Texas Iron 6:39 Wed Jan 27
Expats...What you miss most...???
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Live Match Day at West Ham...
Proper East End Pubs...Locals
Real English Best Bitter
Quality Fish & Chips...
Curries after the Pub...
Proper Bacon...Bangers...
Steak & Kidney Pudding
Shepherds Pie
Tower Bridge...The Tower...Embankment Parliament...
Street Markets...
Hampstead Heath...& Local Pubs
Albert Hall
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Coffee
7:02 Thu Jan 28
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These days, I don't really miss anything badly. Apart from the cool weather in May to Sept. Going to the football, of course. And decent beer. As Bleeding said, the world's a much smaller place now.
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Jakarta Jones
6:41 Thu Jan 28
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Proper pubs with real ale.
late summer evenings is the pub garden with the sun setting after 9pm.
Riding a motorcycle on decent country lanes with a lack of shit caged drivers.
Taking the dog for a walk (not on tarmac) to the pub.
Going to a proper football match.
Decent choice of live music.
Decent choice of decent restaurants.
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stomper
4:11 Thu Jan 28
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Private Dancer
Thing is the worlds a smaller place now
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stomper
4:09 Thu Jan 28
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So THAT's why the sea level is rising
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Private Dancer
3:54 Thu Jan 28
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What waiting for 20 mins just to get some warm piss in a plastic glass?
I love a curry, like most, but there is an English bloke here who has employed an Indian chef in his bar and his curries are pretty good, like you get in the UK.
Thing is the worlds a smaller place now so living overseas today is not like it was years ago.
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Banjo
3:46 Thu Jan 28
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PD. C'mon mate, there must be something you miss? How about being at a West Ham v Spurs game, having a couple of pints pre game, a few more post game followed by an authentic Ruby Murray?
You must miss that lot surely?
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Private Dancer
3:20 Thu Jan 28
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I only thought woman came out with all this 'I miss' bollocks? Mind you this place is full of old tarts.
I don't miss shit.. As for fish and bloody chips, I had that when I was back last and it was rubbish, had much better overseas.
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Banjo
2:49 Thu Jan 28
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I have been living in Australia for 35 years but still miss a local boozer, Pie & Mash, Cod and chips and being at the game.
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balders
2:37 Thu Jan 28
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Family
East end humor taking the piss out of each other and no one getting offended
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Son of Anarchy
2:15 Thu Jan 28
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as I said before on this thread, I've been back to London once in 3 years and I couldn't wait to get back to America.
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stomper
2:11 Thu Jan 28
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I LIKE WHERE I AM. I'm sure if I moved back to England I could come up with a list of things I miss about he USA
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Babelman
1:47 Thu Jan 28
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Son of Anarchy 1:43 Thu Jan 28
yeah just now and then, like living here
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Son of Anarchy
1:43 Thu Jan 28
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I'm reading this thread and people saying pubs, trains, boxing day etc.
Do you miss these every second of everyday or these itches that can be stretched on a week long visit home but you're ultimately happier where you've moved to over the UK?
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Gavros
1:42 Thu Jan 28
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Having to pull a bird rather than going down the bar and getting a prozzie in?
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stomper
1:41 Thu Jan 28
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BOXING DAY
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Son of Anarchy
1:36 Thu Jan 28
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there's a "Brit pub" not far from where I live, I don't go there very often but I popped in last week and there were two English guys at the bar bitching about health insurance, Obama, traffic in Las Vegas and 100 degree heat.
and where ever I've gone in the world I've managed to find these English people, miles from home in an English theme pub bitching about where they are.
very strange
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PistonHammered
1:32 Thu Jan 28
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VirginiaHam 12:51 Thu Jan 28
"Roundabouts"
Come to Michigan, we have plenty of them.
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PistonHammered
1:31 Thu Jan 28
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Ronald_antly 12:18 Thu Jan 28
Consider yourself lucky that you don't live in Flint.
You got that right! Flint is about an hour up I75 from where I am. My town's water supply comes from Lake Huron.
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VirginiaHam
12:51 Thu Jan 28
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Roundabouts
Non-cunty driving
TV with out adverts
Adverts that don't contain phone numbers, percentage rates, calm TV voices
Pubs after an 'off lead' walk with the hound
Christmas lunch
Real Ale
A country that gives you a hug
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eusebiovic
12:31 Thu Jan 28
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The thing I find most curious is the ex-pats who went to Spain because it had all the community spirit that had been lost in Britain.
Ie: Pubs, Street Markets and a resemblance of social conscience...with long-term families growing up together on a street
Not anymore because Spain has also followed the feral U.S masterplan...yet people continue to complain without being honest enough to make the connection
Just an observation from an Anglo-Spaniard/Portugeezer
:-)
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stomper
12:28 Thu Jan 28
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Far Cough 7:22 Wed Jan 27
How can you miss deltics? Ugly,austere, workhorses.
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