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Editor's Note: We've got another columnist starting this week at Anglotopia! We've managed to get another American Expat living in London to blog about life in London. Her name is Katherine Kern and I met her at Blog Indiana, of all places. After some time at home in America - she's returned to … [Read more...]
Bad news for Anglophile dreaming of working in the UK one day, it's going to get a lot harder. They've already changed the laws this year to make is much more difficult (and expensive) to consider working in the UK. Now, they're going to get even tougher. A government committee recommended today … [Read more...]
Iconic London Blogger, Diamond Geezer recently wrote a very interesting post about what it's like to attend a British Citizenship ceremony. From his great post: Most of us take being British for granted, having had no say whatsoever in the country of our birth. But, for some people, choosing to … [Read more...]
Let me preface this by saying that, though I did not get the job in London, I managed to find an even cooler job in Chicago which has deadened my desire to move to London for now. I can't wait to start it. I thought this would be a story worth sharing for people looking for innovative ways to try … [Read more...]
This week we suffered a loss. Our electric kettle kicked the bucket. I am not sure exactly what happened, the light still came on and it appeared to be working but when I touched it a few minutes later it was still cold. This is sad for two reasons, first of all it is discontinued and we got the … [Read more...]
This post comes via a user submission. It's an issue I have a lot of interest in and covers how to establish credit in the UK when you move there. It's important because many people don't realize that when you move to another country you have no credit and just like in the US, you need credit to buy … [Read more...]
We received a message from one of our readers, Emily, this week. She had some questions about living in the North East: Hello fellow anglophiles! This email is mostly for Lisa, but I guess anybody could help me out! I am a student at a university in the Los Angeles area and starting in January of … [Read more...]
I don't actually drive in the UK yet, I have tried and I just can't get the hang of driving a manual transmission. I am embarassed that after 10 years of driving I am going to have to take driving lessons to learn how to drive all over again. The UK driving test is infamously difficult and it is … [Read more...]
Several things this week have made me consider "what it means to be an expat" and some observations have come to my attention as I have pondered this. As usual, I will preface this by pointing out this is my personal experience and while everyone's experience is probably going to be different I … [Read more...]
I came across this excellent blog post across my Twitter feed the other day. Jane Copland is a recent immigrant to the UK and she recently wrote a post about some of her observations about living in the UK (specifically London). Many are spot on and hilarious. So, I thought I'd share the post with … [Read more...]
I am doing this list as a countdown because it is definitely in ascending order of importance to my life, or rather the items are in order of the level to which I couldn't live without them . Britain really has the convenience thing down. In some ways I think the "convenience" influence is an … [Read more...]
It's the ultimate Anglophile dream: living and working the UK. Unfortunately, in the current economic climate, this dream will be even harder to achieve for Anglophiles looking to hop across the pond and it bloody well pisses me off. Because of my Anglophilia disease, not a day goes by where I … [Read more...]
There are some aspects of British life that I just can't quite wrap my head around. It isn't in my nature to call things good or bad, just... different. Here is my list of the top ten things in Britain that I find very peculiar. I will let you be the judge. 1. No outlets in the bathroom This is … [Read more...]
There seemed to be a strong response to my discussion of language and accents last week so I decided to expound on that a bit more. When I moved here I realized that I had two choices. I could either try and most likely fail to pick up the local dialect as quickly as possible or else I could be … [Read more...]
Here's a roundup of the coolest Anglophile related links I've built up for the last few weeks. Stuff that is pretty cool, but doesn't warrant it's own blog post. If you ever come across a cool site that you want to mentioned, let me know about it or add it to the Anglophile Link Directory This … [Read more...]
I have been a resident of the UK for nearly 6 months, and although in comparison to my first weeks here I have definitely come very far, I still have so many things to assimilate to. Thinking back to my very first day here, I felt thrust right into the thick of it. After our wedding my husband … [Read more...]
Even more fantastic news for Anglotopia! We now have a second American expat living in the UK who is going to write a weekly column! His name is Mike Harling and many of you may already know him from his already successful blog, Postcards from Across the Pond as well as his book of the same … [Read more...]
Great News for Anglotopia! I'd like to take a moment to introduce you to Lisa Coulson, our new American Expat Blogger. Lisa lives in the north of England in Hartlepool. She's married to an Englishman and is a consummate Anglophile, living the Anglophile dream. Lisa is going to blog weekly, on … [Read more...]
Picture from Ibontxo on Flickr I was browsing some Expat forums recently and came across an interesting thread. It asked the question: What do you wish you knew about Britain before you moved there? There were some pretty interesting nuggets of information I thought I'd share with all of you. I'm … [Read more...]
One thing that I plan to cover more and more as time goes on is the process of moving to and settling in the UK. It's a process that is not simple and can be very complicated. One of my pipe dreams is to move to England and settle and get my own scarlet colored passport one day. Until then, I can … [Read more...]
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Anglotopia was founded by Jonathan and Jackie Thomas for people who love Britain - whether it's British TV, Culture, History or Travel - we cover it all. Anglotopia was started to get us back to the UK for a trip and it did that in 2009. Now, the goal is for Anglotopia to make our dreams of traveling to the UK whenever we want a reality.
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