Paddington made me homesick

[AmericasTorturedBrow]

I know it's whimsical and totally unrealistic (we'd never be living in a massive house like that in chalk farm "Windsor Gardens) but I actually sobbed when DS said he didn't recognize the natural history museum.

Just confirmed for me that I do eventually want to move back

Haven't seen it yet - I'm almost too scared to because my expat friends who have been have all come out in tears! I'm not even from London (NE Scotland), but I just miss Britain so much!

Our experience of Texas has been both good and not so good, but probably the thing I find the most difficult is what was mentioned further up thread about people not accepting kids (and adults) who don't fit their "perfect American mould".

Very glad to say that we are moving back this summer (just found out this week) and I could not be happier. Maybe now I can go and see the film without weeping!

I actually overheard someone saying the other day "I don't want to pay for someone else's healthcare or education. I earn my money, they should earn theirs and pay for what they want to get"

This is why I don't want to stay in America indefinitely

I have heard similar Americas along with a whole host of other "gems"! (and Obama is of course to blame for everything [sceptical] )

duh.... fail!

When in Rome, and all that. You start picking apart the fabric of the culture around you, you isolate yourself very quickly.

I think my personal 'favourite' was when someone said that Obama had no right to send "our troops" to Africa to help people with Ebola - they needed to look after themselves instead of risking their diseases coming back to American soil! (although the more recent diatribe against him when he failed to go to Paris for the Charlie Hebdo protest because he is "Islamist scum" and "a piece of shit who would never protest against his own kind" was up there too)

Point taken but at the same time this has come out of a reminiscence of our own culture. And most of the Americans I actually know and am friends with have the same beliefs as me, but yes I do sometimes feel isolated surrounded by a culture that adheres to the idea that healthcare should be governed by finances and that everyone has the right to keep a dangerous weapon in their handbag