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Brits abroad - 12/11/2006 6:41:09 AM

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10% of the British population choose to live permanently abroad.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/in_depth/brits_abroad/html/
I put that down to Thatcher and Blair and the tide of political correctness. To be a male hetro-sexual Anglo-Saxon in Britain now, is akin to being a member of the SS and somewhat frowned upon. Seriously, I put myself in the economic refugee department from when Thatcher did single handed what the German Luftwaffe couldn't, destroy Britain's industry. Now I wouldn't go back if I was paid.

If you left your country, where would you go and why?

And don't say you live in the best country in the world, no one does so take off those rose tinted glasses and consider an option.

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RE: Brits abroad - 12/11/2006 8:03:52 AM

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My parents and unlce and aunt live in Spain now and have done for the last four years. There reason for leaving Britian was warmer weather and cheaper living so therefore a better standard.
If i was to leave Britian and i would in a breath i would probably go to Spain too. I could easily find work in my parents village and have probably enough spanish vocab to do so. I am planning a trip to USA early next year to visit my God so who knows USA may be an option too.

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RE: Brits abroad - 12/11/2006 8:38:22 AM

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Probably the Netherlands. Pot and hookers, can't beat that. LOL.

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RE: Brits abroad - 12/11/2006 9:04:40 AM

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Almost anywhere except Britain. Overcrowded, overstressed, overpriced, overestimated, overcontrolled. Cold, windy, rainy and populated by millionaires at one end of the scale and paupers at the other, with an overworked, overtaxed majority in the middle expected to provide for all and locked into a struggle to avoid bankruptcy whilst aspiring to a lifestyle beyond its means according to the diktat of lifestyle TV.

And then they wonder why we have high rates of drink and drug abuse.

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RE: Brits abroad - 12/11/2006 10:36:30 AM

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Meatcleaver my son just as politicians cant create real wealth neither can they destroy it. They can slow down its creation a bit I'll give you that
Multi zillions were fed into the car industry , steel industry, unemployment industry, welfare industry,legal industry, race relations industry, education industry, ship building industry etc etc all to no avail...we just continued down the slippery slope to PC, multi cultural, Health and Safety domintated mediocrity.
When you have an educated class that actually despises wealth creation, after of course extracting more than their fair share from a diminishing pot, what do you expect.

I wouldn't move because I dont believe the grass is greener etc and anyway....I'm alright Jack.

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RE: Brits abroad - 12/11/2006 10:49:01 AM

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Im sorry did i misread the question asked in this thread? Is it not about where you would choose to emigrate to and why?

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RE: Brits abroad - 12/11/2006 10:54:52 AM

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missturbation, did you say you're going to America to visit your god? Thats interesting. So tell me. What state does god live in? Or is that a philosophical question. lol

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RE: Brits abroad - 12/11/2006 10:55:57 AM

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Missturbation: why apologise when you know you are right ?

About God, you do realise that Elvis is most probably <no longer with us> ?

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RE: Brits abroad - 12/11/2006 10:56:23 AM

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quote:

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I wouldn't move because I dont believe the grass is greener etc and anyway....I'm alright Jack.

I don't think the grass is greener abroad, which is why I said in the OP, nobody lives in the best country in the world because there isn't one. I think living abroad frees one of a lot of psychological and cultural bagage that one inherits in ones home country. I've done much more because I moved abroad than I would have done if I stayed in Britain. When I go back to Britain to visit family and friends, after a few days I feel like I'm aphixiating. Then again, an ex of mine who is French lives in London because she has the same feeling about France.

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RE: Brits abroad - 12/11/2006 10:58:19 AM

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Alas a British trait. Also some hidden sarcasm how three posts in the thread became all about politics.

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RE: Brits abroad - 12/11/2006 10:59:25 AM

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missturbation, did you say you're going to America to visit your god? Thats interesting. So tell me. What state does god live in? Or is that a philosophical question. lol

I did and i think its minnesota - if im wrong ill come back and correct myself.

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RE: Brits abroad - 12/11/2006 11:07:51 AM

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I can think of a few places I wouldn't move to, almost any Bongo Bongo Land on the Dark Continent !

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RE: Brits abroad - 12/11/2006 11:41:54 AM

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I cant believe you lot! Honestly - if you dont know to whom Missturbation is referring, you really need to watch the omnibus on Sunday afternoon!
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RE: Brits abroad - 12/11/2006 11:50:32 AM

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I would go to Eritiriea. Specifically the port of Massawa. I spent 30 wonderful months there and loved every minute of it.

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RE: Brits abroad - 12/11/2006 11:55:30 AM

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I cant believe you lot! Honestly - if you dont know to whom Missturbation is referring, you really need to watch the omnibus on Sunday afternoon!
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Give us a clue...which channel ?
Did Hiawatha come from Minnesota ?

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RE: Brits abroad - 12/11/2006 12:46:27 PM

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I cant believe you lot! Honestly - if you dont know to whom Missturbation is referring, you really need to watch the omnibus on Sunday afternoon!
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Lol - let them wonder

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RE: Brits abroad - 12/11/2006 1:02:17 PM

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10% of the British population choose to live permanently abroad.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/in_depth/brits_abroad/html/
I put that down to Thatcher and Blair and the tide of political correctness.

You sure? Do people not go to live in Spain for the sun, France for the relatively inexpensive housing in the countryside where people can enjoy a quality of life away from the commercial merry-go-round? There's probably a whole host of reasons.

To be a male hetro-sexual Anglo-Saxon in Britain now, is akin to being a member of the SS and somewhat frowned upon.

Hmmmm, yes, of course it is.

Seriously, I put myself in the economic refugee department from when Thatcher did single handed what the German Luftwaffe couldn't, destroy Britain's industry. Now I wouldn't go back if I was paid.

If you left your country, where would you go and why?

I'd pretty much have a crack at anywhere.

Ireland for the warmth of the people and slow pace of life.
Japan as an all round country with the best of most things - breathtaking scenery, warm people, good nightlife, restaurants, culture, history etc
Eastern Europe - see above
Canada - I know a couple of people who moved there and have nothing but good things to say about the place.
US and A - has to be worth a few years, everyone I know who has been enjoyed themselves, haven't heard much in the way of negative comments and my sister has a few friends around the Florida area so somewhere to start off.
Fuck it, anywhere really.

And don't say you live in the best country in the world, no one does so take off those rose tinted glasses and consider an option.

The Republic of Northern England is a great place to live for loads of reasons. As much as I'd like to live abroad this will always be my home, you know how it goes MC - born in the North, live in the North, die in the North.

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RE: Brits abroad - 12/11/2006 1:35:35 PM

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If I left this country, wherever I went, I'd soon come back. Sure, there are problems. In many ways, politically and socially it's a far cry from my ideal and very different from the country I grew up in, but it's still not that bad a place to live. Grass is always greener. If money was my god, and the most important thing to me, I might move somewhere else, if a political or social nirvana was my goal, I might search the world for somewhere better. but overall for me, theres nowhere quite like the uk. I love the countryside, I love the people, and I love coming home when I have been abroad!

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RE: Brits abroad - 12/11/2006 2:07:27 PM

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A man after my own heart!

Amazing coast lines, pubs like nowhere on earth (well, where I've been anyway), a great music/band scene, girls/women on at least a par with anywhere, warm and friendly people for the most part, football on a saturday afternoon, weather that gives the place character, no natural predators (although a badger can give you a nasty nip) first class stand ups, beautiful countryside, real ale, festivals of all descriptions, great nightlife/restaurants etc, as much history as you can shake a stick at. It pays to see other parts of the world but there's no place like home.

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RE: Brits abroad - 12/11/2006 2:47:55 PM

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It pays to see other parts of the world but there's no place like home.

Home is (or was) a rundown mining village with a pit tip on one side, a gasworks on the other and a steelworks on an other. The air was filthy, the houses were rundown and the school was split along class lines and assumed you'd follow your father into the mines. You couldn't have a night out in town unless you walked back 12 miles because the bus service stopped early. Jarvis Cocker springs to mind - You'll never watch your life slide out of view, and dance and drink and screw Because there's nothing else to do.

Then there was London, probably the biggest shithole in Europe if you don't have a decent income and if you do, it's still a shithole.

EDIT - We moved to the pit village from Liverpool to get a house rather than live in rooms (as it was called then). Liverpool was a shithole too.

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