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Forum: USA
Aug 13th 2008, 9:36 pm
Replies: 143
Views: 6,628
Posted By jackie dwyer

Re: Can you top this?

Get over yourselves. I don't like over the top patriotism in any country. It's my opinion. Deal with it.
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 13th 2008, 7:00 pm
Replies: 44
Views: 3,173
Posted By jackie dwyer

Re: I dont know what to do now..

This homesickness feeling passes/lessens for some and not for others. After 17 years here, I'm firmly in the "not for others" category. I don't know about anybody else, but I feel like I'm in a...
Forum: USA
Aug 13th 2008, 6:01 pm
Replies: 143
Views: 6,628
Posted By jackie dwyer

Re: Can you top this?

grow up.
Forum: USA
Aug 13th 2008, 5:55 pm
Replies: 143
Views: 6,628
Posted By jackie dwyer

Re: Can you top this?

Why are you being so snotty? I was just asking what experiences other people have had with OTT patriotism. MY OH is American and we laugh/roll our eyes about it all the time. By the way, Boston might...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 13th 2008, 5:50 pm
Replies: 44
Views: 3,173
Posted By jackie dwyer

Re: I dont know what to do now..

Wow. Are we the same person?! I know exactly how you feel, and believe me, I dread hearing, "Welcome to JFK. The temperature right now is...", as much as I love "Welcome to London Heathrow. It's 58...
Forum: USA
Aug 13th 2008, 5:27 pm
Replies: 143
Views: 6,628
Posted By jackie dwyer

Re: Can you top this?

I'm not confused about the real meaning of patriotism. I just don't need to hear a fake sort 24 hours a day.
Forum: USA
Aug 13th 2008, 5:11 pm
Replies: 143
Views: 6,628
Posted By jackie dwyer

Can you top this?

I understand that most Americans are proud of their country, but this every-other-country-is-third-rate-crap attitude, poorly disguised as U.S. patriotism is almost more than I can handle.

Case...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 13th 2008, 4:20 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 925
Posted By jackie dwyer

Re: finding schools on our return

Thanks for all the very welcome advice. I'm looking into everything you recommended.

The home educating forums are enlightening, too, and certainly an option for me (not for my husband, though -...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 12th 2008, 2:15 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 925
Posted By jackie dwyer

Re: finding schools on our return

Thanks for the info. I know that the U.S. school system is apparently a year behind the U.K., although the U.S. "catch up" during high school, and many times surpass the U.K. But for our kids going...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 11th 2008, 11:36 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 925
Posted By jackie dwyer

finding schools on our return

We're in the enviable/unenviable position of deciding whether to move back to the UK permanently or not. My U.S. OH has been offered a job in London and the thought of being a little closer to my...
Forum: USA
Aug 9th 2007, 5:45 pm
Replies: 55
Views: 2,866
Posted By jackie dwyer

Re: Outrageous Cost Of Funerals - $10,000!

I passed a graveyard in Ohio once where the headstones were already completely engrave with RIP, name, etc. Everything except for the date of death. Sickos.
Forum: USA
Aug 9th 2007, 5:37 pm
Replies: 61
Views: 3,128
Posted By jackie dwyer

Re: Can anyone relate?

Thanks so much! I've got be careful, though. I could stay on this site all day! It's wonderful to know there are fab. Brits out there.
Forum: USA
Aug 9th 2007, 5:35 pm
Replies: 55
Views: 2,866
Posted By jackie dwyer

Re: Outrageous Cost Of Funerals - $10,000!

I completely agree. My FIL was dying for several years and had plenty of time to think and plan and pay for his funeral that there was no reason why we should end up paying for it. However, there was...
Forum: USA
Aug 9th 2007, 5:21 pm
Replies: 61
Views: 3,128
Posted By jackie dwyer

Re: Can anyone relate?

Thanks to everyone for their super-quick and very helpful responses. Very comforting to know I'm not alone.
Forum: USA
Aug 9th 2007, 5:18 pm
Replies: 55
Views: 2,866
Posted By jackie dwyer

Re: Outrageous Cost Of Funerals - $10,000!

No, we didn't. But we didn't have the time to shop around. He passed away on Sat. am and the wake had to be on Sunday and Monda, with a funeral on Tuesday (they do it the opposite way around to the...
Forum: USA
Aug 9th 2007, 3:47 pm
Replies: 61
Views: 3,128
Posted By jackie dwyer

Re: Can anyone relate?

thanks for your quick response.

Financially they're doing ok. It's their health that's failing and I think they'd like me to move back to look after them, run them around to doctors' visits, etc....
Forum: USA
Aug 9th 2007, 3:43 pm
Replies: 55
Views: 2,866
Posted By jackie dwyer

Re: Outrageous Cost Of Funerals - $10,000!

MY FIL passed away last year. My husband is one of six kids, but suddenly none of his siblings had any money to help pay for the funeral. Not wanting to upset his mother any more than she already...
Forum: USA
Aug 9th 2007, 3:26 pm
Replies: 61
Views: 3,128
Posted By jackie dwyer

Can anyone relate?

I'm a newbie to the BE Forum.

I've lived in the states for 12 years, but stilll have an awful emotional pull to the UK. I'm stuck in the "sandwich" generation of having aging parents in the UK,...
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