To be homesick for the UK

[twiney]

I'm a little hungover and had a rough day yesterday and it's triggered a bout of homesickness for the UK. Any other expat MNers feeling homesick for their country?

I miss...

The humorous trashy aspect of Christmas

The free-form approach to womanhood

Pubs

The love of newness and creativity

The acceptance of difference

My friends

The sea and the faded kitschness of coastal towns

The flexible playfulness of using English

There are more. But as Christmas draws nearer and nostalgia kicks in, having tried to integrate here and doing an okay job ploughing on with it, I just wanted to say it out loud: I miss you, UK, I miss your no-nonsense women, an attitude I can still just about hold onto through the various personalities on MN.

I miss you and love you!

I miss the U.K. we moved to the US 3 years ago and. Miss it terribly. I miss friends and the openness. I hate the casual segregation here. There’s shite here and there but at least there it was my shite!

dont mention our.. hot summer

LMFAO, UK, hot summer?!?

Obviously not the unliveable temperatues of some equatorial place, but over 30 degrees. If you live in the UK you need to get outside more.

Last week I was feeling like that, this week's better as school broke up for the summer and I'm more chilled out. Last week I was ready to scream FUCK OFF in someones or anyones face. I'd be on for a piss up in a pub with warm beer and dirty chairs with my so called cold countrymen . I don't miss the UK though, everywhere just some variation of shite and heaven. You just have to learn to ignore the shite

I left years ago. Where I live we have perfectly livable actual hot summers. Sorry, it just made me giggle.

I find it strange that UK based people try and justify living there. Who cares, if you like it live there, if you don't leave (as I did). It's the making claims that are bollocks and just not realistic that I find odd.

Obviously not the unliveable temperatues of some equatorial place, but over 30 degrees. If you live in the UK you need to get outside more.

Well, that depends where in the UK you live. Those 30 degree temperatures were mostly in the south east.

OP I read your other thread, so understand why you're feeling down. The UK isn't as nice as it was, politically it's shit. But although there are beautiful places on other countries, I wouldn't want to live elsewhere.
I adore our seaside towns and eating a bag of chips on the prom!

Is living where you live set in stone? No chance of moving back? If your relationship ends, won't you come back then?

I hear you. We are back in the U.K. now but we really missed Home at Christmas. It didn’t feel right all hot and sunny . I missed my family and our traditions

I think I probably don't appreciate it enough. I know if I left I'd miss lots.

I miss the ease of form filling in my own language and the easy banter and weird Scottish humour.

It’s odd OP because I live in Norway and logically it’s better here. But I still miss the ease and familiarity of living in the U.K. I also miss being able to jump in a car to visit my parents and my scattered friends.

I’ve been here a long time now, but I still hanker to return now and then.

Ther are loads of aspects of London that I miss, sadly when I visit they are not there anymore. I think I'm more wistful for the past than for a place.

Nick Knowles has released an album just in time for Christmas.

Nigel Farage is in the news.

Donald Trump has legitimised racism by re-tweeting Britain First.

Austerity measures means that street sleepers are at record levels and food banks are appealing for more supplies.

Brexit has exposed all our politicians as incompetent, self serving morons.

Our infrastructure is in crisis.

Our emergency services and NHS staff morale is at an all time low.

Your homesick. Take the rose-tinted glasses off, please.

Can I ask those of you who think it's shit here when you are emigrating? I will happily contribute financially to your leaving funds to speed the process?

Everyone always has to bring racism into every conversation

Heh, I think I remember SilverySurfer promising me the same thing shortly after the Brexit vote. (I have now emigrated.)

Hang in there twiney. It's normal to miss home sometimes and you will be back for Christmas soon!

What has Donald Trump to do with OP being homesick?

OP "The free-form approach to womanhood"

ooh, this is interesting. what does that mean please?

of course YANBU to be homesick. have some

The UK is generally great. It punches well above its weight, the people do irony well, people queue, the climate is temperate, the grass is pretty green, people are innovative and creative. Hard to beat,really.

Good post, OP!

What has Donald Trump to do with OP being homesick?

has legitimised racism by re-tweeting Britain First

Imagine Christmas in the heat. Just plain wrong. Bleurgh

It's a bit of a tenuous connection to OP feeling homesick TBH, what with Donald Trump being in the US and all that.

I miss tons of things. At this time of year I'm miss the build up to Xmas and I get quite sentimental and nostalgic.

In the summer I miss Britain for more practical reasons as the temperature here sometimes goes above 50C. Winter is beautiful but summer is hard work. I used to live in SW London and I become very nostalgic for picnics in Richmond Park, walks down the river to Hampton Wick, the gardens at Hampton Court Palace... and as I'm Scottish I always remember how beautiful Loch Lomond is, especially on a good day.

And of course I miss my family and friends, very much. I see my family more often but I feel like my friends are drifting away

Rose "Imagine Christmas in the heat. Just plain wrong. Bleurgh"

one day we will do this!!

Hard to beat,really.

It's not, it's really not.

I love the UK despite knowing all it's problems

I have had several serious chances to move abroad and don't regret not taking any of them. I love my holidays in different places but love to come home

Is this "homesickness" in part anything to do with what is going on in your relationship do you think ? I am pretty sure you wouldn't be feeling quite so sad if things were better there.