Emigration....... Are people serious

Apologies if off the topic but how difficult is it to move to US with a Phd nowadays? Will having a US citizen sibling under 21 be of any support?
 
cerebus said:
Southern UK winters and northern are quite different though. I remember Blackpool being quite unbearable when I was a kid. My mum still can't take any cold temperatures because of her time there.
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I live just outside one of the most northerly cities in England, the weather is often clearer and sunnier here than elsewhere (due to the Pennines creating a rain shadow).

It is a couple of degrees colder than a south on occasion, but generally with more clear skies.
 
Zukat said:
Apologies if off the topic but how difficult is it to move to US with a Phd nowadays? Will having a US citizen sibling under 21 be of any support?
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Assuming it's in something relevant to in demand employment, it's not too tricky. You will still have to get job sponsorship, but you can apply as an EB2, which means that you get prioritized ahead on the quota (ahead of EB3's, which are 4-year degree or equivalent holders). This means you are very unlikely to be rejected for quota reasons.
 
cerebus said:
Southern UK winters and northern are quite different though. I remember Blackpool being quite unbearable when I was a kid. My mum still can't take any cold temperatures because of her time there.
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I'm from Edinburgh which I find incredibly depressing for most of the year. The buildings are all made of sandstone which have blackened with soot over the years, and being only 3 or 4 floors high across he city, it's horrible when there's a grey heavy sky sitting on top.

It does get to you after a while.
 
Spizz said:
I'm from Edinburgh which I find incredibly depressing for most of the year. The buildings are all made of sandstone which have blackened with soot over the years, and being only 3 or 4 floors high across he city, it's horrible when there's a grey heavy sky sitting on top.

It does get to you after a while.
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Yeah that's another thing, a lot of those areas just have a heavy, poor, grimy feel about them. Fish and chip shops, squalid high rises, streets of attached housing with no trees... It's not an area I'd go back to.
 
cerebus said:
Yeah that's another thing, a lot of those areas just have a heavy, poor, grimy feel about them. Fish and chip shops, squalid high rises, streets of attached housing with no trees... It's not an area I'd go back to.
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When you last in England? The 1970s?
 
Dave123 said:
Well your description is pretty far from reality. Perhaps you are only remembering the bad?
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Or maybe you are one of those 'english' that can find nothing wrong with the uk? What cerebus mentioned I've heard from many others living there as well. I'm not picking on the uk but there are some real schiteholes over there as well.
 
Dave123 said:
Well your description is pretty far from reality. Perhaps you are only remembering the bad?
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No I'm not, I'm only talking about certain areas. Parts of England are very depressing. Blackpool is a dump. And spizz was saying the same thing. Other parts are really beautiful though and I miss the countryside a lot.
 
cerebus said:
No I'm not, I'm only talking about certain areas. Parts of England are very depressing. Blackpool is a dump. And spizz was saying the same thing. Other parts are really beautiful though and I miss the countryside a lot.
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I completely agree with you, but don't get me wrong on central Edinburgh. The architecture is beautiful and it is incredibly picturesque, it's just pretty grimey and can get you down on dull, damp days. Other parts though, as you say. Think 'Trainspotting' for a picture of where I grew up.
 
YeOldeOke said:
Just returned after spending 15-odd yrs in Asia.

But I'm oldish. Missed Africa, messed-up as it is. Don't have to try and build a future.

I'd advise the young to go build somewhere else though. Nowhere is perfect, or sure, but sadly Africa seems to be going in its natural direction - south - despite all the fanciful African Century dreams. Where else can it head to, given its habit of looking backward - at history. Can't move ahead looking back, can you.

Seems most consider UK/EU/US. Take a look at Asia, there be opportunity.
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+1

My mom has had the luxury of travelling the world and already told me 20 years back look to Asia. A good mate has just gone to Thailand and enjoying it.
 
cerebus said:
It's on the n2. Just a handful of pics that I managed to grab. I can also cite cases where we've had rocks chucked at, family members have been attacked when they broke down on there. Comparing 9/11 to the daily riots, blockades, killings, fires and so on that happen along our main highway seems a bit bizarre. One of my colleagues started a whatsapp group last week or so to organise convoys and he's been totally swamped with people desperate to sign up, so it's obviously not just me being paranoid.
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Years ago a South African couple left for London citing the fear of their daughters safety in SA. Sadly they had just started to settle down when their daughter was murdered in London. The devastated father warned parents that the dangers they fled are just as real in other countries.

Yes, the probabilities of being a victim of violent crime is less in other countries but its in no way not going to happen.

I believe you are just trying to justify why you want to leave, don't as you will make a bad decision. Reason why I've held off relocating, does not mean I won't, just I don't want to make the mistake of so many friends who left for the wrong reasons and are all back in SA.
 
cbrunsdonza said:
Years ago a South African couple left for London citing the fear of their daughters safety in SA. Sadly they had just started to settle down when their daughter was murdered in London. The devastated father warned parents that the dangers they fled are just as real in other countries.

Yes, the probabilities of being a victim of violent crime is less in other countries but its in no way not going to happen.

I believe you are just trying to justify why you want to leave, don't as you will make a bad decision. Reason why I've held off relocating, does not mean I won't, just I don't want to make the mistake of so many friends who left for the wrong reasons and are all back in SA.
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For us there are many personal reasons to move besides fear for our safety. It's just time for our family to leave, and I can give them a better life in America than here. But safety is still a big factor.
 
cerebus said:
For us there are many personal reasons to move besides fear for our safety. It's just time for our family to leave, and I can give them a better life in America than here. But safety is still a big factor.
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Perhaps you should change your forum title, not sure it's doing the brand any good ...
 
biometrics said:
Perhaps you should change your forum title, not sure it's doing the brand any good ...
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Perhaps I shouldn't be so open with my intentions yes. I was a forumite before a rep and the identities can conflict I guess. I'm not negative about this country despite how it sounds.
 
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