What im loving/not loving about visiting UK
Apr 24th 2013, 2:44 pm
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Apr 24th 2013, 3:02 pm
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Apr 24th 2013, 3:07 pm
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Apr 24th 2013, 3:13 pm
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Apr 24th 2013, 3:14 pm
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http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Curry-S.../dp/B0002ITQAU
Apr 24th 2013, 3:15 pm
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Apr 24th 2013, 3:34 pm
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We always got the chinese curry, I've found one over here called S & B curry, ( it looks like a bar of chocolate ).
http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Curry-S.../dp/B0002ITQAU
http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Curry-S.../dp/B0002ITQAU
Apr 24th 2013, 5:50 pm
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I do so much prefer the order at the bar and get your own drinks self service used in the UK 
Although now I'm getting older I do struggle to remember what everyone wants when going up to order, often end up going back to get the friggin table number
Although now I'm getting older I do struggle to remember what everyone wants when going up to order, often end up going back to get the friggin table number
Apr 24th 2013, 8:51 pm
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If you like the US better, you can write up a pro & con list that reflects that very easily. If you miss the UK & hate the US, your list will naturally show that UK bias. But that doesn't help anyone else but the list-maker, who already probably knows which country s/he likes better.
That said, I'll be back to UK for the first time in 5 years in June, so watch me eat my words.
Apr 24th 2013, 8:54 pm
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Apr 24th 2013, 8:59 pm
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Exactly!! Vive la difference & all that. Why always compare one narrow aspect of one country (quality of restaurant service, cost of a sandwich, etc.) with another in order to continually total up which one comes out "best"...? They're different, & always will be.
If you like the US better, you can write up a pro & con list that reflects that very easily. If you miss the UK & hate the US, your list will naturally show that UK bias. But that doesn't help anyone else but the list-maker, who already probably knows which country s/he likes better.
I'll go back for the first time in two years soon. I'm wondering if that's a mistake--is the going back & forth what causes this mental compulsion that one country must "win" over the other?
If you like the US better, you can write up a pro & con list that reflects that very easily. If you miss the UK & hate the US, your list will naturally show that UK bias. But that doesn't help anyone else but the list-maker, who already probably knows which country s/he likes better.
I'll go back for the first time in two years soon. I'm wondering if that's a mistake--is the going back & forth what causes this mental compulsion that one country must "win" over the other?
Apr 24th 2013, 9:10 pm
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Love
1 Reconnecting with friends - and its as if ive never left
2 Shopping - Brent Cross- Watford - Primark - bliss
3 Seeing family and being back in my dear late mams house
4 The absence of high fructose corn syrup in food - and good old plain food- Weetabix Ive missed you!!!
5 Toby Carvery - enough said
6 Public transport- the best bus, train and tube system
Not loving
1 The cold weather up north - where I live in US is similar weather BUT we have lots and lots more blue skies - its not warm for me in US but in the north here its freezing!
2 - the grey clouds ALL the time
3 The cost of food!!!! 2 small salads - teeny tiny - a bread roll and 2 teeny fruit salads - nearly £30 in a dept store!!!!! really!!!
4 The service - enough said!!!! or rather lack of is so noticeable after US - I WANT to be asked if I found everything ok - I want someone to tell me to have a beautiful day and to take care out there - I want to be asked if I need help taking my shopping to my car and most of all I don't want to pack my own groceries!!!
5 -wheres the water with my meals?????? why when I ask for some do I get a glass of luke warm tap water!!!!!!!
6 - the price of clothes!
Ive only been here a few days so to be continued!!!!
1 Reconnecting with friends - and its as if ive never left
2 Shopping - Brent Cross- Watford - Primark - bliss
3 Seeing family and being back in my dear late mams house
4 The absence of high fructose corn syrup in food - and good old plain food- Weetabix Ive missed you!!!
5 Toby Carvery - enough said
6 Public transport- the best bus, train and tube system
Not loving
1 The cold weather up north - where I live in US is similar weather BUT we have lots and lots more blue skies - its not warm for me in US but in the north here its freezing!
2 - the grey clouds ALL the time
3 The cost of food!!!! 2 small salads - teeny tiny - a bread roll and 2 teeny fruit salads - nearly £30 in a dept store!!!!! really!!!
4 The service - enough said!!!! or rather lack of is so noticeable after US - I WANT to be asked if I found everything ok - I want someone to tell me to have a beautiful day and to take care out there - I want to be asked if I need help taking my shopping to my car and most of all I don't want to pack my own groceries!!!
5 -wheres the water with my meals?????? why when I ask for some do I get a glass of luke warm tap water!!!!!!!
6 - the price of clothes!
Ive only been here a few days so to be continued!!!!
There are things I love about both places. I love looking at houses (sad I know) and was in shock at what your money gets you in the SE these days... I actually don't think prices have changed that much since I left, just my perspective as I live in Houston and you get a LOT of house for your money here...!
If only we could combine the best of both countries...!
Apr 24th 2013, 10:03 pm
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My feeling was that your list was light-hearted food for thought, and my comments are too, really. I think we're all very lucky to be able to travel, and to know two different countries well enough to compare them in detail the way we do....
Apr 24th 2013, 10:31 pm
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I assumed at least some of your visits had to do with illness in the family, CADreaming, as I thought I remembered you posting about that. But I did wonder if--for whatever reason an expat returns to the homeland--the more trips there are back & forth between the homeland and the expat country, the more the mind would tend to compare & contrast the two. Maybe it's just the way expat minds work.
My feeling was that your list was light-hearted food for thought, and my comments are too, really. I think we're all very lucky to be able to travel, and to know two different countries well enough to compare them in detail the way we do....
My feeling was that your list was light-hearted food for thought, and my comments are too, really. I think we're all very lucky to be able to travel, and to know two different countries well enough to compare them in detail the way we do....
I like the UK but I realise I like the democracy of the US (running for cover
) and other things that I would have to give up.
Apr 25th 2013, 2:24 am
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Democracy of the US? You mean how you can vote for who you like and the country goes in the exact same direction, same as it did in the UK?