For good that is? Back to the UK?
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to move back but the more I read on the news sights and here from relatives and friends back home, the more I think I wouldn't like it. I enjoy going back for a visit but it is nice to come back to the US again now.
The kids enjoy coming back here too after visiting the UK. Katy decided to go to school with her cousin last year for one day and was not impressed at all. She found the students rude and difficult and ended up feeling very sorry for the teachers, not something a normal teenager should be thinking about.
So, who would move back in a heartbeat? Would there have to be a specific reason or temptation for you to want to go back?
Today, might be a bit of a stretch, but give me a week and you wouldn't see me for dust.
Ging back home this week first time for 5 years give my opinion when i return .
no point in given my opinion of how blighy *sucks *before seeing it first hand .
I phone my sister a couple of times each month. She gives me first hand reports and I read the local newspaper each week. Between the two I hear little that would attract me to return even for a visit.
Ottawa has been my home for the last 44 years. The last visit in 1982 convinced me that I made the right move.
Life here is too good. I wouldn't return for any reason.
I can't think of any reason. If I could eat sausages and back bacon and steak and kidney pie all day..... but even if I could, it would probably become boring.
My three daughters all live within an hours drive from here so........
I don't care too much either way. I'm here because my life is here now and it would just be too much hassle to move. It'd be nice to go to the occasional footie match and the odd beer here and there but nothing I can't do without.
I'll have to say I'm Maczippied on that one
I dream of the little world that is left there, then I have to think about the - vs + and there you have it
My home is now here, but I just wish I could have my other family with me.
But no-one can have it all, so I guess, my hubby is alive because we are here, and may not have been if we were back in the UK . . . .
I can't go back, the climate would bloody kill me. 85F and I'm just finding my toes. I don't have much family left back there, but him indoors does, and we always say, if we went back, where would they go for holidays?
As to the more serious side of your question Ben, I too have been following the news back home, it's bloody outrageous. Kids shooting kids, kids knifing kids, I don't call it anarchy as some UK politician did, but I call it the result of a nanny state. Parents gave up. Or something.
Anyway, roadtrip!!, we collected our pal and are now heading off to collect the RV he bought.
eBay has a lot to answer for. wink
For good that is? Back to the UK?
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to move back but the more I read on the news sights and here from relatives and friends back home, the more I think I wouldn't like it. ?
I know what you mean, the stories of neglect after the Katrina hurricane, the shootings at schools and universities, guns everywhere, racial ghettoes etc etc. Makes me thick I'd never go back the US sounds like its become a dangerous and nasty place.
Going back to the UK though would be a doodle. A good economy, low unemployment, and no football players killing dogs. Sounds lovely.
One thing I've noticed that's changed in the UK - parenting is utterly crap.
Go on a transatlantic flight and see whose kids are the worst behaved - it's the Brits.
I was on a train and about to get off when the five year old that had been kicking my overnight bag I'd left in a luggage rack suddenly started swinging into me (he was holding on to a pole) in full view of his father. I said "stop that" and I got "he's only a child" from the father. So why not tell him to stop it yourself then, jerk?
For good that is? Back to the UK?
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to move back but the more I read on the news sights and here from relatives and friends back home, the more I think I wouldn't like it. ?
I know what you mean, the stories of neglect after the Katrina hurricane, the shootings at schools and universities, guns everywhere, racial ghettoes etc etc. Makes me thick I'd never go back the US sounds like its become a dangerous and nasty place.
Going back to the UK though would be a doodle. A good economy, low unemployment, and no football players killing dogs. Sounds lovely.
I don't disagree that the US has its problems, Moo. So does Canada. One of the biggest differences I see, though, is the rallying around in helping those in need in the US compared to what is often the case in the UK. The UK has had horrendous flooding in many areas but there has rarely been any comments on people helping people. The UK has the expectation that the government will help so everyone doesn't need to bother.
Also, as far as the shootings are concerned - there aren't supposed to be guns in the UK or people killing other people but it is happening more and more often.
Like Canada, the UK is supposed to be a socialised country - yet there are still huge numbers of homeless people/families.
One of the biggest differences I see between the two countries - UK and US - is where crime happens in general. No matter where I lived in the UK I would never have left my front or back door unlocked, or my car running while I popped into a shop. I wouldn't walk around at night. But I can do all of these things where we live in the US.
People care here.
People care here.
Depends on personal experience. I encountered an individual last night who charges his mothers estate $50 per hour to visit her in hospital, including travel time. Of course there's many that do care about their relatives, but there's quite a few nightmare scenarios like this one.
Being a nurse, I get quite an insight into how much people care. And I didn't see it on one of those "neighbors helping neighbors" feelgood stories you see on US television.
One thing I've noticed that's changed in the UK - parenting is utterly crap.
Go on a transatlantic flight and see whose kids are the worst behaved - it's the Brits.
I was on a train and about to get off when the five year old that had been kicking my overnight bag I'd left in a luggage rack suddenly started swinging into me (he was holding on to a pole) in full view of his father. I said "stop that" and I got "he's only a child" from the father. So why not tell him to stop it yourself then, jerk?
I disagree. I think American kids and parents are just the same. I've seen some shocking examples justified by "he's just a child!".
I could move back to the UK. It would be an effort. And I'd have to implement some ideas I've got from over here (screens on the windows being number one). I feel both countries have issues that I'm not entirely happy with.
Regardless, if something happened to my H I think I would take the dog and move back to the UK. If he agreed now, I'd move back.
Stel.
No.
Life is pretty damn perfect where we live, weather, quality of life, safety and peace and quiet...
Plus I can get to anywhere in the US and ROW without much of a todoo.
..and I couldn't leave MMM behind either.
That said I will be going back next year (my 3rd visit in 18 years) to cover the British MotoGP and a wedding too...
Andrew )
For good that is? Back to the UK?
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to move back but the more I read on the news sights and here from relatives and friends back home, the more I think I wouldn't like it. ?
I know what you mean, the stories of neglect after the Katrina hurricane, the shootings at schools and universities, guns everywhere, racial ghettoes etc etc. Makes me thick I'd never go back the US sounds like its become a dangerous and nasty place.
Going back to the UK though would be a doodle. A good economy, low unemployment, and no football players killing dogs. Sounds lovely.
I don't disagree that the US has its problems, Moo. So does Canada. One of the biggest differences I see, though, is the rallying around in helping those in need in the US compared to what is often the case in the UK. The UK has had horrendous flooding in many areas but there has rarely been any comments on people helping people. The UK has the expectation that the government will help so everyone doesn't need to bother.
Also, as far as the shootings are concerned - there aren't supposed to be guns in the UK or people killing other people but it is happening more and more often.
Like Canada, the UK is supposed to be a socialised country - yet there are still huge numbers of homeless people/families.
One of the biggest differences I see between the two countries - UK and US - is where crime happens in general. No matter where I lived in the UK I would never have left my front or back door unlocked, or my car running while I popped into a shop. I wouldn't walk around at night. But I can do all of these things where we live in the US.
People care here.
Interesting comments, but all anecdotal evidence. There were 50 killings in the UK last year by firearms, in the US as we know there are approximately 30,000 gunrelated deaths per year. There is more violent crime in the US per capita compared with the UK. The education system is the worst in the developed world, infant mortality is much worse, life expectancy is worse. Over 50 % of bankruptcies are due to medical costs, and 75% of those are people WITH medical insurance.
And to counter with anecdotal evidence of my own, when I lived in Sussex in the UK, I left my door unlocked for 7 years without an issue, but I had to move to the US to get my car broken into.....it all comes down to preference, if you based it on the figures alone, no one would ever move here.