User blog comment:Scrawland Scribblescratch/England vs America/@comment-4727448-20140114015532/@comment-4843137-20140114030134

Cons about America: English System of measurement,

Deep rural-urban divide. (I've lived in both rural, conservative Oregon and New York, and calling someone a "liberal" is practically a slur.),

Awful political party system (The Dems and Reps are at each other's throats on EVERYTHING! I wish it was like the Civil War era, where parties were more ultimately divided by region than by left/right BS which doesn't even work.