Moving to the US?

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Hey all. At the ripe old age of 40, I visited the US for the first time back in April. Spent a week in sunny San Diego and absolutely fell in love with the city, the country and most of the people I had the pleasure to meet. I've been mulling a move from Sweden over for many years now, and I came back home, talked to my wife, and we both felt that this might be the time. So preparations are underway, I'm constantly checking the job listings all over the US (I'm a software developer and team lead for a consulting company), but as you probably know it's quite hard to get a US work permit (I'm in no hurry, this is a long term play) so I just thought I'd post here and ask for any hints or tips from anyone that's already made the move or if any of the US forum members might have any helpful ideas or thoughts they'd like to share?