The same reason that many people who move to the UK from the USA say the UK is amazing.
Because it suits their circumstances better.
I’ve got a friend who moved to the US and makes a lot of money very easily teaching Americans how to shoot guns and do self-defence and close protection work for example. He’s 6’ 9” (I mention his height as it seems to matter more in the US than it did in the UK, I’ve no idea why) ex UK military expert with the right skills and the right look, etc to find himself enormously marketable in that arena in a way that he simply wouldn’t be in the UK where there is very little demand from civilians to learn those things.
I also know Americans in the UK who love living in a society that feels far safer sending their kids to school and can easily get around by public transport, know their kids will always have free healthcare even if they lose their job, prefer the high food safety standards etc and just generally like the Uk better.
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No one country is the most suitable for everyone.
Mike Down says:
Until recently, we had a second home in the USA which we had for 17 years and while we enjoyed our time there I could not have lived there permanently.
Many, many things are better in the UK than in the US, most obviously, universal healthcare, a much safer society due to proper gun control, school shootings are unheard of in the UK, the last of which was some thirty years ago which led to our current gun restrictions.
The quality of supermarket food in the UK is far higher and much cheaper than in the US. Much of the junk sold in US supermarkets is, to us, inedible, and is directly responsible for the nation’s obesity and poor health.
Nobody dies or goes bankrupt because they cannot afford healthcare in the UK.
We are not known for our great weather but it is a temperate climate and not prone to the extremes that much of the USA suffers from. We were very careful in picking the times we stayed at our home in South Carolina. It was far too hot and humid in the summer.
The British countryside is beautiful and within easy reach. Most Brits can be in an open walking country in minutes. In the USA, there might be vast areas of wilderness but you might be a 6-hour drive away from it.
The USA is pretty archaic when it comes to bureaucracy, payment systems, TV, and internet services, much of which is poor quality and more expensive, not a good combination. We sold our home in SC last February, and at that time we still had not seen any business taking contactless payments. It has been universal in the UK, even down to the smallest one-man businesses, for several years. Chip and pin was universal also, several years before it was in the US.
Online shopping and online banking are all much more sophisticated in the UK.
The quality of plumbing and electricity in our US home was laughably bad. Some of the appliances look like they were designed in the 1950s.
We, unfortunately, do have poverty in the UK, but it is all relative and the levels of poverty we witnessed in the US were far greater and on a much bigger scale.
Overall, the cost of living was much higher in the US, especially if you take into account healthcare costs.
Frankly, it is difficult to see where you could get the impression that the USA is ‘so much better.’
