A local communit radio station in Weybridge interviewed me about moving to Asia, the Philippines and Cambodia. Couldn't find an existing thread to drop it in so here it is: M interview is towards the bottom, with Mandy Morrow. Feel free to comment. http://www.radiowey.co.uk/#/listen-again/4558869612
Just listened to it. Interesting point about leaving the UK and then upon returning, finding that it seemed a little "alien". This syndrome undoubtedly must seem all the more marked to a Filipina leaving her country for the first time and settling in the UK. On another point you made about exporting layed backness from Cambodia to the UK, many people here on the Isle of Man remark on how layed back it is here compared to the UK "mainland". As you suggest, not all of the UK is the same in that way.