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Moving from London to New York - Thoughts? Experiences?
I wanted to see what some of the posters on here had to say about living in New York vs. living in London. To those with experience of both cities, were are the comparative pros and cons? What would you miss / anticipate the most about leaving one place for the other?
I've been living in NYC for 6 years, and while I still absolutely love it here I'm finding that I'm starting to get itchy feet. I also feel that I am in something of a rut socially, creatively, and professionally (and since my US visa is tied to my job the latter of those will be difficult to break out of for at least another two years if I remain here). I'm originally from Dublin, but lived in London for a while when I was in my early 20s and loved it too so I can't imagine there'll be too great a culture shock. My girfriend (a native New Yorker who is something of an Anglophile) was on the verge of moving to London around the time I met her, and has just recently suggested that she'd like to look into it again. We both have a lot of friends in both cities and she has a European as well as a US passport so there's not a lot preventing us both from picking up sticks and relocating from the Big Apple to the Big Smoke.
Soooo, what does Dissensus think? Anyone made the move one way or the other? How different is life in London now from how it was in the mid 90s (the last time I lived there)? Will I miss NYC too much or will I feel like I got out at the right time?
I wanted to see what some of the posters on here had to say about living in New York vs. living in London. To those with experience of both cities, were are the comparative pros and cons? What would you miss / anticipate the most about leaving one place for the other?
I've been living in NYC for 6 years, and while I still absolutely love it here I'm finding that I'm starting to get itchy feet. I also feel that I am in something of a rut socially, creatively, and professionally (and since my US visa is tied to my job the latter of those will be difficult to break out of for at least another two years if I remain here). I'm originally from Dublin, but lived in London for a while when I was in my early 20s and loved it too so I can't imagine there'll be too great a culture shock. My girfriend (a native New Yorker who is something of an Anglophile) was on the verge of moving to London around the time I met her, and has just recently suggested that she'd like to look into it again. We both have a lot of friends in both cities and she has a European as well as a US passport so there's not a lot preventing us both from picking up sticks and relocating from the Big Apple to the Big Smoke.
Soooo, what does Dissensus think? Anyone made the move one way or the other? How different is life in London now from how it was in the mid 90s (the last time I lived there)? Will I miss NYC too much or will I feel like I got out at the right time?
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