I had a similar experience like D613, no learning in US, but lots of really intense (8 am – 10 pm with breaks for lunch/dinner/rest) 5 1/2 days a week. Really amazing stuff. Never, never, never thought about living in Israel before coming here for a month, went back to US to deal with some issues before coming back to learn some more and ended up deciding to stay. My only comparison was LA, which did not have a big frum area and I didn’t think I had a great chance of finding a shidduch there, so on staying in EY, found that the challenges in chinuch that are faced on a daily basis in US (advertising, billboards, TV) are not at all issues here, so for my future children’s sakes, I decided to stay here. No comparison for me, but probably hard to compare with Lakewood/Monsey had I come from there. I think the lack of distractions at home make learning in EY so intense.
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