Re: No Chooks For Xmas ;-(


"PammyT" <fenlandfowl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Mark" <a@xxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Oddly enough my trail is nearly the same.
>> I was raised in Aberdeenshire and then moved near Sheffield.
>> But never in the country.
>>
>> Well the things i like are :-
>> Complete lack of crime
>> Clean
>> Fresh Air
>> Chickens!
>> Empty roads (with pot holes)
>> No speed cameras!
>>
>> Don't likes are:-
>> Can't by (insert anything other than spuds) anywhere.
>> Everything costs 30% more than the UK price
>> The wages are roughly 30% LESS than the UK wages (so that doesn't help)
>> Racist people
>> Small minded , blinkered views of the people here.
>> Complete lack of awareness of the outside world.
>> Oh and none of the good catholic irish girls will entertain an
>> English bloke for a second so would be single for next 40 years if i
> stayed
>> :-)
>> Irish TV is DIRE, thank god for Sky.
>>
>> Guess there are more dislikes than likes but i could put up with some of
>> them.
>> The fact there is virtually no crime is worth staying.
>> A recent newpaper headline here was "Man charged with shouting at woman."
>> And thats a lgit headline. They are always the same kind of thing.
>> Its 100% employment almost too which means everyone is too busy to comit
> any
>> crime.
>>
>> I have worked everywhere from Texas to Totness but no one will give me a
> job
>> here so i have
>> to assume its not my problem.
>>
>> Right on with the packing, nearly done.
> I am glad you are moving back to the city as you are obviously at home
> there. If you lived in the country with all 'facilities 5 minutes walk
> away,
> you wouldn't be in the country would you?
> Personally I have had my gut full of Londooners who move to my part of the
> world then moan about there not being 24/7 shopping and "no facilities for
> the kiddies" and no shop on the dooorstep. WTF do you want for goodness
> sakes?
> Living in the country means living miles away from shops and restuarants.
> It
> means a drive in the car if you run out of milk. It means being fairly
> isolated.
> If you then moan and whinge about the place that you live, you can bet the
> locals will give you short shrift and no want to bother about you.
> Imagine me moving to London and then moaning all the time about the noise,
> fumes, too many people, no open fields etc etc etc.
>
>
You make me cross sometimes, Molly, you seem to have no empathy. Other
people's feelings go completely over your head.

Tina



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