Originally Posted by CaliforniaBride

Car pool lanes!!!

Overtaking on both sides. Took awhile to get used to but now I love it.
....................Having a child that loves sushi and always wants to eat at Souplantation, "because the salad selection is so good!"

Originally Posted by Elvira

It gets even better:

"New York is such a convenient city — everything is a five-minute walk or a 15-minute taxi ride away. And far cheaper than London. Ready-cooked meals arrive in five minutes; dry-cleaners collect and deliver your clothes the same day. Hairdressers come to your house. Computer technicians swing by to fix your e-mail. The pharmacies deliver cough drops for my children; and my new best friend Charles, the chief sales assistant at Ralph Lauren, sometimes drops off sale-reduced sweaters for me to try on at home if he thinks that I’m too busy to visit the store, which is all of two blocks away."

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showp...07&postcount=1

Originally Posted by Irn-bru

sorry I didn't mean to make you homesick!

I knew you would have a 'problem' with my post
The OP was wanting a positive thread about what we like here as there have been many negative ones. You know when a negative one comes up I can moan with the best of them
But to pick up on some points I know you are from a posh happening place in the UK

I'm not and unless you live in downtown Glasgow, you do get shops shut early, horrible steaks (unless you pay the earth) You have obviously not been in Glasgow for a long time most malls are open till 10pm and there is the biggest Tesco in Europe built which is open 24 hours, parking bays may not be as large as the majority of vehicles are not as big as American Vehicles, Steaks are lovely and its well known that our beef is the best as there is so much rain that it grows lovely grass this in turn the cow eats and nurishes them lovely. At Christmas time shops are open till midnight.

When we were last in the UK a year and a half ago the dodge caravan (chrysler I think) was way more expensive there, I loved it here and it was the same price as a good car. But my point was more I love the number of cupholders here as in the UK we never seemed to get cars with more than one. Most vehicles have many cup holders but not really a priority! Granted vehicles are more reasonably priced

When you go into Tesco car park you can't parallel park and the parking spaces are so narrow it's hard to open your door. it aint that bad there is enough space for 99% people to get out

I don't like curry (apart from tikka masala) sorry I love Mexican food you obviously havent tried the Pancho Villa in the Merchant City of Glasgow or the new mexican restaurant in XScape just delicious and I have been to Mexico!!!

Driving to Morton-in marsh to see my MIL and suddenly meeting a car on one of those narrow lanes and I have to back up to me does seem dangerous Driving on a summers day in my mini is just amazing on these roads. Freeways can be boring stretches of road with no scenery

Don't know how but maybe open plan and bigger homes here, I clean far more easily than my cramped 3 bed semi in Britain (strange but true) Granted on this one

And I hate hot weather and strangely enough have survived a lot better in 2 hot places and here cause of AC than in the UK. Though as I hate heat I'd say it was more like 3 months that was unbearable to me in the UK get a fan when in Glasgow for our two hot days a year!!!!

But everyones experience is different and I know there are quite a few hate it here and I understand but some of us do like it here as well.
To each their own

Originally Posted by jumping doris

Did you expect her to walk!

Originally Posted by loopylorns

HAHA, I have not seen one of my neighbours walk to the mail box at the end of the drive!

Originally Posted by loopylorns

Regret the things you do not those you dont.

This is my thinking

I love the bright blue sky and the shopping.

I do however regret comming here and am returning shortly but I know if we had not come here (hubbys job) we would have always wondered.

Life and oppertunities should be seized with open arms for you never know when they will end.

Originally Posted by loopylorns

Regret the things you do not those you dont.

This is my thinking

I love the bright blue sky and the shopping.

I do however regret comming here and am returning shortly but I know if we had not come here (hubbys job) we would have always wondered.

Life and oppertunities should be seized with open arms for you never know when they will end.

Originally Posted by ScottishGirl

Originally Posted by uktoamerica

1) Standard of living is far and beyond what I had in the UK
2) Weather
3) Overtaking either side of the road
4) American go-getting attitude to business
5) Food is so much better than the UK for "basic" meals
6) HDTV
7) Turn right on red

oh and...

8) Becoming an extra on a Hollywood movie that's filming nearby.

Originally Posted by Leeds_Lass

Elvira, do you live in the US or are you back in the UK?

If you don't mind me asking, if you do live in the US, what brought you here?

Can PM me if you like, or tell me to bugger off!

Originally Posted by uktoamerica

1) Standard of living is far and beyond what I had in the UK
2) Weather
3) Overtaking either side of the road
4) American go-getting attitude to business
5) Food is so much better than the UK for "basic" meals
6) HDTV
7) Turn right on red

oh and...

8) Becoming an extra on a Hollywood movie that's filming nearby.

Originally Posted by Elvira

When people say the standard of living is higher in the US, they generally mean they can get more house for their bucks. But the houses are glorified garden-sheds mostly, and there are plenty of places - generally the nicer and/or more interesting ones - that aren't exactly cheap either.

American sub-divisions and strip-malls vs terraced houses and the local high street - no contest.

And to me there are lots of things that relate to SoL that are infinitely more important than houses - history, culture, quality of relationships...

As for food being better in the US - you're having a laugh, surely!!