Most of the time, when you hear immigrants talk about why they want to come to America, you’ll hear the same answers over and over. You’ll hear them discuss standard of living, or work opportunities, or lower taxes. For those seeking asylum — whether legitimately or as part of an anti-Western invasion scheme — America is seen as an escape from something terrible. For other immigrants, sometimes you’ll hear answers that are weirdly specific. Cheap(er) gas, bigger cars, or drive-through, well, everything.Personally, I will never fall out of love with America’s embrace of air conditioning.I was born in England, and back in 2012, I graduated from Oxford University with a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Computer Science. Then, it was time to decide what to do next. For years, I had known I wanted to move to America, but my reasoning at the time was all too similar to the answers above. I had visited America dozens of times, and had friends across the country, but the main reason I wanted to move to California was because the jobs there were just … better. In salary alone, even for the much-abused H-1B visa holders, the job offerings in the San Francisco Bay Area for programmers made the equivalent options in London seem more akin to work placements in the Soviet Union.