"But it so flat and boring here," she snivels whilst sulking in her bedroom. True, nothing in Holland can compare to the beauty of The Lakes and The Dales or even the considered panhandle town centre of Southport for shopping but reality of life in the UK is dismal. Quite why so many Eastern Europeans went there in their droves is beyond me.
"I hear the streets are paved with gold," one Polish friend said to me! Gold! What? Last time I was there it was chewing gum and vomit! Beside if any council was stupid enough to pave the streets in gold it would be nicked quicker than someone saying "Look, there's a Scouser!"
Don't get me wrong I love England but like every other Brit, I can tear shreds off it. There really is no escaping the fact that The UK has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in the EU, the highest drug use in the EU, the highest rates of alcoholism in the EU, the highest crime rates in the EU, the lowest literacy rates in the EU, etc. You just have pick any town, anywhere and take a trip in on a Saturday night to see dole checks exchanged for cider, being swigged by 14 year old, up the duff chavettes with a baby in a pram chewing on a packet of ciggies. Something that wasn't good enough for my girls, so we left.
Still we do miss Sainsburys (oh my God how did I survive for so long without it), the hills, the mountains, the wide open spaces, the shopping, the customer service, the incidental nattering, Cadbury's chocolate, bread, cheese, tea - TEA! Really yummy PG Tips with milk! Not the watery Euro dishwater that carpets your mouth in something strange. My friends of course, I miss my friends and my life :(
Still we have the BBC and Next, finally after many Euro-immigrants sent thousands of emails begging them to send abroad, especially after the closure of M&S in Europe, now do mail order here and only for €5 delivery. Yipppeeeeee:)
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