Originally Posted by Manc

rah rah patriotism when we as a nation can for the most part only afford to shop at Walmart.

Originally Posted by HumphreyC

I can just about to afford to shop at Target. Which is not as ghetto as 'Walmart' or 'Ocean State Job Lots'.

Originally Posted by Manc

disintergrating infrastructure
18% un and under employment
$7 minimum wage
9 days paid holidays on average
at will employment
rah rah patriotism when we as a nation can for the most part only afford to shop at Walmart.
no community
beggers on street corners now
inner cities becoming empty shells of their former selves
gazzilions in debt
sub prime disaster
no manufacturing
no public trasport
healthcare the nation cannot afford and 22nd in infant mortality

Originally Posted by HumphreyC

This sounds like the plot of about 90% of Bruce Springsteen's songs. The only thing it's missing is a chorus about getting laid off from the steel mill and having to work down at the car wash while your girlfriend buggers off with the next door neighbor.

Originally Posted by Manc

I hear a lot about this so called lifestyle.

I would like to see evidence to the contrary before I concede I am not right.


disintergrating infrastructure
18% un and under employment
$7 minimum wage
9 days paid holidays on average
at will employment
rah rah patriotism when we as a nation can for the most part only afford to shop at Walmart.
no community
beggers on street corners now
inner cities becoming empty shells of their former selves
gazzilions in debt
sub prime disaster
no manufacturing
no public trasport
healthcare the nation cannot afford and 22nd in infant mortality


your turn.

Originally Posted by HumphreyC

This sounds like the plot of about 90% of Bruce Springsteen's songs. The only thing it's missing is a chorus about getting laid off from the steel mill and having to work down at the car wash while your girlfriend buggers off with the next door neighbor.

Originally Posted by flori73

Why still live there then?
Thank you everyone for your advice but i only asked if there was an easy state to get a nursing licence in, i didn't want to start world war 3!
I'm going to take my chances and if i don't like it i'll come back to Britain, but honestly when you wake up every day to an ocean view and glorious sunshine life cannot be bad, i think sometimes you can't see what's right in front of you. Thanks again guys.

Originally Posted by meauxna

Unless it's the tsunami rolling in....

It's always time for World War III around here. Good luck to you, flori73!

Originally Posted by flori73

Oh yeah i'd forgotten about tsunami's, hurricaines and oil leaks still it beats sideways rain!

Originally Posted by flori73

Why still live there then?

Originally Posted by flori73

still it beats sideways rain!

Originally Posted by Octang Frye

I wonder this all the time. Mind you, he came from Manchester. Those up-North folk are never happy unless they're complaining, apparently.

So what are you going to chance, then?

Originally Posted by flori73

I'm from up north near Leeds but yorkshire folk are happy come what may. Mancs are just mad for it!!

I'll be in the good old US of A on the 1st Nov just for a week going to visit a few hospitals and get some lovely sun, visit victoria secret and the most important thing get my supply of peanut butter m&m's, vist Walmart and grab myself some cool whip. how the hell can you not love a country that gives you all that?