what made you

one of my favourite questions i get asked the most often since i've been here in england, is "what made you decide to come to the UK"?

at first i didn't think too much about my answer, (it was time to come over here; i was done with canada/the US; always wanted to live in/visit europe) or their motives behind asking...until the 100 000 time that very same question was posed.

then it got me thinking; if i met someone in canada who had just moved there from the UK, i would probably have asked them the same thing!!

what is it about the area we're from that is always less appealing to us than it is to someone who's never been before?

i always thought that those who live somewhere fabulous like london, would love london!! but i've come to find that there are loads of natives to this gorgeous land, who can no longer see it's appeal. and it would be the same with canada; i can not think of one genuine reason why someone would want to leave somewhere like england to migrate to somewhere in canada (aka the land of the endless winters)...

i suppose the old saying "the grass is always greener" rings true in this situation, doesn't it? when we're standing in the same pasture we've stood in for our whole lives, the thought of going somewhere else outside of the familiar (no matter what the downfalls) will always have it's appeal...