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Peter Atkinson from South of France. Posted 18 Mar 2003.
Everybody here seems to want to return to Scotland. Why don't you all go back. I am. I really dont want to see nobody left in Scotland after all this emigration to supposedly 'better' places! | | |
|  | Davie from Scotland. Posted 7 Apr 2003.
Hi to all out there, it's your choice to leave or stay in the country you were born in. Myself I nearly emigrated to Aus a few times in the 70's. The ten pound package then. Yes I made a big decision then and I am still here in beautiful Scotland well have I made a bad choice?? Don't think so. What do you think my friends?
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| | Alex Currie from Toronto,Canada. Posted 9 Apr 2003.
Hi Dave, Alex here.I see you are still stirring the pot for Scotland,quite honestly,I dont think you are absolutrely sure that you made the best decision,but long may your lum reek,Scotland the brave and its a braw bright moonlight night to you keep the pot boiling, Yours Aye Alex.
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| | David from Scotland. Posted 14 Apr 2003.
Hi Alex ,
Yes I am still harping about my favourite country. But I still love her and the weather over here is fab for this time of year. Alex we have had continous dry and warm weather here for the last 6 weeks . The dams are drying up .
Hope to chat with you soon alex. Bye for now, Davie.
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| | Mo Mallon from Markham, Ontario, Canada . Posted 2 Jun 2003.
Dave, Alex, let me try and murder Robbie Burns..."If the good lord the gift he gave us to see ourselves as others see us"
I moved, I'm happy. (although I still wonder if there is greener grass elsewhere)You stayed and I can tell that you are happy.
One last go at philosophy...it doesnt matter where you go, you still have to take yourself.
If you can be happy wherever you are, you will be happy wherever you go.
My wee Cairn Terrier (Robbie) is quite happy living in the burbs in Canada, he doesnt know that he should be chasing rats on a croft in the outer Ilse. He does give the sqirrels, rabbits & chipmunks a run for their money.
Best wishes
Mo
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| | Dave Nolan from Burlington Canada. Posted 7 Aug 2003.
Hi,
I left Scotland in 1966 and have lived in Canada since. I like Canada but still miss Scotland. I am thinking of retiring to Dundee and would like to know if anyone could tell how much I would need to live comfortably in Scotland if I had no mortgage.
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| | Ian in Vancouver. Posted 12 Sep 2003.
"O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us"
I too will return to Scotland sooner or later. I have two kids and would love to see them settle there and start a family. It's the best country in the world....I know; I have been to many of them.
Unfortunately it's so expensive. I make twice as much here going what I do and the cost of living even in Vancouver is less.
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| | anne lindsay from Houston Texas. Posted 10 Nov 2003.
Well, I have just accidently found this site and although I always knew I was not alone in my feelings on the subject of missing Scotland, it is nice to share such a heartfelt subject.
I moved to Texas through my husband's job, just over three years ago with our now nine year old daughter, leaving a grown up son and daughter behind. My son is married with a daughter of his own now and the pangs I feel of homesickness are at times overwhelming.
try to return every year and our family have all made the journey here. Every time I have them with me I waste not a minute of it. I have tried to rationalise this separation by saying that it is family and friends who make your life complete and so having accepted that, it would then matter not where we live but who we live with. Memories of the country we left behind are sometimes rose tinted and the reality often different. I miss my family so much and my heart will always remain back 'hame', but if all of the ones I loved were with me no matter where I lived, that would be 'hame' for me.
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| | sue from scotland. Posted 24 Nov 2003.
If I could get out of scotland i'd be in my glory. Being a mother then going to work in a job you love, you move up to the job you want then get sent back and lose some of the hours you've done for years, you can't afford to live - that's how good scotland is.
Do woman in other countries with not a lot of qualifications have a future?
rose coloured glasse's scotland is'nt that great..
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| | Carlo Beuger from Holland. Posted 19 Dec 2003.
Hi Sue from Scotland. ]
However I am not a working mother, I do sympathise. Must say however that I feel the same about Holland. If I could get out of here I’d then would be in my glory. Even being an educated and experienced manager! I’d love to come to Scotland! Not because it’s so much better then the rest of the world, you’re right there again. But because it simply is a beautiful country, with kind, friendly and proud people. Because you still respect life and nature. Because you still consider essential values!
I think most of the Scottish people in a way are very much in contact with life, appreciating what’s there and not always craving for more, just for the sake of possession. Try living in Holland, Germany, France, etc. for a while joining the rat-race, you’d be surprised and probably eager to return to Scotland. In the end it’s a matter of being happy in ourselves about who we are and what we do. And who knows, if you’re open to new things in life, there might perhaps be something totally different for you to do or become. Wish you all the happiness in the world, and a Merry Christmas!! Carlo Beuger.
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