15-06-2016, 19:05
(15-06-2016, 14:06)Jacko The Flopsy Piglet Wrote: I know this goes against what most people on here think but here goes. I like living in Britain, England especially. There I said it. I know it's not perfect and the weather is always worth a grumble but I wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the world. Except Australia, but the wife won't entertain it!
PS. One hundred degrees is the boiling point of water in the modern world!
I was the same until I moved away in 2001. Always liked to travel and see new places but never considered really moving away from Sheffield, then the opportunity came up and we moved to the US. Said we would give it a try for a couple of years but always reserved the right with my company to move back if it didn't work out, but the longer we stayed here the less we wanted to move back. For a time I found it a bit depressing going back to Sheffield, in our world it didn't compare to what we had here in the US but over time I have just come to the conclusion that it is simply different, not necessarily worse but just different, and we felt the good things we had here outweighed the good things we would have there. Over the years I have come to appreciate the good things about Britain more and more, such as the history, the quaint towns, the proper pubs and of course the football but our overall standard of living is much better here so I do not see myself ever moving back.