If you had the chance to live in AMERICA would you take it ,,and why,,?

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Sue C

If I had the chance to live in America I would probably take it........Put my house if I owned it up for a short term let, put other personal things in storage and take on a holiday let in the US. That way I would still have all my ties in the UK, my home if I owned would pay for itself and I would be having a good experience.....It is only as long term as you want it to be and US isn't as far away now as it used to be!!!! Flight etc are much cheaper and more frequent. I had the option to move from UK to Switzerland,I had my doubts as at the time my daughter was only 3, I didn't speak any german and I would be living in a huge city! I have been here now nearly 2 years I am getting better with german I still miss certain things about the UK ( mainly certain foods) but have plenty of visitors who keep us well stocked up !!!! My daughter ( now 5 years is attending the Swiss schooling system and is now fluent in Swiss German and knows a whole different culture to the one we had in UK. I say go for it.....................You can always go home!!!!!!!!
Sue
Zurich (Switzerland)

tricia c

yes i would to try a different life style

jojo78

i would try it out first, it depends where in america, it sounds like a great opportunity but dont rush into it, go visit first if you havent already been

chakwaina18

I love America, there's nowhere else I'd rather live.

shellyboo

most def, because they seem to be pioneers if you know what i mean.i want to be a pioneer, i want to lead the way. Its not fair!

Bridget

Yea! im an american and i LOVE it here. Now i wouldnt mind living in UK for a while but still!

emmiboo

I would love to stay for a year but not any longer than that. I've been before and USA has some good points like every country but it also has bad points (like every country) It seems like an ok place but if I could move to another country it would be the bahamas. i loved it there!

Fairy Codswallop

No, too many people, too much pollution and as far as I am aware hardly any countryside and where there is countryside you end up getting caught by zombies and other monsters or getting shot by weird Americans. I don't like the fact you're allowed guns, anyone could get shot.

LONDONER Â©

I'd like to visit for a holiday but I'm pretty dedicated to London, no matter how sh*t people think it is here! Your true home is always going to be the best place in your eyes no matter how nice it is elsewhere.

truble

absolutely becos like most people i dont think all americans r bad so i wanna c 4 myself

Look me over, I'm the Capm

Yes, because I already live here. :)

djamkelly

NOT WHILE I CAN DRAW BREATH

haider0311

Of course, but I already live here. And for those of you who don't please don't take the opportunity we have enough foreigners living here already!

loki_mcbedlam

I would rather suck poo through my own socks.
Sorry but thats the way I feel

^-^mary^-^

I live in AMERICA and I think it's great. Let me ask you something...have you ever come to the USA?

bobonumpty

no I wouldn't for some reason its the only place in the world I don't want to go to .....must be my female intuition saying ..don't go there ...sorry America

8kxu6

I would love too...England is full with foreigners and criminals! I think the Usa looks great and I would love to live there for at least a couple of years.

axely1

Yes. I visit whenever I can and find the people really friendly and fiercely proud of their country.

ezgisito

Hmm... I would like to stay in America for 2 or 3 years to get in touch with the improvements in my field but I dont think I can live nowhere else than Ä°stanbul !!!

smudgepuss

Nope. Too much time spent lurking on email groups and forums with values that I'd never want my kids raised around.

Teenage girls going without contraceptives/doctors because they don't want it showing up on their parent's insurance; gun crime; way too religious; compensation culture

And the fact that I'm more than happy here.

Fizzisist

There are reasons why I would, and reasons why I wouldn't, too numerous to list here.

Their working class is poorly treated. My cousin, who lives in Texas, experienced this.

World's Wildest Police Videos, which I look forward to seeing every Sunday night around 11pm on Five, shows a glimpse of the yucky and completely insane side of America. Sheriff John Bunnell's a good narrator.

Contrast that with Police, Camera, Action! - a British version of that, which shows our police in action, and it makes Britain look almost quiet by comparison. Although I think if guns were allowed here, it would probably be as bad, maybe worse.

I spent a few weeks on holiday in the US, and it was good. The people we met were lovely, welcoming and very generous. But the difference was that it was Salt Lake City, Utah; those people were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; and it was 1999 - pre-9/11. I don't know what it's like now. I don't know much about Chicago either, as I was only there for 12 hours, except that Chicago sells a super-delicious variety of large, coated donuts in the city centre. :9

I will say though - I agree with America's tough sentencing laws for serious crimes; that a life sentence means exactly that, and not some ridiculously light sentence, or anonymity, with a new identity and police protection for life, with unlimited taxpayer funds allowance, like the killers of little James Bulger got, virtually rewarding them.

Plus, I think you work much harder than we do here. Some of you build your own houses n' everything.
The amount of free services and provisions we have in Britain is large, and I think we take it for granted.
Then again, I also think we have a right to, as we're taxed to high heaven for so many things. The one thing they haven't taxed yet is the air, but I'm sure someone, somewhere in Westminster is working on it! :)

rivers_of_life

I m really sorry that u are American and i have to tell u this but even if u pay me i would never go to America noway, i m originally from Argentina and i m living in Egypt now, I consider America and Latinamerica like real bad places to live if u are looking for peaceful life and nice environment.NO thanks imagine,,,if i even reject Argentina because of insecurity and the way of people s thinking, of course noway to go to America full of psychos and criminals, high rate of Aids and strange diseases that the government try to hide and u are not safe even buying a candy bar because it may be a hidden experiment from a powerful company, that s very common in America, they sell poison to people and then wait to see u die from cancer or any horrible thing, and if we add all the serial killers, drug dealers, addicted, crazy nasty people, noway thanks I stay here where i m very happy and in peace.

flymetothemoon279

sure i would. The UK is going down the toilet. They seem to do everything bigger and better in the US.

Miss V

I'm an American born and bred too and would give anything to be British instead! Just my own opinion.

Nicola j. r

i would love to live in america, i live in england and came on holiday to america for the first time 3 years ago and since then we have spent every holiday in america, weve been twice to florida, orlando, tampa bay and miami, and in april this year we visited las vegas, los angeles and new york. we just love everything about the country, although we are not misled into thinking the places that we visited represent america as a whole,there is also many people in america living below the poverty line, we saw poverty in Tampa Bay worse than you would ever see in england. i really hope to live in america one day, im sure i will. im just about to book my next holiday anyway

eendje1990

I lived there for 8 years, pretty much grew up there. I like it but I like it in other countries too. The only things I REALLY miss are friends (and one neighbor). So, it doesnt really matter to me.

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