City fans that have emigrated over the years.

[brisbaneblue]

Where were you from in the UK? Manchester (Middleton)

Why did you emigrate? Sick of the climate and Thatcher !!!

Where did you go to live? Brisbane Qld

How long ago did you leave the UK? January 1982

How many blues live near you now? I know of a few

Do you miss being in the UK? NO

Will you ever come home? Been back a few times over the years but no more I think.

What's the best thing about being a city fan a long way from home? Taking the piss out of plastic rags who could not find Manchester on a map

 

[rhinomcfc]

awest wrote:
Just a few questions for our extended family members.

Where were you from in the UK? Altrincham

Why did you emigrate? Lifestyle, sunshine and adventure

Where did you go to live? Perth, Western Australia

How long ago did you leave the UK? About 4 years ago.

How many blues live near you now? loads

Do you miss being in the UK? Only for the match but that matchday experience had changed at the new stadium

Will you ever come home? No, never. although I heard they are making 3000 bobbies redundant, it's good to hear the war on crime has been won........

What's the best thing about being a city fan a long way from home? You can watch the game without getting caught up in the hype and histeria, you can see how close Mancini is to getting it right.
2nd best has been helping a lifelong rag who has never visited OT get tickets for the game. I've given him $20 in with an envelope addressed Canal Street Manchester and a note in it saying show him a good time. I've told him to give it hand it to the fella with the moustache who looks like Merv Hughes, he flies out tomorrow.

you ain't missing anything in alty mate, like a ghost town thesedays!

personally i could never move from england i tried working in gran caneria for the summer few years back but came home after few weeks there homesick haha what a joke!

anyway my uncle tommy moved from altrincham to tenerife about 6 years ago, loves it and would never come back. when we went over to visit him i gave him a 'THIS IS OUR CITY' car sticker which sits nicely on the back windsceen of his car.

 

[the talisman]

Just a few questions for our extended family members.

Where were you from in the UK?
Wilmslow

Why did you emigrate?
Work (used to be a dive instructor, got sick of quarries in north wales)

Where did you go to live?
Egypt, then Thailand now Australia

How long ago did you leave the UK?
About 20 years

How many blues live near you now?
Hardly any, although I've converted a couple of Aussies

Do you miss being in the UK?
No, miss people but not the place, except matchdays, see below

Will you ever come home?
I come back every 2 years to catch up with family and friends. Usually make it to 2 or 3 games, we always win even back when we were shit, hence the user name. Unlikely to ever move back permanently

What's the best thing about being a city fan a long way from home?
TBH I'd rather be at home on matchdays, it's just not the same watching on TV in the middle of the night

 

[Innsbruckblue]

Just a few questions for our extended family members.

Where were you from in the UK? Chorlton, Manchester

Why did you emigrate? For work reasons and to get away from the UK

Where did you go to live? Leipzig, Germany

How long ago did you leave the UK? 7 years ago

How many blues live near you now? None

Do you miss being in the UK? No

Will you ever come home? Only to visit friends and family

What's the best thing about being a city fan a long way from home? The feeling of being unique and special

 

[i kne albert davy]

Just a few questions for our extended family members.

Where were you from in the UK?
Born Ashton-under-Lyne raised in Dukinfield, also lived in Droylsden for a while. Season ticket for a number of years. Hard to leave my family and hard to leave City but you've got to do what you've got to do.
Why did you emigrate?
Kept getting redundant, disillusioned with the UK mainly because of that.
Where did you go to live?
Australia
How long ago did you leave the UK?
14 years ago
How many blues live near you now?
Along with my son, my two brother-in-laws, a lad originally from Gloucester who somehow has supported the Blues for 40 plus years and a Aussie lad who visited Eastlands a few years ago for the first time to realise a life-long ambition.
Do you miss being in the UK?
No. I miss the people. I don't miss the country.
Will you ever come home?
Yes for a holiday. Recently over for the Liverpool game and went to Sunderland away.
What's the best thing about being a city fan a long way from home?

There's no best thing. You can't beat watching a game live. I really miss match day. I used to travel everywhere watching the blues, mainly in the early 80s.

don't forget the late 70s as well trying to knock years off your age bet its warm and sunny there now no doubt watch out for the sharks

 

[burning blue soul]

Where were you from in the UK?

STALYBRIDGE

Why did you emigrate?

DISENCHANTED WITH THE WAY THE COUNTRY I LOVE WAS BEING RUINED AND NOT BEING ABLE TO STOP IT.

Where did you go to live?

LARNACA, CYPRUS. QUALITY PLACE, ITS GOT EVERYTHING AND IM 20 MINUTES FROM AYIA NAPA, GET THE FOOK IN!!!

How long ago did you leave the UK?

TWO YEARS

How many blues live near you now?

ABOUT 5 OR 6 (SOME MORE PASSIONATE THAN OTHERS, BUT A DECENT BIT OF SUPPORT.

Do you miss being in the UK?

DO I FUCK!!!

Will you ever come home?

WILL I FUCK!!!

What's the best thing about being a city fan a long way from home?[/quote]

ITS A FINE TIME TO BE SUPPORTING CITY NOW, LOTS OF EXPOSURE IN THE MEDIA AND MORE PEOPLE ARE KNOWING WHO WE ARE RATHER THAN WALKING AWAY SHAKING THEIR HEADS IN PUZZLEMENT. WATCHING THE GAME IS QUALITY HERE, I CAN SIT IN MY LOCAL AND WATCH ALL THE LEAGUE GAMES BEING PLAYED AT THE SAME TIME AND ALSO WE ARE 2 HOURS IN FRONT SO K.O. IS USUALLY 5 OR 6 O'CLOCK, WATCH THE FOOTY WHILE HAVING SOME FOOD, THEN STAY IN THE PUB ALL NIGHT!

 

[J.A.M]

Where were you from in the UK? Manchester

Why did you emigrate? Work, adventure, the hell of it.

Where did you go to live? Stockholm, Sweden

How long ago did you leave the UK? 11 years

How many blues live near you now? 6-8, people come and go over the years.

Do you miss being in the UK? No

Will you ever come home? Hahahahahahaha
(visit 4-5 times/year and average 2 games a season)

What's the best thing about being a city fan a long way from home?
1) same as at home - being a City fan.
2) Meeting rags from Milton Keynes or County Claire and asking them where they're from.
Follow up question - is that going out towards Wigan?

This is pretty much me also.
So where in stockholm are you blueish?
Im up in Brottby in vallentuna but soon moving to the south of stockholm.

 

[surrounded by idiots]

Where were you from in the UK? Manchester

Why did you emigrate? lifetstyle change, wife is from here, better chance for the kids

Where did you go to live? Brisbane, Australia

How long ago did you leave the UK? 6 1/2 years

How many blues live near you now? 4 - me the wife and our 2 kids

Do you miss being in the UK? yes, matchday, pubs and mates

Will you ever come home? maybe with a lottery win

What's the best thing about being a city fan a long way from home? defeats are easier, its not rammed down your throat, having said that my boss is a rag - i have a 4 year old that has been to more games than him though - my 4 year old has been to 1
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