We moved back to the UK from NZ 18 months ago mainly becaue of homesickness. It was good to see old friends and relations and visit our old haunts. Now its infinitely depressing. I so wish we had stayed in New Zealand. Britain is going down the pan so fast that all we need is for someone to give a good hard tug on the chain and it'll disappear. Sorry to sound so bleak, but that's how I feel about the place. The way the exchange rate has moved, we'll not be able to recover our lives in New Zealand, but we're going to come back anyway. There's nobody in the UK I can vote for that offers any realistic hope of stopping the decline and not enough people have the skills and attitudes to put the country back on its feet. By contrast, Kiwis have a much more can do attitude that I find infectious. Anyone else who came back to the UK feel the same way, or are you happy with the old place?