Expats

[valleys caveman]

Couple of questions.

How come you're expats?
I've always wanted to move somewhere warmer and being from Brynmawr the choices are endless.
Do you miss Wales?
Do you think you'll ever move back?

[Tuerto]

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Couple of questions.

How come you're expats?
I've always wanted to move somewhere warmer and being from Brynmawr the choices are endless.
Do you miss Wales?
Do you think you'll ever move back?

Brynmawr is the coldest place on earth-fact

[valleys caveman]

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Brynmawr is the coldest place on earth-fact

It's grim. But it's my grim
Wish I had the balls to do it.

[Tuerto]

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It's grim. But it's my grim
Wish I had the balls to do it.

Where would yo go?

[valleys caveman]

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Where would yo go?

Somewhere warmer. Treorchy maybe.

[Tuerto]

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Somewhere warmer. Treorchy maybe.

Good choice, nice high st, apparently.

[valleys caveman]

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Good choice, nice high st, apparently.

Worked down the Rhondda on the windows for a couple of years. The people were diamonds

[Tuerto]

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Worked down the Rhondda on the windows for a couple of years. The people were diamonds

I always find that. Do work for people in the less affluent areas and they're great, friendly, hospitable and up for a laugh. The money is in your hand the second you finish as well.

[valleys caveman]

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Had a few council estate jobs (I'm a council estate massive too) and the generosity was second to none

[SydneyBlue]

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I left Cardiff for London which I hated then got the chance to go to Hong Kong and then just stayed overseas ending up in Oz. Miss Wales on occasions but there’s a big world out there

[xsnaggle]

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Talking of ex-pats, I discovered today that the 6th largest French city by number of population is......London.

[Tuerto]

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Had a few council estate jobs (I'm a council estate massive too) and the generosity was second to none

[NYCBlue]

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There's a place called Brynmawr outside Philadelphia. It's very posh. They call it Bryn-mar.

[Wash DC Blue]

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I met a beautiful girl about 20 years ago from Ohio (West Virginia really) which prompted my move.

Absolutely the loveliest and prettiest woman I’ve ever met.
It’s absolutely absurd to me how we come to be, but come to be we did.

I miss Wales like crazy.
I spent 3 years in London and a good while in Australia with spells back home in between.
Hiraeth is still a very real as for me.

I tried to move us back after my mother died.
Something like £65,000 was required in the bank to show you could support it or a job for 6 months.

I had a crack and commuted on the train to Brizzle every day from Lliswerry in Newport...which meant a bus into town at about 6.20 to get to a train to Temple Meads and another train or bus from there to Clifton.

Come back to DC over that Christmas period to see the Mrs and basically quit on the idea.

Still hope we can do it one day!

[jimmyscoular]

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Married a brilliant and beautiful American of Polish/Swedish ancestry who, after 39 years of marriage, is a wonderful mother to our three children. We live in Nebraska, which has bitterly cold winters. I like to go back every now and then to get faggots and peas in the market, or fish and chips on Caroline Street, but no, I will never move back. There's a reason why people risk life and limb to get here and why hundreds of thousands are rushing the southern border. It's a great place. I'm a lucky guy.