I am currently still in UK but am hoping to migrate to Florida within next couple of months. I am 49, divorced since 92 and just finished a long term relationship last year, although she's still my best friend.

 

I am a fully qualified masseur in Indian Head, Swedish, Sports and Aromatherapy as well as being a Tai Chi instructor. Unfortunately being a male masseur at my age is damn near impossible to get employment. Tried self-employed but still no go. I am also a builder/handyman and this has kept me going for past 4/5 years.

 

Realised there's nothing to keep me here now so I want to start a new life in the States where age isn't important, so hopefully can get back into the massage. Never had the guts to do this before and still a little apprehensive, but what the hell!   

I am still currently in the UK. My objective is to move to the USA on an H-1B Visa, easier said than done. I made a huge mistake by chosing a relocation company whose main aim is to secure a visa for me within 12 months ( A very expensive lesson I learned). From what I can gather I basically need to find an employer willing to sponsor me. My field of work is senior retail management, although there are thousands of jobs advertised for this position are companies willing to sponsor me? I have applied for hundreds of jobs and posted my resume to just about every employment agency in the USA.

 

Is there anyone in the same boat, if so, can you share any ideas/experiences?

I was posted over here while doing an In-Service Masters Degree as a Major in the Royal Engineers. Brought the family with me and my wife got a great job with a real estate company. Anyway at the end of my tour the family said: "We're not going home!" So I had to bite the bullet and retire. Anyway I managed to get a job with a constrcution company and was intimately involved in rebuilding the Pentagon, both before and after 11/9/01. My wife is now a Vice President in her company and I am enjoying being a retired Sapper and loving living and working in the States. Five years down the road in the quest for a Green Card, but my company is sponsoring me and picking up the bill, which is a huge benefit!!

We moved here oct 2006. My husband was offered a job here so we came.I have two children ages 10 and 7 and they have settled in well.

 I met my now wife on-line (yes another one of those) moved here a year later and got married, and had a little girl - keep trying to get them to go back to England but looks like i'm here to stay now!

I met my husband in Myrtle Beach, SC 6 years ago on a university placement and after getting married we moved back over to England. We have lived in Bristol for 3 years- the arrival of our daughter in August has made us want to move back to the States. We are planning to move to Charleston, SC early next year!!

I am a British Citizen by birth. I have 4 children from 15 to 26 years, all are british.  Three Girls and a Boy !
My youngest is here with me and so is my Son, he is in Pennslyvania at the moment, he is 22 years old, my other two are 21 and 26. wow this so ages me..

I was born in Lewisham, SE13, London.
I had always wanted to live near the Sea and so I moved to Hastings.
I have now been in Dry desert Nevada and there is no sea around me.  infact not much water at all and when a cupful water comes from the sky , they yell a strom.oh boy if only.

I came here after talking to a US citizen for nearly 2 years over the net/phone.
We eventally married and thats why I am here.
I have family back home and miss it alot, I also miss the food, Culture, Hastings Sea, family, friends, accents, pop over, chatting over the fence so to speak, our humour, our TV, Our way of talking, it would be great to talk to another True Brit, the british accent, words and so forth.
I  am in two minds about returning to live there. I miss so much and yet I don't want to leave here. I have family who needs me back there. I have written a Pros and Cons list for going and staying. I have to work it out one day, oh well I am not yet in a hurry to decide.
My daughter has been here since she was 9 she now 15, and she is so american, I know alot of americans dont know she is a brit, unless they hear me, her friends have had her ring me to talk to me, to hear my accent silly hey. we have been here just over 6 years now. came here in 2001.
Ok I think I have covered abit about me.

Recently married an American and in the stages of planning what we do next with our lives! We met on the net - like everyone else! - and he's been a student here since. He's lived here for 5 years or so and we feel that we'd have a better chance of sorting ourselves out financially in the US. I currently work in immigration law in the UK although don't have formal legal qualifications so hoping somehow to translate that to America. Not sure if it'll work but willing to give anything a try once! So good to know that America is full of Brits and looking forward to joining in the ex-pat chat and friendships!