Expats slagging on Britain

[foetus]

It's Friday night, Collingwood vs Carlton is about to start. Open a beer and relax, Pom.

I'll be back with some popcorn later to see how this thread is going ;)

 

[waterloo blue]

I've been a City supporter since I was a nipper in Salford in the 60's and the fact that I live in Australia is beside the point.
I had a season ticket even when I lived in London and City are an integral part of my life;there's a few things I miss family,mates,the blues,the mancunian humour and the match going experience,but I wouldn't change anything for the world.
Some fucker in Bosnia who supports City because of Dzeko,gets an easier ride on here than someone who was a home and away supporter for more years than I care to remember.
There's some things the UK does better than Australia and conversely Australia is streets ahead of the UK on some things,but anyone who thinks that where they live is some Utopian idyll is fucking delusional.

 

[alfabianchi]

4. Aussies teenagers are no different than teenagers from the UK, i would say much better behaved than them.

And therein lies the entire problem.

You don't know many British teenagers, you just have vague recollections of what may or may not happen and newspaper reports.

Your memory and media are not reflective of this country any more than Crocodile Dundee represents you.

All of my family are still in the UK (apart from 1 nephew, who is in Queensland) and there are plenty of teenagers in my family.

I also come back from time to time, to visit said family, and have seen the scowling scrotes that infest the areas my family live in, with my own eyes.

Not everyone lives in a shit area. The same could be said for people living in Narre Warren, Dandenong, Cranbourne, Noble Park or Doveton.

The reason why so many ex-pats are on these forums and social media day in day out, is because the countries they are currently inhabiting, don't have anything to offer interms of mental nourishment. You may as well be sat on the moon with a laptop. The reality is that your kids will also feel this when they grow up, and before you know it they are living in London and you only get to see them on skype.

 

[pominoz]

All of my family are still in the UK (apart from 1 nephew, who is in Queensland) and there are plenty of teenagers in my family.

I also come back from time to time, to visit said family, and have seen the scowling scrotes that infest the areas my family live in, with my own eyes.

You're still missing the point. Let's say you met 20 people. In fact let's stretch it and say 100 teenagers.

You've decided, just by looking at people, that you know all about their behaviour and compare it to Australian teenagers. That's dumb straight away.

But then you've gone even further and claimed that you can compare ALL or at least a majority of the millions of teenagers in the UK with ALL or at least a majority of the millions of teenagers in Australia based on looking at a few people or maybe a conversation.

That crosses into the realm of stupid. Your sample size is nothing but "you just know"

I can only comment on the ones i have met, had dealings with, i have not canvassed the whole of the UK or Australia.

Telling that you jumped on my post about teenagers, yet not a peep about supercity88 and his "and the Australian teenager is perhaps the most cuntish person on the planet - with their love of everything gangster despite coming from wealthy suburbs".

 

[pominoz]

And therein lies the entire problem.

You don't know many British teenagers, you just have vague recollections of what may or may not happen and newspaper reports.

Your memory and media are not reflective of this country any more than Crocodile Dundee represents you.

All of my family are still in the UK (apart from 1 nephew, who is in Queensland) and there are plenty of teenagers in my family.

I also come back from time to time, to visit said family, and have seen the scowling scrotes that infest the areas my family live in, with my own eyes.

Not everyone lives in a shit area. The same could be said for people living in Narre Warren, Dandenong, Cranbourne, Noble Park or Doveton.

The reason why so many ex-pats are on these forums and social media day in day out, is because the countries they are currently inhabiting, don't have anything to offer interms of mental nourishment. You may as well be sat on the moon with a laptop. The reality is that your kids will also feel this when they grow up, and before you know it they are living in London and you only get to see them on skype.

I have great friends that live in Narre Warren, Cranbourne, Noble Park and Doveton, i my self have lived in Noble Park and Springvale, they are nowhere near as bad as the worst of Manchester.

As for your last paragraph, what a load of bollocks, is all i can say.
You will find that most young Aussies return to Aus to settle down, after having a ball in the UK.

 

[waterloo blue]

And therein lies the entire problem.

You don't know many British teenagers, you just have vague recollections of what may or may not happen and newspaper reports.

Your memory and media are not reflective of this country any more than Crocodile Dundee represents you.

All of my family are still in the UK (apart from 1 nephew, who is in Queensland) and there are plenty of teenagers in my family.

I also come back from time to time, to visit said family, and have seen the scowling scrotes that infest the areas my family live in, with my own eyes.

Not everyone lives in a shit area. The same could be said for people living in Narre Warren, Dandenong, Cranbourne, Noble Park or Doveton.

The reason why so many ex-pats are on these forums and social media day in day out, is because the countries they are currently inhabiting, don't have anything to offer interms of mental nourishment. You may as well be sat on the moon with a laptop. The reality is that your kids will also feel this when they grow up, and before you know it they are living in London and you only get to see them on skype.

Mental nourishment,on here,are you fucking kidding me.
I come on here to talk City with other supporters and have a craic in the cellar;yeah the muffin/barm thread is really intellectually stimulating.

 

[BWTAC]

I've not got a problem with ex pats having a pop, they left to try and have a better life for themselves and their families, some succeed, some don't and end up coming back. In my experience, most never really settle, hence the need to have a pop to try and convince themselves things are better.

If I wanted to think the height of fashion was Lonsdale, have a mullet and have 1970's attitudes towards foreigners and women, I'd be off to Australia like a shot. ;)

 

[blueju]

I left because I wanted a change, more sun and less scrotes getting up to scrotishness in tameside and the general area.
Work is good , the beaches are brill and our social life is just as good. We have two young kids growing up with this fantastic lifestyle.
I lived in manchester long enough to know how bad a lot of it is as well as how good a lot of it is

 

[pominoz]

It's Friday night, Collingwood vs Carlton is about to start. Open a beer and relax, Pom.

I'll be back with some popcorn later to see how this thread is going ;)

C'ARN the Blues.

 

[waterloo blue]

It's Friday night, Collingwood vs Carlton is about to start. Open a beer and relax, Pom.

I'll be back with some popcorn later to see how this thread is going ;)

C'ARN the Blues.

There's one thing that the UK does have over Oz; no fucking ariel ping pong.