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[quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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