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I would happily live in Aus as well. My mate is, he married one, the lucky sod. Such a good lifestyle out there. Albeit expensive. But that depends on job. As a lot if jobs pay significantly mire, so you're actually better off.
I want to live in America
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Have you been before?
I would happily live in Aus as well. My mate is, he married one, the lucky sod. Such a good lifestyle out there. Albeit expensive. But that depends on job. As a lot if jobs pay significantly mire, so you're actually better off.
One thing I find really odd about here, is the lack of tech when it comes to everyday life. Checks (cheques) are still used heavily, and many things are old fashioned.
Mobile phone usage whilst driving is rampant here.
Food isn't that cheap anymore btw.
Still find it odd that everyone says sir. I do it now out of politeness.
Mobile phone usage whilst driving is rampant here.
Food isn't that cheap anymore btw.
Still find it odd that everyone says sir. I do it now out of politeness.
Got to take issue with you on the healthcare over here in the US. My last job (before I got laid-off, grumble, grumble...) I had pretty much the most comprehensive health coverage you could get. It cost a significant chunk of my paycheck every month, but I have a wife and child and figured it was worth it for the peace of mind. Then the missus ended up in the E.R. one night and they sent us a bill for $3000 because (in the opinion of the insurance company) it wasn't a legitimate reason to go to the E.R. I won't bore you with the details, but trust me, it was extremely serious. Of course they were trying it on, we appealed, there was a hearing, we won
I find the whole health system here to be a revolting and morally bankrupt money making scam. Yes, the hospitals and clinics are like 5-star hotels with all the latest kit - but there's so much money they don't know what to do with it all. The big hospital in my town has a main campus that's a small city in its own right, and builds multi-million dollar satellite clinics at the rate of 1-2 per year. For a place with a population of around 220,000.
And do you get great healthcare for your money? Nope. The US is ranked way down the list, despite all that money it rakes in.
It's an obvious moral standpoint that healthcare should be a right instead of a privilege (as in the rest of the civilized world), but the US takes it to the opposite and absolutely revolting extreme.
a lot of the places especially snowdonia involve yomping up thousands of stone steps.
for me the attraction though is it's a bit less manged over there cause there's so much of it, i doubt they'd let me try to ride a off road motorbike through any of snowdonia tbh
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Snowdon herself may have an easy path, she also has some challenging routes. Lots of Snowdonia doesn't have 'stone steps'. Try any face of Tryfan, or the North face and say it's just a few stone steps (or the Devils Kicthen, or Crib Goch and so on...).
Oh and you can mountain bike up Snowdon in the off season. It's on my "to do list"
yeah mountain bike and motorbike are a little different.
done tryffin, glyders, ig arn and a few of the others (yeah i cant spell the names lol). i just get dragged around by my brother who loves it there (does mountain rescue for the area)
the bottoms of most do have lots of the stone steps cause they need it place would be ruined without them the amount of people who go there, i would like to go see dessert and canyons though which is more an american thing.
i like the idea of just disappearing off with a bike and a tent, but round here you get in trouble riding across most places and camping in non camp sites.
Depending how I get on this year with my adventures, I'm looking at doing Colorado trail next year. which sounds like it would be your type off thing.
http://www.coloradotrail.org/
The visa cap can be pain but it varies year by year. I applied in 2011 and there were plenty of spare visas by the end of the year. Some years they run out within days though, but if your attorney applies on opening day you have a good shot.
As for costs, you are not allowed to pay for the visa costs or have the costs deducted from salary or benefits. The employer has to pay for the application costs. You are also legally required to be paid equal or more than the local average salary for your job.
not allowed to take a bike on it
I'd love to live in the USA, Australia, or Canada - My nan is Canadian and used to tell great stories about it when I was growing up (due to illness, she doesn't remember hardly any of it now!)
One day, absolutely. I feel as though there isn't much benefit in staying in this country, even though I love it, the benefits are certainly for moving elsewhere.
i was in australia the start of the year. my cousin lives in the suburb of manly across from sydney. they have a far better quality than life than me and their 2 kids have access to stuff i didn't when growing up and it's a fantastic community. i loved it but i still don't think i could personally make the adjustment for some reason and their house (for what it was) is ridiculously overpriced. i think if you were going to move to oz, 10+yrs ago was the time to do it.
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Motorbiking off-road in a Snowdonia would ruin it. I suppose we can't provide everything for everybody. One of the problems of being a small Island.
Thankfully we have air travel, so we can enjoy the delights of the world and come back to this emerged isle, gods own acre as it were.
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You're in danger of stereotyping.
thats why i would like to go do it in america where there's places to do it
Yeah, that's what travel was deigned for. You can do all the fun stuff without the hassle of living there!
costs a lot to ship a bike though.
i'd just like to go out an work there for a few months maybe a year or so really.
Serious health issues are a matter of when, not if, for everyone who isn't taken out by a sudden death. Your insurance provider operates for profit and they will lose all interest when they have bled you dry.
The NHS is far from perfect, but the US is the worst possible model for healthcare. Enormous personal expense and mediocre results - yipee.
I pretty much agree with what you are saying. Don't get me wrong, the healthcare system over here is a complete farce and is ran by the insurance companies, not the other way around. I was just stating that it's not all that bad for the day to day, there if you need it so to speak. UK has it great in some respects, and awful in others. Both are pretty lousy in my opinion.
Yep, insurance companies run the healthcare system over here as said as it is. But, the hospital, Dr's etc WILL be there for you when you need them, immediately! You are in charge of your own fate so to speak, you seek out the best hospital, Dr you want and then go there. None of the getting referred by your local GP and waiting 6 weeks etc.
Again, neither are perfect, in fact both are far from it. Just stating that it works majority of the time for the average joe
Edit: On the mediocre results are don't think that is a fair assessment. The hospitals and service over here and nothing but amazing in comparison, they are a business and need you! If you are judging it off the world hospital list, is that not based off of life expectancy? Which to be fair, the Yanks are pretty good at harming themselves with the food, smoking etc
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But it's significantly cheaper to live there (not paying air fares), means you can do it for a weekend (or just a day) whenever you want and saves the environment by not burning aviation fuel...
I'm very much an advocate of "if you're an outdoor person go and live somewhere you can actually get to the outdoors easily"!
When I was younger I always said when I grew up I'd move to America, but over the years it's all changed and I'd probably move to either Norway, Sweden or Finland given the chance (none at the moment).
The biggest issue I'd see with moving to one of those countries rather than America are the languages. I'll probably try and take a trip to one or two of them in the future, seems like a good idea to me now, but you never know until you've seen it first hand I suppose.
I've probably been listening to too much Folk Metal from Finland lately though
The biggest issue I'd see with moving to one of those countries rather than America are the languages. I'll probably try and take a trip to one or two of them in the future, seems like a good idea to me now, but you never know until you've seen it first hand I suppose.
I've probably been listening to too much Folk Metal from Finland lately though