Living and being to are quite different. At least for me, many places are great to visit, but living full time for any reasonable amount of time is easiest/best in the US, and it's really not close.
I think it probably depends what you’re after; I visit the US occasionally, but certainly wouldn’t want to live there. However I know people in a broadly similar situation to me who’ve moved there and like it.
If I was living in the US, given my job, I’d likely be living in SF, Seattle or NYC (the suburbs are not for me at the best of times, and _American_ suburbs in particular are just very unattractive). These are very expensive cities (Seattle somewhat less so), and cost of living would soak up a lot of the salary difference. And while they’re interesting to visit, I’m not sure how pleasant they’d be to actually live in long-term.
Actually, I upvoted this. So I lived in another country as an exchange student before so I thought you were just being an ass, but “you only live once” was not the response I expected. I apologize for coming off strong.
