So quick poll as to whether people prefer to live in the U.S or G.B? I'm still undecided, I like being in the U.S but would like my friends and family here too. Is the U.S worth the sacrifices?

Wheres the poll?

That's an odd question. Both my fiancee and I would like to live in Ireland, but she has a young daughter, so we figured it would just be easier if I moved to the US. We have talked about moving back when she's a bit older so she can go to college there. I like both places, and the one we live in is dictated largely by circumstance, not which one we "prefer".

It's really something only you can decide.

only you can answer that ...where's the poll btw?

Depends. The longer I am in the US the more I want to move home....absence makes the heart grow fonder, grass is always greener....
The reality is this is where I live here and now, making the most of that.

yep it depends on the OP's circumstances. for me there is no contest.

Wasn't there a poll similar to this a couple of months ago? Would agree it's all down to the individual. For me personally, I just got back from a 10 day visit to England and if I never went there again it would be too soon. I can understand missing family and all that, but I have to consider my own family here. We have a better quality of life here than we could ever have in the UK. Again, it's all down to one's own circumstances and feelings, but I would never want to leave the US and go back there.

I'm not a USC, so I'm not honoured with the "privelage" of voting


Different situations suit different people, wherever one lives, right?

Right.

It certainly is down to the individual, and innumerable subjective imponderables. Me, I have a very good standard of living in the USA, but "quality of life" leaves a lot to be desired. Some of the things that really suck over here;
Hot, humid summers
Swarms of biting/stinging insects
Profoundly cold, dry winters, with a bright blue sky every day
no rural buses
Lack of fast, frequent reliable trains
No public footpaths & bridleways
Hundreds of miles to get to the sea
Crapola, bland food
Everyone is Scotch-Irish, white, and dour - and either Methodist or Catholic
Salad has jello and or marshmallows in it
Can't have lunch or tea in a National Trust tea-room, without travelling thousands of miles

LOL And the good points are...?

Some of your negative points are my favourite things about the U.S. So I guess it really is personal preference.

The sense of humor
Irony
Being experts on the world having never traveled
Wit
Having to end every mildly funny sentence with "Just Kidding" so you know its a joke

Thats too funny.
Anyone would think it's a foreign country... oh wait........

You forgot to mention the obvious, of always being right about there being a god.

I had to laugh about "being expert on the world having never travelled" comment though, the things people actually say me in ignorance about the UK in general conversation is almost enough to make me roll on the ground in hysterics sometimes.. and I mean literally
It's just the "planet america" syndrome