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Forum: Back Home
Jun 16th 2011, 11:23 am
Replies: 55
Views: 17,017
Posted By Menschlein

Re: Been Back 7 Months . Update

Best of luck on your return. You are certainly not the first to have done such a move. Here in Canada this venture is referred to as the Ten Thousand Dollar Cure. Costly yes, but often the only way...
Forum: Back Home
Jun 7th 2011, 1:52 am
Replies: 55
Views: 17,017
Posted By Menschlein

Re: Been Back 7 Months . Update

Oh yes, those wonderful social differences. The humour and tenacity. The easy access to some of the best sights on the planet. We can leave our country, but our country never leaves us. It's...
Forum: Back Home
Jun 6th 2011, 2:45 pm
Replies: 55
Views: 17,017
Posted By Menschlein

Re: Been Back 7 Months . Update

True to a point. However when the ecconomic hardships you left behind are now overtaking the very country you chose as your second home, the very reasons for immigrating in the first place have now...
Forum: Germany
Jun 4th 2011, 9:46 am
Replies: 20
Views: 4,059
Posted By Menschlein

Re: Berlins for Brits

British Student.... Hope you will be happy in Berlin. I would love to live there, even if only for a month or two just so that I could visit all the places I have never seen before I left to work in...
Forum: USA
Apr 4th 2011, 7:24 am
Replies: 1,530
Views: 314,907
Posted By Menschlein

Re: Anyone Regret Moving To USA

She should have been eaten at birth....
Forum: Germany
Mar 29th 2011, 12:29 am
Replies: 20
Views: 4,059
Posted By Menschlein

Re: Berlins for Brits

Ok, in order to remedy my mistake here is the translation of the above. Referring to the curry wurst, which I had forgotten to mention through words in my Berliner Dialect I continue to recall...
Forum: USA
Mar 28th 2011, 7:56 am
Replies: 1,530
Views: 314,907
Posted By Menschlein

Re: Anyone Regret Moving To USA

It's too bad that other peoples attitudes only too frequently influence our lifes to such an extend, but sadly they do, only too often. There have been times when I felt removed from the herd, my own...
Forum: Germany
Mar 28th 2011, 5:33 am
Replies: 20
Views: 4,059
Posted By Menschlein

Re: Berlins for Brits

Na klar, Mensch Meir det hat ick doch verjessen.... Curry Wurscht, Weihnachts Märkte überall, die schönen Kondietoreien, die Berliner Luft, (just kidding) die Berlinger Klappe usw....Wier wollten...
Forum: Germany
Mar 28th 2011, 4:30 am
Replies: 20
Views: 4,059
Posted By Menschlein

Re: Berlins for Brits

There is also the Hartnackschule on Motz Strasse (look for the Yellow Cube). Not sure if English otr primarily Ammi speak.
Forum: Germany
Mar 27th 2011, 1:23 pm
Replies: 102
Views: 57,687
Posted By Menschlein

Re: if you had a choice, germany, canada or australia

Be aware that residents of France are liable for tax on their worldwide income, so a pension being drawn in another country would need to be declared in France. France does have a double taxation...
Forum: USA
Mar 27th 2011, 9:50 am
Replies: 1,530
Views: 314,907
Posted By Menschlein

Re: Anyone Regret Moving To USA

I remember the Land of Green Ginger, it's down Whitefriar Gate. Used to walk past it on the way to the indoor market. Along the same road is also Britains smallest window.
Forum: Germany
Mar 27th 2011, 9:40 am
Replies: 102
Views: 57,687
Posted By Menschlein

Re: if you had a choice, germany, canada or australia

Glad to hear that you are among the few truly settled into a permanent, well paying position therefore probably by-passing the desire to return to your roots. However, speaking from experience and...
Forum: USA
Mar 27th 2011, 2:20 am
Replies: 1,530
Views: 314,907
Posted By Menschlein

Re: Anyone Regret Moving To USA

In Canada too we are repeatedly told that this is the Greatest country on Earth and that people the world over are seeking access. True, there are some great places, if you can afford to live in...
Forum: USA
Mar 26th 2011, 2:27 pm
Replies: 1,530
Views: 314,907
Posted By Menschlein

Re: Anyone Regret Moving To USA

Lived there from 1961 to 1964 in the Stoneferry area and several years in the early 70's up by the Compass Rd Estate. I remember Richard Zeizers, Needlers, and Russel and Lambert (rat) during the...
Forum: Germany
Mar 26th 2011, 9:32 am
Replies: 102
Views: 57,687
Posted By Menschlein

Re: if you had a choice, germany, canada or australia

Oh yes, In Canada nobody is sent off to a KUR as is the case in Germany where Health Care appears to be quite lavish to many over here. Another point to consider is this....unless you are protected...
Forum: USA
Mar 26th 2011, 9:05 am
Replies: 1,530
Views: 314,907
Posted By Menschlein

Re: Anyone Regret Moving To USA

In responce to to bigmattE. I remembered while reading your letter all those years I lived and worked in Hull, Yorkshire during the early 60's. As a native of Germany I was the butt of many nasty...
Forum: Germany
Mar 26th 2011, 5:25 am
Replies: 102
Views: 57,687
Posted By Menschlein

Re: if you had a choice, germany, canada or australia

Having lived in Canada for many years there are numerous factors which must be considered before moving. Unless you have a rare profession, wish to become self employed, have connections or are...
Forum: Germany
Mar 25th 2011, 11:38 am
Replies: 20
Views: 4,059
Posted By Menschlein

Re: Berlins for Brits

Oh how I envey U. Ich bin eine echte Berlinerin, born in the heart of Berlin, went to England, married a Yorkshire fellow and eventually immigrated to Canada, and have been Homesick ever since. I...
Forum: Back Home
Mar 25th 2011, 1:59 am
Replies: 55
Views: 17,017
Posted By Menschlein

Re: Been Back 7 Months . Update

The best thing for you to do, if your heart is aching for all that which cannot be found on foreign shores, is to go back home for a visit before making any further decisions. Choose to go home at a...
Forum: Back Home
Mar 13th 2011, 1:12 pm
Replies: 55
Views: 17,017
Posted By Menschlein

Re: Been Back 7 Months . Update

To most immigrants their greatest loss is that of their Motherland/Fatherland. Having now lost (given up) the support of their familiar root system, a system rarely to be found again on foreign...
Forum: Back Home
Mar 12th 2011, 1:17 pm
Replies: 55
Views: 17,017
Posted By Menschlein

Re: Been Back 7 Months . Update

We love to read of all those who returned back to their Homelands. We are still in contact with several of our British friends who did just that over the years and none appear to have regretted it....
Forum: Canniversary
Mar 10th 2011, 12:12 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 3,817
Posted By Menschlein

Re: 6 months done in Calgary, AB

Greetings to all. Alberta can be challenging indeed. Stick in there it will all work out in the end. Jobs are hard to come by in Canada period, we know, have been here since 1964. Unless you have a...
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