‘Mistake’: Brit reveals why he regrets leaving Aus

He moved home to one of Britain’s most beautiful seaside towns – and knew within days he’d made a mistake. After two years in Sydney, British expat Fraser, 25, returned to St Ives in Cornwall longing for family, familiarity and the comforts he thought he’d been missing. Instead, he was hit with a brutal realisation: the life he’d built in Australia had changed him, and home no longer felt the same. MORE NEWS ‘Disgraceful’: Families told to surrender backyards Cruise ship retirement dream hits Centrelink pension reality Woman loses claim to home promised by dying parents British expat Fraser, who left Sydney to return to his idyllic seaside hometown, says he knew within a week that the UK no longer felt like home. “I realised the UK wasn’t my home anymore after the first week,” he told the Daily Mail. Fraser had gone back for all the reasons that drag many expats home. He’d missed birthdays and Christmases, wanted to be closer to his parents and younger brother, and was rattled by the thought of watching them age from the other side of the world. But the dream return quickly unravelled. The postcard-pretty streets and beaches of St Ives weren’t enough to offset what he felt he’d los...