My love for my family and the fact that I'm in a US college are the only things keeping me here in the US. Trust me, dude, I love this country, but once most of my family (who are pretty old) pass on and I graduate, I'm heading abroad for a while...
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What's wrong with our army?KaiRai said:
No offense, but I think if you're gona join the forces, you should join them in your native country, but then I'm pretty patriotic about stuff like that so hey.
You could just move to a different part of the UK and see how you get on there. If you still feel the same then maybe think about moving to the USA, but I cant see how it would really be any better than here. But then I like it here haha :/
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This surprises me, I always thought the army was keen for enlisted men. You cant make an army out of officers and other personell, you need squaddies.
I'm guessing it's because of budget cuts or something? But then I would've thought squaddies are cheaper to train than most other roles in the army?
You're thinking of Starship Troopers.Pandalisk said:
Also if you move to the US you'll miss out on Escapism UK. The best part of living here.
Uh, I actually thought you were talking about the US with those problems. It's not any better, maybe worse.KaiRai said:
You Brits are so wimpy about heat. I don't particularly like summer where I'm at, but only because it's too humid. You get used to temperature changes pretty quickly though. Seattle is also about as drab as the UK, so he could always move there if he's afraid of sunlight.Squarez said:
Personally, I'd go to Australia. Funny accents and great beaches. The easiest way to get residency here is probably marriage or an anchor baby. After that, citizenship can take a while.
Well the US army is always a good choice for a job and it can be used to pay for college if wanted. Oh and don't listen to people that say the weather is unbearable over here, it's totally dependent on where you live. If you want somewhere cool then I would suggest the Northeast because that has weather similar to Britain I'm guessing. Plus there is a much wider range of great food over here if that's important.
Of course there's going to be difficulties when moving to any other countries so you shouldn't do anything too rash without really mulling it over.
Of course there's going to be difficulties when moving to any other countries so you shouldn't do anything too rash without really mulling it over.
this has nothing to do with your post...but whats with all the Lucky Star avitars...when i had me Elfen Lied one on i kept seeing alot of Elfen Lied ones....now that i have a Lucky Star one....well...yeah.Mechsoap said:
I married an american girl and moved from SE England to Ohio, USA. Yep don't have the NHS here but we actually have hospitals that won't kill you and police officers that give a damn. Although I seemed to arrive just before the "annointed one" took office so I guess I brought nanny state and socialist policies with me...sorry about that.
From start to finish the whole immigration nonsense from the actual act of marriage in the USA to me actually stepping off a plane and being a permanent resident took 2 years. You must be in good health and in your case if you're not moving to live with someone or have no work lined up you'd need an affidavit of support, that is someone willing to sponsor you for the first year financially, that is to say you won't arrive and start claiming benefits the second you get here, any "benefits" you would claim would come out of the sponsors pocket and not the governments.
You can gain citizenship status through the US Army if you wanted but i'm pretty sure you'd have to be a permanent resident or be living in the USA with some form of legal status to begin with.
Only move to Canada if you want an even more expensive version of the UK...plus the risk of meeting quebecans *shudder*
My advice, short of falling for an american girl like me, as others have suggested, try getting work in a more remote part of the UK where the government isn't breathing down your neck so much and people actually still talk to each other like human beings or try another EU country if leftist politics aren't the concern.
From start to finish the whole immigration nonsense from the actual act of marriage in the USA to me actually stepping off a plane and being a permanent resident took 2 years. You must be in good health and in your case if you're not moving to live with someone or have no work lined up you'd need an affidavit of support, that is someone willing to sponsor you for the first year financially, that is to say you won't arrive and start claiming benefits the second you get here, any "benefits" you would claim would come out of the sponsors pocket and not the governments.
You can gain citizenship status through the US Army if you wanted but i'm pretty sure you'd have to be a permanent resident or be living in the USA with some form of legal status to begin with.
Only move to Canada if you want an even more expensive version of the UK...plus the risk of meeting quebecans *shudder*
My advice, short of falling for an american girl like me, as others have suggested, try getting work in a more remote part of the UK where the government isn't breathing down your neck so much and people actually still talk to each other like human beings or try another EU country if leftist politics aren't the concern.
Leaving your country, and coming to America seems like a bad idea (unless, you know, you're leaving a 3rd-world country where dinner consists of rape and murder). Why not move to another place that speaks English, and has better Health-care (than the States)?
Please tell me you're kidding. I live here in the US and every day I wish I could get the hell out and move somewhere like Britain. For starters, you've got no idea how nice socialized healthcare is. People here pay thousands of dollars every year to insurance companies that are just waiting for them to fill out a form wrong so that they can deny them for the healthcare they paid for. And if you do get denied, or can't get healthcare in the first place, you'll either have to end up in massive debt, or just not get better. It's like having a sword hanging over your head.KaiRai said:
Admittedly, a lot of the food we get here is cheeper, but it's also incredibly bad for you. All westernized nations have abnormally high rates of cancer and diabetes as a result of processed food, but here in the US processed food is the only option unless you can both afford whole foods and have the time to cook. I remember when I visited Britain, I'd go into a Tesco and think to myself "wow, I wish I could get actual food like this in a grocery store in the US."
It's not like our economy is any better off than yours is either. I know people who've been looking for employment for months and still haven't had any luck. Coming over here for money reasons doesn't make any sense, because even if your unhealthy groceries ultimately cost less, they make you sick more often, so you have to buy really expensive healthcare. Also, very few American cities have well developed public transportation, meaning you'll probably have to buy a car, pay for gas, insurance, repairs, etc... I seriously wish we actually had a good public transport system here where I live. But what we've got is horrible, and most US cities actually have a worse public transportation system than we do.
I wouldn't want to join the US army either. Even though we're starting to decline our troop deployments, we're far from done. I've got a couple friends who've been stop-lossed. Don't know if that's a term that's used in Britain, but what it means is that if you join the army, and get deployed overseas (which you almost inevitably will, since we're still fucking around in Afghanistan) that even after your term of duty is over, they can declare you stop-lossed and send you right back without giving you the option to quit active duty.
If you want to move here, that's your business, but just make sure you've done your research and that it'll actually be worth it before you do. Moving to he US would probably just add strain to your wallet, instead of magically solving all your problems.
Hahahaha! That's just about one of the funniest things I've ever heard.Pokey2shoes said:
Here to there the price numbers on just about everything are the same, with the significant difference of one being in dollars and the other in pounds. A £20 meal doesn't seem unreasonable until you realize it's actually $32 and throw up a little.
And you'll only meet someone from Quebec if you go to Quebec, and it's a pretty easy place to avoid if you need to.
Ah! Exactly bro. If you go to the US, you lose first dibs on Doctor Who. Therefore, everyone else's argument is redered invalid.Jack and Calumon said:
Just move to a better place in the UK, try to get away from chavs especially. However, that will probably be difficult.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I heard that enlisting in the US army is one of the fastest ways to EARN citizenship. Apparently you do not have to be a citizen to join - but if you do, you can become a citizen after just one tour. I saw it on TV.
Why not keep your UK citizenship? You can have dual US-UK citizenship, just as you can have US-Australian citizenship or UK-Australian Citizenship. That would be best. That way, you can still leg it back if things in the US don't work out as you intended.
Living in the UK has its problems, but living anywhere has problems. The US is a fine country to live in, but it's not a paradise by any means, according to the people that left it to come to Australia. Australia's not a paradise either, for that matter - in fact, no country is perfect.
Why not keep your UK citizenship? You can have dual US-UK citizenship, just as you can have US-Australian citizenship or UK-Australian Citizenship. That would be best. That way, you can still leg it back if things in the US don't work out as you intended.
Living in the UK has its problems, but living anywhere has problems. The US is a fine country to live in, but it's not a paradise by any means, according to the people that left it to come to Australia. Australia's not a paradise either, for that matter - in fact, no country is perfect.