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Has anyone from the UK moved to the US and immediately regretted it?

My dad. We were going to emigrate there. My dad had got a decent job, looked like the wages were great, would be a bigger house, start of something new etc but it’s just not at all like what the US is sold as. The American dream is just a dream. The wages were higher but you don’t have universal healthcare so that would have taken a huge chunk of his wage, the houses were bigger but your neighbourhoods aren’t at all like ours. No community and a weird education system with public school being free and private school. Here public school is paid for, most people go to normal school.

It’s free to use. I was really young so I don’t remember a lot but I remember him telling my gran about it and I remember his complete disillusionment with it. I remember him saying “we’d need two cars, nobody walks”

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