Unconfessed reasons for your immigration

There was this thing with the local sheep farmers.

Baaaaa - d boy Fred, very baaaaa - d.

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  William James Woodward – Brazil Animator, Expat-blog Team

It was all a big misunderstanding.
I tried to explain, I was just helping it over the wall.

It's better to have reasons for arriving rather than reasons to leave.

I came here for a job.  No big mystery.

Those are, definetely, the best kind of reasons!

Hi Hailey,
You went to Hong Kong for work, that is, that´s the reason wanted to go (you arrived there), but what was your reason for leaving your country? You don´t have to answer...It´s just food for thought. A question I ask myself...

I left NZ in 1964 for an overseas adventure, traveled, found work and still doing it.

landinbrazil wrote:

Hi Hailey,
You went to Hong Kong for work, that is, that´s the reason wanted to go (you arrived there), but what was your reason for leaving your country? You don´t have to answer...It´s just food for thought. A question I ask myself...

There's no big deep dark story or subconscious mystery.  There was a job opportunity and I took it.

I always wanted to live in the jungle. Belize is English speaking but in Latin America. It gave me the opportunity to travel to Guatemala numerous times to go to Spanish Immersion School so I could learn Spanish.

Latin America has always been the goal but I needed to learn Spanish, first.

I suppose at the core I became disillusioned with the United States. I felt I did not belong. I was tired of non stop government regulation of my business and the growing police state.

I have always heard from others if you don't like the USA,leave.

I did and I will never look back.

I wanted "out" for years before i ever traveled to a foreign country. The experience was how I'd hoped it would be so when my boyfriend at the time decided to moved to Iceland, I moved for the relationship.

so the official reason was I was joining my bf. The unofficial was that I had a chance to do something I'd wanted to do with a bit of help that made it much easier. Relationship didn't work out but the living abroad did (so far).

WOW! I glad you liked your choice. Hard thing is one regrets. I wish you long happy life aywhere you choose to live. Cheers!

ECS,
I am going to read your blog to see if I can find out how your transition from leaving a relationship while living in a foreign country worked out. Many people make choice like yours, and even though the relationship didn´t work out, they move on with their lives instead of going back from where they started from (the home country).
Hope you don´t have too many cold days there...Keep yourself warm!

landinbrazil wrote:

ECS,
I am going to read your blog to see if I can find out how your transition from leaving a relationship while living in a foreign country worked out.

I didn't get into much detail on my blog about how the transition worked, but in short it was because I found quite a lot of local support in the weeks after the breakup. People who were merely acquaintances before became good friends, and when I got a big promotion at work, I decided it was worth staying to see what would happen next. Seven years later, I'm still friends with the people I got to know then, and I'm working with those same people who took a chance on me then.

I was just tired of my country, I was searching something new and exciting and no I didn't move for work or because of love, both can run out and when they run out you won't have any reason.

Go on, I'll come clean.
The police were almost at my door so I caught the boat to France.
I perfected my escape when I tossed that body over the side and the cops thought it was me.
I slipped up the other day when I used my real name to order a pizza.

When I arrived in France, the new government there didn't like me much so I did an 'est allé' to Afghanistan.

Again, I slipped up when ordering a pizza.

As before, I changed my name but things always end up catching up to you as we see with yet another slip up whilst ordering a pizza.

I went to America but, for one reason or another, had to wander again.

I wasn't all that lucky in Indonesia either.
The first time I came here ended badly.

I tried heaven but wasn't popular and got expelled by God.

I worked in an office but I had to leave because of my digestive system problems.

I worked as a prostitute but couldn't continue.

Ha ha ha very good. I will try that

Fred, you have a serious Pizza addiction going on.

At least get carry out Pizza.

Most of tge time, the pizza people have no clue but I've been busted a couple of times

It was just time...my friend and I had been playing back and forth in traveling (10 yrs)...seemed like everything calmed down for both of us at the same time to make this leap. We both want to start a new journey together. Both older now and ready to live our own lives the way we choose to...Can anyone say mid-life crisis..lol

mas fred wrote:

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I knew it.  I did a book report on John Bingham when I was in high school.  You always seemed a little too familiar to me.

And why is it always 14 minutes?

The devil got faster service.

I left Australia in 1963 "to see the world", thinking I would probably be back in three years. But, well, stuff happened and there was never a strong enough reason to go back to live.

My son left Cayman in 2001, for the second time, also "to see the world". Stuff happened to him, too, and he has lived in Norway the past ten years. I expect his children will do the same, when they're old enough. We've got a family-pattern going, here.

if you left without reason than you also leave with your life with noreason

ujjvalbhatt wrote:

if you left without reason than you also leave with your life with noreason

Come again?

If you leave your country without any reason menas no meaing of your life.

I did have reason to leave but more reason to arrive.
As some of you will know, I got married to a wonderful Indonesian lady so loads of reasons to be here but, I have to be honest, there were reasons to leave England.
All my mates in the same trade were going bust and my work was slowing quite a lot.
That was reason enough but the winters were pretty crap at the best of times.
The biggest reasons were the drunks and druggies.
My last disco was totally destroyed by an idiot who couldn't hold his booze and the problems with drugs addicts were horrendous.
Seriously, the crime rate in my area was getting stupid.

Here, there is some drugs problem but so little compared with England and I like it that way.
The locals have no idea how bad drugs are and how much trouble they cause.

ujjvalbhatt wrote:

If you leave your country without any reason menas no meaing of your life.

I disagree completely.

mas fred wrote:

The biggest reasons were the drunks and druggies.

You don't like hanging out with drunks?

He means English drunks, Hailey.

HaileyinHongKong wrote:

mas fred wrote:

The biggest reasons were the drunks and druggies.

You don't like hanging out with drunks?

I was a biker and displayed all the traits you'd expect.
Large motorcycles, biker chicks, going really fast and drinking alcohol to extremes.
My mates were pretty much all the same but we NEVER caused any trouble (but we sometimes finished it when people had a go at us)
By the end of my DJ career, I was plagued by drunks who wanted nothing more than to fight.
Most of the time it was between each other but the odd one wanted a go at me, commonly because I refused to play some crap tune that would have destroyed the dancing fever I'd got set up on the dance floor.

I've just managed to get my kit back into the van before wedding receptions turned into battlefields and even seen a bride punched in the face by a drunken guest.
That party finished earlier than expected.
That stuff didn't used to happen when I first started but it was getting more and more common towards the end.

I see the odd drunk here but they're pretty rare, oddly, they tend to be hanging outside churches on a Sunday evening.

mas fred wrote:

That stuff didn't used to happen when I first started but it was getting more and more common towards the end.

Your skills increased over time?!?