to want to live ANYWHERE other than here?

[Hippymum89]

Been toying with the idea of emigrating for years
Currently looking into Oz (I'm a nurse) but might fall short on the points selection to get a visa. USA too difficult, rest of Europe - my rubbish language skills!

Theres's me (32) DD (7) and nana (72)
Sick of the horrid culture in UK of bullying, general miserableness, crappy weather, consumerism etc etc

Would it be crazy to go to Africa? Some remote island in the middle of the ocean? ANYWHERE?

I'd say move, I lived in Australia for a year and I wouldn't want to live there permanently, it's very very like the UK. Now I live in Sweden, it's got down sides but not as many as the UK. I don't think I'd ever move back to the UK, the moaning is just to much, I never hear people talk about the recession here when I'm home in the UK everything is blamed on the recession.

I met a lady in Germany this summer who moved to Sweden with her DD, is it you?!
Thing is, where to go?!

Am also considering a move to Oz.

As a nurse you should be a shoe-in!

Although may mean you have to work somewhere rural to start off with as they are desperate for medical staff.

How does your mother feel about things? To me that would be a significant factor.

It's not me, no dd for me. It's hard with nursing because I guess you have to speak the language really, did you say your mum is danish? Maybe she could give you danish lessons.

I like the sound of new Zealand, I have never been but the skiing makes me think it would be a nice place, or Canada.

As for the UK I grew up in Devon and it was an amazing place to be a kid, surfing and lots of countryside to explore, the big hospitals are in Exeter, Plymouth and Torquay, out of the 3 I'd recommend Exeter. If as your name suggests you have hippy tendencies google totnes, it's a funny little alternative town, I grew up there and it is lovely although very detached from reality, but then that isn't always a bad thing!