180 days later
Posted: Aug 27, 2007
So today marks my 6 month anniversary of living in the United States.
This is officially the longest period of time I’ve spent away from the UK (the time I spent living in Jersey doesn’t count given that seemingly everyone there was English and treated it like one of the colonies).
After selling off or giving away practically everything I owned I packed the remainder into two bags and moved 4000 miles from my home in London to Raleigh North Carolina to see whether I thought I could make a go of living here. Obviously the answer turned out to be yes, and three months after arriving I was married to one of my best friends in a quiet personal ceremony in the back yard (flip-flops were optional).
Now we’re in the middle of reliving the immigration hassles that broke us up the first time we dated, but thankfully things are going much more smoothly than they did back then. Never thought that I’d be happy to pay lawyers thousands of dollars to do something for me, but then I never saw myself going through the visa process again either. Funny how things change as you get older and your perspective shifts.
So yeah, I’m well on the way to becoming a legal citizen of the United States of America. It still feels a little weird, but it’s becoming less so as time goes by, helped in no small way by Samara being so easy to get on with and the people I know here in Raleigh being so awesome.
Happy anniversary, me. Here’s to the next six months, eh?
