Even f you’re financially stable, all it takes is one medical problem to wipe away all that financial stability.
Not really with what housing costs these days, what education costs these days, what healthcare costs these days, what transportation costs both in terms of dollars and hours, completely disagree. Pathetic that we typically only get 2 weeks a year vacation and a lot of us are expected to work 50-60 hour weeks. It's a fucking hamster wheel if you're middle class too. Fuck the United States tbh.If you’re middle class or above the US is good.
What country do you think is better?Not really with what housing costs these days, what education costs these days, what healthcare costs these days, what transportation costs both in terms of dollars and hours, completely disagree. Pathetic that we typically only get 2 weeks a year vacation and a lot of us are expected to work 50-60 hour weeks. It's a fucking hamster wheel if you're middle class too. Fuck the United States tbh.
The boomers are the worst generation in US history.I really hate seeing boomers calling millennials the worst generation ever. No fucking way, the country has backslid into the kind of oligarchy we were in the days of the robber barons again as soon as the boomers got into power and now we're stuck there thanks to that shit generation.
Germany, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium. IWhat country do you think is better?
I think I would agree with scandanavia generally but no, not Germany or France. Again, doesn’t mean the US is the best in everything but I would definitely rather have been born in the US than France.Germany, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium. I
would say the Scandinavian countries for quality of life if you don't mind the weather and slight isolation.
Any country that when a bad medical diagnosis is received, aside from your first concern, will this kill me, but your second concern will it leave my family homeless with ruthless debt collectors hounding them whether I live or die?What country do you think is better?
I have to say I’m someone who received exactly that diagnosis at 28 and I would still prefer here.Any country that when a bad medical diagnosis is received, aside from your first concern, will this kill me, but your second concern will it leave my family homeless with ruthless debt collectors hounding them whether I live or die?
That is a verse that is sorely missing from Brooks $ Dunn song, "Only in America"!
But for profit health care corporations, big pharma, and insurance executives can buy their second mansion, a yacht, or a private jet, so there is a positive side, just not for you.
scandinavia is gorgeous, but fuck me the lack of sunlight sucks.I think it would be a three-way between the USA, Canada, and Norway for me. All three have certain appeals.
I think I would agree with scandanavia generally but no, not Germany or France. Again, doesn’t mean the US is the best in everything but I would definitely rather have been born in the US than France.
You were fortunate. I received mine at 69, but I was under this awful socialized medicine (Medicare) and it was covered. But that is only because I didn't require chemo drugs, (which often falls under Part D or prescription and not healthcare) which are still basically not covered, or poorly covered.I have to say I’m someone who received exactly that diagnosis at 28 and I would still prefer here.
So Alabama, or Texas?I'd say there may be is about 10% of the US I'd rather have been born in than France. The rest, hell no
Yeah, about the same for me. I was born in rural upstate NY and was fortunate enough that my family moved to SE PA before I started school. Many of my cousins in NY turned out total fuckwads and whenever I visit that area I see why.I'd say there may be is about 10% of the US I'd rather have been born in than France. The rest, hell no
scandinavia is gorgeous, but fuck me the lack of sunlight sucks.
i'd probably go with france, spain, italy, or germany.
I would say I was very unfortunate to have a two pound tumor grow around my heart in my 20’s.You were fortunate. I received mine at 69, but I was under this awful socialized medicine (Medicare) and it was covered. But that is only because I didn't require chemo drugs, (which often falls under Part D or prescription and not healthcare) which are still basically not covered, or poorly covered.
I suggest to you guns being the #1 killers of kids in the United States eliminates us from even being in contention. Once we lose that we can at least be in the conversation.I am going to argue America is the greatest country in the world.
It has to do with scale.
Yes, with smaller populations, many countries out do us in many areas.
When once we start talking about 350 million people, when we all decide to do something together, we are the greatest country in the world. It doesn't happen often, but when it does. Yes, the USA can make the biggest impact bar none.
Even when we start talking about areas we fail in, education for example. Even with an inferior outcome rate compared to a Nordic paradise, once a person factors in the sheer quantity of students we input into the system the USA outputs a far larger quantity of geniuses, engineers, scientists, average students, and well sadly dropouts.
It is not until we get into medical that the real horrors start to emerge. When the sheer scale of the thing also leads to cruelty writ mass. Yet one again the USA is somehow the greatest country in the world, demonstrating that somehow a country can simultaneously be wealthy and have a spiking Maternal Mortality Rate that is rapidly getting worse every year. The sheer horror racing up both the Maternal Mortality Rate and Infant Morality Rate charts simultaneously has to qualify the US as the greatest at something*.
*most likely passing cruel and draconian reproductive healthcare laws that cause doctors to flee certain jurisdictions resulting in a lack healthcare being available in red states driving certain stats into 3rd world territory at an increasingly fast pace
I forget about the guns.I suggest to you guns being the #1 killers of kids in the United States eliminates us from even being in contention. Once we lose that we can at least in the conversation.