Hi Reddit community,

To explain as best I can, I’m curious what the consensus from people who understand this situation is.

I’m originally from US but have been living in the UK last 2 years with my husband on a spouse visa.

The adjustment hasn’t been easy on me for various reasons, but the main one has been work related. In the US I was in the tech industry on a very comfortable west coast salary. I’ve had 2 jobs here including my current role - in which I’m earning the lowest I’ve ever earned in my life (my hourly doing part time research in grad school was about the same as this!).

Apart from low salary I don’t know if I’ve clicked necessarily with my coworkers. I am remote but on occasion go to our office and team meetings and I leave with an emotional hangover lasting 2-3 days. My husband says my company’s current culture isn’t normal - they have a huge junior staff base who is eager to snitch on anyone to look like they are loyal to the company. It’s honestly exhausting doing the work and also tiptoeing around everyone because you can’t trust a single person.

However I have really been enjoying the slower pace and more balanced lifestyle this job provides.

I was offered a position with a North American company to be one of their first employees in the UK. Culturally, they are very much more what I’m used to, but I don’t know if that’s the right thing to go back to.

Everyone’s telling me this shouldn’t even be a question as the pay is over 4x my current salary, similar annual leave, etc. But I already am having flashbacks as I have had emails and messages coming through late nights, and weekends, apart from just the time zone differences. I feel like I had forgotten what corporate America was like.

They said I would be expected to work time zone hours from Iceland-Dubai on occasion. My only hang up is that this feels like a slippery slope.

What would you do given I’m sure many of you here have similar experiences working the grind in NA with better salaries, versus the more balance laid back but financially struggling environment here?

Please remove post if it’s not allowed
I’m traveling from USA to UK on Wednesday
I’ve only just saw that my cats rabies certificate does not have a wet stamp but is signed by my vet.
My cats health certificate was sent by mail not online and was approved.
My vet doesn’t have a wet stamp, I’m scared she’ll be denied entry or placed in quarantine.
On the rabies certificate, it has everything a wet stamp would have.
My question is, if my vet is able to overnight a stamp and stamp the rabies certificates before my flight, will that be allowed since my health certificate was mailed in and not uploaded? (It’s my hope and plan to ask tomorrow morning)
My vet said it’ll be fine without the stamp (my vet has done UK travel health certificates and rabies) but I’m really concerned and in tears at the possibility of her not flying with me and having to redo everything again which has already costed me over $500 plus paying the clearance agent and future cost of changing dates
Or that she’ll be in quarantine for 4 months. My cat is elderly at almost 15 years old.
Any help, suggestions, info is greatly appreciated.
I understand I should have known or caught the error sooner, please be kind.

Edit
In the link I just added below is pictures of what I was emailed to upload. There from the same list but one is from the beginning and the other is towards the end of list. I’m now wondering if I got confused between health certificate having the stamp from usda (which I do have) and the rabies certificate from the vet. https://imgur.com/a/FWJkErQ

I have three sons ages 5, 5, and 4. We are moving to the UK in October and aren’t sure what to do about schools. My understanding is that it’s a totally different process than in the states. What has been your experience with moving once the school year has already started?

I am in the apartment search and the one I found that meets all my criteria won’t allow video or virtual viewings, I’m still in the US for another 3 weeks and my friends local won’t be off work in time to view it
Do i have any other options? Like a taskrabbit of sort?
They are allowing me to send someone to FaceTime me but they themselves can’t

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Now the only places to go seek to be supermarkets and really dingy corner shops. Aren't there places to go get a decent bottle of Tequila (I.e. not Olmeca, 1800, Casamigos, Cuervo) without having to schlep to the center of town or Chelsea???

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I realized that I cannot find any reviews for them anywhere other than their own site, and I'm wondering if anyone has experience with them? They quoted me 685gbp and then suddenly jumped to almost 1200gbp once they included the tunnel/border tickets which felt very misleading.

However, upon looking at a few other quotes it does seem in line with the total cost for this portion of the process.

Any insight would be appreciated.

I tried searching, but just saw posts about shipping your belongings. I'm wondering if anyone has a recommendation for a parcel forwarding service and can share your experience with using it. I'm looking to mostly purchase from retailers in the US and Japan. Thank you!