Incredible timing from the ever-divisive Guardian.
The legacy of Boris
Tbf America seems like a fairly decent place when you’ve got money so I’m not surprised she’s happy.
Come on now, this is gloomster nonsense talking Britain down!
We’re well on course to the Brexit sunlit uplands!
Now, spin the wheel to see if you survive the winter or not.
Stand in front of a moving bus and see what country you’d rather be in.
Britain could be a burning hellscape but i would still prefer it to America.
>Whatever may be wrong with the US, at least no one is looking to Liz Truss to solve it.
Whilst I completely agree with that statement, you can’t rationally compare the type of problems in the UK to the problems that the US is experiencing beyond the very broad stroke of rising popularist right wing politics.
Sure they can look at us with confusion distain as the UK falls to bits as the monkeys take over an apathetic asylum for the 4th time in a decade, but we look at them with utter incredulity and just say WTF is wrong with you people…
The difference is that we look at the UK and where it has fallen over the last decade with horror and want things to improve. On the other side of the Atlantic they are still seem to be beating their chests, chanting USA! USA! and machine gunning their school kids.
From my perspective there are few counties in the world that I wouldn’t prefer to be living in at the moment, but the US is still on that list along with Russia, China, N.Korea and a handful of failed African states.
I’ll take the UK every time thanks.
Regardless of this echo chamber, this is one of the single best countries to live in. Your children are safe, your education is to a decent standard (providing parents take responsibility), food and water is some of the cheapest in the first world, our infrastructure is decent despite how everyone moans about it, and our health service is fucking first class regardless of what you see on reddit.
Our only issue is the fucking tories.
I think a lot of people are missing the point here
It’s not that America is great. It should be pretty clear from the headline that’s not how she feels. It’s that the UK is such an absolute mess that for once America actually seems better.
Losing labor rights, national health, and populist politicians, increasing poverty and inequality…
Britain is going down the drain, but looking at the issues, we are simply following in Americas footsteps…
Next warning sign: If our waiters and bar staff start living on tips.
The US is a really great place to live provided you have a reasonable job. Once you fall of that scenario it is very rapid descent. Britain is shit at the mo but is nowhere near as bad as the States should you fall of the job ladder (pardon the pun).
US problems are far worse than any UK problem. Not even a contest. That’s why I’m moving to the UK when I have some “sponsorship”. Fuck America.
This is clickbait for exactly the kind of self loathing doomer which populates this sub.
Ironic considering the creeping polarising political and social issues in America which are slowly being imported to this country, along with American business vultures circling above waiting for the go ahead to suck every last drop of humility and respect out of our businesses and services.
Hahahaha 😂😂😂 what.
Both countries seems to be neck and neck in their race to collapse.
The women on the left in the green is thinking what most of us our thinking.
*We’re doomed*
Naa, sorry. America is currently consumed by the cult of Trump and Q. You have daily mass shootings and your police forces are out of control.
The UK is in a death spiral, granted. But I’d much rather take my chances here.
US foreign policy has done so much damage to the world. We should really oppose them more. Venezuala has more than twice as much oil and gas as Russia and could easily make up for the gap but we can’t have it because the US is upset they are socialists. Iran has vast quantities of oil but we can’t have that either because of US policy. They use their military to prop up their large subsidized fossil fuel industry, pollute the world and then criticize us.
Don’t remember asking, love
This HAS to be satire…
I trust that this person has decent health insurance and lives inside a gated community?
Last time I checked the Houses of Parliament where not stormed by right wing nutcases stirred up by another nutcase
Today when I dropped my kid at school I wasn’t worried about another kid shooting them with a gun from Asda
I’m not saying brexit is great or all hail Liz truss but come on really?
I don’t believe the States are any less fucked, but it’s pretty obvious that the UK is trapped in some kind of nightmare Groundhog Day in which we repeatedly vote Tory governments in, only for everyone* to be openly screwed over time and time again.
*Everyone other than their own kind, Tory donors and Big Business, of course.
Bills are high, but you have religious nut bars in positions of power and seemingly getting more powerful
At least at some point our bills will come down
The UK is a shitheap. I’m sure people are better off in America.
Yeah, getting shot would be a blessing. Its like living in a dark Brothers Grim tale here!
I know which side of the Atlantic I would prefer to be on.
And it’s not the one whose cities are sinking into criminality, sidewalks are full of drug addicts, whose education system is self-harming, who are the fattest big country on earth, whose health service is a cruel disaster, whose towns are burned by race riots, who are shooting their own children in schools, who are returning to medieval laws over abortion, whose life expectancy is actually shrinking, and who recently suffered an attempted coup.
Whatever helps you sleep I guess. We all got problems.
> It was an unfamiliar feeling of relief: whatever may be wrong with America, at least no one is looking to Liz Truss to solve it
Big words from a country where many people at looking at Donald Trump AGAIN to solve the problems in the US.
I left the US in the middle of Obama’s first term and I moved from one of those fancy, east coast elite cities the Republicans love to hate. As bad as things have been here, I’m still glad I’m on this side of the pond.
What utter bollocks!
Sure, Liz Truss in power as PM is horrible, but we don’t have a party in the UK who are actively trying to subvert democracy and rig future elections, or a former leader who, let’s face it, looks to have committed treason. Then in the UK we don’t have to fear shootings every single day like in the US.
UK may not be amazing, but to say the US is in a better place is laughable.
Americas turning its self inside out with a widening gulf or poor and very rich! It’s on a collision course for a civil war!
Looking at the state of Britain from China, I always feel glad I moved here.
As others have pointed out, it’s all very dependent on personal circumstance. I was born and raised in London, but I moved to the US 15 years ago when I was 25, and I’m a citizen of both countries.
There are times I hate living here and wish I’d stayed in London, and there are times I love it. Trying to compare which is better is generally meaningless, and this article is just clickbait nonsense.
As bad as Truss seems, she’s not even remotely in the same league as Trump in terms of unsuitability for a position of leadership
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Weren’t these guardian types screeching and calling the US a fascist country a couple of months ago? Also, Orange mad bad, of course.
Yeah, no thanks.
On the same day as [*another* shooting spree](https://www.actionnews5.com/2022/09/08/alert-man-shooting-rampage-across-city/?outputType=amp) that’s resulted in 4 dead and 7 shot in Memphis?
Incredible timing from the ever-divisive Guardian.
The legacy of Boris
Tbf America seems like a fairly decent place when you’ve got money so I’m not surprised she’s happy.
Come on now, this is gloomster nonsense talking Britain down!
We’re well on course to the Brexit sunlit uplands!
Now, spin the wheel to see if you survive the winter or not.
Stand in front of a moving bus and see what country you’d rather be in.
Britain could be a burning hellscape but i would still prefer it to America.
>Whatever may be wrong with the US, at least no one is looking to Liz Truss to solve it.
Whilst I completely agree with that statement, you can’t rationally compare the type of problems in the UK to the problems that the US is experiencing beyond the very broad stroke of rising popularist right wing politics.
Sure they can look at us with confusion distain as the UK falls to bits as the monkeys take over an apathetic asylum for the 4th time in a decade, but we look at them with utter incredulity and just say WTF is wrong with you people…
The difference is that we look at the UK and where it has fallen over the last decade with horror and want things to improve. On the other side of the Atlantic they are still seem to be beating their chests, chanting USA! USA! and machine gunning their school kids.
From my perspective there are few counties in the world that I wouldn’t prefer to be living in at the moment, but the US is still on that list along with Russia, China, N.Korea and a handful of failed African states.
I’ll take the UK every time thanks.
Regardless of this echo chamber, this is one of the single best countries to live in. Your children are safe, your education is to a decent standard (providing parents take responsibility), food and water is some of the cheapest in the first world, our infrastructure is decent despite how everyone moans about it, and our health service is fucking first class regardless of what you see on reddit.
Our only issue is the fucking tories.
I think a lot of people are missing the point here
It’s not that America is great. It should be pretty clear from the headline that’s not how she feels. It’s that the UK is such an absolute mess that for once America actually seems better.
Losing labor rights, national health, and populist politicians, increasing poverty and inequality…
Britain is going down the drain, but looking at the issues, we are simply following in Americas footsteps…
Next warning sign: If our waiters and bar staff start living on tips.
The US is a really great place to live provided you have a reasonable job. Once you fall of that scenario it is very rapid descent. Britain is shit at the mo but is nowhere near as bad as the States should you fall of the job ladder (pardon the pun).
US problems are far worse than any UK problem. Not even a contest. That’s why I’m moving to the UK when I have some “sponsorship”. Fuck America.
This is clickbait for exactly the kind of self loathing doomer which populates this sub.
Ironic considering the creeping polarising political and social issues in America which are slowly being imported to this country, along with American business vultures circling above waiting for the go ahead to suck every last drop of humility and respect out of our businesses and services.
Hahahaha 😂😂😂 what.
Both countries seems to be neck and neck in their race to collapse.
The women on the left in the green is thinking what most of us our thinking.
*We’re doomed*
Naa, sorry. America is currently consumed by the cult of Trump and Q. You have daily mass shootings and your police forces are out of control.
The UK is in a death spiral, granted. But I’d much rather take my chances here.
US foreign policy has done so much damage to the world. We should really oppose them more. Venezuala has more than twice as much oil and gas as Russia and could easily make up for the gap but we can’t have it because the US is upset they are socialists. Iran has vast quantities of oil but we can’t have that either because of US policy. They use their military to prop up their large subsidized fossil fuel industry, pollute the world and then criticize us.
Don’t remember asking, love
This HAS to be satire…
I trust that this person has decent health insurance and lives inside a gated community?
Last time I checked the Houses of Parliament where not stormed by right wing nutcases stirred up by another nutcase
Today when I dropped my kid at school I wasn’t worried about another kid shooting them with a gun from Asda
I’m not saying brexit is great or all hail Liz truss but come on really?
I don’t believe the States are any less fucked, but it’s pretty obvious that the UK is trapped in some kind of nightmare Groundhog Day in which we repeatedly vote Tory governments in, only for everyone* to be openly screwed over time and time again.
*Everyone other than their own kind, Tory donors and Big Business, of course.
Bills are high, but you have religious nut bars in positions of power and seemingly getting more powerful
At least at some point our bills will come down
The UK is a shitheap. I’m sure people are better off in America.
Yeah, getting shot would be a blessing. Its like living in a dark Brothers Grim tale here!
I know which side of the Atlantic I would prefer to be on.
And it’s not the one whose cities are sinking into criminality, sidewalks are full of drug addicts, whose education system is self-harming, who are the fattest big country on earth, whose health service is a cruel disaster, whose towns are burned by race riots, who are shooting their own children in schools, who are returning to medieval laws over abortion, whose life expectancy is actually shrinking, and who recently suffered an attempted coup.
Whatever helps you sleep I guess. We all got problems.
> It was an unfamiliar feeling of relief: whatever may be wrong with America, at least no one is looking to Liz Truss to solve it
Big words from a country where many people at looking at Donald Trump AGAIN to solve the problems in the US.
I left the US in the middle of Obama’s first term and I moved from one of those fancy, east coast elite cities the Republicans love to hate. As bad as things have been here, I’m still glad I’m on this side of the pond.
What utter bollocks!
Sure, Liz Truss in power as PM is horrible, but we don’t have a party in the UK who are actively trying to subvert democracy and rig future elections, or a former leader who, let’s face it, looks to have committed treason. Then in the UK we don’t have to fear shootings every single day like in the US.
UK may not be amazing, but to say the US is in a better place is laughable.
Americas turning its self inside out with a widening gulf or poor and very rich! It’s on a collision course for a civil war!
Looking at the state of Britain from China, I always feel glad I moved here.
As others have pointed out, it’s all very dependent on personal circumstance. I was born and raised in London, but I moved to the US 15 years ago when I was 25, and I’m a citizen of both countries.
There are times I hate living here and wish I’d stayed in London, and there are times I love it. Trying to compare which is better is generally meaningless, and this article is just clickbait nonsense.
As bad as Truss seems, she’s not even remotely in the same league as Trump in terms of unsuitability for a position of leadership