I've become obsessed with living in America. What are the pros and cons?

Yup somewhere near.

Sorry, what? I couldn't hear you over the sound of your inferior American electronics and morbid obesity.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE

This has got to be a joke. These people are soo dumb.

Politics aren't what I'm thinking about in this USA daydream. I'm thinking about big fancy houses and sunshine and everything OTT and busy and social... I'm rebelling against an Oxford degree by aiming to become a materialistic culture slut, methinks

Awesome, me too! Go chargers...?

Not much of a football fan but I know the Superbowl is coming up!

Well, yes, there's certainly a lot of that. No one can complain about sunshine, that's unequivocally a good thing (well, UV rays and burning aside). Fancy houses are alluring, but to maintain such possessions there may well be a lot of stress, in that if your financial position decreases so does everything you've 'worked for'. If you have little, you have little to lose.

I suppose the social life is fine in that friends tend to make us all happier. Working in a high-paid job, however, doesn't always facilitate elevenses!

Also, maybe having such high expectations may make any fall to reality that there may be larger. On the other hand, maybe those expectations may allow you to be more demanding and thus improve your lifestyle.

In reality, politics is relevant though: the fact of the matter is that few people have such lifestyles, while most idolise them.

And, most importantly, do you really want to live like Paris Hilton?

But, yes, rebel, please do! It's rarely a bad thing -- even if your rebellion is, ironically, a rather conservative one.

Yeah! We're not in it though.

Must be actors. No one thinks that the Berlin Wall is in Israel

Sorry, what? I couldn't hear you over the sound of your inferior American electronics and morbid obesity.

She's skinny, rich, and does nothing that isn't for her own enjoyment. Yes, fine, alright, I would kill for that right now. But I'm just being grumpy because it's January, it's bleak, it's boring, and I'm sick of failing to be intellectual.

I know the fall would be greater, but so long as I don't move there until I have a level of financial security, I'm hoping it would work out.

The cost of most public universities actually ranges between $8k-15k a year, and the government gives a $4k grant to just about everyone who needs it (Pell Grant).

Well, I'm one of those things, and it isn't necessarily the most alluring, but -- despite what I might say -- I'd take the penthouse suite and the sex tape too!

Ah, it's the winter blues. But Oxford is beautiful, isn't it? I'd say that it has more character than California. But then, I would, because I'm not there and you are!

If you have a dream though, however silly or even brilliant, there's nothing too wrong with wanting to see it through. It's too easy to be cynical.

Christ, where have been living? Northern Alaska?! It's practically a policy that Walmart employees are all illegal Mexicans or majorly ghetto blacks.

My dream is to drive on the great freeways of Ohio, trek on the great American outdoors at Oregon, and to party at Vegas. Will my dream ever come true?