Why not become a septic?

[TheFaQQer]

The obvious way to do it is to go permie over here then hop across on an ICT visa. Some parents from our kids school did it this way last year. The wife works for one of the big four accountancy firms. The firm have a dedicated legal crew that practically kicked the embassy door down for her.

But as MarillionFan can attest, it's not much fun and the hours are just stupid compared to here.

A friend of mine did this a few years back, and they now have green cards.

Long days, not much holiday are a given - might just be the job that he's in anyway for the hours, but the lack of holiday is a big deal.

[original PM]

Friend of her indoors moved to yank land when he married a yank....

he works generally 8 to 5.30

gets about 12 days holiday a year and bank holidays seem pretty scarce..

although he can take unpaid leave quite easily and salaries seem to be higher than comparable jobs over here.

[DimPrawn]

Gun crime
race hate
fat people
thick a pig tulip people
long hours
little holidays
obama

No thanks.

[Mich the Tester]

Gun crime
race hate
fat people
thick a pig tulip people
long hours
little holidays
obama

No thanks.

Talented chimps though;

BBC News - US chimp Brent wins Humane Society art competition

[CoolCat]

On the holiday thing you need to fit in with their culture. Take up hunting. Go visit family for a long time at thanksgiving. And so on. Bend the rules and use the flex that everyone else does. You just need to understand how its done. Your official holiday entitlement will never be the same as Europe, but your pragmatic adoption of their way of doing things will leave you no worse off.

[CoolCat]

Yeah.

Hunting.

Buying dozens of big guns.

In Wallmart.

Wot's not to like?



AtW would really be at home there.

He could even get a concealed weapon carry permit*.


*Do try to take the weapons handling course somewhere the instructor won't accidently shoot you.

I do have some sympathy with their view of the world on many things. Neither the UK nor the USA have these things sorted. I did however find it strange to find pickup trucks with recently shot bambi strapped alloever them pull into mcdonalds for a burger and fries as if it was the most normal thing in the world.

[TheFaQQer]

Yeah.

Hunting.

Buying dozens of big guns.

In Wallmart.

Wot's not to like?

Bear in mind that you need to sign a form that says that you aren't crazy before you are allowed to buy an M16 or similar....

[Platypus]

race hate
fat people
thick a pig tulip people

Just like CUK