What is your life and what is life like where you live right now? Not just UK!

Far North Queensland. It’s a lovely 29 degrees on a midwinter day. Last night it dropped to 18 degrees and I had to get a light blanket out of the linen cupboard. Brrr.

Dealing with a freaked out electrician who found a small snake skin in my power box. Seriously- how can you be an electrician in Queensland if snake skins in power boxes freak you out.

Flying out to NZ on Saturday so the kids will finally experience colder weather and will see snow for the first time! We are all a bit excited.

I thought my youngest had head lice but luckily it was just a dry scalp. Winning. Did not want to be treating her for lice while on holidays.

Using up food in fridge before holiday and planning he military operation to catch the cat in the morning before he senses he is going to the cattery and does a runner.

Kids are at school, DH is at work.

49 years old, in Brisbane. 22 degrees outside and windy.
I'm on day 12 of a cold/respiratory illness and exhausted.
I'm also job hunting after 12 month of mat leave.
Brisbane is a wonderful place to live and raise a family. Not impressed with the 'new' state government though

I'm in Kuala Lumpur, working as a teacher in an international school. Married with two young daughters. Tomorrow is the last day of term and then next week we will fly back to England for the summer holidays. It's hot but a bit rainy here today and we have a fair in the school field so we are hoping the rain stops soon!
We have lived here for 10 years and it's a great lifestyle. Free private healthcare and private school for our children, we live in a great 4 bed apartment and have a live in cleaner. We also have a pool where we live which our girls love.

52 and stuck in Texas for over a decade. I hate it here. I’ve just been back to my home country with my DC and we were so happy. I’m always so happy there, sleep well, smile and laugh more, and lose weight. So depressed being back. My eldest is going to college in the fall 8hrs away. We’re all going to miss him very much. My youngest loves him the most. We have a cat (which seems to only like me) and a dog. Our dogs best friend moved with her mama a month ago. She’s lonely and so is her best friend. The Dog mama texted and has said the move (closer to family) was a mistake. I could only advise that it would get better with time. But as I know, it may definitely not.

I volunteer at school and at a sports club and work. I’m busy either the kids. I’d like to do something for me, learn something new, be a bit more creative, but don’t seem to have any good ideas. I will keep pondering this to make life a little more interesting and bearable.

North in uk deprived area. Married three kids. Have a four bed detached house, two cars. We are ok financially with some spare money each money. Life is quite hard though due to mine and my son’s disabilities.

I'm 36 and live in Queensland, Australia (near Fraser Island). It's winter here and we've had some chilly mornings, but very few days are actually really cold in QLD. No kids, been married almost 16 years. I work with animals and my husband is an engineer. I love to read and have a whole room in the house that I've made into my library. We've been working hard and will have our mortgage paid off before we're 40. We are planning a trip to Whistler for Christmas 2028 to celebrate paying off the mortgage, celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary and both our 40th birthdays all in the same year. I can't wait for a white Christmas. When I was 19, I did a working holiday to Cambridge and spent 4 months waitressing and travelling UK and Europe.

It reached 38 degrees in NYC today - I’m envious of your pool! We were in Vegas last month, as we tagged a couple of nights there at the end of a road trip out west. Love it every time. Planning to go back next May for a festival.

This is a lovely thread.

I’m mid 50s, originally from the north of England, and after many moves, have been settled in Las Vegas (baby) for the last 10 years.

It’s hot today, high 90°s, dry heat which I find manageable. We’ve bought an old mid century fixer upper ranch, we did the kitchen last year which is fantastic, and saving up do the backyard. We have a huge pool and spa, which makes the summer manageable and it’s heated so we use it all year. Pool is 9ft deep, which is grandfathered in as it’s an old home. New pools are only allowed to be 4-5ft deep and not very big either, so we’re fortunate to have this in the yard.

My teenage kids are well into summer break. They break up here mid May and get over 3 months off. I keep them busy, sports camps, invite friends over, and they also do academic classes so back to school isn’t such a shock, as I think the summer break is too long.

I am about to make dinner, just build your own tacos, which is one of the few meals everyone loves. Better get my arse in gear before the “when’s dinner, Mum” starts.

Thank you.

I live in Australia, currently winter here obviously.
I have 17 year old twins who finish highschool this year, so the next 6 months will be a whirlwind.
School holidays started (mid year) yesterday and we have come to the beach for some R and R before things heat up at school
Just walks and reading, as it's too cold to swim for us.
Perfect weather though. Dry and bright.

I feel that deeply.
We do have plans to return to the U.K. (albeit temporarily on a posting) but I’ve been perving on RightMove every other day since we first heard whispers about going home 🫣🫣🫠😂😂

46 yo married (dh is American) mom of 4, 1 grand baby. I live just outside Washington DC where I teach English and Social Skills to high school students with disabilities. Normally I don’t hate living in the US as long as I get home to the Uk for family visits, and Bakewell tarts from time to time, but this current situation has me on Zoopla constantly looking to move home. Yes the weather here is lovely and you get a lot of house for your money, but it doesn’t feel very safe atm.

Late 30s, living in a small town in NW England which both DP and I are originally from. We had met in the city we were both living in at the time and returned to our hometown the Christmas before Covid. It's a very low key and relaxed pace of life here; it could be too quiet for some but we were ready to return after 15 years of being away. No kids. Today I've been working from home while the dog has mostly napped at my feet, though have had two long walks in the rain both before and after work. DP is away with work until tomorrow evening, so I've had an evening to myself which means cooking an easy meal, making plans with friends for the weekend, choosing paint colours for the bathroom, and having one eye on crap TV that I rarely get to watch. Living here does have some downsides but on the whole I feel fortunate to live here and don't think I'd swap it for my old city life.

Live in small village in SouthEast England enjoying the few days break between heatwaves. Been swimming in the sea to cool off. Love where we live , some lovely pubs and cafés and a great community spirit.

I’m in my early 30’s. Married to a US military serviceperson. 3DC’s.
We currently in the western United States, in an extremely dry, desert climate. Today is actually the coolest day we’ve had in well over a month - it’s currently 3pm and 34°C, which feels blissfully cool compared to the mid-40’s which is the norm for this time of year.
DCs are on their insanely long summer break from school (12 weeks 🫠🫠🫠) and don’t go back until mid-August, so I’m now in that endless loop of trying to keep them busy and entertained everyday while it’s hotter than the devil’s armpit outside the vast majority of the time, and unsafe for them to play outside for more than a few minutes at a time.
Today the youngest two DC’s have had a dental check up and cleaning, now about to head home and find out what my Roomba has got stuck on because my phone is buzzing incessantly informing me of my poor Roomba’s emergency 🫠😂

It sounds lovely there. Sorry about your cats.

Innit, though?

The Melbs is excellent.

Mid 60s and love in a small but very popular seaside town in the north east. Weather has gone cool and cloudy. I've a busy week of childcare for my grandchildren this week but I have chronic insomnia alongside other health issues so I'm knackered already!! Off on holiday in a couple of weeks so hoping the heatwave in Europe breaks by then as husband struggles if it's super hot!!

I’ve just turned 50 and live in Adelaide, South Australia. We are having some much needed rain. It’s odd we’ve have drought conditions for some time and it’s definitely dry but because we have a desalination plant, I think people living in the suburbs haven’t been impacted much as we haven’t had water restrictions. It’s eleven degrees Celsius in the afternoon and that’s pretty much as cold as it gets.

My daughter is meant to be flying to Edinburgh on Sunday for a school Literature Trip but we are waiting to hear it goes ahead as they fly via Doha.

Inner city Melbourne on a mid winter day. It's windy and chilly.

I am curled up with a cuppa, in bed with my cat, having a rare day off work. Spent the morning clothes shopping with DD who is home from Uni.

I am 51, CEO of a Tech Company and have two other older children.

Melbourne is a bloody awesome place to live.

Mid sixties, retired and living in a small rural town in NZ. We had a cold frosty night, but today has been sunny without a cloud in the sky, but a chilly breeze. I seem to have been running around most of the day, getting papers certified by a JP and doing some shopping. I've now just returned from feeding the ducks in the park and am about to watch an episode of Taggart, which I am watching from the first episode right through to the last one.

People here are friendly and it's a nice town, with lots of trees and views of the snow covered mountains. All my lovely cats have died, but one of my neighbour's cats has almost moved in and I have been feeding a stray, but he hasn't turned up today.

Hell yeah, summer in the Rockies! As Borat would say, very nice.

Early sixties, retired and currently sweating from a heat wave in western Quebec. Luckily for me I live by water and can go for a swim to refresh me as many times a day as I like.
Life is generally pretty good here. I don't have any complaints about the quality of life in these parts other than having to shovel my driveway in the winter and the rest of the year I have to rake up leaves, conifer needles and acorns from the ten million effing trees on my property. I have a bad back and it's absolute murder. But I love the trees all the same.
On the whole I feel lucky to be where I am. It's beautiful and peaceful here and most people seem to be friendly and kind. I acknowledge that I'm privileged in many ways. Giving to charity helps with the guilt. 😉

@Spidey66oh bless her, maybe it’s a bit cooler! My cat hides in the bath sometimes but stupidly sits under the taps (which sometimes drip!)

British expat in my early 50’s. Currently in Northern Alberta, where recent rain is a blessing in wildfire season. DS last official day of school was the 13th and his final end of year exam is tomorrow. We’re then packing up and driving for 8 hours to our other home in the Rockies for the summer. We’ll be there until late August.
I work for Federal and Provincial election agencies and was one of the 343 returning officers for the election which brought Carney in. I pay close attention to politics, but can’t comment on it (I have to be seen to be impartial). Our summer home is less than an hour from the G7 venue and we stayed there last summer. We said now would be a good time to stay there, as it will have had a big facelift.