Why move to the US?
Oct 5th 2012, 9:55 pm
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Re: Why move to the US?
Well being born and raised in California may invalidate my opinion. However, here is my two cents. I lived in both the UK and the US. I did not, as an American find the class snobbery, but it may not have applied because I am American. I did find people reluctant to live around people who did not share their accent. I also did not realize there are about 68 accents there 
People tend to live and work all within a 20-40 mile range of their home.
As someone mentioned its a big world out there and everyone should have the opportunity to experience it. My biggest pet peeve about the UK is "customs". I just couldnt understand why I had to pay a fee for something mailed to me from the USA.
Besides for that the UK is lovely, and it is much more culturally forward thinking, in many ways above the USA. OK thats my two cents
People tend to live and work all within a 20-40 mile range of their home.
As someone mentioned its a big world out there and everyone should have the opportunity to experience it. My biggest pet peeve about the UK is "customs". I just couldnt understand why I had to pay a fee for something mailed to me from the USA.
Besides for that the UK is lovely, and it is much more culturally forward thinking, in many ways above the USA. OK thats my two cents
Oct 5th 2012, 9:56 pm
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Re: Why move to the US?
Yes I hate that sort of grilling but then they are hardly going to ask you what your ontological stance on Zen Buddhism is, are they?
Oct 5th 2012, 10:01 pm
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Re: Why move to the US?
Well being born and raised in California may invalidate my opinion. However, here is my two cents. I lived in both the UK and the US. I did not, as an American find the class snobbery, but it may not have applied because I am American. I did find people reluctant to live around people who did not share their accent. I also did not realize there are about 68 accents there
People tend to live and work all within a 20-40 mile range of their home.
As someone mentioned its a big world out there and everyone should have the opportunity to experience it. My biggest pet peeve about the UK is "customs". I just couldnt understand why I had to pay a fee for something mailed to me from the USA.
Besides for that the UK is lovely, and it is much more culturally forward thinking, in many ways above the USA. OK thats my two cents
People tend to live and work all within a 20-40 mile range of their home.
As someone mentioned its a big world out there and everyone should have the opportunity to experience it. My biggest pet peeve about the UK is "customs". I just couldnt understand why I had to pay a fee for something mailed to me from the USA.
Besides for that the UK is lovely, and it is much more culturally forward thinking, in many ways above the USA. OK thats my two cents
Oct 5th 2012, 11:02 pm
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Oct 6th 2012, 2:26 am
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Re: Why move to the US?
If that is all you experience of class snobbery here, then you are still in a fairly homogeneous area. If you live in a city, you will just about never see the urban lower income mixing with the urban and suburban middle income class socially.
Oct 6th 2012, 3:35 am
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Oct 6th 2012, 8:18 am
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Been in the US for 10 yrs now. See the USA as much more affordable, better climate, more positive attitude and much better service. Re. healthcare...I have a high-deductable policy ( $5k )...premium of $120 a month, after which I'm 100% covered. Pretty happy with it. I'm 55 yrs old.
Visiting the UK...I really don't know how they live there. A bulldozer couldn't drag me back! Even if the USA is not your thing....there's so many places in the world...why choose dirty, crowded, expensive old UK?
Visiting the UK...I really don't know how they live there. A bulldozer couldn't drag me back! Even if the USA is not your thing....there's so many places in the world...why choose dirty, crowded, expensive old UK?
Oct 6th 2012, 8:30 am
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Re: Why move to the US?
Yes it is out there but for $$ the thing is here you can be wealthy and you're gonna get seriously ill at one point- If u have no healthcare and you new treatment- what happens to that massive bill you just ran up? No- healthcare in Europe is not 'free' but man- I never paid as much to the NHS as some healthcare polices charge- the issue is health insurance- not care- but ha such little return. I STILL get bills out the ying yang. Apparently it takes 3 locations and countless staff to read hcg levels for a pregnant woman and cost the insurance company 200$$ and cost me and additional $28- the system is broken. I heard one young woman at work saying ' I just hope I dont get sick when I'm older' hate to break it to ya kiddo!! Some people where I work have said they could never pay their medical bills off in ther lifetime- but hey ho- they don't want people 'abusing' the system!' However if America for this overnight it would create a mass frenzy if people getting treatment. Lol- I'd just like to live here and not worry about the cost of calling an ambulance or working so so hard to get in debt suing retirement- a lot of issues tie into healthcare- sick leave- maternity- old timers staying longer in work for coverage- somethinga gotta give.
Oct 6th 2012, 1:27 pm
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Re: Why move to the US?
Very true, there's still a lot of middle class snobbery in the UK, they don't know what hard work is, most are on benefits but still take a holiday every year because with benefits they can afford it. So why come to the US they would have to work .
I myself wouldn't want to live anywhere else, especially when I go back to England every few years I can't wait to get back here, no middle class snobbery here , people don't care if you work at McDonald's or clean houses for a living.The only problem will be when the Obama health care takes effect next year, that will be the downfall of this country, it's going to be socialized health care no matter what there trying to call it, where do people think all this money's going to come from to pay for it....working class taxes of course.
I myself wouldn't want to live anywhere else, especially when I go back to England every few years I can't wait to get back here, no middle class snobbery here , people don't care if you work at McDonald's or clean houses for a living.The only problem will be when the Obama health care takes effect next year, that will be the downfall of this country, it's going to be socialized health care no matter what there trying to call it, where do people think all this money's going to come from to pay for it....working class taxes of course.
Oct 6th 2012, 4:42 pm
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Re: Why move to the US?
Been in the US for 10 yrs now. See the USA as much more affordable, better climate, more positive attitude and much better service. Re. healthcare...I have a high-deductable policy ( $5k )...premium of $120 a month, after which I'm 100% covered. Pretty happy with it. I'm 55 yrs old.
Oct 6th 2012, 5:01 pm
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Re: Why move to the US?
Unless its through your employer? And also is it really 100% covere after deductible we have a similar plan but it is of what is 'eligible' towards a deductible and is it 100% covered of what is eligible after decidable met?? Eg we had a child- 1k went towards our 2500k deductible and paid the balance of what wasn't 'eligible' towards it- make sense? We paid about a total of 5-6k for a csection