Will my life be better if I move to USA?

The standard, reliable sources say that 25-40% of UGs at Harvard and the other Ivies geared to affluence come from private schools, OP. And with Trump’s anti-DEI stance, this will only be getting worse.

But this seems worse to me: there are over 20,000 high schools and about 11,000 K-12 (all years) schools in the USA. Over 30,000 schools from which to admit UG students. Typically about 9% of Harvard entrants are from just 21 of these schools.

Equal opportunity, you say?

Citation needed.

Perhaps you should look at what proportion of Yale/Harvard students came from private schools.

He was born in 1853, 15 years after the abolition of slavery so I doubt that he had any involvement. Son of a vicar so I doubt that he inherited any slave-generated wealth either.

I believe that the reason that he is a controversial figure is down to land appropriation when he was the Prime Minister of South Africa.

The gap between wealth and opportunity in the US is much larger than in the UK.

https://ifs.org.uk/publications/wealth-inequality-united-states-and-great-britain

A tiny proportion of the country has grammar schools.

Also how one with would you know the stats? Honestly it's a weird fixation

I don’t think you’ll find anything is different in the US. They have rich people sending their kids to private schools there, too, and they have selective schools for high achieving students. You’ll probably find that a disproportionate percentage of those who get into ‘Ivy League’ universities in the US (similar to Oxbridge) come from private or selective public (state) schools and that the vast majority of Ivy League students are from families who are well-off. Privilege is everywhere, even in ‘Communist’ countries, let alone the ‘money is power’ US of A!

This is such an odd rant. A quick google tells me 66% of Oxbridge admissions, and 71% of Cambridge admissions are state school educated.
I hate Boris Johnson too, but I wouldn’t move to the USA to avoid him. What does he even do nowadays apart from write spiteful (and also incorrect and stupid) columns for the Daily fail?

Jesus OP.

Do you think America will cure you of the enormous chip on your shoulder? They have rich people there too, you know. And how do you think political dynasties like the Kennedys and the Bushes came to power? Even Trump the lunatic maverick bought his way in.

Also- you don't think Trump acts like he's entitled?!?🙄

The US is not a meritocracy. The vast majority of wealthy people there were born into wealth. Research shows that social mobility is rare. Wealth disparity there is huge: extreme poverty alongside obscene wealth. There is snobbery there too. Lots of American "how to look Old Money" clips are on instagram.

If OP is very young their earnings may be below the filing threshold.

But yes, OP, as an adult US citizen you are required to pay Federal income tax on your worldwide income. It’s a hoot.

There is a UK-US tax treaty mostly preventing double taxation but it still isn’t one of life’s pleasures. If you don’t pay, you can be detained at the border (in extreme cases) . Much as I despise almost all of the current border shenanigans, I do agree with the right of each nation to enforce its tax laws so this doesn’t bother me.

Your own attitudes, personal stresses, and many other things do not disappear because you move. They follow you.

I have family who have moved to Asia and then moved back, watched friends marriages fall apart after a move to Aus meant they discovered that the issue was them and their relationship not everything else they blamed it on.

Move for GOOD reasons, things that make you want to be there.

If you move to the USA the chip on your shoulder will move with you

What are you talking about . In my day to day life I don’t think I’ve ever come across any Oxbridge people, well, if I have I haven’t realised because they don’t let on 👀

Oxford decisions came out last week.

Do you realise how ridiculous you sound? How utterly riddled with jealousy and hate?
Imagine the opposite of what you're saying -
I can't stand living in the UK with all the common people, people who can't talk properly because they went to a state school. Do they not know that words such as 'water' and 'later' have the the letter 't' in them. Their hideous accents that make it hard to understand what they're talking about. I have no idea what the check out assistant said to me in Waitrose this morning because she was so common.

The lack of money and education that these people have is so evident and makes me sick. Yuck, I hate poor people. I think I need to move to somewhere posh where people are educated as the lack of brain cells around me is driving me crazy.

Definitely, going to live in the USA would just be exchanging that chip for a fry. I think you need some help here OP, that obsession is not normal and the rest of the UK don't spend their lives thinking about this.

No but Harvard, Yale etc also = a class system similar to Oxbridge.

At least Trump’s wealth or that of the Kardashian’s isn’t offensive to me because it just feels different - it doesn’t feel as layered and it doesn’t make them act as entitled or snobbish.

Say the what now??

OP, move to the US if that's what you want to do and if you've dual citizenship that will presumably make it relatively straightforward. But you really need to find a way of dealing with this irrational prejudice you have about what is only ever going to be a very small proportion of the UK population.

The interesting thing about the US and elite universities is that 'widening participation' isn't even a conversation there yet. The Ivy Leagues are dominated by the wealthy; the percentage of students who went to private school is much higher than it is at Oxbridge! I asked my cousin (a professor at Princeton) what steps the university was taking to widen opportunities for working class prospective students and he looked at me as if I had two heads...

Are you from a posh middle class family?

Ivy League, not Oxbridge. It's just a different elite, born out of "new money" financial privilege rather "old money" in the UK.

I've lived in both places, been educated at elite universities, and I really don't understand what you think will be different in the US on the whole than the UK. In both countries you will experience a country run by a political elite linked to certain institutions and driven by inherited wealth.

There are obviously differences. Don't get ill in America - it's the leading cause of bankruptcy. But in the UK expect to pay more tax with sometimes little to show for it public services.

I went to an Independent secondary school. You might not even notice initially given how well I hide behind a Midlands accent, being a nice person, and having no interest whatsoever in running the country. I'm sorry you feel like you want to move thousands of miles away so that you don't have to see or hear "people like me", but I guess it's your choice.

In the US the only thing people care about, or value, is money. If you have money people will listen to you. If you don't, they won't.

That wouldn't work for me, so I prefer it here in the UK, even if occasionally Jacob Rees-Mogg gets TV airtime. Your life is your choice.

As you're a US citizen OP, have you filed a US tax return every year?