Controller- I have gone the way of your last paragraph, GOM, Alaska etc.
I would like to return home to the UK and fly, but to be honest I don't want to undertake the JAA exams,getting to old for all that studying now, I hold an FAA ATP. I will admit I am one of the guys waiting for rule changes and are trying to avoid the hoop jumping. Until then I will stay in the US, somehow I can never see the rules changing, but I still enjoy working here.
Great thread....