Emigration

[screenman]

That is true, but I have a feeling that would be the case no matter where you lived.

I completely agree.

 

[screenman]

The best place for me will always be where Mrs A_T is... that's my home.

I feel the same about my wife, we married at 17 and 18 and are coming up for our fortieth anniversary.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The best place for me will always be where Mrs A_T is... that's my home.

Awwww!! *Motions sticking two fingers down his throat and making a puke noise!*

Anywhere popular with day trippers can be a nightmare to live in during the holiday season... visitors expect so much yet contribute little to a place except congestion, litter and hassle.

Don't go then!!
Seriously though, that is why in my original thead I wanted somewhere away from the most obvious places.

 

[Fnaar]

If I was responsible only for myself, and had no money worries, I'd live in Spain. I've lived there before, and I love the country, and I can do the lingo.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I am by myself, but I'd need to save up properly and be sure of a job once I got there. I'd also have to move somewhere where my health needs can be dealt with properly, which probably narrows it down considerably.

 

[ianrauk]

Simple answer... yes.
To the USA.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

[QUOTE 2735335, member: 259"]Could you not take the spiders with you? [/quote]

But then the place would be infested with flies and other insects that they eat and therefore keep under control numerically.

Swings and roundabouts you see, swings and roundabouts! Learn to love Spiders, they are doing you a favour!

 

[XRHYSX]

A few years ago we were almost going to moving to Calgary in Canada, had a job lined up and everything, was going to be a long distance lorry driver but the missus wasn't happy with living in the truck till we saved up to get a place to call home
Having three kids now has put that idea firmly in the bin now
these days if I didn't have to drive for a living I would move to Copenhagen or Groningen, in a heartbeat

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

What's special about Groningen?

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

I left everything and came to UK five years ago, for all the wrong reasons. Although I spent most my adult life traveling and I've never felt any emotional or other form of ties, emigrating was a completely different concept. It took me almost 3 years to settle properly and at times I did think I made the wrong choice. But then again, my roaming nature would not be satisfied anyway and most definitely I would be feeling it was the wrong choice if I didn't. Five years down the line, I'm pretty sure -even knowing what I know now- I would have made the same decision (maybe for all the right reasons though)...

 

[Boris Bajic]

We talked about it before children and have both worked extensively overseas.

I think we both sort of know that it is a likely option between the nest being empty and physical decrepitude setting in.

The question is, where?

 

[XRHYSX]

What's special about Groningen?

http://www.streetfilms.org/groningen-the-worlds-cycling-city/#.UlWZeaixZq4.facebook Copenhagen is good but still a very busy place, Groningen is just so peaceful

 

[Linford]

We sold the house and moved to Australia with nowhere to live and no jobs to go to. It took us a long time to find work and in the meantime we had to live off the money from the sale of our house. We did eventually get sorted out but having to start all over again means we will probably still be paying off the mortgage after we retire.
Living somewhere else is not like going on holiday, you still have to work, pay the bills, deal with bureaucracy etc.
We have very little time or money for holidays and I now feel that if we had stayed in the UK, saved up and taken six months off work to visit Australia, we would have seen more of the country than we've in the seven years that we have lived here.

My thoughts really. I love the UK for good and bad, but I'm very settled here, have got all of my immediate family in the UK and couldn't bear to leave them (Dads older brother emigrated from India to Perth in the 60's, so I've got an extended family there as well I would like to see).
I do like to travel and take short breaks in other countries, but it is so nice to come home.

 

[vernon]

and I can do the lingo.

You'll have to show me the moves. It's bound to be a hit on the dance floor.

 

[asterix]

Simple answer... yes.
To the USA.

That is interesting as I would not emigrate to the USA based on 2nd hand information (I have never been there). I wonder why you confidently say that you would.

Next year I shall be going to Canada as it is a place that sounds better than the USA (from my POV), although a friend who was bought up there says it is more like the USA than Canadians like to think!