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?
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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-factOriginally Posted by valleys caveman
It's grim. But it's my grimBrynmawr is the coldest place on earth-fact
Wish I had the balls to do it.
Where would yo go?It's grim. But it's my grim
Wish I had the balls to do it.
Somewhere warmer. Treorchy maybe.
Good choice, nice high st, apparently.
Had a few council estate jobs (I'm a council estate massive too) and the generosity was second to none
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
Had a few council estate jobs (I'm a council estate massive too) and the generosity was second to none
Talking of ex-pats, I discovered today that the 6th largest French city by number of population is......London.
There's a place called Brynmawr outside Philadelphia. It's very posh. They call it Bryn-mar.
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High-end housing subdivision near me, also called Bryn Mawr. I have often wondered if anyone understands its meaning, or even that the words are Welsh.
I've tried telling a few people. They don't care. You think they'd be interested to know what it means at least.
Sometimes we're too close to things. If there were a housing subdivision named Crvc Hlavc, and some Czech immigrant wanted to tell me all about it I don't know that my interest would be overflowing. Welsh references are so rare, though, they do catch my eye. There is a Cardiff-by-the-Sea in California — probably no more interesting a fact than Nebraska has a Prague.
It’s a small world.
one half of our new next door neighbours comes from there.
She had no idea that it was a Welsh name or , obviously, what it meant translated into English.
Next time you see her say "Go Phils".
Or ask her if she prefers Pat's or Geno's? If her answer is "Dallesandro's" she knows what she's talking about.
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!
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.
There are lots of signposts saying “Twp” around Pennsylvania...thought that it meant stupid drivers rather than township 😀
Good for you Mate!!
Nebraska’s Winters would be beyond my capacity no matter how much I dug the Corn Huskers.
Winters here in Northern VA are brutal to me.
If we don’t get back to Wales, a Snow Bird lifestyle it is!
Yeah, we're thinking about Texas, although in one of those life twists my daughter and her husband just bought a summer home in Puerto Rico and now the missus is talking about retirement on the Caribbean. I don't know that I could live happily in a non-English speaking country, though. I need my radio, an addiction that took hold long ago with Radio Luxembourg and Jimmy Clitheroe.
Not sure if I qualify as a full blown expat but I’ve spent many years of my life outside of the UK. Work driven for me, mainly on secondment to transfer or start up businesses. Currently on a 3 year stint in Poland but previously I’ve done the same in Japan, Ireland, California, Canada, Holland & India. I love the change & challenges.
Nomad, perhaps?
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