Hi, I’m British, been living in the U.S. for 6 years and looking to come home after birth of my first baby to be closer to family (I’m in San Francisco so far, far away). I’m also very bored of working in the U.S., they are obsessed with process and hierarchy and bureaucracy and get little to no creative work out in the world (their version of creative is very different to ours). I also have an interesting role I can come back to in UK. But people keep telling me horror stories of England (cont)

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I moved from CA to London for the same reasons (family, tired of the us), and I’ve not once regretted it. Yes, (post Brexit) uk is a bit worse than it was, but nowhere near as bad as the states.

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And how crappy it is to live there. Is it at bad as it seems? I miss UK strategy and creativity so much (and also want to be closer to my family) but can anyone talk me off a ledge lol

Gonna say if that’s your current agency you’re probably pretty identifiable

Good news is we’ll have red conservatives in a few months instead of the blue ones. Healthcare may still be free at point of use? Salaries aren’t going to compare to stateside but better holidays and work life balance I would say sort of help there…

Good luck with getting a job here! 😬

Pretty please, just make sure you have a job waiting before moving. It's rough everywhere...

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