Who likes it here?
Feb 8th 2007, 8:22 pm
#151
spuggy
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Re: Who likes it here?
Does one have to be unhappy in the USA in order to associate with other brits? I love my life here, but there are things I miss. One of those things is the British sense of humour, and there is plenty of it around here it seems ( I am fairly new to this site myself).
Feb 8th 2007, 8:23 pm
#152
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Re: Who likes it here?
We should swop states.....
Feb 8th 2007, 8:25 pm
#153
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Re: Who likes it here?
I have had fun reading the replies as this is the first time I have ever participated in a forum
My homesickness comes from missing the culture (I live in rural Ohio - enough said
, and especially my family. My parents are getting older and, coming from a close family, I feel terrible when i cannot be there. i miss the popping in and having a cup of tea. I miss the dry sense of humor. I have close family friends who live in California and I would love to move there (North Cal). I hate the weather here, humid in Summer and freezing snow and ice in the Winter. I do like the schools where I live and the close community. Maybe I am seeing the UK through rose coloured glasses
Also I am getting fed up with people asking me if I am from South Africa or Australia. I know I have been here for 14 yrs but whenever I meet other Brits, they know right away. When they ask where I am from and I say Oxford - blank looks 99%
My homesickness comes from missing the culture (I live in rural Ohio - enough said , and especially my family. My parents are getting older and, coming from a close family, I feel terrible when i cannot be there. i miss the popping in and having a cup of tea. I miss the dry sense of humor. I have close family friends who live in California and I would love to move there (North Cal). I hate the weather here, humid in Summer and freezing snow and ice in the Winter. I do like the schools where I live and the close community. Maybe I am seeing the UK through rose coloured glasses Also I am getting fed up with people asking me if I am from South Africa or Australia. I know I have been here for 14 yrs but whenever I meet other Brits, they know right away. When they ask where I am from and I say Oxford - blank looks 99%
I cant believe the amount of Newbies popping out the wood work on this thread.
Feb 8th 2007, 8:29 pm
#154
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Re: Who likes it here?
I have one friend who is coming round to my naughty sense of humour
Feb 8th 2007, 8:30 pm
#155
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Re: Who likes it here?
I think the knitting circle just doubled in size.... 
Feb 8th 2007, 8:33 pm
#157
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Re: Who likes it here?
This has been an interesting thread. I'm not in the US yet, and not likely to be for a while as I'm just starting the process of getting over there as a nurse. I'm hoping we will cope with the move well as we pretty much on our own as a family unit anyway. We moved up to Scotland 2 years ago from leeds and left my family behind, not that it was a great loss as my parents have never really been all that interested. Don't get me wrong I love them to bits as they do us, but they are not exactly doting grandparents and would rather not bother, we probably see them 2 or three times a year. My inlaws live over in Cyprus and have done for over 10 years and we see them maybe once a year or less. Both myself and my husband are only children, and my parents were both only children so we have no brothers or sisters, aunts and uncles. We have one or 2 close friends and that is it, we are up here in Scotland basically on our own and thats fine by us, we have always managed and always will. I know england to scotland is not the same as Uk to US but the fact that we are complete loners already probably makes it slightly easier to leave and not pine to come back to family.
Ask me the same question in a few years when we are over in the states though and it might be a different story who knows, you'll never know unless you try.
Ask me the same question in a few years when we are over in the states though and it might be a different story who knows, you'll never know unless you try.
Feb 8th 2007, 8:39 pm
#160
spuggy
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Re: Who likes it here?
I know what you mean, this is the third time in 29 years we have lived here. First time I was going insane, second time I was okay, third time we moved into this village that is an anomaly in Ohio. I still miss the culture in England. Rose coloured glasses, no not really? I was back home for a month last year and my opinion hasn't changed. thank heavens for the internet though and cheap phone calls. I remember in 78 we had to book calls home through the operator and it cost an arm and a leg. Now I can talk to my mum almost every day, or via the net.
Feb 8th 2007, 8:45 pm
#162
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Re: Who likes it here?
I know what you mean, this is the third time in 29 years we have lived here. First time I was going insane, second time I was okay, third time we moved into this village that is an anomaly in Ohio. I still miss the culture in England. Rose coloured glasses, no not really? I was back home for a month last year and my opinion hasn't changed. thank heavens for the internet though and cheap phone calls. I remember in 78 we had to book calls home through the operator and it cost an arm and a leg. Now I can talk to my mum almost every day, or via the net.
Feb 8th 2007, 8:54 pm
#164
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Re: Who likes it here?
There's really no reason why I would ever move back to the UK. Not even for the aforementioned million dollars. And I mean that. A million dollars would not last five minutes in the UK, and really wouldn't compensate me enough for the lousy standard of living, crappy job, indiscrimate vandalism, bored Saturday night violence, and miserable weather that I would have to endure for the next 50 years.
Are you Welsh ???
