DOES ANYONE EVER JUST WANT TO NOT LIVE IN AMERICA

[Reba 2]

His favorite souvenir from his first trip to the US was a local real estate magazine (and I've always thought Asheville is expensive!). It still gets ooohs and ahhhs from friends and family, more than two years later!

Alice

my hubby keeps trying to tell me that Asheville is too expensive. Sure, a house there would cost more than here in Morganton where we seem to be picking them up for free! But compared to Toronto, Asheville is still cheap. And there's stuff to do there. Unlike Morganton.

I'm still trying to talk him into it tho!

On topic tho, we *were* going to live in Canada, but he was deemed inadmissable because of a juvenile record. So, here I am. We had even considered going to the UK for a while, when USCIS had lost our petitions. But, here I am.

Maybe some day.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

If anything "would" have put me off - it would be the fundamentalists. I don't mean the religious type either - but the people who follow party politics like sheep, and defend it like wolves

Still "those" people are a very small price to pay for being able to live with my wife.

[sercontigo 1]

I will be quite honest...I don't want to live in Nigeria. The economy is below standard & there aren't many opportunities to survive at the level that I am living here in the US. I also wouldn't uproot my daughter and force her into such foreign surrounds. Besides, I love America...just happen to be in love with a foreigner.

[kirk and Jenny 0]

This is my and Jenny's great debate. I want to go to the Philippines, she wants to come here for a while and return to the Philippines. Anyway, I do not want to live in this country. My view is that religion dominates. I view both parties as being controled by religious fundementalist. We know about the republicans. What about the democrats. "We are right, because we have absolute faith we are right, and we can get some expert to lie on a study to pretend there is a scientific base to our rancid thought." Same game different field. Religious fanatics control this country.

[Cassie 8]

Our grand plan is to own a small home in both the US and Canada, so that we can spend time in both countries.

[peejay 327]

DOES ANYONE EVER FEEL THAT MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST MOVE TO SOME OF THESE EXOTIC LOCATIONS AND FORGET THE USA. AFTER ALL THE TIME AND PAPERS AND THE POSSIBLE NO AND MONEY MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST PACK IT UP MOVE TO OUR SPOUSES COUNTRY AND LIVE A MORE SIMPLE FULFILLING LIFE. MAYBE I AM JUST HAVING A BAD DAY THOUGH? ANY THOUGHTS.

Me and the wife have thought about it. I could definitely retire a lot earlier (at 55 years old) and we could live well enough on my savings / 401k in either Belarus (my wife's citizenship country) or in Russia (her birthplace country). It is really cheap to live in the villages or in a small town. We haven't looked into the proceedures for me to get residency in either country or the possibility for my wife to reclaim her Russian citizenship. I still have another 5 years before I can even think of retiring and for now it is just a brain fart.

[MarieAnastasia 0]

Our grand plan is to own a small home in both the US and Canada, so that we can spend time in both countries.

You People are after my own heart, that's what you are!! Bruce & I are hoping to do this one day. In the meantime we're looking at 10 years and we will retire in Newfoundland. I'm still VERY homesick and if we could we would move tomorrow...............fingers crossed for the lottery There's no place like Canada and it's wonderful that we both feel that way......{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}

[deeshla 0]

So why don't people move to their partners countries???

Some of us do or are co-living (in 2 countries). The visa allows that.

[Dr. Obvious 49]

I always wanted to live outside the US. I got my chance, took it. However, every country has its pros and cons. If it were a different stage in our lives, Germany would be pretty good. But at this point, the US has more to offer. Not that we are planning to stay there forever either. If all possible, we'll be immigrating further. It isn't that I hate the US or Germany, just I would like to keep moving and experience different places and things.

[CarolineM 0]

Reba - we LOVE Asheville. The Summer camps where we met were in Brevard...which is about 40 minutes outside of Asheville. Every night off we had, we would go to Asheville together. We have SO many memories there!!

We would move there in a heart beat if we could - but now Stew's in school here in FL (In state tuition) and I still have my awesome job...

but we also LOVE it!

[Arazia 0]

I had considered, at one point moving to the Netherlands to be with my fiancee', but it simply isn't feasible. He's still getting his education and I wouldn't be able to find a job due to not speaking the language. Maybe in a touristy area or something, but I'm a programmer, so... it'd be really difficult. Here, I can continue with a job I have, stay in a house that has relatively low rent, and he can get through college and start getting a job here. And the job market, as cruddy as it is, is better here than there from what I've been told.

[mrsushi66 0]

If this much time were spent on trying to get involved and fixing problems rather than figuring out how to escape them maybe this place would not be so bad.

As the ole saying goes, your either part of the solution or part of the problem.

Paul misses Anna

[CarolineM 0]

Problems??

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Any problem you have in one part of the country will go away in another part of the country. In case you haven't realized it yet, this country is fukcing huge. Of course, in another part of the country or world, you will have other problems. Where will you escape to then? The way I see it, you gotta at some point choose your problems cuz no matter where you live, you're gonna have some.

Edited October 10, 2006 by Gupt

[chri'stina 190]

The only reason I had once wished to move to India was because of missing Sujeet during our visa process. To be honest, I wouldn't want to live in India unless I absolutely had to. I wouldn't mind being able to spend part of each year in India, but I don't think I'd want to live there permanently. If Sujeet was from a European country or from Canada, UK, or Australia I might be more willing to move. But we both like the US for certain reasons and are happy here.