MMcD

I agree - hateful as one's opinion might be - you're free to express it

Hotscot

I go back and forth regularly...I think the PC aspect is far worse in the US, particularly in politics where one has to be careful about offending certain demographic/cultural groups. It often prevents open honest discussion.

Dorothy

Just like I'm sure it pisses Americans off when people make generalisations about them. Much like you've just done above.

Pulaski

I'm wondering what Norman Tebbit would say?

Pulaski

I agree, though sometimes I wonder if it is more that the media is telling people that they should be offended.

Sally Redux

Really?

paul32x

I must admit, I've been very fortunate. In my life I've lived in a number of different countries, most of them with the RAF, and have always adapted well and enjoyed every one of them. I've been here in the USA 11 years now, got my citizenship over a year ago, and visit the UK occasionally to see family and attend to business. It's strange, and I don't know why it is, but whenever I go back it's always the negatives that strike me the most, from the minute I land -- the cesspit and surly staff that is Heathrow, the queues everywhere from the minute you hit car rental, the M25, the cameras everywhere, the tiny parking spaces they give you (and that you have to pay for almost every one), the PCSOs hiding behind walls to catch people out! The odd general positives that hit me, just never seem to outweigh the negatives, and I generally can't wait to get back. I'm sure if I was on Freud's couch it would mean something, or maybe I Just read the Daily Mail too much!

Hotscot

Maybe it's just the places you go back to?

I know when I land at Edinburgh and chat to the lovely staff the welcome makes me glad to be home. And when I pick up a car and head North into the Highlands, or the pubs/restaurants of Edinburgh/Glasgow...sheer bliss. Like putting on an old glove...