Laura Jayne
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The UK if you're not rich. Here's why:
*Free health care on the NHS in the UK (despite what the American media will tell you, the NHS isn't that bad at all and you only get put on those longer waiting lists if you have a non-priority surgery);
*Further education is much cheaper (university tuition is generally around £3000 per year, which is equal to $6000 year... in America, tuition is generally much more costly than this);
*If you become a British Citizen you can get a 'council house', so a place to live for very cheap from the government... plus if you don't earn much, you'll get a lot of reductions from your bills and will probably get the house for free. Many people in the UK are also eligibile free heating and some other utilities;
*Most food substances (particularly european foods...italian, spanish, belgian etc.) are generally cheaper because of closer trading and the EU;
*If you're interested in new sciences such as Stem Cell Science, it's better to be in the UK than USA, because Bush is reeaaaaallly holding science back in the US;
*If you want to go on holiday, there are lots of foreign countries nearby and it's quite cheap to get to lots of them;
*Much less chance of a natural disaster happening in the UK;
*In the USA there are many states that are landlocked and many areas where it is hard to find a nice area of countryside. The UK is so small that you should have both a beach and a nice area of countryside all within a few hours drive AT MOST;
If you have a lot of money though, I'd probably say some nice sea-side state (like Maine, for example) in the USA.
BTW... Norway is meant to be the best place in the world to live! (source 3) |
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sharon.gray.t21@btinternet.com
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uk is better and cheaper |
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Jock
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UK...the USA sad to say is going down the tubes & they still have legal murder there (death penalty). |
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Spike
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Depends on your point of view. If personal freedoms come into the equation the Uk is the best option. Our american cousins live under the illusion that democracy is an American invention but unfortunatley if they were to come to the Uk they would see that there are more restrictions at home than here. Having said that if you a succesful hard working person there are much better opportunities in the USA than anywhere else in the world. As for the reply from Australia, if sunny Oz is so great why do 40% of its university graduates ( i.e the most educated people in oz) immediatly jump on a plane to the UK or USA once they get their degrees? We all love our home countries but given the choice and being resonably well travelled i would say somewhere like Canada or New Zealand would be my favourite place to live during my working life but nowhere can beat France to retire to. |
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Lord Percy Fawcette-Smythe.
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I would rather live on the a**e end of oblivion than the USA, on second thought that is the USA |
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Polar Molar
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If I had to choose one of those I'll pick UK !! The people are just so much fun!! |
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Karen About Others
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The UK if you like rain, like to travel to Europe cheaply and if you like fish and chips. The US would be better if you like freedom, wide open spaces and apple pie. |
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rachael
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well the USA is slowly deteriorating (i live there), while the UK has managed to keep itself on top for hundreds of years. i think the UK is steadier and more consistent so it would be a better place to live. plus everyone has health care. |
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brainyandy
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Well, I live in the UK, so I'd say USA. |
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Dave
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Juntintimberlakefan:
"Plus everything is cheaper in the U.S. compared to any European country."
That's the most naive thing I have EVER heard in my life. Clearly you have never left your inbred little redneck town & visited anywhere in Europe / world have you?
I currently live in Prague (that's in Czech Republic, in Central Europe - look on Google Maps) and rarely pay more than $1 for a pint of premium beer in a bar / restuarant, $2 for a packet of 20 cigaetes - and this is a relavively expensive country & city compared to some European countries. |
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cinderfella
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i've only ever been to Jordan in the middle east and gran canaria |
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☆ • Monsieur London • ☆
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Definitely the USA, the United States is the premiere world power. Plus everything is cheaper in the U.S. compared to any European country. |
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katie d
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I think Both. As I have lived in Both. I love living in the UK because it's people are wonderfully bright and happy and welcoming, the country is beautiful and rich with history, it offers so much that artistically satisfys me. I love the US because I am a natural born citizen and I love my country. I love my freedoms, my excesses and my country's faults. I enjoy so much about 50 states being so different yet we are so alike in that we will unite and stand together against an enemy in a second. Don't mess with America. I love the beauty of opportunity here. I love that we don't support a king or queen and an entire monarch. WE are not their subjects.We are rebels! |
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thats_tops_aussie
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Neither... Australia is the best country in the world. |
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I'm_not_dead_yet.
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On the moon if that were an option. But I think I still would prefer USA because I expect and understand some of the mean things people say over here. I'm sure if I lived in the UK I would prefer over there. In the UK by the way people really hate Americans. Of course that's just about everywhere. |
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