Mar 2021
1:19pm, 13 Mar 2021
45,631 posts
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LindsD
I have listened to some newt music and got for my first lateral flow test. It was negative
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Mar 2021
1:20pm, 13 Mar 2021
45,632 posts
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LindsD
*gone
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Mar 2021
1:58pm, 13 Mar 2021
7,422 posts
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The Great Raemondo
After a moderate to high level of soul searching I've applied for a job that could, in the relatively unlikely event I end up getting it, become the basis for a wholesale move back to Wales.
We'll have been out here for ten years next month and, while there is an awful lot about our life that I love, neither of us is totally happy in our work. As other options here are fairly limited for both of us (not helped by the damn B word at all, of course, with britishers being less attractive to employers or just plain ineligible for certain roles), it means thinking about moving on.
It's a big mental leap to even consider relocating again, and the prospect of giving up permanent residence on the mainland and various things we've put a lot of time and effort into over the last decade is definitely daunting, but we never really planned to stay here forever.
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Mar 2021
2:04pm, 13 Mar 2021
71,348 posts
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Hanneke
Rae, I am in the same position... But reversed: Welsh Borders back to the continent. Been here 26 years... Longest I lived anywhere in my life, but after B, it just doesn't feel quite like home any more... Also, I have as of yet to be granted settled status but was refused permanent residency in 2017, so I may be forced to sell up and leave...
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Mar 2021
2:07pm, 13 Mar 2021
4,194 posts
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CC2 Speedy Goth
As someone who works in export, as far as I can see the only good thing about Britain in the Post Brexit era is that there's more chance of getting a vaccine in the near future. If I had the choice I'd get jabbed then get out! Sadly I have zero claims on being anything other than British, so I'm stuck here on this godforsaken island!
Newt leggings today. The red ones with the apple core/skulls.
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Mar 2021
2:26pm, 13 Mar 2021
7,423 posts
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The Great Raemondo
This isn't the politics thread so I won't go into it any detail, but hopefully it's not too cont to say that it's a sadness to me that any of us should feel forced or constrained in our life decisions like this.
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Mar 2021
2:30pm, 13 Mar 2021
17,605 posts
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Sharkie
I'm pretty much sure all three of you are Amongst Friends here, but yes, not Politics thread.
Hope Rae and Hanneke don't mind me noting how interesting - in a SAD way - their opposite but almost identical situations are.
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Mar 2021
2:32pm, 13 Mar 2021
17,606 posts
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Sharkie
Rae - you used the sad word while I was typing. x
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Mar 2021
2:41pm, 13 Mar 2021
7,424 posts
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The Great Raemondo
From my perspective at least there are also things to get excited about in a potential (very potential, not at all confirmed, really just a concept at the moment) move - so it's not all sad :D
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Mar 2021
2:42pm, 13 Mar 2021
13,813 posts
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SarahWoo
My newt today is running a loop that I haven’t run in yonks and yonks because I couldn’t do the distance (it’s less than 5 miles 🙄). I’m chuffed and relieved that I can now do something other than out and backs
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