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Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Sep 8th 2013, 3:37 pm
Replies: 23
Views: 4,487
Posted By brithampton

Re: 7 years in New York --> Back to the UK

We've just done this after 16 years living in NYC and nearby - moved back with a 8 year old (who has just started Year 4 in UK) and a 4 year old (who has just started Reception, having done 2 years...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 15th 2013, 7:20 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 1,912
Posted By brithampton

Re: Which UK banks do you recommend?

Thanks for all the helpful replies! Looks like HSBC is worth a shot, then possibly Barclays (as we have a relationship with B of A). Thanks again!
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 14th 2013, 5:04 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 1,912
Posted By brithampton

Which UK banks do you recommend?

We are hoping to move back to UK this summer. We are long-time customers of Natwest (over 30 years, since before we were students). They are being very "computer says no" about the most minor thing...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 14th 2013, 11:59 am
Replies: 3
Views: 630
Posted By brithampton

Re: Bath & Christchurch

My pleasure! Good luck. I'll re-post when we move back in the summer and let you know how it really is! Hopefully signing a lease for a rental house in next few days - we've not actually seen the...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 13th 2013, 1:45 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 630
Posted By brithampton

Re: Bath & Christchurch

Hi there - both are lovely places. I've been to Christchurch tons of times, but don't know much about living there - think it's quite a retirement place year-round and then obviously touristy in the...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jan 30th 2013, 3:06 am
Replies: 25
Views: 20,735
Posted By brithampton

Re: Homesick after almost 5 years

Completely know how you feel. It's not a nice feeling at all. I've been in USA for 16 years now and for the past 6 years, I've felt increasingly homesick and it's just got worse! I think about it...
Forum: USA
Jan 3rd 2013, 2:11 am
Replies: 30
Views: 11,195
Posted By brithampton

Re: Planning Permission and Building Regs - vocabulary help, please!

Hi there, I'm a real estate agent (British and somehow selling houses in the U.S!...don't ask, although I have gained a lot of knowledge about building codes). Basically, as you've heard, building...
Forum: USA
Sep 10th 2012, 9:01 pm
Replies: 38
Views: 11,286
Posted By brithampton

Re: Homesickness

Okuda - I am in exactly the same spot. Many of my expat Brit friends who have since gone home say that one day, you just wake up and know that you want to go home. I had that moment about 6 years...
Forum: The Rovers Return
May 4th 2012, 4:34 am
Replies: 12,809
Views: 1,390,566
Posted By brithampton

Re: OVER 50's+ MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II

Hi Sally - I know what you mean about America being like a dream. Whenever I get on the plane at Heathrow to come back to JFK, I feel as if I'm on a rocket blasting off to another planet! I'm very...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Apr 29th 2012, 10:49 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 24,417
Posted By brithampton

Re: Swindon & surrounding villages?

I'm originally from Swindon too and left at 18 to go to uni. Still have family there, including my sister who raised her (now teenage) kids there. I wouldn't want to go back there to live, but it...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Apr 13th 2012, 1:55 am
Replies: 12,809
Views: 1,390,566
Posted By brithampton

Re: OVER 50's+ MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II

Best of British, Sally! To you and your husband and your cats. Lucky you. I admit you are a bit of an inspiration - I'm hoping my outcome will be somewhat similar to yours in the next year or so. ...
Forum: USA
Mar 12th 2012, 3:19 am
Replies: 228
Views: 20,560
Posted By brithampton

Re: Only 10 Days Vacation per year

Ditto. The homesickness is almost crippling - am v. impressed that Sallysimmons is almost back there...hope that my story will be similar to that in a couple of years time.
Forum: The Rovers Return
Feb 21st 2012, 3:22 am
Replies: 12,809
Views: 1,390,566
Posted By brithampton

Re: OVER 50's+ MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II

Congratulations Sally, I am pleased and excited for you! When are you going to write your "moving back home" book for all us ex-pats?!
Re. the closing and getting the $ - it's all very old...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Jan 30th 2012, 1:48 am
Replies: 12,809
Views: 1,390,566
Posted By brithampton

Re: OVER 50's+ MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II

That's fantastic, seems to be going perfectly so far, so glad that it's not dragging out for you. What a great time of year to be moving back, lucky you!
Forum: The Rovers Return
Jan 25th 2012, 11:37 pm
Replies: 12,809
Views: 1,390,566
Posted By brithampton

Re: OVER 50's+ MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II

I am sorry for the loss of your friend. But it may not be possible to know all the circumstances. My dad has seen my mum suffering with alzheimer's and other friends and relatives decline in old...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Jan 12th 2012, 1:42 am
Replies: 12,809
Views: 1,390,566
Posted By brithampton

Re: OVER 50's+ MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II

Congrats Sally, good for you! That's fantastic and hopefully it will all go smoothly. Similar thing happened to my friends a couple of years ago - they sold much faster than they anticipated and...
Forum: The Rovers Return
Jan 4th 2012, 3:29 pm
Replies: 12,809
Views: 1,390,566
Posted By brithampton

Re: OVER 50's+ MOVING BACK TO THE UK - Part II

Hi Sally - congratulations on the impending listing of your house! I'm not sure where you are, but I've recently become a real estate agent (out in the Hamptons) and certainly things seem to be...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Dec 7th 2011, 4:30 am
Replies: 66
Views: 9,370
Posted By brithampton

Re: Making A Final Decision

I'm with you on that....so unfunny! So flippin' glad we've got VPN and bbc/itv/channel 4 at our fingertips. I see you are heading back sooner rather than later - I am, as they say, "well jell".
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 9th 2011, 6:41 pm
Replies: 21
Views: 3,087
Posted By brithampton

Re: What makes for a successful move back to the UK?

I think money - unfortunately - has to be one of the main issues, because it just gives you choices. Don't need to have a lot, but just enough to let you realistically choose where you would like to...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Oct 25th 2011, 1:05 am
Replies: 54
Views: 5,729
Posted By brithampton

Re: Will global economic problems delay your return to UK?

Thanks for all your replies and glad to hear that you are not to be deterred from returning home! This year has heaped a big pile of problems on us, but hopefully we can turn things around next year...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Oct 18th 2011, 8:21 pm
Replies: 54
Views: 5,729
Posted By brithampton

Will global economic problems delay your return to UK?

I've been reading the forums for a while now and finally joined the fray. This is the first forum I've ever joined! Like many of you, I am dreadfully homesick for the UK and it just seems to...
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