<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by esprit
Please be aware that it can take months for your stuff to arrive from the UK. A friend spent weeks sitting on the floor, eventually she gave in and bought some new stuff here, it was weeks further on before her own stuff arrived and then she had two sets of everything. Also the furniture here is very cheap, you can buy a whole houseful for as much as you can ship a container for and it looks right in the Floridian houses which English furniture often does not. Unless it is antiques or items of great sentimental attachment I wouldnt bother shipping stuff out. I unpacked mine some three months after I packed it, and couldnt help wondering just why I had packed this and that and dragged it half way across the world with me!!
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Unless you have some really valuable items of furniture or sentimental attachment, then just furnish your house once you are in America. The style of home and living, you will probably find that what looks good in your house is UK will not in your American home!