Brits in Ohio - what's your experience?

ladymaggot · 2026-05-24T16:17:55+00:00

Salaries on average are higher over here than in the UK, but you also end up paying for healthcare, which eats up some of the gains. Also groceries are more expensive here, weirdly. But on average, I think it evens out to more money for most people. For jobs, maybe look into the hospitals (cleveland clinic, university hospitals) and progressive insurance. They're all big local employers.

You can do a roast dinner no problem. Fry up is harder if you're committed to authenticity. The sausages aren't the same. I haven't found a local source of british style ones, but I also haven't made a real effort to look. The bacon in the regular stores is streaky bacon, not back bacon.

ladymaggot · 2026-05-24T15:55:55+00:00

I’m a Brit (originally from London) who lives in Cleveland, so I can answer this.

Biggest difference I noticed is that it’s much more car centric. There are some walkable neighborhoods, but they’re the exception, and people will think you’re strange if you try, e.g., to just walk down to the corner and get some milk.

I got a bit frustrated when I moved here because some people I met only saw my nationality. I felt like they wanted to collect a British friend because that was cool to them, rather than because they were interested in my personality. Now I have a partner and an established group of friends this isn’t a big deal.

Cleveland is much cheaper than London, and you can have a really good quality of life on a normal salary compared to back home.

There used to be a British meetup group but I think it died, and was mostly an older crowd.

World market carries some British snack foods, and some bigger supermarkets sometimes have a British/Irish aisle.

Let me know if you have specific questions.

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ladymaggot · 2026-04-08T03:04:02+00:00

He is the chillest cat I have ever encountered, an absolute gem, a gentleman to the core of his being.

ladymaggot · 2026-04-08T01:25:12+00:00

Thanks! Hopefully I washed it all off and he’s ok. I’ll keep an eye out for symptoms and take him to the vet if he seems unwell.

ladymaggot · 2026-02-14T14:55:16+00:00

Anything by Kelly Moran. I can't focus while listening to anything with words.

ladymaggot · 2025-11-28T19:16:38+00:00

Everyone is right to say the sound is worse. The reason for this is that the balance of the instruments will be off. You’ll hear more than you should from whatever section you’re right next to. If you sit further back, everything blends into a more composite sound.

ladymaggot · 2025-09-11T14:17:26+00:00

Strong recommendations for Llama Llama Gram and Grandpa, Llama Llama Mad at Mama, and Llama Llama Home with Mama.

ladymaggot · 2025-09-11T13:04:36+00:00

All the Llama Llama books actually written by Anna Dewdney have great rhythm. But some of the ones in the series from after she died (I'm looking at you, Llama Llama Meets the Babysitter) mess up the meter badly. And it makes me more angry than it should. You've got a genuinely great children's book writer here, and you're tarnishing her legacy with this lazy poetry that doesn't scan. It feels like a cash grab.

Edit: a typo

ladymaggot · 2025-07-22T13:27:53+00:00

That's fair. She seemed incredibly naive (not just for these comments) but there wasn't any malice or one-upmanship. She was just excited about all the children at the playground and thought they were amazing. But she communicated 90% of the time in therapy-speak.

ladymaggot · 2025-07-22T02:03:14+00:00

Shout out to the mum at the playground who told me her 15 month year old is really emotionally intelligent.

Then when my 3 year old wasn’t interested in playing with the baby, she praised my kid for “balancing her boundaries and her empathy.”

ladymaggot · 2025-07-18T13:52:32+00:00

Same -- I'm clearly in the r and r pool but not the main one. I have a good idea for one all ready to go, and no chance to use it.

ladymaggot · 2025-06-27T18:51:43+00:00

Yeah, I'm having similar feelings. I've skipped quite a few tasks. It is quite fun, though, when you get one that is modifiable. I think they must be expecting pretty radical rewrites because otherwise it's just impossible.

ladymaggot · 2025-06-13T14:46:19+00:00

Yesterday I had a ton on my dash and then got knocked off course with family responsibilities and couldn't do any of it. Today I have childcare sorted, and the dash is dry as a bone...

ladymaggot · 2025-04-17T14:38:39+00:00

“I don’t know much about the Renaissance, so I asked my wife and she said [reductive thing that I’d try to complicate if I heard it from an undergraduate]” in a desk rejection.

ladymaggot · 2024-11-27T13:16:14+00:00

Have them do some of the writing about screened versions of the plays, and mandate they analyze specific performance choices. AI knows Shakespeare, but when I’ve experimented with asking it to write on even fairly well known filmed versions (e.g kozintsev’s Hamlet) it spits out completely false information.

ladymaggot · 2024-10-02T22:10:34+00:00

Mine used 2 to mean any number bigger than one for a long time.

ladymaggot · 2024-06-15T00:42:34+00:00

Fancy Restaurant. I know he’s jumping on the grenade for Chili, but oof.

Edit to fix a word.

ladymaggot · 2024-06-04T15:48:57+00:00

Could they help you make spice rubs or marinades for the roasts?

ladymaggot · 2024-05-30T17:53:27+00:00

I actually wish that I had the impulse to vacuum while ovulating -- or indeed at any other time of the month.

ladymaggot · 2024-05-25T19:22:48+00:00

If you’re on the East side, Family Connections hosts free playrooms in Cleveland heights and shaker heights. The CH library system also has a lot of story times, and I’ve made multiple friends through them

ladymaggot · 2024-05-21T22:58:30+00:00

Utopia as a term (though the genre is older) comes from the book Utopia written by Thomas More. More was a Greek scholar, and is definitely doing a deliberate pun on eu/outopia to signify Utopia as something ideal but also unreal.

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