[Whaler0718]

I am partial to Connecticut, but since I have some familiarity with both the UK and Georgia USA, I thought I'd chime in. First, you'll find New England, generally, and Connecticut, specifically, will present the least culture shock to you. In fact, there are many ex-pats in Connecticut. My knowledge of the UK is thanks to having befriended two English families living in the SW part of Connecticut. One family have moved back to the UK, and I have visited them often. I attended the daughter's wedding in Dorset last September.

The post about finding British goods in the Farmington Valley is accurate, but I lived in Washington DC for a short while and found a shop there, and with the internet you'd be able to order anything to your doorstep. Question is how much that matters.

As for Georgia, it is a beautiful state, especially the north (by Athens). Savannah is lovely, but the area outside of it is quite rural, and not so much in the quaint UK way (hedges and pups) but in a depressed, smelly US way (lots and lots and lots of chickens). The summers are brutal, but the other three seasons are quite pleasant. Don't expect "proper" snow there.

Connecticut is expensive, but there are relative pockets of value within the state. Of course, you get what you pay for, so if you want the perfect community with a 0 crime rate and a highly ranked school system, your home will cost a great deal. I live in Hartford, one of the cities you've been told to avoid. It's crime rate appears high, but it is important to realize that the crime is highly concentrated in some depressed neighborhoods. Its schools have struggled, but I think many have come to realize that the test scores are a product of the students who attend the schools--most from poor homes and tough streets--not the schools themselves. I went to a high school with a graduation rate of something like 98% and a college matriculation rate close to that and I'm confident that you could take the population of that high school, send it to Hartford Public High, and the numbers would be the same, and, conversely, if you sent the population of HPHS to my high school, the graduation rate would fall through the floor.

Anyway, I think I'd probably stay in the UK if I were you. I prefer the lifestyle there, the drinking, the small cars. You live closer to the land and are less afraid things will jump off your plate and kill you. We're over-sanitized here. Try bringing a dog in a pub in Canton.

Good luck.

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[quote=Viralmd;170933]Please do things legally. You need a work visa. One is not permitted to work on a tourist visa.[/quot
maybe you can help me i have been offered a job in missouri as a satalite tv installer but without sponsership would i been able to get a temp work visa i am in the uk thanks for any help