What do you miss most about home?

[sunny and hot]

Excluding family and food, what do you miss most?

I miss the music, particularly going to concerts.

I also miss banter at work about football and politics.

How about you?

[transam]

Garners Pickled Onions.

[CharlieH]

Custard creams, rhubarb crumble & custard and the wind when out walking, bright sunny days that still have the cool breeze.

Familiar faces and being able to understand what people are talking about 100%.

[transam]

Custard creams, rhubarb crumble & custard and the wind when out walking, bright sunny days that still have the cool breeze.

Familiar faces and being able to understand what people are talking about 100%.

Stop, Stop .........................

[keith101]

Garners Pickled Onions.

i make my own , had spice packs sent from Aus brought the jack and small onions from lotus and 5 weeks later awesome pickled onions . ready for next batch . recipes are online .

[Spoonman]

The local greasy takeaway, could murder a hamburger with the lot and some potato scollops.

[FDog]

I certainly don't miss the high cost of living.

I do miss a good juicy hamburger made at a corner shop. That's about it. No hurry to return to my homeland.

[kevc]

Having no fear of plugging in an electrical appliance.....and unplugging it without sparks flying out.

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[bigbamboo]

You can buy custard creams here!

I miss real ale in an English country pub in the winter, office banter, fresh cream cakes, playing cricket in the summer, proper fish and chips, that TFI Friday feeling and the long summer evenings.

My Thai wife misses being able to leave food out without ants appearing from nowhere in minutes and being able to wear seasonal clothes.... coats, gloves, scarves, boots etc in the winter.

[chrisartist]

It's over 20 years now since I left the UK and I don't go back to visit. So, on the supposition that the UK is my home because I was born there, I don't miss anything about it at all.

I feel much more inclined to view Korea as the home that I left. I miss walking round the gardens in the many palaces in Seoul, visiting the art galleries (where there are new exhibitions often), the Korean people, the ready availability of books pertaining to academic research, the educated populace, the respect for learning, Korean food, high-class international restaurants, the nightlife that proliferates round the universities, the plum blossoms in spring, the mild chill in the air as summer gives way to autumn, the generosity and friendliness of the people, walking along mountain trails, the wide thoroughfares, the well-maintained pavements and the admixture of modern and traditional architecture.

I don't miss the taxis (because you have to wait for one that is going your way), the ordinary buses (because they are too crowded, though there are also excellent "seat buses" and intercity buses), and the general milling around of millions of people in the busy districts of Seoul.

[habfan]

Yes a cool sunny day where you have to put on a jacket.

[Naam]

paying income tax, icy roads, fog, buying heating oil, mounting winter tires, people who's stupid talk i understand, taking the cars once a year for a technical check-up, paying a housemaid 600 Baht an hour, paying for once a month gardening service more than for a fulltime gardener per month in Thailand, paying property tax, being charged with triple electricity prices (compared to TH) to subsidise solar energy, being charged sewage fees for the surface area of my terrace and my driveway, the 19% VAT on goods and services, owing a plumber 2,400 Baht when he rings my doorbell before he started any work, losing my driver's license for 6 months because of a one time high speeding on an autobahn with a stupid speed limit...

to be continued...

[ToddWeston]

I miss driving on country roads that lead to no where.

I miss long walks on a frosty morning.

I miss reading the newspaper from cover to cover.

I miss turning the heat on before going to bed.

I really miss being able to eavesdrop at the coffee shoppe.

[cardholder]

Nothing. Certainly, nothing enough to make me want to go back.

This is now my home and it is has genuinely felt like that for the last 4 or 5 years - most noticeably when I return from occasional visits to the UK.

If I seriously missed anything badly enough from the UK, I wouldn't be here - I would be back there.

Once you decide to settle in Thailand I think you have to adjust to, and accept, your surroundings. You cannot hanker for things from a previous life or you will never be content here.

That said, on a recent holiday in the UK, with the missus, I had forgotten how good English beers are and just how tasty fish and chips from the seaside are.

[Neeranam]

Here's really home now after all these years but there is somethings I miss from Scotland and more things I don't miss.

I miss the trees, especially Autumn walks near my parent's/Gran's homes. My Gran lives on Royal Deeside, a short drive from the most amazing scenery/mountains. I miss being able to take a tent and get lost, miles from anyone in a short time, waking up with fabulous views. I miss the golf courses.

I miss Haggis suppers, mealy puddings and real chip shop chips. I miss real British Indian curries.

I miss the casinos and bookies and some of the pubs. I miss the cycle runs. I miss the afternoon quiz shows like 15 to 1 -

and Coundown with that sexy bird with the big ass.

[weegee]

Pies and Mushy peas ....

[Beetlejuice]

I miss everything, BUT, the country of my birth, my homeland, has changed beyond all recognition so there is nothing left of what I remember to miss anymore.

Most of my old mates have either died or old or have moved on with their lives, same applies to my family and relatives, all my old haunts have long gone and probably if I returned, would not recognize the place anymore and be completely alien to me.

So now I stay as a foreigner in a foreign land, rather than returning to what used to be homeland, as an alien in my own land.

[mca]

Not paying through the nose for foodstuffs I took for granted back home. Went back to the UK for the first time in years a few months back. Wandering round Tescos sossie section, Cumberlands, Lincolnshires, all at about 30 baht a pack. Nearly brought me to tears..... And don't get me started on the pate....

[Soutpeel]

The cool sea breezes in height of summer and magnificent sun sets over the ocean

[trainman34014]

Don't miss anything while i'm here ( you can get custard creams in Tops ) but when i return home every few years i gorge all the food i can't get here and come back 10 kg's heavier.

[Crazy chef 1]

Easy acces to good books and an intellectual conversation.otherwise nothing really ...except from time to time smoking a joint legally.

[mrtoad]

Pasties, Saffron Cake, Cornish Cream Teas, Village Cricket, Real Ale, live football and Rugby, good Fish and Chips . As much as I miss them, still not enough to want to live back there. Just going to enjoy it all for the final few days of my holiday.

[impulse]

With all respect to the OP, one thing I don't miss is the banter about football or politics.

[stoneyboy]

Long summer nights when it doesn't get dark until 10pm.

Very little change all year round here,maybe 45 minutes at most.

[kannot]

sanity

[cooked]

...being much younger.

[cooked]

...being much younger.

[cooked]

... Being much younger.

[arthurwait]

Back home at the moment and doing everything I have missed.

Been to the chippy rather a few too many times now. Chinese takeaway the other night , still more to come and must have some Indians.

So many sausage rolls, scotch eggs, samosas, shop sandwiches ( you know better when you can buy them), decent bread, salads and food that doesn't look rubbish. At Paddington the other week went in for a sandwich and came out with £15 worth of snacks.

Football: Done Palace v Lazio, Palace v Spuds with Palace v sunderland on Saturday and Swansea to come.

Seem to have just missed any decent motor racing, must find something on before I go.

Walking round bookshops and just generally shops I actually want to buy things from which are beyond scarse in Thailand.

Boozing with mates in decent pubs (keep thinking I haven't paid when I leave though). Without the obligatory bitter loser expat turning up and ruining the night.

British seaside , went to Devon drinking in 600 year old pubs.

Haven't missed all the wanna be hard men who start and then back down when you don't or the obese women. Really the fattest girl from my day is now the size of the slimest girl in a pub or club now. My gawd in Croydon I hope the foundations are solid.

Fights at kicking out time. They've now got a bouncer on the burger place at kicking out time.

As someone said driving on country roads. Makin the most of the Sussex country roads.

The English summer.

[Billy The Kid]

Fish & Chips and Cabbage & Ribs.