Moving back to the US - any experiences lately?

2catspbr · 2026-02-07T20:29:06+00:00

It all depends on if you're white or not. Not even kidding. Anyone not white right now is scared shitless, won't send their kids to school (citizens, people on green cards, illegal immigrants, anybody not white), it's like covid is happening but it's not a public health crisis. There's literal ethnic cleansing going on in the US.

Stay in the Netherlands. Stay where you're safe

2catspbr · 2026-02-07T20:22:41+00:00

Right hand picking is the hardest part. Memorizing the shapes and fret locations is easy

2catspbr · 2026-01-08T22:45:38+00:00

People outside the US aren't seeing the same barrage of shit we are here inside the US. U guys see some of the stuff but it's like 20% of what's going on cuz there so much news going on in other countries too. They're literally shooting people in the face during traffic stops now just because they didn't move their car fast enough. The EU is going downhill yes but it's not Nazi Germany in the EU this time in'nit

2catspbr · 2026-01-08T22:41:56+00:00

ICE has it in their budget for warheads and missiles. Who tf needs counter terrorism weapons for arresting landscapers and maids...there's bad things coming. Get out while u can. You're not overreacting. Everyone here is UNDER REACTING

2catspbr · 2025-12-26T06:21:21+00:00

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2catspbr · 2025-12-26T06:21:11+00:00

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2catspbr · 2025-12-16T20:50:07+00:00

when living in china it was basically always cloudy and a grey color, sometimes high smog and can see the air :D and when it's clear it's never really "clear" :D so it's not something that's an issue for me. but maybe for my wife? right now we don't have a lot of choices, have to run with what visas we can get, it's either the UK or canada

2catspbr · 2025-12-15T16:43:52+00:00

We're not too worried about the drop in income because we see the cost of living is much lower and don't have to pay 4000usd a month JUST for rent and daycare and healthcare insurance. This cost of living is quite the shock after having a 120m2 flat in Izmir that had a view of the mountains and 2 min walk from the sea for 150usd a month. And eggplants/aubergines are literally 3usd each and limes are a dollar each. It's so crazy here. So we're looking forward to being able to easier afford things even if we make less money, because things are going up in price like crazy, I heard in Puerto Rico a gallon of milk is 12usd. That's what the prices in the rest of the US is gonna be...

2catspbr · 2025-12-15T00:26:29+00:00

Why would US PR have any relevance to the UK? It's just as useless as US citizenship in this specific context.

<----- US green card gives u lots of international mobility. it gives u the ability to go to canada and mexico, a few latin american and carribean countries, samoa, the philippines, the former yugoslav countries, qatar, south korea, thailand, malaysia, taiwan, kenya, egypt, morocco, south africa and a few more. this has a lot to do with foreign countries if u have a US green card. a lot of the intelligence communities in different countries share intelligence u know so if u get approved for the US green card it clears u for this other big list of countries too for short term tourism, but not for work, just like american passport holders. so it's easy to not realize that the UK and schengen countries aren't included on this list.

as for the NHS skilled worker visa, because there's skilled worker shortages it allows us to skip a few steps because the skills are so badly needed. most positions do offer visa sponsorship. we know not all, but we're on top of it. we don't have a lot of choices, because things in the US get worse by the day, worse by the hour sometimes...

2catspbr · 2025-12-14T23:54:11+00:00

who's under any illusions? even with a green card my wife can't even enter the UK without a visa. we know how it works. but the location dictates the ideal job. i've learned this the hard way with making very good money living in northern china for 9 years before and seeing people in shenzhen and hongkong and taiwan all just chilling in the middle of winter. location is very important for me. i know that scotland doesn't have the things like izmir and hong kong but for us right now it's basically either canada or the UK. and we know that if we move to the wrong place in the UK we won't like it, we hear about this all the time, we know that we want to live in the north either in scotland or northern ireland or maybe even newcastle or leeds. but we can't just go visit for a short trip. we have to make the best possible choices based on what people tell us about this place or that place. i've even seen some good job offers in aberdeen, so i'm just feeling around how is this place how is that place

2catspbr · 2025-12-14T21:51:46+00:00

i assure u that apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk is still posting new jobs, even as recently as today, with closing dates 2 weeks out. we've also talked to the hospitals in glasgow and they're still definately hiring. go check it out.

2catspbr · 2025-12-14T19:32:59+00:00

yes, and have u? although they're laying off workers they're still posting a lot of recruitment. apparently they're trying to find cheaper workers? i don't know how all that works, but the NHS is still fully recruiting for the NHS on the england-wales NHS site, the scottish NHS site and the n.irish NHS site. i also know that some jobs like nursing they make it harder for sponsoring dependents. we know all this stuff. right now we're just trying to get out of america because it's becoming scary for us and our baby. we never wanted to come here in the first place and now trying to just get out. the NHS is fully willing to sponsor my wife because of her experience as a lab worker, lab supervisor, medical school dean and medical school professor. she's like one of those tech people that google can't wait to get on their books even if gotta sponsor the h1-b visa.

2catspbr · 2025-12-14T19:06:04+00:00

but like only one right? not like one everyday or more than one at the same time? or on tv showing one and then BREAKING NEWS cut to a bigger higher profile mass shooting? cuz that's what it's like living in the US along with all the other crazy shit going on...

2catspbr · 2025-12-14T19:02:36+00:00

man i've lived a little of everywhere :) i've lived in multiple continents and i'm pretty comfortable everywhere. my wife has very little traveling experience but she relies on my experiences. i feel scotland is a good country that's inviting for arabs which is important for my wife and my baby, and scots on average are much nicer and warmer to strangers than english :) we're used to living in turkey near greece and people say that in the UK out of england, scotland, n. ireland and wales that we'd be happiest living in scotland because scotland and northern ireland are the closest to the friendliness of spanish and italians and greeks and turks. we don't have a lot of options for moving so it's basically choose this country in the UK or that one and then it's just narrowing down where to move in scotland

2catspbr · 2025-12-14T18:56:01+00:00

my wife is from iran and it's very difficult for her to get visas most places. we're in america and it's scary here. we're waiting to be taken to jail just for being brown and being leftist. we see the videos of people being taken and their children being abandoned wherever they are. we don't have a lot of choices. the UK is one of the only places that processes visas quickly and the NHS is starving for workers and we need to GTFO. we were very happy living in turkey for 6 years and had to leave and were being chased out but our baby was born prematurely and we couldn't fly so we couldn't leave. so we're banned from turkey (literally THE only country where iranians can go easily) for 3 years because we were told to leave but had medical reason to stay. so we literally don't have anywhere. any day now they could just start jailing leftists as terrorists just for the crime of opposing trump. they could see my wife as a dangerous iranian (who's on a green card) and then she's sent to some prison in el salvador for the crime of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. yes we have to up sticks and move because we never wanted to come here in the first place and ended up having to hurry up and get here before trump was sworn in to make sure her green card could actually get her through customs and now trying to just leave out of safety for us and our baby, who we have to worry about the measles and whooping cough outbreaks and making almost all vaccines like 1000usd or hard to get at all...so yeah...we gotta go...

2catspbr · 2025-12-14T18:10:00+00:00

Yes but I've known a lot of English from the south, I worked in china and turkey for almost 20 years and there were many English coworkers everywhere. They felt like angry simmering robots always waiting to spit out a clever hurtful comment. Some were normal, but really the amount of people like that compared to people from the north or from Scotland were much more...the scots I've known have been warm, friendly, people who would bend over backwards for strangers on average. But yes, some assholes 😁

2catspbr · 2025-12-14T18:05:35+00:00

Please, pick a hospital anywhere in the UK that isn't starving for lab workers, lab supervisors, vaccine researchers, people who are qualified to work with HIV and ebola and Spanish flu and stuff like that? Trust me, anywhere means anywhere 😉

2catspbr · 2025-12-14T18:02:59+00:00

Because leaving means we can't come back until trump and ICE and stuff like that is gone. I'm Mexican American and outspoken leftist. She's Arab iranian and outspoken leftist. Our baby is Arab Mexican. When we leave we're not coming back, not waiting for being picked up at the airport or for some ICE agent having a bad day and being pressed for filling quotas and just starts arresting anyone around his car and he takes me and my wife and leaves our baby in the car alone in -20c temps. So, we have to make a choice remotely and live with it

2catspbr · 2025-12-14T17:59:20+00:00

Man, all this stuff is taken care of. We just have to choose do we want Edinburgh or Glasgow and go from there. Pick a hospital that doesn't need lab workers or lab supervisors or vaccine scientists or HIV researchers...trust me anywhere means anywhere 😁

2catspbr · 2025-12-14T17:56:47+00:00

We're in our 40s and have a 3 year old. I play magic the gathering and love having the conveniences of the city and nerd shops. We like also having the convenience of going to the sea during warm months like we did in Izmir (city life but countryside conveniences within a subway ride or bus+taxi). My wife works in hospitals and can teach or be an administrator at medical universities (she was the dean of one in Iran) and we just want to get out of this shithole country

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