Hi Dean & Jill, welcome to the forum, i'm one of many that have braved it, tho i aint what you'd call brave, and what's good and bad back home might be the opposite way round for some people, i just feel more at home here, and i am warmer, and the friends i only saw for 4 weeks a year on holiday, i now see more or less every day, i still get my bills and moan. Alan