Originally Posted by jumping doris (Post 4991354)

......What more could a girl want:D

Originally Posted by Elvira (Post 4991370)

Well......... what more *could* a girl want...? :)

Originally Posted by Patrick Hasler (Post 4989906)

If you are asking are we happy, have we done all we set out to do ? ... I am in the frame of mind to answer you, but I'll warn you it may drag out a bit :D

I first came to this area on holiday in 1992 with my previous wife and my son who so wanted to fly the ocean and see America, I myself didn't want to fly and didn't want to see America, I did it for my little boy !
As it happens I thought and still do that Lake George came to be the most beautifull place on earth, I came back every year on holiday and made loads of good friends, not tourists, locals, ..... a telephone rapair guy, a mechanic, store keepers, drunks in bars, EMS workers etc. I felt that I had more friends here than back there, but knew it was just holidays and living here would not be as much fun, then I met Kate !!!!!!!!!!!!! We became great friends first then fell in love. My Son & Daughter who were by now working and pretty much adults hed been ignoring me for ages and I always said I felt that if they thought so little of me I would go away........... they pretty much gave me the impresion they didn't care, so one day Kate and Seth arraive on a aplane at gatwick, spent 10 days at my house while I got things prepared and we came back here. I didn't desert my kids.... they wouldn't come. I had sold the housefor cash but paid the mortgage for 3 months untill it was final, my daughter was already living with her shitty boyfriend, and I found a flat for my son and paid the deposit.
Everyone said I married kate for a green card and would one day dump her, they can all eat their words now :p
We are more in love than ever, we have gone from struggling in a run down trailer to owning a beautiful house in a beautiful area, we have Seth (my step son) and Sadie (born almost 5 years ago now). I didn't marry Kate for a green card, I did it for love.
My Son has since visited us and we go back over almost every year, he see's how we live and how happy we are and knows what I did I did for good reasons, he loves his little sister and Kate.
Since living here I can say I have seen almost the whole country as a part of my job and I love it, Kate is rather envious as she hasn't seen it all and she is american.
I have stood next to aligators in FL, crossed the whole of TX on desert roads, seen Vegas, crossed mountains over 8,000 feet, driven in hot desert roads for hours without seeing a living soul, then climbed snow covered mountains in the same day, driven from the east coast to the west coast on a single highway, watched the sun rise over Mt Hood from a hillside on the Pacific coast, stopped at Indian reservations, and slept in Dodge City, been in temps as low as minus 50f in New Hampshire and Maine and spent the night in Death Valley ............ I have seen this country and I still am in awe of it :)
Every day is a new experience and although my job has changed and I am now just a north east driver I still find it wonderfull, I long for every time I get home and see my wife and kids, I just wish the other 2 were here.
I wouldn't move back to the UK and live a life like that ever again.

In all ...... I have been there, done that, I love America :)

Originally Posted by Sally (Post 4991971)

Love/hate with me. It is a country of extremes. Fabulously beautiful scenery and some hideously ugly sides.

Anyone moving here to find more efficiency and technological advances and less red tape will be rudely awoken! The prestigeous private hospital where my husband works has more "spanish practices" than the Armada. Education is patchy and in some areas woeful. Shopping, eating out and personal adornment are fab in LA. Meaningful human interaction apparently less so.

Throw 2 mid-life crises and 2 teens iinto the mix and it wouldn't be easy anywhere!

Originally Posted by Lycanthrop (Post 4991913)

A few things to see in America before you die..........or get on the plane.

Originally Posted by Elvira (Post 4991980)

But you're too young to have a mid-life crisis FFS!!!

Originally Posted by Sally (Post 4992009)

You mean it's going to get WORSE :blink:

Originally Posted by Elvira (Post 4992012)

Are you saying I'm old enough to know??? :ohmy:

Originally Posted by Sally (Post 4992016)

Oops no way ;)

Originally Posted by Elvira (Post 4992019)

Michael Moore on Larry King Live right now........ pushing Sicko.

Should be interesting...