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The NHS makes a huge difference. As a single entity it can pivot in a way that I wonder if other countries can come close to. My daughters dentist commented yesterday that all her …

I'm married to a US citizen. My children have inherited US citizenship via this route. We have to spend thousands preparing tax returns reporting no income each year for three peop…

Mostly because the majority of people living there wish to be remain part of the United Kingdom.

There is huge variation in Dairy! French Milk (was) terrible, only UHT widely available, though fresh is now quite common. US milk is nothing like as good as British milk for fresh…

You've never tried Hershey's then.

If you buy a house, things are going to be complicated. If you have a workplace pension from your job, you're probably screwed. State pensions have screwed people too. If you inves…

Xfce calls it shade window. I believe it is still there, and can be configured to be double click, or whatever you'd like.

I bailed on KDE overnight at KDE 4.1. You couldn't have an NFS mounted home dir, as they had made mysql a requirement for Akonadi, without which kmail and everything else failed to…

20K bankers to shortly find themselves working in a regional office and wishing they could relocate back. Passporting doesn't require moving your employees wholesale, you just setu…

I've been watching this happen like a scheduled car crash for years. Every 2 years, another open source project succumbs to the problem. As far as I can tell, when software is open…

Surely Sim City be classed as being based around a crafting mechanic?

> So your argument is basically this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUTnNKhF-EU s/your/ their /. It is not my argument, I'm a Tory voting, skilled, financial sector worker, who v…

Historically labour voting workers have been displaced from their jobs by low skilled immigrants. Don't just take my words for it: https://medium.com/mosquito-ridge/brexit-wins-an-…

Please elaborate, as in the Northeast this is exactly what happened. Do you agree or disagree, or are you just saying "wow" as youngtaff has opened your eyes to how many members of…

For those of you outside the UK, please realise that this was not a xenophobic vote. Just because there were racist scum in the crowd voting brexit, doesn't mean all brexit support…

You are mistaken. Immigration from the EU cannot be regulated as the EU guarantees the right to free movement for all citizen. Therefore anyone in 28 member states can immigrate, a…

A CPAN author, former tech journalist, hugo award winner. His works are so on the intersection of economics and scifi that apparenly even Paul Krugman has reads him. http://crooked…

You're wrong, and while it might seem harsh, I'm going to have to say you just don't know what you're talking about. My non working US wife has completely jeopardised my family's f…

Expat: one of ours over there. Migrant: someone not from here, living not where they were born. I think you're over thinking it. To Somalians they're just somali expats.

My other comment (in reply to another comment) shows how I, a brit, have gotten myself into a problem with far more that 100K, without having any idea. The best option would be sam…

The problem is not that I made a profit in selling my house, it is that my wife had money in a bank account at all. As she didn't file, she didn't know that you need to file an FBA…

You are, seemingly deliberately, failing to understand that this isn't a 1% problem. The 1% have tax advisors and CPAs paid to take care of this for them. This is affecting expats …

I am British, and am married to an american. My wife moved to the UK and has never worked since. I had no idea about her obligation to file anything. She's been here for over a dec…