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I'm moving, I think.
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: jhocking on 04 Jan 2008, 09:08 ---I do think that is a helpful assumption for many people to make. If that assumption is wrong then whatever, there's plenty of useful information being posted regardless and the person will just ignore the rest of the stuff. If that IS the case however, then the cautionary posts are an important dose of reality for the person to hear.
In other words, I see either a net gain or no net effect, but no net loss.
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I hadn't thought of it like that, good point.
As for knowing that you could have at least the same quality of life in a new country as your current one, I don't see how someone could ever know this. A friend of mine moved to Ireland for a while with no prospects except the likelihood (and not certainty) of the Irish dole. It was definitely the right thing for him. Not that I'm advocating such activities for everyone, I guess it's more that I think only the person doing it can really have any idea of whether it's a good thing to do or not. Also, why does a move have to solve anything? I've always quite fancied the idea of moving to Canada or the US. The only thing I can see this solving is never having lived in Canada or the US, but I still think it would be interesting.
öde:
The thing about saying there's binge drinking in parts of Wisconsin and Cape Cod is exactly that - it's just those parts. In England it happens in every urban area. The only time I've seen people drinking a reasonable amount was when I went to a tiny village in Wales. I think everyone that lived there, apart from the kids, was in the pub and just enjoying the singer (who was quite good). There's roughly 45 clubs in Bournemouth - that's not counting all the pubs, either and the population of the town is only 164,000. It's a national attraction due to the amount of places to get pissed, which is popular for people doing hen and stag nights, apparently. How glamarous!
I is Grammar:
The worst places for binge-drinking that I have encountered were rural areas, such as the Teeny-Weeny little town I live in. The reasoning for it here is that there is nothing better to do. It shows up primarily with the youth. In short, avoid po-dunk little towns.
calenlass:
Guys is it weird that I actually kind of like the weather in the UK?
tommydski:
I don't mind it at all.
Literally the only thing that bothers me about the climate is that it's a massive contributing factor to the general ugliness of the populace.
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