If you had the chance to move to the USA right now, would you?

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Context is it's a major city we've lived in before and liked, and we're currently in London, and like the area we live too. Some family in both countries.

I'm just curious if, given the opportunity to get out of the UK right now, people would consider the US a superior alternative.

Not a chance in hell.

Pretty sure you have a better idea of your preferences and circumstances than we do. Do what you want.

Nope

Probably not but it would depending on where.

No thanks

Absolutely not. As someone with family in America who are doing everything they can to move here you would be crazy to move over there.

If you have children how could you ever relax?

Not on your Nelly.

No way. We are going on holiday to US this summer snd I’m not that excited about it. Serious reservations (and I live in south London). France on the other hand… I’d be off like a shot.

No thank you.

What they said. I only know expat Brits trying to leave the US.

Absolutely not a chance in hell

No way never no thanks.

Same. No chance.

I remember talking to a colleague in Colorado who said before agreeing a play date, she asks what the family’s gun policy is. Some are pretty relaxed and do not have them locked away safely…

No. Speaking as someone who has lived there twice and loves it. Wild horses wouldn’t drive me to make a home there at the moment.

The politics are so polarising and unpleasant and the disparity between rich and poor.

I love the US but it’s not in a good place now.

You literally could not pay me to live in America

No. I couldn’t send my kids to school there because of the gun issue.

I'd consider it. I've lived in the US in the past (New York and San Francisco) and would do so again.

It would be very dependent on job/package/relocation/area though.

And I don't consider the US a 'superior' alternative, but for me it would be a viable alternative.

Nope. Never. Not for all the money in the world.

Never, ever would I even contemplate moving to America.

Absolutely not!

I live in the US (NYC though...) and you couldn't pay me to come back to the UK - I love it here.

No because it seems fairly violent. My DB did a 3 week holiday and found some of the drug issues alarming worse than when they visited 4 years ago and much worse than we went around the US as children for 2 months. This was in the 80s so 1980s new York which was obviously not the height of safety. That said, it is a big place and I think we forget that plus I am getting my information from the news so maybe a bit biased.

No, and I've lived there before and loved it. The political situation these days is scary. I also have a teenage daughter and the whole abortion issue is a another reason not to go.

It's funny because I can list all the broad reasons the future for each country is bleak, and all the ways both neighbourhoods in consideration are lovely, and I have no idea what's actually a better prospect. There's more money in the US and we'd have good health insurance and I think ambulances would actually come, and there's guns. How do you weight that stuff.