5 silvers in a 1000 gallon?

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Well you are living my dream my friend. In many years to come hopefully i will be in a similar position! When you want something for so long, it becomes tedious having to wait on set backs! We all know!
 
Where are you in the UK? EDIT:OOPS. Essex... My wife and I have been wanting to come over for quite some time now. We were waiting for our little one to get old enough to go too. I was in Ireland 2 years ago, and we were going to slip over to the UK then, but ran out of time. We stayed for 14 days and drove all over from Dublin to Dingle and just about everything in between.
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Although i am only a student i have done a hell of a lot of travelling with the family. Let me give you my 'travelled list', not to boast but to buy your credit in what i am going to say in a minute:
Australia
US (three times)
Cuba (twice)
Eygpt (twice)
Turkey
Cyprus
Spain
All over England

But i would try an talk anyone out of coming to most of the UK on leisure holidays. Do not get me wrong, i love my country, London born and bred. And the UK is a great place to actually live due to the economy and benefits etc (a different matter). In fact although my location is an Essex postcode, i live in a London borough (London borough of Havering). This means London has grown and engulfed my part of Essex (28 years ago i believe). And around here is as close to London apart from being in London itself.

And to be honest, most of it is a **** hole at the moment. He has a graffiti epidemic at the moment, with little 12 year olds running around in hoodies marking their name on everything. In addition, the bins are always empty because people just discard their rubbish on the floor. The traffic is horrible the nearer and near to London you get. You have to expect to lose your wallet or a belonging at some point if in London. And the list really does go on..

And despite all this, London is the one of just two places i would suggest to go.
If you want to stay in a posh and typically British hotel, and do some site seeing of very old buildings with history, spend a week in London (not more than a week).

However if you want to miss out all the terrors listed above, get as far from the cities as possible. If you want to see some spectacular landscape and enjoy what real but depleting Britain is like, go to Scotland.

I can see this possibly turning into a gentle debate or chat.
 
Joshy;608408; said:
Although i am only a student i have done a hell of a lot of travelling with the family. Let me give you my 'travelled list', not to boast but to buy your credit in what i am going to say in a minute:
Australia
US (three times)
Cuba (twice)
Eygpt (twice)
Turkey
Cyprus
Spain
All over England

But i would try an talk anyone out of coming to most of the UK on leisure holidays. Do not get me wrong, i love my country, London born and bred. And the UK is a great place to actually live due to the economy and benefits etc (a different matter). In fact although my location is an Essex postcode, i live in a London borough (London borough of Havering). This means London has grown and engulfed my part of Essex (28 years ago i believe). And around here is as close to London apart from being in London itself.

And to be honest, most of it is a **** hole at the moment. He has a graffiti epidemic at the moment, with little 12 year olds running around in hoodies marking their name on everything. In addition, the bins are always empty because people just discard their rubbish on the floor. The traffic is horrible the nearer and near to London you get. You have to expect to lose your wallet or a belonging at some point if in London. And the list really does go on..

And despite all this, London is the one of just two places i would suggest to go.
If you want to stay in a posh and typically British hotel, and do some site seeing of very old buildings with history, spend a week in London (not more than a week).

However if you want to miss out all the terrors listed above, get as far from the cities as possible. If you want to see some spectacular landscape and enjoy what real but depleting Britain is like, go to Scotland.

I can see this possibly turning into a gentle debate or chat.
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I understand. Hey, at least you can get asian aro's right? I think you're describing more of the state of our times than a particular place. Half the major cities in the US are exactly what you describe. I moved 30 miles out of pittsburgh because my house was robbed 5 times in 2 years. They broke the door right off it's hinges. We live in some messed up times right now my friend, no matter where you live, unless you move far out of the cities.

I now travel an hour and 20 minutes to work in the morning and another 1:20 in the evening via bus. It's a lot of stress. I think that's why I love fishkeeping. Takes your mind off things.
 
wizzin;610618; said:
I understand. Hey, at least you can get asian aro's right? I think you're describing more of the state of our times than a particular place. Half the major cities in the US are exactly what you describe. I moved 30 miles out of pittsburgh because my house was robbed 5 times in 2 years. They broke the door right off it's hinges. We live in some messed up times right now my friend, no matter where you live, unless you move far out of the cities.

I now travel an hour and 20 minutes to work in the morning and another 1:20 in the evening via bus. It's a lot of stress. I think that's why I love fishkeeping. Takes your mind off things.
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Here here buddy, you speak the words of my mind. It is not just where i live, but it is society these days in more economically developed countries. It is one of the reasons i am so determined to sign up to and train for the police force in the next year and a bit.

I also have the intention of moving away, moving to the true Essex country side or green belt of London. There are no benefits of living in or near a big city these days, except the commute.

Haha it is true, we can get Asian Arowanas, however prices become ridiculously high. Silvers are much more common around here, and even these are few and far between. I guess it is because MonsterFishKeepers themselves are so rare here in Britain at the moment. Most people have their small commercial tanks with their bread-and-butter fish. While the few of us around here feed such bread-and-butter fish to our monsters for snacks!

Be sure to keep us updated on the project, I’ll have keen eyes on this topic!
 
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