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  • Well im just wanting to get some opinions on how you crazy party people would cope living on an Island like me!! I live in the Western Isles of Scotland on the Isle of Lewis and have to get ferry that takes 3 hours 45 minutes on a good day, anyones guess if its even slightly rough outside which unless its summer is very often a lot longer than it should be, when it can actually sail, or plane that takes you to Inverness that takes 40 mins just to get off the place, the town centre is literally full of pubs on every corner and then some, we have a couple of chippy’s and a Chinese and certainly no big name fast food places i.e Macdonalds, burger king thats alien to us, :crazy_dizso we pick between a chippy or chinese, where we can get take a ways but we dont have the luxury of getting the food delivered to you at home as the home’s are so scattered across the place that it would take them too long to get here

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    i currently stay 19 miles from the actual town centre which is far enough for me, we dont have any night clubs and on a Saturday night all the pubs are shut for 12 as we are then in the sabbath day and this whole island is run by the christians and always has been, whether we believe or not we all abide by the church’s unwritten law to keep the sabbath day holy, so there is absolutely fuk all open on a Sunday the council even locks the doors on public toilets so tourists cant use them, and the swings and round a bouts get tied up so there is no children running around playing, recently we managed to get the ferry to sail to the mainland on a Sunday after years of protests by the church not to allow it to happen, but of course times are most than certain changing so now the islanders can travel on a sunday, people may laugh about the way we live here but if it was to change the Isle of Lewis just wouldnt be home anymore, so how do you party people think you would cope living like i do????

    I moved away with my bf and we couldnt handle city life got really home sick and we came home we didnt even last a year for fuk sake, how long do you city folk think you would last here? People wonder why im so nuts honest who wouldnt be and we have a load of nutters here, lot of the young people here are totally into uppers but the problem living here is getting quality not quantity, as i bet eskimo’s can score better than we do half the time, lol :weee: so whats your thoughts on my beautiful little rock i love to call home???? :weee: x

    do you know what part of China (or other nearby nation) the Chinese folk in the restaurant originally came from?

    I’ve always been curious about this as my late father was Malaysian Chinese, and between high school and teacher training college his 6th form was a boarding school in Singapore (500km from where he lived). A lot of his teachers were Scots who had somehow managed to avoid being sent back to the UK when the Empire collapsed (they were generally viewed as a better bunch than the English, were intelligent, and could get hold of whisky, so the Chinese got on well with them). My Dad even left me his collection of vinyl records of Highland bagpipe reels.

    Also there were many Scots teachers where my Mum grew up (a different bit of the country, she is from a Tamil Indian family) and my mum and aunts were also taught various Scottish folk songs.

    Yet when he met my mum and they had to emigrate to the UK (because it was a mixed race relationship from “Western style dating” and they were both supposed to have arranged marriages) he chose to settle in London as he had got some idea in his head that it snowed and rained all year round in Scotland and much of it was near unihabitable, there were floods and wind and all sorts else and people lived on islands (so it was like the Phillipines, and freezing cold) and it seems a lot of people from his generation have that impression of both Scotland and the North of England, so any Asian folk in those areas often tend to be from colder nations.

    The lock the playground on a sunday?! thats fucking ridiculous I cant believe how backward a place in Britain can be 0.o

    I love the idea in living on a secluded island surounded by the beautiful scotish countryside but I also hate the clickyness you get in rural areas and I cant stand authoratarian rules.

    I really enoyed the story about your mum and dad 🙂 to be perfectly honest with you the only thing I know about the Chinese here, is that customs raided the place few weeks ago and took half their staff with them for not no having visa’s and when I’ve been in for my munch I’ve never taken time out and asked where they are from, lol. I tell you something though your dad certainly wasn’t far wrong about the weather here and we are a friendly bunch us Scots especially with whisky running through our veins, sorry I wasn’t much help 🙂 xx

    my Dad used to also do a second job in a restaurant in the 80s and would help the other staff with their English and/or how to deal with immigration papers, though it was more laid back then – there was no Border Force, immigration checks were done by the Police, usually detective ranks.

    Policemen like eating. So the middle aged lady who ran the place would supply them with free food every so often, and provided none of the workers were doing any other sort of crime (like importing drugs, running brothels etc) they got left alone, there was no advantage to the CID to raid the restaurant as the time spent eating (which might have also been on duty time) could be explained away as “multicultural liaison” which they could not do at a normal fast food place.

    Last time I went into a Chinese run fish and chip shop, I was mistaken for a long lost relative or friend, and about 4 lads all excitedly started jabbering away to me in Cantonese (all at once), which I sadly do not understand a word of (I was also highly stoned and this freaked me out a bit). In the end I managed to explain to a girl who worked there they must have mistaken me for someone else.

    I live in the UK (Great Britain). That’s technically an island.

    Every man is an island!


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        I don’t think I could live on a small island like that, I need people around me..
        afraid I would be very lonely living a place like where you live, I love people but I on the other hand also love being able to close my door and just be me.

        Why can’t I like posts any more?

        Why dont you find some middle ground? You can live in a quiet area that is not too far from a town ? These have always been my favourite area, villages that are 10 miles from a town – that way I live in peace and quiet with lots of surounding countryside and when I want to have it large I hop on the bus to town 🙂

        Oh and happy st andrews day <3

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