What do you Not miss about your home country?

what i dont miss about cairo
the crowded .

I don't miss the high unemployment.  Here I have a steady job that I love.  At home who knows what I would do.

Good answers.

bonita100:

In Belize I am in the middle of the jungle...I do not get crowds.

In the USA traffic makes me crazy.

HaileyinHongKong, I never even thought of unemployment.

As a business owner I notice it is a lot cheaper and more profitable to run a business outside of the USA.

I would hate to be unemployed in this economy.

I do not miss the violence, the smoking ban, the media manipulation, the empty bars, the Health & Safety BS, the obese, the 'minorities' screaming for Human Rights.

I do not miss the people who I find complaining in the supermarket that they cannot get their favorite brand of this or that. Having worked in countries where people fight over food it annoys me.

I don't miss the extreme cold weather during the winter season.
I also don't miss the difficult journey home after a hard days work, when the extreme weather affects public transport!

I do not miss the crime in South Africa and the lack of opportunity in the country; however, I miss the SA sun and the bush tremendously.

oh and i forgot to mention i definitely don't miss the long queues in the supermarkets on weekends

I think one could well make the comments you make for many countries around the world, ...especially in countries of the West.

What I have particularly noticed is the increase in absolute drivel being dished out by tv stations in recent years.

ericwt wrote:

There are definitely times I miss things from the USA.

Selection, choices and convenience come to mind. I miss  my family.

But I do not miss...

The media addicted society.

The mindless masses following leaders that do not have a clue how to fix the mess they made.

The lack of values. The rising socialist movement that demands something for nothing.

The pop culture that is constantly being shoved down our throats everywhere.

Thanks for all the replies.

It reminded me of other things I do not miss.

Sometimes Belize drives me nuts. But I know I am happier living here, then I would be living in the USA.

In truth, if I did not have family I dearly love in the US, I would not go back again.

I do not miss non stop surveillance cameras everywhere.

ericwt wrote:

I do not miss non stop surveillance cameras everywhere.

Then you definitely don't want to go to China.

I go to Hong Kong and China almost every year. I can fake being a respectable businessman very well.

A weekend for a trade show is fine, it does not bother me.

Now when the monkeys in the trees around Belize start getting video cameras, I might have a problem.

HaileyinHongKong wrote:

ericwt wrote:

I do not miss non stop surveillance cameras everywhere.

Then you definitely don't want to go to China.

I don't know.  Monkeys with video cameras would be pretty cool.

I'm from the United States and I really, really don't miss the fixation with working and making money. I really don't miss the scientifically engineered food, and the horrible dare-I-call-it "cheese and dairy products." I don't miss having to schedule a time to see my friends weeks in advance and I don't miss the strange looks people give when you tell them you're going to travel abroad.

American cheeses are some of the things I miss most.

I lived in a less than posh town.

I don't miss the drunks.
I don't miss the druggies.
I don't miss the wild kids who hardly see their mother and have no clue who their father is.
I really don't miss the winters.

Moving here was a really good idea.

Unadulterated American gluttony and the constant complaining about very first-world problems.

That reminds me, I broke a nail on my melon baller.

I don't miss the ever-present and smothering marketing machine in the U.S. that is on 24/7 and in your face. So many have become immune to it that they don't realize it's even there.

None of the ads at the bottom of this page are American.

Okay, I have thought about it and I have to agree some of the camera angles the monkeys could get up in the trees would be cool.

But I can't be having monkeys around here uploading videos of me smoking a joint or dancing nude in the rain to YouTube.

That is just creepy.

HaileyinHongKong wrote:

I don't know.  Monkeys with video cameras would be pretty cool.

I imagine it is because of your Hong Kong IP.

HaileyinHongKong wrote:

None of the ads at the bottom of this page are American.

Let's see... what i definitely do not miss is the heavy diabolic traffic jam !

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Your post is good..

i don't miss the collection of taxes hahaha

I don't miss the extremley high petrol (gas) prices and the yearly increase in public transport fares in London, not one bit

..lets see, what I don't miss about Jakarta..

1. TRAFFIC
2. TRAFFIC
and oh ya,
3. TRAFFIC

ericwt wrote:

Okay, I have thought about it and I have to agree some of the camera angles the monkeys could get up in the trees would be cool.

But I can't be having monkeys around here uploading videos of me smoking a joint or dancing nude in the rain to YouTube.

That is just creepy.

Monkeys don't use Youtube.  They just write blogs.

What I finally don't miss from the Netherlands are:

cold and wet weather
traffic jams
taxes for almost everything
the complaining about everything
the endless discussions without any content or without any knowlodge about the subject
crowdy places

Other than family I really don't miss anything.

I don't miss the bone-chilling snowstorms.  But it would be nice to have to wear a coat every once in a while.  It's never cold here.

I dont miss the rainy summers in UK

I don't miss snow, ice, cold cloudy days and wind that cut to the bone. Thank God nowadays I only see snow between channels on TV. LOL

I don't miss:

The cold weather

The lack of interest and ignorance towards the rest of the world

And I especially don't miss the the general tendency among the locals to be racist towards anyone who is foreign

The unfriendly, depressed faces of pedestrians on sidewalks, in subways, buses...

I started to think of all the stuff I don't miss from there, but I realized that the same kinda crap I left behind is creeping up here. So maybe I just miss the 20th century...

After thinking a little bit, what I really don't miss is the high crime rate and lower safety factor. It's something I never have to consider. It's very refreshing to live in an honest and non-confrontational society.

Hi
I do not miss a pretty much staff in Poland:
-old rude ladies that demand an absolute respect not respecting others
-political drama at 19.30 on TV every day
-very mizogynist commercials placing women in kitchen and leaving them only kitchen, bedroom and church as places where they may express themselves
-neighbours that know more about me than myself
-economical and educational disproportion between country side and the major cities
-the fact that beeing a women you still have to prove that you at least half as good as men, and the fact that, in 'common' opinion, you loose a couple of points of IQ when you become a mother

At these points I do LOVE Sweden. However, Sweden is not a heaven on Earth. On the other hand, I can't call it hell either - it is to cold out there .

i do not miss those negative people around me, Traffic and pollution.

Everything.