I have lived in Spain for 6 years and am feeling increasingly homesick.I havent been back for four years though and intend to have a hol soonish.My family live in uk and dps live here.
The thing is i dont know which would be a better life.I have a dd nearly 3 and dc2 due in dec.I dont drive and i dont find there is much at all to do in my area.Dp works hard and only has sunday off.I find myself walking to the supermarket just for something to do with dd.It is too hot to walk anywhere further afield.will learn to drive eventually but need to come back to uk as my spanish is not good enough to learn here and even then i dont feel like i want to be driving around aimlessley.sorry that is spelt wrong im sure.
we live in a very english area so havent picked up a great deal of the lingo!
We rent a lovely little place which is dirt cheap all bills inc.you could literally jump into the communal pool from the back gate.we have everything we could want nice car,tv,toys/clothes for dd etc and dp runs a successful satellite tv company.i gave up my job to spend more time with dd.When she goes to school she will be billingual within months.I think that is a great gift to give a child but i dont think the education itself is as good as uk.
I know people who have gone back and said going back to uk was best move they ever made yet friends and family in uk say we´d be mad to want to come back.We would have nothing,struggle for money etc.but would we be happier? i only have a handful of friends here to be generous and theyre not close friends.
every day seems like groundhog day even though it could be swimming etc i just daydream about living a "normal" life, going places on bus/train,learning to drive, going to clubs/places and meeting people.My life is easy but doesnt seem to be going anywhere.
hope this makes some sense!Thing aswell is when i left uk i was still living at home so i dont even have a clue how hard a "normal" life can be!?
any ideas anyone.would really appreciate itx
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would i be silly to return to the uk?
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madremia09 · 29/06/2009 19:05
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