I personally think someone needs to get a pin out and burst your bubble. I AM a US citizen and I can tell you first hand that the markets there are TOTALLY f'kd, you will find it hard to get a job paying decent money and that I could NOT live on $30k/yr when I actually lived there. that was in a town of 70k and with two papermills feeding the town work.
cars are expensive here - deal wth it