Aaaaarghhh!!!! Stop it!! You're making me so homesick!!
I never realised how British I was until I moved away.....

It always strikes me as sort of funny how so many people who live in the UK find the ease of getting out of the place and going to other more interesting countries as one of the best things about living there.

Well I guess everytime over the years,people hear my aussie accent and ask why am I here?I tell them the story I wrote before and people are usually amazed that I have positive views on the UK!Why should'nt I be positive.Its not all doom and gloom,but then again I guess for some people who focus solely on that,it is!!!!haha This is my country,my people,my culture,why would I want to be anywhere else?

I been back 18 months it was not my choice to come back and I still regrette being back.
living in hope that some day before my visa runs out I will go back

That's an odd thing to say. I don't think anyone's talking about more than a few weeks in the year, so they're spending most of their time in the UK.

If you go from Birmingham to Rome, it's 1000 miles. That'd get you about Sydney to Adelaide. Or from Vancouver to Saskatoon. The fact that a person would be in the same country seems irrelevant. It's how far to visit something different and interesting.

Bev

No, they just enjoy the easy access to different and interesting countries and cultures, instead of being isolated in one.

It always seemed to offend whenever I used to use it on a Friday night at my local 'cattle-market'? Was it because I never said 'please'?

No, it was because your helmet has a strange stripe up the middle

There's a support group for that

http://www.419eater.com/

Flufffyyy!!!...Behave yourself.....

Anyway, that would have remained 'under wraps' until they posted a response in the affirmative.....so they wouldn't have been able to see my 'Brighton Rock' anyway?

Hello all. I moved to Putney from NZ . I've been back now 4 months. I I have made my mind up to return to NZ next Year.

I was standing on Putney train station today with a horde of other people trying to cram myself on an already packed commuter train. I got on (had to literally push my way on) and was literally face-licking distance from 2 other people, crammed on like a fckin' sardine...Do I need this, I asked myself. Answer, do I ****!

We moved back in 94 after 14 years in Aus. I won't go into all the details but..
Yes we do regret it and really wish we had stayed put.

We are one of the lucky ones, we came back and after a struggle or two we managed to get a good standard of living back, decent jobs etc etc. However, we realised that home comforts are not the be all and end all of life.

We have found most people here in the UK are caught up in having designer this and designer that, cars, holiday homes, bigger and better houses than their 'friends' and always seem to be concerned with other people's business.

In Australia, when we were there, we enjoyed the laid back lifestyle, people didn't worry about having the best of everything. Most people i knew worked to live and have a great time with family and friends. Spent most of their free time with their families and socialising with friends. How often over here do you socialise with other families that include yours and their teenage children? Very rare over here. And it shows in the way young people conduct their conversations - they can't at least not with older people!

We are stuck here in the UK now, don't get me wrong, we are not miserable, we are making the most of it, but once the recession is over, house prices increase and my husband can retire, we will be back in Australia - home again!

Strange

that is exactly how I find most Australians.

You are not required to follow fashion or not to socialise with your family.I know loads who do in Scotland

I have a feeling designer clothes and brand names are about to go right down the list of priorities very soon.