How long have you lived in your new country?
Aug 6th 2008, 7:00 pm
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Re: How long have you lived in your new country?
Been in TX just over two years.
Just got back yesterday from eight weeks in the UK. I am surprised to say that I was home sick for TX and am very happy to be back. Maybe it had something to do with living with my parents again after ten years of standing on my own two feet
Just got back yesterday from eight weeks in the UK. I am surprised to say that I was home sick for TX and am very happy to be back. Maybe it had something to do with living with my parents again after ten years of standing on my own two feet
Aug 6th 2008, 7:16 pm
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Re: How long have you lived in your new country?
I've been here for 9 1/2 years. I'm not yet a citizen (got my interview tomorrow), but I've been a permanent resident for about 7 years now.
I do still feel British, although when I go home people tell me I sound American. Yet I still get comments about my British accent here in the US.
(I suppose the fact that I just referred to Britain as "home" is a tell of how I feel! LOL)
I do still feel British, although when I go home people tell me I sound American. Yet I still get comments about my British accent here in the US.
(I suppose the fact that I just referred to Britain as "home" is a tell of how I feel! LOL)
Aug 6th 2008, 7:19 pm
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Aug 6th 2008, 7:22 pm
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Re: How long have you lived in your new country?
Aug 6th 2008, 7:28 pm
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Re: How long have you lived in your new country?
well it takes all sorts and glad that you feel settled as lots of expats that causes a big problem for them, they never can settle..... however that's not a problem for me i'm pleased to say.
Aug 6th 2008, 7:56 pm
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Re: How long have you lived in your new country?
21 years. Paddington Green is probably the only ( or one of few) member on BE that has been in the US longer................... yet I still feel a sense of not exactly fitting in or feeling like this is home for me. 
Aug 6th 2008, 8:21 pm
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Re: How long have you lived in your new country?
Settled and happy in California
Aug 6th 2008, 8:21 pm
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Aug 6th 2008, 8:26 pm
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Aug 6th 2008, 8:29 pm
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Re: How long have you lived in your new country?
4 1/2 years living here
finding somewhere where we are so happy was a revelation - I thought it would be harder and I'd be homesick for family/friends/etc ..... I wasnt and havent been.
home is here - its all my kids know of, its where our life is .... and having just spent 3 weeks back in the UK repeatedly commenting with the OH that we never want to go back to live there again. Its just not for us.
finding somewhere where we are so happy was a revelation - I thought it would be harder and I'd be homesick for family/friends/etc ..... I wasnt and havent been.
home is here - its all my kids know of, its where our life is .... and having just spent 3 weeks back in the UK repeatedly commenting with the OH that we never want to go back to live there again. Its just not for us.
Aug 6th 2008, 8:31 pm
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Re: How long have you lived in your new country?
Yes all of that, the street we lived on was the friendliest street we have ever lived on in Texas. Here in Cali, we hardly every see our neighbours at all here in California (I find it a little weird). I also miss the thunderstorms (although the occasional Tornado warning was alittle scary)
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Aug 6th 2008, 8:34 pm
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Yep, did that last year too and went back to Blighty for a couple of weeks.................., wet, windy, overpopulated,outrageous prices........and not for me and my family either.
Aug 6th 2008, 8:36 pm
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Re: How long have you lived in your new country?
I'm in California not Texas. Gucci sunglasses, cargo shorts, flip flops and a convertible Mercedes might be more in order.