roximum

hi guys.

i am 29 years old. still living in the uk but would love to be out there in the U.S i am married with 3 children. i am a qualified beauty therapist and my husband works in I.T as a SQL server DBA. is there any demand over in the U.S for what he does and if so would it meet visa requirements etc?

hope someone could help us on out direction to a new life

thank you soooo much in advance

maggie xx

christmasoompa

Hi Maggie,

I've just replied to your post in the Canada forum and have seen you're also considering NZ and Europe.

Forget the US, to be blunt you've not got a hope of getting a visa for there! It's notoriously difficult to get in to and unless you have pretty specialist skills, it's next to impossible to get a visa.

Have a read of this to understand the criteria for US visas............http://britishexpats.com/wiki/Pulask...ork_in_the_USA

Best to concentrate on another country, but the ones you are considering are all wildly different so you need to narrow it down a bit and figure out exactly where you want to live. Most successful emigrants are those that move for the love of a country rather than perceived negatives in their own country (you'll soon discover the UK is actually pretty damn good when you live abroad!).

roximum

we fell in love with greece but obviously working there is hard unless you want to do bar work but we also love the other countries mentioned we just want a better life for us and our children

Manc

+1

tonrob

Might be room for a beauty therapist though? There are some ugly bastards round here...

N1cky

Better in what way Maggie? Moving to another country where you have had nice holidays doesn't make your life magically 'better'. My life is pretty much the same as when I was in the UK. I do the school run, I work all day, go home make dinner.... day to day life is no better or worse. I miss lots about the UK, friends and family more than I could have ever imagined, but lots of little things that didn't seem important too.

The grass isn't always greener and moving abroad will not make your life better, only you can do that.

Good luck with whatever you do

Nicky

YoungSteve17

Have you ever thought about moving to a better part of the UK ?

lisa67

totally agree Nicky

caleyjag

Why don't we normally say this? Probably the best advice we have to give with these posts!

CitySimon

Good call Nicky... You need to weigh up why you really want to move to another country... A lot of people go through a significant amount of effort to move to the US, but they get here, experience problems settling in and immidiately move back to England and need to setup themselves up again from scratch.

There is a lot of differences between visiting on a vacation and moving here... Two weeks relaxing in the sun and doing the touristy thing is one thing, totally emersing yourself in the culture 24x7x365.25 is a very different situation and a lot of people have problems if they come over for the wrong reasons.

Even people who come over to live with their US Citizen partner experience cultural problems, I can only imagine the issues which people who move over simply because think it MUST be better than life in the UK experience.

If you want to get an idea of what I'm saying, go and check out the "Moving back to the UK" forum and look at the number of people who are moving back after less than 24 months outside of the UK.

CitySimon

Huh... I never thought of saying that.

meauxna

I can promise you, working there in bar work is hard too.

Greece is almost 180 degrees different from the US; what is it you're looking for? How do you define 'better'?

Bob

If your minted, you could perhaps buy into a business, but it's shaky grounds and I wouldn't do it in Florida if that's where you had your hols.

IT, not a chance, dime a dozen and unless have really niche skills there's little to no chance in getting someone to stump for the costs and hassle.

I'd definitely consider moving around the UK if you fancy a chance, perhaps even somewhere else in the EU if you don't worry about the language, which might not be a problem in Holland or Sweden and a few other countries where English is common.

If you do decide to move though, you've got to do it for the pluses of the country, the real pluses it'll bring you rather than the holiday sun thoughts and certainly not for the negatives of the country your leaving, because you'll find those same problems in other countries but without the benefit of under standing the system or having a support network of family/friends and familiarity to help you out in a rough spot.

YoungSteve17

Ooooo thats was nice.
I don't think it could of been put any better

rivit

HEY, I resemble that remark.