively clean (the rain may have washed it all away I suppose! unlike Canberra where it gets baked on and forms part of the walk surface decorations LOL) and, on reflection too, much less dog poop in the suburbs.
Today is another glorious day (at least it looks that way) in contrast with yesterday which was a tad chilly even so, I was perfectly warm with a t shirt and a fleece. In fact I was so warm in Olympia (for a genealogy conference, gobsmackingly awesome) it was t shirt most of the time (what is it with Poms and central heating???).
I have also been very impressed by the number of "bushwalkers" out in pretty much all weathers. You cant move in Yorkshire for people going out for walks on the moors and they all looked rugged up and happy.
Another thing I have noticed here is the lack of spew on the pavements - might be that I have only been in certain "nice" parts of all the places I have visited but compared with downtown Canberra it has been comparatively clean (the rain may have washed it all away I suppose! unlike Canberra where it gets baked on and forms part of the walk surface decorations LOL) and, on reflection too, much less dog poop in the suburbs.
Today is another glorious day (at least it looks that way) in contrast with yesterday which was a tad chilly even so, I was perfectly warm with a t shirt and a fleece. In fact I was so warm in Olympia (for a genealogy conference, gobsmackingly awesome) it was t shirt most of the time (what is it with Poms and central heating???).
I have also been very impressed by the number of "bushwalkers" out in pretty much all weathers. You cant move in Yorkshire for people going out for walks on the moors and they all looked rugged up and happy.
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Re: Has Anyone Moved Back To The UK & Regretted It?
I must admit I havent seen too many grey faced youth kicking cans around but I have only been here for 2 weeks. I have seen a lot of dynamic city centres, some glorious days of sunshine which happy families have used to their best advantage and joined me at historic sites and beautiful wild flower gardens. I have walked through London, Darlington (ah, yes, there were some young people outside a pub in Darlington but they didnt bother me) Cambridge and a few other places at night and not felt in the least bit intimidated or even noticed one punch up (seen more in Canberra in the past few months) or drunken swearing louts (definitely seen more in Canberra). There were some footie fans singing loudly outside the sports bar in the Haymarket yesterday but that is the closest I have come to drunken yobbishness.
Another thing I have noticed here is the lack of spew on the pavements - might be that I have only been in certain "nice" parts of all the places I have visited but compared with downtown Canberra it has been comparatively clean (the rain may have washed it all away I suppose! unlike Canberra where it gets baked on and forms part of the walk surface decorations LOL) and, on reflection too, much less dog poop in the suburbs.
Today is another glorious day (at least it looks that way) in contrast with yesterday which was a tad chilly even so, I was perfectly warm with a t shirt and a fleece. In fact I was so warm in Olympia (for a genealogy conference, gobsmackingly awesome) it was t shirt most of the time (what is it with Poms and central heating???).
I have also been very impressed by the number of "bushwalkers" out in pretty much all weathers. You cant move in Yorkshire for people going out for walks on the moors and they all looked rugged up and happy.
Another thing I have noticed here is the lack of spew on the pavements - might be that I have only been in certain "nice" parts of all the places I have visited but compared with downtown Canberra it has been comparatively clean (the rain may have washed it all away I suppose! unlike Canberra where it gets baked on and forms part of the walk surface decorations LOL) and, on reflection too, much less dog poop in the suburbs.
Today is another glorious day (at least it looks that way) in contrast with yesterday which was a tad chilly even so, I was perfectly warm with a t shirt and a fleece. In fact I was so warm in Olympia (for a genealogy conference, gobsmackingly awesome) it was t shirt most of the time (what is it with Poms and central heating???).
I have also been very impressed by the number of "bushwalkers" out in pretty much all weathers. You cant move in Yorkshire for people going out for walks on the moors and they all looked rugged up and happy.
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Re: Has Anyone Moved Back To The UK & Regretted It?
I must admit I havent seen too many grey faced youth kicking cans around but I have only been here for 2 weeks. I have seen a lot of dynamic city centres, some glorious days of sunshine which happy families have used to their best advantage and joined me at historic sites and beautiful wild flower gardens. I have walked through London, Darlington (ah, yes, there were some young people outside a pub in Darlington but they didnt bother me) Cambridge and a few other places at night and not felt in the least bit intimidated or even noticed one punch up (seen more in Canberra in the past few months) or drunken swearing louts (definitely seen more in Canberra). There were some footie fans singing loudly outside the sports bar in the Haymarket yesterday but that is the closest I have come to drunken yobbishness.
Another thing I have noticed here is the lack of spew on the pavements - might be that I have only been in certain "nice" parts of all the places I have visited but compared with downtown Canberra it has been comparatively clean (the rain may have washed it all away I suppose! unlike Canberra where it gets baked on and forms part of the walk surface decorations LOL) and, on reflection too, much less dog poop in the suburbs.
Today is another glorious day (at least it looks that way) in contrast with yesterday which was a tad chilly even so, I was perfectly warm with a t shirt and a fleece. In fact I was so warm in Olympia (for a genealogy conference, gobsmackingly awesome) it was t shirt most of the time (what is it with Poms and central heating???).
I have also been very impressed by the number of "bushwalkers" out in pretty much all weathers. You cant move in Yorkshire for people going out for walks on the moors and they all looked rugged up and happy.
Another thing I have noticed here is the lack of spew on the pavements - might be that I have only been in certain "nice" parts of all the places I have visited but compared with downtown Canberra it has been comparatively clean (the rain may have washed it all away I suppose! unlike Canberra where it gets baked on and forms part of the walk surface decorations LOL) and, on reflection too, much less dog poop in the suburbs.
Today is another glorious day (at least it looks that way) in contrast with yesterday which was a tad chilly even so, I was perfectly warm with a t shirt and a fleece. In fact I was so warm in Olympia (for a genealogy conference, gobsmackingly awesome) it was t shirt most of the time (what is it with Poms and central heating???).
I have also been very impressed by the number of "bushwalkers" out in pretty much all weathers. You cant move in Yorkshire for people going out for walks on the moors and they all looked rugged up and happy.
#568
Re: Has Anyone Moved Back To The UK & Regretted It?
I must be living in a parallell universe.
I truly give up. I saw someoine pn here the other day posting that htey live in Essex an hour from London and it was dire.....really????? Not the bit of Essex i'm in.
If you live in what you consider a shit place for gods sake MOVE!!!!
And no, you dont have to move to the other side of the planet either.
" Hello. my names Brian, i live in Peckham. The whole of the UK is shite because Peckham is shite. There's no way round it i'll have to leave the country" FFS
I truly give up. I saw someoine pn here the other day posting that htey live in Essex an hour from London and it was dire.....really????? Not the bit of Essex i'm in.
If you live in what you consider a shit place for gods sake MOVE!!!!
And no, you dont have to move to the other side of the planet either.
" Hello. my names Brian, i live in Peckham. The whole of the UK is shite because Peckham is shite. There's no way round it i'll have to leave the country" FFS
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Re: Has Anyone Moved Back To The UK & Regretted It?
I must be living in a parallell universe.
I truly give up. I saw someoine pn here the other day posting that htey live in Essex an hour from London and it was dire.....really????? Not the bit of Essex i'm in.
If you live in what you consider a shit place for gods sake MOVE!!!!
And no, you dont have to move to the other side of the planet either.
" Hello. my names Brian, i live in Peckham. The whole of the UK is shite because Peckham is shite. There's no way round it i'll have to leave the country" FFS
I truly give up. I saw someoine pn here the other day posting that htey live in Essex an hour from London and it was dire.....really????? Not the bit of Essex i'm in.
If you live in what you consider a shit place for gods sake MOVE!!!!
And no, you dont have to move to the other side of the planet either.
" Hello. my names Brian, i live in Peckham. The whole of the UK is shite because Peckham is shite. There's no way round it i'll have to leave the country" FFS
#570
Re: Has Anyone Moved Back To The UK & Regretted It?
You tell em Flea!Seriously I know what you're talking about.What a gorgeous day its shaping up to be?Foggy this morning(not that I mind fog,its the first we've had for a long time)and now it is sunny and warmish outside.I'm heading out to the veg plot!I think people need to get out more!
Yes, it is a glorious day. Funny how that never gets a mention, but one drop of rain or snow and the whole world wants to talk and whinge about it
I had a nanna nap earlier. Because i have been so used to having the heat on in the house, i left it running. I woke up so damn hot i have had to open all the windows!! Got a lovely breeze floating through and sunshine streaming into the house