"plus i can spek my own laungage over theire"

I thought they spoke Spanish not Gibberish

The only place i've been to in America is Las Vegas & loved it!I've been 4 times now & absolutely love the place,don't really gamble when i've been apart from slot machines & roulette but there's so much to see & do,the weathers brilliant & the shoppings a lot cheaper than the UK.

I've always wanted to go to a big boxing match at the MGM Grand & finally managed to do this in 2006!

It sure would be a huge move , nice to read all the feedback and suggestions here, its definitely something we will look into one day.

The only place I visited was the west coast starting in Las vegas and moving up through Californa, a few days in each tourist place , was a great holiday and I have some great memories from there, I bet most places in California are expensive to live in?

It wouldn't be a million miles away from you guys Shawn and Chris either!

coachk28 wrote:

According to Lady Liberty....... "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Perhaps in 2-3 years America will abolish Green cards and visas so the tired and poor and homeless can move over if that's the motto

At worst I hope we can have a holiday out there in a few years and we will definitely try to meet up with my friends in Wyoming and Utah

I think you should go for it Joe,when i was last there in 2007 i asked people who lived there how much things cost like petrol(gas!)& utilities & they said it was a lot cheaper compared to here in the UK but i don't know if that is still the case plus i didn't know what their salaries were in comparison to the cost of living.Maybe one of the american lads could chime in here.

I thought living in the UK was quite expnsive so anywhere else is going to be cheaper? Minumum wage in America is scary (like half Australia's). I'd like to do a long driving holiday across America one day. That's IF they'd give me a visa

Gas here at the moment, in Alabama, is $2.64 which they are blaming the cold weather for the price hike . And I have some cousins living in Cali. From my understanding, the costly is the big cities like L.A.. Now you can go way out in the country and it might be cheaper. Minimum wage now is around $8.00 an hour.

I don't know about cheaper. Some houses around here go for $6-700 a month for rent, not buying. There are also those for $3-400 for 2-3 bedrooms. Townhouses for $1200, etc. If I had the money to move, I'd buy a villa in the French country side.

What would a house cost to buy in the US that rents for $700 a month? It's hard to do an "average" but I'll have a rough go: Australian home $400 a WEEK rent or $500 000 to buy, household income $80 000(pay about 35% income tax), new family car $35 000, fuel $1.3 a litre ( $US4.5 a gallon) Less 10% to convert to $US, just over half to turn into pounds.

A very nice house, possible 4 bed/2 bath. But like I said, thats just rent, not buying on some houses. You can still get some houses in my area for under 100k, but a nice house you don't need to work on will run anywhere from 150-350k plus. Payments on those would be around $600-1200 a month. But thats anywhere in the US if you want a decent house. Then most of those only come with 2-4 acres of land if your lucky. With things the way they are now, land is more valuable than the house thats on it. I just looked at some listings for around here and the average price for land is $2500 an acre. But you can find a place with 40 or more acres and get a good deal on it like $1750 a acre if you take it all.

I guess you could say its all basically the same when you come down to it. When you convert it over, the price would be in the same ball park or close to it.

I am reading right Chris $2500 an acre?
Shit that's fuckall.
In my town you get about a quarter acre for $200,000 AU
The houses here cost shitloads..and you get fuckall really prices like 3 bedroom home for $650,000+, two years ago they were worth $850,000+!
Live in a nice spot though so can't complain

We live about 500mt or so from where that chic is sitting

My mate sold his property that he had bought just before the boom...something like $2500 a square metre he got