Thinking about purchasing a home in Miami
Dec 18th 2009, 5:43 pm
#47
Sleepless In Chicago
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Re: Thinking about purchasing a home in Miami
To be honest, the post in question, is fine. It depends how you read it.
Dec 18th 2009, 6:24 pm
#51
Sleepless In Chicago
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Re: Thinking about purchasing a home in Miami
Nobody is going to entertain those questions until you explain how you will get legal authorisation to live and work in the USA.
Many people want to come to the USA, but over 99% of them don't have a sniff of getting a visa.
Perhaps you could start by giving some info in that area - if you don't have a chance of a visa then all other questions are irrelevant.
Many people want to come to the USA, but over 99% of them don't have a sniff of getting a visa.
Perhaps you could start by giving some info in that area - if you don't have a chance of a visa then all other questions are irrelevant.
Helwardman:
Re read the above without your thumb in your mouth.
Dec 18th 2009, 6:28 pm
#52
Lost in BE Cyberspace
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Re: Thinking about purchasing a home in Miami
I have an idea.
There should be a code for people asking questions here, along the lines of 'no agents', to be added at the end of the post.
eg
"I have visited US on holiday and would like to live there. Can you give me some information please. POSITIVE ONLY"
There should be a code for people asking questions here, along the lines of 'no agents', to be added at the end of the post.
eg
"I have visited US on holiday and would like to live there. Can you give me some information please. POSITIVE ONLY"
Dec 18th 2009, 7:14 pm
#54
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Re: Thinking about purchasing a home in Miami
What would you prefer... a) a bunch of mushy, oozy posts entreating you to go ahead and spend your hard-earned money on a nice house and all will be rosy tomorrow morning when the sun once again shines oh, so sweetly on the good earth; or b) a bunch of right-to-the-point posts warning you of the dangers of buying a house in the US without any forethought whatsoever as to whether or not you can actually ever live in that house?
I don't know about you, but I'd prefer the hard-nose approach - a jolt of reality never hurts.
Ian
I don't know about you, but I'd prefer the hard-nose approach - a jolt of reality never hurts.
Ian
And now I'm going to risk the wrath of a lot of the BE people here and go out on a limb by saying something that has bothered me for a while: A lot of your answers to these naive people are downright nasty and remind me of school bullys all sniggering together. So I know there are forum ettiquette rules they are breaking (general rules, not specifically BE) such as searching for previous relevent posts or looking at the sticky for visas etc, but I think a lot of people actually take pleasure in flaming them down. It's turned into a sport! I understand you get fed up with answering the same questions over and over, but why doesn't somebody be constructive and create a quick copy and paste answer telling them to search and look at the sticky? And then everybody else can ignore it!
Come on guys, where are your manners? After all, we are British!
OK, I've got that off my chest, now you can be the good sports that you are and flame me down too
Dec 18th 2009, 8:16 pm
#57
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Re: Thinking about purchasing a home in Miami
Or how about c) somewhere in the middle? Nothing wrong with the truth, but there are nicer ways to break bad news to them.
And now I'm going to risk the wrath of a lot of the BE people here and go out on a limb by saying something that has bothered me for a while: A lot of your answers to these naive people are downright nasty and remind me of school bullys all sniggering together. So I know there are forum ettiquette rules they are breaking (general rules, not specifically BE) such as searching for previous relevent posts or looking at the sticky for visas etc, but I think a lot of people actually take pleasure in flaming them down. It's turned into a sport! I understand you get fed up with answering the same questions over and over, but why doesn't somebody be constructive and create a quick copy and paste answer telling them to search and look at the sticky? And then everybody else can ignore it!
Come on guys, where are your manners? After all, we are British!
OK, I've got that off my chest, now you can be the good sports that you are and flame me down too
And now I'm going to risk the wrath of a lot of the BE people here and go out on a limb by saying something that has bothered me for a while: A lot of your answers to these naive people are downright nasty and remind me of school bullys all sniggering together. So I know there are forum ettiquette rules they are breaking (general rules, not specifically BE) such as searching for previous relevent posts or looking at the sticky for visas etc, but I think a lot of people actually take pleasure in flaming them down. It's turned into a sport! I understand you get fed up with answering the same questions over and over, but why doesn't somebody be constructive and create a quick copy and paste answer telling them to search and look at the sticky? And then everybody else can ignore it!
Come on guys, where are your manners? After all, we are British!
OK, I've got that off my chest, now you can be the good sports that you are and flame me down too
Dec 18th 2009, 8:25 pm
#58
Forum Regular
Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 125
Re: Thinking about purchasing a home in Miami
If we made stickies to cover the questions asked by new members the first page of the forum would be full of them...and I bet they still wouldn't read them. What's the difference between asking someone to look at a sticky vs asking them to look in the Wiki or search for past threads?
Dec 18th 2009, 8:35 pm
#60
Septicity
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 23,762
Re: Thinking about purchasing a home in Miami
It's called a wiki. If you want to write a page for "I want a holiday home in Florida" then we already have the facility here. And links at the top to point to it. Get writing and stick it up there.