Florida
#50
Joined: Aug 2004
Location: Eugene, OR
Posts: 1,352
Re: Florida
Gosh i think I might be in Culture shock. We have green card so permanent residency.
New Yorkers living down here have said food is much better up North. I find the food here very salty. My daughter has lost a stone in weight. The Dr said she was too pretty and naive and must be careful mixing with locals.
It's too hot to go out and the beaches here in Brevard don't allow dogs!
I think I lost my sense of humour when a car smashed into the back of me and no one understands my humour! Oh and I don't know any expats here.
Thanks for everyone who helped x
New Yorkers living down here have said food is much better up North. I find the food here very salty. My daughter has lost a stone in weight. The Dr said she was too pretty and naive and must be careful mixing with locals.
It's too hot to go out and the beaches here in Brevard don't allow dogs!
I think I lost my sense of humour when a car smashed into the back of me and no one understands my humour! Oh and I don't know any expats here.
Thanks for everyone who helped x
Culture shock can be sneaky and make you react in ways you wouldn't normally. I once burst into tears in a West London Safeway (after being in the country about five months) because I couldn't find a flavour of crisps I liked (just SALT! Come on, who needs Roast Chicken an Mustard flavour crisps anyway??) It does get better. A car accident definitely doesn't help anyone feel at home. How long have you been in the US?
New Yorkers in Florida - or any transplants - will have their own preferences from home and their own culture shock to deal with and they will always say certain things are better back home. You will know your daughter better than your doctor does. There may well be perfectly healthy reasons that she has lost weight. And yes, it'll be hot right now but in a couple months it will start to turn really nice and you will be out in short sleeves in February while the rest of the country is bundled up in parkas.
Give it some time - a full year at least. Approach it with the mindset that Florida is a place that you CAN leave in the future if you want to; you're not chained to it. Sometimes that realisation can help shift the blues.
Have you tried asking on the Meetups area to see if there are any fellow expats in your region?
#51
Re: Florida
Culture shock...two pieces of advice I was given often ring through my head.
#1 It would be easier to adjust to life in the US if English wasn't the first language.
#2 Life in the US isn't better or worse than the UK...it's just different.
#1 It would be easier to adjust to life in the US if English wasn't the first language.
#2 Life in the US isn't better or worse than the UK...it's just different.
#52
Re: Florida
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=128317
Also heard good things about the beer from Unibroue
Thing is, well apart from Portland, though it's getting that way, anywhere decent you've listed is in a order of magnitude more expensive to live in than Florida. Andover is cute though, but it's tiny. Wellesley has a lovely town centre, but very expensive. Northampton, getting a bit isolated, but a lovely town, decent size and far more affordable if you're able to work out there.
Last edited by HumphreyC; Sep 2nd 2011 at 1:05 pm.
#54
Re: Florida
Nice - look forward to visiting then. I've heard similar things about Quebec City e.g
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=128317
Also heard good things about the beer from Unibroue
Don't know about that. My brother was forced to move to France last year and has found the language the hardest thing. In fact he is too scared to leave the house a lot of the time and comes back to the UK to do stuff like get his hair cut.
If I recall - having passed through your town earlier this year as a teaching job for the missus was advertised there - it was very walkable and it has a pub just off the main street with Speckled hen and a host of other beers on tap. Probably helps if you speak a bit of Spanish or Portuguese.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=128317
Also heard good things about the beer from Unibroue
Don't know about that. My brother was forced to move to France last year and has found the language the hardest thing. In fact he is too scared to leave the house a lot of the time and comes back to the UK to do stuff like get his hair cut.
If I recall - having passed through your town earlier this year as a teaching job for the missus was advertised there - it was very walkable and it has a pub just off the main street with Speckled hen and a host of other beers on tap. Probably helps if you speak a bit of Spanish or Portuguese.
#55
Joined: Aug 2004
Location: Eugene, OR
Posts: 1,352
Re: Florida
Agreed. DH often commented, when we first arrived, that because most things were so similar he was often thrown for a loop when suddenly encountering the different parts.
#56
Re: Florida
Also heard good things about the beer from Unibroue
If I recall - having passed through your town earlier this year as a teaching job for the missus was advertised there - it was very walkable and it has a pub just off the main street with Speckled hen and a host of other beers on tap. Probably helps if you speak a bit of Spanish or Portuguese.
And my town, it's pretty walkable, but unless you are down town, not very practical in winter as the snow banks are mean. There's a few pubs in town, one of which is really good, the one with 80 odd on tap....and yeah, this place has a massive Brazilian population
#58
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 14,577
Re: Florida
No.
I don't know what the original question was, but 'Florida' is in the title - so no.
I don't know what the original question was, but 'Florida' is in the title - so no.
#60
Re: Florida
I lost a stone in my first few months. New food, hot weather, drinking so much water I didn't fancy much food. We moved a year ago today. In the first few months I found it too hot to walk the dog any distance. I got used to it. I find some of the doctors have an unusual sense of humor. My annual well woman check got described as a chance for a good rummage around