Why is America so ace?

[Big Fat Sam]

lol carlos lid.

 

[carlos21]

lol carlos lid.

hahaha.

 

[Alio]

Have I mentioned it at all, how much I love America???

Ok. Sorry

 

[thebluefox]

okay mate.

xxxxxxxx, juice fm kid

 

[njligernj]

I love you too Carlos. GOT's best poster by a mile. Anytime you want to move to American kid you let me know.

Marriage proposal?

That's rentals mate which are often inflated in some cities due to low inventory. The average home costs $176,000 in Texas (http://www.statisticbrain.com/home-sales-average-price/). That's 114k in pounds right now ... which I'm fairly sure is not the average house price in England.

Replying to myself here! I forgot about the type of home you are getting. So I did a few searches and came up with some numbers and they are so silly I don't even believe my own argument. No time to dig any deeper now ... maybe some others can chime in. Here is what I got ...

"The average size of a new home in the Houston area has fallen to 2,849 square feet from 2,873 square feet a year ago, according to Metrostudy." First of all I enjoy that the average size is falling to 2,849 square feet. That's 265 square meters. http://www.chron.com/business/article/Trend-toward-smaller-homes-bucks-Texas-size-1585939.php

Oh and by the way these house prices aren't super low due to the crash and recession ... current house pricing is at an all-time high for Houston: http://houston.culturemap.com/news/...er-hot-real-estate-market-on-a-22-month-roll/ ... all-time high ... but it's still insanely cheap.

So you are paying 40 pounds per square foot in Texas by those figures. (This article backs that up saying it's 72 dollars per sq/ft ... http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Houston-Texas/market-trends/ ... current exchange rate would put that at 46.80 dollars so fairly close).

The average home size in England is apparently 818 square feet.

So for the same money you'd pay 139 per square foot in England. (and that's going by 114k average cost ... I still don't think the average home costs 114k in England but if it did that would be the cost per square foot).

So that means three times the cost per sq/ft if the average house costs the same and those average sizes are correct (we are comparing Houston to the UK as a whole here but someone in this thread mentioned Houston so that's how I got on this road. According to this http://www.statisticbrain.com/home-sales-average-price/ the average US house costs $152k, or 99k in pounds ... so Houston is actually above average in cost but slightly above in size too ... average US home is 2,505 sq/ft according to this: http://www.census.gov/construction/chars/highlights.html).

According to this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/in_depth/uk_house_prices/html/houses.stm the average UK price is £238,976 (and this is the article where I got the 818 sq/ft ... 76m is 818 in feet ...http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...average-bed-new-build-size-tube-carriage.html) ... SO ...

That would make it 292 pounds per sq/ft in England v. 47 pounds per sq/ft in the US. Those numbers are so absurd even I don't believe them myself. But that's what I get ... must be a mistake somewhere surely.

Even allowing for those numbers to move a little it still makes the US look pretty ace on the housing front.

 

[Hellerad]

We've got absolute morons, bigots, and jingoists aplenty. But we've also got 25 cent hot wings, cut-off shorts, and sunlight.

You take the bad with the good.

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

[video=youtube;jbn3rOPmR9w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbn3rOPmR9w[/video]

My favourite part of that video has always been 3:25...it's a carbon copy of me when Everton are playing; talking to the TV and then going ape when we score. I never fail to laugh as he starts sliding down the stairs.

 

[Goat]

Love the way that vid says the worlds reaction and then shows only Americans.

Stuff like that, thats why.

 

[Arteta2391]

I love conducting Business in here America. Top dogs help each other out instead of hiding their cards.

 

[DanEFC92]

I love conducting Business in here America. Top dogs help each other out instead of hiding their cards.

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[IRO1977]

source

Stop the BS about income inequality in the US

Let me me clear here, i'm not anti America at all here, it's just that when someone attacks the NHS or whatever, trying to put what is invariably considered by us brits as a power for good then i'm gonna defend it. I just think some of you picked your battles badly by attacking such things.

But that map is comparing the USA to such illuminaries of social equality as India and China ffs, i personally don't see how that proves any point whatsoever. A large majority of those countries' citizens work in sweathouses

However i like the states, love the NFL, would love to over to live in NYC if i could and have a life ambition to go watch my beloved (but not as much as Everton) Oakland Raiders one day, maybe in 5 years time when we're not quite as terrible

 

[Steve0]

The NHS is boss. Though Tory bastards are trying to make it as ****e as possible so they have a chance to privatise as much as they can. But it's one of the truly great things about this country and I think anyone who thinks otherwise is a bit of a tosser to be honest.

yep!!

 

[Arteta2391]

If you're not living in America I feel bad for you son I got 99 hoes and a tranny ain't one.

I'll visit the UK one day to Goodison Park and then try Holland or Germany for beer. Wait! I better take my bike to france and end my tour with some mamacitas in Spain.

OO RAH!

 

[Steve0]

Yes but you can get a McMansion in Texas for 200 thousand pounds. Seriously, check out some Texas real estate -- whenever I see Texas on one of those damn House Hunter type shows I know I'm about to watch someone pay what I paid for my house in Canada but get three times the house. It's insane how cheap the housing is there. Matter of fact don't check it out -- it will just be depressing.

Anyway mate I am speaking for experience. I lived in the US. We had a mortgage on three bedroom house with a pool and a two cars and we were not well-off by any means. Whenever people came over to visit from the UK they practically cried when I said what our house cost -- same amount would barely have got them a one room "studio" flat in southern UK.

We then moved back to the UK, had a very similar income (actually slightly higher) and rented an utter tiny craphole, couldn't afford a car (got one eventually but it was about 1/5th the car I had in the US for the same money) and I would have been laughed out of the bank if I'd tried to get a mortgage.

After staring at the housing ladder in the UK and wondering how I would ever have a decent quality of life I immediately began making plans to leave and ended up in Canada.

Having lived in both places I know without a shadow of a doubt I'd rather be making $30k in the USA than the equivalent in the UK. You can certainly create some exceptions of situations where you'd be better off here or there but in general your standard of living will be higher in the US.

Firstly, I'm not even going to mention how you seem to measure quality of life by how big your house is/was.

Secondly, your original post mentioned 'working class' you now talk about 'making $30k'!! (if you cant work out why I'm amused then I'll tae this opportunity to point out that $30k isnt working class. Never has been. And won'tbe for about a century.)

Thirdly, I can't work out why you'd have moved back to England, given your pool and bedrooms and stuff. Btw i'd agree that houses are cheaper but you specifically mentioned the 'working class' being better off. Working classes = renting = better off in England.

Plenty of people have a good life here, so trying to imply that because you failed it means nobody does is just daft.

 

[Steve0]

First off..nothing is free. You pay for NHS one way or another.

There is no doubt that our (US) system is f'd up. I'm a libertarian that believes in small government and even I can see that.

Question for you English. In the US, one of the rights panic button disagreements with Obamacare is the dreaded "Death Panel." How is your system set up to deal with this? I'll give an example:

If an 80 year old man is experiencing a life threatening illness that has a cure, but that cure will cost, say 5 million, who makes the call whether or not he gets treated? Is there some council of medical ethicists that determines treatment? If, in the future, someone can be kept alive indefinitely by whatever mechanism but at a great cost, who makes the decision to "cut the cord" so to speak?

I'm not asking these hypotheticals in order to undermine what you have, I genuinely would like to know how you deal with the ethics of cost and the burden on society.

He'd get treated. Simple as. The fact you're even asking such a stupid question shows how weak minded and susceptible to basic propaganda you are.

Sorry.