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

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

Also marks and spencers food!

I reckon everyone should do a stint abroad as you come back with so much pride in your own country.

I came back at the beginning of the summer and I don't think I've ever felt less pride in this country unfortunately

Where I live in western Canada we can get lots of British food, so I’m okay on that score.

I miss the architecture, the farmland, and the general look of the part of England I lived in. I also missing the swearing and British cynicism. I find my fellow Canadians too sincere for my comfort zone and swearing tends to be done almost solely in anger versus exasperation or just to add a soupçon of colour to things.

The countryside
crumbly cheese
fish and chips
queueing

Australia. I miss history. By which I mean cathedrals, cobble stones, ancient cottages and churches to wander about.
Good changes I've largely gotten used to although my OH frequently craves pork pies and scotch eggs.
Oh, and a supermarket cafe £4,50 big breakfast!
I miss having a wide choice of reasonably affordable clothing, furniture etc and the quality of everything here is abysmal. We really are a captive market.

*FOOD

Oh, and Bramley apples, proper Brussels sprouts, bonfire night. Christmas in Winter. We have to wait till 9.00p.m Christmas eve before it's dark enough to take the kids to see the extremely limited lights.
Also proper pubs, and activity places for kids like soft play and jungle gyms, theme parks, petting zoos, village "fetes worse than death", squirrels. Hedgehogs.
Getting homesick now, so gonna shut up!!
Plus I have kangaroos, parrots and echidnas literally in my backyard so really I'm extremely lucky.

Pork pies and my parents.

Also things happening at the right time of the year for example Halloween and Guy Fawkes are a waste of time where I am, you need cold dark evenings which you don't get in the spring of sub tropical NZ.

Being close enough to family to drop in or join in with special events, celebration meals etc.

UK supermarkets - miss them hugely. Especially really good delivery service, and kids clothes. In fact anything cheap but good. UK does that really well.

All the ready made or convenience foods. Definitely including pies!

I'm in Aus. The only thing I miss about living in the UK apart from friends is being able to get on a plane (or better still Eurostar) and being in a totally different country with different language/food/culture so quickly.

I miss Tesco and Aldi (although some Tesco products are available in Choithrams, it's not the same as a whole store).

Also reasonable prices on every day food- you can get so many typical UK products here but only if you pay over the odds, which doesn't stop me paying £2 for 6 crumpets and £1.70 for a packet of malted milk biscuits in M&S food (a UK brand that is franchised here, like many others).

Christmas doesn't feel like Christmas, but it never will with just DH and I.

I miss borrowing books for free from a library I could walk to, and running outside without melting.

I don't miss the weather, the traffic, the Sunday trading hours, Brexit, knife crime or petrol prices.

I miss the shopping, both supermarket and clothes. Also being able to go shopping anytime and not be restricted yes because it’s Sunday or because they have closed for lunch!

I also miss
Family
Pork pies
Quick banking
Public transport
Takeaways

I haven't lived abroad yet but travel a lot for work. I think I would miss the trees and gardens in normal streets in most towns. The range of countryside all relatively close. Food wise, I miss salt and vinegar crisps and british indian takeaways. I would also miss the weather! I dont particularly like hot weather so love spring when everything is that very bright green and the rhododendrons flower and autumn when you got bright sun but frost too and the leaves are all colours. Nothing too extreme.

My children cannot answer the question 'Where are you from'.
DD1 was born in Hannover, Germany. A city she hasn't visited since she left hospital at 5 days old. She lived a couple of hours north of there for 4 months. Then moved to a village in North Yorkshire for a couple of years, then to another part of Yorkshire until she was 4. Spent a couple of years in Cyprus, then a couple more in a different part of Germany. Now living in Lincolnshire. (8yo)
DD2 was born in the Yorkshire village, moved across Yorkshire at a few months old, then to Cyprus at two. Germany at four. Lincolnshire at 6yo.

They are not 'from' anywhere... Just Europe. And DD1 will have no right to live where she was born.

Pies
Fish and chips
Decent bacon
Lamb, sea fish without paying a fortune
Having a blether in shops
Queuing properly
Bras over a D cup without paying a fortune

Things that are better where I live now:
General cleanliness and orderliness, very little vandalism
Low crime and anti social behaviour
Great beer and wine very cheaply
Beautiful landscapes and the weather to enjoy them
Cakes

Countryside, pretty villages, cottages, our seaside,

Carpets and central heating.
The variety of crisps and fruit.
Bookshops
Snow days
Bank holidays
Good tv
Smoking ban
Free healthcare
Mumsnet!

I agree with so many of these, I love our life in aus but can’t beat ‘home’ comforts

I work in the hospital that had the only Tim
Hortens outlet in the UK. We had Timbits. Not entirely sure why they chose that location though!

Living in various European and Asian countries, the one thing I always missed was British comedy! There really is nothing like it.

I remember welling up when one of the torrents I'd downloaded of a BBC show caught the announcer - just hearing a british accent made me feel homesick (and I don't generally feel homesick). Same when I had my first child, and was wheeled into recovery (c-section) and the nurse attending me was from Slough - I was so grateful to have a familiar accent when I felt so vulnerable.

Charity shops. 100%.

My parents and my best friend but literally nothing else.

I reckon everyone should do a stint abroad as you come back with so much pride in your own country

Oh really?? Mine just made me realise how crap my home country is and I vowed never to come back to live!

In no particular order

Hot tea
Cold water fish
Voting / having rights
NHS
Friends and family ( actually that was #1 and why we came back)

Verily, where are you that there’s no book shops nor bank holidays? That sounds horrible.