Was nice, don't need to move back. Mrs. C wouldn't go for it.

Why? England is lovely. It's easy to get around London without a car. If city life isn't for her, there are smaller towns (villages?) in pastoral settings.

If the country is going to hell (which it is), she may have to jump and pull the rip cord. The Tories lost, so there is hope for England. Leaving wouldn't be my first choice, either. But I'd take that over living under an authoritarian regime any day.

Well, I still have that! "I love your accent"

Brits also seem to be more well-spoken, even without the accent. Larger vocabulary, less "lazy" about constructing sentences. I see it when I watch BBC (usually when we travel, we'll have that on in the room). Also, the times we've visited there (including Edinburgh, York, and London...) the "man on the street" seemed more eloquent than a typical American).

And, unless junior is planning to go pro, he should probably give up football. It is not conducive to a long, cognitively active, life. There has been a stream of studies over the past several years that indicate life-long deterioration from having played football, even if the player never had a major injury. A few weeks ago some dude shot himself in the chest to preserve his head for study, pleading in his note that they needed to use it to see what happened to him from football. He didn't even play pro (though a pro also committed suicide about 15 years ago, citing CTE which was later confirmed).

nytimes.com - NYC shooting gunman suicide note cte nfl

At the college and pro level, you have 300lb guys that can run a 4.4 40yd dash (I could never do that even when I was young and thin). That's a LOT of kinetic energy slamming into you.

It's the brain. It's not worth it just to have some fun.