I'm in Leeds but i'm moving my ass to TX

Cherry Limeades and all.

Aaaaaaaah, cherry limeade from Sonic (Homer drool noise)

yummy.

For you Dallasites there...anyone ever been to Ojeda's on Maple (near downtown)?  Man...that place is GOOD.  I miss their chips and salsa and their sour cream chicken enchiladas.  Oh man.   :'(

I had a very hard transition coping to England, esp in the people dept.  I'm sure many of you can relate.  After a while you become more and more 'English' and then you start to become more paletable to the natives and start making friends (Better learn to drink alcohol!).  Nevertheless, you become the American 'comedy relief sidekick' at work - almost with a cartoon-like quality.

I have spend over 3 years here and I can honestly say I haven't made one friend here.  Compare to the dozens of new friends I made in NYC about a year ago when i spent a few months there made it clear Britian wasn't clearly suitable for my social appetite.

Man...you sound just like me.  I've found it really hard to make friends here; I don't know why.  It was easier to make friends in Texas, but then again I wasn't the "weird foreigner" there.  

Hello there... I'm brand spankin' new here but all this talk about Leeds really caught my eye.  I was just in Leeds maybe 1 week ago and am considering looking into jobs there since my sweetie lives in Wakefield (10 minute train ride away).  When I was there it seemed like an OK city.  It just had that "if they build it they will come" flavor to it with all the shopping centers built in the center city with little else seemingly to support the temples of commerce.  I mean, comparatively few office buildings with tons and tons of Dorothy Perkins shops... it made me wonder if the principal pastime in Leeds isn't working in one shop so you can take your wages and buy things in another shop, with no serious pseudo-professional job jobs.  Is this indeed the case?  [smiley=stunned.gif]

We stayed at the Meridien Metropole the last night I was in Yorkshire and I have to tell you, getting completely blotto and yelling and screaming with your boy/girl friend seems to be another activity of choice.  Woohoo!    It was bad in York and Wakefield but Leeds took the cake in the public drunkenness department.  

I do believe that you'll experience that in any British city. We get those here as well. While living near the town centre is convenient, it has it's downsides on the weekend evenings. :-/

Welcome to the boards, CAGrrl. Ashley could tell you more about Leeds.

Thanks, Leah.   I've been lurking for a while now - this board seems like a nice, friendly, interesting place to be.    

I'll ask Ashley about Leeds if it's OK with her, but I'm brimming with questions about the whole moving/adjusting process.  Not the first, probably not the last to ask some of these questions, but I've been fascinated by the perceptive and honest answers I've seen everyone give here so far.