
I’ve lived across both the US and EU and let me tell you, the US is so far behind so many key metrics and living standards, it does not compare. Unfortunately, too many Americans barely travel to know how much better their life could be… if only they demanded more from their gov. Not to say EU doesn’t have anything to learn from the US, and bureaucracy is so much more frustrating. But nowadays living costs are through the roof in the US but living standards are comparatively so poor.
Of course there is, starting with mass protests and demanding real change. With more educated and young people in politics, like many in Europe. With a public that cares to vote but that is also valued and protected to vote in the first place, not rezoned to benefit partisan interests, and given a day of holiday to do just that, vote. Unfortunately voter oppression started decades ago in the US. And it’s about time Citizen United is repealed entirely. Don’t just sit there, get involved.
Living standard metrics tend to be biased towards welfare states. Welfare states help poor people by giving out more benefits. The U.S. helps poor people by having fewer legal/bureaucratic obstacles to starting a business/keeping money without having to pay higher taxes. Both systems have advantages and disadvantages, but it doesn't imply that the U.S. is "behind" Europe
Demented opinion considering how clean EU cities and high environmental standards are instead of the US gutting them for corporate interests. Plus we don’t have medical bankruptcies or the homelessness of US cities because of the social safety nexts that make EU a far better society.
See you’re saying that your continent is higher for environmental standards and ignoring the obvious facts that I mentioned earlier. Your cities are disgusting, not clean. Pollution sucks but it doesn’t make the U.S. a worse place to live. And those immigrants that go to the Eu do it because the Eu is closer and cheaper to get to. And yet we still get more immigrants than you guys
The major US cities I’ve lived in have not been cleaner than the major EU cities I’ve lived in. Your assertion of EU cities being dirty is factually incorrect considering EU has better waste infrastructure and higher rates of recycling. Plus the US generates higher waste than EU households.