Got to take my hat off to you for the "more culture in my yoghurt" comment, that is one of the best ones I have heard in a while. You should make it into a bumper sticker or badges and sell them to fellow countrymen, considering the move to Florida!

Is there any chance you could relocate within the US? the upper East coast has a much better offering, even some towns and cities with a bit more in the way of History, real working centre etc
I have spent time in Bangkok and Mexico city with work and it can be a bit mental, of course tons and tons of culture and history, only in Bangkok can you sit in a bar with a live boxing match placed in the middle of the bar, chat with 14 year old transvestite boys and watch them stick a live snake down your coworkers shorts at half time. second thoughts that could happen in New York or California!

It's ironic really I really really wanted to come to America, managed to secure a Green card very very easily , but I just don't "get it" now I'm here. I Kinda live inside my head unable to relate to most of the people round me. Would it make sense for me to say that culturally America certainly is different but not different enough. I fancy a touch of the exotic ie Mexico or Thailand, we've looked at Boston, and a few other places in the US , I certainly don't want to live in the UK again . We'll see what pans out..

Ain't that the truth!

I have been to lots and lots of places and have lived in Manchester UK, Peak District, Stoke-on-Trent, Manhattan NY and Fort Myers FL.

Everywhere has something to offer, even Stoke (although am hard pressed to remember it).The trick is to focus on the good stuff and let the bad pass you by.

Mexico and Bangkok both have a higher crime rate (sfaik) worse medical care, language issues, Hurricanes/Typhoons....the list goes on if you want to be negative about it (and I love Thailand).

The worst thing in Fort Myers is/are the Snowbirds, but they have all gone home to one of the vowel-states. Of course we now have red tide so the beaches are unuseable and it's raining like kingdom come at the moment.

All my neighbours are Bible-Bashing-Baptists but it doesn't stop them being good neghbours.

However FtM generally still beats living in most other places I have rested my head at night.

Red tide? is that due to animals having been killed

Now why did I read that as Bible-Bashing-Rapists?

I get your point about looking for the good and ignoring the bad, but the truth is that Florida simply ain't working for us . I need the buzz of a city again and I need a touch of adventure, and I ain't finding it here.

It's an algae bloom that takes the oxygen out of the water and and suffocates the fish. They wash up on the beaches in their thousands. I have even seen a 4' shark dead on the beach in Venice FL.

The stench of the dead fish and the algae stings your eyes and affects your breathing, particularly if you have Asthma or some other similar problem.

No!!! its from the sacrificial virgins ..we feed to the sharks ....

Loadabollox - there aren't any virgins left over the age of 16, so my younger 8-ball buddies tell me.

I do hope there is a few ..age of consent is 18 ....

Tell that to the 20 year old in our office who has a 5-year old.

Immaculate conception...

The grass isnt any greener on this side of the pond!!! It would be almost impossible for you to get here and earn a living. You have the whole of Europe to consider?? Why Florida???

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