graciemay

Hi everyone, just wondered if there are any PIO's heading back home July of this year, Adelaide to Manchester? Thanks:smile:

Hi Kerry You are certainlu not alone there are many of us out there. Where is home and when do you plan to return?

They don't know any better, so in ignorant bliss i would imagine. It's only those of us that had experienced living in a real world that struggle living here.

Brilliantly put. I often worried and been scared that if i stayed here i would lose my grip of the English language, using words containing more than four letters and knowing what they mean, being embarrssed when i would try and add to a conversation using words they had never heard and could not comprehend, you are then deemed to be a clever dick and who do you think you are. Sadly this includes "educated" GP's within a general practice whose education deems them to be better than me and anyway "all poms are arogant bastrads". The answer is to work in silence as their banal conversations have you wishing you were deaf.

Sorry i'm at it again, fundamental differences i think you mean cavenous expanses of outer space

Can you imagine sat eating out somewhere in the UK with your dirty work overalls on, the kids in pyjamas and the beaut clinically obese wife in UGGS that look like she had to wrestle them off the dog, oh and that would be a staffi. Give me strength

Yes these are the people, until i found PIO, that made me feel i had a huge problem because i don't see what they see.

Hi Thistle13 Husband isn't interested i just annoy him, he has never discussed it he doesn't do discussion. I have learned that he is selfish and self-centered would never put anyone before himself perhaps this is a male/female thing don't know but it certainly knocks you for six when you think your partner of 26 years puts a boring crappy country before you. Is he out enjoying Australia, no he plays xbox night after night till after midnight hence i nothing else to do but sit in yhe bedroom with my beloved dog talking through written words on here whilst Smooth Radio UK plays on my iphone, wow my life is crap.

I am from the north west of England and can't wait to go home. The people here make me feel posh and a real snob. Most haveno manners wouldn't no a please or thankyou if it slapped them in the face. They can't make conversation, well anything worth listening to and the lack of humour here is painful. I laughed and smiled daily back home, rarely here. As we used to say most are dragged up not brought up and it shows.

Or Adelaide, run by bikies shootings, stabbings on a daily basis and Adelaide is so small so everything is local. It really is just a big country town where everybody really does know everybody, a young 24 girl at work in forms me that they are so short of young people everybody has slept with everybody. Smashing, lovely

My husband came home from work and they had had a "presento" ?! Presentation wtf, i was embarressed for him.

I know exactly what you mean, i was on anti-depressants last year for 3mths out of sheer desperation. Sadly depression had reared its ugly head again and i am barely coping will see GP mon and start again. I am so unhappy living here i cannot discuss it with my husband as he chooses to ignore anything he sees and doesn't like has told me previously if i want to go back i will be going alone. My fear is panicking at the airport and physically not being able to board the plane due to fear of flying and the finality of leaving probably not seeing my children again. Surely i would have to feel better than i do once back home with family. Has anyone used baggage freight to send personal effects and or opened a UK bank account from Aus ready for arrival?

Yes he mentioned that but it was when the tonnage got to a certain amount sohe claims, but they use the word everytime, anyway past caring

oh the tonnnn thing my oh and i have argued about that one and he agreed with them!!!! He's been had, too late for him and he can't be saved damned and doomed to spend the rest of his miserable life here. In general they speak phonically, i had someone asking about a pt with surname of step-hen to you & me and the rest of the UK thats stephen for all those playing at home