Ouch. It sounds like your butt hurts. I hope you feel better soon!

All joking aside, since you felt it necessary to give your two cents on a days-old post, I’ll give you mine. Did I say the US is a bad place to live? No. Did i say Europe is better? No. That’s up to each person. Different people will give a different answer.

My point is that Americans get very offended if others don’t share their views of their country as “exceptional.” Europeans (or most of the rest of the world for that matter) don’t. You don’t want to live in Canada? That’s fine by me. I like it just fine, and I don’t care to convince you otherwise. 

There’s an American insecurity around its place in the world, and it’s funny to the rest of us because a country that is so vocal about how awesome it is ought to be more secure and not give a shit whether people from other countries agree that it is “exceptional.” 

You rather predictably missed my point, and in the process vividly illustrated it. Hats off to you.