So these peoople from England were much less wealthy than your middle class friends but they could afford to come to America and stay for several weeks? I don’t follow you, who footed the bill for all that? I don’t know many people who could afford to fly to England for a wedding, let alone stay for weeks.
Staying here for a couple weeks cost them nothing, because they stayed with the families here, as guests.
In England, few can afford large homes on 5-10 acres, or a truck and an SUV or two.
England...50 million people and 50,000 sq miles.
Do the math.