It can't be all bad!

[Houseplant]

11 hours ago, oowee said:

It's a stunning place with wonderful history, beautiful scenery and friendly people. Unfortunately your colleague missed the best part of the country which is the south west. It's breath taking. My wife says the best part about Britain is the detail. 

Yes, I lived in Devon in my latter years. It was nice. 

9 hours ago, oldypigeonpopper said:

Hello, What area did she like best on her long visit ??

I'm not sure, but she was quite taken with the Lakes. 

[oldypigeonpopper]

6 minutes ago, Houseplant said:

Yes, I lived in Devon in my latter years. It was nice. 

I'm not sure, but she was quite taken with the Lakes. 

Hello, Is this going to be a retirement or maybe working part time in UK , What type of work/profession has your friend been doing in NZ ? I ask this as if she likes the Countryside and that way of life there is a Publication that advertise Jobs with accommodation , Jobs vary from a PA to looking after a Country house, if you can get this online it is called . The Lady Magazine, 

[Scully]

1 hour ago, steve1066 said:

Totally agree Scully!

🙂👍

[Minky]

13 hours ago, yates said:

Sorry but the UK, all four countries is rapidly detiorating. Increasing cost of living,crime,excess population,pollution, loss of countryside and the staggering rise of young Muslim extremists in many of our towns to name but a few reasons not to live here. 

Um,  I  take it from the above that you must be looking to emigrate to the greener grass on the other side of somewhere.  Let me know where you end up.

11 hours ago, Westley said:

All things being equal......you will be surprised as to how bad your eyesight was prior to the surgery. You will be in and out in no time, it is a painless experience. 

Oh, you may need some good sunglasses afterwards.  I am susceptible to bright light.

..... Thanks for that.  IF YOU DRIVE, do you have problems with bright headlights from cars driving the other way at night.   Again,, if you do how do you get round this.?  Don't drive at night,  The Mrs drives or you work timings to avoid night driving.?

 

 

[Houseplant]

2 hours ago, oldypigeonpopper said:

Hello, Is this going to be a retirement or maybe working part time in UK , What type of work/profession has your friend been doing in NZ ? I ask this as if she likes the Countryside and that way of life there is a Publication that advertise Jobs with accommodation , Jobs vary from a PA to looking after a Country house, if you can get this online it is called . The Lady Magazine, 

Cheers, I'll pass it on. She is an anaesthetic technician. Partner is a vet, also coming up to retirement. 

[oldypigeonpopper]

1 hour ago, Houseplant said:

Cheers, I'll pass it on. She is an anaesthetic technician. Partner is a vet, also coming up to retirement. 

Hello, ok, I am sure there would be part time work for that profession in a large hospital and partner look after a country house, oh that sounds a dream !!! but there are people who do just that as i have seen on tv

Edited November 5 by oldypigeonpopper

[old man]

19 hours ago, Scully said:

The UK is a wonderful place to live. We have our problems like any other country, mostly caused by minorities like idiots, feral street scum and politicians, but on the whole it’s a great place. 
We could do with the right for law abiding people to defend themselves on a practical and effective basis, the reinstatement of capital punishment in relevant cases, for ‘life’ sentences to actually mean life, and for those who choose to end their own lives the ability to do so without the threat of punishment towards those who aid that choice, but apart from those minuscule niggles, its a grand place to live. 😉

 

Just a dream sadly?

[yates]

15 hours ago, Minky said:

Um,  I  take it from the above that you must be looking to emigrate to the greener grass on the other side of somewhere.  Let me know where you end up.

 

Ideally looking to end up on Arran. It's something that SWMBO and myself have discussed in depth quite recently. Biggest emotioal hurdle is we have a 20 month old Grandson on the scene now

[Scully]

3 hours ago, old man said:

Just a dream sadly?

👍 Quite. Bit of a nightmare rather than a dream, I would think, for those these matters effect. 

[Minky]

On 06/11/2024 at 12:11, yates said:

Ideally looking to end up on Arran. It's something that SWMBO and myself have discussed in depth quite recently. Biggest emotioal hurdle is we have a 20 month old Grandson on the scene now

We have some friends where the woman loves shooting and is a very good shot.  The man is into bikes and cars.  I took her clay shooting to another of my friends and she was so made up with the situation that he had. Suddenly there announced that they were selling up ..... LIKE NOW. and ended up moving from Kent right up in the north of Scotland.  I'm not tottally sure of the exact location because it is all hush hush and secret.????  Basically it sort of forms into sort of idea of seclusion .?? The idea is a bit sort of along the lines of the TV series "The good life". from what I understand it might be an idea but the reality is that It is pretty miserable up there.  It rains, Constantly.  It's cold,  Mainly,  Its blowing a gale, Mostly.  She can't find any shooting ,  the locals are pretty dour and treat them as interlopers.  He hates it and wants to come back home tomorrow.  It's like being in a lift.  all the time you in that lift, your being transported up or down BUT if you get out of the lift (sell up} you either stay where you are or you have to use the stairs to go up or down.  It would not surprise me if they parted ways and he came back down south and she didn't .. who knows, but it doesn't sound like something I would do.. up sticks and go somewhere else on an idea.  People are just people and there are good and bad in all situations.  you just have to make the best of what you have.  Ps. A family moved down here from the western isles and they hated it,  Mainly tied up with the weather.  they said that it was too warm down here.  Example.. one day it was very cold but the bloke was wandering about in a vest T shirt.  they went back up north after a year down in the tropical south.

[yates]

2 hours ago, Minky said:

We have some friends where the woman loves shooting and is a very good shot.  The man is into bikes and cars.  I took her clay shooting to another of my friends and she was so made up with the situation that he had. Suddenly there announced that they were selling up ..... LIKE NOW. and ended up moving from Kent right up in the north of Scotland.  I'm not tottally sure of the exact location because it is all hush hush and secret.????  Basically it sort of forms into sort of idea of seclusion .?? The idea is a bit sort of along the lines of the TV series "The good life". from what I understand it might be an idea but the reality is that It is pretty miserable up there.  It rains, Constantly.  It's cold,  Mainly,  Its blowing a gale, Mostly.  She can't find any shooting ,  the locals are pretty dour and treat them as interlopers.  He hates it and wants to come back home tomorrow.  It's like being in a lift.  all the time you in that lift, your being transported up or down BUT if you get out of the lift (sell up} you either stay where you are or you have to use the stairs to go up or down.  It would not surprise me if they parted ways and he came back down south and she didn't .. who knows, but it doesn't sound like something I would do.. up sticks and go somewhere else on an idea.  People are just people and there are good and bad in all situations.  you just have to make the best of what you have.  Ps. A family moved down here from the western isles and they hated it,  Mainly tied up with the weather.  they said that it was too warm down here.  Example.. one day it was very cold but the bloke was wandering about in a vest T shirt.  they went back up north after a year down in the tropical south.

Hi Minky, i can understand this as I know a couple who emigrated to Australia but returned to the UK a couple of years later. We have been to Arran several times at various times of the year and experienced mainly positive things but have also had a couple of negative issues. I have chatted to locals and business owners to gain a balanced opinion of what to expect if we do proceed in this venture. It's horrible to negative about my own part of the world but it is rapidly going down hill

[udderlyoffroad]

Maybe point your friend at the countless threads on here with people unable to even get a doctor’s appointment, much less have any sort of preventative healthcare.

Sorry but at 60 you’d need rocks in your head to do anything other than visit the UK, and even then try your hardest to avoid needing medical care.

This is unlikely to be fixed anytime soon, too.

[Minky]

2 hours ago, udderlyoffroad said:

Maybe point your friend at the countless threads on here with people unable to even get a doctor’s appointment, much less have any sort of preventative healthcare.

Sorry but at 60 you’d need rocks in your head to do anything other than visit the UK, and even then try your hardest to avoid needing medical care.

This is unlikely to be fixed anytime soon, too.

Ok, the above can be very patchy.  Ok my GP's surgery practise can be a real pain to deal with to get an appointment and it can be a bit of a lottery as to getting through. They only book appointments for the day in the morning.  You have to be keen hound on the phone.  2 seconds to 8 and the line is not open. 1 second past 8, you might get in the queue and be given a queue position number.  There is a similar second session at 11 o'clock. mostly I have been able to get an appointment on the day.  But you can use E consult which can contain pictures of a condition.  When I had an operation on my Achilles tendon I got an infection.  One of my daughters took pictures of the pink leg and within half an hour we had a reply which told us that antibiotics had been prescribed and half an hour later the girls had been to the docs, got the prescription and had returned .  Some of it means that you have to be a bit tech savvy and have the use and knowledge of phone ,  Apps and the internet.