>>>All the expression and the style the american acts gives us the feeling of very close friends. We, on the opposite, might be understand as reserved and cold.
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>>I've had more contact with the Dutch and the Germans in campings - just a few weeks a year between '71 and '78 - than I had with the Amers over these years of actually living here all the time (I don't take a break from that, surprising, eh?). Must be the change in the lifestyle.
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>>BTW, nice link in the signature, even if it meant that if it really worked, it would have worked only once :).
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>Oh, I do not deny that it would be possible - but the problem is that I feel the price to high. I life were my friends are, even if this cuts my salary a big part. Have had a better payed job that costs me a marriage, don't need it again. So why should I go to a place where I feel unhappy? But this is something one had to decide to itself.
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Nobody was urging you to move to the U.S. Some people want to, some people don't. Historically people have immigrated here when things were not so good back home. That doesn't seem to be the case at all.