To wish it was easy to move to the USA

[Highway65]

I've been watching The Pioneer Woman on Sky the past few evenings. It's utter drivel but I LOVE it!! It's this blog writer/cook living in Oklahoma and it just looks ace! All cowboys, horses and massive ranches. I want to live there.

Infact, there are loads of places in America that I would like to live. Europe has plenty of highlights too of course. Not where I live, it's just grey!! But I reckon I should have been born American.

I have family living in California. They both married Americans to get their green cards. I would be up for that if I wasn't happily married

misanthropologist, THINK OF THE HOUSE PRICES!!!! ;-)

Think of the murder rate misanthroplogist. The Bodleian would appear to be as dangerous as South Central LA.

Yes, have lived in Joplin, Missouri - thankfully not when that F5 hit recently though. Tornadoes are not fun.

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DH works and travels all over the world. The USA is the only country that whenever he visits his colleagues always arrange to have dinner with him almost every night, and if he is there for a weekend they will take turns to invite him to join their family for a bbq or take him out somewhere to show him the area. This happens in 3 different locations in the USA and no other country in the world.

I was saying this to someone who travelled the world extensively with work and he said he experienced the same.

DH and I have this dream of living for a year on an island in the Hebrides. He is retired, but I am still working and we still have a lot of family responsibilities here, but we may try to make it happen in a few years.

The Bodleian would appear to be as dangerous as South Central LA.

Ha! And most of Scotland, it would seem. (I am a big fan of tartan noire.)

Legion That makes sense though. I certainly would have invited a coworker (or OH's coworker) that was travelling from abroad to bbq/dinner while they were there. Whether or not they'd like my cooking is a whole other thing.

I just want to come visit the UK.

I plan to get a T-shirt emblazoned with "CheerfulYank" and see if I run into an Mumsnetters. :o

CheerfulYank I love that you use British slang such as 'upduffed'. Do you use them in day to day life too?

Oh yes, of course! When the company DH works for has the overseas salesmen over, there are dinners and banquets, etc.

My favorite was a shady Welshman who was unfortunately fired for said shadiness, but I liked him a great deal. :o He was always impressed with my knowledge of UK slang/idioms. For which I have Mumsnet to thank.

Tornadoes really scare me. You couldn't pay me enough to live in Oklahoma. The weather here is just huge compared to the UK. A dusting of snow in the UK is the equivalent to 2" here. Actually I don't think in the years we have been here we have ever just had a UK dusting! After DD was born we had an earthquate and hurricane (I think it was Irene) in a week. 18 months later we got Sandy and I was scratching my head at how we managed to get through so much of the alphabet in such a short timeframe!

Alice it is lovely of them to invite him and really does appreciate it. But if he travels to Asia or Australia it doesn't happen. It seems to be an American hospitality thing.

And likewise he notices that when his colleagues in other departments here have visitors from overseas they don't invite people to their homes. They might organise a group dinner out with them one night and that would be it.

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Sometimes. I say things like dodgy and gutted. :) I don't intentionally type that way, but when I'm on here it just flows out. It's a very strange bilingualism.

I also admit to the occasional innit and summat. I started saying them jokingly to DH and now it's a thing.

Keep in mind, I am Minnesotan. sound like I walked off the set of Fargo. :o

You should join the script writers for the next series of Fargo

'Say Lou, your police work looks well dodgy to me'.

And the way I say bollocks has about six syllables in my Southern accent.

Cheerful Do you live near the Mall of America?

I bet 'bollocks' sounds ace in a Southern drawl!

I do get a fair bit of stick when I say "ya'll". I try not to. Sometimes it slips out.

Yank Minnesota has it's own language. Mine is a horrific mix of all the places we grew up (military) as well as my dad's MN and my mum's ME accents. Quite the muddled speech patterns, I have.

I went to Minneapolis a few weeks ago for work, and the hotel had a shuttle to the Mall of America so I went. I think my shopping gene has mutated to my sit- in-the-hotel-bar-and-drink-white-wine gene because I could not wait to get out of there. Too many people and too many shops; it was a bit overwhelming.

"Be useful! Order a test on this DNA, or summat like!"

I'm not too terribly near the MOA...about a two hour drive. Anyone is welcome to come visit me and we can go there! :) I have a tiny house, a comfy couch and a big dog that sheds everywhere, a husband who stays completely silent most of the time, and two children who never stop yammering. It's just like a fine B&B innit .

I'll take reservations now....