Do you still live in your country of birth?

It was you who made me think of the topic Anna

@sprite1950 I am happy where I live now.

@LadyDuck I like it here apart from the weather, we have so much rain even in the summer.

My kind of person. We get so habituated to language, banks, bakeries, medical shops, sugar can juice centers, eateries, it is so difficult to move out.

@toniganzon Right now, if you could see how my city is, you would run away...they are building metro line, so more than half road is excavated. A lot of diversions. Buses are plying but few in number (anyway you can't climb buses here, they are so rotten and not easy to climb), and auto drivers say no to any distance that involves such traffic jams. They don't come even if you offer them more because they feel they lose more than half day in heat.

@vandana7 I love my country. I tried living in Bangkok but I wasn't happy there. I tried to live in a very busy city and I hated the traffic.

@sprite1950 We lived in Edinburgh.

@dodo19 Scotland. It's really beautiful there in parts,

Where in the UK did you live?

I think a lot of us are quite patriotic and love the country we come from.

@kobesbuddy You mean Trump. I think we were all surprised when he got in. I'm very fond of the US as a nation and have met many Americans in my time.

@sprite1950 I use to be very patriotic, but have been a little discouraged with our government, lately.

@Essjayd Where in the UK were you born?

@Essjayd. I don't know Scotland very well but it's supposed to be a beautiful part of the UK.

@sprite1950 I was born in Fife Scotland

It's nice to try new experiences, I wish I had in some ways. Maybe somewhere warmer.

@mlgen1037 You should come here, it's wet and cold today

@sprite1950 and I want somewhere cooler. Hahaha

@sprite1950 Yes it is. Lots of beautiful beaches , waterfalls and wonders of nature.

@SIMPLYD Sounds like Paradise

I guess we have to put our families first. I've heard the Philippines is very beautiful

That's terrible. I always through California was a thriving place. I learn so much from MyLot.

California is very different from how it "used to be."

@sprite1950 It's thriving in some ways.

Are you happy there?

@BelleStarr It's not so different to American English is it? Unless you go to a part where they speak with a broad accent. Even I have trouble with a geordie accent (North East England). I live in South West England so he wouldn't have any trouble understanding me. Wisbech is about a 3 hour drive from where I am, 156 miles

@sprite1950 I love Connecticut but right now I am at our home in Florida. I would love to live part of the year in England but hubs has trouble understanding UK English lol I did look at a flat in Wisbech.

Would you ever leave?

@JohnRoberts I feel the same.

@sprite1950 Unlikely at my age.

@Hannihar Yes that's what I meant. That's nice as we need to be happy in the place we live.

@Hannihar Are you happy where you are?

@sprite1950 Snowdrop66, do you mean if I happy that I came to live in Israel? Yes, I am. I could not live anywhere else.

Did you have a favourite place to live? I moved about different places in England but when I look back I think the town I lived in during my growing up years is my favourite. I moved there when I was 12 and left when I was 24 so grew from a child to an adult in those years and I would love to go back there although my commitments are where I am now so I need to stay.

@spiderdust Yes the cost of living is going up everywhere I think, some places more than others.

@sprite1950 I've enjoyed California for a very long time, although I get homesick for Pennsylvania. California's starting to get unbearably expensive though.

I hope you're happy in the place you live.

@rheicel Where would you like to go?

@sprite1950 I actually have been dreaming to live somewhere in Europe.

I never wanted to move from the UK when I was young but now I am older I would love to be somewhere warmer.

@Jessabuma Not really but many English people have retired to Spain because of the warm climate.

@sprite1950 so are you planning to move to another country?

I'm thinking like that at the moment. It's so cold and wet over here and the heating is going full blast

@Bluedoll Well as long as it was a warm season I would love that.

@sprite1950 same here the water puddle from yesterdays rain is frozen over this morning but soon enough summers hear will be making his think about cooler temps. Someone wrote a nice post on their life in central americas' calling their weather as only one season year long.

Do you like it better where you live now?

@sprite1950 I moved from there when I was 9. I don't remember how it was like over there. But I do like it here.

It's nice when you are happy where you live

@sprite1950 Yes, I am very happy, in my own country

Home is where the heart is, where our loved ones are.

@saiama

@sprite1950 absolutely right my friend but once in a while some world tour is ok ...

Yes I should go somewhere nice and warm..

@sprite1950 yea,you should you might learn alot

@augusta123 I learn plenty from the people I interact with here when it comes to other countries.

I would love to visit New Zealand, it's supposed to be beautiful.

@Shortail It depends which part you go to, some parts are cold, others not so bad

@sprite1950 yeah, based on my brother's pic. but I think it's hard to deal with the weather, I'm from tropical country, and the weather condition there I think is very cold.