Well I went on the Asda website yesterday and believe me it's cheaper. Another guy who left Oz last week came on here and reported that he'd arrived home and filled his freezer for far less than he paid here. I don't care what anyone says, you can do research before you come here yes, but it's only by actually living here that you fully get to experience the true costs.

If you read my post again, you will see that I do blame ourselves for buying into the lies but it doesn't alter the fact that we are being fed lies and that many other people will also buy into those lies. A lie is a lie whichever way you look at it - and I personally think it's a bit harsh to just say that you don't have sympathy with people who have lost everything that they have worked all their lives for. It's actually quite heartbreaking to lose everything, based on one wrong decision.

We kept our house in the UK, it is brilliant investment, if nothing else.
It has been rented out the whole time I have been here. The rent money more than covers the mortgage. It never crossed my mind that it would make it easy to go back, as far as I knew I wasn't going back. When and if I do go back I wouldn't live there again, I would go somewhere else. I would probably use the equity in it to obtain another home. Over five years the value of the house has increased, whether I was going back or not, for me keeping it as an investment was the best thing I did.

We did sell our cars, odds and ends of furniture, gave away alot as well. Those things are consumable goods not likely to increase in value at all, but the property that is a completely different story.

So my best advice is, based on how things have worked out for me, don't sell up if you can help it. If nobody wants to listen or as it was so delicately put before "they don't give a toss". Then they are foolish in the extreme not to even stop for a moment to consider a way to keep it if they can. My retirement is almost certainly financially secure.

Hey I've just realised - this is getting a boring Saturday night over for us isn't it? Thanks 232

See - now you're getting the idea. A post that puts forward a point of view rather than attempting to start an argument

So - my work here is done then?

You can poodle off to bed with a clear conscience for once!

And what do you mean by this exactly?

Or not

Bugger - Polly is here - best be good

Read into it what you will, but don't spend too much time on it

I'd have to have one in the first place to get it dirty

reading your posts I'm not entirly sure you have one to sell and if you have i'm not sure you'd get a normal fiddle for it much less a gold one !

what a crock of shite

God you must be bored if you've gone trolling through all my old posts. Ah well, whatever floats your boat

Stop beating around the bush - say what you mean