[was_a_dev]

From a UK perspective, the US "throws money" at everything, both culturally and because you are a larger economy.

Education, sports, healthcare, industry, space, science to name a few.

The UK also has an opposing culture, we don't invest in the long term in infrastructure or people. Even in your case, you visited the two richest universities (by a long margin) in the UK.

[okeuro49]

There's long term investment in London, but the North never recovered after losing its industry.

Numerous promises such as "northern powerhouse" have failed to materialise.

[kranke155]

The north didn’t “lose” its industry, im afraid. It was deliberately destroyed as a matter of policy.

Deindustrialisation is terrible.

[was_a_dev]

I think it would be safe to call London an outlier for the UK, for the reason of how much investment is directed there

[thebruce87m]

For people outside the UK - English people refer to the north of England as “the North”, even when talking in the context of the UK.

[eli_gottlieb]

> The UK also has an opposing culture, we don't invest in the long term in infrastructure or people.

That's not really so different from the United States!