Originally Posted by cheers (Post 9445686)

Read this one:
Hey thought I would give you all un update...

I posted on here around christmas time that I didnt think I could come home to the UK even though my OH was already living in the UK. I loved my life in Houston so much I just didnt want to come back to the UK...

Well I have been back 6 weeks and love it...We arrived in Heathrow to a beautiful sunny day, as we had to pass a few hours my OH took me to Windsor where we went to a pub right by the river and had a full english breakfast, yum!!

When we went to collect our dog, poor thing was so stressed she was pooping blood, however, after a day she was fine and no worse for her journey. We then spent a few days travelling from London to Scotland visiting friends and family on the way..It was great to be back with everyone, everyone was hugging us and telling us how lovely it was to have us back. My family and my OH family all cried when they saw me, hugged me so much thought they were going to break my bones...LOL..I really didnt know how much my eldery mother had missed me until I saw her, she kept hugging me not like my mom at all...

I had to turn my thoughts to moving back home as if we were moving here for the first time, I guess I was thinking of moving back home and picking up where we left off..Once i got my head around this, its been great...

I have sorted out horse riding lessons, opened up my own company doing bookkeeping, signed up for a course on life coaching. We have a lovely little house 995 sq ft, thought this might be too small but it isnt we have open fields behind us, I have a wonderful view of the hills from my front room and only 10 minute walk to the beach.

Things I have noticed since I came back, people are more polite when driving,service in the restaurants is not as good as Houston but its not bad either. I havent seen any gangs of kids hanging about the streets or the parks. Petrol is expensive it cost me 48 pounds to fill my Skoda Fabia, but you can use the bus, walk or use the train...Council tax is 1800 per year, this includes water rates back in Houston the taxes were over $5,000 a year plus water per month.
Bins are collect every 2 weeks, but our bin is so big its not a problem and they have lots of recycling places that are easy to get to, where we lived in Houston they didnt even do recycling.

What do I miss about Houston....Coffee Mate Ameretto liquid Creamer...LOL...thats it...

I wanted to thank all of you for your support and advice over the last 8 months, I dont know who started this forum but I am sure grateful to them...

Thanks everyone...

Found this in 6 weeks back, on here.

Originally Posted by Beedubya (Post 9447670)

All of these questions are searchable in the main MBTTUK site, I think there are too many questions here to be answered, lots of research needed.

Originally Posted by I like tea (Post 9449528)

I was under the impression this site was to help and give assistance to genuine Ex pacs who wanted to return to the UK. It's so much easier to ask people who are actually there and who have first hand knowledge than get lost in reams of web sites and irrelivant information.

I did not expect someone to answer all of the questions but felt sure someone would be willing and able to supply one or two answers to my query. After all some of them were very simple and only needed an age either 60 or 65. I'm sure if I were in the UK and knew the answers I would only be too happy to help. Obviously that's not the case.

It's a pity this site seems to have been hi jacked by a few who seem intent on having a personal diagolue with each other and have forgotten what the site was orginally set up for.

Originally Posted by I like tea (Post 9449528)

It's a pity this site seems to have been hi jacked by a few who seem intent on having a personal diagolue with each other and have forgotten what the site was orginally set up for.

Originally Posted by I like tea (Post 9449528)

I was under the impression this site was to help It's a pity this site seems to have been hi jacked by a few who seem intent on having a personal diagolue with each other and have forgotten what the site was orginally set up for.

Originally Posted by I like tea (Post 9449528)

I was under the impression this site was to help and give assistance to genuine Ex pacs who wanted to return to the UK. It's so much easier to ask people who are actually there and who have first hand knowledge than get lost in reams of web sites and irrelivant information.

I did not expect someone to answer all of the questions but felt sure someone would be willing and able to supply one or two answers to my query. After all some of them were very simple and only needed an age either 60 or 65. I'm sure if I were in the UK and knew the answers I would only be too happy to help. Obviously that's not the case.

It's a pity this site seems to have been hi jacked by a few who seem intent on having a personal diagolue with each other and have forgotten what the site was orginally set up for.

Originally Posted by I like tea (Post 9449528)

I was under the impression this site was to help and give assistance to genuine Ex pacs who wanted to return to the UK. It's so much easier to ask people who are actually there and who have first hand knowledge than get lost in reams of web sites and irrelivant information.

I did not expect someone to answer all of the questions but felt sure someone would be willing and able to supply one or two answers to my query. After all some of them were very simple and only needed an age either 60 or 65. I'm sure if I were in the UK and knew the answers I would only be too happy to help. Obviously that's not the case.

It's a pity this site seems to have been hi jacked by a few who seem intent on having a personal diagolue with each other and have forgotten what the site was orginally set up for.

Originally Posted by jasper123 (Post 9449393)

Cheers can you pass this on to Denise/DDL and tell her how sad I am that she didn't pass the test, and each time she has to pay big quids to hire the car and take another test, I think its so demeaning that we have to pass ANOTHER TEST after all the decades that we have been driving,
Rodney.

Originally Posted by I like tea (Post 9449528)

I was under the impression this site was to help and give assistance to genuine Ex pacs who wanted to return to the UK. It's so much easier to ask people who are actually there and who have first hand knowledge than get lost in reams of web sites and irrelivant information.

I did not expect someone to answer all of the questions but felt sure someone would be willing and able to supply one or two answers to my query. After all some of them were very simple and only needed an age either 60 or 65. I'm sure if I were in the UK and knew the answers I would only be too happy to help. Obviously that's not the case.

It's a pity this site seems to have been hi jacked by a few who seem intent on having a personal diagolue with each other and have forgotten what the site was orginally set up for.

Originally Posted by jasper123 (Post 9449456)

Cheers ----- cumonnnn mate ---- is this some kind of guessing game, can you please give us a Freaking clue who wrote this post? :confused:

Originally Posted by Beedubya (Post 9449975)

Originally Posted by cheers (Post 9450052)

Thanks Bee. I was wondering how long it would take me to find this for Rod and I didn't know where to start.

Also Bee I took a tour down the Styal Road yesterday and it is quite nice. I was wondering about this one place on the right side going to the airport direction. It had a lot of cars parked around it and it had a spire on one of the buildings. It was about a half a mile before the sign that says "Winslow Football Club"

I would have sent this privately but you don't check your mail too often right?

Originally Posted by Beedubya (Post 9450055)

MMm not sure, there is a Styal Golf Course, Styal prison and also Quarry Bank Mill is off the same road, that has the old mill with a big chimney, could that have been it?
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