Never a truer word was said, RZR, in your last paragraph.
I made the effort to leave the UK all those years ago - for the love of a woman. Well, that all went crazy. But, I was here.I'd passed through the first stage.
The second was realising the deep "sh8t" I was in. Coming here and upsetting the rhythm of her life??????
After 9 years, that's all gone and I'm happily married.
I look at it as if I'd never come here in the first place, I'd never have met my wife.
To h*** and back to the people who come over here with empty promises!!