39 Years Outside Uk

[ST24]

If you'd lived 39 years outside the UK would you want to return to live there? Would you rather have a holiday to visit relatives and see new sites etc?
The place where you live has a bearable climate - you can manage without a heater in Winter but the Summers are extremely hot many years. (It usually takes most people about 6 months to 2 years to aclimatise completely - depending on age and how typical seasons are.)
You have an internet connection so you can see very well what is happening in the UK.

[Zacs-Master]

Impossible to answer. Too many variables:
Age
Job situation
Dependants
Financial position
Etc etc

[wildwood]

Sounds like you emigrated to Queensland in Aussie.

I would not want to live there now, too many Society problems and a soft touch for criminals.

[ST24]

I'm new to Answerbank but not new to Question & Answer websites.

If you feel that you can't answer the question there's no need to write anything.

[boxtops]

That's rather terse, $T - I agree with Zacs, it would depend entirely on my circumstances at the time, and why I was thinking of coming back, why I decided to reverse the decision (ill health, other family ties, etc.)

[Sharingan]

As Zacs-Master says you haven't given anyone enough information to adequately judge, besides it doesn't matter what we would do, just what you would do so whatever anyone says probably won't help you. I think also your response could be judged to be quite rude.

[aelmpvw]

... don't know why you bothered asking

[ST24]

The question stands as it is. Please don't add any more answers that don't address the question.

[SlackAlice]

If I wanted to return, then yes I would.

[Sqad]

No.....39 years is a lifetime and after living and working in the environment that your describe, happy in my work and play, then no, I see no advantage in returning to the UK.

My main problem with the UK....would be the weather...;-)

[woofgang]

and if I want to add an answer I will.

[boxtops]

I can't answer - I don't know what the circumstances would be a) which caused me to emigrate in the first place, and b) what's pulling me back.

[factor-fiction]

Most people want to help, ST24 and in the long run you'll get more help if you don't berate people for trying to do so or you'll just put people off from trying to help you

[joko]

you have 'asked' a vague and confusing question that makes no sense.

people are asking for clarification in order to give proper answers, and you are rude to them?

what did you want people to say?


from your garbled question there is only 3 answers that can fit

yes
no
maybe


there... happy?


i am assuming that this is because someone you know wants to move back to the uk, and you don't want them to, and cannot understand why they would want to after nearly 40 years, especially when the weather is so nice, and the internet means they can keep up with uk news anyway.
you are trying to convince them to go for a holiday instead of move back permanently.

well its a stupid question because it doesn't matter one iota what any of us would do - there is no right or wrong with a persons wishes and desires with something like this, and you cannot say to them "oh well everyone on answerbank says they wouldn't move, so you shouldn't either", as though that's some kind of definitive proof that they are wrong.


this answer may sound a bit harsh - but thats how you have spoken to people who are trying to help, so i figured thats how you wanted things to be here, and responded similarly.

[ST24]

I don't understand what the problem is with my trying to help direct people towards a more suitable answer.
As for the accusation of my being terse or berating - that's definitely not the case. For one thing I haven't mentioned anyone by name. I believe I have been concise in my replies but I see nothing wrong in that.

[coccinelle]

If you are settled where you are I don't see any reason why you would want to move 'back'. However, if you have parents with health problems and feel you need to help out etc then that's a good reason. Before moving back it might be worth staying there a year or two (let out house wherever you live) before you commit because the UK today is not the UK of 40 years ago.

[jomifl]

As an expat I think I understand ST24's question. No, I don't want to return to the UK, ever. It took me 60+ years to discover that I was a foreigner in my own country. Here, I knew I was a foreigner the first day but I have more friends here than in the UK and life is so much more stimulating and enjoyable.

[FredPuli43]

Don't agree with "you have an internet connection so you can see very well what is happening in the UK" You can't. That's far removed from living here. I see expats in France whose idea of being in Britain is far from the reality, and they are only 600 miles and 90 minutes flight away.

[Booldawg]

I'd like to live in either North Carolina or Alabama. Did this help?

[maggiebee]

If I had been out of the UK for 39 years I certainly wouldn't want to return except for a holiday. My life, friends etc. would be where I lived.

[Iluvspikey]

the only way to answer this question is, if you think your quality of life would be better here than where you are, then come, if not stay. It's very hard to answer a question when not given all the facts.