Packing up the wife and kids and we are moving to England in a few months. Specifically to a rural area near London in the south of England. Keeping my business (a relative will continue to run the US location) and my house (going to rent it out--my brother will be a paid property manager). I've sold my car, about half my family's worldly possessions, notified my employer.....shit's getting real. Still have to figure out what to do with my dog and cat. Going to be hard on the boys--ages 5 and 7 and in school right now. But I think it'll be best for them in the long-term. Not sure if I'll be there 8 months, a year or 20 years. Exciting and scary times. I'll keep you guys updated on the Death Panel situation. I'll keep lurking and occasionally posting here, but so long Boise. So long live broadcasts of Blazers games (unless I wake up at 3am). Thanks for all the fish.
That is a fantastic adventure for you and your family..the education system is far more advanced than ours. enjoy!
I'm planning on telecommuting for a little while with my current employer, as well as probably starting another business (maybe more down the road) in England. DaLincoln--Well, given that Idaho has one of the worst education systems in the US, I'm pretty sure it'll be an upgrade. This is a pretty fancy pants part of England (even if we are living in one of the cheaper towns). Still, though, where you live in England doesn't have such a ridiculous correlation with education system that it does here in the US. They fund primary and secondary ed nationally rather than through local taxes, so if you are unlucky enough to be born in the English equivalent of Detroit you aren't immediately fucked from the get go. It's going to be interesting to go from being one of the most liberal of people among my current network of friends to one of the most conservative over there.
working with a lot of Brits here in Afghanistan, it's something that sounds like a good time waiting to happen. Cheers!
Sorry to hear of your decision to abandon your country rather than work to improve it. At least you're moving somewhere that makes the US look like Utopia in comparison. Prepare to feel stifled.
Going to take a long time to get used to the pronunciations. We'd say "Ales-bur-y," and they say "Ales-bree." So many letters they just don't pronounce. Edinburgh is the one that really pisses me off. It's like calling Pittsburgh "Pits-ber-uh." I don't get it and never will.
My wife abandoned England for 13 years. Our kids are half-English. Either way we're abandoning one country or the other. The US will have to suffer without my support. Luckily, they still have you. As for being stifled, well, there's some truth to that. On the other hand, there's also some pretty interesting freedoms I'll gain there that I don't have here. You are far more free to walk wherever you want there than you are here, for example. The land is almost entirely private, but there are public walkways through everything. I mean everything. I took a walk through a private country club golf course one time just to do it, and it was fucking awesome. It is nice talking politics over there. People tend to be much less polarized.
