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stallos wrote:I feel like you at the moment and want to get out of the UK.
This country is overrun by Chavs and Fat birds and I'm sick of paying ridiculous amounts of money for rubbish. Whenever I go to these places you mention, it always seems like people enjoy a better standard living for a fraction of the cost.

Thats the truth.
I want out too...ever been to Newcastle ? Don't bother.
I've had enough of Chavs, been living here for seven years and its getting worse.
Time to fly I think.

Unfortunately Prague doesn't start with a "b" though so I can't move there

Or maybe I'm being silly and should stretch to "p" too Yep, Prague is indeed ace. Another one to add to the potential list perhaps.

As for Brooklyn I want to stay a cheap flight away from the uk. Friends, family and my label are based there. Will need to be able to fly back for gigs etc.

Subfunk: I'm curious... why would moving east drive me nuts?

kineticUk wrote:

stallos wrote:I feel like you at the moment and want to get out of the UK.
This country is overrun by Chavs and Fat birds and I'm sick of paying ridiculous amounts of money for rubbish. Whenever I go to these places you mention, it always seems like people enjoy a better standard living for a fraction of the cost.

Thats the truth.
I want out too...ever been to Newcastle ? Don't bother.
I've had enough of Chavs, been living here for seven years and its getting worse.
Time to fly I think.

Hehe. Maybe we should all fly away to pastures new and start an Ableton commune/cult.

Splashmas wrote:Hehe. Maybe we should all fly away to pastures new and start an Ableton commune/cult.

I'm in.

Splashmas wrote:I'm bored of these british isles and fancy an adventure. I'd like to move to one of the following cities for a year or two:

Berlin
Barcelona
Budapest
Belgrade


Which one should I go for?

none.

BRAZIL!

now we're talking.
trust me, ...Go to Rio!

Osaka

nothing personal against berlin, but everybody seems to moove there, so i will go for something else.

barcellona is great, budapest and belgrade are great for a travel, but i guess you need something to do there...

p.s. belgrade airport sucks, they have lost my equipement bag 2 times, so no gig on the next day....

fsk wrote:

take yourself to Prague, that place is awesome. Beer and sambuca for the equivlent of 60p... no going wrong there.

what a great missconception,
i live over here, not in prague, but in bratislava, around the corner, which is the capital of the other half of ex tchechoslowakia (hugh, not shure if i spelled that right), now czech republic and slovak republic.

however, as a tourist great! but living here is a different story, cause you earn shit, nothing, freakin' pennies (i earn good money, and still it sucks! but average people are really on the ground here). plus this place is still heavily infested from old communist, lazy bastards! visiting, fine, living here, i do not recommend that.

Berlin!

(though I live in Belgrade)

SubFunk wrote:fsk wrote:

take yourself to Prague, that place is awesome. Beer and sambuca for the equivlent of 60p... no going wrong there.

what a great missconception,
i live over here, not in prague, but in bratislava, around the corner, which is the capital of the other half of ex tchechoslowakia (hugh, not shure if i spelled that right), now czech republic and slovak republic.

however, as a tourist great! but living here is a different story, cause you earn shit, nothing, freakin' pennies (i earn good money, and still it sucks! but average people are really on the ground here). plus this place is still heavily infested from old communist, lazy bastards! visiting, fine, living here, i do not recommend that.

He, i'm getting the idea that eastern Europe countries are very similar to some south american ones. When I read about the freakin' pennies and lazy bastards, I thought you were talking about Uruguay . But in Uruguay the lazy bastards aren't communists but public employees (i don't know how to explain that in english, but those are the ones that work in public (state owned) business, like water, electricity, telecommunications, whatever). They are widely known for doing as little as possible.

Went to all except Belgrade last year and they are all great cities. Budapest is reasonably priced, has great goulash, but is a little remote. Barcelona is my wife's favorite, the place has a big party vibe about it. The Gaudi architecture alone is a cool bonus. Berlin is nice, as is almost all of Germany. Definitely a different feel to the northern european countries -- more civilized/developed, but I like that.

You should add Vienna and Prague to your list, and break the monopoly of B's!

Techlo wrote:

Vienna

sorry i don't want to be mean nor an asshole, but vienna is 60km from bratislava where i live, so i have been there dozen of times for longer, and i do have friends there and it's not a town it's a village, be carefull to compare your "tourist" experience with living there.

in vienna are lots of austrians, obviously, they are the worst nazis on this planet, i am german and say that!! the point is that it is not even funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

prove me wrong and show me the amount of austrians who live(ed) abroad!
all they know is there country and culture.

sorry, i really don't want to be mean and it might sound like.... blah, blah, blah being predjudice (hugh, i am not shure about my spelling, here) but it's very sadly for real.*




*very, very rare exceptions apply!! the very rarest!

excuse me for being that harsh, but it does make me kinda sad that i am forced after many, many very bad experiences and never a good word from any of my friends / people i know who lived there.

i am triyng really hard not to be prejudice, but austria..... few ha!!

SubFunk wrote:they are the worst nazis on this planet

funny you say that: i remember my friends from vienna talking very openly about hitler, as if its the guy next door. i didnt get shocked - a bit of witty political incorrectness is sometimes entertaining - and thought that these austrians have a pretty twisted sense of humour...
are you telling me they werent joking???

i mean, i can understand that some irretrievable old ppl still admire the nazi regime, but i truly hope that the youth opened up a bit...

i actually felt much more racism in countries like poland...

benshik wrote:

are you telling me they werent joking??? Shocked

to often they don't, more then any others!

to speak open about it / him is fine IMO, i am not a fan of political correctness, but to admire the "good old times and his regime" ??? yupp i don't know how to handle that.

i don't say absolutely all austrians are like that, but shurely the by far highest percentage i ever came across.