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WOULD YOU MOVE TO THE US? · Found this in the Inbox of one of my Mail Servers this morning... Tony Reeves (UK) May 10, 2020 Studied at UCNW Bangor Would you come to the USA tomorrow if you were given a visa to legally live and work there? I live in London, UK, and I visit the USA fairly regularly, travelling around quite a bit. I love the buzz of the big cities, the spectacular scenery and the sheer size of the place. The people are mostly incredibly warm and friendly. But live there? Never. Two things are absolutely terrifying and number one, of course, is the lack of a universal healthcare system. Being in America feels like visiting Victorian England in a time machine, where the privileged few can receive luxurious treatment but everyone else has to keep up the payments, living with the threat of unemployment or bankruptcy. The notion that my healthcare could depend on the whim of an insurance company is shocking. Second is the gun culture. The unspoken presence of so many weapons is not reassuring to non-Americans, but deeply unnerving. A couple of years ago, I was staying in LA. One morning, the gas station down the road where I usually filled up, was cordoned off. I saw on the TV news that evening that two groups of had a bit of a swaggering confrontation at the pumps, as do. In the UK, it would have been a bit of loud-mouthed taunting, probably ending with a bloody nose, but somebody pulled a gun. It's the casual, spontaneous fallback to weaponry over trivial issues that makes me yearn for the comparative safety of the UK (Note: if you're not actually affiliated with a street gang in one of a handful of high-risk areas, the much-publicised "knife crime" is virtually unknown for us ordinary folk). And lastly, the oppressive, suffocating presence of religion – or at least, religiosity – everywhere. That would drive me nuts. I'll still visit the USA, but I'm always glad to get back home in the UK. Posted on Quora.com |
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8/20/2020 2:54 am |
Well I've done a lot of international travel in my life and there's just no place like home. It's not even close in my view. My answer would be yes and the overwhelming view a year later for most would be, I'm never going back to where I was before. However, we have one big problem in America today and that is obviously Trump, and by extension, a corrupt republican party. America is aware of its problem here and is in the process of dealing with it. Although I would deal with it in a different way than we are now, I still accept how we are trying to deal with it. What will be my answer in January, or even in November might be different. As a citizen of America I can reassure the world, we still welcome immigrants, from anywhere in the world, and that includes refugees. But clearly, we are busy now cleaning up a mess nobody asked for.
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He could easily apply that article to the U.K. as well, inequality and class divide is rife. We have a corrupt government and the prime minister is hiding in a tent in Scotland while scandals are emerging in education and the way the pandemic is being handled. Leaving EU in months and we gloating about a trade deal with Liechtenstein! Mr Reeves needs to look in the mirror.
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He could easily apply that article to the U.K. as well, inequality and class divide is rife. We have a corrupt government and the prime minister is hiding in a tent in Scotland while scandals are emerging in education and the way the pandemic is being handled. Leaving EU in months and we gloating about a trade deal with Liechtenstein! Mr Reeves needs to look in the mirror. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, what you do are in harmony - M. Gandhi
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