You know what I need ...
Aside from a bottle of chocolate port, I mean.
I need to find an American who has emigrated to Wales. And I need to find one that is unmarried, so that the chipper, "My huzzbin's from Cardiff!" doesn't come up as an explanation as to why Mrs. Him is now living in the Land of White Gloves. Not helpful.
I just need to whine about this a bit. It's no mystery that, ultimately and when my finances are healthier, I'd like to emigrate to Wales. Given that I am not possessed of filthy rich relatives who are 120 years old and at death's door, this is going to be a difficult proposition for me. Nevertheless, I'm still chewing it over in my head.
The problem can be explicated thusly: "How does one emigrate to Wales?"
If you want to emigrate, you have to have a job there!
If you want to get a job, you have to be cleared to emigrate!
Um, okay. So, barring circular time travel and self-healing temporal paradoxes, this is achieved how, precisely? When "Marry A Welshman" isn't an option, I mean.
Advice online for this is almost nonexistent, seeing as how most "helpful" webistes assume that you are either moving to Wales from England, or moving to the US from Wales and not the other way around. Type "emigrating to Wales" into Google. The first entire page of hits consists of hits on the phrase "emigrating FROM Wales." Preposition trouble, much?
At work, we don't mess with JANET(UK)/UKERNA much. Bwrdd yr Iaith tends to regard any non-UK resident who studies Welsh with a doggy head-tilt, and everyone else is composed of the my-huzzbin-is-British category.
I'll have to clear out. I can feel another rant building that is at best tangentially related to this whole thing. For now, all I need to do is connect with a few American ex-pats in Wales who are not married to Welshmen and see if I can discern any large-scale patterns in how their emigration was achieved. Guidance-less packets of forms that send you in merry circles is no help at all. This is becoming extraodinarily frustrating. I'm tired of finding websites that ask me to choose the closest paperwork office to me and gives me the choices of Bristol, Leeds, and London. I'm also tired of Mrs. Him-style advice, or advice that can't quite grok someone who wants to move from LA to Bangor. Yes, we exist.
And please for the love of Dawg, don't reply with, "Yeah, it's kinda hard, but keep at it!" *chuck under the chin* I don't need a pep talk. I need hard data, I'm not finding it, and I'm just really ticked off at the moment.
I need to find an American who has emigrated to Wales. And I need to find one that is unmarried, so that the chipper, "My huzzbin's from Cardiff!" doesn't come up as an explanation as to why Mrs. Him is now living in the Land of White Gloves. Not helpful.
I just need to whine about this a bit. It's no mystery that, ultimately and when my finances are healthier, I'd like to emigrate to Wales. Given that I am not possessed of filthy rich relatives who are 120 years old and at death's door, this is going to be a difficult proposition for me. Nevertheless, I'm still chewing it over in my head.
The problem can be explicated thusly: "How does one emigrate to Wales?"
If you want to emigrate, you have to have a job there!
If you want to get a job, you have to be cleared to emigrate!
Um, okay. So, barring circular time travel and self-healing temporal paradoxes, this is achieved how, precisely? When "Marry A Welshman" isn't an option, I mean.
Advice online for this is almost nonexistent, seeing as how most "helpful" webistes assume that you are either moving to Wales from England, or moving to the US from Wales and not the other way around. Type "emigrating to Wales" into Google. The first entire page of hits consists of hits on the phrase "emigrating FROM Wales." Preposition trouble, much?
At work, we don't mess with JANET(UK)/UKERNA much. Bwrdd yr Iaith tends to regard any non-UK resident who studies Welsh with a doggy head-tilt, and everyone else is composed of the my-huzzbin-is-British category.
I'll have to clear out. I can feel another rant building that is at best tangentially related to this whole thing. For now, all I need to do is connect with a few American ex-pats in Wales who are not married to Welshmen and see if I can discern any large-scale patterns in how their emigration was achieved. Guidance-less packets of forms that send you in merry circles is no help at all. This is becoming extraodinarily frustrating. I'm tired of finding websites that ask me to choose the closest paperwork office to me and gives me the choices of Bristol, Leeds, and London. I'm also tired of Mrs. Him-style advice, or advice that can't quite grok someone who wants to move from LA to Bangor. Yes, we exist.
And please for the love of Dawg, don't reply with, "Yeah, it's kinda hard, but keep at it!" *chuck under the chin* I don't need a pep talk. I need hard data, I'm not finding it, and I'm just really ticked off at the moment.