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As a Brit living in Florida and having traveled to almost every city in Europe I have had the opportunity to see Britain periodically from foreign shores. I came to America predominantly for the weather in my latter years and don't miss the bitter cold and neuralgia in the winter and the stress of trying to teach nervous clients to drive in wet and windy Peterborough. I had survived several near misses in accidents and the worst one was where a Securicor Bullion truck smacked into the back of the vehicle I was teaching in as we sat at a roundabout and it pushed us into the path of speeding commuter traffic on a very wet Good Friday in 2000. I sat helpless, a driver and advanced driver and a once driver chosen to drive for the Queen as you can read if you google patrick lockyer, watching several drivers spinning around as they tried to adjust from speeding to unexpectedly needing to STOP. I saw the looks on their faces as panic and fear rose and quelled as they managed all to broadside in and gently slap the side of our stricken vehicle right in their paths. I knew right then that I had had many scrapes in my 30 years as a driving instructor and had been pushed forward at roundabouts at least three times before and that it was time to forget the lucrative reasoning for continuing with this career. My father had also recently died unexpectedly at 65 and three months with great plans for his retirement. I sold everything off and came to the USA.

I have always loved the USA and had visited LA and Florida before but was surprised at the surliness of Atlanta airport as an ally even though right after 9/11. The heavy patriotism of Pensacola Beach with 100,000 swooning to the Blue Angels air display as I could not help but wonder what it was like living in a dust bowl location with no early warning system and air raid shelter strong enough to hear the scream of a jet fighter above you? America has seemed to be a little 'sick' in the mind since then in some ways although the people I meet day to day are gems. There has not been sufficient interest in what goes on in ones name though in my estimation. That is being gradually corrected and the good name of the USA will shortly be restored.
Now About Britain:
I am proud of Britain. I love being able to rely on certain things. I can rely on the people to 'stand up and be counted' they are not cowered and they are not indifferent. They do NOT see it as treasonable to object to the leadership. They are not kept in a treadmill

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