Originally Posted by Steve_ (Post 10351165)

My real concern with it is what America plans to do with all of the retiring baby boomers? Public transport becomes a real issue when you get too old to drive. And the healthcare situation as well is pretty grim.

Originally Posted by Steve_ (Post 10351165)

Obviously it depends on the city, but I would say on average public transport is worse than here.

My real concern with it is what America plans to do with all of the retiring baby boomers? Public transport becomes a real issue when you get too old to drive. And the healthcare situation as well is pretty grim.

All developed countries are going to have these problems but in the US it seems like it will be worse than others.

Originally Posted by Giantaxe (Post 10351176)

The public transport issue when I grow older is something I think about a lot. You can't rely on being able to drive, and I've seen far too many elderly people in the 'burbs become pretty much isolated once they can't drive. Of course, the same applies to many rural areas in the UK, but at least there there are more options for places where there is decent public transport. Here, outside a few major cities, it's still too often looked on as just for the poor, socialism, or some such nonsense.

Originally Posted by Giantaxe (Post 10351176)

The public transport issue when I grow older is something I think about a lot. .

Originally Posted by Steve_ (Post 10351165)

Obviously it depends on the city, but I would say on average public transport is worse than here.
My real concern with it is what America plans to do with all of the retiring baby boomers? Public transport becomes a real issue when you get too old to drive. And the healthcare situation as well is pretty grim.
All developed countries are going to have these problems but in the US it seems like it will be worse than others.

Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 10351783)

Luckily for you, and anyone else worrying about such things, the technology companies are already a few steps ahead of you. Google is already testing driverless cars in California, and I read recently that California is anticipating allowing the operation of driverless cars without a drivers license by 2030 (if I remember correctly).

Originally Posted by Steve_ (Post 10355813)

I always remember that Judge Dredd story I read many years ago where he finds a murder victim in an RV that has been set to auto navigation and has been circling the city for over a year.

Originally Posted by e3geek (Post 10966296)

For me it is simply the career opportunities that I can have in the US which I can't have anywhere else in the world. I am a software engineer and US IT industry is too huge to be even compared with anywhere else.

Originally Posted by christmasoompa (Post 10966545)

You know that you've just posted in a year old thread right?!

Originally Posted by Steve_ (Post 10310145)

I have to say I always wonder why people are so keen on moving to the US.

I have a friend who lives in a developed country far away and she is all excited because it looks as though her visa is going to be approved and she'll be able to move to Los Angeles.

My response being, why? You have plenty of money, you earned it where you are, the place you live has decent weather - what's the point? How are you better off? "Oooh, the shops are better."

So you can live in a country with massive unemployment, crumbling infrastructure, epic debt levels, an overpriced healthcare "system" that is a mess, a lowly ranked education system, a dysfunctional government etc.

Heard of mail order?

Are people still naive enough to think it's going to be like Baywatch?

I can kind of understand it if you have friends or family there (which I do) or you've been offered some fantastic job but there seem to be an awful lot of people who just want to live there for an unspecific or rather trivial reason.

I blame American media for brainwashing everyone. I suppose living in Canada we get all the US national and local news too which puts the US in a more realistic light. But there is this thing called: "the web" nowadays.

Grass is greener on the other side syndrome.

Originally Posted by Sarah (Post 10968251)

Hell yes they are. The reputation of it being the land of milk and honey isn't going anywhere soon.

Originally Posted by Sally Redux (Post 10968261)

:lol: I've just come from a thread like that.