American who lived in the English Midlands for a half year. Your hunch is correct: Britain absolutely has more cultural variation than America. You see it in t

American who lived in the English Midlands for a half year. Your hunch is correct: Britain absolutely has more cultural variation than America. You see it in the accents the most. I never expected to have difficulty communicating with other native English speakers, but I was comforted by the fact that other Brits from different parts of the island struggled to communicate with each other a bit as well.