Would you...?

[Sniper]

I love my homeland and although I would love to go to some of the wilderness places in America, Canada and Oz but only to visit for a while maybe 6 months would be nice but permanently......... no! I would miss Scotland too much especially when the weather is good. And because of the weather changeability, when it is good I think we appreciate it even more. Nope I love where I am.

 

[No Idea]

Always amuses me how many people say they would like to leave...but don't. If you need to re-train, take a pay cut or even a risk, whats stopping you? Thats not a response to a particular post, just curiosity about why people seem to dislike their current lives but decide not to take the necessary steps to get the lives they want...just seems odd to me

I cant answer for others, but for me, I stay here because I feel my kids need stability during their schooling and because of their health needs.

Before they arrived....

I could really range and did!

Again not because I was particularily unhappy here, but simply because Im a Nomad.

Now I just put up with the forests and anywhere else I can explore.

I see the whole world as my playpen, but today I will limit myself to a postage stamp of it for my kids, but tomorrow.....

 

[Tengu]

Dorsets good, the geologys lovley.

I have never been abroad so I dont know what its like.

People I know have traveled but few places make an impression on them.

China might be good but I doubt I would like it, if I did though, I probably wouldnt come home.

 

[Toddy]

No.
This is home
Even just travelling to the other end of the country I can't wait to see and feel and smell the green moist sweetness that's home. I've lived within the same few square miles all my life. I wander plenty, but I come home

I agree wtih the opinions that folks take their nature and their attitudes with them; lot of failed emigration folks around who found that the grass was actually greener on their original doorsteps.

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Leonidas]

leave the UK(visa's,a new job,travel expenses,schools for the kid's etc),country of your choice....would you choose to go???
I would be interested in other peoples thoughts.

Not quite the answer you are seeking but!
I do not believe it is their lives, that people are dissatisfied with.....but the impact of the financial and government institutions. As such just changing scenery does not really fix the problem!

I love this country and would not live anywhere else...the grass is greener on the other side only until the honeymoon period wears off....
Have lived in Singapore for several years.....all I wanted was to return to Briton....now back in Briton I love to visit Singapore, but am happy to be back home.

If the question was
'Given that a vast majority of the UK appear to be dissatisfied with their live's at present,in a hypothetical situation,if you(and family)were supplied with the means to' change the way UK and European financial and government institutions do business / impact your lives / manage the populace.....

That's a question for sure!

Tom

 

[drewdunnrespect]

yorkshire is the place for me and i fully agree with british red but thats not to say i wouldnt go abroad for holidays

drew

 

[Mikey P]

Have spent time in a lot of places across the world but moved to Scotland a year-and-a-half ago and happy here for now. As I sit writing this, I can see the snow on the Campsies and Kilsyth Hills and it doesn't get much better than this. We seem to have fairly itchy feet anyway and I can see us moving again in about 3-4 years. Very much enjoyed living in the Rheinland Pfalz area of Germany and would also like to have a crack at New Zealand at some point but the missus not keen on being abroad for a long period.

Personally, I find the Scottish Government's choices about how and where to spend their money quite refreshing - and I'm English! I'm sure that any politics/economics specialists out there may beg to differ but there certainly seems to be more of a social and 'human-oriented' aspect to the development of budgets and policy which is starting to look like the beginnings of a nordic-style state. I hope they/we have the finances to pull it off. Sure, Scotland has its problems but I get the feeling that they/we are at least making visible efforts to tackle the issues.

So, before you nob off to Canada, Sweden or Australia, consider north of the border! Mind you, I'm not sure the Scots would want to see a large migration of English people into the area...

 

[timf2009]

I have tried it. I spent the last 5 years in Hungary and this year moved to Northern Germany.

It's a challenge to integrate into a new society but rewarding when you achieve things. (Hats off to Sandbender Hungarian is incredibly hard to speak!)

We complain about the UK politicians but compared to some other countries they're pretty good. The expenses scandal for example would seem like pocket change when you compare it to the scale of corruption in some Eastern European countries.

But be warned before you contemplate leaving UK. Nowhere else can you get proper sausages!

T

 

[treelore]

i would go for New Zealand/scotland/canada in that order...... and have been looking into

 

[sandbender]

"...(Hats off to Sandbender Hungarian is incredibly hard to speak!.."

Igen, nagyon nehéz, de érdekes

"...We complain about the UK politicians..."

The UK has its problems but at least your facing them on home ground. Corruption, nepotism and Kafkaesque red tape in a different country can be soul crushing.

"...But be warned before you contemplate leaving UK. Nowhere else can you get proper sausages!.."

I like the sausages here.

 

[marcelxl]

I'm on it, my life is totally documented, notarised and sat in the Canadian high commission as we speak, we are attempting through the federal skilled worker programme.

Its been a long and very involved process, which we have pretty much had to jump through hoops and cover everything!

We are well travelled and have been looking into Canada and were planning it for years and after a chance meeting with some special people in Cuba in 2008 and subsequent visits and meeting many other wonderful people & sampling the life we are (subject to acceptence, obviously!) moving to Kamloops, B.C.
we hope it happens sometime next year, everything is in place including work "offers" and somewhere to live in the short term and, to me it cannot come soon enough!
I have no confidence in this country and the direction its taking anymore, and I cannot think of anything that would make me think that I am wrong and leaving would not be the best thing for me, my wife and the family we wish to have.
B.C. is amazing, people happy and do not seem not to have lost faith like we have and with all that water, wilderness and that part arguably being the fly-fishing capital of the world, makes for exciting planning!
I work in the building industry and my wife is a police officer in central Bradford, niether of which are optimistic places to be and my only concern is my elderly Labrador!