Expat Advice: Relationships in Palm Beach, Florida

What is the name of the city or town that you are reporting on?

Palm Beach

What is your current status? Are you single, dating, in a long-term relationship, married or divorced?

Married.

What is it like in your country of residence for someone with your relationship status (married/divorced/dating)? If you're single, how do you meet other people? Do English-speaking people tend to gravitate to certain parts of your city?

There are particular places that many Brit expats go - I don't frequent them.

If you do not have children, do you generally spend your social time with other expat couples? If not, what else do you like to do as a couple?

Our friends are all American. We spend our spare time with our dressage horse that I am training.

If you are married or in a relationship with a person of another nationality, how has this experience enriched you as a person. What kind of challenges do you face?

Apart from the INS, who would love to be able to prevent US citizens from marrying foreigners and make life as difficult as possible, language is the biggest challenge. There is a huge difference bewteen UK and US English!

What would be the best advice you could give someone with your relationship status that lives in your country of residence? Any other thoughts?

Be prepared for the INS to put every obstacle that they can in your path and to be treated like a criminal, a bigamist and a plague carrier until you prove your innocence at your own expense!