[Help] hello all Updates to this post /post/157532-hello-all Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:43:34 +0100 Reply from mobaby420 /post/157532-hello-all#reply-3705013 well i rent i want to biuld my own house some day :)

]]> mobaby420 Mon, 05 May 2008 11:32:09 +0100 Reply from apollo /post/157532-hello-all#reply-3701673 Americans aren’t lucky because they have big houses for cheap. They’re stupid, because they almost always go heavily into debt they’ll never get out of, debt they can’t usually afford, to do so. That’s part of why the dollar is weak (in addition to the war), because people borrowed a lot of money they can’t afford only to find themselves in an underwater mortgage that they bail out of.

When I can afford a house with cash, nah, I’ll probably just rent one instead. It’s cheaper and I can leave anytime.

]]> apollo Sun, 04 May 2008 16:12:27 +0100 Reply from homesimp /post/157532-hello-all#reply-3701326 Not to siderail the original posters message but…

Think very, very hard about moving anywhere to the US from Europe right now. With the dollar devaluation against the British pound and the Euro, I dont think you would like it very much when you were offered any sort of ‘competitive” salary in the states. Now, if you have a decent amount of money saved up and you move here then you will probably do well.

Even with the aggregate US housing prices dropping 12ish% over the last quarter, housing prices on both coasts are highly inflated and not anywhere close to what they are really worth. Couple the dropping home values and the governments inability to reduce the local taxes on homes, we have a terrible situation in which houses are worth very little (in most cases negative values of what they were originally paid for) but owners are still paying taxes on the inflated values.

If you want to come to the US, wait a year then come in and buy asmuch real estate as you possibly can. In 7-10 years you will make a fortune when you resell.

I could babble on and on…

To the original poster:

I’ve found, through experience, that you should go for the highest paying job first and foremost. Enjoying your jobis nice, but just taking a job for that reason is silly. I dont love or hate my job but I get paid very well and at the end of the day go home and dont think about it at all.

It would be nice to “love” doing something as a career but I would rather get paid well and love being with my family.

]]> homesimp Sun, 04 May 2008 11:44:18 +0100 Reply from Captain Setto /post/157532-hello-all#reply-3701279 My uncle left the UK for the US when he was like 20, I’m considering doing the same thing. :D

]]> Captain Setto Sun, 04 May 2008 10:48:02 +0100 Reply from mobaby420 /post/157532-hello-all#reply-3701252 Ya thats what i was thinking and why don’t you move out here?

]]> mobaby420 Sun, 04 May 2008 10:18:02 +0100 Reply from ~LazyDaze /post/157532-hello-all#reply-3701248 Anyhow lol that was not what you were posting about sorry..

I think you should be happy in your job and if not happy you should at least not hate doing it, so maybe a change around would help you, sometimes just a new routine helps to keep your mind on the go.
Change your hours and days maybe and see if it helps.

]]> ~LazyDaze Sun, 04 May 2008 10:15:06 +0100 Reply from ~LazyDaze /post/157532-hello-all#reply-3701246 Yeah thats what I envy about America, I mean you have HUGE houses for half the price it costs here for a small 2 bed 1 bath thing..
I have seen pics af American houses and hardly any are as small as our UK houses and yet half Americans say their house is too small, I mean whats that about?

]]> ~LazyDaze Sun, 04 May 2008 10:11:41 +0100 Reply from mobaby420 /post/157532-hello-all#reply-3701245 YA IM IN TUCSON :)

]]> mobaby420 Sun, 04 May 2008 10:08:42 +0100 Reply from ~LazyDaze /post/157532-hello-all#reply-3701242 $ bedroom 3 bath house, sheesh I can tell you live in America, would be so lucky to get that here in the UK…

]]> ~LazyDaze Sun, 04 May 2008 10:06:40 +0100