Moving abroad has made me realise how bloody dire the UK is

[MattHancocksPrivateNurse]

We moved abroad 4 months ago and after the normal wobbles and adjustments I am now shocked at how different (and much better!) life is. We have considerably more spending money despite paying for private school and healthcare (which are much much better than the UK). It’s safer, considerably cleaner, better public services and much better food quality.

already I can’t see us ever going back and already want to explore somewhere new eventually! But if anyone is feeling low and despondent about the uk which we really were and gets an opportunity (or has a transferable job) I would 100000% recommend looking into it.

i wish we had done it 10 years ago tbh. AIBU to never come back bar the odd visit to see family and friends?!

Does anyone like having their home criticised?

Not every Muslim majority country is the same, I’m sure you can recognise that.

Would you? Then the UK looks really grim...

I’ll keep shitty UK thanks ! I’m not sure I’d like to live where homosexuality is illegal, women are second place and people are hung to death

How dare you, chicken tikka IS British!

I can't be bothered to reply to the Islamists.

This just isn’t true.

In my experience, it is, unfortunately, very true.

The NHS has saved the lives of several members of my family, and given me two new hips to hike on. It’s not perfect, but it could be as near as dammit, if people realised what we have here, and fought for it.

Like hell it is, its bloomin Indian you crazy person. I can't believe we are at the point where we have Brits trying to claim other nation's food as their own 🤣

It was invented in the UK :)

It was created in Birmingham

That poster posts a mishmash of views, plays devil advocate and doesn’t really ever say what she’s thinking. It is mostly attention-seeking stuff I think on threads, esp when talking about other cultures and immigrants. Best ignored I find!

Gosh !!

England is becoming a cesspit where you can be British in your own country, something which every other country laughs at, where we are bankrupting ourselves as a nation. Laughing stock of Europe.

When reading posts like this, you always need to wonder about the motive behind the post.
I know that when someone is posted abroad to work, there are all kind of financial benefits, like private schooling etcetera.
That doesn't make the county a better place. It means the person has traded in living in their own country for more money.
I don't think too many people will be envious. But each to his own. Let's hope Op never needs to come home.

Actually Glasgow

Why shouldn’t she come home, if she wants? Do you think her place here depends on her financial contribution?

@DebbieSavage

The women of Piddington have more to fear from their brothers and husbands than the refugees taking sanctuary nearby.

I'm pretty sure that's not true in the majority of cases....

You can keep your apologies.
You are obviously happy in Oman, as you say you've lived their for 50 yrs. I was merely pointing out how dismissive you were of the other posters experience of living there.
I couldn't be happy in a country where there is no real democracy, women are not equal to men and homosexuality is illegal.
The UK may be many things but none of the above apply here.

So does health insurance cover everything or are there pre-existing conditions etc? Just wondered because you pay c. 800 pa for the NHS per adult working (i.e. via tax).

The Torah says what it says, but in Israel homosexuality is legal and not a criminal offence as it is in Oman. Which is the point, I think.

I meant that it will be a come down to come home after slagging Britain off so energetically.In fact she will probably have to come home, because she will need to leave once the job terminates.

Amnesty International reports that migrant workers in Oman (so not OP) face 'systemic vulnerabilities, including unpaid wages, excessive working hours, passport confiscation, and physical mistreatment.'

That seems to be just the start of it. Personally I would not feel comfortable in a country with multiple human rights abuses.

Well, I'm glad you're happy, OP, but I wouldn't want to live permanently in a non-Western country that isn't free or democratic.

The reason Western developed countries are expensive to live in is because they are democracies and people have freedom - unlike in many countries around the world. So everyone wants to live in them.

Freedom isn't free.

Be fair. You live in SNP lala land.