What are Americans missing???

I agree, Honeybee. Although I think that Southernboy's post was awfully unfair, it was his opinion and he's entitled to express it. Jmaster911, your comments were a personal attack and just plain mean-spirited.

As Nanaday said, this thread is an opportunity for ex-pats to express what they miss about home and, for those of us planning to move, an opportunity for us to hear about some of the challenges we'll be facing after we relocate.

I'd like to hear more about what Americans living in the UK miss about the US, please.

PaulaH

As Nanaday said, this thread is an opportunity for ex-pats to express what they miss about home and, for those of us planning to move, an opportunity for us to hear about some of the challenges we'll be facing after we relocate.

I'd like to hear more about what Americans living in the UK miss about the US, please.

PaulaH

Thank God there are people who get the point of my thread 

Thank God there are people who get the point of my thread 

Got your back, Nanaday!

like someone said here some threads ago "Home is where the heart is" I've been here what 6 years??..I don't really miss anything Americanish (other than parents/family) I think after a certain point you become assimilated and life here becomes home...some people take longer than others. I do miss a good all you can eat bar.

As for Southern boys comments...I found them offensive as it was criticizing mixed with opinions...dunno know about you but to me if someone would have said "I'm not happy because I find things small and inconvenient" that would be an opinion..but if they stated " England has little to offer and is substandard" that to me is an offensive criticism...I can see why Jmaster 911 responded in such a way ...albeit a bit abrasive but he did make a few good points so tisk , tisk JM911 you could have applied a bit of tact (an eye for an eye never works you know) ...again like I've said before posting should be constructed in a way that expressing your views isn't at the expense of others and that's for both Southernboy and Jmaster911.

There are things I like about America and there are things I like about England. plain and simple..I don't compare the two it's like comparing children..shouldn't be done ..the two are separate entities.


Compared to things back when I first arrived in 99 I think there has been more and more influences from America so settling is possibly getting shorter..I remember running around London for a can of puree pumpkin to make a pie for Thanksgiving in '99 eventually found an Egyptian cornershop that had an old grubby can left..that was the best pie I ever had...now an expat can order online ... damn you guys

Here's the difference:

Those who are happy here have NEVER - to my knowledge - posted anything like "You SHOULD be happy in the UK.  The UK is the BEST place in the WORLD to live.  The UK has all the MOST WONDERFUL things to offer people."

However - those who are unhappy here constantly post things like "You WILL be disappointed in the UK.  You WILL be unhappy in the UK.  The US is the BEST place on EARTH to buy houses/drive cars/raise children/get work...whatever."

See the difference?  Those of us who are happy here don't INSIST to those who are not that they SHOULD be.

Whereas those who are unhappy here seem to insist (more often than not, NOT phrasing it as opinion, rather as fact) that the US is best and that if you're happy in the UK, you are somehow "settling."

And that's my last post on the subject, because I'm an American in the UK who doesn't miss anything about "the US."  I miss my mother, but that has nothing to do with the US being the US.

and now a musical interlude:

* I'm in the mood for dancin', romancin'
Ooh I'm given' it all tonight
I'm in the mood for chancin'
I feel like dancin'
Ooh so come on and hold me tight

Dancin', I'm in the mood, babe
So let the music play
Ooh I'm dancin', I'm in the groove, babe
So get on up and let your body sway

I'm in the mood for dancin', romacnin'
You know I shan't ever stop tonight
I'm in the mood for chancin'
I feel like dancin'
Ooh from head to my toes
Take me again
And heaven who knows
Just where it will end

So dance, yeah let's dance, come on and dance
Dance, yeah let's dance, come on and dance

(*Repeat)

Dancin', just feel the beat, babe
That's all you've gotta do
I can't stop dancin'
So move your feet, babe
when I get up close to you


 

and now a musical interlude:

LMAO 

Um alright, I'm sure everything I said was hilarious, I know. Just like everything you said was laugh out loud funny. Your sense of humor sure is of a high intelligence.  Is that tongue-in-cheek for you?

Honeybee, I think perhaps you misunderstood. I think JMaster911 was saying that his post was meant to be humorous, not that yours was humorous.

Like Alicia, I understand why he said what he did. I think maybe it's what a lot of us were thinking, but didn't want to say out loud! At least ... perhaps not that harshly. Take Alicia's advice next time, JMaster!!

Is it too early for a cocktail?

Like Alicia, I understand why he said what he did. I think maybe it's what a lot of us were thinking, but didn't want to say out loud! At least ... perhaps not that harshly. Take Alicia's advice next time, JMaster!!

Maybe I won't have almost 2 bottles of wine before writing such a post - lol.  Re-read it this morning and cringed a bit myself - lol.  Again no offense meant to anybody, it was meant to be a more humorous than serious post.

Like Alicia, I understand why he said what he did. I think maybe it's what a lot of us were thinking, but didn't want to say out loud! At least ... perhaps not that harshly. Take Alicia's advice next time, JMaster!!

Is it too early for a cocktail?

I would agree there.  And remember, in Britain, it's never too early for a cocktail, glass of wine or pint - another of the many things I love here.  In the US, they give you a pill full of synthetic crap to take when you're feeling stressed.  God forbid you enjoy a drink - that means you're an alcoholic rather than a pill-popper.  I know which I chose  .

Maybe I won't have almost 2 bottles of wine before writing such a post - lol. 

LOL! Yeah, best to stay far away from the computer after overdoing the wine! A lesson I've learned the hard way! 

  BIG FAT GOLD STAR for JMASTER!!!!  

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LOL! Yeah, best to stay far away from the computer after overdoing the wine! A lesson I've learned the hard way! 

I saved some of the better 'drunken emails' from ex's for a while.  What a larf! 

Maybe I won't have almost 2 bottles of wine before writing such a post - lol.  Re-read it this morning and cringed a bit myself - lol.  Again no offense meant to anybody, it was meant to be a more humorous than serious post.

Yeah right Jmaster.  

I think some of y'all missed the memo:  

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CHOOSE ONE COUNTRY OVER THE OTHER.  IT IS OKAY TO LOVE THEM BOTH.  IT IS OKAY TO LIKE ONE MORE THAN THE OTHER.  

YOU WILL NEVER CONVINCE THOSE WHO LOVE THE UK TO LOVE THE US OR THE OTHER WAY AROUND.  

IF YOU LOVE IT IN THE UK, GREAT.  SHUT UP AND LIVE YOUR LIFE HERE.  IF YOU LOVE IT IN THE US, GREAT.  SHUT UP AND LIVE YOUR LIFE THERE.  IF YOU CAN'T LIVE IN THE COUNTRY YOU LOVE MORE, DEAL WITH IT.  LIVE THE BEST YOU CAN AND TRY TO BE HAPPY IN THE MEANTIME.  CONSTANT COMPARISONS, GENERALISATIONS, AND STEREOTYPING WILL ONLY SERVE TO MAKE YOUR TIME ON THIS PLANET UNHAPPY AND STRESSFUL.

BOTH COUNTRIES ARE GREAT AT SOME THINGS AND REALLY SUCK AT OTHERS.  ACCEPT THAT AND MOVE ON.