Using you all as sounding board if you don't mind?
Mar 22nd 2014, 2:50 pm
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Re: Using you all as sounding board if you don't mind?
Does anyone know what they want in 40 years? All I can do is try to paint the best picture, warts and all, of what challenges she will face:
S0 we'll keep talking about it over the next couple of years, and we'll have a couple of trips back again and take it form there.
- Driving or not and that loss of independence if she does not drive which may be safer for the islands enhabitants.
- Weather, though we are both done with Chicago weather so don't think this will be an issue.
- Being a foreigner, which can suck.
- Negative perception and stereotypes of Americans being voiced to her.
- Work enviroment and drop considerable drop in pay if she has to work.
S0 we'll keep talking about it over the next couple of years, and we'll have a couple of trips back again and take it form there.
Negative perception of Americans is sometimes brought up on here, I don't think that's a big issue, far more British people are very positive about the US. I am always told how fantastic my life must be when I go back to visit
Mar 22nd 2014, 3:14 pm
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Re: Using you all as sounding board if you don't mind?
[QUOTE=Sally Redux;11185605] Is work environment really going to be worse?
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I don't know to be honest? But it will be different I would think and that could be another stress.
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I don't know to be honest? But it will be different I would think and that could be another stress.
Mar 22nd 2014, 3:15 pm
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Re: Using you all as sounding board if you don't mind?
With the subset..the Florida Fancier cause they've actually been there and it was fantastic! And that's a fact!
Mar 23rd 2014, 2:18 pm
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Re: Using you all as sounding board if you don't mind?
Live there. Not fantastic. Endless sunshine and heat is overrated. I would be happy with overcast skies for the rest of my days 
Mar 23rd 2014, 4:20 pm
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Re: Using you all as sounding board if you don't mind?
If you are established in Chicago, I would say consider selling up the house in Chicago, buying a relatively cheap condo with an unshared single car garage in a gated community in Florida and moving your "stuff" there. Items of somewhat sentimental value especially. The kind of place less wealthy snowbirds buy. No big heating or cooling expense or security worries when you are not there.
And it is there as a pied-a-terre in the event your UK plans don't work out as well as expected. Or if you need a month back in the States to remind yourself why you need to be in Europe
Somewhere within an hour's drive of the Orlando airports might be optimal. For cheap flights.
And it is there as a pied-a-terre in the event your UK plans don't work out as well as expected. Or if you need a month back in the States to remind yourself why you need to be in Europe
Somewhere within an hour's drive of the Orlando airports might be optimal. For cheap flights.
