What do u miss about ur home country/city
- Cowshed Cowboy
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Re: What do u miss about ur home country/city
After a good few years I've just spent a week in my home country and the city where I was born, but never really lived. What struck me about it was how polite and friendly everyone was, people have conversations much easier with strangers at bus stops, buses etc, there's great free flowing humour between staff and customers in bars. The traffic moved freely on big wide city streets for a capital city and it seemed vibrant but not hectic, and as usual there was the lovely sound of the lone kilted pipers playing their tunes for the photo hungry tourists. Most of all it was just great he be surrounded by the accents of my fellow countrymen and women again. It was all very civilised and I'm heading back again this week. There's an element of sadness that after so long away a lack of personal contacts would probably make it impossable to resettle, plus I have a natural aversion to hypothermia 6 months of the year.
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You obviously don't know real wood-oven bagels...Sailorman wrote:Bagels are easy. Mix, proof, boil, bake.
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Re: What do u miss about ur home country/city
A cold wind on my cheeks (I'm talking -25c and lower), sidewalks, peace and quiet.phuketrichard wrote:so far, 90% of the food/merchandise items many of u mention i can buy here quite easily
I was asking not so much about things
BUT the other stuff that makes life great
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That's the spirit, SQUFfySir_Quality_U_Feel wrote:Not a thing.
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Everything I hate about daily life in Cambodia has at least 3 things I like more than home attached to it. Do I enjoy the idiotic drivers here? Nope. But I hated the police and speeding tickets back home worse. Oh, I'm not wearing a seat belt while driving? Big. Fucking. Deal..StroppyChops wrote:That's the spirit, SQUFfySir_Quality_U_Feel wrote:Not a thing.
I'll give ya 500 Riel for it...
Re: What do u miss about ur home country/city
Would anyone find it strange I miss WDW? lol I did grow up there since I was born and raised in Orlando.
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Re: What do u miss about ur home country/city
Well, there's always Dreamland.thePeck wrote:Would anyone find it strange I miss WDW? lol I did grow up there since I was born and raised in Orlando.
Re: What do u miss about ur home country/city
That's an abortion calling it's self a attraction park lol. Plus the clown freaks me out...Username Taken wrote:Well, there's always Dreamland.thePeck wrote:Would anyone find it strange I miss WDW? lol I did grow up there since I was born and raised in Orlando.
Re: What do u miss about ur home country/city
Bitte: In my misspent youth I worked in a bakery for almost a year and made an uncountable number of bagels, not to mention tens of thousands of doughnuts, cakes, pies, etc. (hard work!) Wood-fired, Apples n' Oranges. Except for a little smoke flavor and really having to watch the oven temp over a gas fired oven, same, same, but different. Best bagel I ever eat was in New York City. I guess I'm going to have to do a small batch just to see if I remember how. Now I have to find some lightly smoked salmon/Lox or buy some salmon and smoke it, and find some good cream cheese.
Cambodia in my book is head a shoulders above living/retiring in the states, but I do miss being able to hop in/on my car/truck/motorcycle and driving on decent highways for hundreds of miles and traveling from rainforest, to mountains to desert and back in the same day. (and not be the target of drug crazed/drunk container/bus drivers, Lexis drivers, not having to do a slalom around motos with 5 people on them and the odd cow/water buffalo.
Cambodia in my book is head a shoulders above living/retiring in the states, but I do miss being able to hop in/on my car/truck/motorcycle and driving on decent highways for hundreds of miles and traveling from rainforest, to mountains to desert and back in the same day. (and not be the target of drug crazed/drunk container/bus drivers, Lexis drivers, not having to do a slalom around motos with 5 people on them and the odd cow/water buffalo.
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