Can you imagine living in a different country?
By maximax8
@maximax8 (31046)
United Kingdom
May 26, 2018 9:48am CST
My decorator has a daughter aged 39 years old and a son aged 45 years old. She told me he had worked in Moscow and had married a Russian lady. He and his wife had emigrated to Melbourne in Australia. They recently had a baby born. The 39 year old daughter doesn't want to become a parent.
Can you imagine living in a different country?
What do you most appreciate about your home country?
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21 responses
@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
27 May 18
I fully agree that seeing old architecture seen in European places makes me feel at home. I used to live close to Canterbury and that has a lot of historical buildings. I now live closer to Bath in Somerset which strongly reminds me of Canterbury. Venice is such a lovely city with all its old canals.
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
26 May 18
I think we have a lot of great sites here and cities that are easy to get to
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
27 May 18
@maximax8 I go out to St Annes and Lyjtham occasionally - lovely places
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@allknowing (137791)
• India
27 May 18
The only thing we did was to shift from the city to a semi rural setting but no I would not like to migrate.
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@allknowing (137791)
• India
28 May 18
@maximax8 This place has no pollution and I have enough space to give vent to my gardening passion.
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@JudyEv (342110)
• Rockingham, Australia
27 May 18
We have a son who lives in Ireland and one who lives in Melbourne while we live in Western Australia. So both are quite some distance from us. We spent quite a while in France in 2015 and 2017 and I think I could happily live there.
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@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
27 May 18
Judy Evans France is my next door country and I have had delightful times there. It is so lovely that you spent time in France 2015 and 2016. I hope your son likes living in Ireland. Melbourne is a long way from Western Australia for visiting your other son.
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@Meramar (2695)
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27 May 18
Yes, of course! It's enriching to live in another or other countries at least for a while, as it's a great way to learn more about other cultures, languages, ways of life and thinkings. Myself, I lived in three different countries (Czech Republic, Germany and Spain).
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@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
30 May 18
@Meramar It is lovely that you were born in the Czech Republic and moved to Germany as a child. It is lovely that as an adult you are now living in Spain. I worked for a while in Finland for a family at 18 years old and I had a working holiday visa for Australia when I was 20 to 21 years old.
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
26 May 18
Actually, I have pondered what it would be like to live in London.
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@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
27 May 18
@JohnRoberts I really hate the winter weather in the UK. It is meant to be summer and the rain came down just as I was taking in my washing in.
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
26 May 18
@maximax8 I would not like the UK weather though. Too much cold and rain. I am used to sunshine year around.
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@kritis (628)
• India
27 May 18
Yaa I can live in different country..but I love to be here..
Its unity in diversity..so many cultures form a great nation..and yes I m blessed to be born in India..the charm..the people..the cusinies..the culture..the nature..list goes on and on..
I my opinion everybody loves his/her country more than anything else..It's a comfort zone we develop..
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@lynnief (1203)
• Australia
29 May 18
@maximax8 I have been to Singapore, Thailand (twice), Zambia, England, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Philippines ( 3 times), India (3 times), South Africa (twice), Kenya (twice), Uganda, Nepal (3 times), Malaysia, USA (twice). All of it has been short-term missions/ministry.
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@arunima25 (87854)
• Bangalore, India
27 May 18
I am very comfortable living in my country but I love to travel across the globe. I have lived in US for long 9 years, in Tokyo for 2 months and in Capetown for 3 months. I enjoyed all of them and made friends. But nothing feels like my own country.
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@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
27 May 18
I only saw a small part of India and it was exciting for me. I loved visiting Cape Town and can imagine it is the ideal place to live for an English speaker. I fully understand you are happiest in your own country. I have spent some time in the USA too.
@arunima25 (87854)
• Bangalore, India
29 May 18
@maximax8 Home is where heart is and my heart is in India
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
28 May 18
About Great Britain all that it has which is a lot.
All that Spain has on a day to day basis.
Nice to see that they had a baby boy.
My favourite part and mainly because I was born quite near to it is North Wales.
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@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
28 May 18
Hello Sanjeev. It is excellent to be back on My Lot and I am happy to see you are here. Yes, it is challenging to live in a country with a very different culture. I have visited Islamic countries like Jordan and Morocco, I wouldn't like to live in either of these.
@Tampa_girl7 (50524)
• United States
26 May 18
I love my home country, the U.S.A. , but I have lived in England for two years when I was a young child. Unfortunately I don't recall it, but my parents loved it and I lived 11 years in Germany and miss it very much.
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@CookieMonster46 (13454)
• United States
29 May 18
It would be a big change for me.
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