[prawn]

Personally, as someone who doesn't even live in the US, I find these discussions alluring because related topics like homelessness and NIMBY-vs-whatever are so interesting.

Other than that, the "don't bring CA to TX" angle is quite alien to an Australian as laws are fairly similar in each state here.

[scruple]

The United States is huge and you can easily divide it into multiple regions that have their own unique culture, their own distinct histories, and different ways of speaking, sometimes dramatically different.

Colin Woodard's book "American Nations" does a good job of explaining this [0], though at some point this book turns into a long rant about GWB and it's safe to put the book down at that point if you don't find that interesting.

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/the-11-nations-of-the-united...

[buzzert]

And yet at the same time, the regions are also remarkably similar in all the same ways. Someone born in California can fly to the heart of Tennessee and have a meaningful conversation with a stranger in their native language.

(It’s one of the reasons why I love the US)