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Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 16th 2010, 2:31 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 3,208
Posted By AC-Queen

Re: Please do not believe the Newspapers

Personally not an issue to me as Texas is a big place, and I wasn't talking about the death penalty/ judicial system, just the experience in my neighbourhood in reference to my (probably unfounded)...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 16th 2010, 12:28 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 3,208
Posted By AC-Queen

Re: Please do not believe the Newspapers

confusedgirl, you have summed up almost everything I want to move back for!!! :)
I knew I would have gun crime quoted to me because of my post, and obviously I do agree that gun crime is much lower...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 15th 2010, 2:25 pm
Replies: 112
Views: 7,420
Posted By AC-Queen

Re: This is why I will miss home.............

Yup, the roaches IMHO are the biggest pest, followed by the fire ants, but only ever been bitten once by an ant, and I spend fair amount of time outdoors - you can buy some pretty effective stuff...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 15th 2010, 2:03 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 3,208
Posted By AC-Queen

Re: Please do not believe the Newspapers

Thanks for this post - I read too much of the Daily Mail as I find it more up to date than the Times online. I am very scared that we are making a mistake. My biggest concern is the crime - they...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 14th 2010, 1:24 pm
Replies: 112
Views: 7,420
Posted By AC-Queen

Re: This is why I will miss home.............

Hi Lazzza - we have been out here in Katy for almost 4yrs. Haven't read all of the posts here as there are a lot, but hope the move goes well/ has gone well :)
ps. Terminix do a good job on the...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 11th 2010, 3:31 pm
Replies: 27
Views: 3,722
Posted By AC-Queen

Re: Deciding what is best for my children - seems impossible!

Thanks for the advice.
Our situation is that we are expats with my husbands job - the company placed him in TX for international experience, and coming to the end of the post in the new year, they...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 9th 2010, 7:48 am
Replies: 27
Views: 3,722
Posted By AC-Queen

Re: Deciding what is best for my children - seems impossible!

We have just booked to go back to UK for 2 weeks in April/May, so we'll see what feelings we have then, and also see how the children get on. It's been a long time since we have been back.
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 9th 2010, 7:30 am
Replies: 27
Views: 3,722
Posted By AC-Queen

Re: Deciding what is best for my children - seems impossible!

Thanks for your opinions, they really are helpful.
What preys on my mind is that although we had a comfortable life in London, we worked very very hard at the grindstone for it (like everyone else)....
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 8th 2010, 2:35 pm
Replies: 27
Views: 3,722
Posted By AC-Queen

Deciding what is best for my children - seems impossible!

Hi - I am having problems writing this post as it keeps getting too long! So I will just reduce it to the following:
Living as expats in Texas for 4 yrs, have a toddler and baby. We rent/ could buy...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jul 30th 2008, 1:27 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 1,048
Posted By AC-Queen

Re: Tipping in the UK to change

I always thought that was very unfair - I think it's good news too.
Forum: USA
Jul 30th 2008, 1:18 pm
Replies: 58
Views: 5,868
Posted By AC-Queen

Re: Moving to Houston from the UK

Hi,
I moved to Houston (Katy) last August as a trailing spouse and Mandana sums that up well in her previous post!
Things I found most difficult about the place:
1) The humidity, then the heat,...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jul 28th 2008, 1:56 pm
Replies: 21
Views: 1,785
Posted By AC-Queen

Re: How long will it be such a mess?

Oh, and I forgot to add that you probably aren't actually depressed, just feeling a bit lost, anxious and down, so don't add that to your worries unless the feeling is really overwhelming, in which...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jul 28th 2008, 1:52 pm
Replies: 21
Views: 1,785
Posted By AC-Queen

Re: How long will it be such a mess?

I can also empathise (read my earlier post about stay at home mum culture shock!). I have really suffered from anxiety since I arrived 11 months ago, but just in the last two weeks I have started to...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jul 27th 2008, 1:56 pm
Replies: 48
Views: 4,723
Posted By AC-Queen

Re: Bugs and beasties?

I have to say that I don't see more than one cockroach every 3-4 months - we get the outside of the house sprayed regularly and that seems to keep them out. They are hideous - especially coming...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jul 25th 2008, 1:34 pm
Replies: 48
Views: 4,723
Posted By AC-Queen

Bugs and beasties?

No one told me Texas was going to be like Jurasic Park. I had agreed to move before I realised what the bugs (venomous spiders)(and snakes)were like!
A seven foot alligator was sighted in my...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jul 25th 2008, 1:23 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 2,288
Posted By AC-Queen

Re: ugh...homesick

I would have lived just around the corner from you in UK - I was 10 mins from Hampton Court. I do miss the history and architecture from UK. We are renting a house built in the late 1990s, and the...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Jul 24th 2008, 1:43 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 2,288
Posted By AC-Queen

Re: ugh...homesick

UNderstand completely and I've only been here 11 months myself. Expressing some similar views in thread I started 'Stay at home mum culture shock'. I am really excited to be somewhere new, but I...
Forum: USA
Jul 24th 2008, 10:15 am
Replies: 36
Views: 4,572
Posted By AC-Queen

Re: Stay at Home 'Mom' culture shock!

Thanks for your advice. I am working very hard to get out and meet friends here, and from the moment I arrived, I've joined up to local community groups - attend book clubs, movie clubs etc.......
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jul 23rd 2008, 4:39 am
Replies: 3
Views: 845
Posted By AC-Queen

Slingbox

Hi
Someone recommended I get myself a slingbox so I could watch UK tv if I wanted to. Does anyone here in USA use one, and if so, how do you rate it?
Forum: USA
Jul 23rd 2008, 4:36 am
Replies: 36
Views: 4,572
Posted By AC-Queen

Re: Stay at Home 'Mom' culture shock!

djb1000 - thanks! I think 'steely facade' is the term I've been looking for, and I think you have a good understanding of what I mean. I have been trying to describe it to my friends back in UK, and...
Forum: USA
Jul 22nd 2008, 1:20 pm
Replies: 35
Views: 5,234
Posted By AC-Queen

Re: Homesick In San Antonio

Hi!
How are feeling now? Has anything started working out?
I have been reading the posts and there is a lot of good advice. I just wanted you to know that I have been in Katy, Houston for 10months...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jul 22nd 2008, 12:44 pm
Replies: 48
Views: 2,675
Posted By AC-Queen

Re: How Much Do You Spend on Groceries Each Week?

$250 or more - for three of us - mostly organics, fresh breads, good juices, ingredients for homemade ('scratch' made!) meals.
I don't do coupons as I don't seem to eat the food they offer. Coupons...
Forum: USA
Jul 22nd 2008, 12:22 pm
Replies: 36
Views: 4,572
Posted By AC-Queen

Re: Stay at Home 'Mom' culture shock!

Chocolatebabz - thanks and hope Dolly is not too rough to you!
Forum: USA
Jul 22nd 2008, 6:54 am
Replies: 36
Views: 4,572
Posted By AC-Queen

Re: Stay at Home 'Mom' culture shock!

Thanks for the reply - I am trying to stay positive, and am very keen to be here. I suppose I just didn't expect the culture shock to be so huge - after all, I thought being a mother was a fairly...
Forum: USA
Jul 22nd 2008, 6:17 am
Replies: 36
Views: 4,572
Posted By AC-Queen

Re: Stay at Home 'Mom' culture shock!

Don't joke!
But on a serious note I'm really missing 'normal' people. I've been out and about socializing with various groups and neighbors - and while there are one or two people who are fun...
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