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Originally Posted by TheWickerFan
Interesting question.:)
I live in Long Island, New York; a red spot in an otherwise blue state. I think Long Island has quite a bad reputation as being filled with snobby, wealthy people, but it isn't so. It is ludicrously expensive to live here, but we're comfortable financially. I think when it's time to retire we'll probably move somewhere cheaper. I'm an old lady, so recreation would probably be a restaurant and movie theater.
As for the U.S. as a whole, I could go on for hours about the political divide. I'm a die hard liberal, and hate to see the hard right get all the publicity. I can't imagine how backwards we must look to other countries like the U.K. and Australia. My husband is English, and certain U.S. practices (like the lack of national health insurance) still baffle him.
I'll be very interested to hear what others have to say about their home state/country.
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If you don't mind my asking, how long has your husband been in the US?
I have to agree that America seems, as a European, a distinctly right-wing place. The Republicans are a centre-right pary Stateside, but the policies by European standards are rather firmly to the right and many issues like gun control or abortion are much bigger and more polarised issues in the US than over here.
Again, as a liberal and a democratic-socialist in the UK, I'm fairly mainstream in beliefs politically, but I think I'd probably get attacked by some people in the US and called a "leftist Commie scumbag" and I believe very strongly in Natoinalised Healthcare (the idea of having to pay for hospital treatment, literally on matters of life or death, just seems wrong to me) not to mention Nationalised Broadcasting (BBC)
Still, I like America for the most part just not the right-wing elements.