Have you ever considered just taking off?
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no house but I expect they will have a decent bit of money left as the house they sold they had owned outright
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yes it true story.
My wife and I have thought about this from time to time. I would move to the US if anywhere. Europe has no appeal to me, and while the US is quite the subject of complaint, it's still better than here. I have two younger brothers who have lived over there for years, and they always bring up the idea of me joining them.
I have always been against it, but over the past few years it's slowly starting to appeal to me.
I have always been against it, but over the past few years it's slowly starting to appeal to me.
Soon you may be forced to seek breeding stock from beyond your family lineage!
har har
there are 60,000 people here ya know and im not related to all of em! 
Its always greener on the other side Steve!
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I'd be lying if I said I haven't thought about it. Although I have no idea or preference as to where in the world I would escape to. I suppose there just isn't much motivation for me to do that at the moment. I'm pretty content with the way things are.
that's not your problem. Your problem is that you know if you go away somewhere, the main problem in your life is still going to be there. Running away would achieve nothing, except to make time pass a little bit
The last month or so the thought has entered my mind of just moving to another area of the UK or another country if I take it to an extreme. Still like the idea but I wouldn't like to just up sticks and go without organising anything, just in the off chance that it wouldn't work.
I've never seriously considered it, and my life isn't even that great. Just not the sort of thing that appeals to me, I need my (relative) security.
The other day I worked out that in my nearly 29 years of life, I've never lived on my own for longer than around 1-2 weeks (at the start/end of uni term). Establishing social relationships typically takes me a while (nearly always with people I'm 'thrown' together with) and I couldn't just up sticks and dump myself in a new town not knowing anybody.
I'm actually surprised at how many people like the idea, I mean sure I can see how it would appeal to certain types of people, but it's a lot more extreme than simply going travelling for a bit.
I kind of did it when I come here to Prague.
I made my mind up in a month or so a handful of months after finishing uni, was just working in a rubbish fast food place and thought "what the hell". I found a pretty cruddy job working for an outsourced call centre, after a few months I got off the calling floor and into a behind the scenes job which although it got me off the phones had it's own problems. After about a year and a half in that place I landed a great job this summer which is enjoyable, fulfiling, pays quite well (for the CR) and I have a great boss and workmates.
I'll admit that I came here mainly for a girl like many expats here do but it's been almost 2 years now and it's getting better every day.
There are negative spells which even now I get where I wish I was home, these are mainly language, bureaucracy and food based and only last a few hours.
Food is the biggest problem for me, as an example I got a recipe book for xmas of simple recipes, a recipe that took my fancy was something that required coriander leaves and thai fish sauce which you'd never find in the local supermarkets. There are some specialist Asian food shops that sell that kind of thing but they are half way across the city which is a pain. Things for other recipes are Gruyere and mascarpone cheese, now I don't know for sure if they will be in the supermarket when I check but I don't hold high hopes, they are considered exotic here, even peanut butter is in the "foreign foods" section of Tesco
I made my mind up in a month or so a handful of months after finishing uni, was just working in a rubbish fast food place and thought "what the hell". I found a pretty cruddy job working for an outsourced call centre, after a few months I got off the calling floor and into a behind the scenes job which although it got me off the phones had it's own problems. After about a year and a half in that place I landed a great job this summer which is enjoyable, fulfiling, pays quite well (for the CR) and I have a great boss and workmates.
I'll admit that I came here mainly for a girl like many expats here do but it's been almost 2 years now and it's getting better every day.
There are negative spells which even now I get where I wish I was home, these are mainly language, bureaucracy and food based and only last a few hours.
Food is the biggest problem for me, as an example I got a recipe book for xmas of simple recipes, a recipe that took my fancy was something that required coriander leaves and thai fish sauce which you'd never find in the local supermarkets. There are some specialist Asian food shops that sell that kind of thing but they are half way across the city which is a pain. Things for other recipes are Gruyere and mascarpone cheese, now I don't know for sure if they will be in the supermarket when I check but I don't hold high hopes, they are considered exotic here, even peanut butter is in the "foreign foods" section of Tesco
I've got no life to sell at the moment
Thats because you left your life and joined the RAAF!
Unless you have been based in your home town which in that case you havnt really left at all