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Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Feb 26th 2013, 6:56 am

Replies: 239

American again, requesting relo ideas

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Posted By sallysimmons

Re: American again, requesting relo ideas

Amen. My ancestors were Irish migrants who built railways and infrastructure around the world and were always scorned and insulted and called leeches. In America today, the Mexicans are the ones who...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jan 27th 2013, 5:47 pm

Replies: 239

American again, requesting relo ideas

Views: 13,153

Posted By sallysimmons

Re: American again, requesting relo ideas

I've also worked hard and saved and done all the right things but I look at it a little differently - probably because I've become too American :lol:

I don't feel penalized if I don't get freebies...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jan 19th 2013, 7:52 am

Replies: 239

American again, requesting relo ideas

Views: 13,153

Posted By sallysimmons

Re: American again, requesting relo ideas

That's where I lived. My town was safe as houses - we used to go out and leave the doors locked. And yet just down the road was Mount Vernon where many people lived in squalor. Not once did I see a...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jan 18th 2013, 5:29 pm

Replies: 239

American again, requesting relo ideas

Views: 13,153

Posted By sallysimmons

Re: American again, requesting relo ideas

That's the way things are going here too in some areas - but my point really wasn't about public housing developments. It was about the fact that in England it's very hard for a reasonably well-to-do...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jan 18th 2013, 7:48 am

Replies: 239

American again, requesting relo ideas

Views: 13,153

Posted By sallysimmons

Re: American again, requesting relo ideas

This is such an excellent point. I think Americans generally have a hard time with the mixed nature of society here, just as I had a hard time with the divisions when I first moved there. I lived in...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jan 17th 2013, 8:05 am

Replies: 239

American again, requesting relo ideas

Views: 13,153

Posted By sallysimmons

Re: American again, requesting relo ideas

My question is what can we tell you that we haven't already? That's not meant as sarcasm but you've started many of these threads and been advised on countless towns and cities and yet here we are....

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