omg.. i can not imagine living in the UK as an american. I was married to an english man, and he was always on me about everything, and he wanted and got a visa for the US!!! He is one of those posh brits, and nothing was ever good enough!!! UGH....you are much stronger than me staying there for soooo long!!! I have a feeling you are not the loud american!! Most of the time here when my bf has students and they are extra loud, they usually are not from the US, but Britain!! I laugh cuz every one of the ones from the US we all say, we dont want to be the loud annoying americans, cuz it is such a thing now!