To be fair, the pound is much stronger than the dollar, so to do a straight pound to dollar conversion doesn't really tell the whole story, but I know for a fact that wages compared to the cost of things is much better in America. Like I said, we in England get ripped off badly. And like I also said, a lot of it is tax.
I'm looking forward to living in America. I have a few thousand pounds saved which will basically double when I change it to dollars.