Why in the world did my family leave such a beautiful country?
“F”ing cold most of the year and no jobs...
“Why in the world did my family leave such a beautiful country?”
My guess is that it would involve Cromwell, the English Civil War, and probably Ireland. Which is the case with a lot of us with Scots-Irish ancestry.
Because life is hard there.
Just imagine all of those beautiful scenes with a hundred bagpipers wailing away. You'd jump on a ship so you can listen to New York City jackhammers too. :-)
(Just joking with all the bagpipers. You don't need to come to my house to blow into the wrong end of a cat to show me what sounds come out.)
If it was anything like my Scottisb family it was crppling poverty and starvation. Greener pastures in the USA.
The same reason mine did:
the Damned English!