I've long since come to the conclusion that the U.S. is good fun in small doses but I've never felt the urge to live there.
I feel much the same way. I have worked in the USA for periods up to a month, and enjoyed it, but always been glad to come home to Australia. Although I know that I'm highly critical of some aspects of American government policy and society, I have generally positive feelings about America, and as an Australian, I recognise the USA as my country's most important ally. As a "convert" to liberal democracy, there is also still a part of me that thinks of America as something of a "shining city on a hill" too, laughable as that might seem to Americans.
Experiencing America is oddly strange, I find. To an Australian, many aspects of America are instantly familiar as a result of the ubiquity of its cultural products in our media*, and I work in the computer industry where a large proportion of the products and standards that shape it originated in America. I speak English fluently, so there is no language barrier, despite my different dialect and accent. I could almost imagine myself at home, but then something will come along to remind me of how intensely
foreign America is, in a manner that is almost jarring in contrast.
*To some extent this is true of British cultural products too, but I have never visited the UK, so I don't know if it would strike me the same way. I googled "Roy of the Rovers", and
that certainly struck me as weird and foreign!