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Hello fellow Expats.
Well here I am actually posting on this section of the forum. I have been lurking on here for a long time and planning a return to the good old UK.
Briefly I have been in the USA for over 22 years. The only reason I moved over here was to marry my sweet heart how I met when she was visiting England. With in a year I found my self living in the USA and married. I am happy to say we are still very happily married and now we are planning to live in England.
Our plan is as follows.
Firstly for me to become a US Citizen. Done.
Secondly for me to get US Passport. Done.
Thirdly Sell the house. Been on the market for about a month.
Forth: Try to find a job in the UK making enough money to meet sponsoring requirements. My job in the US exceeds the requirement and I am a trained technician and equivalent jobs in UK seam to exceed the requirement from what I have seen on line.
Five: get my wife a spousal visa.
Six. Move to UK.
We haven't put definite dates on anything were just working through one step at a time But would love to be there by Springtime next year. Although If we can sell the house quick enough Christmas will do fine.
Well here I am actually posting on this section of the forum. I have been lurking on here for a long time and planning a return to the good old UK.
Briefly I have been in the USA for over 22 years. The only reason I moved over here was to marry my sweet heart how I met when she was visiting England. With in a year I found my self living in the USA and married. I am happy to say we are still very happily married and now we are planning to live in England.
Our plan is as follows.
Firstly for me to become a US Citizen. Done.
Secondly for me to get US Passport. Done.
Thirdly Sell the house. Been on the market for about a month.
Forth: Try to find a job in the UK making enough money to meet sponsoring requirements. My job in the US exceeds the requirement and I am a trained technician and equivalent jobs in UK seam to exceed the requirement from what I have seen on line.
Five: get my wife a spousal visa.
Six. Move to UK.
We haven't put definite dates on anything were just working through one step at a time But would love to be there by Springtime next year. Although If we can sell the house quick enough Christmas will do fine.
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Hi Magpie, good luck with your plans. Have you decided where you'd like to live over here?
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The strange thing is that we placed our house on the market just before labor day and with in 3 days two other houses went on sale in our street. Although i am hoping that will be to our advantage as they are both asking about 40k more for thers than we are. Although ours is one of the smaller houses on the street.
Only time will tell
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At the moment it depends were I can get a job so I am being very flexable as to where we will end up.
On the other hand I do have preferances. The first would be some where in Worcestershire as that is were my family now reside and my wife gets on realy well with them and she will have some one fairly close by who she knows apart from me. I am originally from the south east but i dont really see us returning there as my home town has changed a lot in 22 years and I dont want to try and compare now to back then and end up being disapointed. So Were ready to start a new adventure some where else. Pluss Teresa May is also the local mp and I am not to happy about her new imigration rules.
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Hi curleytops.
At the moment it depends were I can get a job so I am being very flexable as to where we will end up.
On the other hand I do have preferances. The first would be some where in Worcestershire as that is were my family now reside and my wife gets on realy well with them and she will have some one fairly close by who she knows apart from me. I am originally from the south east but i dont really see us returning there as my home town has changed a lot in 22 years and I dont want to try and compare now to back then and end up being disapointed. So Were ready to start a new adventure some where else. Pluss Teresa May is also the local mp and I am not to happy about her new imigration rules.
At the moment it depends were I can get a job so I am being very flexable as to where we will end up.
On the other hand I do have preferances. The first would be some where in Worcestershire as that is were my family now reside and my wife gets on realy well with them and she will have some one fairly close by who she knows apart from me. I am originally from the south east but i dont really see us returning there as my home town has changed a lot in 22 years and I dont want to try and compare now to back then and end up being disapointed. So Were ready to start a new adventure some where else. Pluss Teresa May is also the local mp and I am not to happy about her new imigration rules.
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Hi curleytops.
At the moment it depends were I can get a job so I am being very flexable as to where we will end up.
On the other hand I do have preferances. The first would be some where in Worcestershire as that is were my family now reside and my wife gets on realy well with them and she will have some one fairly close by who she knows apart from me. I am originally from the south east but i dont really see us returning there as my home town has changed a lot in 22 years and I dont want to try and compare now to back then and end up being disapointed. So Were ready to start a new adventure some where else. Pluss Teresa May is also the local mp and I am not to happy about her new imigration rules.
At the moment it depends were I can get a job so I am being very flexable as to where we will end up.
On the other hand I do have preferances. The first would be some where in Worcestershire as that is were my family now reside and my wife gets on realy well with them and she will have some one fairly close by who she knows apart from me. I am originally from the south east but i dont really see us returning there as my home town has changed a lot in 22 years and I dont want to try and compare now to back then and end up being disapointed. So Were ready to start a new adventure some where else. Pluss Teresa May is also the local mp and I am not to happy about her new imigration rules.
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Mummyinthefoothills, I live in Arizona which was esp. hard hit by housing market. I put my little 2 bd/2ba home up for sale on 9/24 and by Monday 9/27 it had sold! I'm still in shock. Home inspection tomorrow. Don't expect anything major (fingers crossed) and also most shocking of all I'll be walking away with a wee profit.. Interesting..
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Mummyinthefoothills, I live in Arizona which was esp. hard hit by housing market. I put my little 2 bd/2ba home up for sale on 9/24 and by Monday 9/27 it had sold! I'm still in shock. Home inspection tomorrow. Don't expect anything major (fingers crossed) and also most shocking of all I'll be walking away with a wee profit.. Interesting..
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I am not sure how to explain it relay its just one of those feelings. Its not that I don't like the area on fact a lot of the changes have improved parts of the town as far as traffic flow is concerned and a lot of old ratty looking buildings have been replaced. Its just that I have this mental picture of how it was 22 years ago and I don't want to end up regretting the hole move because its not exactly as I remember it.
Also nearly all the people I know from back then have moved on and not just my family. One of its biggest problems is that it is basically become a bedroom community for London as its on the main line into Paddington with the fast train getting you there in about 20 min.
I guess I also want for me and my wife to explore and discover a different town together that will become our town rather than my old Home town.
Hope that makes sense.
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Mummyinthefoothills, I live in Arizona which was esp. hard hit by housing market. I put my little 2 bd/2ba home up for sale on 9/24 and by Monday 9/27 it had sold! I'm still in shock. Home inspection tomorrow. Don't expect anything major (fingers crossed) and also most shocking of all I'll be walking away with a wee profit.. Interesting..
We had 4 viewings in the first couple of weeks but no one since hoping it picks up soon.
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Hi Bud
I am not sure how to explain it relay its just one of those feelings. Its not that I don't like the area on fact a lot of the changes have improved parts of the town as far as traffic flow is concerned and a lot of old ratty looking buildings have been replaced. Its just that I have this mental picture of how it was 22 years ago and I don't want to end up regretting the hole move because its not exactly as I remember it.
Also nearly all the people I know from back then have moved on and not just my family. One of its biggest problems is that it is basically become a bedroom community for London as its on the main line into Paddington with the fast train getting you there in about 20 min.
I guess I also want for me and my wife to explore and discover a different town together that will become our town rather than my old Home town.
Hope that makes sense.
I am not sure how to explain it relay its just one of those feelings. Its not that I don't like the area on fact a lot of the changes have improved parts of the town as far as traffic flow is concerned and a lot of old ratty looking buildings have been replaced. Its just that I have this mental picture of how it was 22 years ago and I don't want to end up regretting the hole move because its not exactly as I remember it.
Also nearly all the people I know from back then have moved on and not just my family. One of its biggest problems is that it is basically become a bedroom community for London as its on the main line into Paddington with the fast train getting you there in about 20 min.
I guess I also want for me and my wife to explore and discover a different town together that will become our town rather than my old Home town.
Hope that makes sense.
Thanks again.
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I am not sure how to explain it relay its just one of those feelings. Its not that I don't like the area on fact a lot of the changes have improved parts of the town as far as traffic flow is concerned and a lot of old ratty looking buildings have been replaced. Its just that I have this mental picture of how it was 22 years ago and I don't want to end up regretting the hole move because its not exactly as I remember it.
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Mummyinthefoothills, I live in Arizona which was esp. hard hit by housing market. I put my little 2 bd/2ba home up for sale on 9/24 and by Monday 9/27 it had sold! I'm still in shock. Home inspection tomorrow. Don't expect anything major (fingers crossed) and also most shocking of all I'll be walking away with a wee profit.. Interesting..
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Mummyinthefoothills, Yes sorry got dates wrong. I put house on market Friday 9/21 and got offer 9/24. had home inspection today so hopefully nothing major... .