cjreisen

I love this response!!

Coming from San Diego, and living on the East Coast, there isn't a day that goes by that I don't miss California. In my life I've lived all over Europe, all over the US, and even in Japan, but I've never found a place that comes close to the redwood forest, it's in my opinion the best place on Earth, no competition. I spent 2 days in the avenue of the giants this summer, and it was as close to heaven as you can ever be on Earth, I loved it so much.

sidenote- Glad everyone is mentioning the nature, I think the nature is what truly makes the US a unique place. So many varying landscapes, all beautiful in their respective ways. New England in the fall, the rainforests of the PAC Northwest, the valleys of southern california, the deserts of the west, the redwoods of Northern Cali, it's all spectacular, and just one reason to love the US.

ian-mstm

I really don't give a shit about whether more crimes would be solved... I like not having holes drilled into the front of my Mustang for an ugly front bracket... which I'd have to do if I was living, say, in Ohio... or Maryland!

Ian

HumphreyC

Not to mention the Red Cardinals and the hummingbirds. I was never into bird watching but it's great sitting out on the deck in the sunshine and hearing a hummingbird hover past - or seeing two of them fighting over the feeder.

Leslie

Yeah but since he's a South American immigrant being persecuted by a bunch of Cuban immigrants it does speak to the whole diversity thing.

Lion in Winter

The landscapes and wild areas.

Not where I live of course. Where I live it was all scoured off by an iceberg and there is nothing but flatness and fast food restaurants and cornfields for at least 500 miles in every direction.

SultanOfSwing

International airports.

Hiro11

As an American, I'll agree with the responses here that say that the true trump card of life in the US is the beauty and diversity of the landscape. Everything else is debatable, but it's undeniable that the US has many natural treasures that are truly world class. For example, I can't think of too many other countries that have a collection of landscapes as diverse as:
- the Everglades
- the Grand Tetons
- Kauai
- The Pacific Coast Highway north of Monterrey
- Mount Washington
- Cape Hatteras and the Outer Banks
- Olympic National Park
- Death Valley
- Boundary Waters, Minnesota
- Moab and the surrounding area, Utah
- Denali
- The Badlands
- The Pine Barrens
- etc

...it's pretty incredible how much there is to see in one country. Once you get a chance to travel around a bit and get an appreciation for the diversity, it's hard not to be impressed.

helwardman

Turn right on red

caleyjag

It's not.

Bob

Well they'll be a bit shit, yes

Bob

Oh yeah, that is rather handy...unless you're a pedestrian, but who sees any of those anyway

lansbury

Do you know how many cities in Oregon are authorized by the State to use photo radar? It's 5 and 2 of them do not deploy it. So there is hardly lots in Oregon, and only a very few cities, mainly Beaverton and Portland, have red light cameras.

Bink

My wife!

Desdemona

That's sweet I could basically live anywhere and be happy as long as my hubby was a part of my life. But you know what ? I think we are all taken in my what's different about each country and then wonder what it's like to live elsewhere. We've moved around, both hubby and I since we were kids, and once we have made our money would like to give good old blighty a try to see what it's like. He's English and I'm a hybrid. We've been on holiday and the memories of how small and pretty everything is, tugs at my heartstrings when I think about it. I wanna go back even for a bit.

kimilseung

I am calling bollox on the landscape diversity! Its true there are amazing landscapes (so I believe, sadly I have seen few of them) but any large country has a wide variety of landscape; India, China. If you overlaid a map of America on Europe and placed my home now on where it was; then I could claim to have as easy access to desert and sub sahara landscape. Just being in a country does not mean you get to waltz over every weekend.


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On a positive note: Dentistry (just got back) It might be unfair of me to compare my dentist now with what I had then and extrapolate as being representative of the nations, but I will anyway. I am a very resistive patient I tense up, looking back I see that my old dentist used to just give up on me and let me go. Here they have worked hard to get my mouth back to being healthy. I no longer tense up and find it almost a relaxing experience. The dodgy root canal, dodgy filling and the dodgy cap are all being addressed. (I might also be the victim of over treatment, who knows)