I’m fed up living in the UK.

[Highlander]

I thought that might attract your attention.

For the record I am most certainly not fed up with living in the UK.

It may have its’ faults, but the UK is still a great country to live in.

What I am thoroughly fed up with is people who have decided to emigrate, slagging it off from afar.

[ovacik2]

Just watched news at one the troubles and woes unfortunately world wide. China, India, Greece, most of Europe. Finance, Banking, Trade and all the social problems, immigration problems, some of which the UK has never seen. Our country embraces all, doing so has its problems. Without so many legal immigrants, European or Asian and others our NHS and others would be very much worse off or in some cases not exist. The illegal is another problem shared throughout the world including Turkey.

Hope you don't mind Highlander but your words describe our feelings too.

[karaokemark]

I thought that might attract your attention.

For the record I am most certainly not fed up with living in the UK.

It may have its’ faults, but the UK is still a great country to live in.

What I am thoroughly fed up with is people who have decided to emigrate, slagging it off from afar.

We have lived here over 4 years, one of the things that annoys me most is listening to expats and holidaymakers moaning about the UK, the ones lucky enough to live here like us have only done it because we had good jobs and the chance.
We love living here but to me Derbyshire will always be my home.
Mark

[Colwyn]

For most people, moving to live in a foreign country is a big decision. Once you begin your new life - perhaps especially when you still have some absurd notion that where you have gone is "a little piece of paradise" - you may find that there are things wrong with your new country. What do you you do? Just get on with it? Think about going back to the UK (and maybe admit, if only to yourself, that you made a mistake)? Or portray the UK in such negative terms that your present location looks more attractive in contrast? I guess this last group need the psychological support of slagging off the UK to make them feel better. They probably say "I'll never go back to that awful place". Until they fall to some serious illness and discover the merits of the NHS and "reluctantly" decide to return. What is the betting that, once back in the UK they tell anyone who will listen that "That [other] country is not what it used to be, it has gone downhill terribly. nobody [expats] wants to live there now, it's full of foreigners"?. Perhaps we should pity them? Or regard Scunner's favourite expats - the ones who constantly slag off the UK AND Turkey - as even worse.

I'm not sure that this post is really in the spirit of the GOM section. Sorry.

[Highlander]

the ones lucky enough to live here like us have only done it because we had good jobs and the chance.
We love living here but to me Derbyshire will always be my home.
Mark
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Couldn't agree more - Too many people, in my opinion. who emigrate seem to forget which country allowed them the opportunity to do so

[Highlander]

I'm not sure that this post is really in the spirit of the GOM section. Sorry.

I had thought of posting in the "All things that have nothing to do with Turkey" section.

And again, couldn't agree more with your splendid post.

[tinkerman]

ex-pats slagging off the UK? sorry but you don't need any help from us you are doing a fine job of it yourselves!  

[Colwyn]

Ouch! Anyone seen a Pit Bull wandering about? Answers to the name of Tinxs.

[nichola]

I don't live in the UK any more but I will continue to comment on whatever I want about the UK and any where else in the world that I want to. I see myself as a citizen of the world, I have friends and family who live in the UK and all around the world and what goes on everywhere affects all of us and as an educated person who takes an interest in what goes on globally it it is my right to comment on anything I choose too.

[Scunner]

I love the UK but decided I wanted to live somewhere else
I love Turkey but decided I wanted to live somewhere else

Such is the adventure known as life  

But like Nichola, having experienced and lived in both I'll be posting about both, good and bad