Topic: No going back....

[markymark]

Over the Xmas break I have seen several programs on people that have emigrated to different parts of the world to live and/or earn a living.

Questions are:

1) If you could, would you? ???

2) If you needed to run your own business for an income what would it be? ::)

3) Where would you emigrate to and why? :)

[Muddy_Boots]

1.  Yes

2.  B & B (but hardly likely since have no collateral!)

3.  France, love it!

[mysticmog]

1) Definately
2) Shamanic healer
3) New Zealand - the most beautiful country in the world

[Garden Manager]

Never mind emigrating.

Who watches 'Escape to the Country' and A) wishes they could do so. and B) drools over some of the lovely garden some of the houses shown have?

Me on both counts, I do live on the edge of a country town, so the Dorset countryside is within walking distance, but the house is very suburban and I would LOVE to move into the depths of the countryside to a period house with at least an acre of garden attached.

Ah well I can dream can't i?  :)

Though if i did emigrate it would be to somewhere 'green' where I could still garden.  New Zealand or perhaps the 'New England' part of america.

[ciaozzy]

Yo Marky

No. but would gladly pay for wife to emigrate :)

Set up a 60's lurveeee botique and get on the groove.. for real.. who cares if it dont pay.

last one forgot..a just remember...


could never leave Wales


Oz... phew memory overload ..

[Mrs Ava]

1. Yes please!
2. Either plant/garden related or music related
3. ummm.....possibly southern France, or Oz as we have family there.

Richard, Ava and I had the period cottage with an acre of land in a rural location in Kent, but mother nature interferred and we found a baby girl under the gooseberry bush and we had no time to enjoy the house or garden.  Once the kids grow up and leave home (wishful thinking!!!) then we plan to sell up and try that dream again.

[Gardengirl]

1)  No - like Richard says 'would like to escape to the country' :)

2)  Definitely a nursery and grow most of the plants myself.  My favourite passtime, sewing seeds, taking cuttings and watching them grow.  Spend most of my time in my greenhouses during the summer. :D :D

3)  Like I said, wouldn't emigrate, would probably like to be Richard's neighbour in deepest Dorset, beautiful county ;D

[ciaozzy]

Lived in Bournemouth 6 years, flat 3 mins from lovely beach.. hated it there... locals so xenophobic.. and the pubs????

loved devon though lived in plymouth for kwite sum time
and the accent... yummy

ere yew, iz offf tew the marrrrrrkit, I iz, to boy sum froooot...  

Oz

x

[Garden Manager]

Ozzy,

Know Bournemouth quite well, Mum grew up there and still has a friend living over there, so have visited the town quite often.

Not sure i'd call it 'xenophobic' but walking around the town I have had funny looks given to me as if they could tell i was a 'country' boy.  Town itself: too big and busy, seafront nice but a bit run down.

Pat.

You seem quite taken with my home county. Thats great.

[ciaozzy]

Yo Richard

Had flat in Derby road... worked in hotels and bars... coloured peeps veiwed with suspicion when they go shopping, outsiders called grockels... any peeps I met there hated the holiday makers? me I loved them.. they all wanted fun... met sum good bomo peeps.. so not all bad... met billy bragg and he is such a wayne cur....

Poole only a few miles away...is
dead brill and had many a craic there... christchurch.. is okay too

Oz

[Doris_Pinks]

1. Emigrated for 13 years! (bin there done that, came back!)

2. Small luxury hotel or B&B

3. Somewhere not too hot, and not too cold!!! (where I could grow veges all year around ;D

[Hyacinth]

1) yes.

2) peeps/writing...con-woman extraordinaire, me,  (btw...so I live in a council 9th floor flat at present - lift always out of order & stinking of P,Council cut the gas off 2002  so's I and the kiddies (4 at last count) live off takeaway pizzas cept they've eaten the bu**ers be4ore they've got them home up the stairs - kids! dontcha just love 'em?),   wiv a nice selection of 'real' (silk) artificial string of peppers'n'garlic in me kitchen - did you guess? ;D)

3) hot, hot, hot,  and humidity would be a bonus..lived 15yrs in central Italy - great, but being in Singapore was like Coming Home.

Shame I haven't the cash - or that I'm actually allergic to anything that bites... ::) (but that's a different story? ;D ;D - Lish

[Garden Manager]

Ozzy

Trouble with Dorset is, not very broad ethnic mix, largely WASP's (white anglo saxon protestants), so anyone different is going to be treated as such. Whereas in the cities, the mix is taken for granted more.  Bournemouth is geting better in this respect (more cosmopolitan than the rest of the county), though where I live a non white face still draws attention, because they are so rare.

Much as i love dorset, if i had the chance i would move west into Devon or Cornwall, every time i go down that way I fall in love with the landscape all over again.

[ciaozzy]

Yo Richard

you provemy point mahnnn

I have never seen an eskimo... doesn't mean I would prejudge and discriminate... mahn dorset is a salad bowl wiv only one lettuce in it.. tell ya Richard peeps treats dogs better in bornemouth than they do peeps..


bournemouth Rant over...
and to move from there to the docks in cardiff... total buzzz
so much colour so much life... so many differences yet so many more things we have in common...


viva la difference

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