UK vs america

That's 30% of the population.....and given how much higher living costs are in Britain it's not particularly bad. £17,000 a year you'd struggle in Britain, here it's not the same thing. I know people on $18,000 a year, they're not impoverished (and yes, actually they do have insurance), ok they don't have a 50inch tv and sports car but they're not on the bread-line.

Again, those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=334



Many people, even with government top ups in the UK fail to have a household income of £20,000. That's with EVERYTHING costing significantly more in the UK.


Again, this is irrelevant however. I told you what I was replying to - the claim that your income will be lower so the reduced cost of living won't matter. This is ********. I didn't say no one is poor in the US, or that everyone gets a wage higher than the UK, I said the average and median household incomes are higher in the US than the UK. That fact is indisputable. It's not my fault you don't understand the difference between average and median.

This income inequality has a correlation link to crime

and life expectancy.

I'm sure you're going to quote me back and I'll try and get back to you tomorrow.

Are you arguing for or against America? lol.

How is it relevant if American gangsters make chavs look like angels? (not that chavs are the British equivalent of American gangsters), or that their basketball players are, on average or whatever, taller than Brits? or that they produce better boxers!?

Also, guns are legal/illegal here in the same way that they are legal/illegal in America, though we are a lot stricter.

I would say America's competitive nature is a good thing

You basically seem to be saying that everything is bigger and better in America.

To be honest reading my quote again, it does seem kind of pro american. I tried to stress the competitive nature of america, and if you make it its all good and if you dont it wont be as pleasant. Its a winner or loser mentality. I think your right, the competiveness is a appealing aspect for most people but for me I am a bit of a socialist. Id prefer the UK, free health care, safer,calmer, smaller class divide etc etc. That basketball example I made was kind of funny, I just tried to make out how americans take things to the next level.

Do you think you can afford health insurance or money to pay for healthcare or if health insurers decide they wont pay out. You want to go somewhere where the wealth divide is bigger than in the UK. Where people get turfed out all the time because there is no limit on mortgages like with the bank of England. If you decided to have kids do you have the money to send them to college or do you not think a degree is worth it. Do you think there are no chavs in america just because they are called something different, only difference is its easier to get a gun. There are also much less employment rights and virtually no data protection rights so your data is just sold on to anyone.

Not somewhere I'd go to live ... lol I could go on but my head would explode lol