I’m basing this question off the Jeeves and Wooster tv show, where in the openings for 3rd and 4th series, Jeeves and Wooster are in New York City for unspecified reasons yet return to England by the end of the series. While to some degree he must spend money in each country, Wooster never works, so what reasons is he in the US? In the 3rd episode of season 4, he tells Jeeves he plans to remain in the US indefinitely, only to later change his mind at the end (rather, it was exacerbated by a few ill-timed conundrums), but the idea is he feels able to stay easily. What’s supporting his means to do so? Besides finances, what legalities does he enjoy?
Meanwhile, there is an implicit suggestion that they’ve moved between the UK and US semi-regularly(?). What was the larger political and social reasons for Wooster and perhaps this speaks to the English upper class in the interwar period to live between both sides of the Atlantic?
Money? I just finished Sam in the Suburbs, recently put up by Project Gutenberg, and there the unemployed protagonist manages to make his way to a London suburb, "borrow" some cash lying on a table in the house of an old school chum to rent an entire house next door, and then not only keep renting it but engage the services of a cook as well on the wages of a copywriter at a small magazine. Wodehouse's later comedies of the 1950's continued to use his standard Edwardian setting of a palatial English country house flush with servants, even though death duties and high taxes were greatly reducing both the houses and servants, and aristocrats were desperately trying to just keep estates in the family by setting up zoos and charging admittance for tours.
Wodehouse was once quoted as saying "I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making the thing a sort of musical comedy without music, and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right down into life and not caring a damn. " Why not just leave it at that?