[MRM]

Damn little. I don’t think the US can learn anything from cultures that allow their governments to mandate things as personal and private as cell phone use, who can use them and for how long. The level of control asserted by most other countries over their citizens/subjects is mind boggling to an American. If they can control your cell phone usage, what else can they control? And government controls don’t help make life better. Studies show that in the long run individual human beings are the best at making their own decisions about their own lives. Europeans think our First Amendment (and other civil liberties) are “bonkers”. I think people, no matter how prosperous and cultured who don’t live with our civil liberties are bonkers.

I love Europe and Asia and plan to travel there and to Australia and Latin America extensively when I retire. I even hope to lease a place in Italy or France or Great Britain (or one of each) for up to a year at a time so I can really get to enjoy the places. But I will never live outside the US permanently again.