UKC Moving to USA - What am I likely to miss.
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Re: UKC Moving to USA - What am I likely to miss.
Proper pint.
#32
Re: UKC Moving to USA - What am I likely to miss.
Missing a pint or bread or a chocolate bar and all that. The list is endless.
If you are looking for a list of things you might miss "during the move itself"--i.e. the practical bits of the move, we have a WIKI to help jog your memory and make a list of what you should be planning / doing as you get ready for the big day.
http://britishexpats.com/wiki/List_o...n_about_Moving
If I had to cite one specific point, I would say "keep a UK bank account active"! It can be a devil of a time to open an account while living overseas (I mean, a real pain bordering on impossible for many) so if you can try to keep at least one UK bank account 'active' and functional. Note you will have a US government 'FBAR' reporting requirement (likely) that you will have to file if you have more than $10,000 USD overseas, but it's really not a complicated form and the convenience of having a UK account is very handy for bills that remain or trips back home.
If you are looking for a list of things you might miss "during the move itself"--i.e. the practical bits of the move, we have a WIKI to help jog your memory and make a list of what you should be planning / doing as you get ready for the big day.
http://britishexpats.com/wiki/List_o...n_about_Moving
If I had to cite one specific point, I would say "keep a UK bank account active"! It can be a devil of a time to open an account while living overseas (I mean, a real pain bordering on impossible for many) so if you can try to keep at least one UK bank account 'active' and functional. Note you will have a US government 'FBAR' reporting requirement (likely) that you will have to file if you have more than $10,000 USD overseas, but it's really not a complicated form and the convenience of having a UK account is very handy for bills that remain or trips back home.
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Re: UKC Moving to USA - What am I likely to miss.
Missing a pint or bread or a chocolate bar and all that. The list is endless.
If you are looking for a list of things you might miss "during the move itself"--i.e. the practical bits of the move, we have a WIKI to help jog your memory and make a list of what you should be planning / doing as you get ready for the big day.
http://britishexpats.com/wiki/List_o...n_about_Moving
If I had to cite one specific point, I would say "keep a UK bank account active"! It can be a devil of a time to open an account while living overseas (I mean, a real pain bordering on impossible for many) so if you can try to keep at least one UK bank account 'active' and functional. Note you will have a US government 'FBAR' reporting requirement (likely) that you will have to file if you have more than $10,000 USD overseas, but it's really not a complicated form and the convenience of having a UK account is very handy for bills that remain or trips back home.
If you are looking for a list of things you might miss "during the move itself"--i.e. the practical bits of the move, we have a WIKI to help jog your memory and make a list of what you should be planning / doing as you get ready for the big day.
http://britishexpats.com/wiki/List_o...n_about_Moving
If I had to cite one specific point, I would say "keep a UK bank account active"! It can be a devil of a time to open an account while living overseas (I mean, a real pain bordering on impossible for many) so if you can try to keep at least one UK bank account 'active' and functional. Note you will have a US government 'FBAR' reporting requirement (likely) that you will have to file if you have more than $10,000 USD overseas, but it's really not a complicated form and the convenience of having a UK account is very handy for bills that remain or trips back home.
#34
Re: UKC Moving to USA - What am I likely to miss.
@Hoffage - I miss Lancaster. Probably because my bestest friend is there and she's the only person left in the world who will play Trivial pursuit with me. I certainly don't miss walking to walk uphill in the rain
Of the other things I miss I can either find them on Amazon, come here for advice on an acceptable substitute or work around them
Lx
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Re: UKC Moving to USA - What am I likely to miss.
Good Chocolate (Hersheys tastes like brown candle wax)
Brown Sauce (although you can get HP online, Daddies is harder to find)
Straightforward access to healthcare
So pretty much mostly just food items.
#37
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On the 'TV news' front, I see that Al Jazeera America is now available on my cable lineup - channel 107. They are announcing an in-depth report about fracking in the UK...
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I can find good beer, just not Greene King IPA out of a hand pump..
Call me picky.
Call me picky.
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Re: UKC Moving to USA - What am I likely to miss.
That's one that you won't know until you get here. You might miss loads of stuff or nothing at all and anything in between.
Over the last few years I've been able to find solutions to just about anything I might have thought I missed. The internet can help take care of the TV, food and news. On top of that, I can watch more premiership football on TV here than I could back home as I didn't have SKY.
Fish n chips can be found here, as can a decent curry. Also, you can most certainly get good beer here, with relative ease.
Over the last few years I've been able to find solutions to just about anything I might have thought I missed. The internet can help take care of the TV, food and news. On top of that, I can watch more premiership football on TV here than I could back home as I didn't have SKY.
Fish n chips can be found here, as can a decent curry. Also, you can most certainly get good beer here, with relative ease.
#42
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The UK v US healthcare debate is probably the fodder of many another thread, suffice to say that one big difference here is that your insurance can be pulled for many reasons including pre-existing conditions or reaching your annual/lifetime max payout. Admittedly you would have to be in a serious pickle health-wise for that to happen, but it could
I don't miss too much about the UK other than family and going to the match. There are pubs here, pies here and if you look hard enough, HP sauce!
I don't miss too much about the UK other than family and going to the match. There are pubs here, pies here and if you look hard enough, HP sauce!
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The UK v US healthcare debate is probably the fodder of many another thread, suffice to say that one big difference here is that your insurance can be pulled for many reasons including pre-existing conditions or reaching your annual/lifetime max payout. Admittedly you would have to be in a serious pickle health-wise for that to happen, but it could
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Think in terms of weather.........have you any idea what the weather has been like in much of the UK so far this "winter"?....
...weeks now of one Atlantic storm of wind and rain after another.....grey gloomy skies, heavy downpours practically every single day, flooded streets and roads and homes, trees falling like skittles, train and flight cancellations, power cuts and ruined Christmas dinners, mini Lake Districts all over the countryside, seafront promenades trashed by windblown sand and shingle and flying debris of all kinds including smashed shelters along the promenades at such places as Aberystwyth, Newquay, Weymouth, Blackpool...you name it it's been affected....and crumbling cliff faces and rock formations all along the coastlines.
Surely you would never miss this sort of thing would you?
...weeks now of one Atlantic storm of wind and rain after another.....grey gloomy skies, heavy downpours practically every single day, flooded streets and roads and homes, trees falling like skittles, train and flight cancellations, power cuts and ruined Christmas dinners, mini Lake Districts all over the countryside, seafront promenades trashed by windblown sand and shingle and flying debris of all kinds including smashed shelters along the promenades at such places as Aberystwyth, Newquay, Weymouth, Blackpool...you name it it's been affected....and crumbling cliff faces and rock formations all along the coastlines.
Surely you would never miss this sort of thing would you?