Moving to America- help me write my UK bucket list :D

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I'll be emigrating to the US from the UK in 2024- what (fun things!) would you recommend I do before leaving the UK? I'm thinking typically British things that I won't be able to find/do in America, such as go to a panto or maybe visit Buckingham Palace? I'd love to hear your ideas 😀 What would you miss most about living in the UK?

If you like cheese and chocolate get your fill before you leave the UK

these are the things I missed most

Have fish and chips at the seaside.

Sunday lunch at at old fashioned country pub.

long walk up a big hill in Wales, the lakes or the Peak District.

go to the panto.

afternoon tea somewhere fancy or cream tea somewhere unfancy.

visit a castle or two and some
national trust properties.

go to some chocolate box villages and some proper market towns.

attend a football match.

it lacks the historic sites that the UK has - because the US has a different history. But there are plenty of historic places to visit, just that they naturally reflect US history. If the OP likes nothing better than seeing a medieval castle or roman ruins, then she should definitely visit a few before she leaves. If she is interested in history and preserved places generally she will find plenty of historical sites in the US, many of them very well curated.

For a pp, I can easily get elderflower and pimms (quite popular now actually but I would still have to make victoria sponge myself. in fact all the cakes are very different (where I am bakeries are mostly Italian) and OP will probably miss them too.

Go to Chatsworth House, Blenheim and Waddesdon. The Royal crescent in Bath. Nothing as fine in the US.

Hang out in some old pubs and have a Sunday Roast.

Are you British?

Go out with your friends and get roaring drunk - I might be wrong but I think attitudes to drinking are a bit more strict in the US.

If you're going to the Chicago area you'll be fine.

There are beaches in the midwest - the shores of the Great Lakes have some of the best beaches I've ever sunburned on. Michigan in particular has gorgeous, sandy shores. Wisconsin boasts the Door Peninsula, with glorious beaches on both sides.

The historical sites available to Americans are multitudinous and very varied. Just a few examples - the Spanish missions of the SW and California, Pueblo habitations, Saint Augustine in Florida, the Oregon Trail, the entire east coast with its links to slavery/the triangular trade, New England and the earliest Anglo settlement of North America, American Revolutionary sites, battlefields of the Civil War, the Cahokia Mounds, Route 66, older cities of the east and south, and varied/regional architecture everywhere, esp in Chicago, but there are places much older.

Ok, 'It lacks historical sites when compared to the UK'
So much depends on your definition of history.

I'd say public footpaths/ the right to wander would be missed.

Other than that, and historical sites dating from before the 1600s, the US is interesting, even the midwest.
Plus, you can enjoy nice pub grub in many an Irish pub.

Chicago is the wettest place I've ever lived and I'm a west coast Scot.
The good supermarkets all have bars.

This American woman has lots of videos about things she loves about the UK:

Also go to Bamburgh castle and Dunstanburgh, Hadrians Wall and Lindisfarne.