It gets harder and harder to return to the U.S. after every trip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People, it’s not that complicated.

You can get a really nice bento sent in a country like Japan for $8 that’s got nice piece of grilled fish, rice, veggies, and some pickled stuff for $6. Portions not stingy. Meanwhile garbage food like a McDonald’s meal will run you $15+ now.


There’s just so, sooooooooo many options from $1-20 in Asia that are high quality good eatin’ compared to here where $20 is now barely getting you the lowest of low quality for something as basic as burgers and pizzas.

Japan is amazing

Also Japan is opening up to more immigration now — check it out

[Anonymous]

Lol - liberal boobs love to bash the U.S. Sorry, but the U.S is the greatest county in the history of our species, and now is greatest time in the history of planet earth to be alive.

If you can't find nice food or whatever, you must be doing something very wrong. But, by all means, please find your happiness elsewhere - I'm sure Japan or Malaysia or France will be perfect for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who doesn't believe US food sucks v rest of world is in denial. That is all.

The biggest factor among many is that culturally food matters in other countries more than in US. As simple as this fact - in Asia and Europe and Islands and LAtAm, people take meals seriously. Here in the US, most people do not. Lunch is school for example is grossness for our kids. In other countries adults would be eating better having school food than adult food in the US!!!

My kid in US knows chicken tenders, pizza and spaghetti. Take any other country and their kid will eat a whole lot more variety and better. This is 100% true.

Yup, it's insane the garbage we feed our kids. Compare our kids' foods to South Korea or Japan where everything is freshly made:

[Anonymous]

Hmm. So why are Korean teachers killing themselves? Do the yummy and nutritious school lunches not offset the crushing stress?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People, it’s not that complicated.

You can get a really nice bento sent in a country like Japan for $8 that’s got nice piece of grilled fish, rice, veggies, and some pickled stuff for $6. Portions not stingy. Meanwhile garbage food like a McDonald’s meal will run you $15+ now.


There’s just so, sooooooooo many options from $1-20 in Asia that are high quality good eatin’ compared to here where $20 is now barely getting you the lowest of low quality for something as basic as burgers and pizzas.

Again, wages on average are much lower in Japan. There was a WSJ article detailing Japanese quitting professional jobs to move to Australia and work in food service and make 50% more.

So, it once again seems the moral is make bank in the US here and then move abroad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People, it’s not that complicated.

You can get a really nice bento sent in a country like Japan for $8 that’s got nice piece of grilled fish, rice, veggies, and some pickled stuff for $6. Portions not stingy. Meanwhile garbage food like a McDonald’s meal will run you $15+ now.


There’s just so, sooooooooo many options from $1-20 in Asia that are high quality good eatin’ compared to here where $20 is now barely getting you the lowest of low quality for something as basic as burgers and pizzas.

Again, wages on average are much lower in Japan. There was a WSJ article detailing Japanese quitting professional jobs to move to Australia and work in food service and make 50% more.

So, it once again seems the moral is make bank in the US here and then move abroad.

That somehow seems just the teenist little bit exploitative...

[Anonymous]

No doubt the food is better in Japan and South Korea. And with much better prices. People value a good meal at reasonable cost in those countries. Much more so than Americans. For what you pay at McDonalds, you are getting good food in Seoul and Tokyo.

The murder and violence too is effectively non-existent in Japan and South Korea. It's a combination of different social values - much more community oriented, and the lifetime shame that goes with violating those social norms - and the fact that the legal system doesn't give a lot of leeway to violent criminals.

It's not an adversarial system like here. Prosecutors, defendant lawyers, and judges are pretty much all on the same page. If you get charged with a violent crime in Japan, you are doing time. And Japanese may have a reputation for being nice and polite internationally these days. It's not like that though n a domestic prison. It's not Denmark. And South Korea will be similar.

The problems in both countries are the same. Gender roles, low pay, very long hours - you cannot leave the office until the boss leaves. And the situation for raising kids, particularly in South Korea. They all go to cram schools. Everything in their future is dependent on one exam. And their theoretical parents can't even meet. Dad is working 100 hours a week. And Mom is pissed because the glass ceiling is held at grass level. But she still has to be all nice and proper.

So both countries have very inverted population pyramids. Lots of old people at the top. Very, very few young people, particularly kids, at the bottom.

It's a problem.

Definitely nice place to visit but wouldn't want to live there countries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hmm. So why are Korean teachers killing themselves? Do the yummy and nutritious school lunches not offset the crushing stress?

Alll that American greatness sure does wonders for those 6 year olds at Sandy Hook, eh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People, it’s not that complicated.

You can get a really nice bento sent in a country like Japan for $8 that’s got nice piece of grilled fish, rice, veggies, and some pickled stuff for $6. Portions not stingy. Meanwhile garbage food like a McDonald’s meal will run you $15+ now.


There’s just so, sooooooooo many options from $1-20 in Asia that are high quality good eatin’ compared to here where $20 is now barely getting you the lowest of low quality for something as basic as burgers and pizzas.

Again, wages on average are much lower in Japan. There was a WSJ article detailing Japanese quitting professional jobs to move to Australia and work in food service and make 50% more.

So, it once again seems the moral is make bank in the US here and then move abroad.

Here's what you need to get - we are talking about food quality. Relative to cost and affordability, the main theme is that food tends to be healthier and take priority for freshness and not have a ton of toxic ingredients in it.

So you can say whatever about how great US is but on the subject of food you got no leg to stand on.

As I indicated earlier it's a cultural thing - the US simply does not care about meals the way it's respected and enjoyed in other cultures. If you have done any traveling anywhere outside the US you would agree with this.

So it follows that even if you can get delicious meals here and I'm not suggesting otherwise, the majority of foods whether fresh or prepared is significantly cheaper and/or higher quality in almost all other developed countries.

I think there's a lot of stuff great about living in the US. Food quality is not one. Infrastructure/public transport is not one. Negative points for health care. Negative points for violent crime. We have a lot of probs just like every other country but the most pathetic of all is that we cannot as a country own up to the fact that we are most def not number 1 globally. We are awesome and def a leader in the world but domestically, we suck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hmm. So why are Korean teachers killing themselves? Do the yummy and nutritious school lunches not offset the crushing stress?

Alll that American greatness sure does wonders for those 6 year olds at Sandy Hook, eh?

There are problems in this country. There are problems in other countries. If you think the problems are worse here, then move there. But if you're unaware of problems in other countries, then you just seem foolish.

[Anonymous]

OP please do us all a favor and don't come back next time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People, it’s not that complicated.

You can get a really nice bento sent in a country like Japan for $8 that’s got nice piece of grilled fish, rice, veggies, and some pickled stuff for $6. Portions not stingy. Meanwhile garbage food like a McDonald’s meal will run you $15+ now.


There’s just so, sooooooooo many options from $1-20 in Asia that are high quality good eatin’ compared to here where $20 is now barely getting you the lowest of low quality for something as basic as burgers and pizzas.

Again, wages on average are much lower in Japan. There was a WSJ article detailing Japanese quitting professional jobs to move to Australia and work in food service and make 50% more.

So, it once again seems the moral is make bank in the US here and then move abroad.

Here's what you need to get - we are talking about food quality. Relative to cost and affordability, the main theme is that food tends to be healthier and take priority for freshness and not have a ton of toxic ingredients in it.

So you can say whatever about how great US is but on the subject of food you got no leg to stand on.

As I indicated earlier it's a cultural thing - the US simply does not care about meals the way it's respected and enjoyed in other cultures. If you have done any traveling anywhere outside the US you would agree with this.

So it follows that even if you can get delicious meals here and I'm not suggesting otherwise, the majority of foods whether fresh or prepared is significantly cheaper and/or higher quality in almost all other developed countries.

I think there's a lot of stuff great about living in the US. Food quality is not one. Infrastructure/public transport is not one. Negative points for health care. Negative points for violent crime. We have a lot of probs just like every other country but the most pathetic of all is that we cannot as a country own up to the fact that we are most def not number 1 globally. We are awesome and def a leader in the world but domestically, we suck.

DP. From my own experience in western Europe, food is good there and quite expensive.

For health care, I also think comparing apples to apples is a better way to evaluate than OP's cheap foreign ER trip - should I offer my anecdote when DC crashed his scooter and the pediatric ER took him back, gave him X-rays, a cast, stitches and a lolly without paying anything at all?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hmm. So why are Korean teachers killing themselves? Do the yummy and nutritious school lunches not offset the crushing stress?

Alll that American greatness sure does wonders for those 6 year olds at Sandy Hook, eh?

There are problems in this country. There are problems in other countries. If you think the problems are worse here, then move there. But if you're unaware of problems in other countries, then you just seem foolish.

No one ever claimed other countries are perfect just that they are in fact, better than the U.S. when you compare top to bottom. The US has given up and can no longer provide affordable healthcare, quality food supply, quality education, quality public infrastructure, and public safety. The U.S. has probably slipped into the tier of 2nd world countries at this point, yet Americans are too stubborn to admit it. They need to travel more to see what truly advanced countries and their cities look like in the 21st century. All the US does is keep concentrating the country’s wealth in the hands of the 1% while everything around the country is in steep decline. But that’s what you get when the govt is effectively run by corporate interests and the govt prioritizes bombing goat herders for years to the tune of trillions of dollars instead of spending it on our own people and our own development. There is so, sooooo much wrong and assbackwardness in the U.S. Your eyes are opened once you step out and realize how terrible something like our basic infrastructure is in most of our cities.

[Anonymous]

Basic infrastructure in most of our cities - you reminded me of a YouTuber Tokyo Lens showing apartments in Tokyo. Not even getting to those coffin apartments in Hong Kong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Basic infrastructure in most of our cities - you reminded me of a YouTuber Tokyo Lens showing apartments in Tokyo. Not even getting to those coffin apartments in Hong Kong.

I’d rather have a small apartment in Tokyo than be shot while simply going to school, church, driving or going to the grocery store in America.