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gavra_at_work,
First of all, Rabbonim have the right to disagree. If you live in a place where your Rov paskens a certain way, you’ll listen to his psak. If you then move to a different place and have a different Rov, you’ll listen to him. I don’t know why that’s so hard to understand.
Second of all, the Gedolim on the two sides of the ocean always recognized that what works for E”Y doesn’t always work for the U.S. and vice versa. Therefore many of their psakim tend to only be mean for local consumption. I think that’s pretty easy to understand as well.
Having said all that, chances are the Gedolim in the U.S. would pasken the same way as the ones in E”Y if they thought the tzibur would listen to them.