What I miss most: the people.
What I miss least: the people.
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Wherever you are. What do you miss most about living away from South Wales, and what do you miss least of all? really hoping for some interesting Answers that aint 'the weather' or 'Clarks Pies'
What I miss most: the people.
What I miss least: the people.
I miss the banter most. Asians have no idea in my experience. I also miss the Brecon Beacons This place is so flat anywhere that’s a little bit elevated is called a mountain
I don’t miss spending ages queuing on M4 and don’t miss HMRC sending reminders that I owe them money. I don’t miss Tesco, paying£65 to fill the car with petrol and I don’t miss the so called traditional Sunday lunch.
I miss the mountains and rivers.
I don’t miss the small town mentality.
I miss the feeling of being in a place where I experienced childhood and youth. Where I can walk around and remember the streets and houses. I miss living within walking distance of the sea. But I've lived away for over half my life. I don't know how I would feel if I came back. I'm not sure I'd really feel at home.
Hard to explain really.
Hireath is a genuine thing for me.
Just the place like, although I would certainly bet that applies to folk from everywhere.
Availability of comforting Food, Television and “non attended” Sport have come on leaps and bounds since I’ve been here.
Internet connectivity has also made vocabulary more similar over the years.
I do miss the people back home though first and foremost.
The characters and the familiar humour that doesn’t quite translate.
I also miss the countryside and the coastal climate.
A frosty morning in South Wales or a Summer Evening particularly.
Also access and availability of public transport even as sporadic and expensive as it seems to be back home, is much better than the US.
I left Wales in 1992 & the UK in 2011. I don’t think I’d ever go back but if I did it’d be to Cardiganshire or Pembrokeshire.
I miss the coast even though I live on a lake the size of an ocean - it’s the lack of ruggedness I think.
A short list of misses:
Traditional pubs and cask ale.
Parks Football
Chicken Madras
Pot Noodle
Galaxy Chocolate
Cheese & Onion crisps
Jars of Bovril
Most of all it’s family and friends though
Now....if I had to give a list of things I don’t miss, it’d probably be a little longer
Agree with this. Miss my friends and family and seeing them more often.
Don’t miss the small town parochialism at all.
Im not sure if it’s a Welsh thing or just a shit school thing but remember being shocked when I went to university there wasn’t the same anti intellectualism I saw growing up.
sense of humour seems very culturally specific.
I've got mates who moved to the states who said for years that 90% of Americans have no apparent sense of humour and any British person you meet you'd instantly be able to have a good joke with.
once they'd lived there for a long time though I think it changed.
I get what you mean about mountains. if I go somewhere really flat like the east of England or northern Germany I find it really depressing
That's the thing no one from my school went to university while 90% of people I went to university with did. And I assume the anti intellectualism is why. People in my school weren't thick at all there was just no appetite to do well.
I grew up in a very working class area though so probably more that than specifically wales.