For those not currently in the UK what do you miss ?

A few people, nothing else.

^^^ Hull misses him.

I haven't lived in Hull since 1992. I have no ties there at all. Kent was my home in England for most of my adult life.

Don't you haver anyone else to stalk, Chaz? Life must be dull on the dole..

Medway Towns are apparently as bad as Hull now.
I lived in Chatham and Rochester in the early 70s.

I'm not on the dole, I'm on Incapacity Benefit.
I'm waiting for for my DLA claim now.
Carry on paying your tax.

I lived in Maidstone, Chatham and Gillingham always seemed really rough to me.

I don't mind paying tax, Chaz as I am quite happy to contribute to society.

I don't mind paying tax, Chaz as I am quite happy to contribute to society.

The first ever ATM stolen by use of a JCB was from Gillingham.

I think it was from a row of shops at the top of Ash Tree Hil (?)

That was back in the early 70s.

square sausage

What i miss

Decent pubs with good beer gardens
The english countryside
Car boot sales
TV shows not two years old (coro st 2 years behind here)

What i dont miss

The weather and general gloominess
The drunken hoardes of idiots
The lack of space
Expense of housing

Big Charlie 14 Nov 21:00


The first ever ATM stolen by use of a JCB was from Gillingham.

I think it was from a row of shops at the top of Ash Tree Hil (?)

That was back in the early 70s.

;)

decent sausages

probably the best shout

can get any british shop food here.....just me best kebab shop, me best greasey 3 pieces of chicken and *****and walking into a greggs and having a pick. :(

And weather...any sort of weather, miss having weather.

Flatliner, where are you now and what kind of weather do you have there?

hiya annie, no am not doing my lothario thing

Dont really miss them but it would be nice to have decent sausages and bacon.Otherwise? Nothing? Whats to miss?

I forgot the racing. I really miss that. Tried to watch Cheltenham today but Betfair told me I cant . RUK want £25 per month.It saddens me that the beeb no longer cover racing

where do u live dobbo?

Brugge

oh.............ok.......are you a poker player?

This is no word of a lie...I could get better back bacon in Saudi Arabia than I can get here in Canada...how fkd up is that ?

the back bacon in saudi arabia actually probably came from executed women

I play bad poker on a nightly basis .

family
Celtic
square sausage
black pudding
haggis
proper fish n *****
burnt crispy rolls
scotch pies

Celtic? you're not missing much

Dobbo, i can usually watch the racing, i watched Cheltenham yesterday, it was down for everyone today, i think.

I looked at the ineligible countries and belgium was not one of them but when I clicked to watch I got a message telling me I was in a country where the service is not available.

nothing whatsoever

We still have our house in England and went back last week to think about whether we were really up to selling and leaving for good. In the end it was a simple decision.
Phone the estate agent.

Dobbo 14 Nov 23:06


I forgot the racing. I really miss that. Tried to watch Cheltenham today but Betfair told me I cant . RUK want £25 per month.It saddens me that the beeb no longer cover racing



Subscribe to a UK facing VPN and pay £9.99 a month. The UK facing VPN is essential for UK telly, both live and catchup through the likes of bbc i player. I have hooked my laptop up to the telly and hey presto, not great pictures but deffo watchable.

Along with family and friends, I miss going to watch the toffees, going racing and ermmmm....
There are a lot of positives where I am, and 'have job will travel'.

I'm an ignorant fcker when it comes to technology . Can you spell it out for me?

www.hidemyass.com

a vpn from here will cost you £7pm. Follow the instructions to set up, once you have it will appear your computer is in the UK. You can then access UK TV through the internet and RacingUK will cost you a further tenner (assuming you can pay with a card registered to a UK address).

You will need a lead from your pc or laptop to your tv and it is easy enough to set your tv as a second monitor to replicate what is on your pc/ laptop.

Thanks for that. Whatever is wrong with this site it certainly isn't lack of help from forum users.

I agree. It was orioles on here who put me on to vpn's 3 or 4 months ago!

just had a look Dobbo, as you said, you should be able to get betfair live video in belgium, maybe you are being routed through france?

Thats what I figured. Maybe I'll email bf.I would like to see MM tomorrow

Friends
Cheltenham
Pubs
Late summer nights

A decent cup of tea

Surely the, "late summer nights." are far, far, outweighed by the interminably long dark and dreary Autumn and Winter nights. :(

friends
good indian food
decent buds
kebabs

Natinal Hunt racing (creme de la creme)

Late summer nights


You can get all those by going there for a two week holiday in summer :-)

Xmas is one thing i miss , they dont seem to do it properly down under.
Just dosent seem right having xmas in the middle of summer.

I do actually miss the long winter nights too. Nothing better than being in a warm cornish pub with an open fire blazing in winter.

Again it feels odd going out drinking in daylight

cricket
english christmas
good beer
variety of food in tescos

2 week holiday to the UK every summer not so cheap with 2 kids!

And yes - I will add snow at xmas to the list. BBQing a turkey by a pool is great, but it doesnt really feel like xmas.

I've never heard of square sausage.

Nice countryside-nowt else

i miss variety of food in supermarkets

language

family/friends

range of things to do, places to see, never bored

its not actually that cold in UK compared to other places as well, something we take for granted - US and mainland europe are far colder than UK

TV :(
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over here i get to eat out as much as i want for a few quid each time

over here property is a lot cheaper

Where are you Titan?

I know the UK has one of the warmest winters in the world, I don't complain about it

square sausage is a Scottish delicacy

I miss:

The English countryside
Variety and choice of supermarkets
The pubs
Autumn
Family/Friends

I dont miss:

Loads of rain
Gloomy grey skies
Concrete jungles
** element of society.

The Snake 15 Nov 11:10
I miss:

The English countryside
Variety and choice of supermarkets
The pubs
Autumn
Family/Friends

do other countries lack supermarkets?

Australia only really has Coles and Woolworks and a few Aldi stores. These stores have a monopoly so the prices are not as good as they could be. The choice ok, but not a good as UK supermarkets.

How many have UK got? about 8 supermarket chains? Huge selection and great prices as there is a lot of competition. Great for the consumer

I see, cool, am not one of those moaners about the UK, I think it's great here

would never move out

When I go on holiday abroad, and I go to their supermarkets, I often find the meat, fruit and vegetables look terrible

Square sausage is magnificent from a real butcher, not those **ey prepacked ones, which stay pink.

I like reading these threads ,but isn't a country great/better according to your own circumstances ?

I n other words ,if youre a shelf stacker in London ,a move to highly paid exciting job in Spain would always make that country seem a lot better ?

am not sure if that example is applicable?

you can say another country is better cos of the weather?

anyway I like it here in the united kingdom, it's a great country

I could never ever move to USA cos Betfair is banned there which makes it one of the worst countries in the world to live in

you can say another country is better cos of the weather?

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depends on the type of weather you like though ;)

Darker evenings in winter makes for better betting ,easier to concentrate and more proftable imo ...warm ,light evenings in summer are too distracting

I have lived in three different countries and been to many more and I have to say that Britian is the most over rated place in Europe.

I was in Paris once, bought a copy of the "Sun" in a kiosk, guy behind counter laughed at me..........honest

certainly won't be living in france right enough

Spain not much better

but actually what comes to my mind is Lanzarote, they were incredibly nice to me there, they are very nice people there

might live there one day!

english supermarkets - tescos and waitrose inparticular - are excellent.

difficult to find that in other countries (tescos in korea for example dont sell much other than noodles).

English supermarkets are no better than say the Deen or Dekamarkt that you'd find in Holland or the (french) Careforre which I now use in Spain.

the supermarket I went to in france was pish, it didn't sell fags

oh come on!

mittheimp 15 Nov 14:00
english supermarkets - tescos and waitrose inparticular - are excellent.

:^0

The only good thing about Tescos is it keeps the scúm out of Waitrose.

they dont have 24 hour garages either

I mean, from where I'm sitting, I can think of 3 establishments within 20mins walk that sell fags 24hours a day

In Paris, no-where sold them, pathetic

if i lived abroad what would i miss....nothing...spain suit me ...mostly cheaper than here more to do ...wine bout £1 bottle....got sky there.......park mostly where you like ....going for a month in march.

'The only good thing about Tescos is it keeps the scúm out of Waitrose.'

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Jeez ,what a snob :0

I've never come across a Waitrose here in Scotland

Scotland must be a** country

s.c.u.m

Miss having a beer with my brother on a Saturday Night.

Thats all.

flatliner 14 Nov 21:17
And weather...any sort of weather, miss having weather.



annie. 14 Nov 23:00
Flatliner, where are you now and what kind of weather do you have there?


The same as yesterday and the same as tomorrow...tenerife.

Thanks, flatliner.

ttt

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