If you could live anywhere in the world....
Feb 22nd 2013, 10:05 am
#16
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Re: If you could live anywhere in the world....
Not desperate to move anywhere.
Wouldn't mind a stint in southern America though, Paraguay, Uruguay, Panama, Chile, Argentina
Wouldn't mind a stint in southern America though, Paraguay, Uruguay, Panama, Chile, Argentina
Feb 22nd 2013, 10:34 am
#17
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Re: If you could live anywhere in the world....
Small Heath or Alum Rock.
Feb 22nd 2013, 10:39 am
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Feb 22nd 2013, 11:13 am
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Re: If you could live anywhere in the world....
+1.
Somewhere nice, not too far from London but not right in the city as well. One of the Home Counties, probably. F*** NI, too many pro-republican twunts there these days for my liking
If I were to limit my choice to the US - probably somewhere in the southwest. Arizona or California - if I could work myself up to being able to take the heat, of course.
Somewhere nice, not too far from London but not right in the city as well. One of the Home Counties, probably. F*** NI, too many pro-republican twunts there these days for my liking
If I were to limit my choice to the US - probably somewhere in the southwest. Arizona or California - if I could work myself up to being able to take the heat, of course.
Feb 22nd 2013, 11:28 am
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Feb 22nd 2013, 11:30 am
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Re: If you could live anywhere in the world....
Irish republicans, dear boy. IRA types.
I don't like the other kind either, but one can't seem to escape them here, even in so called blue states. Plenty of BE lefties seem to be able to live there just fine, though.
I don't like the other kind either, but one can't seem to escape them here, even in so called blue states. Plenty of BE lefties seem to be able to live there just fine, though.
Feb 22nd 2013, 11:54 am
#23
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Re: If you could live anywhere in the world....
I lived in AZ for 3 years. Tried to put a brave face on it for the first year, but after 2 had to admit that I friggin hated it. Mind you, that was Phoenix, perhaps it's not all that bad....
Feb 22nd 2013, 12:11 pm
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Re: If you could live anywhere in the world....
Castlebay, Isle of Barra, Western Isles.....and learn to speak the local language.
Feb 23rd 2013, 12:54 am
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Re: If you could live anywhere in the world....
What I struggle with are perhaps minor...
1 - the staggeringly bad driving standards
2 - the level of self-absorption in a significant number of people here, which certainly doesn't help with #1
The GOP nut jobbery you can find most places.
In time I get used to #1 and 2 - gives me reason to bark at the moon, which I like to do frequently.
TV programming is sh1te - probably a generic thing.
The medical, political, financial, educational systems are utterly broken - not specific to AZ I am sure, though sometimes AZ seems to try harder to be more broken about them.
Being here is a career move. We don't plan to retire here - couldn't afford it.
Most other things I like. Most people I have regular interaction with here are just delightful, helpful, sincere, thoughtful, and all-round good eggs.
Oz, the small bits I have seen is nice. But I think for me & the Missus, the heart is back home in Blighty. The green, the rain, the family, the NHS, and decent tea!
Feb 23rd 2013, 4:09 am
#26
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Re: If you could live anywhere in the world....
Feb 23rd 2013, 4:12 am
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Re: If you could live anywhere in the world....
Almost every day we see a new thread from someone in the UK who's desperate to move the US. Sometimes they've been here, sometimes they haven't. So it got me wondering..... does anyone who does live here feel desperate to move somewhere else? If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Feb 23rd 2013, 4:15 am
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Feb 23rd 2013, 4:32 am
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