Hello everyone here on this great site.
Am a sprightly young 65 year old and have been working my way around this site for a couple of weeks. Found it happily just googling. I am very impressed with mails and the helpful answers.
Today, I have my house in Dorset under offer and shall be returning to Switzerland whenever completion is made. Of course I shall miss the wind and waves here where I live, but miss the orderly life of Switzerland.
Lived in Stafa, Zurichsee for 34 years and returned to England 10 years ago. Even in that short time, England has changed so much, detrimentally!
Even though I am returning to a country I know well and speak the lingo perfectly, I still have a few questions to ask.
Am leaping in the dark, have nowhere to live, even though searching homegate and alle immobilien, so I am in for another adventure.

I think you will find switzerland has also changed in the last 10 years - I have been here 9 years and I know that it is a totally different place than when I first came.
It is still very nice but not quite as orderly.

I have realised that my memories of the Pennines in northern England become more rose tinted the longer I am away. All it takes is a 250 chf trip back there to realise why I left in the first place.

Enjoy your relocation - but do not totally shut the door on Dorset

Thanks for your reply John. I know it has changed, but I go over to CH several times a year, last year 4 months in WG in Riehen Basel.
The area that I want to go back to is really a nice place and I have more friends over in Switzerland than I have ever got here.
If I don't do it now, I shall never manage it.

Welcome to EF,
Are you searching for a home or a job?

Thank you PC Designs for your welcome.
No job, perhaps volunteering somewhere... I am with Citizens Advice Bureau here.
A home, but I am working out how much I can afford for a flat. Forgotten how expensive they are. Before I left CH had a wonderful old flat in Stafa paying Sfr.1200... for 4 rooms. I'm sure they do not exist any more and being Riehen, Basel, a well sort after area..... It is difficult from this end, even with alle immobilien. However we shall see. It looks as though I shall have to take a furnished room, or rather flat and look from there.
Shall be going over to Finance on this site later this ev ening and put a question or two.

Stay in Weymouth. Harrys will miss you.

dave

Well Dave,
What a small world. I never mentioned Weymouth!!!!!
So we must know each other indirectly.... Harrys???
Is it worth a private mail?

I love living here but I came from a different part of the UK. Leaving Dorset? some people would love to live there!
all the best to you as a sprightly 65yo.
i fear i will never be able to return with the property prices being what they are.

cricketer, thanks for your mail. I am on a knife edge. Those over there CH ,want to come back, those here want to go back to CH
We are a special tribe, we just don't know where we belong anymore.
Somewhere in the channel. You state you love living there? Why?
(I have not yet had completion)???????

Your location mentions Weymouth / Zuerich ...

Thanks for all your replies. I read this a few years ago and I find it fitting.
"it's the feeling of being back in a place where you belong but which is no longer yours. The more you rediscover it, the more you see how you have lost it" Switzerland in my case and England. This is a continuation of my previous post about living somewhere in the channel.