Originally Posted by Cumbrian Lass (Post 9096131)

yes thats exactly what i am feeling too ! I have a beautiful house which we had built.......i really love it.But like you,whats a house without the friends and family round,its just a shell with no life.
We have been looking on rightmove to see what we can get for our money.The houses are no where close to what we have here,for the same price.But after months of thought,i dont care any more about the house,i would rather live in a hut and be happy. We have the house up for sale and hope to be back in the UK this year ......take care;)

Originally Posted by confusedenglishrose (Post 9080493)

I agree JJ. Getting back to Mallory. The post has a point, not one I necessarily agree with... I am sure many people do think that about people who come to the USA and then want to leave. As others including Eng43 have posted the sad irony is many of us came for reasons other than the Hollywood ideal of America.

It always strikes me as strange when I hear the 'Mallory' version of events because people really do seem to think of the USA in those terms. But what to me underlies it is a deep sense of jealously. Something you can't quite put your finger on but it is there.

Myself I think its a beautiful country and having visited all 50 States and lived in more than 8 of them over 20 + years, I think I can safely comment. However, it does not change the fact that I don't want to be there anymore.
Not because of lack of success. If I followed that side of me I would most definitely stay in the USA.

It is more a sense of never having really belonged. I know someone else said it on another thread. Going back to the UK is like putting on a pair of your favourite slippers.

Originally Posted by hayleyatfla (Post 9095868)

thats the first person i have ever heard be soo bloody nasty on this thread, usualy it is the the same of lot of us all missing england and excited to go home.. maybe she should go to a pro U.S website and leave us that have tried it out for 20 odd years and seen the real USA alone... I moved to florida at 12 I am now 32 and cant wait to go home, you can take the girl out of england but you can never take the england out of the girl! good luck mate :thumbsup:

Originally Posted by dunroving (Post 9096136)

I have a hut in my back garden, if you're interested. It's even got power and a television aerial. :)

Originally Posted by Beedubya (Post 9096439)

How much? :lol:

Originally Posted by Milana_Rosemont (Post 9094912)

I am 20 and supposedly moving to the Caribbean in March, but more than anything I want to go HOME. I'll be 21 in June and I've lived overseas since I was 13. All I want is to be in London, walking the streets of Hammersmith where I grew up and Reigate where my parents live. March 2012 I've decided. I'm going home.

Originally Posted by dunroving (Post 9096517)

Depends - could be payment in kind (gardening, dog-walking, vacuuming).

Mind you, the shed does get pretty cold this time of year, and bathing in the fish pond would be an experience as it's got about 6 inches of ice covering it at the moment.

Originally Posted by wonderfulperson (Post 9095286)

I have debated it myself on and off, mainly as it is just my son and I here, but I know for children here is safer and better, hence tough decision.

I lived in Reigate and went to school there, and I loved London living near hammersmith and spending many a day around that area when I lived in London for 4 yrs and when ever I went back to visit. So I hear you on missing it all.

I would not move back there mind. My folks live a bit higher up than that, 3 hrs away, so I'd move to that area (IF I ever do), plus London is not a place to raise a family.

I still love it here and know I will miss here greatly if I did move back.. so I am not making that move or doing anything hasty just yet, but not completely ruling it out in the future either though I keep returning to the decision of I am never leaving Canada as here is better and I am never bored here! I can honestly say I did get bored back in the UK though and too often. I am getting my Citizenship shortly too after 4 yrs of living here, and my Son was born here.

Originally Posted by nalah (Post 9082018)

Hi All - scary indeed. I left the UK in '93 on secondment to Malaysia following the death of my first wife. Lived in Malaysia for 5 enjoyable years and met my wonderful wife there. We moved to Oz in '98 for work reasons. Oz was ok in but never really settled even though business was successful In dec 2009 we moved back to Malaysia as the wife's mum was poorly she unfortunately passed away in Oct last year. So we now have to decide where to live. We had always planned on NZ (we have Oz PR so also NZ PR) but we are now tempted by the UK but SCARED of making the wrong decision. For business NZ is the way to go as I have a good reputation in Oz/NZ. But I would love to go home (I think) where we have family and friends and my wife has loved it every time we have visited. We are going back for 5 weeks in Feb and I am hoping something happens to either tell us UK is the place we want to be OR puts us off and we head off to NZ. BIG BIG BIG decision - returning to Malaysia was a mistake (other than the family aspects) and we don't want to make another one. We dont want to ping pong we REALLY want our own house again.. I know no one can really advise just wanted to share with other scared people

Originally Posted by Milana_Rosemont (Post 9095462)

I just want to do some menial Londoner thing like get on the tube at Ravenscourt Park and go into the city. Places I love.

Originally Posted by wonderfulperson (Post 9095492)

Now there are child gangs operating around London, pretty scary and worrying if you have children, I noted it starting up as I was leaving the UK back in 2007.

I am more for the dual citizenship that I will soon have, and with the view of.. we can live here. Though as many a friend says now and before I left the UK, chances are I will visit the UK but never live there again, and will want to live just in Canada.

I know I'd miss here if I went back there indefinitely, and am not willing to cut off all my ties to Canada.

Originally Posted by Cumbrian Lass (Post 9096131)

yes thats exactly what i am feeling too ! I have a beautiful house which we had built.......i really love it.But like you,whats a house without the friends and family round,its just a shell with no life.
We have been looking on rightmove to see what we can get for our money.The houses are no where close to what we have here,for the same price.But after months of thought,i dont care any more about the house,i would rather live in a hut and be happy. We have the house up for sale and hope to be back in the UK this year ......take care;)

Originally Posted by Fish n Chips 56 (Post 9096567)

Gangs have always been around, its just that you didn't notice them, they just seem to get worse, I dont like them either.

Never say Never, many have moved to Canada and thought they would live there forever, but many have gone back home, over time attitudes and reasons can change, at least with citizenship you have choices, thats the good thing.

Originally Posted by dunroving (Post 9096082)

The challenge with the internet is that it is open to anyone (so people who are poles apart get to "meet" who otherwise would never cross paths), the written word is devoid of facial expression and intonation that would otherwise indicate that a question is tongue-in-cheek, or simply a Devil's advocate type suggestion rather than a deliberate "You are shallow" insult, and that among the online community you find people who are maybe a little too thin-skinned.

Originally Posted by dunroving (Post 9096517)

Depends - could be payment in kind (gardening, dog-walking, vacuuming).

Mind you, the shed does get pretty cold this time of year, and bathing in the fish pond would be an experience as it's got about 6 inches of ice covering it at the moment.