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People do move down to Florida for good winter weather and low prices. The housing prices crashed there during the recession and they are probably still low. Not that I would ever want to live there because it's nice for a winter vacation but would be different living there year round. Can you imagine HOT, HUMID tropical weather from about May to October? You can't even go outside except to run from your air conditioned home to your air conditioned car.
If you are elderly and mostly homebound anyway and not able to get outside and garden or walk around it probably wouldn't matter that much.
Their grocery prices are probably lower than other places in the US but I found grocery prices to be low in the UK compared to where I live in the US. What was higher were clothing prices.
People do move down to Florida for good winter weather and low prices. The housing prices crashed there during the recession and they are probably still low. Not that I would ever want to live there because it's nice for a winter vacation but would be different living there year round. Can you imagine HOT, HUMID tropical weather from about May to October? You can't even go outside except to run from your air conditioned home to your air conditioned car.
If you are elderly and mostly homebound anyway and not able to get outside and garden or walk around it probably wouldn't matter that much.
Their grocery prices are probably lower than other places in the US but I found grocery prices to be low in the UK compared to where I live in the US. What was higher were clothing prices.
Yeha I can imagine that, except in my case it was January to December but that's why you do like what everyone else in the deep tropics do. Get all your stuff done before 10AM if possible, or after 6 PM. You get used to 100°F heat indices after a while, but in places in Florida where it does cool down considerably in the winter, it makes adjustment much more difficult.
Not the lower third, but the upper two thirds is, for a couple weeks a year anyway. At least to my standard it is, as you already know . I've already deduced that Florida is basically a shrunk, miniaturized version of Queensland from Brisbane (Jacksonville, FL) to Rockhampton (Miami). US Virgin Islands has the real heat in the winter, the weather is almost identical to Darwin, Australia; and they're the only part of the US that drives on the left (and they speak English ).
I have dual citizenship with the UK and USA and am considering making the leap back across. I have thought about it for many years and it has gotten to the point of "just do it already."
I have a British passport as well as a US one. So I wouldn't have to get a work visa. Please forgive any typing errors. I spilled coffee on my keyboard and sometimes letters stick.
My questions are:
What is the job situation like for upper level administrative assistants/executive assistants in the London area? How about temp work? Can you keep busy with that? I will most likely will be coming with 8 months to a year of living expenses. It all depends on the poochies.
I have three small dogs? How hard is it to finding a rental with that kind of baggage? I would probably want a small house? Here in the States, I rent a house and then sublet two of the bedrooms. Is that a possibility or do landlords freak out if you do that?
I currently am getting by without a car (just rent one when I need one).
I also have my own soapmaking business which I would like to bring with me, although it appears that the UK has many more regulations than we do here in the U.S. That's not a problem.
So.... Any advice would be appreciated.
if you do move, you should consider rescinding the US citizenship. US is the only country that taxes ALL of their citizen's WORLDWIDE income, regardless of whether they live/work in the USA or not, whether the company you work for is based in the US or not.. if its income, you'll get taxed... it gets worse because you'll get taxed in the UK too.
You must be from a very quiet place then. I've lived in Newcastle, London, Lincoln and Hereford and have not only seen trouble, but have been harassed in some way in each place (and most of the male friends I know have been attacked at least once). Have lived in the US (in a city which has one of the highest violent crime rates in the US) for 10 years and haven't had any trouble and only seen a few minor scuffles downtown.
As I said, I'm not saying you will definitely get trouble in the UK, or that the US is without trouble, I'm just saying it's no safer than the US. Statistics, and my own personal experiences would suggest that, unless you live in the worst areas, the US is safer.
You are 668 times more likely to be murdered with a firearm in the US - yes SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY EIGHT times more likely, you are 58 times more likely to be murdered by a youth in the US - yes FIFTY EIGHT times more likely! They are huge disparities and based on information like that wouldn't you say that there is a good argument against the US being 'safer' than the UK?
if you do move, you should consider rescinding the US citizenship. US is the only country that taxes ALL of their citizen's WORLDWIDE income, regardless of whether they live/work in the USA or not, whether the company you work for is based in the US or not.. if its income, you'll get taxed... it gets worse because you'll get taxed in the UK too.
You are exempt unless you earn the equivalent of something like $92, 000 a year.
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but that's why you do like what everyone else in the deep tropics do. Get all your stuff done before 10AM if possible, or after 6 PM. You get used to 100°F heat indices after a while, but in places in Florida where it does cool down considerably in the winter, it makes adjustment much more difficult.
. I've already deduced that Florida is basically a shrunk, miniaturized version of Queensland from Brisbane (Jacksonville, FL) to Rockhampton (Miami). US Virgin Islands has the real heat in the winter, the weather is almost identical to Darwin, Australia; and they're the only part of the US that drives on the left (and they speak English 
