Is mumsnet International?

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Is it just brits using this or people from all over?

A Brit living and working in Myanmar here

It's not only Scotland that gets the holidays comments. We're on holiday in the UK at the moment, the number of people that have commented on my children being off school is amazing. When I say they are on their summer holidays I get "where on earth is it summer?" Well half of it actually :)

vying, very interesting....

The HIV aspect is very heartbreaking. I became quite anti catholic (was brought up catholic and close relatives are clergy) when I read the Catholic Church agreed to sell condoms in Kenya, as long as it would be accompanied by a warning that condoms would not reduce the risk of infection. A condition so manageable in the western works just left to decimate a generation.

Other aspects are more familiar and a lot more lighter. Like AIBU a neighbours tree growing over my fence etc etc. I do frequent more of the 'sadder' boards on mn - special needs, as I have a child with autism, and bereavement, as I've lost a child and work voluntarily providing support in the area. I often contemplate how it would be if my experiences were in countries like yours, where no doubt the experiences would be more challenging. Thanks again for the insight!

Imip, I didn't mean to make you sad, sorry to hear about your dc

No, you didn't make me sad at all! I'm genuinely interested.... sad things are just part of life ... and it goes on

Lovely photo!!

Home

Oh that looks really lovely! Now, if I posted a pic of my home, I'd be concerned that someone on this thread would no me. I guess you won't have such trouble :-)

Would all homes have internet connection or via phone?

Through cell phones. Electricity through generator and water is bore hole(sp).
Most have phones which they switch on as and when needed or is necessary. About 60% of the village has own water bore holes - otherwise you would use communal tap water between 20 houses and 20% personal electricity generators, otherwise you use gas or wood. For example, if you don't have electricity, you iron clothes by warming your iron on a stove plate after cooking.

Vying thanks so much for sharing these fascinating insights and beautiful photos.

Thanks vying. Dh family comes from outback Australia. They were only recently connected to mains water, they used to have a dam. Def electricity though!

Vying

Your house is in some ways similar to mine. Mine actually looks more like the sandy coloured building in the foreground, I think it might be an animal shed :) I also live in a village, my house is 300+ years old and partly made of mud and animal poo (cob). What do you do for the toilet?

Great pictures Vyingforloc. Lovely views. We have free roaming horses, mules and donkeys as well. Not so much free roaming cattle, unless they escape!
Where are you fake?

fake yes it is a shed. I have a flushing toilet. The man in the picture has his back to the slope where the compounds are.

And Bundao I am just as curious about Fake

Brits abroad and non Brits who have lived a very long time in the UK then moved elsewhere are heavily represented. If you are away from the country of your birth, and from old friends and extended family when you have your children (or even without children of course) that is a huge motivation to seek a little oases on the internet to chat or seek advice, especially if IRL you don't get the chance to speak English to anyone outside your partner and kids, or there is a culture gap even if the language is a form of English

Geeky I'm a Brit in Pittsburgh! Hi!

Thanks for starting this thread. I'm a Londoner living in London but I love hearing about views and how things are done from around the UK and the wider world, in general, and on this thread from Vying especially.

I'm from all over... where I come there are so few people around so I share in on your forum.

British living in Brazil.

Kiwi back in NZ after many years in London. I discovered mumsnet when I was pregnant in the UK with our first DS and then check in regularly, mostly lurking, when I need a hit of that irreverence that I miss so much from our time in London. I miss that more than M&S refrigerator cake even.
And I have loved the insights on this thread.

I'm English but live in Ireland, so not too far away compared to many of you.

I've been here for a long time now thanks to Irish DH & consider it my home.

I really love the international feel of MN.

I am mexican and live in Spain

I'm a Brit living in the US for over 10 years, and also a nationalised American.

If I'm honest, I've stopped coming to Mumsnet so much because the casual racism against Americans has just put me off so much.

I'm sure someone will tell me it's not really racism or even any other ism, but whatever you want to call it, it's hurtful.

I tried fighting it, but it made little difference, so now I just don't read any threads about Americans if I can help it, and I visit the site much less.

And pretty much everyone's 'core values' that I know here are fantastic. Kind, giving, community minded, positive- you can do anything you set your mind to attitudes. And people do things for themselves. Fix things themselves, grow things themselves, see, bake, build. Pretty good core values

That's how I'd describe most of the Americans I know too.

Brit living in Canada here. Found this forum through another and I mostly like to read rather than comment.