Questions of human nature

[grynch]

Originally Posted by monster

The whole of life is monstrously different and scary and weird US:UK. The main problem is that one expects similarity because we use similar language, so it's even more of a horrible shock than if we had moved to a county on the same continent that spoke a different language. So say all expats -US and UK- I've ever interacted with.

This expat has to beg to differ...
of course there are differences between the UK and the US... language being listed among those differences but even allowing for those differences I find it immensely easier dealing with England and her differences than I do in dealing, even after 11 years here, with Switzerland and or France.