In 2025, more than 8,000 Americans applied to live and work in the U.K. Like generations of expats before them, many installed themselves in the North London neighborhood of St. John\u2019s Wood, where leafy streets, spacious villas, and Lord\u2019s Cricket Ground offer well-to-do Yanks a flattering dose of English life.<\/p>\n
George Lucas recently bought a $54 million home here, not far from the posh campus of the American School in London, which enrolls around 1,400 students at fees upward of $60,000 per year. The private lives of the area\u2019s well-known residents\u2014Paul McCartney, Ewan McGregor, Kate Moss\u2014unfold quietly behind greenery and gates. But the insularity can be both a blessing and a curse; it is not exactly the convivial, pub-centric existence that London is known for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2025, more than 8,000 Americans applied to live and work in the U.K. Like generations of expats…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":962822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[117389,11794,191677,268967,268968,105427,268969,268970,91898,102,748,41466,268971,18589,27739,393,122192,182272,268972,166892,4884,500,1994,268973,268974,268975,65370,257,95794,5479,268976,18103,59226,268977,704,93208,29288,11693,268978,268979,268980,117877,268981,31069,123995,8733,173760,268982,7808,16,15,268983,32014,268984],"class_list":{"0":"post-962821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-abbey-road","9":"tag-abu-dhabi","10":"tag-air-mail","11":"tag-alamo-drafthouse","12":"tag-american-school-in-london","13":"tag-apollo","14":"tag-ares","15":"tag-ashley-baker","16":"tag-aspen","17":"tag-aston-villa","18":"tag-britain","19":"tag-costa-rica","20":"tag-curzon","21":"tag-dallas","22":"tag-dallas-cowboys","23":"tag-england","24":"tag-eras-tour","25":"tag-ewan-mcgregor","26":"tag-fortress-investment-group","27":"tag-george-lucas","28":"tag-great-britain","29":"tag-hawaii","30":"tag-heathrow-airport","31":"tag-jacqueline-pack","32":"tag-jerry-jones","33":"tag-joshua-pack","34":"tag-kate-moss","35":"tag-london","36":"tag-lords-cricket-ground","37":"tag-madrid","38":"tag-majestic-wine","39":"tag-marbella","40":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","41":"tag-mubadala-investment-company","42":"tag-new-zealand","43":"tag-paris-olympics","44":"tag-patriots","45":"tag-paul-mccartney","46":"tag-poundstretcher","47":"tag-rancho-buena-vista-high-school","48":"tag-red-lobster","49":"tag-seahawks","50":"tag-sixth-street","51":"tag-st-johns-wood","52":"tag-super-bowl","53":"tag-taylor-swift","54":"tag-the-times-of-london","55":"tag-this-is-money","56":"tag-tokyo","57":"tag-uk","58":"tag-united-kingdom","59":"tag-university-park","60":"tag-vanity-fair","61":"tag-wesley-edens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}