Have you ever moved/lived abroad? What was your experiences, best advice?

[Innsbruckblue]

Are you recruiting sidekicks. Sounds great.

We need a token Celtic fan here :)

 

[franksinatra]

Go to France with the lads every year on war walks and in Belgium too , always had nothing but a warm welcome from locals. We rent a house for the week and take it all in , spent many nights in a local estaminet and had some great nights with the locals ending in one night where they picked up the tab for 9 of us and trust me we were pissed. I just take people how I find them works most of the time

Me and the Missus went to Paris in 2015 and she remarked how friendly she found the Parisians on her last visit, which I found difficult to believe.

15 minutes into our trip and a Parisian was helping us buy our train tickets and paying for them on her credit card (card Machine only which we naturally reimbursed). Just one example of how helpful people were during our time there and contrary to what I expected.

 

[Blue Mist]

Go to France with the lads every year on war walks and in Belgium too , always had nothing but a warm welcome from locals. We rent a house for the week and take it all in , spent many nights in a local estaminet and had some great nights with the locals ending in one night where they picked up the tab for 9 of us and trust me we were pissed. I just take people how I find them works most of the time

No offence but you are basically a tourist going there for a week. As and example, we were having trouble getting the electricity people to upgrade the power to our house and charge us the correct amount. No matter what they did they simply refused to co-operate. A frenchman even wrote a letter for us, it was word perfect and detailed what we needed. They ignored it and continued to over charge. The guy that wrote the letter suggested we change our english name to a french one.
The mayor was a Commie ass hole who even the French hated (not sure why he got voted in)
I could go on but I wont, what I will say is I had an apartment in Spain for years and ran it as a rental. The Spanish were brilliant, very friendly and helpful, totally different.

 

[Blue Maverick]

No offence but you are basically a tourist going there for a week. As and example, we were having trouble getting the electricity people to upgrade the power to our house and charge us the correct amount. No matter what they did they simply refused to co-operate. A frenchman even wrote a letter for us, it was word perfect and detailed what we needed. They ignored it and continued to over charge. The guy that wrote the letter suggested we change our english name to a french one.
The mayor was a Commie ass hole who even the French hated (not sure why he got voted in)
I could go on but I wont, what I will say is I had an apartment in Spain for years and ran it as a rental. The Spanish were brilliant, very friendly and helpful, totally different.

They'll hate us even more now they have to pick up the tab for us leaving the EU

 

[Ant]

Spent 3 months working at a kids activity centre in Nguarawahia in 1992. Loved it and travelled around about too.
Hitched it everywhere and women on their own would stop and offer a lift. It was like being in England 30 years prior!

Do you remember the owner of the kids camp ... wasn't a Bullin family member ? Or was it the church camp out there ?

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Do you remember the owner of the kids camp ... wasn't a Bullin family member ? Or was it the church camp out there ?

It was the church camp. The Harrison's ran it. Wow!

 

[richardtheref]

Lived in Rhodesia untl I was 13. Thought it was great when I was a kid but looking back at it with hindsight not so good. Where we lived there was a curfew and you were not allowed out of your house after sunset, school bus on a morning had armed guards, when my dad did national service my mum and me had to learn to use firearms. 1st day at our new house we couldn't leave as a pride of lions had took up residence in our garden.

 

[MCFC_ Phil]

Lived in Rhodesia untl I was 13. Thought it was great when I was a kid but looking back at it with hindsight not so good. Where we lived there was a curfew and you were not allowed out of your house after sunset, school bus on a morning had armed guards, when my dad did national service my mum and me had to learn to use firearms. 1st day at our new house we couldn't leave as a pride of lions had took up residence in our garden.

Worse thing they did was evict the Brits. Country gone to rat shit since then

 

[dickie davies]

Worse thing they did was evict the Brits. Country gone to rat shit since then

When I spoke to a Zimbabwean ex pat, she told me it was Mugabe's second wife that corrupted him, that's when the country's fortunes changed for the worse

 

[Bill Walker]

Interested to read the comments on here about NZ. I’ve heard some people who have visited or gone for extended stays says it can be quite ‘isolating’ if you are used to the UK. Esp on the South Island you’ll see a “town” marked on the map that turns out to be about 4 houses. Not sure that sort of remoteness all the time would go down too well with me. I mean Lord of The Rings scenery is all very nice, but given the choice of the two, I’d choose Australia 100% of the time.

That's probably why there's approx 600,000 of them living here in Oz !! :)
Been to NZ many times and have friends there. Lovely place but not for me as I like living in the tropics. Our friends in Wellington go away for their winter every year....It's bloody expensive as well.

If I ever had to live somewhere else though, it would be NZ.