Moving to the US?



AndrewP said:
I love it too, might move there one day.

I'm worried I'm romanticising it a bit though.

The climate is fantastic and having a pool etc would be great.
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Think the good times you have on holiday there will always be different to loving there

However i would love to give it a go but these days just getting back there on holiday would do
 
Darlo1973 said:
In the UK people will moan if you invite them to a 9am meeting. In the US, 8am meetings are normal and last week I had someone in the US arrange a meeting at 7am their time.
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My boss starts his Fay at 4:30 and tried to invite me to team meetings at 5am.... after 6 weeks of declining those invites he asked why... I told him Iā€™m not doing that shit that early. He now records them and I watch them on demand.
 
If I won the lottery I'd buy a business in the hill country Texas as it's a beautiful part of the world then but a ranch with loads of land. That's my dream for sure! Or divorce the wife and find a rich old American lady to spoil me rotten.
 
AndrewP said:
Oh yeah definitely.

How did they sort the visa issue?
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Visa is part of the process in buying the business. Business has to be viable and look to employ Americans at some point.

Most common businesses seem to be pool cleaner, gardening, property management, cleaning company etc., Although it can be anything really. Know a few who have opened Fish and Chip shops, tea rooms etc.
 
Bollotti said:
Visa is part of the process in buying the business. Business has to be viable and look to employ Americans at some point.

Most common businesses seem to be pool cleaner, gardening, property management, cleaning company etc., Although it can be anything really. Know a few who have opened Fish and Chip shops, tea rooms etc.
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I did wonder how all those Brits who manage villas got the visa!
 
Pete the Pirate said:
Great place to visit obviously but if I can be honest I would find the prospect of living there terrifying.
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Why?

The country has its problems but if you have a bit of cash / decent job you're pretty well insulated from them. It's so big one America rarely sees the other.

I'm not saying this inequality is right just things like gun/ gang violence are only really problems for a minority and concentrated in inner city areas youd never visit.
 
Apache Inbound said:
Donā€™t worry about Kamala - sheā€™s in charge of the border but is too busy giggling into microphones or giving interviews to CNN to be arsed on.
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Kamala Harris is everything you hate, isn't she ?

Well-educated, intelligent, successful, articulate, funny, highly capable, to the left of you (which isn't saying much. So was Genghis Khan), part Jamaican, part South Asian, and a woman.
 
jaxaxe said:
Kamala Harris is everything you hate, isn't she ?

Well-educated, intelligent, successful, articulate, funny, highly capable, to the left of you (which isn't saying much. So was Genghis Khan), part Jamaican, part South Asian, and a woman.
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No, just her abject failure as a craven politician overseeing a humanitarian disaster at the border which is seeing 80% of women and girls being raped on their way.

Oh, but sheā€™s now handing out her own superhero book to kids now so I guess thatā€™s ok.
 
Apache Inbound said:
No, just her abject failure as a craven politician overseeing a humanitarian disaster at the border which is seeing 80% of women and girls being raped on their way.
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What short memories we have. She's been in office for literally weeks.

Trump and Pence presided over this disaster for four years. Trump added to it, separating kids from families and putting them in cages.

The Worshippers of the Bloated Orange Man-God don't get to pin this one on the new administration, who have their hands full dealing with the mess they have been landed with.
 
jaxaxe said:
What short memories we have. She's been in office for literally weeks.

Trump and Pence presided over this disaster for four years. Trump added to it, separating kids from families and putting them in cages.

The Worshippers of the Bloated Orange Man-God don't get to pin this one on the new administration, who have their hands full dealing with the mess they have been landed with.
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Don't feed the troll.
 
Pete the Pirate said:
Great place to visit obviously but if I can be honest I would find the prospect of living there terrifying.
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i get that. seeing a routine car check turn into 3 cops dragging someone out of a car at gunpoint was slightly unnerving. then again, i've been stopped before and he didn't even check my licence or the cars registration.

i still get unnerved when walking through the tube on a morning and there's two coppers with assault rifles tbf. i know they're there for our safety, but still unnerving.

it's an amazing place to live but certainly has it's drawbacks. i've been to the best and worst of areas here and there and the worst is far worse there.
 

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