homesick?

hi there,

my husband is canadian living with me in bremen, germany and he is really homesick. also he never found anyone
understanding his humour.  most germans are too slow in
understanding. so no spontaneous jokes possible.
for this reason i started a web-community on
http://www.missing-licks.tk
we hope to find contacts to other people in our region or just to share the problems being abroad.

everyone who's homesick or able to help is very welcome to join
uns!

.:magenta:.

I am a Canadian living in Melbourne with my husband, we have been here only 7 months...I have just hit the height of homesickness I think, not to mention missing my family and friends terribly. Also, I find people here very "showy" and not as down to earth as I found in Vancouver. I am trying to meet friends but those I do meet I can't help but compare to friends i had from home, and they don't measure up in many ways.
Any suggestions?

hi!
i suggest to join this group:
http://canadian.meetup.com/17/

we met some really nice canadians in hamburg and that helped a lot... they also plan a barbecue on canada day

i deleted the missing-licks forum after we met the 'meetuppers' because the forum didn't catch on really and i think it helpes the best to make real live contacts. the forum stuff is too abstract to fight homesickness...
i hope you meet some nice people there!

my husband is still pretty homesick but once a month an 'all canadian day ' helps.

best wishes!
.:magenta:.

Yes, just hold on. I hit a pretty bad depression for a while living in England. It's so frustrating being around people who don't just say what they mean. But I found after about a year I found my stride, and started to feel better. Nothing changed profoundly, I just felt more myself and even started to like living here. I might even miss it when I go home!

I on the other hand, don't like it here in England. At least not the part I'm in. Keep well clear of the West Midlands. Canadian national holidays just depress me. Its Canada Day today and all I want to do is get on the next friggin' flight home. Never to return.

England is dirty, crowded, crime-ridden, expensive and the people are hostile and just plain nuts. I've been here 3 years with my Brit husband and we both regret the decision we made to move from Vancouver (Vancouver of all places! I must have been temporarily insane!!) to here.

However, all is not lost. I plan to be home again this time next year. I don't care if we have to live in a phone booth on Robson Street in Van to do it!

I can't say Manchester is exactly an idyllic location, either. We knew we'd only be living here temporarily to facilitate some travels to a few places in Europe before settling back home in Vancouver. My British boyfriend is immigrating over there, and is already calling it home. 6 months there and he's happy to never again live in England.

I can't wait to go home, and most of my frustrations are put aside with the knowledge that I only have to hold one for 8 more months. However, I can already anticipate missing good curries, the traditional English pub and 25 days holiday per year.

And yes, you were insane to leave Vancouver. ;P

Hi Susie. Well, we can't all afford to slum it in London can we. After all, someone has to bring civilization and a sense of humour to the wilds of England. *arf!*

I'll keep mine crossed for you that you get back on schedule too. Nice to meet you, so to speak. [/img]

I love manchester! my favorite city in England.


I live in Wrexham which is about 45 minutes away...

I get really homesick in Christmas because even though there is snow in my little mountain village, it's not the same thing as back homke in Quebec. People also frustrate me quite a bit. But I know i'll be back home one day so I don't mind too much..

Folks, at least be happy that they speak English over there.
I move from the Queen Charlotte Islands,B.C. to Monterrey Mexico, because I was bored of living on an island with 500 people and a major lack of work and I'd been to Monterrey on vacation before so I said what the heck. So I was there for 7.5 years, (just moved back to Canada last Oct.) in the first year there I had my now ex wife, laugh at me in front of her family, because I was guessing what the word "boat" would be in Spanish. I had coworkers look down at me because of my "cut the crap and let's get to work" attitude, not to mention the 5 or 6 million people I had to get accustomed to, people who are horrendous drivers, that don't give you your space whether it be in the grocery store or any other public place. No, it wasn't all bad, thankfully (good food, sights, music and alot of pretty fish in the sea) because I have two little girls that still live there with their mother and so I want to go back one day to live there again. Hopefully with the break I'll have had from living in Canada for some years will have changed my outlook of Monterrey.

I'm guessing that for those who are in the UK it's more difficult to find different things to do compared to being in Mexico and being occupied with trying to learn a new language for example.

Cheers and try not to think about home too much, with it being so beautiful and all.

PD. At least now I have better grammar than my ex.

Lack of personal space is a big thing I notice here in the East. Seriously, if you are more than like 10 cm back from the person in front of you, you aren't considered to be in line and people butt in front of you. And when you try and say something, you're the bad guy somehow. It's crazy. It's getting better here in hungary, but once you go further east, watch out.

I was back in Canada a few weeks ago and realized just how much I miss it. I can't wait to go back for good, and then just travel from there. I'm tired of living out of a suitcase all over the place here