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And yet, here is our beloved Chi-town with only two good public high schools and some of the highest taxes in the region. But anyway, schools are far from the only reason why i'm interested in moving to UK.

My cousin teaches in one of the local public schools and she can't seem to find anything impressive either; whether it's concerning the facility or the students themselves (though to be fair she blames their behavior on lack of parental supervision). I've decided long ago to send my future kid(s) to private school, as I personally don't see the problems plaguing the public education system being properly mended in the next 10 - 15 years anyway. My son's godmother, who's one of my sources of anecdotal evidence to British school superiority, was a teacher in NJ, before going to work in England. She really hated it there and often described environment as jail-like.

No France or Italy as countries of residence. I want to be able to understand people around me. As of residency in UK, it's not a problem for a US citizen - just have to leave every 6 months(our friends just spend weekends in spain of france). the biggest issue is taxes, but I'm still looking into that.

Why? It's hard and expensive to find a decent school and even then, no one seems to be interested in developing creativity and independent thinking in children. We also really don't like American television and the practice of creating environments that encourage segregation amongst cultures. Those seem like pretty general blanket condemnations for a very large country. Other than the American television bit, I doubt you will really find the answer to your problems in the UK. I do know that the schools are different. I know that from people who went to schools both there and here, as well as from few teachers I've met, who had gone to teach in England.

Why? It's hard and expensive to find a decent school and even then, no one seems to be interested in developing creativity and independent thinking in children. We also really don't like American television and the practice of creating environments that encourage segregation amongst cultures.

Thanks for suggestions. So what's your view on Brighton, as Moose suggested?

Reading up on Brighton, seems like a great suggestion. Thank you. Because we don't want him to grow up in USA:)

Well, currently I live in a very community based neighborhood and I love it, so I'd prefer to stick to something similar - still a city, but homey and close knit enough to know your neighbors. Again, from what I understand, things are a lot closer to each other there. So what area would be relatively inexpensive to live in, have good schools(is that even an issue in UK) and have IT jobs? Also, my wife, her sister and our kid's godmother all had a huge complain about living in UK - lack of mixer type taps in the kitchen/bathrooms. Is it really hard to find a place with one?

Speaking as a Swede; Not everyone here speaks English, some people are pretty, just as everywhere else, we have a 30% taxrate and 25% extra on everything we buy. Oh, and the politicians are idiots. On the "plus" side of things, people here seems to want us to become more American by the day! Don't have a clue about permits or visas I'm afraid. Yet, atleast. Oh, and I forgot to mention that we have some huge unemployment issues amongst youths here. Atleast, so say the politicians. What about schools?

OH yeah, forgot about ugly people... And Ireland is fine too, I guess. I don't know how working in a Scandinavian countries as a US citizen would work out, would I need a visa or a work permit? anyone?

I don't mind Pies, Chicago isn't exactly cheap either and the weather.... yes, that does bother me. However, I like the fact that I can drive to Paris in a day(I hate flying)

Oh yeah great point. I'm a system/network admin(but also code sometimes), my wife is an accountant. P.S. Good morning, Chicago:)

Sorry, I have to leave this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iKjkPgVQcE

Me and my wife have been entertaining the idea of moving to UK for few years, so our kid could grow up in Europe. Why UK? Well, we already speak the language(albeit poorly, but still...) and we love the culture. TV(kid's favorite cartoon is Kipper), music, humor, food(at least some of it), EPL(that one is just me, actually), etc. With us being US citizens, the whole ordeal would be somewhat simple - we can come and work as we please, we'd just need to leave the country every 6 months - sort of a forced vacation. However, due to the fact that we'd have to pay double taxes(US and UK), we'd want to go somewhere relatively inexpensive, but with decent opportunities. So far, Edinburgh seems to be one of the best choices, but frankly, i'm not too keen on living in water for most of the year. So tell me, Brits, what is the best place under the sun in the land of Her Majesty? Any tips/ideas/wtf are you thinking moments? Keep in mind, we're still in "what if" mode, so we're just looking for information, good or bad. Thank you all in advance.

I must be blind. Fire Gecko? Where?

I"m really not sure who's worse, interviewer or the camera man.

Ethan from lost has been revealed as on of the voice actors http://williammapother.blogspot.com/2010/0...-new-vegas.html

It is made by Bioware. Even if those screens were final, DA2 reviews would be praising the graphics. If there's one thing most reviewers get right, no matter how biased they may be, it's the graphics. You mean when they talk about Bio games, or in general? In general. It is kind of hard to straight out lie about that since you have screenshots right next to the review and there's really no subjectivity about that. Are those the same reviewers that called F3's graphics beautiful?

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It really only works for games like F3, where there's a lot of tiny hidden stuff all over

IIRC there was a melee weapon in the inventory of the second part of the demo, so if the previewer was willing to try melee vats moves he/she could. They showed the companion wheel in various videos, same with some new weapons, including the super anticipated anti-materiel rifle and its 'knocking you back' animation. It could have been better true, but I don't think it was that bad. No, not that bad, but still, I don't think that showing casino games was that necessary

Well for me it was more like 'we're showing The Strip.. you see? different from Fallout 3, right?', so it was just a natural consequences that they'd show the casino minigames. Don't forget that they showed things like the casino bouncer taking weapons, the use of sneak to.. well.. sneak a couple of weapons in the casino, the fact that you can 'break' them etc.. Still, it was a pretty bland presentation. I don't think it reached the target audience in the optimal way. Should have shown more combat - melee vats moves, companion wheel, new weapons, provoking fights with smart ass dialog. You know, the "cool" ****

I don't think so - it's missing scalability. They still have to run each game session on a dedicated CPU and GPU(imagine the power budget for a 100k machine server farm with high performance GPUs), which still need to be upgraded regularly. And on top of that, noone has seen him cope with ridiculous bandwidth demands that mass adoption would bring. I'm very very skeptical. It's a good idea and they got some tech done. But visualization is not there yet.

Actually, speaking of OnLive, they have a limited beta thing going and I've heard from a few people that it is actually playable without any more noticeable lag than normal online gaming. The bigger problem is really the fact that you actually have to buy all the games ala Steam before you can play them via OnLive in addition to a subscription fee. Not that it's coming to Australia anytime soon, but looks like the thing actually works. Digital Foundry ran teir tests and established that on 25mbps FiOs connection, you can expect anywhere between 150 to 216 ms lag.

In expectation of tomorrow: GO TEAM USA!!!!