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"You will always be in our hearts and on our roads." - @Giro d'Italia on Michele Scarponi
@RichardM
Crikey.
I am not going to weigh in on the public sector/private sector issue as I would hate for +shannonball to feel got at.
When you take account of US public and local holidays US employees get significantly more than two weeks a year. Where is our Memorial Day, Labor Day, MLK Day, etc al? As you might expect, I have this debate with my US partners all the time!
As regards US healthcare it is not like a second mortgage, as least not unless you mandate that everyone has to have it and the terms on which they do so, which is what is happening currently. And the US has very significant subsidised/free healthcare programmes such as Medicare and Medicaid. And as regards quality of care, I refer you to Mid-Staffs. US/UK mortality rates for key disorders show the failings of the NHS all too clearly, and given current demographics the NHS simply won't be there when you need it. (If, heaven forbid, anything serious were to happen to me I am out of here on the first flight.)
So book your ticket +shannonball. If it wasn't such a socialist republic I might choose Oregon myself. It has to be Wyoming for me, especially given how great the skiing is.
(I am now going to retire to my bunker.)