Makes me think of this great song from Chris Rea, with a Brit imagining what life would be life in Texas:
Warm winds blowing
Heating blue sky
And a road that goes forever
Been thinking ‘bout it lately
Been watching some TV
Been looking all around me
And what has come to be
Been talking to my neighbor
And he agrees with me
It’s all gone crazy
Well, my wife returns from taking
My little girl to school
She got beads of perspiration
As she tries to keep her cool
She says, “That mess, it don’t get no better
There’s gonna come a day
Someone’s gonna get killed out there”
And I turn to her and say, “Texas”
She says, “What?”
I said, “Texas”
She says, “What?”
They got big long roads out there
Warm winds blowing
Heating blue sky
And a road that goes forever
I’m going to Texas
2, 3
We gotta get outta here
We gotta get outta here
Well, I got a little brother
Several meters high
Yeah, he’s built just like a quarterback
And he swears he’ll testify
He says he’s been to Texas
And that’s the only place to be
Big steaks, big girls, no trouble
Yeah, that’s the place for me
I’m going to Texas
Yeah, yeah
Oh, I’m going to Texas
Yeah, yeah
I’m going to Texas
Watch me walking
Watch me walking
Watch me walking
Yeah, yeah
Remember the Russian guy in the movie Hunt for Red October who was amazed with America and wanted to live in Montana ?
I have a old friend who has traveled around the world to nice places, but she told me that there is no place in the world like America, and no place that she would rather live than America.