Aussie/British here so YMMV if you’re from somewhere less white. Go to the States. It’s amazing. Almost none of what you read here actually happens. I’ve been

Aussie/British here so YMMV if you’re from somewhere less white. Go to the States. It’s amazing. Almost none of what you read here actually happens. I’ve been a bunch of times in the last few years and the border people have been nothing but lovely. The countryside is amazing. The food is ridiculous. The people are extraordinary — and I’m a leftie who happily says that of the good folk of Alabama. We can’t wait to go back. Next road-trip will probably take us from Washington state to Chicago.