what's it like where you live?

[rattleskuttle]

i'd like to imagine moving somewhere. please tell me about where you live.
this is where i live:
jersey
mild british weather, fields and hedgerows, beautiful beaches, good schools, very low crime rate
high population density, bog standard house costs £400,000, reasonable house costs £550,000, 3 bed house rent is £1,500 per month, loaf of bread costs £1.20. main industry is international finance, no unemployment. bit of a problem with alcoholism and binge drinking. very conservative. expensive to leave (on a plane). mostly english people here with jersey families, portuguese and polish and some kenyans. language is english but use of french apparent, eg in road names.
can be about 10 years behind the times.

oh where to expat? And can I come and visit???

I don't mind, Mr.

I've travelled a long road to get to where I am. It's not been easy, and you have to grow a tough hide.

I go with the flow, and the flow lead us to Argyll.

We know, in our heart of hearts, that the end was long coming and now it is here.

This was not meant to be our home. We will never afford to be able to come back here to live.

So we embrace our new home.

We will fit in well.

We're happy to move on to such a great location.

Now I will say it. We are moving to the banks of Loch Long.

Outside Dunoon.

LIfe should never, ever be stagnant

Beautiful. I know it, on he way up to the Kyle. I even composed a song about it!! to be sung to a pipes band. but

For some, TnOgu, what you and I see as stagnation they see as peace.

And good for them.

I would not wish my restlessness on anyone.

I would not wish my life on anyone, tbh.

But I can only be what I am.

I've made peace with that and learned to laugh at and with it.

But there is little laughter here that I can see, so that is probably why things worked out the way they have for us.

We're grinning from ear to ear!

have you been evicted, expat, you are frightfullyu stoical

DD1 would be running about, 'Oh, pipers!'

Don't know why she loves that.

But she does.

She runs about now saying, 'Will I be Highland lass now? Nana says I will talk like Highland lass.'

As opposed to Leither? I suppose so.

Long as she's happy, I care nowt.

Until you are at peace with yourself, truly at peace, you will always have a need and a restlesness

Yes TnOgu..years ago I bought a motorbike and lovely but very 'still' buddy of mine expessed his reservations.. I said"i'd rather die of excitement than die of boredom."....a good defence answer..but also true!!

Nope.

Voluntarily giving up assured tenancy for 2 year tenancy in astonishingly beautiful bungalow on banks of loch and beyond that, who knows?

Familiar ground for me, hence, no longer freak out about it.

mm..drink has definitly been taken..said in his best Scottish Prestberterian accent!!

I need to break free again, it's killing me to stay here, but how do I do that with 10 year old in tow and reluctant husband?

'Either get busy living, or get busy dying.'

For me it's not so much restlesness as that I seem to find myself in the same spot often enough, having to move on.

I'd like to think one day that will stop, but I can't say for sure.

Until then, roll with it, at least it's, erm, makes for some memories.

Aye, Aberfeldy whisky has been drunk here tonight!

I stand in the garden staring up at stars half the night!

I found this lovely water jug, when last we were in Perthshire a month ago.

Perfect for the whisky.

I FELL IN LOVE AT ABERFELDY!!

I paint like a mad woman and I really feel like I'm on runaway train

When I have a garden to stare up from again, I will do so.

And the stars will seem as new to me.

'One cannot step into the same river twice. For it is not the same river, and you are not the same man.'

on the edge of sw london
tedious town centre jsut like nay other
river
open park land withing walking distance
countryside (by sothern standards) 5 mins dricve
london 16 mins train
schools good
conserbative commter belt, clean, low unemplotemntmt, too maynt 4 wheel drives
to sum up: nice but a bit biring

1982. Lourdy.

I agree alot with what expat says.
I'm Edinburgh born and bred and personally love it, wouldn't live anywhere else unless had to but I think the house prices are ridiculous. And they keep building new homes for families which cost mega bucks. Madly they sell, as do the other overprices family sized homes you see. What do the people who buy these earn?
As for the english comment, where I live we're all mostly locals but have been often asked as have friends if I came from fife or similar just because I have a scottish accent.

TnOgu..good train though??

How do you truly step off and feel like you are really living

sometimes I feel as though I'm suffocating and I live upa hill in a field