I'm an American and considering moving to the UK. My girlfriend is a UK native and we've been together for 12 years now...

I'm an American and considering moving to the UK. My girlfriend is a UK native and we've been together for 12 years now. Is this going to be financial suicide? What are the implications as far as taxes, pensions, social security, etc? Any tips on what I should do to minimize the financial damage?

UK people will have to weigh in but from what I have heard it's more expensive to live there, and less opportunities to make money.

And shit weather.

The people are totes cool though.

Yeah, I know all about the culture and such. I've lived there before. However, I don't really know about the tax, social security, pension, etc. implications of living there as a US citizen. I do know, for example that US citizens must pay income tax (beyond a certain income level) in both the US and UK.

I've been brought up in the UK. I'm a US citizen, came here when I was 3.

Shit fucking sucks. Government is controlling, PC as fuck. There's still racism obviously but they are just more careful not to do it online because police come knocking. You wouldn't care tho since you're white

Can't ride a 1000cc motorbike until you do a shit load of tests and are 24.

You get used to the cold ass weather by just wearing warm clothing. Everyone is immature, load of sluts if that's your thing. Everything is basically Americanized. All I can advise is if you ever think about bringing up children, research the area and make sure you get into an upper middle class area. Even then... You can't be sure your son will be brought up a chav.

There are chavs everywhere.

I'm moving in a couple of years. Can't take this socialist shit hole. Not /pol/ obviously but we have a muslim london mayor.

Despite what pol says muslims aren't bad at all. I'd say the white chavs are more bad since there is so many of them.

Also everyone is uptight.

Just fuck the UK. FUCK IT TO DEATH!

police is gonna be here any second now

Hope you like still paying taxes to the US or paying a fuck-off sum of taxes if you revoke your US citizenship.

As far as how Britbongland is... idk

Yeah. You'll wanna denounce your citizenship somehow other get cucked by us.

I think you can claim US tax credits against your taxes paid in the UK.

Cost of living is very high in the south east, but everyone wants to live there for some reason. It drops pretty much in half when you go to the north or west.

I would keep a separate IRA if I were you, you might need to move back or whatever.

UK and US have a double tax treaty. If you pay tax to the UK on your income, you do not need to pay tax to the US. Except if you are making over 90k

It's like moving to Alabama except the reason everyone is poor is that the cost of living is too high, so you won't even save money or live like a king.

Yeah, I know all this part. I lived there before and the laws and culture are pretty shit. I was more asking about the economic impact.

> sluts

this part is fine with me.

OP here. Sluts aren't really something I'm interested in. I've been with my girlfriend for 12 years now.

They are vapid. Well, it's up to you if you want to spend your free time conversing about what Stacy did with Jason and Jamal

She's a Tory. She doesn't have any friends who hang out with blacks (a good thing, desu).

pisses me off that there's no blacks where ive lived. I've seen a handful throughout my life and never interacted with them because they are all in the "cool kids club" and I was too autistic as a teen to accept. I had a literal free pussy pass for being "exotic" that was offered to me but i didn't cause fuking r9k and anime ruined me.

If you are pol and don't want to hang around non whites then don't live in cities. Live in a village or a town. You'll have to do with chavs tho but there's no guns. When you go out at night go with a hoodie and walk menacingly. Worked for me.

also literally everyone is pol. It's funny when I think about it but every friend I've had was pol. So don't worry no PC shit here. I guess that's more prevalent in the upper middle class or universities.

As an American who has lived in the UK, you are full of shit. Britain is far more PC than the US.

What about social security? Do you still pay in? Do you still get your benefits at retirement as normal?

So this is what this country looks like through the eyes of the lower classes. Interesting. Murdoch has done a good job conditioning the plebs against class consciousness

Not him, but I'm extraordinarily well-educated, well-bred, and somewhat wealthy and my experience was somewhat similar. I'm not a fan of life in the UK.

>well educated

You can have an education and be stupid as fuck. I work with dozens of the bastards every day

>somewhat wealthy
Congratulations on having a family who owns horrendously overvalued and instant assets

It's not difficult finding groups of people who aren't what you describe. I'm involved in 3 separate social groups full of them.

Learn to nurture beneficial networks. This is Veeky Forums not /int/ or /r9k/ where everyone moans about being stuck in life and how the people around them are shitty.

>Congratulations on having a family who owns horrendously overvalued and instant assets

What? I never said anything about my family.

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Pretty much every pension scheme in the UK is bust and you start getting taxed out the ass above 20k
Its also suffering decades of eroded infrastructure coupled with a messy EU exit so dont even think about getting sick and seeking free health care

On the plus gold is except from taxes and you could make a killing when the market hit bottom from the "brexit"

But how do they tax pensions and US social security if you are a US citizen?

Take a look at teh exchange rate - you will burn though it fast.

You need a visa to work in the UK - good luck getting one. You know this right?

Tax is very, very high, as rent in the cities.

Also as an American you have to pay tax to the US even if you live abroad.

I can get a spousal/long term partner visa pretty easily.

not trying to shit on your dreams OP but seriously, dont come here.
It fuckin' sucks here, honestly cant think of anything i like about living here besides "chippy tea".
Consider yourself lucky, i've always wanted to live in America, even since the age of 5 and chances are it'll never happen unless im lucky and driven enough to become stupidly wealthy.
I don't care how long you've been together or how fuckin' good the pussy is, it's seriously not worth living over here, like other people have said it's stupidly expensive and overpopulated here...and i'm saying that living in a small town in the north west in the country. you have no chance of hell of surviving financially if you plan to live in one of the big city's like London or Manchester and even if you somehow could afford it, these places are overcrowded with muslim cunts

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Oh yeah in fucking school we have diversity week every fucking week where we have movie quizzes and they tell us all about paki religion. But everyone knows it's blantant propaganda. Shit is straight outta 1984. I don't doubt they do the same in the workplace too. If you're white or ahmed then you'll fit right in. If not you best be michael jordan or you're fucked. Fuck multiculturalism I want segregation back. Nothing against whites or ahmeds but I have no interest in islam and video games. Maybe it's cause I've been brought up in the working class but I have nothing to fucking talk about with these people. It's just sex weed and booze with them.

It's PC in the workplace and in schools i.e government pays schools to do diversity weeks.

IM FUCKING SICK OF ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY HOLY SHIT IT'S BEEN SHOVED DOWN MY THROAT FOR THE PAST 18 YEARS FUCK!

It's just I have no friends cause I've met no one who is Veeky Forums. I've grown out of videogames and anime so nothing to talk about with these plebians.

I sound like an asshole but believe me this shit hole of a country is an example of American culture mixing with socialism. The media is increadibly PC but as you've seen with Brexit, no one is.

Why?

Stay away from Britbongistan.
Sandniggers everwhere.
Tweet " sandniggers ruin this country" while living in the UK and you'll be going to jail.
UK is doomed, no jobs, even if you have a well paid job in London, you'll be wasting it on rent, taxes, travel and shit.
Meantime sandniggers multiplying with a rate of cockroaches from your taxes.

I know this, but the move is likely temporary. Believe me. I know how shit the UK is.

if you're self employed you'll pay less tax in the UK

White crackers had their time.

How does one into doing their own Veeky Forums instead of being a wageslave get a visa to live in the UK. A while ago I browsed around the UK's immigrant website and the only visa category for being Veeky Forums or being self employed is if you have around 2 million pounds ready to invest plus enough to be able to support yourself for the length of time of your stay plus show that you're going to hire a few Brits. If you went the wageslave route instead of running your own Veeky Forums, then you'd have to have a degree and experience in a highly in demand career that there was a shortage of qualified people.
I'm asking Veeky Forums in general about getting such business visa, but I do see in your case you're getting a long term partner visa as in but that makes we wonder because while I was searching around I found many articles of Brits that where basically exiled from the UK because they couldnt meet the high income requirements to get a visa for their spouse so they had to move overseas to their spouse's country.

Can grind micros in uk cant in us