That was a hilarious read, and the author didn't really bother to add any facts alongside opinionism. I'm sure that there are plenty of Americans who've had a poor experience trying to settle in an European country, as well as many that established themselves there without any major complaints, or at least expecting to find differences, both culturally and materially.

To start, there is a sweeping geographical generalisation in there. You know, "the Europe", that country with baguettes, nuclear warheads, turkey roast, trains, and some version of English spoken, and not a list of countries with radically different economic structures, old cultural differences, political systems, labour markets, languages, transport networks, housing conditions and social norms.

One interviewee says:

> She says she had negative experiences with the NHS maternal care, compared to the smooth experience of her private health insurance in the US, and didn’t expect it to cost her anything: “I pay huge amounts of taxes and an immigration surcharge to access the NHS services—so no, the health care is not free here.”

UK's healthcare system is in a bit of a pickle right now after all the privatisations and neoliberal applications (imported from - or developed in tandem with - the US) of the last 50 years. That said, of course universal healthcare is not free - medical treatment has some kind of economic cost, but that's not what free means in that context. What she talks about is an immigration-specific charge, not the ordinary healthcare payment arrangement for all British residents. If you're not a citizen and if your country doesn't have a treaty with the UK covering that, you'd be daft to believe that you can simply move to or visit a country and get all your healthcare needs sorted out like that.

It compares British public maternity care with American private care, without explaining what that means in practice. If you have the money for private healthcare, you get the same posh experience in the UK in the majority of cases. And UK is not Europe anyway, it's but one system out of quite a few.

> She also expected train travel to be low cost, based on what she’d read about Europe

Clearly, she hasn't read anything about it beforehand.

She also claims that British quality of life is significantly lower than American quality of life, but we're never told how that's measured and what it actually means. She may very well believe that leisure is for schmucks, that personal safety is of zero importance and that cheaper tech is the most important thing to live for; who knows?

Ah, well. We've been presented this nonsense in order to stir shit, and shit has been stirred I suppose.