Well I don't want to dissuade anyone with decent skills from becoming a productive member of society in the USA but having been all over the USA, parts of Canada, and parts of England/UK it seems like you can find urban and suburban/rural lving in all three places.

Weather may be better in *some* places in the USA, but the majority of the country you can't count on it... Hurricanes, heat, and humidity in the south and south east, extreme winters in the North East, unimaginable heat in the south west, constant rain in the pacific north west, Earthquakes anywhere it is usually sunny, and tornadoes everywhere else. :eek:

There are plenty of places in the USA you are 60 minutes from civilization- did you have a specific city or state in mind when you think of the USA?

Atlanta, Georgia, the true heart of the south. I'm from there and would love to go back when I retire.

Funny you said Georgia, many have said to us is good there but, it's like when you go on holiday somewhere and you comeback raving about how great it was and you'd love to live there, but actually living there would be nothing like you imagined because you were giddy with the holiday bug and viewed it through rose tinted glases.

We're greedy, we'd like to be near the ocean but have a lot of greenery, we'd like to live in a quiet(ish) place but not isolated, somewhere with a friendly, safe community. Too much to ask to tick all those boxes but we've the luxury of time to find these places (if they exist). :)

Cancun

I didnt envisage moving to Mexico :)