11-10-2011, 08:29 PM
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Re: Staying or Going?
Originally Posted by Uncle Joe
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There are bigger ones not that far away in Europe Roxy darlin', I know 'cos Ive climbed a few.
12-10-2011, 03:48 PM
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Re: Staying or Going?
Originally Posted by Mags
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That looks beautiful!
12-10-2011, 07:32 PM
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I do prefer my own company, always have done ,maybe its being an only child.I hate the way people where I live try to make you join in every thing, at last after almost 8 years they have got the message.Some people think its a commune and we are on holiday all the time,drives me mad.I like people but I also like my home to be private. Am I an old grouch!
13-10-2011, 06:10 PM
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Hell no. I have lived abroad for different parts of my life. We up and left England to go and live in the Caribbean in 2005 and immediately when they demanded money before they would allow our loved dog to leave the box he had been in for 12 hours or even allow us to give him a drink of water knew that we had made a mistake.To get anything done we had to give backhanders to everyone from electricians who wired our kitchen up wrong and I got such a shock which threw me across the kitchen to government workers so that we could unload our furniture.
Don't forget that you have to pay for minute you spend with a doctor and then you have to pay for any medications he prescribes. The warm weather did not help my arthritis in fact often the heat made me feel really ill.
With the expense of building a house with working A/C and a swimming pool just to keep cool, and the purchase of a car that was capable of putting up with some very poor road conditions your £1,000,000 would go no where. So what are you going to live on? We needed a housekeeper as the house although beautiful was difficult to keep clean and in the heat of the day I couldn't manage to clean house, do laundry, shop and cook.
Fortunately, we gave back our rented house and came back home to England. I don't know how we would have managed with my husbands type 2 diabetes, my arthritis and then of course the need for surgery. I would not have felt safe having surgery abroad.
I would say that although the grass looks greener on the other side it is often an optical illusion. This place seems to be going to the dogs but it is our place, maybe we should try and make things better. I know I will not roam again but I also know even a million pounds is not enough to start all over again somewhere else.
Someone said it already England is the best place in the world although if we are not careful we will lose what makes it special.
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