&gt;  but there are indeed aspects of American life and opportunity that don&#x27;t currently exist in the EU.<p>Indeed there are. Many in the EU would consider the &#x27;life&#x27; part of that sentence a good thing.<p>As for opportunity, I&#x27;ve never really felt that the EU limited me in ways that I would find less in the USA, but that&#x27;s just anecdote, not research.<p>Not all of life revolves around start-ups, and plenty of the upsides of the opportunity in the USA come with associated downsides.