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Forum: USA
May 9th 2006, 7:57 pm
Replies: 111
Views: 5,925
Posted By Sooty

Re: Tell me good things about you location !!!

I've been to a lot of places in the states, and the people here are down to earth and better listeners than anywhere else I've been. Mind you, there's nothing else good about it, but I think people...
Forum: USA
May 8th 2006, 9:15 pm
Replies: 31
Views: 2,217
Posted By Sooty

Re: Is being called an Immigrant now offensive?

If anything, a legal immigrant enjoys a higher social status than he or she did before the current debate about immigration reform. Americans in favour of tighter controls are acutely aware of the...
Forum: USA
May 6th 2006, 8:28 pm
Replies: 96
Views: 4,812
Posted By Sooty

Re: 1st US Job blues

You shouldn't be pestered at home like that. It's only customary to ring an employee at home to: 1) ask him/her to work overtime. 2) get some information from the employee that the company has to...
Forum: USA
May 4th 2006, 12:45 am
Replies: 136
Views: 9,072
Posted By Sooty

Re: Spelling of words across the pond, National Anthem, Adjusting

Well there we are then...
Forum: USA
May 4th 2006, 12:34 am
Replies: 136
Views: 9,072
Posted By Sooty

Re: Spelling of words across the pond, National Anthem, Adjusting

Sorry, consider it a unisexual term of endearment!
Forum: USA
May 4th 2006, 12:28 am
Replies: 136
Views: 9,072
Posted By Sooty

Re: Spelling of words across the pond, National Anthem, Adjusting

[QUOTE=Elvira]Hiya!

Your comments are very interesting, but I think most people here have moved on the underwear and soap now. And trousers (pants to you ;)).

That's strides to me mate.
Forum: USA
May 4th 2006, 12:16 am
Replies: 136
Views: 9,072
Posted By Sooty

Re: Spelling of words across the pond, National Anthem, Adjusting

I've gone back and forth from East Texas to East London since I was young and I've come to speak both dialects, which is handy because I don't have to suffer the endless inquiries about where I'm...
Forum: USA
Apr 15th 2006, 9:44 pm
Replies: 76
Views: 4,542
Posted By Sooty

Re: Anti-Americanism In The UK

[QUOTE=Jenney & Mark]Here are my fave comments from the article's readers:

I honestly think its all about the tone and volume. Americans are always WAH WAH WAH on the train, in the restaurants....
Forum: USA
Mar 30th 2006, 5:57 pm
Replies: 74
Views: 2,126
Posted By Sooty

Re: Hurricane Season

I've been through several hurricanes. A rule of thumb I use is this: If you are 30 miles from the nearest salt-water and 30 feet or more above sea level, don't evacuate--you'll just get in the way of...
Forum: USA
Mar 30th 2006, 1:20 am
Replies: 826
Views: 40,996
Posted By Sooty

Re: Are there any Expats happy in the US?

The bread here doesn't bear thinking about. You open a supermarket loaf and it floats to the ceiling. I have a recurring nightmare that I only have one day in the UK, and I arrive after the bakery's...
Forum: USA
Mar 30th 2006, 1:14 am
Replies: 129
Usa
Views: 6,090
Posted By Sooty

Re: Usa

I'll just cross that one off the list shall I
Forum: USA
Mar 30th 2006, 1:08 am
Replies: 129
Usa
Views: 6,090
Posted By Sooty

Re: Usa

Where are you Jerseygirl?
Forum: USA
Mar 29th 2006, 9:54 pm
Replies: 129
Usa
Views: 6,090
Posted By Sooty

Re: Usa

I agree Houston is a sh*%hole, but I like the people here. They're genuine and you can actually talk to them. Everywhere else I've lived the people have been either extremely self-centred automatons...
Forum: USA
Mar 28th 2006, 10:07 pm
Replies: 46
Views: 2,141
Posted By Sooty

Re: Guest worker immigration!

What it should really say is 'jobs Americans aren't willing to do for peanuts'. It's all about wages rather than the nature of the work. I would imagine that the program would offer opportunity for...
Forum: USA
Mar 28th 2006, 2:45 pm
Replies: 27
Views: 1,193
Posted By Sooty

Re: Calling Houston

River Oaks is all multi-millionaires. Bellaire and Rice University are very nice areas. Rice U. is a on the pricey side and Bellaire's not far behind. There are several neighbourhoods inside or near...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Mar 28th 2006, 1:36 am
Replies: 9
Views: 991
Posted By Sooty

Re: Australian moving to England

You'll probably settle in quickly if you get your own place. Given what you've said, if I were you I'd go to far-west London. That way you'll have excellent public transport, be near your relatives,...
Forum: USA
Mar 28th 2006, 1:14 am
Replies: 27
Views: 1,193
Posted By Sooty

Re: Calling Houston

The trend here in Houston is to move as close to one's job as possible because the traffic's so bad. If your husband is working downtown, the closer to downtown you can get the better. Generally,...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Mar 25th 2006, 10:41 pm
Replies: 31
Views: 2,529
Posted By Sooty

Re: moving back to where you originally lived or not?

I'll second that. It's all fine and good to swan off to another country to satisfy your own emotional or financial needs. But you should be aware that in some circumstances you'll be cutting off your...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Mar 23rd 2006, 10:25 pm
Replies: 31
Views: 2,529
Posted By Sooty

Re: moving back to where you originally lived or not?

I agree with Lady of the Lake. I go back and forth a lot, and it's not just boredom you'll have to deal with. If it's been more than a year or so, the changes can be depressing. For instance, my...
Forum: USA
Mar 23rd 2006, 10:03 pm
Replies: 51
Views: 2,060
Posted By Sooty

Re: Another employment related question

Perhaps that's why I'm unemployed. But honestly, In forty-odd years, I've never heard of that.
Forum: USA
Mar 23rd 2006, 9:51 pm
Replies: 51
Views: 2,060
Posted By Sooty

Re: Another employment related question

Well I've lived here practically all my life and I've never heard of such a thing as sending a thank-you card to a job interviewer. The e-mail sounds like a nice touch, although it's not really an...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Mar 23rd 2006, 1:35 am
Replies: 18
Views: 1,130
Posted By Sooty

Re: WIll I Survive?

I'm in my fifties and I haven't really had a problem house-sharing in London. In some of the places I've lived, people have tended to keep to themselves; in others there was more socialising and age...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Mar 23rd 2006, 1:26 am
Replies: 3
Views: 1,095
Posted By Sooty

Re: British mother/born before 1961/not a citizen of a commonweath country?

Thanks JAJ. I didn't realise when I posted that I'd left out all those variables. Another poster a year or so ago mentioned the possibility of applying for a passport, getting refused for being born...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Mar 22nd 2006, 10:48 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 1,095
Posted By Sooty

British mother/born before 1961/not a citizen of a commonweath country?

Anyone meet these criteria? I do, and I'm looking for others who do.
The problem we've got is that we're not allowed to live in the UK. If we'd been born after 1961 we could. Also, if we were...
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