DH (who's American) and I have been living with DD in a small town in the US since August (we'd previously lived for a year in a bigger city here), and I've been horribly homesick. We've spoken about moving back to the UK, and DH has agreed to look for jobs there, but he has a permanent job here (hard to find in his field in the UK). It's just that every time I think about staying in the US for the long term, I really resist the idea. I've just been refusing to even contemplate it.
I know that I could make more effort to try and like the town I'm in (I've always been a big city person and this place feels really claustrophobic and suburban - need a car to get most places, etc), but I'm horrified about staying in the US itself - gun laws, health care, lack of adequate social security, poor food and environmental regulation, that kind of thing. I feel more insecure overall than I ever did in the UK, and it makes it really hard for me to become reconciled to the idea of living here permanently. So I'm wondering if any other MNers were in the same position, of hating major things about the country they moved to but eventually getting used to them and being happy about staying put?
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