move...

... we both knew that some time we'll leave good old Chester Le Street again to go forward, to feel the change, to start something new, to undergo the challenge, to learn more, to have a good nights fuck in a different place. Call it what you want - living in the same place is just not yet what we want. It has taken quite long to learn how life goes in the UK and has been great fun to do so. There have been easy parts and difficult times. Sometimes one was lucky, well sometimes not. And from the fact that I already use the past tense, it really doesn't seem so hard to say goodbye. Well is it?

There are lots of things that we'll miss.

• The cheap crappy food from iceland or Saintsburys basics that contains more grease & fat than a 20 year old fryer in a school canteen.
  
• Drunken people at 11am on a Monday morning asking for a tab.
• 12 year old girls that are about to get their 2nd child.
• Actually getting 80% of the gross pay!
• Paying Council Tax for freaking nothing.
• Teenager's dress code that causes nausea.
• Smoke free public areas and pubs.
• Pubs.
• The beautiful weather throughout the whole year that causes approx. 2353 suicide attempts a day.
  
• Absolutely ridiculously overpriced and overtaxed alcoholic drinks and tobacco.
• Being able to talk in a different language that nobody understands (so great for railing fat people) because English just give a fuck about the rest of the world. [no offense my sweet lads & lasses. I love you all]
• Good friends I got to know here!
  
• Health Care System (just pay loads and get nothing)
• Being the strange guy from overseas that can rule just about anything. (oh how self-optionated, dear me)
• Geordies.
• and many more.

But the great thing is that all the above will always stay as it is. So if we miss it too much, we just come back for a week or so and we'll be sick for sure.

Where the new place should be has been discussed for ages. Not because of the fact that we had an idea that we needed to defend against the other's but because of the fact that we didn't have an idea at all. Lots of different places have been taken into consideration:

1. California: great place / nice weather throughout the year / great to start from scratch / drug business / America / you're allowed to have guns / music & art / big cars / good chance to get an ok job - but we'd have to sell all we possess and leave everybody we know behind and travel with a couple of trolleys around the globe to move somewhere we don't really know
   
2. Barcelona: great place / hot hot hot / easy to get & move there as in EU / Mediterranean see - but it's Spain. Not that our Spanish is too bad (well it certainly was better when we've been in Spain for that long) but they don't fucking have carpets in their flats. NO CARPETS - how can they do that.
3. London: shit place (dirty) / too many people / good pay / living in a shoe box and paying a fortune for it - ahh no.
4. Germany: well, we know it already, so it's a bit boring. But there are beautiful places in the south. Just next to the border to Switzerland or Austria. Not that there is much to experience or learn new, but for us it seemed to be the best place to start a family or to get settled from where places like Spain are not too distant. Fucking Christ, once in the UK, always in the UK if you look what the ferries cost. No thanks.
   

So south Germany it'll be. We're now checking the job situation and will send out first CVs to get an idea of how hard it'll be to get a job in this estranged home country. It's for sure, we're really not into the whole Germany stuff anymore. And I can't stand films (or fillems, as we should say) that have been translated into German / or even worse German TV. Also there are so many things more expensive in G-land. More tax on pay. Electronics. Games. Food. So we have to keep the amazon.co.uk account...

I just really hope that we don't get bored in a country we have left for so long (well so long = 3 years). But that's already 1/8 of our life.

Well that's it for now - thanks for reading, if you have any advise, please comment.

Thanks.