Britlover

Aww everyone is so nice to tell me your opinions! Its made me feel better about him coming over and being happy. All i can do is try my best to make him feel at home, and happy!

I plan to buy some English food/snacks for him occasionally to help curb the homesickness if there is any. I think he will like the attention for his accent lol. Tho he will have have to get used to being mistook for Australian...I think you are right! Even tho he doesnt sound anything like them

robin1234

"Occasionally" is good. Keep him on a leash. Brain's faggots once a month and a couple of rashers every couple of weeks at the most.

As for the Australian thing, it is comparatively recent. I remember when Americans didn't know anything about Australia.. thought it bordered Switzerland and was "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" territory. Then along came Crocodile Dundee ...

Scott33

Interesting the number of people who would describe living in the US as "OK". That's kind of how I feel too - I can be anything from indifferent to contented depending on my mood.

I still see life here in general as a positive thing (I am the first to say if people hate it that much, they should sod off home), I just don't believe the reality of living here fits the stereotype.

cluedweasel

Unfortunately, not from a high enough floor.

Ash UK/US

Wouldn't that be a good thing?

steve100100

I like it here.

After five years, looking back, the first two were the hardest. Wife tells me that I had depression. Possibly.

A lot happened that first year, marriage, moving halfway across the country, find a job...and all the while trying to adapt to a foreign country.

We are moving again soon, although not as far this time. Job search starts again but feeling a lot more content and confident this time around.

I'm happy.

chriswinter

I couldn't agree with you more and I have lived in America for several decades. It's a sin and a shame what is happening here. If things don't change soon, I believe this country will sooner rather than later, fall flat on it's collective face. Today, I liken my loved adopted country more in line with the movie "Idiocracy", if not falling into schizophrenia. If I wasn't so angry with what is currently taking placing in America..I would cry river of tears for my American born children and grandchildren...and I just may do that as well. So sad to watch and feeling so terribly powerless to change things. There are many sane Americans in this country...good people who have a sense of common decency and fairplay...but their voices are being silenced, being drowned out, being refused to be heard by those in power. The Crazies are now in charge.

Ash UK/US

There is good and bad in both, neither are perfect, I find it kinda sickening that people think the USA best place in the world to live, they seem to think the streets are paved with gold or something

Home is where the heart is.

chriswinter

robin1234

Too many Americans are mild-mannered, too polite, don't speak up, don't vote ... and have that "It is what it is" attitude. They are born & brought up thinking themselves powerless underdogs. True, there are people like this in Britain, Europe and other democracies, but unfortunately in the US they are a critically high proportion of the population (that's what I've observed, anyway.)

chriswinter

I so understand what you are saying. I feel 'powerless' at the moment, because I as one individual, I don't have the power to change all that I perceive to be wrong at this time. Truly, I'm not a 'well-mannered' person IRL, nor in IRL am I all that polite, and I do have a blunt, big mouth IRL...just ask my former employers when I was a 'bill collector' dealing with major corporations who felt they didn't need to pay what they owed (more than once I was called on the carpet for my 'bluntness' with corporate customers). I have marched in anti-war demonstrations, I call into C-Span, I sign petitions and put my money where my mouth is, etc....and even after all that...seems to no avail. I have raised my children to do the same (and they do) and the people in my circle are much like me/us. Just recently my 41 yr old son protested/marched with the good workers of Wisconsin, in Madison. With all that, still it is disheartening, soul disturbing and sad to see what is currently happening. And yes, how I wish America would wake up...maybe it's too late, I don't know..time will tell. But I'll still try and do my bit, the best I can now, at 64 yrs of age.
I would only suggest to anyone...at this point in time...if you already have a job with benefits, wherever that may be...you might want to sit still there for a while longer. JMO!

Just to add...depending on the outcome of next year's presidential elections...I may just have to 'jump ship'. If it goes the way I think it may go...I would find life in the states most intolerable for myself. Again, JMO!

Xebedee

I like the fact that the Yanks are "more socially forgiving" than the English are. In that respect, its easier to get along if you are basically a yob.

tonrob

I really struggled for the first two years or so. Dreadfully alienated and homesick. I'm not entirely sure exactly when things changed - but it did seem like all of a sudden something clicked and this place felt like home.

I've been here 6 years in total now and am very happy.

flbrit59

l wouldn't be surprised...or which part of New Zealand or South Africa ! I think all non US accents are interchangeable to Americans

SultanOfSwing

That's probably true. Even I get Australian, which is weird, but the best was when I met my wife's dad for the first time and he asked me which part of Germany I was from