Moggy [smiley=023.gif] [smiley=026.gif] [smiley=041.gif] [smiley=eusa_clap.gif] [smiley=eusa_clap.gif] [smiley=eusa_clap.gif] Well said, we've often commented on how sorry we feel for you and your crap life. You're a real trooper to put up with all that and not head back to the UK. We don't know how you cope!
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I'll know my neighbors--unlike where I live now, where I can count on 2 fingers the number of times I've been in one of my neighbor's houses (or vice versa) in the 8 years I've lived in this neighborhood.
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We're like that and we're not anti-social either. It's just that on the few occasions we have mixed we quickly realise that people think we're from another planet in the way that we think. More often than not we end up exchanging 'here we go again' glances and quickly head for home. I don't wanna sit round someones dinner table or coffee table slagging other people off, blaming the countrys problems on immigrants, blacks and asians, pretending to be interested in their new telly, hi-fi, kitchen, car or whatever else they try to fill their empty lives with. It may mean the world to them and it might make them happy and that's cool but it means nothing to me.
The few like-minded friends we do have are becoming more and more interested in NZ themselves. They're doing the usual and waiting to see what happens to us before making the leap themselves! We don't mind being guinea pigs.
Vee, we will be up in the north for a bit coz we're driving round, trying to see as much as we can and getting a feel for the place. Then we'll head for Welli and the Wairarapa and then across into Marlborough and Nelson and on down to Christchurch and such. We'll be waiting for somewhere to 'speak' to us although of course we'll have to settle where the job offers come to start with. How old's your daughter? Our oldest is 16, she will have just left school when we come over, she's a bit nervous.
Not long now guys, 3 months and counting!! :o