It's all happening now...
Oct 12th 2006, 6:43 am
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Re: It's all happening now...
Originally Posted by BrewMonkey
We'll be moving to Michigan, specifically somewhere commutable to Wixom. There are some small lakes around there that look nice and I've got one week a month over there for work from now until January during which time I'll be doing a recce on the area.
I'm originally from Blackburn and moved to the Cambridge area about 5 years ago, so I know what it's like adjusting to a vastly different culture
Neil.
Ey up!! I'm from Blackburn aswell. I live in Pennsylvania now. I came over here in 2002 to escape working in Sainbury's and met a yank who I married two years later. Now I live here. Its better than Blackburn. Just.
Commiserations on moving to Michigan in January. I hope you like freezing your tits off.
Oct 12th 2006, 6:50 am
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Re: It's all happening now...
Originally Posted by BrewMonkey
Got some major decisions to make this coming week regarding how much to push for in the relocation package and how much to take with us. Thinking of shipping some of the major stuff in a container. The company seems to be talking the right way re the expenses and have even offered to bump up my salary to cater for a car, as they don't offer company cars over there but understand that us Europeans (I keep telling them I'm British 
) usually get one in the package.
) usually get one in the package.Things worth bringing, decent bed, decent bedding, curtains, most other things you can ditch unless it's highend gear.
If there plumping for a car, and you can blag petrol/insurance, might as well get a honking huge SUV and rag that for a bit
Oct 12th 2006, 7:00 am
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Re: It's all happening now...
Originally Posted by Sarah
Ey up!! I'm from Blackburn aswell. I live in Pennsylvania now. I came over here in 2002 to escape working in Sainbury's and met a yank who I married two years later. Now I live here. Its better than Blackburn. Just.
Commiserations on moving to Michigan in January. I hope you like freezing your tits off.
Commiserations on moving to Michigan in January. I hope you like freezing your tits off.
Bob, I get what you mean about the cost of living thing - it's a balance between making it worth our while going and not taking the piss. Our finance director already said (half jokingly) that with the salary and relocation expenses I'd be the most expensive employee they have so I'd better be worth it...kind of puts the pressure on!
Oct 12th 2006, 7:06 am
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Re: It's all happening now...
Welcome to BsE!!!
Good luck for the move & the wedding! Wow, you must both be very brave, that's 2 of the most stressful things in life, all wrapped up in one! I hope everything works out for you both!
Good luck for the move & the wedding! Wow, you must both be very brave, that's 2 of the most stressful things in life, all wrapped up in one! I hope everything works out for you both!
Oct 12th 2006, 7:47 am
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Re: It's all happening now...
Originally Posted by Bob
good luck with it, but moving to Michigan, don't think you could push as hard as if you moved to the east or west coast, cost of living not being as harsh out there.
Things worth bringing, decent bed, decent bedding, curtains, most other things you can ditch unless it's highend gear.
If there plumping for a car, and you can blag petrol/insurance, might as well get a honking huge SUV and rag that for a bit
Things worth bringing, decent bed, decent bedding, curtains, most other things you can ditch unless it's highend gear.
If there plumping for a car, and you can blag petrol/insurance, might as well get a honking huge SUV and rag that for a bit
Decent bed? Bob the US king size beds are wonderful. We replaced ours last year with a KS memory foam mattress from...yep you guessed it...Costco...it is superb.
Oct 12th 2006, 7:53 am
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Re: It's all happening now...
Originally Posted by BrewMonkey
Ey up lass. We may even know each other! I used to go to Billinge and then Blackburn college. I worked the doors in Blackburn for a long time - the Cav (Peps, then Utopia) and a few dives like Never Never Land and C'est la vie etc :scared:
Bob, I get what you mean about the cost of living thing - it's a balance between making it worth our while going and not taking the piss. Our finance director already said (half jokingly) that with the salary and relocation expenses I'd be the most expensive employee they have so I'd better be worth it...kind of puts the pressure on!
Bob, I get what you mean about the cost of living thing - it's a balance between making it worth our while going and not taking the piss. Our finance director already said (half jokingly) that with the salary and relocation expenses I'd be the most expensive employee they have so I'd better be worth it...kind of puts the pressure on!
Don't forget healthcare/dental/optical costs too...how much will you have to pay and extras such as co-pays and meds.
Oct 12th 2006, 7:54 am
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Re: It's all happening now...
Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
Decent bed? Bob the US king size beds are wonderful. We replaced ours last year with a KS memory foam mattress from...yep you guessed it...Costco...it is superb.
Oct 12th 2006, 7:58 am
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Re: It's all happening now...
Originally Posted by Bob
yeah, but how much more expensive are they over here, bloomin' well pricey for a nice bed/mattress
Oct 12th 2006, 9:49 am
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Re: It's all happening now...
Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
Ours was about $750 for the mattress.
Oct 12th 2006, 10:39 am
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Re: It's all happening now...
Originally Posted by Bob
how much for the bed and boxframe?
Don't have a box frame...its a sleigh bed. You could put it on one of those horrid metal bed frames...you would have to put some wood supports on the frame. The mattress is very deep...the extra deep sheets only just fit. If we had a box frame I would need a ladder to climb into bed.
Does anyone else hate those old fashioned metal frames? Screwing legs on the base was much better...why don't they use those here?
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Oct 12th 2006, 10:55 am
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Re: It's all happening now...
Originally Posted by BrewMonkey
Ey up lass. We may even know each other! I used to go to Billinge and then Blackburn college. I worked the doors in Blackburn for a long time - the Cav (Peps, then Utopia) and a few dives like Never Never Land and C'est la vie etc :scared:
Bob, I get what you mean about the cost of living thing - it's a balance between making it worth our while going and not taking the piss. Our finance director already said (half jokingly) that with the salary and relocation expenses I'd be the most expensive employee they have so I'd better be worth it...kind of puts the pressure on!
Bob, I get what you mean about the cost of living thing - it's a balance between making it worth our while going and not taking the piss. Our finance director already said (half jokingly) that with the salary and relocation expenses I'd be the most expensive employee they have so I'd better be worth it...kind of puts the pressure on!
I worked at King Georges Hall as a teenager but I was more the kind of gal who went to The Grapes with her heavy metal-loving mates, drank two diet cokes, talked to her friends all night and then caught the last bus home. I only ever went to C'est La Vie if I wanted to give myself a headache.
After I came back from Uni I worked behind the bar at J.A.M (formerly The White Bull, by the boulevard)
I went to Blackburn college from '93 - '96.
Oct 12th 2006, 1:15 pm
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Re: It's all happening now...
Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
Does anyone else hate those old fashioned metal frames? Screwing legs on the base was much better...why don't they use those here?
Would leave more room for draws under the bed though wouldn't it...
Oct 13th 2006, 1:10 am
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Re: It's all happening now...
Originally Posted by Sarah
Crikey! You were a doorman in Blackburn! Did you have a death wish?
I used to hang out in the Jubilee quite a lot
hence my rubbish A-Level results (well, that and being forced to do courses I didn't want to do) and having quite a meandering path to where I am now. I certainly learned a lot more about life during those years 
Thanks to everyone for their helpful suggestions - my To Do list is growing by the minute...
Oct 13th 2006, 10:00 am
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Re: It's all happening now...
Originally Posted by BrewMonkey
To further complicate things, we're getting married at the end of January and are going to move the week after...
... We've got 3 cats, which will be coming with us. We'll be getting their rabies jabs done in a couple of weeks.
Stressful - but worth it (second wedding anniversary on Sunday in fact)!
Oct 15th 2006, 5:13 am
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Re: It's all happening now...
Originally Posted by BrewMonkey
It was what you could call 'character building'.
I used to hang out in the Jubilee quite a lot hence my rubbish A-Level results (well, that and being forced to do courses I didn't want to do) and having quite a meandering path to where I am now. I certainly learned a lot more about life during those years
Thanks to everyone for their helpful suggestions - my To Do list is growing by the minute...
I used to hang out in the Jubilee quite a lot
hence my rubbish A-Level results (well, that and being forced to do courses I didn't want to do) and having quite a meandering path to where I am now. I certainly learned a lot more about life during those years Thanks to everyone for their helpful suggestions - my To Do list is growing by the minute...
