That's a bummer, but I know you will land on your feet somewhere. Spain sounds like it may fit the bill. I know that you raved about Greece. My daughter just got back from Greece, spending 10 days there. She loved it and the pictures she showed us were unreal. She said that the people there were wonderful, with most speaking English.
The trip back to the states for her and her husband was a nightmare. They spent 48 hours in the airport as one flight after the next was canceled. She was stuck in Montreal and finally took a Greyhound bus across the boarder to Plattsburg NY. 378 miles later we finally picked her up. Another 395 mile and we had her home. Spent the night at her new home and then 186 miles later we were finally home and exhausted. Never again will she fly Air Canada.
Were you ever given a reason for being denied a permanent visa?
You also mentioned that you were looking at locations to hang your hat in the states. That 10 acers you purchased in Tennessee could be the answer, lots of room for the dog/dogs you have wanted for some time now.
I hope everything works out for you guys.
Peace my friend!
Wassup my man? Thanks for checking this one out. You'll find most of the touristy spots like I'm assuming your daughter visited, regardless what continent it's on, there will be a lot of English speakers. Slowly but surely it's becoming the world language.
We keep hearing of traumatic airline experiences but hers is one of the worst! Man that's terrible. We were so prepared on both of our recent trips, expecting the worst, and it was smooth sailing. We got Amsterdam and Paris coming up before we vacate England and have heard both are tough, wish us luck!
Tennessee. You know, we toss the idea around regularly. I don't wanna get much further into female dog skin than this article already is but the longer we stayed there the longer it may just be an investment—nice place to visit. Sweed, it's sofa king Bible thumping white in Tennessee. I guarantee they're still flying trump flags. We were kinda happy to leave but it's not off the table. Plus that property is pretty isolated from everything. Only catch is a bridge needs built to access the road which I knew going in. Either that or clear six acres of forest on the opposite side, the bridge would be better and is a shorter, already cleared distance.
Weather, fresh fish daily, some culture, A BEACH, and not taxing like Ca dot dot dot dot would be a Godsend. We've been shopping properties in NC. Got any thoughts? I'd love to know what you think of the Carolinas. SC is super red, they fully backed the Feds recent abortion laws which is disappointing to us and we've stayed there several times—summers are rough!
Visa. I wish there was an easy explanation. One thing nobody warned us of is a got dang war! Obviously Eastern Europeans have priority, I don't have an issue with that. But the hoops England requires the spouse of their sick citizen whom they acknowledge is sick I do have an issue with. Due to the influx of asylum seekers, I'm required to file from outside the UK. But get this; Pura is required to stay in UK to continue paying the council tax on an apartment so I can prove I have somewhere to go. I have to file from my own country and surrender my passport during the process but wait, it gets worse. The whole process would take 32 weeks.
I'm expected to leave her here alone, return to the US, surrender my passport so we can't even reunite in EU or anything, pay a £5k fee and wait 32 weeks for response with no guarantees. Spain I can file from within, retain my passport, pay €150 and the whole process takes 7-10 days.
My man, been awhile since we had these winded conversations. I appreciate your sincerity. Thank you. Say hello to the farm for us.
Just don't fly Air Canada and you should be all right. The problem with Air Canada is that they fired all personal that didn't get vaccinated. That move left them totally short handed. My daughter told us that there were only two people that were working the gate at the time and there were about 500 to 600 people in line waiting to be serviced.
She really felt bad for the families with little kids that were going through the same nightmare. Elderly people were collapsing in line while waiting.
At one point both service people left to go for lunch and never mentioned it to all of the people waiting. At this point my daughter was about 6 people from the front of the line. She needed to find out where her luggage was so that she could pick it up and get in line once again for the final leg home.
She was so disgusted that after the attendants left she went behind the desk and started riffling through the paper work she located where it was.
There were other people that were also on the same flight to that she was and were looking for their luggage. She gets on the intercom and starts announcing to everyone where they can pick up their luggage. The whole time nobody stopped her. She said that there wasn't aa single security guard around and spent 5 minutes on the intercom.
Now we find out that Air Canada is trying to hire back everyone they fired for not being vaccinated and they are saying f--k you and not returning.
Some rednecks in this area are still flying Trump Banners and a few Rebel flags still fly. What the heck is wrong with these people. He lost, thank God, get over it.
SC not a place I would want to live, but NC may be a different story. Robin has a few family members that moved there in the past several years. They love it and it sounds very affordable.
That whole visa thing is so convoluted, talk about jumping through hoops with no guarantee after 32 weeks.
Spain surely sounds a lot more inviting.
There's no way I could ever imagine leaving Robin for 32 weeks, I'd rather live in a cave where we were both welcomed.
It sounds like you guys are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Keep the faith my friend, things like this usually have a reason for happening which don't come to light until things are settled.
Talk later, we're headed to Herkimer, NY in a few hours to visit with my brother, from there we're headed back to NJ to do some visiting and attend our granddaughter's 13th birthday party. Be home on Monday unless Robin convinces me to spend a night at Mohegan Sun. The girl loves the slots. 😁
I appreciate the reminder sir. Thank you.
Enjoy your trip, be safe and all that. Til next time..
Back home safely. I saw a lot of people that I had not seen for a while we spent some quality time with the family and a few friends.
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Sweed's a bad influencer—brings out the worst in me.