[Ammi]

Originally Posted by RichardG

I read a great post online a while back. This guy hated everything about the UK. Hated his job, hated the weather, hated walking home at night having to avoid the scary hooded teenagers, hated the tv, hated the politics etc etc and eventually managed to move to Canada, a move that thought would totally change his life for the better!! After a couple of months he realised that he was working the same job over there but with less days holiday a year, the weather was even colder, scary looking people existed on street corners at night there too and the tv was just as awful and concluded that life is miserable everywhere ...but he at least had family and friends in the UK so he moved back after a year.

He put it much better than I did but it kinda sums up my thoughts I guess, assuming we lived in a world where you actually could move wherever you want with no legal/visa issues then I'd only move because there was something about the other country that I really really liked as opposed to something about my own that I really hated.

..yeah, I guess it's a personal thing but that's what I feel as well, it's something that I would do for a positive and more going towards something/than moving away from, which is more of a negative.../still though, moving away from a negative can take you toward that positive and be perfect for someone..so good or bad/positive or negative..every 'reason' has a path and every path leads you...

[Ashsleigh]

No, why would I put myself through that when I can easily just not live there?

[Marsh.]

Yeah, I can't imagine home schooling the kids and settling them down was very easy/simple at all.

But that's all my point is, it aint simple.

[lostalex]

Most countries are big enough that even if you hate the town you live in, you can find some place in the country that you like, and have people that are like minded and you can have a good life. I guess that would be much more difficult in a very tiny country like an island or something though.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by lostalex

Most countries are big enough that even if you hate the town you live in, you can find some place in the country that you like, and have people that are like minded and you can have a good life. I guess that would be much more difficult in a very tiny country like an island or something though.

I agree with this Alex.