any happy americans living in the UK?

I think Belindaloo already agreed with you on that point, Honeybee.

Thanks, c.h.

I think I am going to contridict myself here now......after dh has been talking lately now about moving back to the USA....I find myself kinda scared........there is no way in hell I want to go back to the kind of life I had there....I was on food stamps and lived in a really crappy house. Not sure who to pay first.......or if I had money who I could pay......I know that was living with my ex......and my dh is 100x brighter than my ex........

but I use to say the first chance I would go back.......now I don't know........I am happy here........

there is no way in hell I want to go back to the kind of life I had there....I was on food stamps and lived in a really crappy house. Not sure who to pay first.......or if I had money who I could pay......

I have nightmares about getting stuck over there . . .

I just want to comment that on message boards, in general, people tend to post when something is bothering them or they have a problem, so they can get advice or support.  People don't often post to say "I'm still fine. Nothing has changed."

So you can get an unrealistically negative view of things sometimes by just reading posts on a message board.

I know I complain about things once in a while but overall, I am very happy here. 

I have nightmares about getting stuck over there . . .

On a trip to visit my mother in February of 2004, I was having a hard time at the car rental place and I actually collapsed in tears in the car park at the thought of missing my plane HOME to the UK.

The thought of getting stuck there and not being able to get back terrifies me.

On a trip to visit my mother in February of 2004, I was having a hard time at the car rental place and I actually collapsed in tears in the car park at the thought of missing my plane HOME to the UK.

The thought of getting stuck there and not being able to get back terrifies me.

This is me too! I stress out when I have to leave here and when I get to the USA I just cant wait to get home. I usually show up at the airport at least 3 hours early and just wait. Being in the airport makes me feel better because I know its the next step to getting home.
Last time I went to the USA my mother was taking me to the airport and she actually went the wrong way! So we turned around and we got stuck in traffic! I had just 30 min when I got to the airport and I had to check in and clear security. I never ran so fast in my life!!

lol! I don't have a fear of being stuck at the border sort of speak...as long as that stamp is on my passport I'm fine and happy to visit back and forth when and if I need to..

although I do get fears that Jess would find the passports and peel off the indefinately leave to remain stamps off though...*shiver ,cringe*

your ILR is a sticker?

mine is stamped PERMANANTLY on the page...I guess with the IOM being it's own government it is done a bit differently.....I didn't have to pay a Penny for mine either...no forms. no nothing just took my passport back a year later and they stamped it with a different stamp.........said they ya go...you are permanant.

My original ILR sticker was like a large postage stamp in a page of my passport. Last year I had the airport re-stamp my new, nre-newed passport so that one is just an ink stamp.

<Hi Meshell> 

HI PEBS!!!

Lunchtime at home..........sciving...............

oh I don't wanna go back................YAWN!!!


*cheeky grin*