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Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2008 00:50:00 No.66123 View View Reply Original Report

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Hey /trv/

I have recently finished a degree in psychology and counselling here in the UK. After much thought, I have decided I want to work and live in the USA for at least 5 months.

While looking over jobs in the USA it seems it is much easier and more laid back to getting jobs in psychology compared to over here.

But that’s not why I’m here; I’m looking for you USofA civilians for advice, where’s a good place to breath in America? Somewhere I can work and live easily, get to meet a lot of people etc.

Any advice would be grand, as I have never done anything like this before.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2008 00:59:00 No.66126 Report

Quoted By: >>66167

Look into Los Angeles. I live here now and It's very nice. Great job opportunities and lots of nightlife etc. It's a very easy place to live and work and the people are friendly. Just be prepared for lots of Mexicans and wildfires.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2008 03:11:00 No.66157 Report

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florida is garbage, do not even consider it.

california is lovely, like stated

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2008 03:16:00 No.66158 Report

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New York is awesome

and its full of crazies so you'd never be out of work, we got the homeless people with serious mental illnesses as well as spoiled rich depressed as hell housewives

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2008 03:26:00 No.66159 Report

Quoted By: >>66171 >>66249

>>66123
Good luck actually getting into the US. We're quite anal about immigrants. The entire system is broken.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2008 04:16:00 No.66167 Report

Quoted By: >>66169

>>66126

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

southern california is the scum of the earth. the people are self centered douchebags, there are way too many mexicans and way too many gangs as a result. its always hot, no matter what month.

go to colorado, everything is so much nicer here

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2008 04:52:00 No.66169 Report

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>>66167

Colorado? Yeah, lovely scenery, but that's about it. That is, unless the OP likes the kinds of people who take part in the White Flight.

OP, go to New York, or NorCal, California especially if you have a starting sum of money. Just stay far away from the south and any of the poorer states.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2008 04:57:00 No.66171 Report

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>>66159
Seeing as we have millions of unskilled mexicans skipping to the front of the line while thousands of brilliant engineers and scientists are left shit out of luck, I would say you are understating the issue.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2008 05:24:00 No.66175 Report

Quoted By: >>66176

Well, there's the obvious four largest cities in the U.S.: NY, LA, Chicago, and Houston. Other than that, you may want to check out Atlanta...it's a fast-growing city, so there will probably be lots of jobz. Maybe also Seattle.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2008 05:26:00 No.66176 Report

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>>66175
and if you did go to somewhere in the south, the cost of living is wayyyyyy low down there, so that's good...simply no comparison with NY, LA, Paris, or other big cities.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2008 06:27:00 No.66202 Report

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Chicago, finest city on the planet.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2008 06:43:00 No.66211 Report

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This is going to sound strange, but for some reason if you take states that have a reputation of being boring, for some reason their capitol city tends to be surprisingly awesome (although the rest of their state still sucks).

This rule seems to apply to most of the midwest and about half of the west, and I have no idea why.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2008 06:46:00 No.66212 Report

Quoted By: >>66213 >>66216

Chicago, the finest city in the world.
No seriously, it's awesome.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2008 06:52:00 No.66213 Report

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>>66212
I'm puttin' my vote in for Chicago. I've traveled quite a bit and been to a fair share of cities (Los Angeles, Seattle, Washington D.C., Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee) and I gotta say Chicago's my favorite. It's clean for the most part, great city scene, lots of stuff to do, decent public transportation system, very cosmopolitan, and the people are generally nice. 10% sales tax can hurt though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2008 07:00:00 No.66216 Report

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>>66212

I'm going to guess that you're either:

A. Some guy who's lived in Chicago their entire life, and have nothing else to compare it to.

or

B. Some hick who spent his entire childhood in a small town with one traffic light who finally went and moved to the big city, was easily over-impressed by the contrast, and is basing his opinion solely on that comparison because he has nothing else to go on.

I mean, yeah there's far worse places to live (Like just about everything south of the Mason-Dixon line), but anyone who's gotten around a bit will tell you Chicago's somewhat over-rated.

>Chicago, the finest city in the world.

HAHAHA, no. But for what it's worth, I'll concede it has the best pizza.

Govinda

Govinda Mon 29 Sep 2008 07:18:00 No.66217 Report

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No doubt NYC is the best choice. It has everything. It can be a bit expensive, but as long as you're employed its worth it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2008 10:52:00 No.66249 Report

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>>66159
Visa Waiver Program. He can get in. Getting a job/work visa may be a different story though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Sep 2008 12:26:00 No.66264 Report

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Well, I'm going to vote for Chicago as well. I did live there for many years, but I've also lived in several other major cities and some small towns, and I still have to say that Chicago is still my favorite. Laid back, cool, great food, lots of stuff to do as the other Anon said. The people are surprisingly nice for a big city... I recently went back with a couple of friends that had never been there, and one of the things they commented on was how shocked they were at how nice everyone was. I guess people think big city = jerks.

The only downside is that most of it has become quite gentrified and it's very expensive to live there.

Second vote would go to Portland, Oregon. Very cool city, but it loses points for having too many hippies and an alarming number of hostile homeless people.

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