The difference between Ireland and America...

...according to Bono, in the Nov. 6th 2014 Rolling Stone cover article about U2:

"I've said this many times," Bono says, "but, you know, in America, you look up at the mansion on the hill and you say, 'One day, if I work really hard, I might get to live there.'  In Ireland, particularly in Dublin, you look at the mansion and you say, 'One day, I'm going to get that bastard.'"

That's almost enough to make me like Irish culture, though the drunkenness, duplicity, and rampant misogyny are clear downsides.