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The NHS is horrible, unless you've come from America

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The National Health Service (NHS) here in the UK gets bashed A LOT, and it's not completely unwarranted. The system is under funded and over-stretched. The huge amounts of money that were supposed to be available to the NHS after BREXIT never appeared, and because of BREXIT, many of the very talented caregivers who would normally come to work for the NHS aren't, due to new requirements and restrictions. As my husband likes to point out, Brits love to complain about most things, and the NHS is one of the top five. When I share just a little bit of my own experience with US healthcare, most people reply, "Oh. I guess the NHS isn't so bad after all."  At a friend's birthday party last summer, everyone was complaining about insurance not covering pre-existing conditions or expensive medication and the cost of the insurance itself. But they weren't discussing their own health insurance. They were talking about their pets ' insurance policies. That's rig...
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And Now For Something Completely Different

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I had high hopes when I started my blog last summer "An American in Twyford", but life got in the way, and now life is about to change dramatically again. Our original plan when moving from the US was to rent in Twyford, Berkshire for about 5 years while I worked in London. But as of mid-February, I was no longer employed. We talked about me finding other work, and all of our friends jumped in to offer help with contacts, CV and possibly setting up a business so I could do contract work. Most of the listings I found had much lower salary ranges, and with almost half my take home pay going to rent, that wasn't an option.  So, we decided we'd go ahead and buy something now, for cash. We've loved living in Twyford, but without a London salary, we couldn't justify London-commutable prices, so we started looking further out. Although we would have loved to stay close to our friends down South, money goes MUCH further up North.  We both love character homes, and so...
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Location: Berkshire, UK
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