[Happyfeet]

Hello everyone

Thought I better introduce myself. I am very new to this forum but not new to New Zealand. Have been living here for just over 5yrs now and before that for 3 1/2 years before moving back to the UK and then back to NZ again! As you can tell, took me a while to realise where I wanted to be and so far, this time round, have never regretted coming back again. :)

Anyway, am hoping might be of help to people possibly and also learn new things from you guys. On reading through the posts realise there is so much I didnt know! scary! :laugh

If I would have know about this forum five years ago (was it around then?) life would have been a little bit easier.

Look forward to chatting and hopefully meeting some of you.

:)

[britchik]

Welcome to the forum !!!:)
I'm just on the 3 1/2 year mark now of living in New Zealand - have moments where I think I want to go back to UK, but, I think sometimes you have to go back to make one realise what you are giving up here.
Where abouts in New Zealand are you ?

[Happyfeet]

Hi ya

I totally agree, you do have to go back sometimes to realise what your missing. Even this time round I went back - just for a six week holiday this time but even that made me realise how glad I was not to be living there anymore.

I live in Auckland, on the North Shore.:)

[R&A]

Hi welcome to the forum! I'm still in the UK at the moment but me and (kiwi) OH are heading out to christchurch in August - can't wait, and terrified! I'm feeling very indecisive about whether NZ is what I want permanently but I'm looking forward to giving it a go!

[leachio]

Welcome Happyfeet!!!

May we probe u for more info (sorry thats the nurse in me :laugh ) Im sure we are all gonna have 'what the h**l have we done' moments perhaps if u wouldnt mind sharing some of the reasons u went back and more importantly returned we could justify things to ourselves in those dark moments!

Hope thats ok?

Amanda & co :)

[Happyfeet]

Hi Amanda, sure not a problem. I think the main reason I went back first time round was basically because I never wanted to be here in the first place! I was only here coz I met my OH in Australia and came to NZ to see how it would work out. Well, it did and we got married here but it always was on the assumption that after he finished his studies we would go back. So the three and half years I was here I was just hanging out to go home. I think it was mainly to do with the fact, I think anyway, that I was a lot younger and NZ was different then. I was living in Auckland and the all the shops used to shut at 1.00 on a Saturday and for a young lass in her 20s that was a nightmare and being an out and out city girl, no shops, no theatre, no real night life, well I certainly didnt want to be here. Plus the fact all my friends were in the and UK and I had known most of them since school days, well I really hated the fact I was put in a position to have to go find friends! You see, my mind set wasnt right at that time to stay anyway. Sooo, my OH and I went back, lived back in the UK for 10 years and that was enough for the pair of us. Living just outside of London, working in London, travelling on the tubes every day, working in the rat race, dark when you get up and dark when you leave work, OH working in retail in London (not nice), long hours, crime, safety aspects. These were all things we started to think about and we thought right, we've had enough. So NZ started to look more and more appealling and in the time we had been away it had changed a lot too so more of what I missed first time round was now available to me. Also, the fact that first time round I hated rugby and I now absolutly love it, was a huge help!:laugh So back we came and I have never ever regretted my decision. There are things that bug me here as nowhere is perfect but its just things like when I used to work in the city and had to get the bus into town and although transport here can be crappy, its the fact that while I am sitting on the bus trying to get into town (from over the bridge as live on the North Shore) I can see water as I travel on a motorway!!! Its just lovely. No regrets this time and yes there are still on occassion the odd dark moment, especially when you hear about things going on back at home with family and friends you cant participate in, but thats something we all have to get used to and you do.

Phew, sorry, bit of a long one there. Did ramble a bit didnt I, but you did ask:)

Daz

[leachio]

Thanx Daz :clap

Do u reckon it will take me yrs and yrs to get to like the rugby 2 :laugh :laugh


Take care Amanda x

[Happyfeet]

Thanx Daz :clap

Do u reckon it will take me yrs and yrs to get to like the rugby 2 :laugh :laugh


Take care Amanda x

Naa, all it took me was one whole month as it was one of the rugby world cups that got me watching. So there you go, its rugby world cup this year so ya training starts in mid September. Good luck:D

Have fun

Daz