Moving back NOW!
Mar 23rd 2026 | 12:47 pm
#1
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From: Brighton and Hove. Returned to the UK in 2026.
Moving back NOW!
By NOW I mean at this very moment in time.
I am sitting at the departure gate at DFW airport with my son waiting for the time we can board the plane to go back to the UK.
The question was asked if I felt my time here was a failure at all. My answer is no. I don't consider that at all. In fact, financially I am much better off now than I could have dreamed I'd be if my career back in the UK had gone the very best way I had imagined. My son has grown and matured far more than I thought might have been possible at one stage. The depth and quantity of experiences I have had here is also tremendous, when compared to what I thought it might have been had I not traveled here. The variety of people I have met here is terrific.
I have a small number of people back in the UK still, both friends and relatives, so there are opportunities there as well.
Yes, I know the old place has changed, but so has the USA and I'll say no more about that aspect of things.
I'll post in the other forum about my experiences after a week or three, but I do want to give a "tip of my hat" to BritishExpats.com as a whole, as this forum has helped me do the move here to the USA and now that the time has come, back to the UK.
Here's to a new life "back home".
I am sitting at the departure gate at DFW airport with my son waiting for the time we can board the plane to go back to the UK.
The question was asked if I felt my time here was a failure at all. My answer is no. I don't consider that at all. In fact, financially I am much better off now than I could have dreamed I'd be if my career back in the UK had gone the very best way I had imagined. My son has grown and matured far more than I thought might have been possible at one stage. The depth and quantity of experiences I have had here is also tremendous, when compared to what I thought it might have been had I not traveled here. The variety of people I have met here is terrific.
I have a small number of people back in the UK still, both friends and relatives, so there are opportunities there as well.
Yes, I know the old place has changed, but so has the USA and I'll say no more about that aspect of things.
I'll post in the other forum about my experiences after a week or three, but I do want to give a "tip of my hat" to BritishExpats.com as a whole, as this forum has helped me do the move here to the USA and now that the time has come, back to the UK.
Here's to a new life "back home".
Mar 23rd 2026 | 2:14 pm
#2
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Re: Moving back NOW!
By NOW I mean at this very moment in time.
I am sitting at the departure gate at DFW airport with my son waiting for the time we can board the plane to go back to the UK.
The question was asked if I felt my time here was a failure at all. My answer is no. I don't consider that at all. In fact, financially I am much better off now than I could have dreamed I'd be if my career back in the UK had gone the very best way I had imagined. My son has grown and matured far more than I thought might have been possible at one stage. The depth and quantity of experiences I have had here is also tremendous, when compared to what I thought it might have been had I not traveled here. The variety of people I have met here is terrific.
I have a small number of people back in the UK still, both friends and relatives, so there are opportunities there as well.
Yes, I know the old place has changed, but so has the USA and I'll say no more about that aspect of things.
I'll post in the other forum about my experiences after a week or three, but I do want to give a "tip of my hat" to BritishExpats.com as a whole, as this forum has helped me do the move here to the USA and now that the time has come, back to the UK.
Here's to a new life "back home".
I am sitting at the departure gate at DFW airport with my son waiting for the time we can board the plane to go back to the UK.
The question was asked if I felt my time here was a failure at all. My answer is no. I don't consider that at all. In fact, financially I am much better off now than I could have dreamed I'd be if my career back in the UK had gone the very best way I had imagined. My son has grown and matured far more than I thought might have been possible at one stage. The depth and quantity of experiences I have had here is also tremendous, when compared to what I thought it might have been had I not traveled here. The variety of people I have met here is terrific.
I have a small number of people back in the UK still, both friends and relatives, so there are opportunities there as well.
Yes, I know the old place has changed, but so has the USA and I'll say no more about that aspect of things.
I'll post in the other forum about my experiences after a week or three, but I do want to give a "tip of my hat" to BritishExpats.com as a whole, as this forum has helped me do the move here to the USA and now that the time has come, back to the UK.
Here's to a new life "back home".
Hope the return is everything you want it to be. I've now been back from Australia for 3 years & 2 weeks, and am more relaxed than I was in 20 years over there
Mar 23rd 2026 | 11:24 pm
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Joined: May 2007
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From: England
Re: Moving back NOW!
By NOW I mean at this very moment in time.
I am sitting at the departure gate at DFW airport with my son waiting for the time we can board the plane to go back to the UK.
The question was asked if I felt my time here was a failure at all. My answer is no. I don't consider that at all. In fact, financially I am much better off now than I could have dreamed I'd be if my career back in the UK had gone the very best way I had imagined. My son has grown and matured far more than I thought might have been possible at one stage. The depth and quantity of experiences I have had here is also tremendous, when compared to what I thought it might have been had I not traveled here. The variety of people I have met here is terrific.
I have a small number of people back in the UK still, both friends and relatives, so there are opportunities there as well.
Yes, I know the old place has changed, but so has the USA and I'll say no more about that aspect of things.
I'll post in the other forum about my experiences after a week or three, but I do want to give a "tip of my hat" to BritishExpats.com as a whole, as this forum has helped me do the move here to the USA and now that the time has come, back to the UK.
Here's to a new life "back home".
I am sitting at the departure gate at DFW airport with my son waiting for the time we can board the plane to go back to the UK.
The question was asked if I felt my time here was a failure at all. My answer is no. I don't consider that at all. In fact, financially I am much better off now than I could have dreamed I'd be if my career back in the UK had gone the very best way I had imagined. My son has grown and matured far more than I thought might have been possible at one stage. The depth and quantity of experiences I have had here is also tremendous, when compared to what I thought it might have been had I not traveled here. The variety of people I have met here is terrific.
I have a small number of people back in the UK still, both friends and relatives, so there are opportunities there as well.
Yes, I know the old place has changed, but so has the USA and I'll say no more about that aspect of things.
I'll post in the other forum about my experiences after a week or three, but I do want to give a "tip of my hat" to BritishExpats.com as a whole, as this forum has helped me do the move here to the USA and now that the time has come, back to the UK.
Here's to a new life "back home".
Mar 24th 2026 | 5:39 am
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Re: Moving back NOW!
Welcome back, I hope all goes well. We had a very similar experience during our 29 years in the USA with 2 children and we are now in our 10th year living back in England and are loving it. (Both children have also independently moved back, 2017 and 2022, and are also enjoying living here).
do let us know how you get on.
do let us know how you get on.
Mar 25th 2026 | 6:59 pm
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From: Brighton and Hove. Returned to the UK in 2026.
Re: Moving back NOW!
Thank you all so far for your best wishes.
We (my son and I) are back in the UK. The flight while a regular transatlantic experience was actually uneventful. We had a vocal and grumpy TSA check at DFW airport but that's actually normal for the TSA. Took no more than five minutes to get through the security checks with two people in front of us.
Arriving at Heathrow and going through the UK border was also uneventful. Put my British passport on the reader had my photo taken and the "Gates to Albion" opened for me.
Customs appeared to be totally empty. There were no officers visible. Must have been tea break?
So back 'home' and in an AirB&B for a few weeks, already seen one flat and have a second to view today.
I was up today at 4:30am, but something woke me up and said; "Its time to toast two out of the pack of six crumpets you bought from Asda yesterday."
Then another little voice said; "You could do with a Coronation Chicken Sandwich."
What the heck?
Nah. No little voices in my head. Its just that everything here actually seems to taste better than back in the USA. No overload of pepper to add taste to bland factory made food coatings. I don't know if its also down to the relative lack of preservatives or colourings in foods, but its a reality. I'd never have thought it, but yes, the taste is really different. So let me give you a specific example... Went to a pub last night and had a pint of Harvey's Old Ale (Organically brewed in Lewes, Sussex). It was like a world of taste unavailable to me in the USA suddenly opened up.
Of course, everyone loves to talk about the weather... All I can say is one needs to wear layers in the winter time.
Ok. that's it for now. Will post again when we have found a flat to live in.
We (my son and I) are back in the UK. The flight while a regular transatlantic experience was actually uneventful. We had a vocal and grumpy TSA check at DFW airport but that's actually normal for the TSA. Took no more than five minutes to get through the security checks with two people in front of us.
Arriving at Heathrow and going through the UK border was also uneventful. Put my British passport on the reader had my photo taken and the "Gates to Albion" opened for me.
Customs appeared to be totally empty. There were no officers visible. Must have been tea break?
So back 'home' and in an AirB&B for a few weeks, already seen one flat and have a second to view today.
I was up today at 4:30am, but something woke me up and said; "Its time to toast two out of the pack of six crumpets you bought from Asda yesterday."
Then another little voice said; "You could do with a Coronation Chicken Sandwich."
What the heck?
Nah. No little voices in my head. Its just that everything here actually seems to taste better than back in the USA. No overload of pepper to add taste to bland factory made food coatings. I don't know if its also down to the relative lack of preservatives or colourings in foods, but its a reality. I'd never have thought it, but yes, the taste is really different. So let me give you a specific example... Went to a pub last night and had a pint of Harvey's Old Ale (Organically brewed in Lewes, Sussex). It was like a world of taste unavailable to me in the USA suddenly opened up.
Of course, everyone loves to talk about the weather... All I can say is one needs to wear layers in the winter time.
Ok. that's it for now. Will post again when we have found a flat to live in.
