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

[HiddenGiraffes]

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.

It's a big place. Some bits are shitholes and others are heaven. It depends where. If you get to choose the state / location then I'd live there in a heartbeat.

We have always had the option - American citizenship and lots of family there, easily transferable careers. No.

I don't think the lifestyle is any better there - once you have accounted for the different tax system, higher living costs, medical costs - and culturally I feel more comfortable in the UK.

Nope. Wouldn't be able to relax when child at school, rubbish work/life balance when it comes to annual leave compared to here.

Probably. Although the USA would be my last choice. It's always good to live in different cultures. I've lived in a few countries and loved it

Absolutely not!!

No fucking way! Guns, crazy gender identity ideology (worse in many places than it is here), no workers' rights, immoral healthcare system, totally corrupt political system. Just for starters.

I could do so very easily as I have dual UK/US citizenship and moved back to England three years ago (from NJ).

I have no interest in moving back to the USA anytime soon and neither do any of my expat friends who’ve left the States.

Not if I was offered a billion dollars and a home the size of the Yellowstone ranch. I would never, ever, ever put my kids in a situation where school shootings are a regular occurrence and god forbid you get sick because you're really, really going to pay for it. Not to mention the normalised racism.

Not sure why I'm being coy, it's DC and a lovely neighbourhood we've lived in before with family closer than they are in London.

As a mixed race family, fuck no!

As a woman who thinks I have the right to bodily autonomy, also fuck no. I could go on.

Nope.

Other countries possibly.
But not the USA.

Gun culture

Healthcare system

I wouldn't move there

See my personal experience of US healthcare is better than the US, it's just deeply unequal and unfair. I've also not had a condition that's so expensive to treat your insurance maxes out of course.

No! Guns, racism, lack of access to abortion, abysmal education, mind boggling fees for university….beautiful land but no way on earth.

Work/life balance and holiday entitlement is a solid point

And also this - the eradication of body autonomy and women's rights. I couldn't live with myself if my DD was denied an abortion or died because of an ectopic pregnancy just because DH and I fancied a move. Fuck that.

What about womens rights? In some states (following Roe v Wade) your body really isn’t your own. This isn’t about abortion, if you have a miscarriage for example getting treatment can be really tricky.

No, definitely not. I'm in the UK but want to move to Canada in the future

We'd be living in Maryland which is solidly democrat so I guess I've not really considered that as a significant risk.

Would rather shove wasps up my arse

@AccidentallyRunToWindsor 😂😂😂

No way.

No chance. Not even if I was wealthy. Land of the free, only if you're a white man.

It's interesting how the media shapes our opinions <breaking news!>

From the other side of the pond, the UK is currently the 5th ring of hell. No ambulances, no nurses or doctors, no teachers. People needing charitable donations of food to survive, and/or freezing to death because you can't heat your homes. All of Europe hates you and last year you were the political laughing stock within the EU. Yet the entire country came to a standstill for 4 days for the most opulent funeral of an old and privileged woman, with people standing in line for hours to just file past her coffin. Groceries cost insane amounts of money, your gasoline/petrol cost as much as coffee-shop coffee here. Insanely ridiculous competition to get your kids into decent schools, and you suffer floods, blizzards, heatwaves (and nobody has ac!). Not to mention your young kids dealing drugs on the way to/from school and the police singularly unable to do anything about it (whilst simultaneously weeding out corrupt officers from their ranks).

Of course, none of this is actually what the UK is really like, is it.