Tammy1629

Please don't hold this against me that I am American here on your page, I love the British I always have and hope to make some new friends here. I am in Olathe which is a part of the Greater kansas City area

Mr Weeze

As long as you get humour you'll be fine.

SultanOfSwing

There are loads of Americans already on here, so you're not alone. Then you have the Brits who have become US citzens as well, if that counts ...

Tammy1629

I know I will love it here, I love humour, and I will enjoy the friendships I make here

MarylandNed

It doesn't

Seriously, I became a USC about 6 years ago but it doesn't make me American. I don't think I'll ever be that. Having been raised in Northern Ireland, I consider myself Irish first and foremost. After that, I have much more in common with the British as I went to uni in England, lived/worked there afterwards and got married there. I have Canadian citizenship too but I certainly don't consider myself Canadian - although I am certainly more in tune with the Canadian view on life and the world in general than I am with the American one. The longer I live in the US, the stranger and more baffling it becomes to me.

Jerseygirl

Welcome!

As others have said we have several American members...so you are not alone. Just accept us for what we are...a bunch of very helpful people, who like a good moan and have a wicked sense of humour.

SultanOfSwing

It does for immigration purposes at least. I might be British by birth and I'm certainly culturally British but if I ever want to travel out of the country (irrespective of which one I use at my destination), it'll be on an American passport.

MarylandNed

Yeah, but the passport you carry doesn't define you. And the OP is American anyway so I doubt there is much need for US immigration advice.

SultanOfSwing

I was being facetious.

MarylandNed

See? I've obviously been here too long. Completely lost my sense of humor/humour.

SultanOfSwing

No, I'm just really good at it

Pulaski

Hi Tammy, welcome to BE. As Sultan said, you are not alone as a USC, and a good number of us are naturalised dual citizens.

Please note, humour includes irony, ... and bare-faced sarcasm.

Most of us here with posts in the thousands know where to draw the line, and the moderators do sterling work in keeping us in line! If you'd care to look at threads over the past few months the threads with hundreds of posts will show you what the hot topics here have been, and may enable you to get to know some of the "key players" here. Please stay around and have some fun!

Pulaski

That's so not like you!

civilservant

Amen to that.

You can take the boy out of Somerset, and all that

to BE

SultanOfSwing

Oh, stop it you

Just be thankful you're not from this town, or you'd think twice about using that rhyme