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

Apparently its because in the early days the cotton linens etc were shipped from the cotton mills of Manchester. Now i am not saying that ladies ( i use that term loosely) here have large bottoms but when an order for ladies cotton knickers was cancelled a cotton mill in Manchester closed down.

Yes, but most of this lot wouldn't get in!!! And also whats with 'intimate apparel' in Target, it's like living on the set of Are You Being Served.

Returning in the event someone was unhappy was discussed we would do the 2 yrs get citizenship if someone was unhappy we would go home. I knew in the taxi from Adelaide airport to accom on July 22 2003 it was a massive mistake. You keep it to yourself for ages hoping it will get better get bullied at work and finally breakdown. I should of read the small print the return must of been only if my husband wasn't happy.

chuckles to self, talk to myself alot since coming here, only way to get a decent answer. Anywhoo wish it was possible to meet up with all the great people on here. Its a little slice of home all the banter, quick wit and humour. Makes me smile when i read all the posts. Thank you it helps when your a million miles from home and a stranger in the current family home.

Again thought thay was just me, South of France isn't it? Film festival and all that.

Why is everyone here a legend or a bloody hero. Yes and newsreaders as previously said ambo's, servo's oh for the BBC with real English. Can't believe how much it annoys me hearing the English language absolutely slaughtered on a daily basis either in work or on tv, no grammar, can't spell, thank goodness for Uk Education, it gets knocked but doesn't everything back home. People perhaps need to spend a but of time in these places to realise how lucky they are and what they have back home, a good life isn't just sunshine and other than having good drying weather for my washing can't think of anything else i like about Aus, yep that would be it.

Aussies, all class. They make me feel posh!

The shared experiences by expats is uncanny, i feel as though its just me when things happen to me learning quickly it seems to be countrywide, the old walking through a doorway same time as someone else happens everyday at work and stiil get the luck of something that has just been found on the sole of their shoe and slap myself for saying sorry, as people always do back home even when theres no fault arrrggghhh

I agree have found Asians to be the nicest people here and that most aussies don't like them, i think probably down to the fact that like the English they have a good work ethic unlike Aussies, thats been my experience at least. Also why does it seem to be the women that struggle most living here and i'm sure if boot were on other foot wive's would be the first to say lets go home if hubby wasn't happy unlike it seems men.

I am in Adelaide and my experience here is that racism is alive & kicking think Alf Garnett, love thy neighbour, i know everywhere has it but i can honestly say i see more here than i did in lancashire where there is a real mixture. As an English person i've had more than my fair share i work in the medical industry and have been told all poms are arrogant bastards, i'm the outsider and they don't like outsiders and apparently english people don't bathe, brush their teeth, change their bed linen, we are dirty people. Go to a few open inspections i wouldn't let my dog sleep on the floor of most properties oh and yes i am heading home, if i am going to be insulted it will be by a better class of folk. Save your money and stay where you are.