That moving back to the UK is not going to happen

[Backwoods57]

We have lived in the US for the past 10 years. I constantly get heat from my family in the UK to move back home. I talked it through and its just not going to happen.

Here we have a house, and a camp, I run my own business. We hunt, shoot, fish, camp. The kids are in a great school (DD3 DD6). We have a great life.

If we moved we would sell have to sell up everything, house, guns, cars, motorcycles, I would have to sell the business (I can't move/run it in the UK). DH would refuse to sell camp. So that would mean we would come to the UK with £500-£550k in our pocket.

DH earns the equivalent of £90k, he would be looking at £40-50k for the same job in the UK. I would have to get a minimum wage job. I just don't think we could set up a life, and continue on a trajectory towards retirement. Does my logic make sense?

If you don’t want to move, don’t move.

I don't get why you started this thread? Is it to get people het up about the hunting and guns?

Stay then.

You’re welcome.

Well just stay then .Not sure why post tbh .

Why do your family want you to move back? Sounds like you have a great set up where you are and are happy, so why come back!

The economics of it are irrelevant, if you have a great lifestyle.

Going back to the UK because family members think you should is irrelevant really, do what makes you happy.

So don't move. Stay there with your guns and your shooting. Nobody's stopping you.

It's understandable that family would rather you were closer and easier to see in person, but they shouldn't be putting pressure on you. Once you've set up a life as an adult (especially with school-age children) in one country, it's not exactly simple to move. The financial aspect of it alone would be enough to put me off, unless I were unhappy with everything else about my life.

Odd post - you are happy where you are why move. End of story!

Are you hoping your family will read thisand leave you alone?

You don't want to move back, so don't move back.

All I will say is that you should keep your options open with things progressing over there as they currently are, and it may be prudent to keep or apply for your passports again. I truly believe your current administration is scandalously dictatorial, and a hair's breadth away from McCarthyism. Mind you, if you're Republican, you're probably safe.

Do what you want

I think people are worried about the USA under Trump and the gun culture/crime. So your family are only worried about you. Our media is very negative about the USA at the moment.

No one can force you.
I'd rather live on the streets than move to the US even with more outdoors lifestyle. But overly fond of killing things for fun

Yes, of course your logic makes sense. Without knowing more about you and your family, it's hard to say otherwise.

But posting something like this on MN, when anti-US rhetoric is at an all time high is pretty pointless.

I think this is a post to wind people up about guns

You normally get hundreds of people posting on here about how bad the US is to live in. Guns, Trump, Crime, Health etc.

My experience is that if you are middle class and are living outside the main cities you will have a pretty good life in the US and a higher quality of life than in the UK. If you are poor you will have a pretty bad one. But no one poor moves to the US to work.

Moving from one country to another is hard. Because you build up capital and the way of dealing with life and when you move to a new country you have to abandon this to some degree and start again. So for example if you live in the US you have to accommodate the fact you need private health. In the UK you have to accomodate the fact that house prices are silly and you have to live in a place the size of a shoebox. So both of those things can impact your lifestyle.

Ultimately the longer you stay, the more baggage you have and the more difficult it is to make the move.

In your post you do not mention maybe some of the negative sides of living in the US which would give a more balanced discussion. Things like the lack of holiday time for example which is common in the US.

Gosh what an edge lord you are, OP.

That's fine. You keep yourself and your hunting guns in the US.

I mean, this.

Don’t come back here it’s a total shit show!

what an odd post

Trading USA for the UK? Are you mad? Hard no. You'd be absolutely crazy to do it. UK is a backwards shitshow. Yes the US has its problems now, but the lifestyle there is lightyears better than the one in the UK.

Small wages, abysmally shit, tiny housing, shit weather, shit food, run down cities, rubbish everywhere, shit schools, overpriced rubbish-everything.

Now if you'd move somewhere like Scandinavia - then yes, definitely worth it. But for the love of god, not the UK.

Stay where you are. I personally don't want you back here shooting the crap out of living creatures.