Would you advise your kids to emigrate?

Davesnave

fc123 wrote: »

Doh...I didn't even notice when I read your post....yup you not davetrousers .

Haven't been around much..and I still have your PM to respond to. Head all clogged up with ''critically important'' work trivia at the mo.

Relax. Too many Daves. Reminds me of the old Monty Python 'Too Many Alan Whickers' sketch!

More important that you keep the creative work 'trivia' going IMO, esp if it's going well. Hope so. PM can wait.

Bill

Generali

Mr_Matey wrote: »

Gladesville's a nice suburb and not as pricey as the Lower North Shore.

Why are you considering Canberra, is there a job offer down there? Give Swanny some economic pointers if you end up there. He could use them.

I don't have much bad to say about the Shire either. I grew up there and some of my family live there still. Very family friendly. Sutherland to the city is only 30 mins by train, but the transport links in most suburbs aren't so crash hot.

I like that Gladesville/Ryde/Concorde area in terms of value for money - it's very central and the prices are amazing. You can rent a 2 bed unit for a little over $300/week! And you're right on The Harbour too.

I remember you saying about The Shire and I think it's a wonderful part of Sydney. It's almost like having all the advantages of countryside and city rolled in to one. The journey in to two of my current jobs would be a disaster from there so it's a non-starter, sadly.

We're considering Canberra because the international school there is excellent and I think we're going to send the Generalissimos to international school if we can afford it so we can take the opportunity to work in Asia or even the US if it arises. I've decided to see some more of the world now I'm not tied to London, Tokyo or New York by the nature of my job.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

It's just the bestest thing ever for loads of reasons but number 1 for me would be the access to info on all sorts things that would have been difficult, if not impossible to research just 10 years ago.

To be fair, this is not a UK exclusive advance, nor the medical advances(many of which filter in from other countries, a few filter out from here. ) Sure there areplaces where access to the internet is limited and restrictd, but there are many, any more where these dvnces are at least equal to ours.

I think the simple thing is if someone needed convinceing to leave UK for family reasons etc, then its likely not to be the right move for them. But for non-homebodies, well, In milan, for example, I was closer, time wise, to home than I would have been from the north of England, and when Dh was there and I here his commute weekly was cheaper than it now is from London!

FungusFighter

You dudes foget that if you move to another country youll always be a Brit in another country

You'll never completey be accepted, never completely get the joke, never completely understand and first himt of economic probs you'll get the blame and be told to go home:D

Generali

FungusFighter wrote: »

You dudes foget that if you move to another country youll always be a Brit in another country

I've had several women in Aus tell me my accent is 'sexy' since moving here. It's not always a bad thing being a foreigner!

Anyhow, I'm used to getting the blame for things. According to some idiot on here, I'm responsible for the whole credit crunch/global financial crisis thing!

lostinrates

FungusFighter wrote: »

You dudes foget that if you move to another country youll always be a Brit in another country

You'll never completey be accepted, never completely get the joke, never completely understand and first himt of economic probs you'll get the blame and be told to go home:D

How well you integrate depends on how hard you try, IMO. May be what sort of person you are. My mother is an immgrant, she's more British than most Britsand has a cut glass accent: she'd make the most bulldog of Brits feel ethnic. Another examplemight be Quasar: she gets, an initiates, subtlies of humour and language that would bely her non-Brit roots. As a child I was educated in local schools, not British preps. Language can be an issue, but if you immerse yourself its amazing how much more you getto know than you realise, and an intelligent immgrant to any country can become more literate than many natives. The old joke of course is tht Germans are better at English than the English, as I am told are the Scandinavians. Idon't find it impossible to believe.

There are subtlties of dialect etc even in UK, but more so elsewhere: DH's Italian colleagues and I used to joke they had saved me from his terrible Tuscan abuse of Italian

I've lived in a lot of countries, (not 60 though, Geoffky maybe trave through too quickly to integrate and see more than the surface?)


You'll always be you in another country (thats the key). An element of that is of course going to be British culture and language as it stands now: including all its cultural influences.

wheresmydoshat

we were due to emigrate to new zealand 3 years ago, but we stalled, and something that happened to us made me realise how important having your family and friends around you is.

since then we have had our first son, and although we would love to move abroad, i think being without the people you have had around you for so long would be a big loss.

wheresmydoshat

stupid, drunken, violent people

speak for yourself, i'm not violent !

wolfman

wolvoman wrote: »

8. Travel - No other passport allows such global access to the world than the UK.

There are a few. New Zealand passport is valued more highly. But we still have a very little requirement to get into most countries.

warehouse

amcluesent wrote: »

>I never know how to respond to Amc's posts. Sometimes I ignore but other times I feel compelled to respond...he is so neg about everything in the UK.<

I like to think I'm realistic.

Just look beyond the propaganda of the BBC and really ask yourself what has improved in Britain in the last 15 years. I can't think of a single thing.

Then ask yourself what has got worse. Quality of life is dire, damn near a police state, cretinous yoofs out of control, we are borrowing to pay the interest on borrowing, idle half-wit feather-bedded chavs everywhere, corruption and cronism rife in every part of politics, fuel insecurity, food insecurity, crushing taxation, service and manners forgotten concepts, pip-squeak bureaucrats relishing their incompetence, the F-word bellowed out on every street, everything is bodged for a quick profit, middle-classes under attack from the State and turned into criminals, oppressive political correctness eliminated freedom of speech, English hardly heard n schools, Victorian infrastructure tired and broken, roads at gridlock, prices sky-high, overcrowding, 'no go' Midlands towns, stealth taxes, EE encampments in the woods, drug-use and drug-crime out of control, ...

Let's be realistic, England was in a terminal spiral of decline that was temporarily halted by the exploitation and squandering of North Sea oil. Now that's gone, nothing to show for it and we're back to the grim reality of a nation of stupid, drunken, violent people "led" by corrupt politicians who still spin the lie that we can 'punch above our weight' after winning the war.

LMAO, thanks for that, it's made my day. Why not just go slash your wrists . It's not the UK that has real issues that it hasn't had for hundreds of years, it's manic depressives like you. The south coast of Spain is full of people like you.