from Baltimore to High Wycombe

Hello all,
I'd heard about uk-yankee for some months now but decided to bite the bullet and register
to see what it's all about.  I've been in England just over 2 years now and enjoying it.

Matt

Welcome Matt! What sent you to England?
Helena

Hi Matt!  Nice to see everyone seemed to migrate on the same day.  Too bad I could't get the same exact user name.   

Welcome Matt from another "migrater"! 

Sara- -as a fellow "Sarah" I share your fustration with not always getting your user name! 

Welcome Matt from another "migrater"! 

Sara- -as a fellow "Sarah" I share your fustration with not always getting your user name! 

So true!  I guess I should feel lucky I got the "Sara" user name, just once.  Something that is funny about our names though, is that my last name is almost identical to yours.  I only have different double letters.  Kind of interesting (or I have just been up too long, and this is not nearly as interesting as I think).   

Sorry for the hijack, Matt.

Hi Matt! Welcome to UKY!!
Melissa

Hiya Matt! Welcome to the 'other' flock!

BTW- was nice to meet ya down in Winchester awhile back!

Sher

Hi from another Marylander (silver spring). 

what's this migrating thing about? if it's any of my business...

And hello from another Marylander (Easton)

Hey, Matt - glad you found the site! I think you'll like it - good group of people. And lovely to see you and Nicola the other night too - we really need to do that more often!!

Krizzanne, the migration appears to be from another expat site - I was on it for a while as well but find this one to be far gentler and more fun!  I'm curious what triggered it all of a sudden, though!

Hey Matt and Sara,

I'm "in" as well!

Krizzanne, the migration appears to be from another expat site - I was on it for a while as well but find this one to be far gentler and more fun!  I'm curious what triggered it all of a sudden, though!

You are correct.  Another poster on the other expat site posted a link to this site, thus the big jump.  I would have been here a year ago if I had known about it sooner.

Heya all, thanks for the warm invite.  Glad to see some Marylanders on here, I was beginning to think I was the only one in the UK!
I'm from Baltimore Co. but have been to Silver Spring and Easton, krizzanne and caitlinn.

Helena, my wife wanted to move back home so we packed up our stuff in Virginia (where we last lived) and moved to High Wycombe - we hardly knew a soul in this part of England but we found jobs here.  It's been really nice living in this part of the world the past 2 years.  Funnily enough, my wife remembers when she was a child getting her dog from a breeder in Wycombe so she had very vague recollections of the place.

As the others said, a number of people migrated here from elsewhere due to a post.  I actually had known about uk-yankee for at least a few months but couldn't be bothered to switch until now.  I went to a party thrown by GrnEyesnUK and met some people who were from Baltimore and they said they were on UK-yankee.  I should have checked this place out then, but I'm lazy 

Matt

I'm from Baltimore Co. but have been to Silver Spring and Easton, krizzanne and caitlinn.

I'm sure you have ... you go through it to get to OC (gee, I miss that place).  Or did you visit us for our very famous Waterfowl Festival?

Just so no one starts to panic about the migrants! Mindy recently posted a link to this site elsewhere and several of us who had never known of it, for a variety of reasons, came to have a look and loved it. But we've all come independently and without any pre-coordination (or at least I wasn't invited to that party!). We're not some version of the trenchcoat mafia. We're not here because of a flame war or to be trolls or anything like that. Most of us are very calm and responsible citizen-posters, not martians demanding that you take us to your leader. The community here seems really welcoming, and we'd like to be part of a good community!