>>>>>>I really am very interested to hear where you'd find it better to live than the US.
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>>>>>>Depends how you define "better". If you look at the Mercer analysis of international cities focusing on quality of life measures such as political, social, economic, health, education, recreation, public services and housing, the highest entry for the US is Honolulu at #28.
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>>>>>>The reality is that if you have money and/or a high social status, you can have a good quality of life just about anywhere in the First World.
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>>>>>But I'm curious about William's view. Based on things he's said before, he has major issues with what he considers socialism, so I'd think that most of Europe (which, I think, he would consider socialist) would be off-limits. He also feels strongly about personal freedoms, so that would seem to rule out a lot of places. I'm really curious what he's thinking about this.
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>>>>From here Williams definition of "socialism" seems very broad. I would say you don't have a socialist party in the US. And at the moment we don't have one in the UK either.
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>>>>Its interesting the level of animosity towards this new administration from the right wing. Perhaps the security problems of the next few years in the US might be a little more "home grown".
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>>>The animosity isn't toward the administration itself - it's towards they socialist policies.
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>>I understand that. But with an elected head of state (Bush or Obama) it makes criticism seem quite unpatriotic.This was something that was often levelled at critics of Bush as well. I noticed that in a reply to Tamar John Harvey referred to "your" president (ie not his), an interesting choice of words.
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>>The US has a problem (I think ) with right wing, heavily armed groups. Those groups have been relatively quiet during the Bush adminstration. I wonder of that will continue.
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>I see your point now, however, I think the right wing, heavily armed groups have been too active and too vocal throughout history. That is usually the case though - it gives outsiders the impression that they are the majority when they are far from it.

You may be right Tracy. Though the main terrorist outrage on US soil prior to the twin towers was home grown.