'I am a souvenir'?
The nation's divide Page 3
Northern people who move to live in the South are often very pleasant people I find, which shows they can be civilised after all. (Ditto for the Scottish, Welsh, Irish and Jews.)
I gotta ask...what are the Americans like who have permanently relocated there?
Quote: DaButt @ August 8 2009, 2:21 PM BST
My last next door neighbour was an American and he used to proudly have that flag draped across the front of his house. He was a cannabis growing, snaggle-toothed, long -haired, balding, pot-bellied, angry runt, who memorably succeeded in getting himself barred from the funeral parlour burying his wife, whose funeral he then turned up to in a mud-splattered hoody, jeans and sneakers. I am not sure what part of the States he came from - Camden County I think.
Quote: AndreaLynne @ August 8 2009, 4:01 PM BSTI gotta ask...what are the Americans like who have permanently relocated there?
They quickly stop pronouncing it paitronizing.
Quote: AndreaLynne @ August 8 2009, 4:01 PM BSTI gotta ask...what are the Americans like who have permanently relocated there?
I know a few myself and they seem to have learnt how to talk at a normal volume and learn to use pavements with remarkably little re-education. 
Quote: AndreaLynne @ August 8 2009, 4:01 PM BSTI gotta ask...what are the Americans like who have permanently relocated there?
The sneaky ones go round calling themselves 'Canadian'.
Thanks guys. Now I know what not to do if we relocate there someday.
Quote: AndreaLynne @ August 8 2009, 4:18 PM BST
Thanks guys. Now I know what not to do if we relocate there someday.
Do you have any idea on where you'd like to relocate to? The city, countryside, coast, up a hill, in a hole, on one of the off-shore islands?
Or anywhere more specific? London, Brighton, York, Paris? 
Americans do seem to talk loudly when in the UK. Maybe it's something to do with the acoustics.
I haven't quite decided. Any recommendations?
Quote: AndreaLynne @ August 8 2009, 4:22 PM BSTI haven't quite decided. Any recommendations?
London!
Although it's very flipping expensive.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ August 8 2009, 1:42 PM BSTHaving said that, I'm quite a typical snobby Londoner in many respects and when I go to the shop to buy a loaf of bread, that's all I want to do, I don't want to have a conversation about it with the check out girl.
Quote: Aaron @ August 8 2009, 5:21 PM BSTLondon!
Although it's very flipping expensive.
Just outside or near London then
Quote: Leevil @ August 8 2009, 5:22 PM BSTJust outside or near London then
Still flipping expensive.
Let's see. I have friend in Wales, don't know about that though. My cousin lived in Cornwall for a while and loved it. My favourite professor in college lived in Bristol for years and years and he said that was great. I can't quite decide.