BritAnnia Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Do you live in the UK still? How about anyone who lived in the UK for a significant portion of time? I'm English, born in London, raised in Swindon, Wilts. :ack2: I've lived in the USA for 20 years having moved here to get married when I was 19yo. That's a looooooooong time ago! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TKs Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Born and raised in the UK. Many places. I generally say I'm from the North West, near Manchester. Wasn't born there, but my moms family is from there. Spent 22 years there, and have been in the US for 9 years now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumbledeb Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Do you live in the UK still? How about anyone who lived in the UK for a significant portion of time? I'm English, born in London, raised in Swindon, Wilts. :ack2: I've lived in the USA for 20 years having moved here to get married when I was 19yo. That's a looooooooong time ago! I'm Scottish, born in Aberdeen. Lived in Aberdeenshire my whole life. Do you miss the UK? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Born in Bristol, left the UK at 22 (having previously spent a year in France), spent three years in London in the mid nineties, then went back to Asia until August this year. So that's a couple of decades overseas, largely in Chinese Asia (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan). I'm loving being 'back' so far - Scotland is not my culture, but it feels comfortable, and I'm enjoying learning about it. Husband is a naturalised Brit (American by birth) and the boys have dual nationality. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Alfred Academy Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 I'm a Brit! Well, that's what my family and friends call me. Never lived in the UK...have visited and hope to live there someday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maplinmum Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 I'm an aussie but spent 16 yrs living in Britain, now back in Australia. Hey TKs I lived in south Manchester, its a nice area very convient for the Lake District & Peak District, not to mention all the cultural stuff happening in Manchester. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blessedfamily Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 I watch "Are you Being Served?", "Grace and Favour", "Keeping Up Appearances", "Fawlty Towers", "Steptoe and Son", "Last of the Summer Wine", "The Remains Of The Day", "84 Charing Cross Road", "The Importance Of Being Ernest", and read and watch all things Jane Austen. Does that count? Whadda y'all think? :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mabelen Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 I was born and bred in Spain, but I lived in Cambridge for 12 years before relocating to the US 9 years ago. My dh is a British subject and my oldest was born there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacy in NJ Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 I lived in the UK as a student for a little more than a year. I almost married a Brit but came to may senses and left for home. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lorna Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 I was born in Kent, England to a father who was born in Africa, raised in Malta and Scotland (yes he has a very strange accent!) and a mother who was born in London and raised in Perthshire, Scotland. I moved to Scotland at the age of eighteen months and was educated there until the age of twenty three. I married a Liverpudlian and we moved to Liverpool for ten years or so. We then travelled to France and then to Denmark with my husband's work. We are back in the UK living in London. Maybe here has been the biggest culture shock of all. Everyone is in such a hurry! Strangely we live just a couple of miles from where my mother was born. Our family seems to have come full circle. My heart is in Liverpool and Scotland, but I fell in love with Copenhagen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lorna Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 I watch "Are you Being Served?", "Grace and Favour", "Keeping Up Appearances", "Fawlty Towers", "Steptoe and Son", "Last of the Summer Wine", "The Remains Of The Day", "84 Charing Cross Road", "The Importance Of Being Ernest", and read and watch all things Jane Austen. Does that count? Whadda y'all think? :001_smile: 'Last of the Summer Wine' ?! You most certainly are a Brit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blessedfamily Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 'Last of the Summer Wine' ?! You most certainly are a Brit! :hurray: I have ten tapes from when our PBS station used to show it. :001_wub: Foggy Dewhirst, the guy who came before Foggy(Seymour?), Compo, Norman Clegg, Nora Batty, Howard, Marina, Our Glenda, Auntie Wainwright, Edie, Smiler, and now Captain Peacock from "Served?". Our PBS stopped showing it, though. *Sigh* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 I was born in Kent, England to a father who was born in Africa, raised in Malta and Scotland (yes he has a very strange accent!) and a mother who was born in London and raised in Perthshire, Scotland. My grandfather was a surveyor working there in the 1920s. My father was born in Kent in 1930, but was evacuated to Canada for the duration of the war, where he had a truly horrible time (the distant relative with whom he and his younger brother lived was jealous of his intelligence compared to her own boys, and wouldn't let him read or attend school). Next time you come to visit your relatives in Scotland, or I make it to London to see my brother, it would be great to meet. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lorna Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Laura, That would be wonderful. It sounds like our paths must have crossed several times already! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeacherZee Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 I'm not a Brit but I lived in Scotland for five years and on the south coast of England for a year. And I speak with a funny accent too:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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