Are there any downside s that would cheer me up about returning to the UK? The people here just seem to get everything right. Plus no litter and not much graffiti.
Butternut As I said, I've been here since , so the little irritants such as the bank not changing my address til I could prove I'd told the Gemeente the bank has no right to ask that ; the constant omleggings and omleidings that just suddenly spring up; the closing of roads for cycle races, begin to add up. I think you are misreading deliberately what I'm saying, as the request from the OP was for down sides, so I gave them. Had it been a list of good things then I could have provided one of those as well, but that wasn't the request.
If I hadn't 'adapted', then I'd have gone home long ago. There is also a difference between judging and comparing. There are many positives about being here, but they no longer outweigh the desire to move home. It made me laugh when I walked into Carrefour in Muscat, Oman, to be greeted by Lurpak in the butter aisle. If it can be sold there in Carrefour, why not here Mother Are you forbidden from hanging washing out on a Sunday? We were in Tervuren Each to their own Scaryteacher every country has it's good and bad points but sorry!
I personally think it's a bit unreasonable to judge a country based on whether you can buy the spreadable butter or cut of meat of choice like you get "back home" to use just a couple of examples.
Surely the whole point of living in a new country is to try new and different things and adapt to where you are living; and you never know, you might like some of the new things better! It's all about the attitude you bring to it surely? I agree with every word scaryteacher wrote.
