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BaroqueMama
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What do you love about living in the US?
Just curious
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beautyq115
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Re: What do you love about living in the US?
We really have everything and anything that we could ever want
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| Posted 7/15/07 9:13 AM |
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MrsRivera
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Re: What do you love about living in the US?
I'd give the typical canned response of "freedom", but I'm not sure that applies so much anymore, these days 
So I'll say "New York City" 
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| Posted 7/15/07 9:14 AM |
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mrswask
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Re: What do you love about living in the US?
Religious and personal freedom
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| Posted 7/15/07 9:15 AM |
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CathyB
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Re: What do you love about living in the US?
Posted by mrswask
Religious and personal freedom
I agree.
I also love how diverse our country is environmentally. We have everything from glaciers in Alaska to amazing tropical beaches in Hawaii, lush farmlands in the midwest, mountain ranges, desert, etc. I think it's such a shame that so many Americans don't consider vacationing and exploring our own country.
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| Posted 7/15/07 9:37 AM |
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sfp0701
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Re: What do you love about living in the US?
I agree with religous and personal freedom. But on a lighter note.. the vast climates. There are not too many other places that have Maine and California and Arizona and Colorodo. I like that :)
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| Posted 7/15/07 9:51 AM |
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PrincessP
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Re: What do you love about living in the US?
All of our luxuries. I was just in the caribbean and as beautiful as it is tourist wise, you still have to take into consideration the little kids selling gum on the streets day and nite and the people who work at the straw markets in 100 degree weather and the cab drivers for tourists etc... It seems they try very hard to earn the American dollar while we sit in air conditioned offices.
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| Posted 7/15/07 10:23 AM |
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JTK
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Re: What do you love about living in the US?
i love the US and i love living here but i think we should adopt some of the European ways such as free health care and 3 years for maternity leave.. wouldn't that be nice?
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| Posted 7/15/07 10:24 AM |
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Emily
Kasey & Me! Lurves it!
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Re: What do you love about living in the US?
Capitalism in the economic sector.
I wish we had a bit of socialism's united health care.
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| Posted 7/15/07 11:11 AM |
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SweetestOfPeas
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Re: What do you love about living in the US?
Posted by Emily
Capitalism in the economic sector.
I wish we had a bit of socialism's united health care.
do you want to pay 60%++ in taxes?
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| Posted 7/15/07 11:12 AM |
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SweetestOfPeas
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Re: What do you love about living in the US?
I love everything about living in the US! sure we're not perfect, but I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
Message edited 7/15/2007 11:14:26 AM.
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| Posted 7/15/07 11:14 AM |
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yankinmanc
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Re: What do you love about living in the US?
Posted by SweetestOfPeas
Posted by Emily
Capitalism in the economic sector.
I wish we had a bit of socialism's united health care.
do you want to pay 60%++ in taxes?
Thats a myth, I have socialised health care and pay 23% taxes! I liked living in the US, but my itchy feet told me otherwise!!
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| Posted 7/15/07 11:15 AM |
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CkGm
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Re: What do you love about living in the US?
Posted by CathyB
Posted by mrswask
Religious and personal freedom
I agree.
I also love how diverse our country is environmentally. We have everything from glaciers in Alaska to amazing tropical beaches in Hawaii, lush farmlands in the midwest, mountain ranges, desert, etc. I think it's such a shame that so many Americans don't consider vacationing and exploring our own country.
This is my favorite part- I have been all of the US and its amazing.
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| Posted 7/15/07 11:16 AM |
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SweetestOfPeas
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Re: What do you love about living in the US?
Posted by racheeeee
Posted by SweetestOfPeas
Posted by Emily
Capitalism in the economic sector.
I wish we had a bit of socialism's united health care.
do you want to pay 60%++ in taxes?
Thats a myth, I have socialised health care and pay 23% taxes! I liked living in the US, but my itchy feet told me otherwise!!
is the 23% taxes towards healthcare or is that the total that comes out of your check.
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| Posted 7/15/07 11:18 AM |
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Moehick
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Re: What do you love about living in the US?
Traveling across this country I have come to appreciate the great beauty that is America. The mountains, oceans, cities, country.
The Grand Canyon and Old Faithful can take my breath away...I love the fact that I can hop in my car and drive from the Pacific to Atlantic without fear of being stopped by armed gunmen...a freedom that more and more countries don't have
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| Posted 7/15/07 11:18 AM |
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yankinmanc
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Re: What do you love about living in the US?
Posted by SweetestOfPeas
Posted by racheeeee
Posted by SweetestOfPeas
Posted by Emily
Capitalism in the economic sector.
I wish we had a bit of socialism's united health care.
do you want to pay 60%++ in taxes?
Thats a myth, I have socialised health care and pay 23% taxes! I liked living in the US, but my itchy feet told me otherwise!!
is the 23% taxes towards healthcare or is that the total that comes out of your check.
9% goes towards healthcare, I think thats outside of the 23%...I have to look at my paystub.
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| Posted 7/15/07 11:19 AM |
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SweetestOfPeas
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Re: What do you love about living in the US?
Posted by racheeeee
Posted by SweetestOfPeas
Posted by racheeeee
Posted by SweetestOfPeas
Posted by Emily
Capitalism in the economic sector.
I wish we had a bit of socialism's united health care.
do you want to pay 60%++ in taxes?
Thats a myth, I have socialised health care and pay 23% taxes! I liked living in the US, but my itchy feet told me otherwise!!
is the 23% taxes towards healthcare or is that the total that comes out of your check.
9% goes towards healthcare, I think thats outside of the 23%...I have to look at my paystub.
wow, that's really good. here we pay about 30% of our income in taxes. so figure it would cost us at least another 10% in taxes if we had socialized healthcare in the US.
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| Posted 7/15/07 11:22 AM |
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yankinmanc
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Re: What do you love about living in the US?
We also pay a 17.5% VAT (value added tax) on everything we buy (bar food and some other things. Its usually factored into the price of things, which is why things in the UK seem so expensive. Not to mention the exchange rate currently, £1 = $2.03.
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| Posted 7/15/07 11:27 AM |
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SweetestOfPeas
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Re: What do you love about living in the US?
Posted by racheeeee
We also pay a 17.5% VAT (value added tax) on everything we buy (bar food and some other things. Its usually factored into the price of things, which is why things in the UK seem so expensive. Not to mention the exchange rate currently, £1 = $2.03.
ouch. what does this VAT pay for?
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| Posted 7/15/07 11:28 AM |
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CAT215
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Re: What do you love about living in the US?
Posted by SweetestOfPeas
Posted by racheeeee
We also pay a 17.5% VAT (value added tax) on everything we buy (bar food and some other things. Its usually factored into the price of things, which is why things in the UK seem so expensive. Not to mention the exchange rate currently, £1 = $2.03.
ouch. what does this VAT pay for?
Whatever the government decides to spend it on, it's basically the same as sales tax. In the UK you also pay something called National Insurance which goes towards healthcare & unemployment benefits, that is on top of your taxes and is calculated on a sliding scale of your salary. You also pay the equivilant of $6.05 for a gallon of gas - about 80% of that the government takes in taxes - ohh not to forget "road tax" they now want to start charging anyone with a 4 wheel drive approx. $250 a year. And my all time favorite the "TV Licence" which was when I left the UK about $50 a year, if they catch you without one they'll fine about $500!
Thats why one of the things I love about living in the US is the cost of living!
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| Posted 7/15/07 11:42 AM |
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yankinmanc
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Re: What do you love about living in the US?
Posted by CAT215
Whatever the government decides to spend it on, it's basically the same as sales tax. In the UK you also pay something called National Insurance which goes towards healthcare & unemployment benefits, that is on top of your taxes and is calculated on a sliding scale of your salary. You also pay the equivilant of $6.05 for a gallon of gas - about 80% of that the government takes in taxes - ohh not to forget "road tax" they now want to start charging anyone with a 4 wheel drive approx. $250 a year. And my all time favorite the "TV Licence" which was when I left the UK about $50 a year, if they catch you without one they'll fine about $500!
Thats why one of the things I love about living in the US is the cost of living!
Its funny, because I see the cost of living in the US quite high...maybe its regional (me living way oop north) but I find the cost of living in the UK quite low compared to what the US is. For instance, my property taxes are only £100 a month, so per year, I only pay $2400 for schools, emergency services, sanitation etc...
And as for the TV license, I think people are so used to paying it...they just do it without complaning. In my eyes, thats what we pay the BBC to produce some of their wonderful programmes and for the fantastic Radio network that we have.
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CAT215
The Merlster
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Re: What do you love about living in the US?
Very true, being a die hard Eastenders fan, my FIL tapes the omnibus for me every week & posts in on Monday so I can get my "fix' of home
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| Posted 7/15/07 12:09 PM |
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yankinmanc
Happy Days!
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Re: What do you love about living in the US?
Posted by CAT215
Very true, being a die hard Eastenders fan, my FIL tapes the omnibus for me every week & posts in on Monday so I can get my "fix' of home
 No Way!
Haven't you heard of Bit Torrent??
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| Posted 7/15/07 12:40 PM |
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