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It is silly to consider a country that you have not lived in since you were 3 to be home and yet that is how I have been feeling about England lately. I miss it something terrible. Is it the nearness to family or the ability to just hop on a plane and go to Dublin or Belfast or to take a train up to Glasgow? Mostly family, I think, but the travelling factor is a huge plus.
My mother is talking about moving back in a few years and that has made parts of me want to go back as well. Although she would live in the south, where most of her family is now, I think I would want to go back to Birmingham, or to a small town near it. It amazed me the last time I was there how much that city has changed. When I was little I hated how dirty it was, how very crowded the city centre was. It's still crowded but I no longer hate crowds, and it is not the dirty place it once was. Okay, still dirty compared to a Canadian city, but not half bad on an English scale.
I know that this is just dreaming. I know, in reality, that Birmingham, or any other part of England, would not work out for our family. It would be very difficult to move an 11 year old girl and a 10 year old boy to a different country, especially a 10 year old boy with dyslexia. We have in the past talked about moving back to some part of the U.K. if William is not allowed to stay here. With both of us having British citizenship it would be much easier than going to Australia. I believe, though, that William will receive permanent residency in Canada, and so England becomes just a place that we will visit.
Although with 4 kids, what are the chances we could ever afford it? Thank God for family living there, at least we'll save on hotels!
28 May, 2006
Missing Home
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I'm sorry you are missing home Emma.. I dont think it is odd at all that you could miss it but it sure shocks be big to think that you can even remember it at 3 years old!! Wow I can hardly remember my teen years..lol I am Canadian and now living in England and personally I hate it here!! I want to go back to canada so bad but were in quite a situation here.. I hope william gets his citizenship there in canada :) *hugs*
I don't remember much from living there...mostly just my grandparents and a neighbour who stabbed me in the eye! We used to go back quite often though and when I say I didn't like the crowds as a child, I'm thinking of being on holiday.
Sometime you will have to tell me about your situation. I am very nosy and now I am very intrigued!
lol @ being quite nosy..lol
Well when we were in Canada.. hubby applied for immigration and all that jazz.. and by the time we sent it off and he got his interview his medical had expired!! So he was rejected.. well we were having alot of financial problems so for the time it would take to re-apply and all that stuff we could not afford to stay.. so we had to move back here to the UK where we are staying with his parents... arrg I hate it but that is the way it is at the moment. At least out here he can get a job! That pretty much covers it.
I'm going to have to remember that medical thing. I would think that that wasn't your fault though and that they should have paid for a new medical. But what do I know? I think all us average joes are to smart to wok in government.
How'd you meet your hubby? Nosy, again!
It was our fault because we should have got the documents in sooner..
I met my hubby online..lol On ICQ to be exact.. we met back in 1999 and talked on the computer and phone for 8 months! (yes his phone bills were enormous) lol Then he came to canada.. 3 days later we were engaged and shorty after that I moved to England.. Lived there for 3 years.. got married in 2001. moved back to canada.. got pregnant.. had randie in 2004.. and now just moved back to england in Jan /06 lol That pretty much covers it...
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