I'm just curious...

Europe is big , Canada , South America as well ...America is just one place..if you move around America you'll have obstacles in getting yourself acclimated...I think it's just people having a certain mindset that things will be x , y and z but then are hit a curveball and all sudden they rationalize that things would be better somewhere else. My parents moved over to America when I was little and we moved a whole lot more when my dad went into the Navy...it was always the grass will be greener ...oh hang on the grass was greener where we were...It's all about getting acclimated. There's always options wherever you go or most places you live...America is big and yes there are options but then again that can be said with any area ...I just think it's the security blanket of familarity for some. Nothing wrong with that ...I do have respect for those that spend time in another country even for a short while.

I've lived apart from my family for years and only saw them a few times a year.  But we're very close.  Unfortunately we've always had schedules or lived too far away to see each other.  So we have always talked when things went wrong.  And I relied on myself and my knowledge that things would get better (I'm always positive it will) to get through things.  When my life felt like it had gotten the worse it could get about 2-1/2 years ago, my dad actually almost drove through the night to come to me (thinking I might be suicidal)...but I told him not to.  I had to deal with it.  I guess I'm a bit of a very independent gal that way...always have been.  And now I use my bf and my friends here when I'm feeling a bit low (which is rare).  I miss my family and my friends...but I have them in my heart, I can call them whenever and I know that if I truly needed to see them, then they would come my way or they'd help me to get to them.  I don't plan on ever moving back to the US (though you never know what life will bring).  I think that, in an of itself, has helped me to adjust to being here.

I guess it all depends on your frame of mind.  I have a very good life here in the US.  I won't be leaving here to run away from anything.  I will be running TO something, that is my dear sweet Simon.  I will miss this country.  I will miss being a sappy patriotic American who cries at the National Anthem, who waves a flag and stands to attention when the veterans pass in the Memorial Day Parade, and who is proud to tell anyone who will listen that she's an American and what it means to me.  I will also miss my family and my lovely little home. We don't live close, but we are close.  I speak to my mother who lives in another state almost every other day, and I see my dad about every two weeks.  I'm not the type of woman who has skads of friends and goes out all the time so that I won't miss.  But I know I will miss the freedom of driving when and where I want.

But - I won't miss being alone.  I won't miss the three hour phone conversations that end with me just aching to be with him, or crying myself to sleep.  I won't miss the crazy hectic planning and worrying about timing, visas, work, wedding, moving, selling house, etc. 

We will be together and that will be all that matters.  I will start a new life.  Been there, done that, know I can handle anything.

It won't be easy.  I'm not expecting it to be, in fact, I'm expecting it to be extremely stressful and difficult to make this transition.  But I just know in my heart of hearts it will be worth it. 

And I can always go back home for a visit. 

~Liza

I guess it all depends on your frame of mind.  I have a very good life here in the US.  I won't be leaving here to run away from anything.  I will be running TO something, that is my dear sweet Simon.  I will miss this country.  I will miss being a sappy patriotic American who cries at the National Anthem, who waves a flag and stands to attention when the veterans pass in the Memorial Day Parade, and who is proud to tell anyone who will listen that she's an American and what it means to me.  I will also miss my family and my lovely little home. We don't live close, but we are close.  I speak to my mother who lives in another state almost every other day, and I see my dad about every two weeks.  I'm not the type of woman who has skads of friends and goes out all the time so that I won't miss.  But I know I will miss the freedom of driving when and where I want.

But - I won't miss being alone.  I won't miss the three hour phone conversations that end with me just aching to be with him, or crying myself to sleep.  I won't miss the crazy hectic planning and worrying about timing, visas, work, wedding, moving, selling house, etc. 

We will be together and that will be all that matters.  I will start a new life.  Been there, done that, know I can handle anything.

It won't be easy.  I'm not expecting it to be, in fact, I'm expecting it to be extremely stressful and difficult to make this transition.  But I just know in my heart of hearts it will be worth it. 

And I can always go back home for a visit. 

~Liza

Wonderfully put!!!  I couldn't of said it any better if I had said it myself.  While I am having such great and memorable experiences living here in the UK, I would be lying if I said I wasn't looking forward to the day he gets out of the Royal Marines and we move to the states.