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I was just looking at the Facebook page created for former members of my old secondary school (called high school these days) and saw a comment from a woman looking for old class photos that might have her brother (who, sadly, is now dying of cancer) in them. The family moved to Australia in 1963, yet people who responded still remembered him. I hadn't even started primary school in 1963, but her comment made me wonder if she ever thought how life might have been for her and her family had they never emigrated all that time ago.
It also made me wonder how my life would have turned out if my family had emigrated. To think that she moved to the other side of the world nearly 60 years ago, yet still thinks back to her schooldays and the friends she knew is pretty surprising to my mind. (It wouldn't be in ordinary circumstances perhaps, where someone still lives in the country of their birth and is still in occasional touch with their childhood friends, but it seems surprising when seen in the context of having moved away 58 years earlier and had all that time to adjust to a new environment and make new pals.)
So what I'm wondering is, fellow Crivvies, did your parents ever consider emigrating and then decide against it, and do you ever find yourself regretting their decision? (Or are you glad they didn't?) Or how about even just flitting to another house in a different neighbourhood? Do you wish you'd stayed where you were, or are you pretty philosophical about it and don't really care one way or the other? Also, do you ever wonder about friends who moved away decades ago, who you've never heard from since? Y'know, whether they're still alive or not, and whether they fulfilled all their dreams and aspirations? Feel free to express yourself in our hungry comments section.
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