Hey Everyone. I'm leaving The States thank the heavens and planning to move to Australia. I have a few questions for you guys and would like some input. I'll give you a quick synopsis. No I am not proud to be an American quite frankly I'm sick of it!!!!!

I met an Australian a few years ago and we fell in love and decided to marry. Awwwwww isn't that sweet? hehehe Well it was no hard decision deciding to live there versus here although I do have a house and a job here. I grew up in New York City and mostly we didn't refer to ourselves as Americans so much as New Yorkers. I grew up around so many different cultures and my own family was multi cultural but than...dum dum dum I moved to the greater deep south of The USA. God what culture shock! My assessment has been that the southern baptists rule supreme here and there isn't much room for anyone else as far as they are concerned. There is a famous saying here "yankee go home" hehehehe and believe me I think many of us New Yorkers would if not for the weather and the cheap housing. I say it light heartedly as two of my best friends are big ole rednecks but for the most part people here are scarey quite frankly. For example my divorce attorney has gun magazines and the ten commandments hanging in his law office and told me I shouldn't let the courts know that I'm a Buddhist because it might be considered a cult however the courts wouldn't care that my ex-husband gives the kids guns and lets them go shooting. Oh boy something is wrong with this picture!!!! Not just that but I've been held at gun point twice, I've had every place I lived in broken into not just in New York but here as well. Infact Atlanta has a worse murder rate than New York and most of it is gun related. The school my children were zoned to go to had a shooting and its just ridiculous I'm tired of it and the mentality here. Knock Knock let me in pleaseeee. hehehehe

Anyway my question is first I was looking at the housing costs there but they seem very expensive. What say you? Also the line of work I do here is completely different there. The system there for land titles is far different than here. It is a much better system there as you don't have search land titles for 50 years and its not nearly as complex as they make it here but the downfall for me is that thats all I have done for 14 years. So do you think it would hard for me to get my foot in the door in another sector of real estate as an American or do you think it makes no difference? I know it sounds petty but I have a New York accent and my experience here in the south is that they don't really like it and one firm I worked for didn't even want me to answer phones because of it. Will it make a sh** of difference you think?

In closing I imagine I'll run into good and obnoxious people everywhere in the world but hell I would much rather someone take a piss at my expense than have to worry about having a gun to my head or not being able to buy beer on sunday or see a thousand American flags hanging on the drive to work or having to pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america....rut row I'm a poor patriot and as I've been told many times by fellow Americans "if you don't like get the hell out."