Just been doing some detailing.

Look, just 'cos you live on some godforsaken sun-scorched pimple on the arse end of the world... :-P

As I understand it, there's a whole lot of immigration hoops you have to jump though if you want to go to the states for anything other than a holiday.

Yes. Lots. There are not quite so many if you marry an American.

Mind you, have you seen the paperwork to move to Wales?

I thought it was bad enough that if you want to go on holiday there, and have been arrested - not convicted, just arrested, even if you were subsequently acquitted and completely exonerated - you have to go to the embassy in London and be fingerprinted and interviewed.

(somebody please tell me I'm wrong about this - I'd be very happy if I was. Not that I've been arrested, but it just all seems so terribly wrong).

cheers, clive

I never looked into that one. Somehow Wales has never held the same lure for me.

Me neither. I've seen Torchwood. :)

It doesn't get pretty but I don't know the details.

Read any of Malcolm Pryce's books?

cheers, clive

Heh, I've got relations who are living and working in Boston.

AIUI, if you work in the states and aren't a US Citizen, you have to reapply for a visa every so often, to reapply, you have to go to an interview in the US embassy in London (if you're British). To get an appointment you have to phone a premium rate (£1.50/min) number which doesn't accept calls from outside the UK ~2 months in advance to get an appointment. There's no guaruntee that they'll renew your visa which is a bit stressful if you have a job and own property etc. and if you miss the appointment your chances of ever being let back in go down even further.

Arranging your visit and subsequently visiting the embassy in this country fairly eats into one's generous 12 days annual leave entitlement.

Having said that, I don't know anyone who has tried working in any other country as a non-native, so it might not be so bad in this age of heightened terror alert.

No. Shall have to look his work up.

I did visit Wales for the night once.

Wales: it's like Scotland, but warmer.

...And without Glasgow.

Glasgow: It's like Newport but.....no, it's just like Newport.

I bet it isn't.

I was being polite to Glasgow there.

There's lots of similarities, though - tramps and alkies on the street, tracksuit wearing druggies.

i aint that clever and prefere the secure income although these days no job is secure like in the old days :(

without the scotish bastards course :)

Guess it depends what trade you're in but my SO (who lives near Daytona) finds it very hard to find another job. Hard enough to go and look for something else further west again.

You are a web developer? You can have a VERY secure self employed future. And you can earn much more than you can working for someone else. But its your choice.