DOES ANYONE EVER JUST WANT TO NOT LIVE IN AMERICA

[Mirorgate 0]

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.

ah.. yer just a commie pinko sympathiser at heart .. ain'tcha! :P

someday... we will build a house on some land Sara owns out on the coast, where all I need to do is walk out to the trees to get fresh fruit, go fishing for my lunch. then nap in a hammock the afternoon away.

[heishe 2]

America's great! I'm so glad my Pigu is willing to come here to me.

[ajames79 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!

Awww....I went to College in Brevard.

Moved to Charlotte 7 years ago but recently bought a house back in the mountains! I am love being back!

Very beautiful area around here...glad to have grown up here!

[luvaLimey 0]

well, the UK isn't what I'd call exotic...

but i am actually going to go live there with him for a year.

Then, we'll come back to the states for a while. I dont' know if it'll be our permanent home, but we'll be back here for a bit, and maybe make the rest of the world our playground.

[isleta521 5]

If something happend to me, Val would move back to Brasil in a heartbeat. Heres why:

Beautiful white beaches, friendly people (yes, most Americans are not that friendly even though some would give their shirt off of their backs), family, delicious food, and lower priced living expenses.

. . . of course the flipside is high poverty rate= crime (USA too), high taxes and beauracracy,and high unemployment.

I would love to live in Brasil but I could not leave my daughters until they are old enough to make up their minds and to see if they wish to go move with us (we have JC). Perhaps another 4-5 years from now.

[LaGreenEyes 0]

I would have moved to Panama in a heartbeat, but my debt ( car, credit cards..student loans) is kind of large, and living there I would only be able to make minimum payments and never get rid of it with the wages they pay there. I would make about 1/4 of what I make here to start out with. We hope to buy a place down there in about 2-3 years because we will DEFINITELY be retiring in Panama someday.

[sparkofcreation 0]

Well, we are actually planning to make this move ,only two years from now, which will allow an opportunity for my fiance(e) to receive a green card in the U.S. so we will have the option of living in either country. With my retirement income and liquidating all my personal belongings and real estate we could live a very decent lifestyle with no mortgage. The country is beautiful and many areas are still unspoiled. Think of the Hawaiian landscape and you'll have a good snapshot of what the country looks like.

You know that's not allowed, right? If your fiancé/e moves out of the US, he/she will abandon his/her US residency, lose his/her green card, and will have to start all over with the visa again. It is allowed to live in both countries or to spend extended periods abroad, as long as the US is always the primary permanent residence. (Which is why they call it a "permanent resident card." It's for people who want to be permanently resident in the US. Which is why it gets revoked if you move abroad.)

[peejay 327]

Well, we are actually planning to make this move ,only two years from now, which will allow an opportunity for my fiance(e) to receive a green card in the U.S. so we will have the option of living in either country. With my retirement income and liquidating all my personal belongings and real estate we could live a very decent lifestyle with no mortgage. The country is beautiful and many areas are still unspoiled. Think of the Hawaiian landscape and you'll have a good snapshot of what the country looks like.

You know that's not allowed, right? If your fiancé/e moves out of the US, he/she will abandon his/her US residency, lose his/her green card, and will have to start all over with the visa again. It is allowed to live in both countries or to spend extended periods abroad, as long as the US is always the primary permanent residence. (Which is why they call it a "permanent resident card." It's for people who want to be permanently resident in the US. Which is why it gets revoked if you move abroad.)

But this is a matter of semantics. I know foreigners that have held Green Cards for years but have only spent months actually living in the USA. They use their children's American address as their registered address and return periodically to the USA to visit in order to keep the Green Card. Why? They come from countries that have difficulty getting visas to travel to most Western countries. An American Green Card makes it much easier for them to travel. How did they get the Green Card? The Diversity Visa Lottery.

People always find a way to game the system.

[cmartyn 0]

Not just green cards but passports too. I beleive we just airlifted a whack of these folks out of Lebanon.

[Heracles 417]

I don't mean this in a smartass way but I think the US would be a better place if people simply moved to a country or place that better suited them, their beliefs and their choice of lifestyle..

The US has a lot to offer which people take for granted... I am a strong advocate of people living in cities and countries that suites them...

[jjjimmy 0]

my answer is no, i love it here

[peejay 327]

Not just green cards but passports too. I beleive we just airlifted a whack of these folks out of Lebanon.

And I remember reading the whinings posted on VJ that the bad old evil US government made them reimburse the taxpayer. Too bad, so sad.

When US citizenship and legal residency become nothing more than a marriage of convenience...it might be time to look at making both a wee bit more difficult to obtain or they attain the status of just another commodity on the world market.

It doesn't surprise me though...when our own politicians craft proposed legislation to reward illegal aliens a shot at US citizenship for the price of a $2000 fine.