Ticket to a new life.
Posted by Beacon_Girl from Swindon on the 31st January 2008
Spotted this and thought our Austrailian friends on here might like a look at it.
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Posted by Beacon_Girl from Swindon on the 31st January 2008
Spotted this and thought our Austrailian friends on here might like a look at it.
It is interesting to read how imigrants get on.
One must always remember, "There is no Utopia"
Emigation isn't for everyone as that report shows.
Until you have moved to a new country and settled you will never know as no -one can tell you, you have to experience it yourself.
Homesickness can be a very serious problem, it may effect you or any member of the family that can and do disrupt life for the whole family.
I and my family who stayed here have had a better lifestyle than what I would have been able to afford in the U K but, Our older son Gareth returned to Britain and has always regretted doing so.
He got married and settled in Torquay, Devon. and would come out here in a minute but his wife won't as she is happy where she is so consequently we have often been upset at missing our older son and although we phone him every Sunday it's not the same as having him close.
Situations like that can arrise and one either has to live with it or return and sacrifice other benefits we have enjoyed.
It can be tuff on times but it does show you what you are made of ultimately.
It isn't something that can be recommended, you have to try and find out for yourself.
"Home" to me will always be Wales and I will return there one day. One way or another.
Cymro.
I agree Cymro I know when we emigrated to Canada with a 6 year old son and leaving all family behind we were looking to the future for our son not how he felt at the time luckily for us he adjusted well but we had a hard time for ages no one understood me talking i would ask for one thing get something else be too frustrated to even argue about, lol after 28 years in Canada I still get that problem my Welsh accent never went away and I hope it never will. It is hard to emigrate we have seen families come here and go back home because they cannot adjust to this lifestyle or family draw them home. I have now been in Canada longer than I lived in Wales but Wales is my birthplace where I grew up and what made me what I am today
I emigrated in 1964 on my own at age 24. I have never looked back, have loved it in Canada and B.C. I will never leave. It is my home. I have been happy here with English spoken and lots of rain, with ocean and mountains that I never tire of. I am still travelling around the country in awe at the new scenery and still more to be explored. Love the wide roads to drive on and being so close to the U.S.A.
I have been home often and enjoyed the visits, but always with the feeling I'm so glad I emigrated. I still have the Welsh accent too and proud of it.
Was at an eye specialist today - his accent was different - he came from South Africa. Strange coincidence, as my mother used to live in Port Elizabeth, SA too. yet his surname was "Earp-Jones"???
Glad to hear that you all made the right choice to move to another country and are happy and have had good lives.
It does not work for everyone ,my friend years ago emigrated and loved it and after a few years her parents followed her out to Australia ,but the parents only stayed a couple of years as the life style did not suit them.
I think it is best if you go when you are young as you adapt to a new way of life easier.
Another coincidence there Toots
I am on Skype every day as I play chess on there with my mate in the Rhondda and yet another mate often joins in the conversation and he lives in,? Port Elizabeth too. I wonder ?????
His name is Gareth Davies and hails from Ferndale, Rhondda.
It is a small world on times.
Cymro.
You'd be amazed B G how far and wide Welsh people are.
I subscribe to a site called Carwyn Edwards and it's a site with news about anything Welsh from all over the world and you can learn Welsh just about anywhere too.
All over America there are Welsh language classes being held daily. and now coming up to St. Davids day there are invitations to celebrate it from anywhere you care to mention. Gymanfa Ganu galore world wide.
If you logged on to the site you would be truly amazed.
Cymro.
Cymro
I'm afraid I cannot find the site you mentioned .:-(
It seems like we all have the same feelings,we leave Wales for the betterment of our families,and are still Welsh and will nevsr lose our celtic accents, may be do not all spesk Welsh ,but that was the doing of the English. We came here 1967,and have been back three times,but we will never live there again ,and Mary does not want to go back again,I will. We took our daughter back for a holiday,so that she could see her heritage,and she cried the second day and wanted to leaveMountain Ash,and she asked us how could we have lived there as long as we did, and she will never go back again.
We have done well but as is the case where ever you live you work,or you dont survive,and Imade my way with the people that called them selves Australins, by giving as good as I got,they called me A pom and I said IM not A pom I am welsh,they would say same thing and I would, give them but you bloody kiwis are all alike, then they would go off and I,d laugh, and we got on okay.
the only trouble I had a little forman in the shipyards
I hated him he hated me,his parents were English but he hated the fact thatI called him a pom, he would get red ffaced and go off I AM AUSTRALIAN, and I would stir with TTom you would be the only red head white ABO in AUSTRALIA,then he would splutter and spit,and I would laugh at him It is a good country for us but as the others say it is not for every one,
I can be a bugger when I want to
Doug OZ
Douglas
You are a wicked little devil on the quiet aren't you.LOL ;-)
Only joking I like you really .:-)
By the way you said you came from Mountain Ash ,did you go to the Grammar school there .?
Hello BG No I did not go to the county school,There were four of us in the class that used to come Firct Second and Third, all the time and we were boys that thought the county school was for the softies,and we all wanted to stay to gether and enjoy our life with out going to uni,to us all that time to enjoy life for us was the thing. Three of my family went there,but I was my own person, and live my life as I wanted, my mam was not happy but thats life.
We were together when we came out of the army and sat chatting in the pub on a Sat,afternoon and we asked one another if we regretted it and we were of the same mind NO
I and another one started life as Pastry cooks and the orther A cabinet maker I have been in the Merchant navy,
Have done long distant trucking,spent two years in collage and became a specialised welder and have welded on parts of rockets and some of the planes we fly around in Have worked on ships, and have had my own Bakery,among other things and loved every min,. of my working life. so thats part of me
Doug LOL
It is funny you should say that ( ME A LITLE DEVIL NO!!!!) When we went back for holidays, the first thing to happen arms around Mary OH it,s great to see you hugs and kisses then its my turn,WHAT THE HELL DID YOU BRING HIM WITH YOU FOR,WE THOUGHT YOU WERE ON HOLIDAYS, me being me I AM THE ONE THAT PAYES THE BILLS, so then I get a hug and a kiss and thats from the fellars
Doug
you sound a right character Douglas, typical of a Mountain Ash boy lol, I am originaly fromm Cwmbach not to many miles between the two places used to walk to Cefn Penner very often and down in to Mountain ASh. Used to be a nice place then don't know what its like today.