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As an American reading this thread, my biggest takeaway is that people have very inaccurate pictures of what life in the US is like. It sounds like many of you get all of your knowledge about the US from television news. And, clearly your TV news is as bad as ours.

I have a guest bedroom available in the Washington, DC area for anyone that wants to come stay a little while and see what it is actually like.