Emigration

[ianrauk]

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!

I have travelled extensively throughout the USA.
I have also travelled in Canada (mostly east coast) and I would call it USA lite. Toronto is one of my favourite cities in the world and could quite easily live there too.

 

[Davidc]

I could have and nearly did, to France.

1970 I could have done my degree there. 1973 I could have gone there to work - permanently.

Too many family issues for the first, and both lost my nerve and had other ideas over the second.

Wish now that I had done the first and followed that with the second, but I don't dwell on it and have generally enjoyed being in the UK where I come from.

 

[marzjennings]

I've done it a bunch of times and lived and worked in Holland, Ireland, Trinidad and currently the USA. Always interesting to live and learn a new culture. But I did it the easy way, joined a massive international company and had them move me as new posts and positions turned up. We've been back in the US for about 6 years now and we're getting itchy feet again. We wouldn't mind spending a few years back in the UK so our daughter could could get to see my family and pick up some engish'ness to counter her americanisms. But also wouldn't mind a few years in Australia or maybe Asia.

 

[swee'pea99]

I could. My Dad was a Kiwi, so if I chose I could go to live there. But much as I love the place, I can't imagine living anywhere but where I do. I've travelled all over the place, and for quite extended periods, but nowhere other than London has ever felt like home.

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

[QUOTE 2735507, member: 1314"]I emigrated to England as a kid, then lived in Scotland for 6 years, then London. I wouldn’t leave as London is a world-class city. Scotland was good but just started to feel a bit too small. Canada felt too quiet - I’ve been there a bit. I wouldn’t mind trying New York, it seems even more cosmopolitan than London. I wouldn’t mind trying India but it’s a bit Wild West out there and I’d be out of my comfort zone. Maybe Bombay...

Oz and Kiwiland have never really appealed. My best mate lives in Kiwiland, though, and there seems plenty of opportunity but I think it’ll be too much like the Land of the Scots.

Edit: though I've never really explored Toronto properly. I reckon it's good cycling land.[/quote]

I am sure you'd love living in NY, G! Not sure about the rest of it, but you're most definitely a Manhattan-boy..

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I turned it down last year to move out to Florida, we're in our 50's we both have aged parents, children & grandchild, I think I would have been okay as I would have had my work, but we thought it would be too hard on the wife as she would know no-one over there. I've chosen to go out 3-4 times a year, which keeps the experience quite fresh.

Alan...

 

[martint235]

If I was on my own, I'd be off like a shot. Every now and again I enquire about jobs abroad (recently Qatar and Japan) but the missus will never leave the UK. I can't even persuade her to leave London!

 

[MontyVeda]

I'd like to have extended visits to a variety of places, but actually emigrate and never come back... nah... I'd miss the Lune Valley too much

 

[Accy cyclist]

I voted for the option of coming home if it doesn't work out. I'd like to move to Portugal,preferably the Algarve but that's because of rose tinted holidays spent in the sun,away from grey murky Britain. My wife and daughter wouldn't be so keen as they're not sun worshippers, one being blonde the other a redhead. I keep telling them that when i reach 60 i want away from here,but how i'll afford it i don't know. Maybe i'll throw caution to the wind and just up sticks and go?
I don't fancy being an old man in Britain with the way society is changing for the worse. The downside would be that i'd have to teach myself how to ride on the right hand side of the road,and learn what the traffic signs mean.

 

[Cycleops]

We already have a great country to live in, unfortunately it is some of the people we have to share it with that is the problem.

But that is true wherever you go.

 

[Biker Joe]

I would emigrate to Germany. The years I spent there in the past were very good and I still miss it.

 

[Cycleops]

Done it, but now visiting the UK. I can tell you nowhere is like home.

 

[marinyork]

Nothing to sell up and I doubt many people my generation will ever own a house or be much later on - it will become more the norm. Unless you emigrate to London I don't think there's that much in the UK for young people. That's not to say life is awful in the UK just very different from the securer idea of house/job thing. On that basis I don't see why more people don't take a leaf out of zimzum's book and try working various places - a few years isn't really much in the grander scheme of things if it doesn't work out (although that's not really the point).

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

I voted for the option of coming home if it doesn't work out. I'd like to move to Portugal,preferably the Algarve but that's because of rose tinted holidays spent in the sun,away from grey murky Britain. My wife and daughter wouldn't be so keen as they're not sun worshippers, one being blonde the other a redhead. I keep telling them that when i reach 60 i want away from here,but how i'll afford it i don't know. Maybe i'll throw caution to the wind and just up sticks and go?
I don't fancy being an old man in Britain with the way society is changing for the worse. The downside would be that i'd have to teach myself how to ride on the right hand side of the road,and learn what the traffic signs mean.

Surely it can't be that difficult!!

 

[AndyRM]

I've lived in Scotland, England, L.A., Chicago and Bougival. Currently live in Newcastle, but if I had the opportunity I'd be happy to live pretty much anywhere, assuming I could speak the language which limits me to French, Spanish or German countries.