If you have moved away from the UK (or if you did) what would you miss most?

[Cordial11]

I miss vinegar!!!! Going out and having fish and chips without vinegar is saddening lol!

Also marks and spencers food!

In hk. Don’t miss that much as can get most stuff but I really miss the smell of morning in the UK. Don’t get it here.

I'm American and I came back here after a 4-year return to California years ago (I'd already lived here for a couple of years). What I missed then is what I would miss still and came back for:

The greenery/countryside/parks

The ever-changing skies, the light, the wind

The safety in knowing that a great cup of tea is always around the corner, hail, rain, or shine. Which leads to:

The tea, Tunnocks, sausages, the fish, the potatoes, the biscuits, Heinz beans and also tomato soup, British apples, all the food, really.

The humour and you guys absolutely still produce some of the most watchable programmes ever! I'd miss the telly, for sure.

The different accents.

The geographical closeness to so many amazing places on the planet: The beautiful British isles themselves, Europe, North Africa, Iceland.

The British love and respect for animals, especially dogs.

to stop me shoving to the front of the queue and slamming the door in people's faces!

Don’t forget pressing the ‘doors close’ button the second you get in the elevator 😆

I'd miss the telly, for sure.

And yes, I know I could watch it all in the States, but the point is, I'd end up resorting to typical American tv mostly. My finger wouldn't be on the pulse of British programmes the way it is actually living here.

When I lived in Perth I missed:
Prawn cocktail crisps, there was loads of cheese crisps
Larger sized bras. The prices of these were horrific, I had to order from M&S and Debenhams.
Just getting on a plane for a short amount of time and you’re in another country.
Everything was so far apart and we’d spend our holidays in Margaret River. As lovely as it was with its vineyards, the drive was awful with two small dc.

@ShanghaiDiva, when my skinny five foot five little sister lived in Beijing, she says it took a while to get used to being told by saleswomen in clothes shops ‘No! You go somewhere else! We have no HUGE SIZES here!’

I got most of the UK dramas, comedies etc but did end up missing University Challenge. It's the atmosphere of British normality! Like Radio 4!

I cannot imagine leaving (though I threatened too with the blasted Brexit malarky!).

I am happy with the weather (usually). I would hate all year round sunshine! I love our humour. However, I have never lived abroad so what do I know as to what is out there.

My colleague's daughter lives in Portugal and cannot believe we have so much for kids over here. Where she is there are no kids clubs, swimming pool etc and her mum sends her loads of lemsip and calpol - which she also cannot get there.

M&S for bras, too. Victoria's Secret was shite, 75% full of huge padded inserts.

@Fiacla - exactly!
If your shoe size is over 40 you will be directed to the men's department!

I missed the seasons, especially autumn and spring.

@soulrunner - also shoving into the lift before anyone has had a chance to get out.
I will be shunned when I return to the UK!

Waitrose and John Lewis (rural France).

On line shopping
Bread without a tonne of sugar and preservatives
Decent stock levels - not needing to go to three different supernarkets most weeks.
Greenery
Smell of fresh cut grass and the smell after it has rained
(Bacon and alcohol, but we went knowing that)
Availability of information online - Google "how busy now" was the best indication of opening times.
Chocolate

I miss my mum and dad the most :(

I also miss the UK seasons

I miss the feeling of understanding people and being understood. Which comes from being from the same culture. We came back in the summer and in boots the till person said ‘thanks love’ and it was really lovely.

I like where we are but it’s hard sometimes.

Yes I’d love my family here

My partner always says ‘thanks love’ people look at him odd haha !

kippers!

oh and the english sense of humour. Irony, anyone?

@Cordial11
Ha no one believes you when you say the winters are so cold!!

I'm quite northern so I used to get the same funny looks as your hubby using 'love'

I also never found applicator tampons so I missed them too!!

What I do miss the most about aus is how kind and friendly people generally are, and feeling safe.

I was in Birmingham yesterday and felt so unsafe, someone tried to steal my phone off the table in front of me

Yes applicator tampons! That was an adjustment lol better for the environment I suppose but tampax pearls were my fav !

Yes I definitely feel generally safe in Aus for sure! God in front of you? Theifs honestly are so brazen !

I lived in the UK for 9 years and I miss:
scottish & english breakfast
Next
New look
Primark
British indian takeaways
Sausages!!!!!! (Never the same here)
Heinz beans (sometimes can't find them here)

this makes me last as I agree with the lack of proper bacon - and that's because I live in the UK and not in Canada!

I also miss treats like Sweet Maries, Nanaimo bars, butter tarts, bran muffins, proper donuts (Timbits please!). And good apples - Macs for preference!!

Thankfully now that there's a large eastern European population in the UK I can finally get decent dark bread as well as cabbage rolls and pierogies! And thanks to the obscenities of Starbucks and the like I can get good coffee - it was not easy to find 30+ years back except at Betty's or Taylors!

TV panel shows, documentaries, original programming. Easy access to a lot of things at a range of budgets. Mild weather. Cheap food and choice of restaurants. Politeness and small talk.

@SmudgeButt oh I’ve not heard of most these Canadian things and I’ve never seen a ‘canadian’ section in UK supermarkets or aus like other cultures!

I’d like to try your bacon is it crispy?

I was in Spain for three years.

Meal deals! A good range of chocolate bars and crisps.

Summers in which you didn't feel like you were melting to death (although I can't say I've been very impressed by this British summer where it's rained all day, many days either).

Being able to go to the doctor's or something without worrying about communication issues (that one's my fault for not being good enough at Spanish )

@Cordial11 Canadian bacon aka back bacon aka peameal is thick cut non smoked. Wonderful stuff. You can buy it sliced or buy it in something like a pork loin roast. (drool)