Re: Help needed for Brits relocating to LA
 

LOL point taken, Southampton accents are bad enough! Santa Monica wouldnt be for us anyway, I think from what we have seen and heard we prefer a little more north! What about the Pacific Palisades?

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Don't be so sure. It isn't that easy. Spend a few mins reading the visa forum, it might save yourself a lot of time and hassle.

Re: Help needed for Brits relocating to LA
 

You really are putting the cart before the horse here. There is a way you could get round the visa situation - although washing dishes for cash-in-hand isn't the best way to pay for private schooling. :lol:

Re: Help needed for Brits relocating to LA
 

LOL, sometimes you just have to.

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Do you mind if I ask how you guys qualified??

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Are you sure you don't fancy Australia?

Many have married a USC, some are company transfers within large international companies (L visas), a few are highly skilled workers with various degrees and experience (H Visas).

Re: Help needed for Brits relocating to LA
 

[QUOTE=Cape Blue;9014986]Are you sure you don't fancy Australia?
[QUOTE]

Funking hard to get there by boat!

Re: Help needed for Brits relocating to LA
 

Did you read the link given to you in post 5? There arent 'ways around it,' you cant 'do it another way' you really need to sort the Visa then ask the questions.

Re: Help needed for Brits relocating to LA
 

Alvin:

I live in "Los Feliz" -- 90027 adjacent to Griffith Park. On the other side of I-5 is the "Atwater" [90039] neighborhood between the I-5 and Glendale. I find them to be quite "walkable."

I used to live in Hermosa Beach in the "South Bay" and I stayed there only a year. I moved to Echo Park [90026] and have been in 90027 since 1984.

Also, look at the Pasadena area [San Gabriel valley].

On schools, you have to live here for a while to rationally discuss it. There are a plethora of programs. And, if you end up in "Los Angeles Unified School District," it bears in mind that LAUSD is huge and varied. [The "unified" refers to the fact it is "K-12" rather than separate elementary & secondary districts]. LAUSD has "open enrollment" and has "Charter Schools" etc etc.

I saw a mention of zillow.com -- it is an interesting site.

If you have not noticed, it is not uncommon to use postal ZIP codes to locate areas. As a general rule, 900xx is for "Los Angeles" -- but the numbers are not necessarily adjacent -- 90024 & 90025 is the "Westwood" and UCLA area while 90026 is Echo Park and 90027, 90028 are the "Hollywood" codes -- but 90038 is "Silver Lake" between 90026 and 90027. IOW, enter the ZIP code into a map program to find things.

Good luck.

Re: Help needed for Brits relocating to LA
 

It’s not uncommon (from my experience on this forum) for poms to think it’s (should be as a matter of fact) relatively easy to get into US. This perhaps is because their claim on how easy it is for EU nationals & easy (comparatively) for non EU nationals to get into UK

Learning US immigration is a rude shock though and the OP needs to consider the visa situation first. I mean good for the forum everyone sharing information but honestly little waste of time, with due respect, without the VISA situation first looked into.

“we will figure it out, we will work around it” – not US immigration for sure. It usually is, do you qualify for a visa or not. No "working around" US visas.

Re: Help needed for Brits relocating to LA
 

Sure, but it won't do you any good: UK citizen, drawn in DV2000, consular processed in Prague, entered on immigrant visa and became permanent resident, naturalized as US citizen 2006.

Do the visa first. Everything else is just dreamin'.

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Unfortunately, I have to agree with that.. it used to be a little different.. if someone went to the bother of composing a decent answer, even to a hypothetical question, it was useful to future readers because netiquette dictated that one search for information/previous posts before asking their own question. The effort of contributing one's knowledge was worthwhile, of use.
Now I've got a picture of someone with their fingers in their ears giving it "la la la la" and all those good thoughts just getting scrolled back into the ether....

Re: Help needed for Brits relocating to LA
 

Married a yank.

Re: Help needed for Brits relocating to LA
 

[QUOTE=E3only;9015080]Are you sure you don't fancy Australia?
I think he's referring to the guy slotting straight into the Barbie mindset.

Aargh I can't fix your quote

Re: Help needed for Brits relocating to LA
 

:)