Almost American

DS came home from school today and tore his bed apart. Not literally - one of his classmates told him that the leprechauns left gold coins u...

The show All Things Considered on National Public Radio started a 5 part series today, 'Revisiting the Road to Canterbury', on Brit...

From The Independent newspaper, January 10, 2009: For more than 20 years, the vast majority of British visitors to America have entered ...

Would you emigrate (would you have emigrated) if you knew the reality of the country you were moving to? I think for those of us who moved f...

In response to a question from Stinking Billy, I posted a question on this blog a couple of weeks ago: For British expats in the US: Stinkin...

Born to Indian parents in London and raised in Rhode Island, author Jhumpa Lahiri spoke in her interview on NPR about becoming American of ...

During this week of Thanksgiving — the most American of holidays — National Public Radio is spending time thinking about what it means to be...

As evidenced by my blogroll, I love to read about other people's ex-pat experiences. I have a lot of ex-pat Brits listed here, but that...

The new Rough Guide to the UK says : "The only certainty for visitors is that however long you spend in England and however much you se...

My parents recently paid us a visit from the UK. The immigration official at the airport told my father that he had a 'problem' beca...

After spending many thousands of dollars to get a work visa and then a Green Card in order to stay in the United States, it was amazingly si...