Back On Thl & We're Finally Upping Sticks

[forest of dean redneck 12,022]

 

 

Bloody tourists. There was about 6 cars in my town yesterday. Hope they bugger off soon.

You're still a bloody tourist.. In 20 years and you can call yourself a 'resident,' and in 100 years time any descendants you might leave in the area can start to think about calling themselves 'local' within the next few generations!

When we moved down here 24 years ago I asked an old boy in the pub how long it would be before we were accepted as locals?

His answer was, "We'll give it four generations boy, then we'll have a look"

Cheers, D.

If you not got the accent,your never fit in,lol

[Nik_B 3,791]

Navek I don't wish to piss on your strawberies but marketdrayton has the same problem with drugs has most small towns,over the last few years its be come a big salad growing area but poles do the work and the local young lads don't want the work happy to just get stoned,its a sad state of the times in most small towns.

Oswestry and the villages surrounding looked really nice. I'm sure there's plenty of problems here on Anglesey but without money and my blessing my daughter can't go anywhere ha ha!

[dytkos 17,917]

 

 

 

Bloody tourists. There was about 6 cars in my town yesterday. Hope they bugger off soon.

You're still a bloody tourist.. In 20 years and you can call yourself a 'resident,' and in 100 years time any descendants you might leave in the area can start to think about calling themselves 'local' within the next few generations!

When we moved down here 24 years ago I asked an old boy in the pub how long it would be before we were accepted as locals?

His answer was, "We'll give it four generations boy, then we'll have a look"

Cheers, D.

If you not got the accent,your never fit in,lol

That's me fooked, me 'ansome

 

Cheers, D.

[Nik_B 3,791]

We just accepted an offer on our house and our offer on the hovel was accepted as well so it's moving along very quickly. Potentially we could be in in October....I really hope so because winter in the mobile home will be interesting

[tillylamp 1,899]

We just accepted an offer on our house and our offer on the hovel was accepted as well so it's moving along very quickly. Potentially we could be in in October....I really hope so because winter in the mobile home will be interesting

i hope the move is plain sailing for you, i did the same mate, about 15 months ago, i up stakes and moved over the pond to canada, and it's been a good move so far, you have to do,what you have to do, for that better way of life......it's no good looking back, and regretting, that you could have done it.....the best of luck on your journey mate,

[Rabbit Hunter 6,613]

Wish I had the balls to just up and go. My dream is to be in rural Wales, maybe with a lottery win and a bit of luck I'll get my wish one day.

[Nik_B 3,791]

Well life at p***y towers is getting interesting..we still don't have stone lions but if the house sale doesn't go though quick we'll have to get a pair plus stake a pony in front of the mobile home. First day of school is looming, this is not my bag lol the wife will not be hear so I've got to pretend I'm interested in whatever the other parents talk about.

We have a good fishing spot here though, we've joined a sea kayaking club in Amlwch and I've been shooting at a clay shoot in Bodedern so getting to know people. On the down side our shoot at Llanerchymedd is dead in the water....we've had 4 or 5 good years but it's over which is gutting. Anyway who cares there's lots of beating oportunity and dog training stuff to do which is what I am really interested in

[Nik_B 3,791]

Oh and ps I know what expat communities are like but I wasn't expecting to find one in wales lol. We're probably the talk of the town amongst the English retirees :/

[Nik_B 3,791]

Eh up chaps not been on here since 2014

 

I've finally come to the conclusion that working myself in to an early grave just to try and get ahead a little in life so we can 'follow our dreams' has been the most pointless and stupid thing I've ever done with my life, although the Taxman probably loves me lol

 

Last year my workload fell through the floor thanks to the oil price collapse and this year it finally all dried up in March. At Christmas I had a 'cancer scare' and got no reassurance from the spastic NHS doctor I went to see, not even a biopsy just a unreasuring "well it might turn in to cancer but it might not" type answer. And then a few months back sitting in front of my computer every day staring at an empty email inbox and having the choice between drinking myself to sleep or lying in bed staring at the ceiling all night about the mortgage just got too much....and after all the tax I've paid I can't get sh*t back from the Government which was the final insult for me.

 

In May my mother in law gave us enough cash to go on holiday so we went back to Anglesey a place we both love and while it was a nice week away within a couple of days of getting home the crippling stress was back. While we were there the calm and beauty was an amazing feeling, I asked my missus if she could live somewhere like this and she surprisingly said yes which got me thinking about where we were heading in life, I have a 10 year old daughter and we have one year before high school at which point we'd be trapped in this middle class hell hole surrounded by the ever encroaching religion of enrichment & diversity. I'm 43 and I don't want to wait till retirement to do the things I love, I might not be able to jump over a hedge, go sea kayaking or walk miles of coastline...In fact where is the guarantee I'll retire anyway?

 

Anyway after being home a few days I couldn't bare being here anymore so walked out of the front door and went back on my own to try and find some perspective of my life. Obviously everyone here though I'd blown a gasket...maybe I had but the longer I stayed there the more I realised that this was the kind of place I should have always lived, every day I went for a walk and discovered something new like the Orchids at Aberffraw, or watching the Turnstones at Cemlyn Bay, my dog was loving it as well....so much so that when I looked at him and how calm he had become I though he's knows what the crack is, exercise, fresh air and bollocks to having an expensive house!

 

So after talking to the missus we put the house on the market, transferred my daughter to a local school and she'll put her notice in in September so we have a few months of her wages while we wait for the oil prices to recover. Although there are some amazing houses on Anglesey we're going to buy a cheap knackered bungalow for now, we'll do it up and have a tiny mortgage and start living our lives before it's too late. Luckily for us the housing market up here is ridiculous (I'm sure it's another bubble) and if some poor sucker wants to take on a load of debt for my house then good luck to them.

 

Anyway balls to the rat race, I can't wait to get away from this dump...I guess there's only a couple of people on here that might remember me and to the rest....let the piss taking begin

 

Well we have just passed the anniversary of the date of what I now refer to as 'The Question'. It wasnt the decision or the idea but it was the day that the idea took a serious direction. It's a bit weird reading what I wrote last year, I was quite obviously in a very sh*t state of mind which is sad but....we bloody did it!

 

Who knows what the future holds but we have only one life so you have to make the best of it, I feel like I did the right thing, we will be poor it's guaranteed now but I just want a few years of these kind of photos

 

[Nik_B 3,791]

 

 

 

My brother in law moved from kent to north wales with his family . His little boy was to young to notice or care but the girl already had friends and really didnt want to go . But you should see her now . Fluent welsh , loving her new life and if you ask her would she want to move back youd get a guaranteed "No way". Sure your daughter will be exactly the same. Just carry on in the knowledge that even if shes upset your doing whats best for the family , if your a tight knot and depressed then your not going to be much fun as time goes by . For all the upset now she's going to get the best of you and your family with this move . Dont know you but really pleased for you , makes a change from the depressing shit on here sometimes

 

 

Thanks mate I am sure you are spot on, it's just starting to hit home for me that we're really doing it You're also right if we stay here I wont be fun to be around. When I do work I do 12 hour shifts from 4am to 4pm from home so at the end of the shift I need to get out with the dog and walk a few miles but here it's just roads and more roads so I don't bother. Being able to walk along miles of coastline will be the best thing ever

 

 

And the welsh are a amazing race .

 

 

I hope you see this but you were 100% right. I love it here, I love the language and culture, the people are what makes it great.

 

I didn't really know much about Wales or Welsh culture/history because we didnt holiday here like many Northern families but I regret not learning more when I was younger and why the hell do we teach French in schools when we have other languages in the UK?

 

I am never going to be able to learn the language properly although I am trying but my daughter is doing amazing, she had a 3 month course at a language unit and our neighbours say she is very good.

[Nik_B 3,791]

 

 

 

 

Your train of thought resonates with me mate, I came to pretty much the same conclusion......you can't win because they won't let you win so I said "bollocks, I'm taking my ball and not playing anymore!" Lol

I also didn't want to condem my kids to life on that fecking hamster wheel, they will have choices.......I will give them an acre each when they are old enough to build a house which will be theirs.

After that, they can take or leave stuff as they please because they will have a roof over their head that they own......no matter where they go or what they do it will be sitting there waiting.

Giving away half the fruits of your labour for some c**t in Westminster or Brussels to use to make your life worse......no fecking thank you.

Don't look back mate, you are a long time in the graveyard.

Yeh exactly and here's the beauty.....We will get our child benefit back, I wont pay for prescriptions and a free university education for my daughter ha ha ha!! Up yours tax man

 

I am going to set up a Ltd company with the missus as a director so when I do work we're going to pay F**k all tax....The next time I see some snivelling excuse for a junior doctor crying about his wages and pension that WE pay for I wont feel quite as annoyed lol

 

Here's home at the moment....I can't even afford french doors in my own house lol

 

Range rover & a caravan...........you'll be needing a pair of stone lions next......haha

 

 

We still joke about the stone Lions...I'm thinking a pair of giant eagles

[mackem 29,522]

 

Eh up chaps not been on here since 2014

 

I've finally come to the conclusion that working myself in to an early grave just to try and get ahead a little in life so we can 'follow our dreams' has been the most pointless and stupid thing I've ever done with my life, although the Taxman probably loves me lol

 

Last year my workload fell through the floor thanks to the oil price collapse and this year it finally all dried up in March. At Christmas I had a 'cancer scare' and got no reassurance from the spastic NHS doctor I went to see, not even a biopsy just a unreasuring "well it might turn in to cancer but it might not" type answer. And then a few months back sitting in front of my computer every day staring at an empty email inbox and having the choice between drinking myself to sleep or lying in bed staring at the ceiling all night about the mortgage just got too much....and after all the tax I've paid I can't get sh*t back from the Government which was the final insult for me.

 

In May my mother in law gave us enough cash to go on holiday so we went back to Anglesey a place we both love and while it was a nice week away within a couple of days of getting home the crippling stress was back. While we were there the calm and beauty was an amazing feeling, I asked my missus if she could live somewhere like this and she surprisingly said yes which got me thinking about where we were heading in life, I have a 10 year old daughter and we have one year before high school at which point we'd be trapped in this middle class hell hole surrounded by the ever encroaching religion of enrichment & diversity. I'm 43 and I don't want to wait till retirement to do the things I love, I might not be able to jump over a hedge, go sea kayaking or walk miles of coastline...In fact where is the guarantee I'll retire anyway?

 

Anyway after being home a few days I couldn't bare being here anymore so walked out of the front door and went back on my own to try and find some perspective of my life. Obviously everyone here though I'd blown a gasket...maybe I had but the longer I stayed there the more I realised that this was the kind of place I should have always lived, every day I went for a walk and discovered something new like the Orchids at Aberffraw, or watching the Turnstones at Cemlyn Bay, my dog was loving it as well....so much so that when I looked at him and how calm he had become I though he's knows what the crack is, exercise, fresh air and bollocks to having an expensive house!

 

So after talking to the missus we put the house on the market, transferred my daughter to a local school and she'll put her notice in in September so we have a few months of her wages while we wait for the oil prices to recover. Although there are some amazing houses on Anglesey we're going to buy a cheap knackered bungalow for now, we'll do it up and have a tiny mortgage and start living our lives before it's too late. Luckily for us the housing market up here is ridiculous (I'm sure it's another bubble) and if some poor sucker wants to take on a load of debt for my house then good luck to them.

 

Anyway balls to the rat race, I can't wait to get away from this dump...I guess there's only a couple of people on here that might remember me and to the rest....let the piss taking begin

, we will be poor it's guaranteed now

 

 

Poverty is relative,its not always about cash,from the pic your rich as Croesus

[Nik_B 3,791]

 

 

Eh up chaps not been on here since 2014

 

I've finally come to the conclusion that working myself in to an early grave just to try and get ahead a little in life so we can 'follow our dreams' has been the most pointless and stupid thing I've ever done with my life, although the Taxman probably loves me lol

 

Last year my workload fell through the floor thanks to the oil price collapse and this year it finally all dried up in March. At Christmas I had a 'cancer scare' and got no reassurance from the spastic NHS doctor I went to see, not even a biopsy just a unreasuring "well it might turn in to cancer but it might not" type answer. And then a few months back sitting in front of my computer every day staring at an empty email inbox and having the choice between drinking myself to sleep or lying in bed staring at the ceiling all night about the mortgage just got too much....and after all the tax I've paid I can't get sh*t back from the Government which was the final insult for me.

 

In May my mother in law gave us enough cash to go on holiday so we went back to Anglesey a place we both love and while it was a nice week away within a couple of days of getting home the crippling stress was back. While we were there the calm and beauty was an amazing feeling, I asked my missus if she could live somewhere like this and she surprisingly said yes which got me thinking about where we were heading in life, I have a 10 year old daughter and we have one year before high school at which point we'd be trapped in this middle class hell hole surrounded by the ever encroaching religion of enrichment & diversity. I'm 43 and I don't want to wait till retirement to do the things I love, I might not be able to jump over a hedge, go sea kayaking or walk miles of coastline...In fact where is the guarantee I'll retire anyway?

 

Anyway after being home a few days I couldn't bare being here anymore so walked out of the front door and went back on my own to try and find some perspective of my life. Obviously everyone here though I'd blown a gasket...maybe I had but the longer I stayed there the more I realised that this was the kind of place I should have always lived, every day I went for a walk and discovered something new like the Orchids at Aberffraw, or watching the Turnstones at Cemlyn Bay, my dog was loving it as well....so much so that when I looked at him and how calm he had become I though he's knows what the crack is, exercise, fresh air and bollocks to having an expensive house!

 

So after talking to the missus we put the house on the market, transferred my daughter to a local school and she'll put her notice in in September so we have a few months of her wages while we wait for the oil prices to recover. Although there are some amazing houses on Anglesey we're going to buy a cheap knackered bungalow for now, we'll do it up and have a tiny mortgage and start living our lives before it's too late. Luckily for us the housing market up here is ridiculous (I'm sure it's another bubble) and if some poor sucker wants to take on a load of debt for my house then good luck to them.

 

Anyway balls to the rat race, I can't wait to get away from this dump...I guess there's only a couple of people on here that might remember me and to the rest....let the piss taking begin

, we will be poor it's guaranteed now

 

 

Poverty is relative,its not always about cash,from the pic your rich as Croesus

 

 

We need to seriously increase the likes count!

 

Yes mate, my personal life style is actually worse than last year but it was a great year that me and my dog had, he is now f****d and tbh so am I ha ha but even if I dropped dead tomorrow I would know I had given them a real life.

 

Fingers crossed that wont happen, you are very right though, people are too obsessed with money and not their own welfare

 

Cheers

Nick

[mackem 29,522]

 

 

 

Eh up chaps not been on here since 2014

 

I've finally come to the conclusion that working myself in to an early grave just to try and get ahead a little in life so we can 'follow our dreams' has been the most pointless and stupid thing I've ever done with my life, although the Taxman probably loves me lol

 

Last year my workload fell through the floor thanks to the oil price collapse and this year it finally all dried up in March. At Christmas I had a 'cancer scare' and got no reassurance from the spastic NHS doctor I went to see, not even a biopsy just a unreasuring "well it might turn in to cancer but it might not" type answer. And then a few months back sitting in front of my computer every day staring at an empty email inbox and having the choice between drinking myself to sleep or lying in bed staring at the ceiling all night about the mortgage just got too much....and after all the tax I've paid I can't get sh*t back from the Government which was the final insult for me.

 

In May my mother in law gave us enough cash to go on holiday so we went back to Anglesey a place we both love and while it was a nice week away within a couple of days of getting home the crippling stress was back. While we were there the calm and beauty was an amazing feeling, I asked my missus if she could live somewhere like this and she surprisingly said yes which got me thinking about where we were heading in life, I have a 10 year old daughter and we have one year before high school at which point we'd be trapped in this middle class hell hole surrounded by the ever encroaching religion of enrichment & diversity. I'm 43 and I don't want to wait till retirement to do the things I love, I might not be able to jump over a hedge, go sea kayaking or walk miles of coastline...In fact where is the guarantee I'll retire anyway?

 

Anyway after being home a few days I couldn't bare being here anymore so walked out of the front door and went back on my own to try and find some perspective of my life. Obviously everyone here though I'd blown a gasket...maybe I had but the longer I stayed there the more I realised that this was the kind of place I should have always lived, every day I went for a walk and discovered something new like the Orchids at Aberffraw, or watching the Turnstones at Cemlyn Bay, my dog was loving it as well....so much so that when I looked at him and how calm he had become I though he's knows what the crack is, exercise, fresh air and bollocks to having an expensive house!

 

So after talking to the missus we put the house on the market, transferred my daughter to a local school and she'll put her notice in in September so we have a few months of her wages while we wait for the oil prices to recover. Although there are some amazing houses on Anglesey we're going to buy a cheap knackered bungalow for now, we'll do it up and have a tiny mortgage and start living our lives before it's too late. Luckily for us the housing market up here is ridiculous (I'm sure it's another bubble) and if some poor sucker wants to take on a load of debt for my house then good luck to them.

 

Anyway balls to the rat race, I can't wait to get away from this dump...I guess there's only a couple of people on here that might remember me and to the rest....let the piss taking begin

, we will be poor it's guaranteed now

 

 

 

 

even if I dropped dead tomorrow I would know I had given them a real life.

 

That's a true father

[Tyla 3,179]

This is one of the most inspiring threads in here. Well done, long may it continue