1. No restrictions on where I go or when.
2. Can buy a gun & ammo any day of the week.
3. "No one ever disappears, ya never hear their standard issue kicking in your doors..."
4. I still think it's got the best medical care in the world, and it's within a 10 minute drive of my home.
5. The best looking coinage.
6. The women look good and age better than most.
7. The insane people are mostly confined to the coasts, leaving us normal folk the whole middle of the country to putter about in.
8. MLB Baseball. NFL Football.
9. A little town in S. Carolina called Sugartit.
10. The space program.
The Beatles, Henry Moore's work and that of Jacob Epstein (he was born NY but he's a brit really).
Birds' Custard. Worcheshire sauce on my chips.
Stony beaches but not when I've forgotten all four pairs of crocks to walk on them, for the kids, so they moan and we leave earlier then we would becasue they've got sore feet.