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Re: Ever thought of returning?...(moved to the Trailer Park forum)
Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
(Post 11079054)
You think the UK is a hell hole...yet you want to live in America's armpit?:blink::confused:
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Re: Ever thought of returning?...(moved to the Trailer Park forum)
Originally Posted by Pulaski
(Post 11078323)
They're all English words, but some of them get used differently in the US. .... I used to think that values were something I learned from my parents, now I discover that I can get them from a car dealer. :confused:
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Re: Ever thought of returning?...(moved to the Trailer Park forum)
Being a seasonal resident has its advantages, you still get the NHS for example. However Florida has quite high property taxes if you can't claim the homestead exemption.
Also getting a B-1/2 visa (which means you get to stay six months at a time) is relatively easy if you tell them you're retired and are planning to winter in Florida. It's no different in concept really to people who spend the winter in Spain, the difference is that you can't drive there or easily move your stuff there so that is an additional cost if you have to buy a car and leave it there (which you probably would). |
Re: Ever thought of returning?...(moved to the Trailer Park forum)
Originally Posted by Steve_
(Post 11083441)
Also getting a B-1/2 visa
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Re: Ever thought of returning?
Don't even think of returning just yet....
....the weather is still totally crap.. ....the news items on TV seem to be obsessed with an array of ageing male celebrities (one of them having appeared in the first ever showing of "Coronation Street" way back in 1960) appearing in court on an array of lurid sexual offenses... ...Red Ed wants to completely reorganise the UK banking system when we all know he wouldn't be capable of running the till in a Women's Institute Bring and Buy Stall in his local parish hall - and the Aussies thrashed England - yet again! Stay well put, folks! |
Re: Ever thought of returning?
Originally Posted by Lothianlad
(Post 11083953)
Don't even think of returning just yet....
....the weather is still totally crap.. ....the news items on TV seem to be obsessed with an array of ageing male celebrities (one of them having appeared in the first ever showing of "Coronation Street" way back in 1960) appearing in court on an array of lurid sexual offenses... ...Red Ed wants to completely reorganise the UK banking system when we all know he wouldn't be capable of running the till in a Women's Institute Bring and Buy Stall in his local parish hall - and the Aussies thrashed England - yet again! Stay well put, folks! |
Re: Ever thought of returning?
Originally Posted by Lothianlad
(Post 11083953)
....the news items on TV seem to be obsessed with an array of ageing male celebrities (one of them having appeared in the first ever showing of "Coronation Street" way back in 1960) appearing in court on an array of lurid sexual offenses...
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Re: Ever thought of returning?...(moved to the Trailer Park forum)
Originally Posted by Steve_
(Post 11083441)
Being a seasonal resident has its advantages, you still get the NHS for example. However Florida has quite high property taxes if you can't claim the homestead exemption.
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Re: Ever thought of returning?...(moved to the Trailer Park forum)
Originally Posted by Steve_
(Post 11083441)
... It's no different in concept really to people who spend the winter in Spain, the difference is that you can't drive there or easily move your stuff there so that is an additional cost if you have to buy a car and leave it there (which you probably would).
But the expensive part of owning a car in Florida is the insurance. And they are geared up for charging snowbirds only for the months of insurance that the car is not laid up in the garage. (As a practical matter you do need to actually keep your car in the garage and not use the garage as a storage room). Trying to get any companies or government in Britain to understand the concept of seasonal residence however is like trying to educate [deleted]. |
Re: Ever thought of returning?...(moved to the Trailer Park forum)
Originally Posted by kins
(Post 11085012)
Don't be silly... you just follow the example of Maine's Governor LePage and claim homestead exemption in both Florida and wherever else you live :sneaky:
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Re: Ever thought of returning?
Originally Posted by Uncle_Bob
(Post 11084828)
I saw a funny cartoon of Kevin Webster from Coronation street, caption was "tell the bloke with the ford cortina i dont touch anyting older than 15 years" :rofl:
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Re: Ever thought of returning?
Originally Posted by Sally Redux
(Post 11085082)
He was found not guilty.
But it was funny :cool: |
Re: Ever thought of returning?
Originally Posted by Uncle_Bob
(Post 11085313)
Sorry. Again :o
But it was funny :cool: |
Re: Ever thought of returning?...(moved to the Trailer Park forum)
Originally Posted by markonline1
(Post 11078359)
Too hot, humid and republican for me. Plus it contains Orlando.
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Re: Ever thought of returning?
Originally Posted by Sally Redux
(Post 11085082)
He was found not guilty.
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