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Your post is more anti American than mine. You are of such a weak mind you are offended by others using the first amendment. You embody the worst of this country. Sorry to hurt your feelings, you might want to avoid the grown up table.
Well, the non-US thing is kind of my point, I think if this question was posed to citizens of Canada, Japan, Germany, UK, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, etc... they would mostly say they were very proud of their country while not immediately jumping to "best country in the world!#!#!#", which honestly in terms of health care, education, poverty/access to food, immigration policy, crime/safety, environmental protection, etc, etc, etc.. by any objective measure the United States isn't #1... which doesn't mean it's not still a great country overall.Regarding "no middle ground", while many posts in this thread support that, the poll results here do not.
Also, the theme of this thread is introspection. It's great hear from non-US posters, but not everyone here knows who the non-US posters are. Including that in posts would add some useful context.
So do you have an opinion on what is the best country to live in?
That's not really true. Some people have indeed seen a lot of parts of the world many times, have traveled many times to foreign countries, and come back to report that they'd rather live in the USA. We certainly have a net immigration balance.
Don’t think that’s what the question asked...
Australia, Norway, Switzerland are examples of countries that are light years ahead of us in several meaningful categories. Every objective quality of living analysis reveals this.
This pretty much happens to everybody that is well traveled and thoughtful.
All have universal healthcare systems. In other words, they're socialist, anti-business cesspools with no individual incentives.
I don't doubt your comments and I have been to a few other countries (Denmark, Singapore, Japan, Italy, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Canada, Mexico) and they all had their plusses and minuses.
Yes, i'm hoping to move out the country in the next 5 to 10 years. I don't believe that my life is going to change that drastically by living in another democratic, westernized country.
I don’t know why this post inspires you (DN) to respond with a laughing emoji. I see no humor in it.
No I would not. I’m in my 40s and too invested in this country with friends, family and other aspects of the culture such as sports, film and music.
So this is inaccurate at best and kind of a sad post actually.
Netherlands, Costa Rica, Uruguay.... mostly to make my money go farther and experience a different cultures.
I'm not the one butt hurt over some 3 sentence whine about US foreign policy that you don't understand enough to even elaborate on because it would take more than four sentences. Let's hear your thorough understanding on the subject and why it's such and issue. How about you unpack that argument of yours.
Uh.... Yeah, that's not really the case, but we wouldn't want to let logic and facts get in the way of a good debate now would we.
You really don’t think foreigners have resented America acting as the world’s policeman pre-Trump? Been that way for decades with people citing issues within America as a reason for America to clean their own house before cleaning others.
Uh, no. If they do, they are misinformed. We have been actively cleaning up our environment for decades. China is hands down the biggest problem here and have been for a long time now.
Yes you are butt hurt, you did the equivalent of taking your ball and going home by telling me to leave.
Well here’s one example. Wife and I were in Ecuador last year, which is essentially still a third world country.
That’s not that cheap when you consider the average monthly household income in Costa Rica is $750. The US equivalent would be about $300.
It's exactly what I expected. No, that's not true. I thought the
would be much larger by this point.
Loyalty to one’s country and its ideals, for better or worse, embodies patriotism, which is usually a good thing. I just don’t care for all the chest pounding bravado and sense of superiority that sometimes accompanies it, though this is probably more correctly identified as nationalism.
Ummm, an opinion on such an abstract concept is always going to be subjective. But if you believe there truly is a “right” answer, how many countries must one sample to determine which is best? Which countries?
It would have cost $0 in Canada. And no, in the vast majority of cases, wait times are not an issue.
I have no issue withdrawing troops and resources out of Europe and SE Asia. Those countries can deal with China and Russia on their own. I don’t suspect either party is willing to do that though.
Maybe now. But in the last 50 years?
Actually that sounds more correctly identified as jingoistic xenophobia.
