jamin wrote:
You go into a mini mart in Europe and the only drink options you have are like Coke, diet Coke, Fanta (orange) and Sprite. In America you go into a mini mart and there are about 50 options of soda, 12 options of energy drinks. Grocery store in America has an entire aisle dedicated to cereal. We have this place we go to called Costco where instead of shopping carts you push around a giant pallet.
Another thing is cities. In any other country in the world, there is 1, maybe 2, major cities where you can find employment. Everything else is small villages with no restaurants, maybe a pub. In America everyone is highly mobile and has about 20 options of major cities to live, plus the "suburbs" where there are these things called "neighborhoods" (the concept doesn't exist in other countries), plus of course plenty of small towns.
Average Joe in America can own an SUV and giant house and take his family out to eat 2x per week at Applebee's. Unthinkable in any other country.
Best health care system in the world. It's almost a miracle how unhealthy we are and yet we have the technology to keep them alive till their 70s or 80s. We even get advertisements on TV for drugs to ask our doctor about. In countries with socialized medicine, if you want some heart or brain medication, the system makes you visit a general practionioner and there's a very high bar to get referred to a specialist and get perscribed a medication and you might have to wait months and months. In the U.S., you can go straight to any doctor and he'll be happy to provide any necessary or unnecessary service you want to pay for.