How I See the US After Living in Europe for 5 Years

I suppose a longterm American feels it differently than I did, as my Mom was born and raised in England. I never felt quite at home in Alaska, which was frontier anyway, with a train station feel of people coming and going from everywhere. This lady seems to have come from a very settled, conservative middle class midwestern small town settled a couple hundred years ago. I left mad max territory after feeling more home in European grottoes. Settling virgin land takes time. Siberians, Australians were convicts settled forcibly. Chinese who settle in the far West have higher suicide rates.