I live in The National Park Bohemian Switzerland in Czech Republic. In the last few years of my life I had spent almost one of it in USA. My relationship to this country where nearly everybody wants to live went through several stages:
1st visit “Superb nature, superb country, however those Americans are really a bit crazy.”
2nd visit “I want to live here!”
3rd visit “Everything has its pluses and minuses.”
I had seen more of USA than most of the Americans, I had visited Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Florida, California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Utah, Colorado and Wyoming but most of my time I had spent in California, therefore I will relate all my conclusions to it. It is my own opinion formed from my own experience and conversations with locals. Sure enough the situation will be different in other states and you also will have different point of view.
What is my relationship to the United States then? Would I live there? What is great about it and what kind of things I don’t like?