Sparkle2nite

Move up North, it's collected every week, same time bang on the dot with lovely smiley happy refuse collectors who put the bin back right where we left it! I even get a wave from them if I'm looking out the window and when my daughter was born they looked out each week to see me flash her off through the window.........think it was her they were looking at anyway, lol!

blowfly

I spend far more time indoors since I have been here because of the weather.
I loved walking,no way now it is too hot and unless I get up at 5am to do it it doesn't happen.My oh and I used to go out in all the seasons and cooler was best go walking up in the peak district and take our sarnys and hot drink. Bliss.
Nothing wrong with British weather at least it varies and has a different beauty for every season.

Bob

aye, it's like that back home in Oxford.

Mercedes

You know I used to think that, thought people were over exaggerating, it never bothered me when I actually lived in UK, but when I left and lived in sunny climes I found it harder to go back to it.

I spent 12 years living in a sunnier climate and found now mostly I find it depressing in the UK unless the sun is shining, I can deal with the cold but not the rest. Today, in Spain it has been sunny all day, not too hot, and it get dark at 6.30. I prefer that to 3pm which I will have to put up with next week. Sorry but I do more when it is hot. I don't even use A/C. But it is good to get the seasons which I liked when I lived in Melbourne, and even here in Spain at least it does go green in winter, bit more like an English summer then, lol. It was a joke the first year back in UK after having weeks of rain, I said, right that's it, I'm off to somewhere hot. I think it is harder to get used to the British weather once you lived in the Sun and wake up to the sun shining. At least I only have to put up with it for a week or two at a time, and then escape, so then can live with it easier.....

meljor

Walking is a lot easier to do in the rain than in a 38 plus degree heat. As for your previous post about wanting us to see the bigger picture, we do, having a big house/pool/plasma TV etc in a warm sunny country with all the same social problems as the England but without family and friends means that England wins hands down.

Nomore

Here here...in the lovely Yorkshire country

northernbird

yeah it would be lovely if you put all the yorkshire folk on the Isle of Wight first

CHELSEAJAMIE

[QUOTE=HiddenPaw;4260957]We've lived both sides of the fence; you've lived just the one side. Maybe it's YOU who needs to see the bigger picture. [/QUOTE Well, IF it doesn't work out on Aus for us, I would really like to think we won't put it down to missing Tescos or perceived grating Aus phrases, that's for sure...

CHELSEAJAMIE

Question:- If Aus is potentially a " Sweaty hell", why does your location read Florida, one of the most hot/humid places on earth!?

CHELSEAJAMIE

Granted, it does get dark earlier in Aus than here, generally, BUT you can still sit outside with a book and a glass of wine, couldn't do that in the UK for most of the year, could you?

CHELSEAJAMIE

Aus is a continent, hence climate varies quite abit, depending on where you live. Stab in the dark:- bet you don't live in Melbourne, they have seasons there, you know!

CHELSEAJAMIE

The fact that you are still there speaks volumes, though...(ie all things considered,etc..)

ladyofthelake

Because that's where I am.
I wasn't specifically talking about OZ, but anywhere in the sun where the temps go above 80. Doesn't matter whether it's Oz, the US, the med, Asia or the saharra, living in it becomes a sweaty hell (in my opinion )

CHELSEAJAMIE

In your opinion.Ok.

ladyofthelake

Do you really think those are the defining reasons for others to leave then?

I think you need to re-read this post again and again until you realise
that people do not move back for such simple reasons.