Originally Posted by bramblebush (Post 5837124)

One of my biggest reasons for being unsure about returning to England is personal safety for myself and my family.

We are so up and down, we just can't decide what we want.
One day we are going to try and settle and stay then the next day we are desperate to go back to the UK.

Aug 2005 we arrived in France so excited about our new adventure, hating England and believing everything in the papers, yes we got caught up in all the negative stuff.

Feb/Mar 07 we had our first spell of homesickness and admitted to ourselves and to each other that this didn't have to be forever and that it would be ok to return.

April/May 07 the weather was spring like and we decided that we would be mad to give it all up.

Nov/Dec 07 Christmas is looming, we miss family and want to go home.

Christmas came and went we made the most of it and did have a lovely time, decided again that we should stick it out.

Early January we decide we can't stick it out and want to go home.

Then it all gets too complicated to explain, we change from one day to the next.

My main concern is personal safety for all of us, I feel safe here in deepest rural France and to be honest I am scared to live in England.

Can anyone relate to this feeling, I tell myself that it is irrational fear but it still stands in my way.

Originally Posted by emmals (Post 5857656)

I don't mean to be rude but what planet are you on?????!!!
Crime happens all over the world,there are nutters everywere. Stay in deep rural france then....cos in deep rural england there are rapists and peadophiles and mass murderers waiting to get you......Now read your post again and realise how stupid it sounds.....No one is asking you to live in Moss Side are they:confused:.....Rant over seriousley though it's not all bad when you consider the amount of people in England compared to the size of the country:)

Originally Posted by Grayling (Post 5855236)

So you say in every post.......and then go on to do exactly that.

Why the need to mention the burglaries, car thefts etc. in the UK and then say how great everything is in Brisbane:confused:

I am not hankering for a Britain of yesteryear....I still live here and do not experience all the crime and other problems others mention.

I also have a big house and money in the bank.

I am only going to live in Brisbane for family reasons.....not because I think Australia is better.

G

Originally Posted by robclaridge (Post 5857716)

.....then why go? Stay in England... already sounds defeatist. Only going for family? No ones forcing you?:D

Originally Posted by robclaridge (Post 5857716)

.....then why go? Stay in England... already sounds defeatist. Only going for family? No ones forcing you?:D

Originally Posted by robclaridge (Post 5857777)

no...no competition. I'm not here in Australia forever necessarily. I'm here for a good time not a long time. I just get annoyed with people knocking both Oz and the UK. Or both come to think of it. I've read everything from hysteria of crime in the UK to the hysteria of being eaten by man eating crocodiles on these forums ...not forgeting education....and want to stick up for both. I'm not going to take sides with or against either nation. It is what it is. It'll either work for you or it won't. I wish you well. But generally people need to accept that it'll work or it won't. We can all make excuses. Miss family, friends etc. No mental preparation prepares you for that. But some people need to ask themself the question is it results or excuses that will prevail

Originally Posted by robclaridge (Post 5857740)

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Sorry Rob, but you are boring me to tears. Please change the recortd

...then stop boring me with tales of whoa about how much better things are in England and how everything here is so backward and sucks! :p some of us like it here and are extremly grateful for the opportunities presented to us. I get pissed with people knocking England and also knocking Australia. The expression at work is FIFO. Fit in or FooK off :eek:

Originally Posted by robclaridge (Post 5857777)

no...no competition. I'm not here in Australia forever necessarily. I'm here for a good time not a long time. I just get annoyed with people knocking both Oz and the UK. Or both come to think of it. I've read everything from hysteria of crime in the UK to the hysteria of being eaten by man eating crocodiles on these forums ...not forgeting education....and want to stick up for both. I'm not going to take sides with or against either nation. It is what it is. It'll either work for you or it won't. I wish you well. But generally people need to accept that it'll work or it won't. We can all make excuses. Miss family, friends etc. No mental preparation prepares you for that. But some people need to ask themself the question is it results or excuses that will prevail

Originally Posted by robclaridge (Post 5857836)

...I give up with some people... Its there opinion and no-one else matters ... I did not realise you had the monopoly of the forum :mad:

Originally Posted by robclaridge (Post 5857811)

..Sorry... I did not realise I was not aloud to stick up for both nations.. I must be the lone voice. Neither shouting ozzie ozzie ozzie or come on England? I've read loads of your previous posts Georgie girl. Mostly articulate, relevent and sensible. I don't hve to patronise because our paths never meet. But at the same time I do disagree with a lot of your past comments... Why not accept that they are both great places and it suits some and not others. We don't all regret moving here you now... some of us have bettered ourselves materalistically yes... But for me its more than that, its karma and well being.

Originally Posted by jonfrank123 (Post 5856958)

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cr...ers-per-capita

This is a pretty good indicator of how ridiculous that statement is, the Uk's murder rate is Tiny, even lower than Canada and Australia