i've been working as a nurse for over seven years in south east england. im currently working in critical care unit/itu. i'm really interested in working in the states. my wife is a nurse as well and we have two kids both under five. we have just bought a property here in the uk about three years ago. reasons i would want to emigrate being a warmer weather and hopefully a better pay and lifestyle.
currently, there are two agencies im thinking of choosing to help me out either ogp or stateside nursing agency. any agency you would want to recommend.
i understand that things can vary from state to state and even more so at a local level. but can anyone help by giving me further info about all sorts of things in florida or california in comparison to the uk. taxes (state, federal, propety, etc.), insurances (health, property, car etc), schools (my son just started in a catholic school here and its fab. i gather that parochial school there are all private.)
weather wise i prefer temperature of 12 to a maximum of 30c and not so humid. dont talk in farenheit yet. havent got my head around it still. i appreciate that weather in california can vary greatly and same with florida. how's the hurricane season out there. any area less strucked by it or even by tornadoes. how bout tampa/clearwater. i love england and the uk but just had enough of winter and dark gloomy days.
what about work wise and pay. i currently earn £25000 but it goes up due to unsocial and night enhancements 30% extra and sunday is 60% extra. i do rotations. overtime here is 50% extra. what about there? do they pay as much differential for doing nights and unscocials. my wife works part time but permanent nights and earned £21000 gross. whats the situation there. and im sure you know what works like here in the uk. obviously prefer to move to an area where ther are big hospital/s or a variety of hospitals so theres wide choice of opportunities and hopefully does not run out of jobs. nhs is currently cutting some jobs here unfortunately. i can understand, the government can only afford as much with the financial resources available.
what about the real estate in the us. as we are planning to purchase our own piece of property eventually. i gather that san francisco is very pricey so thats out of my list to emigrate to and the fact that it can be a bit gloomy there as well. so perhaps just down to south calif. and so is miami, so maybe in tampa/clearwater area. what about safety i know this really varies from area to area but how would you compare it overall compared to england (im in the south east).
schools. my son has just started school here. if ever we're sucessful in emigrating would like to move in the area that we would settle in for a while and same area to purchase our property as im sure you'll appreciate how stressful it is to move. dont wanna move from one place to the other. dont feel its fair on the kids.
my apologies for such an infinite list of questions to come. there may be more. hopefull i get some replies from you.
