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I hate the lack of diversity where I am, your missus will hate that too... I've always hated 'white people', I hate them even more after being here for five years...
Just realised I missed the fifth anniversary of us leaving the UK last week... Don't regret the move but it's been a massive culture shock...
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This currently the main blocker to us moving back to NI. Granted, ms_com is not BME, but she grew up very much not middle class in the centre of Angel Town/Myatts Fields in Brixton. So the lack of diversity/integration in NI is very concerning for her. I am trying to put forward the argument that NI is not the same place we left 14 years ago and it is improving (you can get Ramen now in Belfast, RAMEN!). That and the fact that the Grenfell Tower effigy burning party that made the news was less than a mile from our current front door; NI was 56% Remain and they just had their first same sex marriage. I am also seeing more and more NF lookalike stickers on lamp posts round here. Although that could be some football thing I'm not aware of.
To me, being mortgage free before I'm 40 in a 4-5 bed house, with double garage+shed, 5 min from my ageing parents, walking/dander distance beach and countryside would be a massive win.