What would you miss?

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There are a few of us who are exiles for at least some of the time and I was wondering what Sunderland people miss (or don't miss) when they move away - and what those who remain in Sunderland think they would miss most.

Obviously going to games would probably figure for most of us but what else?

I've been splitting my time between Sunderland and Toronto for a while now but it looks like when I go back in a couple of weeks I'm pretty much going to be in Toronto for the forseeable future.

I'm going to miss access to the countryside, savoury sandwiches, a couple (only) of the local pubs and Indian Takeaways. I'll also miss the casual friendliness of Sunderland folks... but I won't miss some of the chavs that seem to have proliferated since I got older

p.s. Mag wums will probably be deleted unless they're funny

 

Or edited, for our amusement

I've spent summers away, and i miss tea. I'm a massive tea fan.

Just had lunch, Cumberland sausage and streaky bacon stottie, i'd miss anything like that, they try it abroad, but they can't quite get it right.

Beer gardens. Now, if you live in the sun it's routine, and you may not appreciate it, but for us english, particularly northerners, the first chink of light and the magners are outdoors, and the whole place comes alive.

English beer gardens are fantastic, and an underrated and undervalued wonder of our sometimes great country!

 

I've been in Milton Keynes for the past 3 years, I do miss family and friends even though when I do travel home its not easy to meet everybody, miss going to watch the lads and miss the friendliness of the locals its just not the same down south. I hope to return one day but the wife would like to return to her homeland Slovakia I think she might just get her own way

 

Baltic lasses, mmmmm.

Nice one mate

 

wall to wall totty mate

 

I know mate, i work with one, top class.

Been to Riga, Tallinn and Ljublana in my days, usully work, but a bit pleasure, they are all naturally stunning.

Might move myself actually now....

 

what and miss beer gardens and heart attack stotties.

 

Think maybe you mean "Balkan"

 

being able to understand what people are actually saying, and then to be able just to cross a road without having to take my life into my own hands



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Yet I still miss the local pub, my Family, mates, and having a dog.

 

I did, you are correct, my bad!

The airlines called Baltic Air and i work in travel, hence my error!

 

What I miss, - going to see the lads, friday nights round the town, the beach, friday nights round the town, family, fishing off the pier, Friday nights round the town...

 

Aye - should have included that... love early mornings with a flask of coffee down at Roker watching the sunrise over the pier when the sea is being whipped into a froth. And paddling in the North Sea on a hot day (Lake Ontario doesn't cut it! )

 

With me it is me friends and family plain and simple. Don't know why but never found a bunch that stuck like those I made at school and we are all in our 30's now.

So all the other things like pubs and match and stuff are really just "cos I don't get to do it with them as much any more". Feeling quite emotional now sniff