British Expats - Search Results

Search: Posts Made By: NorthYorkshirelass

Showing results 1 to 14 of 14
Search took 0.02 seconds.

Forum: USA

Apr 16th 2015, 1:39 am

Replies: 21

Money gifts into US accounts and the tax man

Views: 2,042

Posted By NorthYorkshirelass

Money gifts into US accounts and the tax man

Advice needed on receiving money as a gift into a US checking account.
We have $40,000 being gifted to us from family in Italy, by wire transfer, into our joint account in the US at a credit union....

Forum: USA

Apr 13th 2015, 7:10 am

Replies: 13

Can I pay a UK credit card without a UK bank account?

Views: 1,586

Posted By NorthYorkshirelass

Re: Can I pay a UK credit card without a UK bank account?

Thanks, I will look into the bank draft option, wonder if it will cost me more than the 40 dollars I currently pay for wire transfer from my credit union!
I wonder if there is a US credit card that...

Forum: USA

Apr 13th 2015, 6:58 am

Replies: 13

Can I pay a UK credit card without a UK bank account?

Views: 1,586

Posted By NorthYorkshirelass

Can I pay a UK credit card without a UK bank account?

I have a Natwest credit card in the UK that I make monthly payments to by wire transfer from my US credit union (the only bank account I have so far) to an old Student current account at Natwest. I...

Forum: Moving back or to the UK

Jul 26th 2008, 2:23 pm

Replies: 25

ugh...homesick

Views: 2,287

Posted By NorthYorkshirelass

Re: ugh...homesick

We were in Molesey..where were you, how long ago did you live there?

Forum: Moving back or to the UK

Jul 25th 2008, 5:58 am

Replies: 25

ugh...homesick

Views: 2,287

Posted By NorthYorkshirelass

Re: ugh...homesick

Yep, think that was it. It was ALL people were talking about...maybe should get in to football to feel like I belong!

Forum: Moving back or to the UK

Jul 25th 2008, 3:59 am

Replies: 25

ugh...homesick

Views: 2,287

Posted By NorthYorkshirelass

Re: ugh...homesick

One day recently, bearing in mind when is tornado season they have red banners going across the bottom of the TV and break in to programmes to tell you to 'seek cover' ...
Me and kids home alone,...

Forum: Moving back or to the UK

Jul 25th 2008, 3:43 am

Replies: 25

ugh...homesick

Views: 2,287

Posted By NorthYorkshirelass

Re: ugh...homesick

Yeah, think I need to move to somewhere a bit more Cosmopolitan! Where the main news of the day isn't corn, cows,American Football and tornadoes!

Forum: Moving back or to the UK

Jul 25th 2008, 3:24 am

Replies: 25

ugh...homesick

Views: 2,287

Posted By NorthYorkshirelass

Re: ugh...homesick

Yeah, the Walmart staff here get really confused, me with the English accent, my hubby is Italian, and my 3 little ones with American accents. If ever I have to ask anything, they hear the accent and...

Forum: Moving back or to the UK

Jul 25th 2008, 3:14 am

Replies: 25

ugh...homesick

Views: 2,287

Posted By NorthYorkshirelass

Re: ugh...homesick

Thanks for all the comments. I think it really is about trying to forge some new genuine ties with the people here. My hubby and I work at the same office, and I just feel like we are from different...

Forum: Moving back or to the UK

Jul 24th 2008, 9:07 am

Replies: 25

ugh...homesick

Views: 2,287

Posted By NorthYorkshirelass

ugh...homesick

I'm trying to work through the usual stuff of being in the US rather than back home in England...
If we stay here, we can have a better life materially, houses cheap (am in Omaha, NE, can get a v....

Forum: USA

Jul 24th 2008, 7:59 am

Replies: 6

UK company pension question

Views: 897

Posted By NorthYorkshirelass

UK company pension question

My husband and I both had company pensions in thru Standard Life. We are in the US now, our employer here doesn't accept transfers of these type of pensions though. They aren't big pensions yet, bit...

Forum: USA

Jun 7th 2007, 10:26 am

Replies: 27

Nebraska blues...

Views: 1,463

Posted By NorthYorkshirelass

Nebraska blues...

Have any of you been to Nebraska? It is all flat and nothing beautiful or old....the same strip mall, drive thru and houses are repeated every 20 minutes...In the UK we lived in Surrey, all green and...

Forum: USA

Jun 7th 2007, 9:55 am

Replies: 519

Ive had enough, I want to go home :(

Views: 36,384

Posted By NorthYorkshirelass

Re: Ive had enough, I want to go home :(

We had lived just outside London and my family were in Leicester and Scarborough and my husbands family in Italy, so we would prob. get together about 4 times a year, but I think I feel almost a bit...

Forum: USA

Jun 7th 2007, 9:41 am

Replies: 519

Ive had enough, I want to go home :(

Views: 36,384

Posted By NorthYorkshirelass

Re: Ive had enough, I want to go home :(

Was surfing and found this mail and these are my sentiments exactly at the moment. We have been living in Omaha NE for nearly 2 years, are on a 3 year work visa through my husbands company, and we...

Showing results 1 to 14 of 14