Going back to UK

[westerby]

This is why I won't go back to the UK..

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... restaurant

Hmmm, hear what you're saying Nick but it really isn't as bad as all that, or at least, I wouldn't expect to get into fisticuffs when I go out. We've always had incidents like this and I don't believe it's getting any worse in an extreme sense, although I believe violent crime is on the rise. It looks like it wasn't random either and the people that did this might have known this head teacher (doesn't condone what happened though). Just remember there are Farang walking around Udon these days that like a bit of fisticuffs after a few beers (and some Thais aswell, remember the Soi Nongbua incidents last year?).

[beer monkey]

Agree westers....and you don't hear of many people 'falling' or jumping from Balconys dressed in their under garments or being mugged off by a LB on the number 52 Bus....

[Galee]

How about this for a reason NOT to go back to the UK.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ument.html

[beer monkey]

Sh!te...yeah remember that one when it hit the news, hope the hard faced cow gets the same amount of time as her gorilla of a husband.

[westerby]

How about this for a reason NOT to go back to the UK.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ument.html

Nope, never been involved in a fight or a murder in a supermarket either, or seen them for that matter. You chaps need to relax a little bit - stop reading the Daily Mail, that might help.

[747man]

How about this for a reason NOT to go back to the UK.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ument.html

Nope, never been involved in a fight or a murder in a supermarket either, or seen them for that matter. You chaps need to relax a little bit - stop reading the Daily Mail, that might help.

Yeah,Westers I hear your favourite newspaper is The Sport ??/ Is Your Avatar The latest photo of Yourself ???????

[Wisdom]

Living in the UK hasn't changed much i think over the years, its always been a bit miserable! I'm working nights at a 'zone 1' tube station at present, and like going home yesterday at 0700, it was drizzle rain, cold, dark, it was awful. Then so many days in winter without sunshine. Weather has never been a UK strong point. Last 'summer' was a complete wash out. I personally haven't seen more violence, certainly not any major problems at all on tube, although we are CCTV city.

It seems people aren't going out as much here with the credit crunch. Last Friday,the last trains had hardly anyone getting on them, normally very busy. I think there is something to be said for living in UK, i can't think of much off hand except its 'home' and you don't have to have a visa! If i get to live in Thailand as i plan, they must be things i'll miss, close contact with family and friends for instance. I think those that can do the split between the two places is best bet, if only to be get the high leaving UK to get back to Thailand again!

[trubrit]

Do you know sometimes it isn't the big things that matter. Just the small breaks from what we used to think as normal can matter more.Let me give you an example. I have a friend, she is 73, widowed. She lives in a small Norfolk village, miles away from the big cities.Her home is a comfortable apartment in a purpose built complex for elderly but not disabled people, surounded by well kept gardens, through which runs a small stream. Now one of her greatest pleasures along with the other old folk is to sit in the garden chatting. Last summer local vandals threw all the bench seats into the river, not once, but on three ocassions. So the council removed them.. Not to be beaten the old folk bought collapsible chairs which they took inside at night.On this stream were many types of ducks and some swans that they loved to feed.Now, no more. They have all gone.Killed and eaten by immigrants from western Europe who have moved onto land adjoining the village.The council have even put signs in many languages to tell them it is illegal, but to no avail. No more feeding the ducks for these old ladies.
Now these are people reaching the end of their life, surely they shouldn't be denied such simple pleasures during their remaining days because the govt has decided to let hoards of immigrants whose lifestyle is more primitive than that which we are used to, into THEIR(OUR) country.

[Wisdom]

That is a terrible story of your friend trubrit. Many work colleagues here have relatives all over UK, and lots of areas have been ruined by uncontrolled immigration into the UK. Also, vandals prosper because the justice system is so weak here, and nothing significant would happen to them, even if anyone bothered to try and catch them. I don't know why i put such a balanced arguement about the UK, when i think it has been destroyed in the last 10 years. Even here tonight, we have had many contractors working, and i shouldn't say i suppose, but most from eastern europe. But i think the UK has gone down the pan mainly because the politicians lie are corrupt feed from the trough and only care about their grubby career and not the people they are meant to represent. I can't say i've ever been proud to be british or english, but now i'm just ashamed.

[macduff]

Come on guys enough of the doom and gloom of the UK.Lets start a thread up( Leaving UK for Thailand).Give me something to smile about it's 7am here in UK cold and foggy with drizzle.

[trubrit]

Come on guys enough of the doom and gloom of the UK.Lets start a thread up( Leaving UK for Thailand).Give me something to smile about it's 7am here in UK cold and foggy with drizzle.

Well Mac. Don't know how old you are but you may like to know cremations are much cheaper here.

[arjay]

Come on guys enough of the doom and gloom of the UK.Lets start a thread up( Leaving UK for Thailand).Give me something to smile about it's 7am here in UK cold and foggy with drizzle.

......As you asked ...... it's pushing above 30C in the house, probably about 35C outside. It hasn't rained for a couple of months or more. - so no rheumatism.

Though plenty of mossies in the evenings, to keep one company!

[macduff]

I'm smiling already

[macduff]

Yeah mozziz are a problem,but i've got those mozzi bats i sweep around the bedroom before i go to sleep.They seem to work.I wish i only had that problem.This time last year we had our suitcases packed .Oh well if things go according to plan we'll be there for sonkran,my lawn wants cutting

[valiant]

No massive Gas Bills for you guys £300 for 3 months I could carry on the cost of living in England is
Horrendous

[macduff]

Theres not many plus points to living in the UK. Oh hang on there's one oh it's gone sorry

[westerby]

How about this for a reason NOT to go back to the UK.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ument.html

Nope, never been involved in a fight or a murder in a supermarket either, or seen them for that matter. You chaps need to relax a little bit - stop reading the Daily Mail, that might help.

Yeah,Westers I hear your favourite newspaper is The Sport ??/ Is Your Avatar The latest photo of Yourself ???????

No, the fat guy ain't me, everyone knows I'm four feet nine with one leg shorter than the other. Yes, I enjoy reading the Sport - better entertainment than the doom and gloom Daily Mail but I laugh at the Mail for other reasons. The problem with that right wing rag is that it's written to scare the nation's Grannies.

Don't have nightmares.

[beer monkey]

Correction.....no one reads the sport as such, they only look at the t!tt!es on show....
Now The Sun on the other hand tells it as it is.

[747man]

Correction.....no one reads the sport as such, they only look at the t!tt!es on show....
Now The Sun on the other hand tells it as it is.

Well I did'nt want too add insult to injury and say Westers bought the Sport just to look at the Ti**ies in it Now YOU on the other hand,Sean I can believe that would apply in your case.....

[Brian Davis]

The Sun, Uk's most popular newspaper? Sad. Says it all about living there, doesn't it?