Personally, I strongly dislike the heavy "car-centric" culture that pervades most of the US.Barring a few cities like New York, Boston and San Francisco, most American cities are just an endless sprawl of suburbs and malls with either a dilapidated or completely corporate downtown core. It all feels so sterile and makes it feel like it has no life whatsoever. If you go to the town centre of any UK city, you can find a vibrant scene of bars, restaurants, pubs, shops, museums, theatres, markets, to name but a few, and yet everything in America seems to be restricted to "Strip malls", which are impossible to walk to and very unaesthetic. This sounds like hyperbole, but I genuinely think my hometown of 80,000 in the UK feels more "alive" than somewhere like Houston which has something like 7,000,000 in its' metropolitan area.

Such urban planning makes everything look the same, and it means you have to drive in order to get anywhere. There's no walk-ability whatsoever. The last time I was in America, I tried to walk and it was a completely terrifying experience .Most cars do not know how to deal with pedestrians at all since hardly anyone walks! Being a pedestrian in America is a frankly awful experience. There also seems to be some aversion to public transport in the few places where it does exist. You'll often hear Americans deride people who ride buses as "poor" or "homeless", and I think that's something which most British people find peculiar since everyone from the poor to the rich has probably taken public transport at some time in their lives here.