Good plan. If Paul comes, too, you can cross Belgium off the map and concentrate on us 
Well, that would be ideal, but figuring out how to do it is the trick. Belgium has this really enlightened policy regarding long-term couples which does not require them to marry - only to show proof of the relationship. I am sentimental and have accumulated about four years worth of proof. But the UK does not have that, and I'm not sure how it all works with the traveling-inside-the-EU deal. Long story short, a stay in Belgium might be required... but that'd be good for my Dutch!
Tuition here is on the whole much cheaper than in the US, though. University of Edinburgh is around 10000 pounds a year for us non-lab people (you are a non-lab person, right?).
10000? That's not cheap. That's very far away from cheap.
It's not much less than I pay here. (And yes, I am a non-lab person.) There are scholarships, but they are hard to come by. There are some particularly for Americans, though. And I am sure there are a number of foundations set up, outside the individual university, that help Americans to study here.
*nods*
Well, I am currently studying here. But I don't need a visa, so my case is a bit different.
How does that work? I would think it's because of the EU, but you're Norwegian...
Shitloads. Universities in Norway cost 40 pounds a year. This is insanely expensive in my book.
It's insanely expensive in any book! How do you manage it?
Living far away from Tor?
And the insane British bureaucracy. Seriously. They take it to an art form. An evil, evil art form.
Having already done a bit of research on the paperwork involved, I believe you.
And the banks are nuts.
Nuts how?
5) How did you go about moving your possessions?
I used the university this time. I rented private accommodations via Grant Management last time, and I am NEVER ever doing that again. At least when there is a problem with university accommodation, there is a system for you to fall back on.
Yay, names to cross out. Thank you.
IFA (salty licorice), gløgg (chistmas drink), marzipan (the danish kind), proper tasting meat (British meat doesn't actually taste anything)...
That is sad.
One nice thing about living in the U.S. is that we love our imports, so you might actually find some of those things more easily here than in Britain. We have an excellent store called World Market which generally has all kinds of candy and alcohol from around the world.
snow?
I like the British way of relating to people, and I miss that more when I am in Norway than the other way around.
That's really interesting. What do you mean exactly by their way of relating to people?
That must be entirely your choice, I think. Marriage isn't the deal it once was, though. Unless you are a Catholic. If it doesn't work, it can be dissolved. That isn't a very romantic way of looking at it, I suppose, but it is a way.
I am Catholic.
Or was raised that way, anyhow.
And yes, I know. I am a romantic too though. I think that if I were ever to do that, I'd have to draw a firm line in my mind between the civil marriage for bureaucratic reasons and the actual wedding, which would come later, at its own pace.
spacespacesplLupine
saceFormerly known as Clover
Still Paul's friend ♥ and Pippin's mum
spacespacespacespacespacespa*MySmiley*
saceFormerly known as Clover
Still Paul's friend ♥ and Pippin's mum
spacespacespacespacespacespa*MySmiley*
/survey: moving across the ocean & international borders. 12 easy questions. (...yes, am joking.)
- 28/11/2009 04:27:21 AM
579 Views
Answers, of a kind.
- 28/11/2009 12:48:34 PM
541 Views
Re: Answers, of a kind.
- 28/11/2009 05:48:04 PM
498 Views
Re: Answers, of a kind.
- 28/11/2009 07:12:08 PM
475 Views
Re: Answers, of a kind.
- 30/11/2009 02:12:08 AM
468 Views
Generally quite true, but let me add one or two qualifications.
- 30/11/2009 02:21:33 AM
450 Views
Here's that ranking, if you're curious.
- 30/11/2009 02:27:37 AM
571 Views
Re: Generally quite true, but let me add one or two qualifications.
- 30/11/2009 02:53:48 AM
467 Views