Please do give it a try, I think you’re basing your perception of the US on social media and news which obviously is going to paint a certain picture in your mind. Obviously every city and state and place is different but I’ve lived in multiple cities of California and spent a summer in Rhode Island and I don’t feel unsafe regularly. I am not thrilled about the prospect of guns either but you really aren’t at risk on a daily walk — I go hiking alone as a woman and have never experienced any issues. I say all of this as someone who isn’t sure I want to spend my life in America forever, but who is also trying to see the good and opportunity of it.

I understand what you miss about Europe but I promise you that any place you live there are robberies. My friend in London captured an attempted murder just outside her window the other night. I think you are projecting some of your frustrations with adapting to a new place to being US issues — when I lived in London planning a trip to another country was still effort and I had to do research just like anywhere else. Yes, budget airlines don’t exist here, but it’s no different flying between states. I think the biggest drawback is to how reliant on cars it is to travel here.

You speak about the states as if you’ve personally been robbed every day you’ve been here, and speak about the Middle East as a safe haven but I would like to assume there are these issues like robberies in the Middle East, just maybe not right in front of you or around you. Same as here, and any robberies I’ve witnessed were never violent, and I’ve worked in retail plenty. I sympathise with you changing to this new lifestyle and i also feel that the US isn’t some dream location, but it’s not an awful place to live. If you set it up to be a disappointment in your mind then you will keep looking for reasons to be disgruntled. Once you have a routine it’ll get a bit better, you’ll be able to find some hobbies and people to settle yourself in