[sgjohnson]

> and for the life of me cannot fathom why anyone would choose the USA over most of Europe.

Because I'm weird like that. I don't care about my "free" healthcare, because what you can get for free either has an extremely long wait times or is absolutely sub-par. I've never had "free" healthcare nor in the UK (except for that one time that made me go fully private), nor in my home country. I'm aware that it'd be more expensive in the US.

I'm also a gun enthusiast, having my hobby in the EU is almost getting more difficult by the day, and I'm from a EU country that has relatively lax gun laws (when compared to other EU countries)

I haven't lived in the US, but I've spent a lot of time there.