Grumpy old men

[somebody]

I guess its just old people all round the world. Older british Indian people i know moan about the UK as we all do (you know not as good as it was five mintues ago etc) then moan when they get back fom India that its not as good as it was a few years ago

Get a bunch of old gits in this country togeter and they all be moaning

I get Maria's point the although the Wife loves it here somtimes she dont wanna be here. But I guess I'm the same aout the UK and I know I would be bored senseless in Phill, which is why we hope to retire to a third country in the long term a tad closer to Phill but with more going on

[triple5]

I guess its just old people all round the world. Older british Indian people i know moan about the UK as we all do (you know not as good as it was five mintues ago etc) then moan when they get back fom India that its not as good as it was a few years ago

Get a bunch of old gits in this country togeter and they all be moaning

I get Maria's point the although the Wife loves it here somtimes she dont wanna be here. But I guess I'm the same aout the UK and I know I would be bored senseless in Phill, which is why we hope to retire to a third country in the long term a tad closer to Phill but with more going on

I think you've got the right idea there That's how I'd spend my time in an ideal world, here, UK and somewhere comfortable inbetween.

[Arthur Little]

Get a bunch of old gits in this country togeter and they all be moaning

, Andy ... I'M an now ... although I like to THINK, I've mellowed with age for two good reasons:

Chronologically, I opted out of the "rat-race" by offloading the responsibilities of a stressful occupation and retiring long before I'd reached the age of sixty. And thus I became a free agent - able to please myself for the first time in my life! But the 'icing on the cake' REALLY came in September 2007 when - quite out of the blue - I began corresponding with a lady of like mind ... who happened to live on the other side of the world ... a Filipina, no less - whom I met [in person] a year later, and subsequently married.

[somebody]

, Andy ... I'M an now ... although I like to THINK, I've mellowed with age for two good reasons:

Chronologically, I opted out of the "rat-race" by offloading the responsibilities of a stressful occupation and retiring long before I'd reached the age of sixty. And thus I became a free agent - able to please myself for the first time in my life! But the 'icing on the cake' REALLY came in September 2007 when - quite out of the blue - I began corresponding with a lady of like mind ... who happened to live on the other side of the world ... a Filipina, no less - whom I met [in person] a year later, and subsequently married.

Yep you do seem to have got the balance right and not stressing about things

I think it is right if I was in phill I would either pass the responsbilty to someone else to deal with the bizzare and often chaotic services in Phill or simply start moaning loads as a outlet

I agree about those ex pats who dont seem to have tried to intergrate and I even met some when abroad moaning about the bloody darkies in the Uk who dont intergrate. yet they knew little of the native language or very many locals and even fewer were actual friends

[triple5]

Although countries like the Philippines are way behind the UK in terms of infrastructure, service etc I do think people here are more self sufficent. If there was ever a major disaster in the UK and the supermarkets couldn't get filled for weeks on end how would people survive? I'd fancy my chances out here a lot more tbh.

[KeithD]

If there was ever a major disaster in the UK and the supermarkets couldn't get filled for weeks on end how would people survive?

I'd be just fine... but then I live in the countryside not far from live food and a big reservoir

[aromulus]

Dom's always grumpy

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