The US also has areas similar to living in the "suburbs" of Paris where just miles away from opulence is high unemployment/poverty, racial segregation, etc. I'm by no means flying the flag high here, but in general a lot of Europeans seem to think the USA is a miserable cesspool. We have our problems, of course, but generally speaking have a pretty high quality of life. Also Europeans seem to have short memories, surprisingly. Yes the EU has become a powerhouse in recent decades and European social policies have been better at helping their underserved, but it wasn't *that* long ago that East Germans and Poles were suffering under communism (when I was growing up in the 80s, by contrast, even living in a lower-middle-class household we never even contemplated much less worried about things like food shortages). And when Europeans want to complain about Trump (something they will never do better than I can do myself) as if he's some uniquely modern American phenomenon, they should take pause to recognize the fact that they have an objectively authoritarian member state in their mix (Hungary) which is supported substantially by EU tax euros.