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

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Anonymous wrote:What country was so magical that it prompted you to post? Truly curious.

Japan. South Korea. Thailand. Singapore.

Zero tipping. Cheap healthcare. Zero gun deaths on the news in Singapore, South Korea, and Japan. Amazing quality food in all of them. Public infrastructure that’s about 80 years more advanced than the U.S. in SK, Singapore, and Japan.

Then please leave. More space for migrants.

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Anonymous wrote:When you have to come back to horribly inferior food quality, obscene prices for everything and sooooooo much crime. It’s amazing when you can travel to a major city in the world and see ZERO gun deaths for literally days and weeks on end. There’s better public infrastructure that embarrasses the U.S., things are a lot more walkable, healthcare is way more afford, and things just work. Man, it gets harder and harder to return after every trip abroad. The only thing worth retuning for are the salaries and that’s about it.

Have you thought of simply staying overseas? We now have over 8 million illegals that want to be here and take your place.

Importing poverty and exporting your educated individuals.

Seems like a recipe for success!

The more indoctrination education, the more hatred for this country. Funny how they actually aren’t leaving, except to Florida. Lol.

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I prefer the US as an immigrant. Better people, better society as a whole (more tolerant of differences of all kinds and heterogeneous) best variety of scenery. Yes, food supply absolutely sucks. Healthcare is far superior IF you have access to it and can afford it. When I leave I enjoy my time, but I long for Americans and how friendly they are and how easy so many things are here.

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Keep taking trips, eventually you will stay away. A win-win for you and America.

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Anonymous wrote:When you have to come back to horribly inferior food quality, obscene prices for everything and sooooooo much crime. It’s amazing when you can travel to a major city in the world and see ZERO gun deaths for literally days and weeks on end. There’s better public infrastructure that embarrasses the U.S., things are a lot more walkable, healthcare is way more afford, and things just work. Man, it gets harder and harder to return after every trip abroad. The only thing worth retuning for are the salaries and that’s about it.

There's a train, bus, plane and boat that leaves every single day to another country, take one and never come back. No one will miss you

DP... I'd rather stay here and fix this country - and the only way to do it is to vote out every last regressive puke that you support.

Lots of Americans live overseas and vote (and pay US taxes). Still trying to fix the country, just from afar and with a much lesser chance of my kids getting gunned down at school/anywhere else!

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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.

Why you cannot have a small apartment in Florida Villages and not be shot like in Baltimore or Chicago?

Sandy Hook was far from being Baltimore. Virginia Tech is Baltimore? First Baptist Church? You cannot escape America’s sick, perverted gun violence and gun culture wherever you are.

that private school in Nashville was Baltimore? Also the Florida villages is for old ppl, it's a 55+ community. Im not going to live in an old folks homeb/c it is the only safe place. Too many guns and a pathetic education system, insane inequality and spending our money on foreign inerests instead if investing in an equitable and reasonable safety net for our own citizens is why the QOL is plummeting. It's not just one thing and giving up on life and moving to Florida Villages- which is a waiting room for death- is no way to live.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, you know, you could always emigrate if it's that hard.

Yup, seriously thinking about it. Gun violence is way out of control and will never end. Driving everywhere sucks. Food sucks. Tipping culture sucks. Healthcare costs suck. Childcare costs suck. I dunno even know if the country can even survive another Trump presidency before he starts WW3 with Iran and North Korea.

Bye

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I’m in Singapore all the time and Japan occasionally. Three days in Singapore and I’m all ready to leave. The place is a bore. Japan is nice in many ways but certainly the food is not better. Japanese food is of course great but everything else is horrible.

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Anonymous wrote:When you have to come back to horribly inferior food quality, obscene prices for everything and sooooooo much crime. It’s amazing when you can travel to a major city in the world and see ZERO gun deaths for literally days and weeks on end. There’s better public infrastructure that embarrasses the U.S., things are a lot more walkable, healthcare is way more afford, and things just work. Man, it gets harder and harder to return after every trip abroad. The only thing worth retuning for are the salaries and that’s about it.

ETTD

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So on the healthcare front, I'm not sure anyone with a brain can argue US wins on a global level for having the best system. Are you with me? I mean it's great if you have a job with a bluechip firm and/or a lot of money. Otherwise, good luck. If you're sick, not sick, may get sick - mentally, physically, for your teeth, for your body, for you eyes - let's be real. Healthcare sucks in this country. End of story. Compared to almost all the developed world.

On the food front. Yeah, it kinds sucks too. from a mainstream perspective, shopping at a normal grocery store, you will find most of our fresh foods OK. Not great. Most of our junk food is just that - pure junk. Skittles is banned in countries because it has toxic chems as ingredients. We have 100 cereal choices I know and at least 200 chip choices but I'm just saying, most of our food that we buy is not healthy. Very fresh food = a lot of money. Unless you shell out money to get eggs that don't have a ton of antibiotics in them, milk ditto, non pesticide fruit/veggies and basically fresh juice or if you plain live on a farm, you are eating worse than most countries that may not have a huge selection but do have fresh foods or non-toxic ingredients in most of their processed foods. Add to that if you've ever had French goat cheese, Italian tomatoes, Spanish olives, Costa Rican beans and rice, you know what I'm talking about

Let's talk about education K-8. Public schools here on the whole, suck. We can look at test grades for math and reading nationally and end the discussion there. But moreover, kids suffer in having quality school lunch nutrition, threats of and deaths by violence and if you did go to private you gotta have some bucks.

On the work front - work work and more work. 2 weeks' vacation is nothing really esp for parents who may have sick sicks or over summer wanted to take their kids to see anywhere outside a 100 mile radius. On the work front, there's no balance and a lot of loneliness, mental unhealthiness and in general, depression because again - if you can't find a job to fund your health insurance - you know. Want to retire at 55? Nope - you need a job for health insurance!!

This country is the BEST country bar none however if you have a lot of money however. If you have just short of a LOT of money, on the basic levels of education, safety, health insurance, general life satisfaction - nope. It's harder and harder to return from a vacation to the US.

EVERY country has some bad stuff. There is no perfect place out there for sure. The US has a lot of great freedoms and it's a beautiful country. The American spirit is a noble one. But just comparatively, in terms of your basic daily needs, the US can be awesome or it can be worse than many, many, many other countries in the world.

To anyone who disputes this, you're in denial, lying or a fool. Again - the fact that the US is not #1 in the world to live does not mean it's in last place. It just means that it should be acknowledged that we should try better and harder and face the fact that we are lacking in a lot of areas.

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Just don't buy a return ticket back to the US. We have 7 million illegal aliens that have crossed the border and want to live and work in the US.

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Anonymous wrote:When you have to come back to horribly inferior food quality, obscene prices for everything and sooooooo much crime. It’s amazing when you can travel to a major city in the world and see ZERO gun deaths for literally days and weeks on end. There’s better public infrastructure that embarrasses the U.S., things are a lot more walkable, healthcare is way more afford, and things just work. Man, it gets harder and harder to return after every trip abroad. The only thing worth retuning for are the salaries and that’s about it.

How are your plans to leave going? Your not going to reply are you?

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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:

Most American kids would not eat that food, even if provided/funded. This is a cultural issue, unfortunately.

They wouldn't, and that is because most people don't raise kids to have a taste for healthy food. And I find that the people who complain the most bitterly about American diets tend to be overweight, which suggests that they, themselves aren't living up to their own standards.

My experience is the opposite, the people who complain the most about American diets are the ones who purchase only organic, whole foods, etc. It's easy to eat organic and whole foods when you have the money though.

I’ve lived all over the world, including developing countries. Most people—even the poor ones—eat whole food and actually cook. It’s the opposite here in the land of convenience.

I live in us for 25 years and we cook all our meals from scratch ( including baking bread, making our. Own cheese, kombucha, etc). In summer, we grow our own vegetables, fruits and herbs.

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See, yup can't even go to church or a surprise bowl parade without guns being drawn or shot at in the same week at these events.

If you had to rate countries on a scale of 100 points with 100/100 being perfect, the would be capped at 20 points simply because out of control guns are -80 points and will never go away until the entire constitution is changed, which is basically never.

The biggest WMD the US has ever been hit with are guns in the hands of our own stupid citizens.

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If trump wins we are immediately moving to iceland. Permanently.