Who Would Have Me...

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Maurice

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Not wishing to hijack the Rover thread, I thought I'd get a cross section of opinion on where I should emigrate to (deliberate, Ven) if Labour don't win the next election.

My first choice would be Spain, but Suny Bay is a national and says the place is going down the tubes.

My heart would ensure I considered Ireland but the cost of living seems dreadfully expensive.

France is a beautiful country but unfortunately it is populated by French.

I really enjoyed the USA when I was there but the place much more than its fair share of inbreds and lunatics.

Any other ideas?
 
OK, Songsheet. Gimme some reasons. Any particular area? I know the climate can be vastly different from north to south (as it can in Spain), but I thought Italy was supposed to be expensive?
 
We have a restaurant near us that specialises in Emilian Cookery (sadly changed ownership recently and fading fast). Half of a cows daily dairy produce per meal in the form of butter,cream and cheese. Not for those prone to putting on that extra pound easily but that seems like a region I would be heading anyway.
 
Personally, I like living here (Gib/Spain) and if I had the chance to do so I would love to live in Spain, on a finca inland from the Costa de la Luz.
 
If not Andalucia or England, the other place I would love to live is Western Australia, on the outskirts of Perth. It is a fantastic area & I have family and friends out there - my aunt has been trying to lure me out there for the last 3 years - she is convinced I'd make a good park ranger in one of the National Parks & has been gathering info about it for me!!
 
I like Australians (I'm trying to think if I've ever seen a really ugly Australian woman :ph34r: ) and their XXXX attitude in general. I'm not so sure about the creepie-crawlies. Some can be downright deadly. I wouldn't want to be whisked off to my maker by being bitten on the bum by a nastly little spider while reading my Oz version of the Racing Post on the cludgie.
 
I've never been anywhere much but a lot of people are saying that New Zealand is the place to go right now. Definitely a boom town environment.

I've got relatives who have emigrated in every generation (Ireland to England to Australia and now New Zealand). I dunno if there's anywhere left to go now!
 
Originally posted by Maurice@Apr 11 2005, 01:50 PM
I like Australians (I'm trying to think if I've ever seen a really ugly Australian woman :ph34r: ) and their XXXX attitude in general. I'm not so sure about the creepie-crawlies. Some can be downright deadly. I wouldn't want to be whisked off to my maker by being bitten on the bum by a nastly little spider while reading my Oz version of the Racing Post on the cludgie.
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I the three and a half weeks I was in Australia a couple of years back I can safely say I didn't spot one spider!!! Ok, we had a snake in the garden of our apartment but that was in Cairns which is very tropical. In WA insects, creepy crawlies and the like appear to be over-stated - or so say all my family/friends who live there! The funnelweb is uncommon & much more widely found in Sydney and the red backs and smaller spiders are frightened of humans & keep away from them by hiding in nooks and crannies - you just have to be sensible about not sticking your hands into dark corners or under garden chairs, etc! They do get the odd tiger snake or brown snake but again they are nervous of humans so tend to keep away, although the brown snakes can be pretty aggressive.
 
North Island of New Zealand: Whangarei/the Bay of Islands. I have an old school chum, who now part-owns and manages The Settlers Inn there - Google it up for a shufti of how lovely the area is. He's 59, and still a racing nut, having come to the UK to ride for dear old Mrs Dingwall back in the 60s, and has just bought half-a-hoof in a well-bred NZ Flat horse.

Italy - there's really only one place: Portofino, on the Riviera. Sighhhhhh....

Thailand - my friends will give you a stunning deal if you want a long-term stay in Phuket. Their guesthouse/bar/restuarant/bar, the Tavern on the Hill (did you see the word BAR in there?) is safely on a high hill out of harm's reach, but backing onto jungle, complete with mernkeys. Private tutor work very possible. Plenty of very, very cheap nice little bungalows to be found, lots of lovely nosh, plenty to drink, relaxing massages (no sniggering, thanks you - proper massages), plenty to drink, fabulous scenery, lovely people, and plenty to drink. You might miss the Racing Post, though...

Cape Town - plenty of racing, gorgeous Knysna not far to go and see, fab climate, beautiful views, marvellous food, friendly people, loads to see and do, private tutor work very possible, bungalows and apartments still cheap (as in, still good ones to be had at around £85,000), Castle Lager, Lion Beer, all those Cape wines... and a very, very good Rand-to-£ ratio.
 
I am interested in 3 countries:
Ireland, Poland and USA.

Ireland is a bit expensive in Dublin but I dont think it is so in other places.


USA is one of the very very few serious countries in the world and places like Florida looks an attractive proposition.


Poland, the country with more future in Europe and looks a nice country once the comunists are out of there.
 
I could live in USA but not Florida.

I was there in July a few years ago. It was very warm and humid until clouds started gathering just after 3pm every day, and the lightning storms would start about 5pm. You could almost set your watch by them. They have mosquitoes the size of eagles and the wasps are more like albatrosses in halloween costumes. And the whites look very disdainfully upon blacks.

Elsewhere, the leitmotif in Blazing Saddles about everyone in town being called Johnson is disturbingly true in the north-western states.

On the plus side, freedom of speech is alive and well over there.

I'd like to know more about Poland. I've only met a very small number of Poles and they seem very nice.

I once taught a Hungarian student. Apart from being very polite and hardworking, she was drop dead gorgeous. If she was par for the course...
 
Sorry to have frightened you, Mo - I just assumed you'd want to do a bit of something other than laze around on warm, sandy beaches, listening to the soft breezes wafting in the palms, the odd plop of a fresh coconut landing at your feet, and the gentle, but insistent voices of beach vendors wheedling at you all day long to buy the local weed, or tacky souvenirs...
 
I love swimming in the sea so long as the water isn't too cold. The Adriatic is brilliant in that respect.
 
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