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.
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.
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.
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!
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?!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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Don't miss the winter weather (all nine months of it), corporate politics, the rougher element of London's streets and the prices.
The last time I was in London I felt very lost and uncomfortable, so I guess I'm stuck out here now.
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.
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.
Beer
Humour
Football
Family
Been in OZ for over 32 years