Has Anyone Moved Back To The UK & Regretted It?
Mar 4th 2010, 10:35 pm
#586
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Joined: Aug 2009
Location: near Guthrie OK
Posts: 12
Re: Has Anyone Moved Back To The UK & Regretted It?
5 days off after a years employment, max two years vacation which you have to use for snow days etc anyway mostly. one weeks wage a month for health insurance, and then you still have to pay through the nose for prescriptions etc. I NEED to get back home.
I'm ready for this experiment to end.
I'm ready for this experiment to end.
Mar 5th 2010, 12:10 pm
#587
stuck in twilight
Joined: Nov 2004
Location: scoucer in Brisbane and now back in Liverpool
Posts: 301
Re: Has Anyone Moved Back To The UK & Regretted It?
just having my weekly moan as the wife don,t want to listen ,Ive been back in the uk coming up to three years now im still down in the dumps just lost my work contracts and still wanting to return to Brisbane even more after this long winter on the bright side Ive still got 12 months left on my PR visa to return other wise there is now going back
Mar 5th 2010, 1:00 pm
#588
Ping-ponger
Joined: Jul 2002
Location: Dreich Alba
Posts: 12,006
Re: Has Anyone Moved Back To The UK & Regretted It?
5 days off after a years employment, max two years vacation which you have to use for snow days etc anyway mostly. one weeks wage a month for health insurance, and then you still have to pay through the nose for prescriptions etc. I NEED to get back home.
I'm ready for this experiment to end.
I'm ready for this experiment to end.
Does Guthrie OK = Oklahoma? Yep, holiday allowance and health care costs stink big time in the States and I think a lot of expats don't realize it until they get there.
Mar 5th 2010, 10:41 pm
#590
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Joined: Aug 2009
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 504
Re: Has Anyone Moved Back To The UK & Regretted It?
Tons of interesting comments here. One of the reasons we are emigrating to the US is just to escape the toilet the UK has become.
Even today I was in the Cotswolds on business ( I don't live there) which is a lovely place generally and there was many examples of the chav sociopaths mentioned previously in the thread. Places that I have visited on a number of occasions being overrun by the utterly selfish, ill-mannered and inconsiderate.
Dont get me wrong, nowhere is perfect, but ask yourself this - what kind of country has Britain become? There is a complete lack of social cohesion which most people face every day. Yes there are oddspots where the neighbours are all lovely and its all middle-class and safe, but they are now rare and diminishing. The reality for most people is dealing with ever increasing incidents of both antisocial behaviour and petty bureaucracy.
More and more are finding that their work brings them reducing financial reward commensurate with their lifestyles. More and more are finding that the police are impotent and disinterested for one. More and more are finding that the common civility and manners they were familiar with have long disappeared, crushed under the groaning weight of multiculturalism and a complete lack of individual responsibility.
Is it any wonder that last year saw a record number of people leave the UK? It is not.
Even today I was in the Cotswolds on business ( I don't live there) which is a lovely place generally and there was many examples of the chav sociopaths mentioned previously in the thread. Places that I have visited on a number of occasions being overrun by the utterly selfish, ill-mannered and inconsiderate.
Dont get me wrong, nowhere is perfect, but ask yourself this - what kind of country has Britain become? There is a complete lack of social cohesion which most people face every day. Yes there are oddspots where the neighbours are all lovely and its all middle-class and safe, but they are now rare and diminishing. The reality for most people is dealing with ever increasing incidents of both antisocial behaviour and petty bureaucracy.
More and more are finding that their work brings them reducing financial reward commensurate with their lifestyles. More and more are finding that the police are impotent and disinterested for one. More and more are finding that the common civility and manners they were familiar with have long disappeared, crushed under the groaning weight of multiculturalism and a complete lack of individual responsibility.
Is it any wonder that last year saw a record number of people leave the UK? It is not.
Mar 5th 2010, 11:27 pm
#591
Homebody
Joined: Jan 2005
Location: HOME
Posts: 23,181
Re: Has Anyone Moved Back To The UK & Regretted It?
Tons of interesting comments here. One of the reasons we are emigrating to the US is just to escape the toilet the UK has become.
Even today I was in the Cotswolds on business ( I don't live there) which is a lovely place generally and there was many examples of the chav sociopaths mentioned previously in the thread. Places that I have visited on a number of occasions being overrun by the utterly selfish, ill-mannered and inconsiderate.
Dont get me wrong, nowhere is perfect, but ask yourself this - what kind of country has Britain become? There is a complete lack of social cohesion which most people face every day. Yes there are oddspots where the neighbours are all lovely and its all middle-class and safe, but they are now rare and diminishing. The reality for most people is dealing with ever increasing incidents of both antisocial behaviour and petty bureaucracy.
More and more are finding that their work brings them reducing financial reward commensurate with their lifestyles. More and more are finding that the police are impotent and disinterested for one. More and more are finding that the common civility and manners they were familiar with have long disappeared, crushed under the groaning weight of multiculturalism and a complete lack of individual responsibility.
Is it any wonder that last year saw a record number of people leave the UK? It is not.
Even today I was in the Cotswolds on business ( I don't live there) which is a lovely place generally and there was many examples of the chav sociopaths mentioned previously in the thread. Places that I have visited on a number of occasions being overrun by the utterly selfish, ill-mannered and inconsiderate.
Dont get me wrong, nowhere is perfect, but ask yourself this - what kind of country has Britain become? There is a complete lack of social cohesion which most people face every day. Yes there are oddspots where the neighbours are all lovely and its all middle-class and safe, but they are now rare and diminishing. The reality for most people is dealing with ever increasing incidents of both antisocial behaviour and petty bureaucracy.
More and more are finding that their work brings them reducing financial reward commensurate with their lifestyles. More and more are finding that the police are impotent and disinterested for one. More and more are finding that the common civility and manners they were familiar with have long disappeared, crushed under the groaning weight of multiculturalism and a complete lack of individual responsibility.
Is it any wonder that last year saw a record number of people leave the UK? It is not.
Living in the US will do you the world of good!
Mar 5th 2010, 11:46 pm
#595
Homebody
Joined: Jan 2005
Location: HOME
Posts: 23,181
Re: Has Anyone Moved Back To The UK & Regretted It?
I thought I was a pretty hardened PTA stalwart/school governor before I moved here, but *nothing* could have prepared me for the tediousness of PTA meetings here
Mar 5th 2010, 11:52 pm
#596
SUPER MODERATOR
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 88,022
Re: Has Anyone Moved Back To The UK & Regretted It?
Tons of interesting comments here. One of the reasons we are emigrating to the US is just to escape the toilet the UK has become.
Even today I was in the Cotswolds on business ( I don't live there) which is a lovely place generally and there was many examples of the chav sociopaths mentioned previously in the thread. Places that I have visited on a number of occasions being overrun by the utterly selfish, ill-mannered and inconsiderate.
Dont get me wrong, nowhere is perfect, but ask yourself this - what kind of country has Britain become? There is a complete lack of social cohesion which most people face every day. Yes there are oddspots where the neighbours are all lovely and its all middle-class and safe, but they are now rare and diminishing. The reality for most people is dealing with ever increasing incidents of both antisocial behaviour and petty bureaucracy.
More and more are finding that their work brings them reducing financial reward commensurate with their lifestyles. More and more are finding that the police are impotent and disinterested for one. More and more are finding that the common civility and manners they were familiar with have long disappeared, crushed under the groaning weight of multiculturalism and a complete lack of individual responsibility.
Is it any wonder that last year saw a record number of people leave the UK? It is not.
Even today I was in the Cotswolds on business ( I don't live there) which is a lovely place generally and there was many examples of the chav sociopaths mentioned previously in the thread. Places that I have visited on a number of occasions being overrun by the utterly selfish, ill-mannered and inconsiderate.
Dont get me wrong, nowhere is perfect, but ask yourself this - what kind of country has Britain become? There is a complete lack of social cohesion which most people face every day. Yes there are oddspots where the neighbours are all lovely and its all middle-class and safe, but they are now rare and diminishing. The reality for most people is dealing with ever increasing incidents of both antisocial behaviour and petty bureaucracy.
More and more are finding that their work brings them reducing financial reward commensurate with their lifestyles. More and more are finding that the police are impotent and disinterested for one. More and more are finding that the common civility and manners they were familiar with have long disappeared, crushed under the groaning weight of multiculturalism and a complete lack of individual responsibility.
Is it any wonder that last year saw a record number of people leave the UK? It is not.
Have you ever lived outside the UK?
Mar 5th 2010, 11:54 pm
#597
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 41,518
Re: Has Anyone Moved Back To The UK & Regretted It?
My normally mild-mannered husband is at his wits' end with the pettyfogging crap at his workplace.
Yeah
