QA問答：英國人羨慕美國人的生活方式嗎？
Do Brits envy Americans’ life and lifestyle?
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網友：我很嫉妒在英國不能體驗美國的生活方式。過一會兒，我要去當地的郵局，那里離我大約15分鐘的路程，來回的路上，我根本不會被槍擊、搶劫或辱罵。我也不會因為不開車敢自己出門走路就被警察攔下殺了......
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Do Brits envy Americans’ life and lifestyle?
英國人羨慕美國人的生活方式嗎？
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I am so jealous of not being able to experience the American lifestyle here in the UK.
In a short while I am going to go to the local Post Office which is about a 15 minute walk away and going there and back I won’t get shot at, mugged or abused at all. I also won’t get stopped and murdered by the police just for having the temerity to be out and about walking instead of driving in my car.
When I’m at the Post Office, which being a smaller local one means it’s in a Spar shop, I can get a few groceries like milk, tomatoes, salad, bread and many other things I might need. The prices on the shelf will be the price I pay at the till, no added taxes which saddens me and leaves me feeling I’m not contributing enough.
Another thing that sticks in my craw is that when I go to pick up a prescxtion from the pharmacy being both over 60 and diabetic I pay nothing, zilch, nada, niente sweet F.A. for any of my meds.
我很嫉妒在英國不能體驗美國的生活方式。
過一會兒，我要去當地的郵局，那里離我大約15分鐘的路程，來回的路上，我根本不會被槍擊、搶劫或辱罵。我也不會因為不開車敢自己出門走路就被警察攔下殺了。
當我在郵局的時候，郵局是一個較小的地方，它是在一個商場里面，我可以在店里買一些雜貨，像牛奶，西紅柿，沙拉，面包和許多其他我可能需要的東西。貨架上的價格將是我在收銀臺支付的價格，沒有額外的稅，這讓我感到悲傷，讓我覺得我沒有做出足夠的貢獻。
另一件讓我難以接受的事是，當我去藥房拿處方藥的時候，我已經60歲以上，而且患有糖尿病，我的任何一種藥都是零費用的。
We really envy your delicious food.
Oh, and we envy your politics too. And your incredible healthcare system.
And of course we have no landscape to speak of here in Britland. And no history. No old buildings.
Oh, and above all we envy Americans’ sense of irony.
我們真的很羨慕你們的美食。
我們也很羨慕你的政治，還有你們不可思議的醫療體系
當然，在英國，我們這里沒有值得一提的風景，沒有歷史，沒有老建筑。
最重要的是，我們羨慕美國人的諷刺感。
60 year old Brit here who was travelled extensively to the USA over the last 22 years. No, I do not in any way envy your life or lifestyle. Everything about everyday life over here is better: groceries are cheaper and better quality, the roads are better, our internet access is better, the chance of being shot by a member of the public or a police officer is as close to zero as makes no difference and I’ll get as much healthcare as I need without having to pay for it.
我是60歲的英國人，在過去的22年里游歷了美國。不，我一點也不羨慕你們的生活方式。這里的一切日常生活更好：食品更便宜，有更好的質量，有更好的道路，我們的互聯網接入是更好的，被公眾或警察射殺的幾率幾乎為零，沒有任何影響，我能得到我想要的醫保而不用花一分錢。
This one doesn't no, not even a teeny weeny bit.
When I was a kid I had this romanticised idea that the US was an amazing place to live, I thought everyone lived in big houses with big cars and good well paid jobs. School life appeared to be so much better than here, even the parents seemed like they were nicer.
Fast forward 30 years and I realised what a complete fool I was. The US is not amazing unless you are wealthy and have really good health insurance. Nobody will help you if you hit a bad patch in life and the whole nation demands you do not expect anyone to help you, that's firmly up to you.
I could maybe go for the lifestyles of those that live in small out of the way towns because they appear to be much more similar to us, but the cities are a whole different kettle of fish.
But overall no, I don't envy the risk of dying because I'm poor and can't afford health insurance, I don't envy Trump, I don't envy the gun mentality, I don't envy how corrupt the government is, I don't envy the open racism that's allowed, the police brutality, the lack of a safety net should you lose your job. Oh and the violence, white men literally get away with rape and murder while black men are shot on sight, the complete lack of any kind of public transport.. I can get a bus outside my home that takes 19 minutes to get to a bus station where I can get a bus the almost anywhere in the country and absolutely everywhere in my city. The food is also not high on my agenda of decent, the fact Dr's are in it for the money above anything else.. Nope definitely no envy here.
這個不會，一點都不會羨慕。
當我還是個孩子的時候，我有一個浪漫的想法，認為美國是一個很棒的居住地，我認為每個人都住著大房子，開著豪車，有高薪的好工作。學校的生活似乎比這里好多了，就連父母看起來都更友善。
過了30年，我意識到我是多么的愚蠢。除非你很富有，有很好的醫療保險，否則美國的生活并不令人滿意。如果你在生活中陷入困境，沒有人會幫助你，整個國家都要求你不要指望任何人幫助你，這完全取決于你自己。
我可能會選擇那些住在偏遠小鎮的人的生活方式，因為他們看起來更像我們，但城市就完全是另一回事了。
但總的來說，我并不羨慕在美國死亡的危險，因為我很窮，負擔不起醫療保險，我并不羨慕特朗普，我不羨慕你們持槍心態，我不羨慕政府有多腐敗，我并不羨慕被允許的公開的種族主義，不羨慕警察的暴行，不羨慕如果你失去工作，社會保障的缺失。哦，還有暴力，白人強奸和謀殺都能逃脫法律的懲罰，而黑人就會被槍殺，在這里完全沒有任何公共交通工具。我可以在我家外面坐公交車，到公交車站需要19分鐘，在這個國家的幾乎任何地方，在我的城市的任何地方都可以坐公交車。食物也不是我想要的體面食物，博士們從事一些行業也是為了錢而不是其他。所以沒有羨慕，絕對沒有羨慕嫉妒。
No, not really.
A lot of the beliefs held in the USA about life and conditions in the UK are hand-me-downs from the 1940s and 1950s, when US service personnel were stationed here during, and in the aftermath of, a war that left the country pretty comprehensively beaten up: rationing, austerity, bomb damage, and an economy struggling to revert to a prosperous, peacetime footing. There were also the stirrings of political and industrial unrest that would last until the 1980s.
To a visitor from a land where WWII had driven prosperity through the roof, the sight of life on what recently been the front line must indeed have looked bleak and unappealing.
But that was generations ago. It’s 70 years since WWII. It’s even 36 years since the miners’ strike. That’s time enough for a lot to change.
沒有，確實沒有羨慕
美國人對英國生活和條件的很多看法都是上世紀四五十年代傳下來的，當時美國軍人駐扎在英國，之后，一場戰爭讓這個國家遭受了全面打擊：配給、財政緊縮、炸彈破壞，經濟努力恢復到繁榮和平時期的狀態。政治和工業動亂也一直持續到了20世紀80年代。
對于一個來自二戰繁榮發展的國家的游客來說，最近前線的生活景象肯定看起來黯淡而沒有吸引力。
但那是幾代人以前的事了。二戰已經過去70年了。礦工罷工至今已有36年。這段時間足夠改變很多事情了。
We know, for instance, that urban decay is as real in Detroit as it ever was in Birmingham; that opioids are as much a crisis in the rural USA as smack is in our inner cities; that our knife violence problem is dwarfed by American gun violence.
What we see over the pond today is somewhere different, not somewhere better: a place with its own strengths and weaknesses, just like Britain. There will always be some who decide that the USA is the place for them, just as there are US citizens - more than a few here on Quora - who have come to regard Britain as home.
It’s always a mistake to generalise about whole countries, but I think it's fair to say that, in Britain, we mostly don’t really envy our friends in the States.
今天的英國技術先進，物質供應充足，政治穩定，文化活躍，（基本上）是一個相當寬容和開放的地方。
更重要的是，它的公民具有高度的素養；沒有人真的相信美國就是好萊塢所展現的那種閃閃發光的完美。
例如，我們知道，底特律的城市衰退就像伯明翰一樣真實；阿片類藥物在美國農村是一種危機，就像海洛因在我們的內城一樣；與美國槍支暴力相比，我們的持刀暴力問題就相形見絀了。
今天，我們在大西洋彼岸看到的是一個不同的地方，而不是一個更好的地方：一個有自己優勢和劣勢的地方，就像英國一樣?？傆幸恍┤苏J為美國是屬于他們的地方，就像美國公民一樣—Quora上有不少—他們已經把英國當作自己的家。
對整個國家一概而論是錯誤的，但我公平地說，在英國，我們基本上不會羨慕我們的美國朋友。
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I first went to the USA at age 19 in 1976 and went back many times and traveled and did business all over until 2001 when I stopped visiting due to the ‘hostile non welcome you would get’.
Back in the 70’s I had still the concept that the USA was a fantastical advanced Country where anything was possible and the technology was way ahead of anything we had in the UK.
TBH I think it was but like the song goes…’something happened along the way’…..
Sometime in the early 90’s things started to go South and everything went into decline and the pace is still accelerating today.
I think sadly the USA has passed the,point of no return, it is not about to vanish or collapse but the basic finances do not stack up now even to a layman like myself and the social division between rich and poor has widened to the point where it is apparent to everyone it has gone too far.
Empires come and go and even the best slowly crumble.
我第一次去美國是在1976年，19歲的時候，我去了很多次，到處旅行和做生意，直到2001年，我停止了去美國的旅行，因為“你會受到敵意和不歡迎”。
回到70年代，我仍然認為美國是一個非常先進的國家，在那里一切都是可能的，技術遠遠領先于我們在英國擁有的任何東西。
老實說，我認為在那時候是這樣的，但就像那首歌里唱的那樣……“一路上發生了一些事情”.....
在90年代早期的某個時候，情況開始惡化，所有的東西都開始走下坡路，現在速度還在加快。
可悲的是，我認為美國已經衰落的過頭了，到了無法回頭的臨界點，雖然它不會消失或崩潰，但即使對我這樣的門外漢來說，基本的財政狀況現在也還沒有恢復。社會貧富差距已經擴大到很大的程度，每個問題都很突出，它已經偏離得太遠了。
帝國來來去去，即使是最好的帝國也會慢慢崩潰。
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I have never envied the US life and lifestyle. Reading posts on Quora I actually feel sorry for the citizens of the US.
The right to bear arms may provide a feeling of safety and freedom to some but ignores the majority who are intimidated by gun owners and fearful in their own community.
The health care system is skewed to make more money for the rich. The caring seems to have been lost in the desire for a profitable business.
The number of conspiracy theories abound from microchips in vaccinations, global warming being a lie and COVID-19 being just flu. The theories may have started elsewhere but seem to thrive and grow in the US. Skepticism is healthy because it allows for more in depth research and development. Distrust and denial of the truth stifles progress.
The blind faith that the US is the greatest country on earth actually impedes its development.
我從未羨慕過美國的生活和生活方式?？戳薗uora上的帖子，我真的為美國公民感到難過。
攜帶武器的權利可能給一些人帶來安全和自由的感覺，但忽視了大多數人，他們受到槍支擁有者的恐嚇，他們在自己的社區感到恐懼。
醫療保健制度偏向于為富人賺更多的錢。這種在醫療上的關心似乎已經在賺錢的生意欲望中消失了。
疫苗植入微芯片、全球變暖是謊言、新冠病毒只是流感等陰謀論層出不窮。這些理論可能起源于其他地方，但似乎在美國茁壯成長。持懷疑態度是沒問題的，因為它允許更深入的研究和開發，但是對真相的不信任和否認會扼殺人類的進步。
盲目相信美國是世界上最偉大的國家，實際上阻礙了美國的發展。
We lived in Prague for three years and in NYC for three years and during our time in the US we did a road trip across to LA and fly back. The trip took two weeks as we stopped in various places, two days with friends in Nebraska and three nights in Las Vegas and saw a lot of the country.
The US is completely different to the UK and we enjoyed our time over there, had a good time and made some great friends. Absolutely no regrets living in NYC or seeing the country. Would we go back? No, only to visit friends and not envious of America or its lifestyle, America is for Americans.
我們在布拉格住了三年，在紐約住了三年，在美國的時候，我們自駕游到洛杉磯，然后飛回來。這次旅行花了兩周時間，我們在不同的地方停留，有兩天時間是和朋友在內布拉斯加州，有三晚是在拉斯維加斯，我們參觀了當地的很多地方。
美國和英國完全不同，我們在那里度過了一段美好的時光，交到了一些很棒的朋友。我們絕對不后悔住在紐約或參觀這個國家。我們會回去嗎？不會，我們只是為了拜訪朋友，而不是嫉妒美國或美國的生活方式，美國是屬于美國人的。
“Americans’ life and lifestyle”? - now is that the life of a highly paid silicon valley employee, who drives a Tesla and has a lovely house near the beach or the life of a 55 year old unemployed african-american with a health problem living in Chicago?
Is the “Brit” a young man living on a sink estate in South Shields, who has no skills no training and left school early or a successful businessman in the Midlands with a large house, a villa in Spain and a boat on the River Severn?
In the UK we see pictures of homeless people living in tents on the street of wealthy US cities. To be honest this has now become the image that comes to mind when the words “American Lifestyle “ are mentioned.
In America and Britain there are millions of people living good satisfying and comfortable lives. There are also tens of millions living mean, dangerous utterly miserable lives,
“美國人的生活方式”？—現在我的生活是一個高薪的硅谷員工，開著一輛特斯拉，在海灘附近有一所美麗的房子，還是一個55歲的失業的非裔美國人，因為健康問題生活在芝加哥？
所謂的“英國人”是指住在南希爾茲的一處破敗的房子里，沒有任何技能，也沒有接受過任何培訓，早早輟學的年輕人，還是指在英國中部擁有一所大房子、在西班牙擁有一棟別墅、在塞文河上擁有一艘船的成功商人？
在英國，我們看到無家可歸的人住在美國富裕城市街道上的帳篷里的照片。說實話，現在一提到“美國生活方式”這個詞，人們腦海中就會浮現出這樣的畫面。
在美國和英國，有數百萬人過著良好的、令人滿意的和舒適的生活。
還有幾千萬人過著簡陋、危險、悲慘的生活，
Any envy might likely be for the illusion of American life and lifestyle.
I am both American and British and spent the first half of my life traveling back and forth between the two countries. A lot changed during that period and a lot has changed since that time.
I recall the British people I spoke to being envious, but it was envy of an illusion. They hadn’t been to America, so their perspective was based upon American television. At the time, one of the most popular American television series was a nighttime soap opera called Dallas, that told the story of a family in the oil business. My British friends imagined that when I went to America, I was living in a house like the Southfork Ranch where the Ewing family lived, on Dallas. British television, at the time, depicted a much more realistic environment. One of the most popular characters was a middle aged woman named Hilda Ogden who was always seen in hair curlers. People on British television looked like the people in your neighborhood. People on American television were all like Greek statues come to life - tanned, thick curly hair, muscular or voluptuous, and teeth like bathroom tiles. They lived in giant houses or apartments, and although they had jobs, never seemed to have to do them. And they always had new clothes. So, people in Britain couldn’t be faulted for thinking there was some reality in that depiction. Who wouldn’t want to go to America and share an apartment with Janet and Chrissy, or drive a Ferrari like Thomas Magnum?
任何嫉妒都可能是對美國生活和生活方式的幻想。
我既是美國人又是英國人，我的前半生在這兩個國家之間來回穿梭。那段時間發生了很多變化，從那時起也發生了很多變化。
我記得和我交談過的英國人都很嫉妒美國，但那只是一種幻覺。他們沒有去過美國，所以他們的觀點是基于美國電視。當時，美國最受歡迎的電視連續劇之一是一部名為《達拉斯》的夜間肥皂劇，講述了一個從事石油生意的家庭的故事。我的英國朋友以為我去了美國，以為我住在達拉斯的一棟房子里，就像尤因一家住的南弗克牧場。當時的英國電視描繪的環境要真實得多。其中一個最受歡迎的角色是一個名叫希爾達·奧格登的中年婦女，她總是戴著卷發器。
英國電視上的人看起來和你的鄰居很像。美國電視上的人們就像活過來的希臘雕像一樣——棕褐色的皮膚、濃密的卷發、肌肉發達或性感迷人，牙齒像浴室的瓷磚。他們住在巨大的房子或公寓里，雖然他們有工作，但似乎從來不用做這些事。他們總是穿著新衣服。所以，英國人認為這種描述是真實的是無可厚非的。誰不想去美國，與珍妮特和克麗絲合住一間公寓，或者像托馬斯·馬格南一樣開一輛法拉利？
I recall my dad, who has lived in both countries talking about the biggest difference to him was that in Britain, if he got very sick, he knew that the one thing he didn’t have to worry about was bankrupting his family, like he would have, in America. He misses the warmth of Florida and better coffee, but not much else.
I recall my dad always working overtime in America but never in Britain. He was more of a dad, in Britain.
我記得我回到英國的時候，我很生氣，因為商店周日不開門，就像在美國一樣。我還記得，隨著年齡的增長，我回到英國，發現商店星期天是開門的，我很難過，因為人們星期天還得工作，而且我星期天根本不需要去商店。
我記得我的父親，他在這兩個國家生活過，他說他最大的不同是，在英國，如果他病得很重，他知道他不用擔心的一件事就是他的家庭破產，就像在美國一樣。他懷念佛羅里達的溫暖和美好的咖啡，但除此之外就沒什么了。
我記得我爸爸在美國經常加班，但在英國從不加班。在英國，他更像個父親。
As I get older, I realize more and more that quality of life isn’t about being able to have more things. Being able to have more things is the American religion and is becoming the British religion. So, maybe there is some envy there. But what I envy is my dad’s life that is essentially walking the dogs in the country and stopping for a pint or two at a country pub. Throw in a pork pie at that pub and what more could one want from life?
這兩個國家都有優點和缺點。當我回到英國，看到我以前住的社區里有麥當勞或肯塔基炸雞店時，我非常難過。當我在美國看到人們對槍支的癡迷時，我感到非常難過。盡管英國退歐表明，愚蠢無處不在，但我仍然希望特朗普主義之類的東西不會在英國存在。當我看一部英國偵探劇的時候，我很高興主角沒有像美國人那樣鑲牙。
隨著年齡的增長，我越來越意識到生活質量不在于擁有更多的東西。能夠擁有更多的東西是美國的宗教，并正在成為英國的宗教。所以，也許這是一種嫉妒。但讓我羨慕的是我父親的生活，他基本上就是在鄉村遛狗，在鄉村酒吧里喝上一兩杯。在酒吧里吃個豬肉派，你還能從生活中得到什么呢？
I am American and I am married to a British man. Additionally, a large segment of my family lives in the UK so I spent a lot of time there prior to meeting my husband. I'm going to answer this without dissing either country since I love both.
First of all, you need to understand that lifestyles in both countries vary a lot. In the UK, I know people that live in the center of London and some that live in a 400 year old house in a tiny village next to an old lady who won't leave the house without a hat (think Miss Marple). These are wildly different lifestyles, even though they are only about 2–3 hours from each other. The former don't have a car because having a car in London is an unnecessary burden. The latter have two cars because they need cars for practically everything. The former are child-free millionaires who take multiple holidays a year and the latter are often struggling to make ends meet because they have kids and middle-class jobs.
我是美國人，嫁給了一個英國人。此外，我的大部分家人都住在英國，所以在認識我丈夫之前，我在那里待了很長時間。在回答這個問題時，我不會貶低任何一個國家，因為這兩個國家我都喜歡。
首先，你需要了解兩個國家的生活方式有很大的不同。在英國，我認識一些住在倫敦市中心的人，還有一些住在一個小村莊里有400年歷史的老房子里的人，旁邊住著一位不戴帽子就不出門的老太太（想想馬普爾小姐吧）。這是截然不同的生活方式，盡管他們之間只有2-3個小時的距離。前者沒有車，因為在倫敦開車是一種不必要的負擔。后者有兩輛車，因為他們幾乎什么都需要車。前者是沒有孩子的百萬富翁，他們一年中會休假多次；后者往往要努力維持收支平衡，因為他們有孩子，又有中產階級的工作。
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美國的生活方式也有很多變化，實際上更多，因為美國的面積要大得多。在我住的地方，我很少需要一輛車做任何事情，我可以步行去任何地方（這在英國更常見）。在我父母住的地方，他們需要一輛車去最近的咖啡店。我哥哥住的地方，嚴格來說他不需要一輛車，但冬天太殘酷了，走路20分鐘不被凍傷是很難的。美國各地的氣候截然不同。雖然有些地方有破紀錄的高溫，但今天我所在的地方氣溫高達12攝氏度，而且有霧。今天美國其他地區將會下大雨，而在許多州，已經幾周沒有下雨了。冬天在明尼蘇達州和在佛羅里達州顯然是完全不同的概念。至于夏天，密歇根的夏天很美，而8月的佛羅里達是我經歷過的最糟糕的事情之一。
It is impossible to do a fair cost equivalence between house sizes in the UK vs US. For one thing, states like Kansas and Iowa are going to drastically bring the averages down and that's not really a fair equivalent. The UK has very little, if any land that no one actually wants. The US has a lot of this type of land. I was in a rural part of the US last month visiting family and I was shocked that most of the houses around there were less than $50,000 USD. However, on thinking about it, what would you do while living there? It's quite pretty but living there would actually be hard. The economy is in shambles and there are no jobs. Their grocery store was actually more expensive than my local farmers market in San Francisco (although there was an entire aisle of Twinkies that were very cheap). A single tomato was $1 and it wasn't even a good-looking tomato. The nearest doctors are miles away, let alone specialists - which you're going to need if you eat all those Twinkies because they're so much cheaper than tomatoes. These types of isolated areas are more rare in the UK because nothing is that far or disconnected from everything else.
我的生活方式與倫敦人相比，與美國郊區或農村的人更相似。同樣地，英國農村或郊區的人們有著比他們想象的更多的共同點。我知道這一點，因為我目睹并經歷了這一切，不像許多回答者，他們只是想出了老套的英國和美國的比喻。
要在英國和美國的房子大小之間做一個公平的成本對等是不可能的。首先，像堪薩斯州和愛荷華州將大幅降低平均的生活水平，這并不是一個公平的對等關系。英國幾乎沒有土地，如果有的話，沒有人真正想要這些土地，美國有很多這樣的土地。上個月，我在美國的一個農村拜訪家人，我震驚地發現，那里的大多數房子都不到5萬美元。然而，仔細想想，如果你住在那里，你會做什么？那里很漂亮，但是住在那里會很困難。經濟一片混亂，沒有工作。他們的雜貨店實際上比我在舊金山當地的農貿市場更貴（盡管那里有整整一排非常便宜的Twinkies蛋糕）。一個西紅柿要1美元，而且長得也不好看。最近的醫生都在幾英里之外，更不用說?？漆t生了——如果你吃了所有的Twinkies奶油蛋糕，你就會需要?？漆t生，因為它們比西紅柿便宜多了。這類與世隔絕的地區在英國比較少見，因為沒有什么地方離其他地方那么遠。