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RE: Somewhere between everywhere and nowhere...
I get what you mean about not wanting company, yet wanting it too. I think having kids around constantly can become a bit like you never have a moment alone and it can get tiring. Then when you have company of the more adult kind, it's enjoyable, but even more tiring. My youngest has gymnastics 4 times a week and that's where I get my adult company, which I probably need...
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Yeah, my daughter has football and dance classes three times a week and my youngest plays football one day, but I hardly talk to anyone there. The people here are just different. If you weren't born here, or at least Irish, they really don't bother with ya. So that's not helping. I've made friends with a couple in a larger town close by, but they own a shop and do all kinds of work-shops, so unless I join the work-shops, I don't really see much of them. The bigger towns are OK, but I don't want to have to move again. If I would stay here, I would, but now it's just not an option.
That's disappointing that you are made to feel like an outsider. I guess Australia has had so much immigration, I'm not really in danger of that happening. I'm English and we have other English couples around where we live. At the gym there are other English, Japanese, Slavic, Brazilian, Canadian, new Zealander, Chinese, Indian, South African, Dutch and even the Australians will tell you about their European heritage! It's almost like a melting pot experiment here.
Yes, it is a bit disappointing. We've only moved to this county less than two years ago, and came from a county that was even more backward in a lot of ways. More of a farm county. However, the place where we lived, we had a few great neighbors, and even though people kept to themselves, we could always count on them whenever we needed them. Here, that's a lot less. Now, it's a lot different in the bigger places, because there are a lot more foreigners in larger towns and cities. And we live not very far from a bigger town, but I'm not the kind of person to go out on my own or anything, so that makes it harder to meet people. The funny thing is: I wanted to get away from the city by leaving Holland, and now I'm thinking I should have moved closer to one here.