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If you could live in any country...
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18 Mar 2010, 01:47
Acid Fairy
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Where would you pick? Why?

I'd like to live somewhere else in the EU. Not too far from home, but far away enough so that I can see the differences. Somewhere like France or Germany.
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18 Mar 2010, 06:16
foreverglow
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UK without a doubt. - England. ;) Because I consider myself a huge anglophile, and I'm pretty much obsessed with the culture and places there. :)
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18 Mar 2010, 06:21
foreverglow
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I find this really amusing. LMAO.

Tea. Drink it, cherish it, worship it. Make it a habit to drink at least two cups a day if you can. Become familiar with the common British tea brands, which can be bought at international markets or simply online. Get used to drinking it with milk, as this is the way it is traditionally consumed.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2109433_be-an-anglophile.html
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18 Mar 2010, 14:08
Acid Fairy
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I don't like tea! I am a terrible Brit ;D
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18 Mar 2010, 14:15
*amour de bebe*
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I don't like tea either! Eugh. I'm a terrible Brit as well lol.
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18 Mar 2010, 16:02
~RedFraggle~
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Me neither!
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27 Mar 2010, 21:59
*just me*
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Wow is that how we're viewed?
I hate tea. My parents drink gallons of the stuff, but I think it's tasteless and horrible.
How very stereotypical!
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18 Mar 2010, 12:19
lithium layouts.
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I'm pretty happy in Australia (Sydney). I know, how close-minded is that? xD Our winters do get a bit cold for me (I am REALLY intolerant of the cold, so anywhere with a noticeable winter would probably freeze me xD) but I love our hot summers. It hardly ever rains (which is a plus for me and my hair xD). It's spacious; people aren't packed into monster apartment blocks like sardines (except when you get reeeeally close to the city). And we get a mixture of cultures here, which I love. I think if I lived in a relatively culturally-un-diverse country (e.g. Italy) I'd get sick of it real quick.
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18 Mar 2010, 12:20
lithium layouts.
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Although Australia doesn't have many of the beautiful landscapes that New Zealand, for example, has. I think the desert is kinda boring. xD
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18 Mar 2010, 13:35
Giggle
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Hey desert never gets boring! Just think sand dunes and 4 wheel drives XD I always look forward to going down South here in Jordan so we could go to the desert!
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18 Mar 2010, 16:04
~RedFraggle~
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Yeah that's my main reason for prefering NZ. Australia is too spaced out. Plus I think I'd melt in an Australian summer.

As a city I did love Melbourne though. I think it would be a great place to live.
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19 Mar 2010, 00:49
Jessica [Private]
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Cold?!

I SCOFF AT YOUR COLD.
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18 Mar 2010, 19:13
*Forever Changing*
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England. No competition. My family still lives over there, and I am so awe-struck by the history and customs.
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18 Mar 2010, 19:15
Transit
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What customs? Just curious as I'm English so maybe I don't notice them because they have always been there.
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18 Mar 2010, 19:21
*Forever Changing*
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A little bit of everything haha, my Grandmother instilled tea time in me, although I HATE tea, I still take that time to have a little snack and either spend it talking with friends and family, or just reflection. The holidays you celebrate that most Americans dont. There is a very different view of the world that the English have, and I love that. I feel very different from my fellow Americans because that view was instilled in me from the moment I was born. I absolutely do not feel like I am a 'normal' American. haha.
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18 Mar 2010, 19:43
Transit
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You have tea time, its called dinner time/supper.
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18 Mar 2010, 19:45
*Forever Changing*
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Haha, well with my grandmother and the way I was raised, we have Breakfast, Lunch, Tea time (usually right after school if your kids are in school) and around 6 we had dinner. She did a very good job of carrying over what she did 'back home' and what the American system instilled in her children.
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18 Mar 2010, 19:49
Transit
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I've never heard of tea time in that sense, only as the evening meal around 6.
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18 Mar 2010, 19:51
*Forever Changing*
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Like I said, she had to integrate two cultures into one. After she moved here, she used her tea time as a time for her to personally sit and reflect on everything, she still fed my mother her 'evening meal' but since America really recommended after school snacks at that time she decided she would use the afternoon snack period to teach us all about her old life.
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18 Mar 2010, 20:55
~RedFraggle~
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Was your gran Scottish or English? I find most Scottish people say it like that (although tea time can also be in the morning), but my English and Welsh family don't. To them tea is the evening meal.
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18 Mar 2010, 20:58
*Forever Changing*
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She was English. :)
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18 Mar 2010, 21:01
~RedFraggle~
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It could be regional I guess (although both my parents say 'tea' for the evening meal and my dad is from the north of England and my mum is from the south, although my dad could have picked it up from my mum I suppose). Where in England was she from?
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18 Mar 2010, 21:07
*Forever Changing*
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She moved to London when she was 8 I believe, and thats where she moved from when she came to the US, but I do not know where she lived before that, I cannot remember the name of the town. Its possible one of her parents were Scottish? I dont know much about them, she never really shared anything about them, they were very angry with her when she moved to America.
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18 Mar 2010, 20:53
~RedFraggle~
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In Scotland some people say 'tea time' to mean to drink tea. We don't say tea for the evening meal. We say dinner for evening meal and lunch for lunch (where as the English & Welsh say dinner for lunch and tea for evening meal, lol). It gets VERY confusing whenever I go to visit my family in Wales!
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18 Mar 2010, 23:16
Acid Fairy
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I say lunch and then I interchange between dinner and tea for the evening meal. I don't like either word, I find them unattractive sounding ;D
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