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Things you miss when you are abroad

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  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    road rage
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,477
    Definitely the humor and warmth of the British people. Linda McCartney pies. Quorn everything--though we do get a fair amount of Quorn products, they're definitely designed for the States. Cider has come a long way in the states in just the last five years, which has been nice. San Diego has a big IPA Microbrew community, which helped me to appreciate bitter. Probably biggest thing is just going down the pub with mates or going to the Valley then The Bug.
  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,303
    Pubs, beer, live music, live sport, comedy, arts and culture, friends and family, even The City, where I worked for most of my life. I miss London in general.

    Don't miss the winter weather (all nine months of it), corporate politics, the rougher element of London's streets and the prices.

  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:

    road rage

    If road rage ever makes it here there will be a punch up at every road junction the driving here is abysmal.
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,127
    Real bread, cheese, live music & football.
  • Bangkok Dave
    Bangkok Dave Posts: 382
    Don't miss much at all. Bangkok has it all and there is nothing I can not get. Even the British pubs are good and now serve a decent selection of Ales and IPAs. I used to live in Reading and barely saw family back in Tonbridge. Now I spend more time with the family as they come to visit for weeks at a time and we talk alot more via Skype.

    The last time I was in London I felt very lost and uncomfortable, so I guess I'm stuck out here now.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,206
    SDAddick said:

    Definitely the humor and warmth of the British people. Linda McCartney pies. Quorn everything--though we do get a fair amount of Quorn products, they're definitely designed for the States. Cider has come a long way in the states in just the last five years, which has been nice. San Diego has a big IPA Microbrew community, which helped me to appreciate bitter. Probably biggest thing is just going down the pub with mates or going to the Valley then The Bug.

    Aah, okay, I'd always assumed you were in South Dakota!
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,993
    Bacon - i don't understand why so many countries don't bother with it. Spain in particular, the food is generally superb, they have an infinite list of things they can make out of a pig, but no bacon. Why?!
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    Absolutely nothing.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,906
    Not relevant now but I used to miss teletext when abroad.

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  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,488
    British countryside, humour, food and being at home. There are many shit things about Britain but it's home.
  • All_Thaid_Up
    All_Thaid_Up Posts: 2,293
    Probably a big list would be what I don't miss TBH. However I tend to miss the change in seasons. Football I miss the live element but anywhere +4 hrs watching on tv is a nice time.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited March 2016
    All_Thaid_Up said:

    Probably a big list would be what I don't miss TBH. However I tend to miss the change in seasons. Football I miss the live element but anywhere +4 hrs watching on tv is a nice time.

    I do - wish we had him in the team now
  • ozaddick
    ozaddick Posts: 2,852
    english boozers, although in Perth there are plenty of decent English themed and very decent Irish pubs.
    Football, can't beat English football atmosphere, they worship Australian rules football... It's crap, and so is the atmosphere, that winds me up even more than the game itself.
    English women, English girls have, well most the ones I know, style, are quick witted and are just have more class than their Aussie counterparts, who have a right stuck up, don't talk to me attitude. English lasses tell it as it is too, which I love.
    I miss the seasons, the green fields of Kent.
    I miss the ease of public transport, it's pretty much non existent here, the train lines run along the freeways, so you have to drive to the motorway to catch a train, way I see it I may as well carry on driving!
    Most importantly I miss my immediate family, My Mum, dad and sister.

    But I'm grateful for my life here. I'm happy.
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,477
    cafcfan said:

    SDAddick said:

    Definitely the humor and warmth of the British people. Linda McCartney pies. Quorn everything--though we do get a fair amount of Quorn products, they're definitely designed for the States. Cider has come a long way in the states in just the last five years, which has been nice. San Diego has a big IPA Microbrew community, which helped me to appreciate bitter. Probably biggest thing is just going down the pub with mates or going to the Valley then The Bug.

    Aah, okay, I'd always assumed you were in South Dakota!
    No no, grew up and have lived most of my life in California. Not the "outdoorsy" type, would probably get eaten by a bear or a squirrel in ten minutes in South Dakota.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,186
    Real ale, going to Charlton on every other Saturday, decent shops, central heating, good public transport (though I appreciate that plenty of places in the UK are the same, a main holiday town the equivalent of Albufeira would have buses that ran after 7PM...), the advertising of events, good music (the last time there was anything resembling a proper international artist here was Roger Hodgson in about 2009), and rockabilly clubs.
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,127
    Sounds more backwards than China, @Algarveaddick
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,186
    Stu_of_Kunming said:

    Sounds more backwards than China, @Algarveaddick

    They could do so much Stu, but they refuse to listen to any suggestions or advice (sound like anyone we know?).

  • rina
    rina Posts: 2,337
    McBobbin said:

    Gotta be a decent cup of tea. I spent a few months in south America... All those cows and the milk was all uht, it was all lipton yellow label... And in brazil they put sugar in everything without asking you. When I had a cuppa in new Zealand (which is basically England in the 80s) with fresh milk... Pg tips... I actually groaned.

    Definitely this. The lack of decent milk and Lipton being the best tea are the things that have always bugged me in the years I've spent out of the UK
  • masicat
    masicat Posts: 5,012
    Peeing standing up.

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  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    Your wife
  • Yorkshireaddick
    Yorkshireaddick Posts: 511
    Chips and gravy
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    A good old British brass!
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,253
    Throwing the used toilet paper in the pan rather than in a bin after having a dump in Greece.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,186
    masicat said:

    Peeing standing up.

    Took me a while...

  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,069
    Stu_of_Kunming said:

    Real bread, cheese, live music & football.

    Don't miss much but when I do, this covers it.
  • ozaddick
    ozaddick Posts: 2,852
    M&S Coleslaw. Aussies just don't do decent dressings for salads.
  • DanDavis
    DanDavis Posts: 1,131
    Miss......

    M&S Food also.

    The impromptu after work pint (or seven).

    Talking absolute nonsense with my pals.

    Kirsty and Phil.

    The 5 or 6 glorious days of summer.

    Having a bet.

    London.

    Me mum.


    Don't miss...

    Getting dark at 3:30 in the winter.

    The daily commute with Southeastern.

    Lairy twats in the pub.

    Hairy twats in the pub.

    Miranda.














  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,242
    Indian Curry and decent beer
  • Man_About_Town
    Man_About_Town Posts: 997
    Pubs
    Beer
    Humour
    Football
    Family

    Been in OZ for over 32 years

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