tonrob

You minger.

rivit

My daughter and her hubby worked in IT in north east USA, but they have since moved to California to better jobs. I think good jobs are out there if you have a good network of people to hear about them.

Bob

being here and able to work makes a massive difference....there's stacks of folks already here that dont' have jobs that there just isn't the need to sponsor in talent anymore...

rivit

Yes, i agree with you. My son-in-law heard about his present job through the people he was working with, it was a new company starting up and they took a chance and went with them.
So far everything is looking good.

soft-hearted

I wish good luck and happy life

roximum

YEP done that and it is crap. we lived in scotland and moved to england

roximum

family support is NOT an issue for us we dont have any family support. my family dont pay us or our kids any attention etc. im fed up being taken for granted in this country and we just want our kids to see the world and realise that there is better than the uk out there, and yes i do understand that we will be starting from scratch etc and that work is hard etc etc, my hubby has applied for a job wirth the bank of america in the uk with prospects of reloc to the U.S but we want to look at all our options etc. and do whats right for our kids, this has been something i have thought long and hard about for the past 6 years and life isnt getting any longer.

tonrob

You still haven't said what makes you think the U.S. would be better than the UK? Plenty of things to be fed up about here too...

caleyjag

Bank of America received TARP funding (money from the government bailout) and so is forbidden from receiving H1 visas for the time being, I think. Not sure how that impacts L1 visas.

Also, moving from Scotland to England? Therein lies your problem!

Ozzidoc

Nor Norway....

CitySimon

And you think that's different in the USA? Other people may have different experiences, but if you want a country where employees are taken for granted the US is the place for you (especially in Corporate America).

If you want your kids to see the world, stay in the UK, it is more centrally located... With the exception of Canada and Mexico, the USA is eight hours flight from anywhere. In the three years prior to moving to the US, I took vacations to Crete, Morocco, France, Switzerland and Turkey... In the last six years in the US, I've visited, err... The UK! I have no vacation time to go anywhere else.

That's good.

Good luck to your husband in his job application...

What do your kids think of this? Are they in school?

orangemirror

Man that is so true. I was just talking about this the other day. I haven't been on a proper holiday since I've lived here and I suddenly realised how much I want to just go somewhere new and have a nice holiday. All my vacation time is taken up with a 2 week trip to UK each year to visit friends and family. Back in the UK i'd normally have 2 or 3 foreign holidays a year. I really took it for granted.

christmasoompa

I have to ask why you think the US would be better for your kids?

The main reason we decided against a move to the US is that we thought the negatives would far outweigh the positives for our kids (i.e. seeing their father less as he'd only get 5 or 10 days holiday a year and work longer hours, education not any better unless you pay for private schooling, far further to Europe and no time for holidays elsewhere in the world, a more sedentary lifestyle, less secure visas etc, etc).

Canada will hopefully give them more (access to outdoor activities such as skiing every weekend, schooling in French so they'd learn another language, visa security - no danger of us being kicked out of the country if hubby loses job, etc) which is why we've chosen there.

Obviously that's just what we've chosen to do and our decision from initial research so may not apply to you. But if your children are your primary concern then I'd have thought a lot of other countries should be considered before the US. I've not seen anybody on here ever cite 'a better life for our children' as a reason for moving to the US!

Bob

I was thinking it's more down to "support" in event of anything happens than the day to day....surely you've got friends who would help out, look after the kids if one of you got hit by a bus or the house burned down etc? You'd have nothing like that over here and with any new country you wouldn't know where to get things sorted. The US would make that easier for you because there is no help.

The work culture in the US is pretty rough, lack of security, cost of medical, lack of holiday and long hours etc. I'd also not bother with BoA if your thinking of using them as a crutch to get into the US because it won't as mentioned, look for another bank who didn't take bail money.

I would seriously still consider a move around the UK or the EU, for starters it's a lot cheaper and it is something you can achieve without going bankrupt.

If you still really want to do it, good luck with it, but I think your reasons for wanting to do it are a bit weak. Most folk who think this place is shit, that place must be better usually end up disappointed, rose coloured specs and all that.

N1cky

So true. I hate filling out the forms for school that say 'who can we contact in an emergency other than parents'. Errr.. no-one.