So you traded our bananas republic for a gun toting corporatocracy with low employment protection and comedy healthcare and no food standards.
I'm not sure who's worse off.
I'm not sure who's worse off.
Re: food- Fresh produce in the PNW is incomparable imo. Never had anything like it in the world. In the UK I was largely limited to Sainsbury's etc., which have pretty poor quality food and produce.
Here in the PNW the variety (and quality) far exceeds what was available to me in the West Midlands, Greater Manchester and Greater London (not sure about other parts of the country).
It's a very pleasant luxury to not be limited to supermarkets.
Increased risk, increased reward. And if I'm fired, laid off, or deported, worst case I just go back to the UK having already earned hundreds of thousands of dollars more than I would have in the UK.
Even at within the same firm, for the same job, it seems like UK engineers are usually paid much less than US ones.
Took a position with 2/3 of the US salary but actual tangible security.