Will my life be better if I move to USA?

A meritocracy that has elected Trump to the top job in the land. If that's on merit, what must the rest of them be like?

My sons went to Oxford. From a normal family and state school. All their friends were similar. Yes lots of prats have gone. But your statements are not true

if you’re poor you are treated as nothing and can’t even access health care.

So much ignorance and misinformation.

https://www.health.ny.gov/publications/0548/medicaid.htm

Every state has a Medicaid program.

If you like gun violence and Christianity - head to the USA!
But it’s just a different type of class system there - if you’re poor you are treated as nothing and can’t even access health care.
Plus…Trump…gross.
Give it a try and let us know how you like it.

Where are all these Oxbridge people?? Are they all lined up outside your window in their rowing kit or something???

I hope this isn't your baby sister!

I think you are deluded if you think wealth in the US doesn’t make people act in an entitled or snobbish way.
Your fixation with Oxbridge is quite weird. I have a daughter at Oxford. She went there from a rural comprehensive, not a selective or private school. One of my closest friends went to Cambridge, again from a rural comprehensive, ditto my DH. Highly academic students tend to go on to good universities, that’s hardly a surprise.

Most of the Americans he works with are Ivy League and many of them expressly say they’ve moved to London to escape the elitism, narrowness and snobbery of their lives in the US.

If they have renounced their US citizenship, immigrated to the UK, and taken permanent positions there, I'd find this credible. If they were there on a one or two year assignment, I'd suspect that they were attempting to ingratiate themselves with their British colleagues by confirming their biases about American society.

My DH worked in London for a year before we met. He was on assignment from the big four (big six then) accounting firm he work for, in their management consulting division. He loved London, loved the Brits he worked with and met, but was happy to return to NY when the assignment was over.

Ooh - good call. I'm thinking OP didn't get in (Oxford offers came out on the 13th), has an extreme case of sour grapes and wants to try and ensure she never has to encounter people who did get in.

“Trump’s wealth doesn’t make him act entitled or snobbish” 😂

Her username was Juliette96 I remember because my baby sister is called Juliette and was born in 96

Ooooh you might be right

Hmm. Now you mention it you might be right. The OP sounds a little odd.

Does anyone have a linky to the previous thread?

I read it all the time, but my memory needs a refresh. Something about repeating A Levels, wasn't it?

Have tried to AS but nae luck.

Agreed. I'm an American in the US and there is definitely huge wealth disparity. My husband works for a UK company and his colleagues who have moved here are struggling because they're still on the UK pay scale. Salaries seem larger in the US but your money doesn't go nearly as far. For example, $100k sounds like a nice living but it provides a lower middle class lifestyle, living paycheck to paycheck, in many areas. Politics aside (although that'd be a deterrent for me if I didn't already live here), I'd just recommend being extremely mindful about where you move, what your income will look like, and research cost of living (including taxes, healthcare, energy costs, groceries, whether there is public transit, transportation costs, etc) before moving.

You're definitely that girl fixated with getting in to Oxford aren't you.

My DH went to Cambridge. First person in his entire extended family to go to university from a local state school. All of his mates there were also mainly state school educated. And yes, if they didn’t put a gown on they didn’t get served supper in the evening where it really was like Harry Potter (but with liberal quantities of port if the Master was dinning).

They’ve all done incredibly well - C Suite of a FTSE100 company, partners in law and accountancy firms, MDs in tech companies. He works with people from all over the world - they’ve all attended some of the best universities in the US and Europe. Most of the Americans he works with are Ivy League and many of them expressly say they’ve moved to London to escape the elitism, narrowness and snobbery of their lives in the US. Personally I do wonder whether Torquay in the summer is really on a par with a staffed mansion in the Hamptons, but most of them are happy to swap the two.

I’m clearly older than you - you sound the same age as my university aged DCs - but I would tell you the same as I have told my kids. The world is in a blip. Every 45-50 years there is an economic and social cycle and everyone lives through ay least one. Some of us live through two (I am old enough to remember the bread shortages with hours long queues outside the bakers, the power cuts, the reading by candle light during the miners’ strikes in the 70’s even though I was still in junior school). Look at the great depression of the 1920’s, the unrest of the 70’s. This is cycle will move on and things will resettle. You can’t blame it on Oxford elites and if you truly think that other countries in the world aren’t living through the same level of economic and social uncertainty right now, you are being naive.

If you know what it’s like to live in the USA, can you just tell me whether if I moved to the USA, I wouldn’t have to come across any of those posh, aristocratic, upper/middle-class, privately-educated, titled, Oxbridge graduate snobs that I mentioned.

Move to Chatham in Kent, and you will never meet a single one 🤣 seriously. Where do you live that is dominated by these throngs of well-educated snobs? You need not venture very far even from the capital to see people who leave school with no qualifications at all if that's what floats your boat ( there are grammar schools in Chatham, extremely good ones so you might be suprised at what the area demographic looks like in reality).

The Oxford university decisions came out recently. I am thinking there may be a link with this thread.

You are mixing in the wrong circles then? Clearly.

There is NO ONE where I live that is like your description.
Remember though, if everywhere you go are arseholes, what is the one constant?

I really don't understand the level of hatred for something that I very much doubt you come across all that much in day to day life.

If your complaint is that it is a certain group running politics... look at the US dynasties, the Kennedys have been at the top of politics for years, Clintons, Bush's. Would you really rather have Trump in charge than most UK politicians just because he didn't go to Oxbridge?

No

Same here. The stuff the OP mentions doesn't affect my life and doesn't even occur to me.

Keir Starmer went to Leeds OP.

If you think the USA is more meritocratic, I think you're delusional. Wealth and power there is based on inherited privilege as much as anywhere else!

Doesn't the gun crime and lack of respect for woman's rights worry you? It would me!