Warne's move to England fulltime/ Politics

[acker]

Todays story ex nine msn
Warne ups stumps for English home base
"22:08 AEDT Sun Mar 13 2005


Record-holding Test wicket-taker Shane Warne is leaving Melbourne to set up his home base in enemy territory - England.

On a day he claimed his 1000th first-class scalp, Warne made the shock announcement that he had bought a house at Ocean Village, Southampton and had planned to settle there with his family.

The Australian leg-spinner also revealed he was looking to play out his career captaining English county side Hampshire after retiring from Test cricket."

[Beny]

Good luck to him!

Seems that some of the media over here think that this is 'un-patriotic' or something like that... Who really cares? Heck I'd love to be able to afford to live overseas.

[Rachael]

Originally Posted by Beny

Good luck to him! [...] Heck I'd love to be able to afford to live overseas.

Hmmm. This country is a fantastic place to live.. most Augusts. It's sometimes pretty damn good in September. Odds are that large parts of June and July will be nice too. May CAN be good... as CAN April.. but that's scraping the barrel to get six months of the year - the rest of the time Australia sounds a FAR better place to be :-)

It's not that we don't get daylight for 6 months of the year.. it's just that (as recently: 3 weeks in a row) it sometimes FEELS that way!

[Paoli]

Good on him, as long as he continues to play for Australia, I'm fine..

[Teatime FatCat]

Originally Posted by Beny

Heck I'd love to be able to afford to live overseas.

Yeah, so would I - in Australia!!

[Beny]

the rest of the time Australia sounds a FAR better place to be :-)

I'd live in the Sand dunes of Egypt, the concreate jungle of New York, the willderness of Canada or the frezzing cold of Russia just to experiance life different to mine.

[Zainub]

I'd love to travel around the world and see excotic places too Beny, but live there? I think there's only one place I like to call home - I'm a self confessed Karachi addict

Last year I went over to the States for the summer holidays, and only in a matter of days I was starting to get moderately home sick, I was missing the traffic, the heat, the electricity break downs, the over flowing gutters everything was just to perfect ... too systematic

[Paoli]

Originally Posted by Beny

I'd live in the Sand dunes of Egypt, the concreate jungle of New York, the willderness of Canada or the frezzing cold of Russia just to experiance life different to mine.

Or the backstreets of Cape Town??? Or the slums of Harare??

In all honesty though, I wouldn't mind to live in Africa...really just somewhere else tickles my fancy for a short period of time...Even Karachi or Kolkata for that matter!!!

[Andy Mellon]

Originally Posted by acker

On a day he claimed his 1000th first-class scalp, Warne made the shock announcement that he had bought a house at Ocean Village, Southampton and had planned to settle there with his family.

*****! My offices are in Ocean Village! Just to give you some details of Ocean Village. This is the marina where a lot of the round-the-world yacht races begin and they've just (well, almost) finished a major development of expensive flats along the front with a view of the marina. Very expensive (£250-400k about ASD$600-$1,000)! Well, maybe I'll bump into him when I'm buying my lunch from the Tescos in Ocean Village! Personally, I wouldn't like to live there - you are stuck in the corner of Southampton - about 2 miles walk from the town centre, but with some 'fantastic' views of industrial estates and ship yards.

[Paoli]

Or wandering down to watch lowly Saints play at St. Mary's Stadium..