What brought you to the USA?
Feb 16th 2006, 8:11 am
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Re: What brought you to the USA?
Originally Posted by izibear
I have often been asked if I know Mandela ....ha!ha!ha!
Feb 16th 2006, 8:19 am
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Re: What brought you to the USA?
Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
Me too but it was Princess Diana lol
Feb 16th 2006, 8:24 am
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Re: What brought you to the USA?
Originally Posted by Partystar
The Queen is a popular one too!!!
Feb 16th 2006, 8:28 am
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Re: What brought you to the USA?
Originally Posted by woodsey
I was in a taxi in San francisco and the driver had been a student at Brighton Poly several years before, he asked me if I knew a Palestinian guy called Taf that he'd been friends with and bizarrely enough it was my Uncle..
Feb 16th 2006, 8:30 am
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Re: What brought you to the USA?
Originally Posted by izibear
Wow, small world!!!
Feb 16th 2006, 8:38 am
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Re: What brought you to the USA?
Originally Posted by woodsey
exactly, LOL! freaked me out a bit though, of all the taxis to get in we got in his..
I asked him which base, to which he replies RAF Croughton. Which is very very unusual as the base is tiny, it doesn't even have planes on it (unless you count the 2 on display at the front gate!)!!! I told him that's where we were based for 5 years & we talked about it for a while! I was gob smacked that he knew everything I was talking about, it was actually very cool.
However, he didn't ask me if I knew so & so!!!
Feb 16th 2006, 8:54 am
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Re: What brought you to the USA?
Originally Posted by blaze
What was the original reason that you moved to the USA or Canada? Not necessarily what keeps you here (there), but what made you come here in the first place. So many of us seem to say that we would go home in a heartbeat, so what was the event or reason that made you take the plunge and move? For me it was meeting my American husband 16 years ago in Britain and moving with him. If it had not been for that chance meeting my life would be so incredibly different right now and I would probably still be living in Britain.
Hell if someone would have told me sooner that I an ugly mug like me could get away with just having a British accent I'd have been here sooner, amen to USA chicks.
Feb 16th 2006, 9:02 am
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Re: What brought you to the USA?
[QUOTE=britontour], land of the free .[/QUOT
errrr what exactly is free...pls remind us all
errrr what exactly is free...pls remind us all
Feb 16th 2006, 9:08 am
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Re: What brought you to the USA?
[QUOTE=TruBrit]
Think he might be free and single so thats what he means by free and bless USA chicks !!!!!
Originally Posted by britontour
, land of the free .[/QUOT
errrr what exactly is free...pls remind us all
errrr what exactly is free...pls remind us all
Feb 16th 2006, 9:09 am
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Re: What brought you to the USA?
[QUOTE=lolly]
lol lolly
Originally Posted by TruBrit
Think he might be free and single so thats what he means by free and bless USA chicks !!!!!
lol lolly
Feb 16th 2006, 9:17 am
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Re: What brought you to the USA?
[QUOTE=TruBrit]
Free porn on the internet.......
and a free to use forum for all here..... the tight bastards...
Originally Posted by britontour
, land of the free .[/QUOT
errrr what exactly is free...pls remind us all
errrr what exactly is free...pls remind us all
and a free to use forum for all here..... the tight bastards...
Feb 16th 2006, 9:27 am
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Re: What brought you to the USA?
Originally Posted by Rete
I originally moved here in 1948 because my USC, dad, married my German Citizen, mom. We came on an Army cargo plane and landed in Springfield, MA.
Feb 16th 2006, 9:32 am
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Re: What brought you to the USA?
Originally Posted by britontour
Land of opportunity, land of the free and of course disneyland, bought into all that and along with a works tranfer.
Hell if someone would have told me sooner that I an ugly mug like me could get away with just having a British accent I'd have been here sooner, amen to USA chicks.
Hell if someone would have told me sooner that I an ugly mug like me could get away with just having a British accent I'd have been here sooner, amen to USA chicks.
Feb 17th 2006, 11:46 am
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Re: What brought you to the USA?
Originally Posted by blaze
So many of us seem to say that we would go home in a heartbeat
Yes, most of the people who need forums like this want to go home. Those of us who are doing well and like it here usually don't bother with these things, so I'm adding a bit of balance.
I came here in the early 90's. Recession, 14% mortgage rates, 10% inflation. Remember? Company I worked for fell apart and almost went bankrupt. I needed a fresh start, and I ended up in Florida, US citizen now. Never going back. My relatives are always coming over and saying how crap things are in the UK. Got a bunch of friends who are retiring early form UK and spending as much time as possible in Florida. That's got the tell you something.
Feb 17th 2006, 11:47 am
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Re: What brought you to the USA?
Originally Posted by blaze
Some guy asked me the other day if I realized that everytime there is an article on the news about Iraq or the war that it is almost always a British journalist, he reckoned it was because we have more trustworthy voices!
yep we've noticed that, guess coz we speak proper like
