What are Brits missing?

ROFLMAO!

well  Cait it was either a beanie baby or this hat

it was a close call...

Wow!  I've never been quoted so much in my life!  I feel like a politician! 

Just because someone is a liberal doesn't mean he or she emigrated in order to run from 'something'.  I for one did not.  I stayed here for me, not for a partner, b/c I prefer the quality of life here in many ways.  It had nothing to do with politics at all.

Exactly why I made a point to say NOT ALL have done this.  I realize not everyone has the same motivation for moving.

Gimme a break!  Do you honestly believe someone would sell up everything they own, leave behind friends and families, quit a great job, and move 5,000+ miles away when it'd be far easier to move to Seattle  ?

Trust me, I'm a prime example of this.  I could just stay here with my great job, lovely house, family and friends who are amazing, and try to meet someone here.  Instead I'm doing exactly what you said.  I may be leaving for love, but it is certainly my decision to do so.  If I told Simon he had to move here, that I wasn't leaving the US, he would.  I just think we will be happier there.  I can live anywhere, I've moved 27 times in 40 years.  This is just another move for me.

I enjoy not having people up in my face and business all the time, who waste time caring about what I believe, the reserve of the British, the more global emphasis, the better work-life balance, etc. etc.  THAT'S why I'm here - not b/c of a few right-wing extremists, or even a partner.  I made my own decision in this.

I think I will enjoy this actually.  I hate having to look out my window before I grab the morning paper off the driveway to see if my neighbors are out on their porch because I KNOW I'll be pulled into some long conversation - standing there in my pajamas on a Saturday morning before I've had my tea, and if I don't they will think I'm not friendly.     I won't miss that a bit.  I do tend to be a much more private and quiet person (I know, you would have hardly guessed, right:)  )

My mom is VERY liberal and not religious at all.  She's my little Cosmic Cupcake, as she calls herself.  We don't discuss politics or religion to any depth, we just know it's not good to go there.  I get my conservative side from my dad, he and I are much alike. 

~Liza

Cosmic Cupcake ...*snicker*

Trust me, I'm a prime example of this.  I could just stay here with my great job, lovely house, family and friends who are amazing, and try to meet someone here.  Instead I'm doing exactly what you said.  I may be leaving for love, but it is certainly my decision to do so.  If I told Simon he had to move here, that I wasn't leaving the US, he would.  I just think we will be happier there.  I can live anywhere, I've moved 27 times in 40 years.  This is just another move for me.

How so?  You're not moving for politics, yet imply a lot of 'liberals' do. 

Whatever. 

Maybe it not's so much that  those with liberal views deliberately set out to move here.    Maybe it's just more the case that those who are liberal somehow feel more comfortable once they are here than they did back in the States.

Maybe it not's so much that  those with liberal views deliberately set out to move here.    Maybe it's just more the case that those who are liberal somehow feel more comfortable once they are here than they did back in the States.

I think you're right, Paul. Also, I think maybe (don't lynch me! this thread is scary!), just maybe, people with more liberal leanings are more likely to move in the first place. I'm not sure why that is, but perhaps it has something to do with blue vs. red states.  Blue states tend to be in more built-up, industrialized parts of the country -- with larger immigrant populations. I say tend to be, because there are exceptions. But maybe liberals from blue states are more at ease with other cultures, people of different nationalities, etc.  Thus, they are more comfortable contemplating a move to a new culture. Just a theory.

Sounds plausible to me.

I would agree there w/ya, Belindaloo.  And you as well, Paul, on that last comment - someone call 999  .

I concur belindaloo's possible theory 

another theory is that perhaps an alternative points of view can germinate due to viewing your said country from the outside in.

another theory is that perhaps an alternative points of view can germinate due to viewing your said country from the outside in.

Sounds entirely plausible to me!

I wasn't running from anybody or anything.....well except from my mentally abusive redneck dumbshit anal retentive ex husband!

But I wasn't really trying to get away from him I simply found someone better in my life than him. I didn't care if he lived in the states or in Timbuktoo. He loved me and my children and that is it really. I came over here as he had just been given a new promotion and a pay rise, what stupid person would give that up. Yes maybe it is a bit archaic but he was and still is the main bread winner in our family. I didn't want to wait to see if the USA government would be kind enuf to give him a green card..the hard working intelligent person he is...OH but the (I'm afraid this gets a bit racist this bit and I am sorry kind monitors) wetback from mexico that a company has brought over cause they are OH so cheaper to employee than Americans can get welfare and food stamps and Medicare and his flippin GREEN CARD!!! So I came here......and I had an easy time of it Thank God the IOM has it's own government...I didn't have to pay for ILR ...I got my passport stamped the day after we got married for a year's leave to remain and went back a year later to the day and it was stamped for ILR. No charge.. nothing....

Both countries have their plus and minus attributes. I feel that children are made to grow up to soon over here...I dont think a child should be making the decesion of what they want to do with the rest of their lives at 16. Hell some of them can't make their mind up if they want come in or stay out in the rain...BUT saying that it seems that possible my children have been given a slight better education.

Anyways I think I will get down off my soap box cause I kinda have lost my train of thought on this one...if I find it I will come back to you.......

 

I don't know if what I have even said pertains at all to this thread..................SORRY  

Maybe it not's so much that those with liberal views deliberately set out to move here. Maybe it's just more the case that those who are liberal somehow feel more comfortable once they are here than they did back in the States.

I felt as comfortable in the states as I do here, really. 

Personally I feel comfortable whereever my husband is. Politics have never come into it.

Home is where the heart is and all that crap...

Home is where the heart is and all that crap...

 

Also, I think maybe (don't lynch me! this thread is scary!), just maybe, people with more liberal leanings are more likely to move in the first place. I'm not sure why that is, but perhaps it has something to do with blue vs. red states.....

You could have something there.  I know that I felt really comfortable and "at home" in a certain red-state way below the Mason-Dixon line.   Read into that anything you will.