What’s it like up there @letstryagain ? 
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It is not about the colour of a passport or this “slagging off” stuff!
It is for me having a more enjoyable life.
And yes I am ashamed and saddened by what UK has become.
If you can not see it …then your eyes are not open.
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I was not making a judgement on the site, merely an observation. I was making a comment on what i had just read and will surely receive some rather brusque replies but surely have as much right ad thd next person to state as I find?
Regards, Damian
Nothing wrong or strange about that. We are all different and have our own reasons for making decisions. In my time abroad I have met many people who have made the move expecting it to be a one way trip and just as many who see it as a fixed term move expecting to return to the UK or possibly move to a different location according to their plan.
You are entitled to your opinion as much as anyone else. I’m just pointing out that your opinion and confirmation of it is based upon a very narrow view.
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Let’s say for example you took this post as your data set;
Would you then say “I have not visited this site for ages and one brief perusal of this topic confirms that this is the most hilarious forum I’ve ever visited”?
And I would love to want to be there in uk!
Plans and choices …do we still have them in our command?
I really do not see why you are taking objection to a factual statement. After all that is the whole point of a discussion forum surely? It would be rather boring if everyone had the same viewpoint. My intention was not to detract from this site and the value it offers to the community but simply to observe that like others it seems to feature the cyclical debate between the pro French and the pro UK clans.
I respect ‘Survive France’ and the work of the administrators although as with other sites I am somewhat confused as to why an entity with a stated aim of supporting ‘expats’ always features heavily the detrimental viewpoint of others. It is the same with another site I can think of. The object is not to make those of us who have chosen to live outside the UK feel ‘holier than thou’ or in any way superior but surely that clue is in the name of the site.
I have by now lost track of the number of times I have been estranged from various sites for defending the way of life I have chosen here among the French people and if this is to be yet another then so be it.
Returning to topic - like others I agree we can never say never but at present I would certainly not return to the UK to reside for many reasons. I return to visit family and friends and have an enjoyable time but am always glad to return to France. Personally I ceased to find South East England attractive to me a couple of decades back.
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It’s such a bugger when people say what you don’t want to hear! 
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That’s a much more rounded response, thanks.
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Just about every person on SF has a different view …sees things in a very different way to the next person…and will be managing and seeing their life from a totally different view point.
I continue to come back to this diverse arena just to see the variation of thoughts and to engage with these characters.
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wrong direction…I do not need to tell Barbara!
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Online talking to yourself! 
of course!
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Some folk choose to return for a variety of reasons, I haven’t been to the UK for years, and no desire to. Except, I would if my Wife (French), expressed a desire to visit the Lakes where I grew up, and SW Scotland where I lived for 25yrs, but so far She hasn’t, which suits me, I’ve far to much to see here 
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There is so much to see here and of course going back to the places which we have discovered and love.
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Well said, I totally agree having put my 2 children through school here. Rigid, rigid, rigid, ce n’est pas normale !!!
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Surely you mean it’s not your normal. It always amazes me when people take something they find strange, attribute it to the whole nation then condem it.
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i didn’t try to escape UK in fact i met a fella when i was on holiday in gay Paris, and 53 years later we are still together for better and for worse, more the better than the worse. in these hard times we are "clinging "together looking after each other.
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